NIER AUTOMATA Top 6 Tips Every Player Should Know | Nier Automata Tips (No Spoilers) 

just 100% the game myself and found out a few things right at the end i wish i knew from the start. 1. hitting heavy attack right after jumping will lunch your target into the air and start a aerial combo. 2. rubbing the touch pad on the ps4 will make you pat your pod for 2b and fist bump for 9s 3. self destructing by holding in both sticks will not kill you but will blow 2b skirt off and 9s shorts off, not really important but kinda funny plus there is a trophy for playing as pants-less nines for a hour.

Don't know if somebody has already mentioned this before, but I discovered it today....IF you have MULTIPLE PODS, then holding on to the POD Special Move button, such as Laser/Mirage/Hammer, you will have all PODS pitching in to perform the move. In short, for PS4 players, hold L1 long enough and you can have 3 Laser Beams fired instead of 1. (That is if you have all 3 Pods). Super useful! Has a larger cooldown time though.

Something to add about retrieving the body of another player. When you retrieve the body of another player, you are completely healed as well as getting the random bonuses and money for retrieving. So, if you are low on health and recovery items, retrieving a body can allow you to avoid using recovery items you'd rather save for later.

if you tap the jump and fire button at the same time the pod will launch you forward

Other tips: 1. Wait till you get fast travel before doing side quests. 2. The game doesn't auto-save after you die like Dark Souls.

you forgot to tell them to buy the most important plug in chip its the one that lets you see all the items in the mini map that way its easy to find all the hidden chests and items and weapons

I just started this gem and I’m so excited. Hospital worker here and I look forward to logging in and escaping after a day full of sorry and mourning at work daily. So glad I found this.

A quick note about chips, you want to keep and combine chips that have the diamond next to them instead of random chips you buy from the shop or find from enemies. Diamond chips have the lowest memory usage per level and only gain 1 more for each combine (With another diamond chip). Selling off non-diamond chips are a great money maker for early playthroughs.

ok, here is my tip obtain and equip these 3 chips as soon as you can: Offensive heal, Deadly heal, Auto-heal. get them to +3 each at least and congtarulations, unless you are playing on very hard or you're doing something really stupid you should be almost invincible

This game is weird, it let me sell my life sustaining chip to a shop owner and I died!? WTF? 😂

not a beginner's tip but, chip drops are not completely random. Specific location/enemies drop specific chip types. Shockwave and Movespeed+ can be farmed in the desert housing area where you first fight Adam. Auto Heal can be farmed in the cave before the Adam/Eve boss fight Range Atk+ can be farmed from copied city Havent found the other chip locations yet, but ya'll get the gist

shouldve mentioned the diamonds next to chips, they are the lowest cost and fusing with another diamond keeps it diamond

Here is a tip: FINISH THE CREDITS.

My tips: 1: only buy medium recovery and sell all small recoveries if you find yourself relying on auto-use (before you get +3 and up where the healing is increased) since small sucks and some enemies have killed me with a follow-up after the small heal (if it kills you in one shot you don't heal, if it damages you too quickly you don't heal). 2: Spears are OP, specifically spears with Stun UP as it can knock enemies out of attacks meaning you will be like 95% safe while attacking (fists are good too but I never found one in my 2B playthrough so if their are any look up a guide if you are dead-set on them) 3: Chips have a sort of rarity system, some will have a black diamond next to them, these chips use SIGNIFICANTLY less space and add less to the cost when fusing chips. When possible save these to fuse with each-other (I have a +4 Attack chip that only uses 10 space which is crazy good as it allows for more stacking of attack chips) - PS chips stack 4: Use counter chips and use spear attacks after a perfect dodge for several 360 degree higher damage attacks. 5: SHOCKWAVE even a +0 shockwave chip gives nearly all of your melee attacks range that counts as melee, which means your melee attacks will easily block those heavy projectiles your pod cannot. Higher levels do more damage based on a % of your weapon damage. Faster weapons like the light swords make best use of this and the +1/2 will do more damage than your pod through most of your first playthrough. Bonus: Quite a few quest progresses are maintained through playthroughs or you will have the matts for the gathering ones already so don't be afraid to mad-dash the first playthrough and ignore side-quests that feel tedious.

Something that took me way too long to find out: If you jump off something high and hold X you will glide down with the help of your Pod. Useful for not taking damage but also to enjoy the view.

Well one tip that I think people should know is the basic long jump. It basically goes jump, double jump, pod fling (pod attack + jump), dash, and then hold jump to glide. It'll help to reach some out of the way areas.

For PC users.. use a controller LOL

Finish ALL the five good endings. Dont stop for whatever reason. Route B might seem like a pure play through but believe me you want to not only see but experience ending e.

You forgot the best tip in the game : If you have the selfdestruct enabled you can press both analog sticks to blow yourself up, afterwords quickly heal yourself allowing you to get back up. The end result is fantastic, you get to see a whole lot of ass

My additional tip would be to at least attempt any side-quests you see on the main map before heading to the next story progression marker. There are some that will disappear if you leave them for too long.

My tip: you can actually execite different counterattacks after perfect dodge - you can press light attack (air combo for 2B), heavy attack (just ground hits) or shoot (pretty strong grenade). Also, auto-heal is awesome.

There are these moments in the gaming world when a game feels perfect in every aspect. It happens once in a great while. This is one of those games. Other examples: GOW 3 Kingdom Hearts 1&2, Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2. Nier is just a beautiful game...absolutely stunning.

Dunno if you know about this, but every now and then you'll find a chip with a diamond next to the name. These are elite chips and take up less space than regular chips. This effect is amplified during fusion so if you fuse a diamond and non-diamond chip, you'll get a small reduction in space cost. But if you're patient, and only fuse elite to elite, you get super powerful chips for super low cost. I have high-level chips that cost around a third of the space of regular chips.

I've completed A and B ending, 4 or 5 minor endings without knowing that chips can be upgraded Searched this video after getting demolished by enemies in the C path 😅

- The slam atk (heavy atk in midair) ignores fall damage. - Dashing then heavy atk immediately in midair to slam faster. It also ignores the sword throwing part of the small sword slam. - Jump then heavy atk immediately does an upper slash for air combos. - Lock-on decreases the accuracy of the pod, manually shoot it for better result.

When the enemies eyes light up there about to attack.

Best tip: have tissue nearby. For the tears.

Isn't it creepy how I just bought this game, and suddenly youtube knows that I own it and sends this video my way? Anyway, nice tip on that extra chip space, the rest I got figured out.

The last time I played a real game was almost 10years ago. Im glad I randomly picked up this one. Everything is beautiful

I just finished the prologue so I'm going to head back where my body is. That's crazy you can just get another body. They came up with something clever to be like Dark Souls and Nioh in the fact that you die and it matters because you go back to the body and get your gear. I'm glad exp doesn't reset though. That's really cool!

Deadly Heal is OP af when fighting hoards of enemies. I get 40% health recovery per kill

1 dont use auto use 2 definately. And get used to running without some of the hud items. Those couple extra points can really help 3 as soon as you find big floating worm enemies farm them for Auto heal chips. You wont need nearly as many healing items if youre full healed between battles. 4 once you get to the forest. Farm the little bipedal enemies for offensive heal chips. Being able to lifesteal will also extend your battle abilities greatly. 5 weapons with critical hit bonus are insanely good. And ancient overlord and fang of the twins both get critical up and bullet rupture allowing you to slash down ranged attacks while you close distance 6 weapons with discounts stack and do not need to be equipped to gain their bonuses 7 when you get to the ocean go fishing. You can get a second pod with a laser main attack and having two will allow you to charge your special pod attacks to a higher level

Fishing can get you those expensive upgrades fast. Fish can sell for 1,000 - 2,500 at the beginning of the game. It's worth thr 5,000 G needed for the HUD. Also, when fishing, just close your eyes and listen for the prompt so you don't reel and lose the fish. Not a big deal but it helps.

The best part is obviously the comments that shower us with even more interesting tips of this fantastic game

Wow, man. As someone who just jumped into this game for the first time today, these are really useful tips. Thanks!

These are some great tips! I didn't know about the chips enhancing the character and also that you could go back to the factory and recover your giant sword. I was wondering why that was missing when I first entered the City Ruins. I just started playing the game and love it already.

3:05 "Taking a beating" *shows you beating up on defenseless desert bots*

A Tipp: To get the maximum flight distance Doubles Jump hold x for a bit,than while holding x press e, than a dash (R2) and hold x after it. This Combo is often usefull to reach some spots easy

I definitely agree with all of these tips. It is especially helpful early on to max out your chip space ASAP because it allows you to have alot more options about what kind of chips you can equip and how many.

/Best tip/ Use these chips and mash attack like there spider on your controller and never die again. -Offensive heal +7 "regain hp = 80% of damage" -resilience (any level) "don't flinch from attacks when above >80%hp"

I love how those masterpiece games you will remember for years come outta no where simply amazing

To expand on the chip fusions, every chip requires a certain amount of storage to equip, Don't just fuse chips willy-nilly. Fuse your perfect chips (they will have a black diamond after their name) with other low cost chips. This will pay off in the long run, allowing you to equip more potent/wider variety of chips.

I must disagree with you on the first tip bro: Apart from attacking chips (Melee + Ranged only), Offensive Heal (OH) and Deadly Heal (DH), you should not be too concerned about the other chips. In my opinion: 1/ HP chips is the best of the rest - it may make you survive more than 2 hits in *hard*. Still, it's definitely better to have OH or DH along side them to give your HP some power. 2/ The faster/heavier you kill/damage the enemy, the lesser chance that you WON'T be worried about your HP. In fact, those chips which I mentioned would make you immortal. If you don't like that feeling just try them 3 DLC quests. 3/ *BE PATIENT!* This game is all about experiment. In fact it's economical: + At some point once you have cleared as many stages as it's needed to, you can have access to *Emil's Shop* . Buy from him near the Resistant's Camp only => There may be *+6 CHIPS* OF ALL KIND! + I've tried it before: Spend ~7m G just to get several +8 chips right from the start - like this bro say, VS ~4m to get ALL OF YOUR CHIPS TO +8 from Emil (fuse them by a "anonymous" machine at the dead valley). Sorry for using Trainer for the money, but if you're hard-core working your ass of to get money, you can trust me since my eye sight is good and these numbers don't lie.

LOL didn't try customizing my chips or buy more slots until route C. Really makes the game a lot better

you forgot the jump and fire pod buttons causes the pod to grab you out of the air and fling you horizontally in the direction you are looking.

This is the best one out there. Rest of the videos saying 7tips/10tips to get started just cover some vague stuff which are self explanatory if you are into hack and slash. This ones the best. Cheers thanks for the vid

Is it bad that I reached lvl 99 and didn’t know Jack about chips till I came here XD

I didn't know I could go back and recover my body in the beginning, that would have been a cool free heavy weapon, oh well I've beat the game now

Another tip. Play the game 3 times to get the full experience and story.

Number 1 tip: Ladders give you a great view if ya know what I mean 😉

One minor tip that I haven't seen many people talking about: While you can beat enemies of a higher level than you without much hassle, if any enemy is 5 levels or more higher than you (at least that was the lowest point I noticed) they will not stagger from hits, but the same thing happens in reverse, an enemy that is 5 levels or more, weaker than you will not stagger you (tried it out on the axe guys that spawn in the ruin city early on.

Tip: If you use a heavy weapon, for example a Large Sword category weapon in the primary weapon slot, you will gain a different move set but you will loose the ability to charge the weapon. Using Virtuous Contract for example in the secondary weapon slot changes it move set with heavier strikes and a down attack as if it was a heavy weapon.

if you tap jump and quickly press heavy attack youll get an even higher jump that lets you reach areas that you normaly couldnt

there are unique running and dodging attacks as well as an upward attack into an air juggle if you jump then attack right afterwards

Me who started 3 days ago (and already finished Route A at 18 hours in) I went in completely blind on normal and once I saw the storage upgrade for chips and immediately started grinding to get all of them (and to make it easier on my psyche, I went most expensive to cheapest) Usually more storage is a bad early choice in most games, but I'm the one playing. Let me do what I want.

You forgot the most important tip: *9S CAN USE HEAVY ATTACK* You have to (tap dodge + square) to enter the heavy attack combo. You can also (spam light attack + wait a little + square) to start heavy attacking. Everybody says 9s is boring, but his moveset is as complex as 2b. Nobody knows he can heavy attack thought

The skill that gives you health back as you kill enemies will save you a ton of money and recovery items

Ok my tip is use ur 3 variations for different things A for movement and exploring B for combat etc and C for big Boss combat

One of the most useful tips I discovered is to put auto dodge chip as soon as you find it.

Man I've only been playing for a few days now on easy I still take a sh-t ton of damage tho and any tips on how to wake the Giant robot statue in the carnival area I need to exp grind If I want to fight LvL 99 Emil I'm only LvL 56

this game is amazing and anyone who is thinking about getting it but haven't decided yet just get it and it's on sale right now.. excellent game and the music is mesmerizing!

You can also make 2b do the supermodel slow walk by pressing down L3.

I always use max level Type-3 Sword and max level Virtuous Contract. Fast combos don't leave you as open, and can give you some leg room when evading.

Tip: Play with the original audio (Japanese) 2B has the va of Mikasa Ackerman and 9S is Ken Kaneki, all Japanese actors were chosen by Yoko Taro himself,english dub wasn't and he stated that he has no idea how accurate the character interpretation is since he doesn't speak english.

TIP: to do an air climb press jump immediately followed by heavy attack. Made combat much more satisfying.

thanks a lot of videos are missing the control scheme for the games ex. I had no idea how to use the pod to land from tall buildings. Took me a while to find that holding A did the trick. Now I know how to change weapons

i know i'm suppperrrr late to the party on this game but thanks for this video!

You can instantly unlock one ending (T) after you passed opening part, by removing your OS chip (Fa[T]al ending) titles will go instantly and game progress won't be touched, but in the loading you'll see "T" in your passed ending list

Very late to this game just got to the desert and got the extra pod thingy so far I am loving it I decided to give it a try after running into the music I am playing on hard and man some stuff just one shots me lol but so far I still like that A few of my friends said I will need to play this at least twice or more.

I play this game for 10 hours and only now found out chips exist..

If anyone is unfamiliar with the series until now, i would highly recommend Clemps recap of the Drakenguard and NieR games. The story is fully coverd and the knowledge of it will give you a lot of "O shit! That's that thing!" moments in Automata.

The combat in this game is superb. The only downside is the frame drops. Its not going to hinder your combant but its annoying as hell..

To me the most useful bit of info that would've helped me during the beginning of my first playthrough is how to efficiently fuse Chips without essentially wasting the rarer ones because I was impatient or unaware of how to best do it. Always pay attention to what kind you have and how much space it takes up(if you're new to it then the numbers that are presented next to the name is how much space they'll take) the ones with a diamond next to it are the important ones, don't lose 'em and don't needlessly fuse them unless you're fusing it with another diamond type or sometimes you can fuse it with one of the ones that are similarly low in space but before trying to take that risk save before doing it. When fusing standard chips then try to fuse only the ones with lower numbers, usually if you have 2 chips that take up 9 slots then the upgrade will more than likely end up taking 10 instead of a higher number because you fused a good one with a shitty one. Safest bet is to only fuse diamonds with diamonds when it comes to your primary build

Am I the only one who changed the heavy and light attack to be R1 and R2? It just feels so much more natural.

thank you for pronouncing Automata correctly. There are some serious fanboys that know everything about this game but they still can't pronounce it correctly.

I spent around 58 hours on this game, got all the side endings and main endings A, B, C, D, (Haven't done E yet cuz I want to fully complete all side quests and secret quests and explore the world a little bit more...)

I love how all of these tips can be summed up with "play a video game"

Best tip for newbies: equip the auto heal as soon as possible. Really cuts down on the need to have so many potions.

2:23 You can also hold beastlord halfway charge to vertical cut

Explore, explore, explore, the more you explore the more likely you are to find enemies/groups that you can take down easy and farm them for cash, resources, and chips. You can also run across different weapons (I've come across a halberd and a spear in the first hour of gameplay). Your not limited to the ground there are items up on top of houses, trees and even some hidden early access side areas that have some fairly decent loot. Don't be afraid to die by jumping off a cliff if your exploring

what a pleasure to come back a year later and checking the videos i've watched playing nier on the pro, now i'm playing it on the one X , it's an improvement over the ps4 pro , but not as good as most other xbox one X enhanced titles, no 4K textures patch yet.. so at a fixed resolution of 1800p ( not far from a native 4K res. of 2060p ) the game looks sharp and HDr is great, one advice though, brigthness issue. the game is not calibrated the same way so you have to tune down to the minimum the brightness in the setting menu to get the original deep blacks u got on ps4 , the HDR is different, more bright, it's cool cos color are more vibrant, but the blacks are more grey ... so just this tip for xbox one , S and X beginners. i prefer to play with motion blur on, but u can deactivate it.

You get to play as a 9S in another playthrough. Another ability replaces heavy attack but that doesn't mean you don't have heavy attack. To use heavy attack as 9S, tap the light attack button with pauses. So instead of tap tap tap, you press tap pause tap pause tap. Also, 9S throws his weapon if hold the button down. Spears fly extra far. Also, if you get a perfect dodge tap pod fire button once. All playable characters then grab the pod and throw it at the enemy you dodged. This deals a ton of damage, far more that melee equivalents.

I never knew mixing devil may cry and final fantasy would be so great

What I found what works Best for countering. Is instead of waiting for their eyes. Drop that altogether. Just continuously press forward in their direction even before the attack. Same as if you were attacking. But less using the attack button. And more holding down your laser button for projectiles.

This game deserves much more attention.

I think the chip on means a less rank during gameplay can anyone confirm this?

what should i do if i didnt recover my body at the beginning? should i buy another greatsword? wait for one? go find one? and the auto heal chip?? this is my first hack and slash game like this and im so overwhelmed and confused rn lmao

Pre-ordered on Steam !!! Excited to play !!

I would not press so hard on the health items. there are plenty of ways to overheal you from each battle, depending on your playstyle. personally I use health per death for crowds and auto heal or something similar for bosses

this game reminds me a lot of Kingdom hearts birth by sleep, with the multiple playthroughs for each character, and with the chips fusion similar to to the command deck in bbs.

Best chips are (in my opinion): Shockwave, deadly heal, anti chain damage.

This is the last person I thought I’d be going to for nier content

I found that dead body by accident just exploring

Autoheal is brokenly OP as soon as its available. If you find it annoying healing inbetween battles (or mid battle) this will negate a lot of need for stopping.

You didn't explain how to open those chests with the chains around it. I ran by like 7 of them & all it says is you can't access it. It doesn't even give any hints to how you can open it.

you can block Attacks like in Metal Gear Rising revengence

The combat is very similar to Okami I’ve noticed. Just started the game earlier today and I’m stoked

lad i found out my self by searching a way to go to the desert to go back in the factory and retrieve my last body items and sword. there is one more tip to know u can tame animal to ride them and the same weapon equipped in the right hand will make X combos , but placed in the left hand will make a different set of combos too

1. auto use heal item is garbo, pass tutorial most enemies will hit more than 30% hp, its a waste of space. use life leech on damaging the enemy + shock wave with melee attacks instead. or time slow when near projectile + time slow when perfect dodge on 1 hit kill mode. 2. "use a controller LOL" -Nhifu. This game was not design for precise movements and many things like dodges are harder to execute with mouse and keyboard. This Is the pretty much the only game I'd prefer a controller than mouse and keyboard. So go out and buy one if u have to. 3. get those pod programs early, read a tutorial if u have to. Mirage is a excellent i-frame skill that save lives. Wire and Missile provide additional mobility. Bomb and Wave deals great damage. and Repair is great if you didn't bother putting any heal chips.

Thanks for the Heads UP about making the tutorial before continuing to watch s2