Your Mortal Shell 2 Weapons Don’t Have To Get You Killed
Overview & Key Takeaways
Cold Symmetry's Mortal Shell 2 is finally out on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Maybe you've been bodying bosses while collecting shells and leveling up your character. Or maybe you've been getting bodied as bosses pummel you into the dirt and your weapons betray you. I can't help you with the former, but I do have some tips and tricks to alleviate the latter.
When you start your Mortal Shell 2 journey, a handful of settings are on by default. A couple of these settings make your weapons an enemy magnet, which is good since you want your bullets and your swings to hit your targets. However, when you go in shooting and swinging wantonly, you may find yourself blown to smitherens--just like Redditor xkukazu50, who posted a video on August 21 of their character getting burnt to a crisp.
The problem here, as xkukazu50 noted, is the weapon tracking. Whenever you pull out your sidearm or swing with your primary weapon, the game's technology pulls your attacks toward the nearest enemy like a vortex. But if you tweak some settings, your life will be made a lot easier.
Make your Mortal Shell 2 weapons fight for you.
Press pause, toggle over to "Game" in the Settings menu, and check out the "Target Steering" and "Enable Free Aim" options.
"Target Steering," which is set to "Default," makes your melee attacks prioritize the nearest enemy you're aiming at. Changing this setting to "Light" or "Off" makes your melee attacks much less sticky so that you can swing at whatever you want without getting sucked to the closest enemy--or environmental hazard--you're looking at.
"Enable Free Aim" is exactly what it sounds like. Set to "No" by default, it automatically locks your reticle onto the nearest enemy you point your gun at. If you change this to "Yes," then you can freely aim your gun without that snappy auto-lock on, but if you press the right trigger in with "Enable Free Aim" on, you can still lock onto a target and change your target's lock. That way, you won't accidentally shoot an explosive barrel or something like that.
Outside of this, there are two more settings I recommend you change in Mortal Shell 2.
The first is setting the "Auto Pick Up Gold" option to "Yes" to save your thumb from breaking the interact button--A on Xbox or X on PlayStation--on your controller, since you'll be picking up gold all the time. The second is changing the "Camera Style" from Immersive to Action, which pulls the camera farther back so you can see more on the screen. This gives you a greater field of view; that way, you know what's coming.
There are many more settings to test as you whoop ass or get your ass whooped in Mortal Shell 2. However, these are the handful of settings I suggest you change to make your combat feel more responsive as you tackle the game's very gross bosses.
Cold Symmetry’s Mortal Shell 2 is finally out on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Maybe you’ve been bodying bosses while collecting shells and leveling up your character. Or maybe you’ve been getting bodied as bosses pummel you into the dirt and your weapons betray you. I can’t help you with the former, but I do have some tips and tricks to alleviate the latter.
When you start your Mortal Shell 2 journey, a handful of settings are on by default. A couple of these settings make your weapons an enemy magnet, which is good since you want your bullets and your swings to hit your targets. However, when you go in shooting and swinging wantonly, you may find yourself blown to smitherens–just like Redditor xkukazu50, who posted a video on August 21 of their character getting burnt to a crisp.
The problem here, as xkukazu50 noted, is the weapon tracking. Whenever you pull out your sidearm or swing with your primary weapon, the game’s technology pulls your attacks toward the nearest enemy like a vortex. But if you tweak some settings, your life will be made a lot easier.
Make your Mortal Shell 2 weapons fight for you.
Press pause, toggle over to “Game” in the Settings menu, and check out the “Target Steering” and “Enable Free Aim” options.
“Target Steering,” which is set to “Default,” makes your melee attacks prioritize the nearest enemy you’re aiming at. Changing this setting to “Light” or “Off” makes your melee attacks much less sticky so that you can swing at whatever you want without getting sucked to the closest enemy–or environmental hazard–you’re looking at.
“Enable Free Aim” is exactly what it sounds like. Set to “No” by default, it automatically locks your reticle onto the nearest enemy you point your gun at. If you change this to “Yes,” then you can freely aim your gun without that snappy auto-lock on, but if you press the right trigger in with “Enable Free Aim” on, you can still lock onto a target and change your target’s lock. That way, you won’t accidentally shoot an explosive barrel or something like that.
Outside of this, there are two more settings I recommend you change in Mortal Shell 2.
The first is setting the “Auto Pick Up Gold” option to “Yes” to save your thumb from breaking the interact button–A on Xbox or X on PlayStation–on your controller, since you’ll be picking up gold all the time. The second is changing the “Camera Style” from Immersive to Action, which pulls the camera farther back so you can see more on the screen. This gives you a greater field of view; that way, you know what’s coming.
There are many more settings to test as you whoop ass or get your ass whooped in Mortal Shell 2. However, these are the handful of settings I suggest you change to make your combat feel more responsive as you tackle the game’s very gross bosses.
