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If you’re going to hell, you’re going to need ways to defend yourself. Luckily,Shadows of the Damnedhas you covered with a large array of weapons and, more importantly, weapon upgrades.
Your starting weapons won’t be able to carry you to the journey’s end. Thankfully, as you progress, you’ll encounter demons with larger health pools and more powerful attacks, necessitating stronger guns to blow them away. There are a multitude of ways to improve your arsenal, but know how to do it is key to victory.
How To Upgrade Weapons
The main way you will upgrade your weapons is through the use ofred gems. They can befound throughout the game world, and let youalter a variety of gun statistics.
After finding a red gem, the game willlet you know you have upgrades availablevia a pop-up in the lower left-hand corner.
When you open the upgrade menu, you’ll be able tobetter a weapon’s damage, reload speed, and capacity. Each improvementcosts one red gem, and every stat can beincreased up to five times. you may alsoenhance Garcia’s healthif you find yourself dying too often.
While you’ll find plenty of red gems throughout the campaign,you’re able to also purchase themfrom the shopkeeper, Christopher (he’s a cutie). Additional upgrades can be yours foronly seventy-five white gems, the game’s main currency. It’s recommended topurchase a lot of red gems, considering the only other items you can buy are health pick-ups and ammo, which are much more plentiful within levels.
Blue Gems
There’s one more way your guns will be enhanced, and that’s bycollecting blue gems. These will beawarded to you at certain story beats, usually after finishing a boss fight. Garcia will stick them into his companion, Johnson, andone of your weapons will be transformedinto a more powerful version.
These visual overhauls usuallygrant new abilitiesas well, such as alternate firing modes. These can be as simple asnew ways to deal damage, or offer someutility in solving environmental puzzles. However, these changes aredolled out at set moments in the plot and to specific guns, meaning you won’t be improving your favorite weapon every time.
Blue gems alter not only a gun’s appearance and function but also its name. Thankfully, acquiring this “new weapon"doesn’t wipe all the red gem upgrades you made to the previous model, allowing you to spec without worry.
