Beautiful Mystic Survivors

Beautiful Mystic Survivors

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To do list for easy win
By レイン「TH/JP-OK」 and 1 collaborators
Hello everyone this is my first time creating a guide XD, since BMS (Beautiful Mystic Survivors) seems to be hard for many players . I hope this will help you understand the concept of this game and make victory easier.
The game is still in early access so please understand that there might be a lot of crashing/bugs and poor game balancing. Please give the dev some time to develop it since it has been under development for a few months.
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The concept of this game
This game is a survival roguelike RPG. similar to Vampire survivors but not exactly the same.

In this game you have to fight a lot of monster mobs, Elites, and Boss. The play style is different, since you need to walk around dodging hordes of monsters, kite them, and kill them to get experience gems for leveling up. With the meta progression, you get more and more powerful items/ characters and it will become easier. So take your time playing it and try out different strategies.
Intro
At the start of the game you are weak, having no money with only 2 waifus.


and the reason we are weak:


  • Yes, we are broke and powerless (gotcha farm the gold for upgrading 'em all) .
Gameplay & Control
Game play :
HUD

  1. Character portrait & level
  2. Weapons & Passive gear list [There are 4 tiers for both : Normal(T1), Rare(T2), Epic(T3) and Legendary (T4) displayed by color White > Blue > Purple > Orange/Yellow]
  3. Character Skill
  4. Character unit (under character is the aiming direction indicator)
  5. Mini-map (Unlocked after completing a specific achievement)
  6. Timer on the top mid of screen *Note : Elite monster (specific minute's boss)/ First&Final boss of stage will spawn as the time passed by* First boss spawn at 15min / Final boss spawn at 30min
  • Your current Level / Weapons and Passive gear are shown on Top left of the screen (Normally you have a max of 6 equipment /gears). Each time you level up you will get random choice of weapons and passives (3-5 choices depend on Luck stat).
  • Mini-map will show you the position of yourself, lootable passives, chests, item attract orb, and Shrines.
    *** Mini-map will be available after you collect 100 items (destroy skull lootbox and loot it) achievement ***
  • Enemies will keep spawning continuously, try your best to survive until the end of each run.

Control
For Keyboard&Mouse
  • WASD or directional button (up down left right) to run around.
  • Mouse is using to aim/ select level up choices and interaction. (can toggle one-handmode if using the mouse for aiming makes the game harder for you.)
  • Spacebar to use character's skill (each characters have their own skill with varying cooldowns)

For Controller
  • Left stick for Movement
  • Right stick for Aiming
Tips & Strategy
As a newbie, what you should focus on first is clearing achievements to unlock more stuff for future runs.

*Since power up upgrade still locked for some passive

Note :
  1. Try to survive at least 5 minutes or more while looking for "Skull Lootbox" on your first run (Skull Loot box will drop either Potion or Gold coin {achievement at: 1/ 10/ 25/ 100 } ) after it is destroyed. It is purple.
  2. On the first run, your goal is to level up and get new weapon until you have 6.(*Immediately pick the "Legendary tier " if you lucky enough to get it in your choice since it will clear 1 easy achievement*)
  3. From (1) While you collecting potion or gold each run by destroying lootbox you will unlock the Mini-map after you have collected 100 items (either potion or gold).
  4. After you finish the first 2 steps ((1) and(2) above) and lose the first run, new passive should be available for future runs. You will now be able to think about strategies to survive longer. Playing as Bellatrix is recommended until you finish buying the following power ups: "Damage, Recovery and Cooldown 2 stacks each of them".

  5. In The picture below will show you the choice system in-game during level-ups. Look closely to the "top right" of each selection since it will show you what weapon or passive gear is needed for weapon evolution. In other words, you must have the correct pairing of weapons and passive equipment to be able to evolve (and this is only available once the weapon reaches level 8. To evolve your weapon once it is level 8+ and you have the correct matching passive equipment, use a chest that the elite enemies drop.[/u]


    It is best to level one weapon at a time until it evolves, if the choice is available, rather than collecting a new weapon at each level-up choice. Passive equipment can be collected from around the map, and picking these up after having 6 passive equipment already will allow you to have more than 6 passive equipment.

You can spam a character skill at the start and quit the run then repeat this process again to complete an achievement faster instead of playing a long run (might need High spec PC).



*** By repeating the tips above and progressing the game, collecting gold /bought more power up. you will eventually clear either stage 1 or 2 for sure.
Unlocking Characters
Unlocking Characters

To unlock the characters you need to unlock their specific achievement but there are some characters (Melisandre and Ciara) that can be unlocked during the mission (these two are available by following the “?” on the minimap, once that is unlocked, and take a LONG time to walk to, so be ready).

To unlock Melisandre & Ciara
  1. You need to unlock the Mini-map or Map Note : Mini map unlocked via picking up the loot(either potion or gold) from skull lootbox 100 times
    While Map unlocked via collecting 2000 golds in 1 run.

  2. After unlocked Map walking to " ? " . it will take very long time to walk there so prepare yourself and make sure you have about 15 or 10 minutes left before timer hit 30:00 and the last boss appear.


  3. once you get near to " ? " you will see Melisandre [stage 1] /Ciara [stage 2] surrounded by monsters


  4. For Ciara she was captured by the giant slime. To rescue her you need to have strong weapons and enough levels since giant slime's mob (infected horn bat) around him are quite strong and will attack you once engaging[/b].
    ***Note : You have to walk to her after killing Giant slime's subordinates otherwise you won't unlock her and will have wasted the run.

Try to help them by killing special monsters that surround them, and walk INTO them so you can handhold and walk them home. (・∀・).
Relics
Relics are a gamble, meaning each one is "High risk, High return". Currently there are 6 Relics and they are still under development for balancing, so some relics may be useful while some are not.

To get the Relics : there are 2 ways to obtain relics.
  1. Challenging the shrines (indicated as Red and Blue star on the map/ mini-map.) By touching the Shrines the trial/ challenge starts. Each Shrines have their own clear condition.


    • Cursed Shrine
      To clear this shrine, survive 3 minutes. The shrine grants monsters increased ATK & HP (+40% ATK & +30% max HP). After 3 minutes, the trial is cleared and the relic will be dropped below in front of the shrine. [/u]



    • Secret Shrine
      To clear this shrine, defeat the evil fox spirit. After killing it the relic will be dropped around where it died.
      You don't have to keep staying near the shrine once evil fox spirit spawned, You can walk around to obtain any remaining passive equipment for your planned build.


  2. Killing stage's First Boss (spawn at 15:00 minutes)
    • Stage 1's First boss : Cerunnos

    • Stage 2's First Boss : Blood Sludge
*** Don't risk your run taking relics if you can't handle the mobs in late game due to lack of DPS. Since picking up relics means you have to accept 1 of 3 of the options whether they are useful or not.
Monster spawn timer/ event
Here is some info for the Gameplay section. In this game monster will spawn each wave for 1-2 minutes until different type of monster spawns and replaces the last. Here is a table that lists the "Monster type & Timer of spawn/ de-spawn":

Stage 1

Type
Timer of spawn/ de-spawn
Spider
0:00 - 2:00
Mad Shroom
1:00 - 2:00
Big Spider (Elite monster)
*** 1:10 ***
Bee swarm
spawn every 15 sec,for 2 minutes.
starting at 2:00 - 4:00
Horn bat
2:15 - 3:00
Red Cobra (Elite monster)
+ Carnivorous plant in circle
*** 3:00 ***
Bunny slime
3:00 - 5:00
Carnivorous plant
4:00 - 5:30
Pixie
5:30 - 7:00
Pixie queen (Elite monster)
*** 6:00 ***
Wolf pack
spawn every 15 sec,for a minute.
starting at 6:00 - :7:00
Orc
6:30 - 8:00
Snail
7:00 - 8:00
Wolf
8:00 - 10:00
Pumpkin Scarecrow
10:00 - 11:00
Golem
11:00 - 13:00
Dryad (Elite monster)
*** 11:05 ***
Yellow scorpion
(Only spawn if you are walking)
12:00 - 13:00
Tri horn beetle
13:00 - 15:00
Green mosquito
14:00 - 15:00
Boar
14:57 - 16:00
Bear
15:00 - 16:00
Cerunnos (First Boss)
*** 15:00 ***
Ent
{It has skill to create branches to slow you down}
16:00 - 17:00
Elder Ent (Elite Monster)
{has same skill with the Ent}
*** 16:15 ***
Chimera
17:00 - 19:00
Elite Chimera (Elite monster)
*** 17:15 ***
Ent 2nd wave
18:00 - 19:00
Boulder Golem
{Once died. It will collapse itself, make an obstacle to block your passage}
19:00 - 21:00
Minotaur
20:00 - 22:00
Arachne (Elite monster)
*** 21:00 ***
White Spider
{Creating web after dying to slow you down}
20:00 - 23:00
Lava spider

{it will send baby lava spiders to fight you}
22:00 - 23:00
Lycan
23:00 -
Dark mage chief(Elite monster)
{Create burning ground : Your -CD 50%}
*** 23:30 ***
Dark mage
{Has same skill as it chief}
23:30 - 24:00 / I'm not really sure.
(randomly spawn in late 27mins too.)
Bombard bug
24:00 - 27:00
Evil egg
24:00 - 2
Boulder Golem 2nd wave
24:00 - 2
Baphomet
25:00 - 26:00
Ent
25:00 - 26:00
Big Black Golem (Elite monster)
*** 26:00 ***
Chimera
26:00 - 27:00
Dryad
27:00 - 28:00
Spike Golem
28:00 - 29:55
Big Black Spike Golem (Elite monster)
*** 28:00 ***
Lesser dragon
29:00 - 30:00
Ancient Golem
*** 30:00 ***
Harpy
*** 30:00 ***
Autumnal Pyre (Last Boss)
*** 29:55 ***
11 Comments
oddball 22 Oct, 2022 @ 9:59am 
very good:medkit:
gundambison 22 Oct, 2022 @ 7:05am 
to have much gold.. take easy (not normal or hard unless you strong enough).. take the shrine.. and take the gold bonus. for some reason, the easy drop gold a lot than normal!
Cat 22 Oct, 2022 @ 7:02am 
for tips :
Banish option : DO NOT use it before all passive for evolution are collected and make sure to only banish passive you don't need like armor or heart. that way you can only got good passive and weapons from skull box and level up choice

p.s : this method are the best with shrine buff that give a chance for normal mobs to drop skull boxes
レイン「TH/JP-OK」  [author] 19 Oct, 2022 @ 6:59pm 
Due to there are so many type of monsters. So the Monsters spawn table section will be subjects to change. Since i have confirmed with the Dev that they may change the monsters on some wave too. so later i will only write special event like the rushing group monster or monster with special trait (Elite mob and Boss include) only.
Dev  [developer] 18 Oct, 2022 @ 11:01pm 
Incredible, thank you very much for the contribution!
Skudzy 18 Oct, 2022 @ 2:12am 
11/10 Good guide :luv:
レイン「TH/JP-OK」  [author] 16 Oct, 2022 @ 11:45pm 
@ravager want to join this writing hell XD. I'm lazy tbh after seeing how the syntax thing work on the write. sadly to add Contributors for helping edit the guide, only friends of the author are available (welp i think Steam did this for protecting spamming and wrong edit/ troublemaking).
KtrlAltDel  [author] 16 Oct, 2022 @ 11:40pm 
Thanks for putting together the guide.

I like to wait to grab any of the chests until I am able to evolve a weapon. Might be a useful tip to add.

If you would like any English grammar revisions, I am happy to help. Your English is great and understandable, so this is probably not needed.
レイン「TH/JP-OK」  [author] 16 Oct, 2022 @ 8:44am 
@Ravager Thx for reminding me about Spawn timer. already add the section but it will take for a while to finishing since I want to grinding to XD. and list the accurate time is a bit of challenge
KtrlAltDel  [author] 16 Oct, 2022 @ 8:03am 
Times for events would be good so they have an idea of progression. For example, first boss (mini boss?) appears around 15 minutes.