Players who enjoy summoning creatures to do their dirty work in gaming have only one class and specialization to select in Superfuse but it's a good one. The Minions Technomancer can positively fill up the screen with crawling machines or place just a few, extremely powerful machines down.
This will all come down to how players decide to distribute their talents. Superfuse gives players lots of freedom compared to other games of the genre and, as much as fusing a skill can drastically alter the gameplay experience, talent points are just as important.
This article was written during the Early Access period. Updates and patches may have altered the overall experience.
10 Well Oiled Machine
- All your minions have increased movement speed.
While this skill benefits all minions, it's the Buzzjaws that gain the most from this effect. About halfway through the game, enemies are faster than the Buzzjaws, causing the poor minions to miss their attacks as the enemies blow by them. The Well Oiled Machine talent speeds up the game and speeds up the Buzzjaws, so they won't have any problem with creatures attempting to get out of their reach.
9 Gear Lock
- Buzzjaw minions deal increased melee damage.
At the starting level, the Buzzjaw minion is powerful, but that tapers off later on unless players work hard to keep them relevant. One simple way to do that is by increasing the damage of the Buzzjaws with the Gear Lock talent. When Buzzjaws stack up, the damage truly gets to eye-popping numbers, destroying waves of enemies in the blink of an eye.
8 Nuts & Bolts
- All your minions have increased health.
As players get new skills, they may find some of the old passive talents no longer make as much sense as they did before. However, the Nuts & Bolts talent works for all minions, not just the Buzzjaws. This will become important an unenhanced minions are easy to kill, forcing the Technomancer to run out of energy trying to replace the fallen army.
7 Snapping Jaws
- Your Buzzjaw minion's melee attacks deal damage in an increased area of effect radius.
While many gamers will be acquiring new fuses that can deal area damage, the Buzzjaw has a talent to handle this. It's important that players do one or the other as handling hordes of mobs can be overwhelming without something that makes their attacks an area of effect. At the top level, this talent will wipe out clusters of enemies in a single chomp.
6 Buzz Head
- You can control additional Buzzjaws.
Buzzjaws do their best work in groups. Adding to their damage is good, but adding an entirely new Buzzjaw doubles the damage of one and contributes to the mayhem. The more Buzzjaws on the field, the less likely it is that one of them will attack the Technomancer. Port around, find an elite mob, and let the swarm of machines handle it from there.
5 Battery Pack
- Your ranged minions deal increased damage.
Adding damage to the character's primary damage-dealing skill is a wise decision. Even if players aren't struggling to beat encounters, this will end each fight faster, giving players the most gear in the quickest amount of time. Store the good items, sell the rest, and get back into combat.
4 Lazer Head
- You can control additional Lazerbeaks.
What many would argue is the best skill in the game gets even better when players stack them up. Each stack of this adds another, doubling the damage of a single Lazerbeak. For players who don't yet have this passive talent, it's time to respec, this is one of the best passive talents in the entire game.
3 Buzzjaw
- Summon a melee damaging minion.
From the start of the game until the time it ends, players will have at least one little Buzzjaw available for casting. On its own, the minion isn't much, but with a stack of them, the damage is like having a whole hero fighting alongside the Technomancer. They are relentless, allowing the player to dodge attacks while they seek and destroy every enemy nearby.
2 Decoy
- Summon a decoy mission which draws enemy attention.
While other classes are focused on getting better gear to tank more hits, this specialization doesn't have to worry about that. Decoys tank damage for the team and can be placed every few seconds, allowing the Technomancer to fire away from safety while their minions get in close.
1 Lazerbeak
- Summon a ranged damaging minion.
What makes the Minions Technomancer one of the best class specializations in the game is the Lazerbeak. This minion will plant itself and shoot away at opponents. Combine it with a few fuses that deal area damage and many gamers find the Lazerbeak is really the only minion they need to beat even the most difficult contracts.
Superfuse is available in Early Access for PC.