Pacific Drive – Beginners Tips

Tips for New Players

On the route map pay attention to all details, including the name of the junction’s area at the top. Can help massively knowing what environment you’re about to go into when you get familiar with all their names as they RNG reroll.

Be wary of junctions with “Dead End” at the top of their list, do not enter these, they guarantee death. The ones you want to go for are ones that mention a “kLim” amount, these are ones you can safely go back to the garage from.

Parts wear out over time but do not necessarily become useless, I recommend getting the deconstructor upgrade for your garage as any crafted items you throw in there will typically throw out about half-ish of their resources. Useful to do especially mid-to-late game to preserve resources.

Do not fall for the game’s trick of Perpetual Stability condition, all story missions have it and it prevents the natural time limit storm from coming in but it reinforces bad behavior, you generally want to get comfortable going into and leaving a junction within a 10-20 minute mark and only extend that if you really need to. It’s an extraction rogue like, you’ll have plenty of runs to gather more resources, you do not need to 100% loot everything in a junction.

That being said if you really do want to abuse the perpetual stability condition go for it, just be wary of crashes and the fact that you cannot save mid-junction (due to limitations the devs cannot add this in any capacity). So if you die, crash or just have to leave the game you’ll lose that hour+ of looting the same junction and either be back at the garage in case of death, or back at the start of the junction with all the items in the area rerolled.

Speaking of: The game does save when you enter a junction, so if you do have to leave for whatever reason, either open a gateway to head back to the garage or speed out of the junction and head to the next one, once you enter it’ll be all saved and good, reloading will bring you back to that point safely.

Also this guy has a lot of beginer tips i wish i knew before i started playing worth a look:

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