

They’re an essential currency for major upgrades. While there’s an abundance of red, yellow and blue minerals, green Minerals can be harder to find so make sure you’re snapping up as much of these as possible. This is particularly helpful when trying to locate rare green Minerals.

Not only that, it highlights every neutral and enemy target in the surrounding area. It will ping and highlight those hard to find chests and other collectibles up to 300m away. You should always have your shark’s Advanced Sonar equipped, even if you’ve uncovered most of the map. Some of these barriers may not be immediately apparent, such as collectibles made too hard to reach until your shark has reached a sufficient size or jump height. It’s definitely worth swimming from region to region and exploring, though we found ourselves enjoying Maneater more having stuck to the main missions and evolved our shark enough so that we wouldn’t bang our heads against such barriers. You’ll quickly find that many areas of Maneater’s open world are straight up level-gated or patrolled by much bigger enemies. Just make sure you don’t retreat too far or the target’s health will replenish. You can cheese these fights a little by fleeing, eating some smaller prey to restore some health, then looping back around. In earlier chapters you’re bound to come up against foes more powerful than your shark pup. Your safest bet is a trusty double chomp before swimming away or evading, repeating the process to slowly chip away at bigger enemies.

It’s not until your shark enters adulthood that it will be able to employ its more advanced attacks.įighting off other predators can feel clumsy with no real tactical thought involved. One of the downsides to Maneater is the combat can be a little bit dull, especially when starting out. These include the fully upgraded Advanced Sonar to ping all points of interest on your map as well as Mineral Digestion which gives you a permanent increase in the number of health and currency harvested from kills up to a bonus 30%. Most body parts can be modified for bonus damage or resistance but it’s the organs we’d strongly recommend focusing on as soon as they become available. Sadly it takes a while to unlock these Evolutions, especially if you’re taking your leisurely time sashaying about the sea instead of sticking to the mission log. Your shark has a total of eight slots in which you can equip altered body parts including the jaw, head, body, fins, tail, and three organs. These confer a range of different passive buffs and active abilities. They don’t put up much of a fight but will drop new Evolutions that, when upgraded, can make Maneater much more enjoyable to play! Collect and upgrade EvolutionsĬarrying on from the previous tip, you’ll want to learn more about the various shark Evolutions and what they can do. Killing these hunters is the quickest way to levelling up your Infamy Rank – each time you do this a named hunter will then come after you. While it’s tempting to run, you should really be trying to cause as much havoc as possible. It isn’t quite like GTA’s star rating system though – bounty hunters will simply turn up and attempt to blow your shark out of the water until you give them the slip. Kill enough humans in rapid succession and you’ll build your wanted level. Although we encourage some free exploration, use the log as an effective handrail or speedtrack.

Following the log is the quickest way to rank up as these missions typically pay out the biggest XP totals and mineral rewards.
