Ultros | 100% Map + Mini-Review/Critique! - All Bosses, Upgrades, Abilities, Secrets & More!
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2024
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THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY!
No gameplay in this one, though.
What is Ultros? You'll hear a lot of people talking about "roguelikes" in regards to Ultros. For a breakdown of what the game truly is, check out my detailed summary @ tinyurl.com/whatisultros
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Ultros 100% Map Pack
HQ Detailed 100% Map Pack = in my Kofi Shop @ ko-fi.com/s/0c99f87341
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Map features:
►All Stasis Pod (save point) locations
►All Mnemonic Mycelium (cortex ability node lockers) locations
►All soil patch locations
►All vista locations
►All shortcuts
►All blocked passages/barriers/doors
►All compost locations
►All Living Network nodes
►All compost map locations
►All boss and NPC locations
►All extractor powers and upgrade locations
►Key items and other interactables
►Completion notes/diagrams to aid your quest for 100%
►Living Network routes that I personally took (they're dynamic)
►Trophy info
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I'm in love with this game, and yeah I'm one of THOSE people who really enjoyed the gardening mechanic and connecting the living network. It felt like I was changing the world for the better and getting those seemingly impossible connections was a huge dopamine rush. Plus most of the plants are just a pleasure to look at. However, for someone going for 100% or a content creator pushing themselves to get it done in a timely manner, I completely understand the frustration. Connecting the network is definitely meant to be a patient, contemplative experience.
Omgggg i just bought this map and immediately you solved something ive been thinking on for a few days with the description of the gnopper!
Oooh what did I say? I've totally forgotten already! >_< Glad I could help!
@demajen the gnopper grows connection buds through walls! I noticed it but didnt connect it for some reason lol when i read it on your map it hit me haha
Going to leave a comment here if anyone else is having trouble connecting the shamams.
Abuse the splice system and blood plant. Splice of a blood spurting flower and carry it with you. You can splice it on to any plant and create a connection node at your feet/close by. Once it’s connected simple splice of the blood flower again and you will see the connection/bugs still remain even with no node. You can repeat this process and it’s helpful to carry the two grass plant seeds on you to form areas to splice your blood fruit on.
Hope this helps someone
This is good, also you can carry a staccati(the brambles) flower and a particular part of the Wilding Tree(the violet pine tree one) with you to connect the network as well.
Insane stuff, how many days is it since the game was released? And you already 100% mapped it. Good job!
Game launched officially on the 13th, but I got a key in the email on Monday morning, so I scrapped my 'plans' for Monday and started playing then. It's my half term holiday, so the only things I was really going to do this week was work on the BLAST BRIGADE map and finish editing, rendering, and uploading the rest of my Prince of Persia: TLC videos. (Which I haven't. xD)
I got the first ending and quit playing. I normally 100% most metroidvanias or at least get the "true ending" but connecting the living network is an absolute nightmare. It's just so unclear how you get the network to certain areas, which paths you need to take and which plants you need. I feel like after getting the first ending they needed to give you some kind of quality of life upgrade. Maybe something that let you stretch the network farther or spawn any type of seed.
Yeah, the cortex ability that lets you stretch it a little bit further is a must for even some of the early connections, but a more advanced one wouldn’t go amiss! Especially as there are several memory locker Mycelium more than you need.
I’m thinking about how I could help people do what I did with minimum fuss. Just for the 7 shamans. It’d take a lot of time to figure out something that everyone can do with minimal effort though.
Ive been trying to connect to the gardners garden for the past 4 hours with zero progress. Mushishi to extend, tons of compost, splicing stuff on... buds will not grow. I cannot get close enough no matter what.
It seems like there a bunch of rng with when and where buds will spawn, which just makes this feel awful
I only got to Gardners by going up through Pantheon of Stars, through the middle, and down. However, I suspect it *might* be possible to use the brambles from the closest save room in Living Quarters and grow it up towards the Garden, since that seems to work pretty well in a lot of places as long as you are fairly careful with where you actually let the brambles themselves grow: they act as nodes to the network, but obvs they hurt you if you hit them. Fortunately you can splice them to where you want to be, so you may be able to Network them across the ceiling.
It is also possible that you can grab certain enemies that work the ground and they'll create fresh soil for you in places that you put them. I *think* that has happened for me, but in all honesty I'm utterly unsure.
You need to feed monsters so they'll make a dig spot next reboot--it is NOT POSSIBLE without feeding many monsters (it really wish the game had made it more clear that was a thing early on).
Other than that in general: any angled slope use a blood plant. Any corridor with lots of twists use a moss one. If you want quick flowers in one spot put down a mushroom or blood plant. If it's a vertical slope use the golden grass (though frankly I only do that if I need to climb said slope). I almost never used the blue trees or the purple spiky plants.
@@carlotta4th 100% The lack of clarity on that feeding monsters thing is ridiculous. 28 hours I played before I noticed soil where there wasn't soil before. Absolutely dumb that this wasn't made clear much earlier.
10:01 if you plant mushi grass on the bottom of that tower and also the top (technically I used a tendril plant at top, but I think they made flowers near the same middle platform) you can get up easy. Just by grabbing the life force and fly up to the next flower.
But I cannot, CANNOT connect that last pod in the same area (very far left one, last pod before you exit the trials area). I can't figure it out, I grew a giant purple spiky plant from beneath and can get up just fine but there's no flowers--I planted something in the middle of the collapsable bug shaft trying to attach it from above but there's no roots so it won't grow anything... no clue what to do there.
Hey fella. Well done on making the maps. Does it contain all the "Vista" location as well? It's the only thing I have left to do but am missing about 7 and really don't have the energy to go back over the whole map again to find them 😢
Yeah, all the ones you can physically grab are on there. There’s a “free” fourth one you get for each location after you’ve got the other three. (This isn’t explained anywhere and caused me some confusion while finishing that stuff on the map.)
@@demajen cheers for the quick reply. I noticed that when I collected a missing one but then realised it put the 4th one on too.
I bought the map from your site, apparently you can put a price on happiness as you probably saved me about 5 hours of my life for a very reasonable price.
Really detailed but easy to use. Keep up the good work and well done.
Another good job
Any chance to get the Dark Light (2022) map?? Should be good after many updates.
I can probably give it another try later this year, but March and April are super busy with MVs already. Last time I tried Dark Light was 1st October 2022 and it felt like it needed a huge amount of work. Hopefully they've been able to fix it up somewhat since.
Thanks for this. How do you trigger another cycle if you're already in the last one (the one where you can get in the pod and leave the ship)? I need this to complete the growing of the seeds obviously. edit: nevermind i'm dumb. Figured out you can use the upgraded Returner for that.
You should have got the Upgrade for the Returner module from defeating the ‘final’ boss. Equip it using the wheel and hold down the extractor button until the screen goes white. Should wake up in a new loop.
5:10 Some how i missed/skipped that chase to infinite lake . i just remembered that there was some plant that i could cut and went there, and already had double jump on that loop
19:05 you can connect from the living quarters directly to the garden (upper path) by using monster to create planting spots. there is a monster on cealing that you can feed to create a spot on the ground.
the first thing that almost make me quit was not knowing how to get up on the plataform on the main chamber. you need the thruster and it NEED to be selected on the bot ( you can NOT use it if you selected other power), and you can fly using purple water , but of course the game only showed yellow mushrooms and maybe orange water before that.
That's really interesting! So arguably the whole chase thing is a softlock prevention mechanic to guide you to the right place but still make sure you follow the dev's plans. Pity it removes the Extractor, though, as doing that section without the double jump was irritating AF. But also kudos to them for designing the whole section to be doable without it.
The monster feeding thing is INCREDIBLY INFURIATING looking back, because I just didn't know about it. I had no tutorial or anything short of "feed monsters good". Even a single line of dialogue that "happy monsters can create new plots" for you would have literally cut my playtime by probably 5+ hours.
Yeah, I embarrassingly got stuck there too. But I maintain the water should have been orange at the bottom with the gold mushrooms also there to make it more clear to players that you can ascend.
@@demajen Speaking of which, there is a dialog branch in the game where the Gardener talks about it. When you feed the monster that he fed and when you first get the Extractor from the Gardener there is a mini-quest for a couple of cycles - in the first you need to make new tunnels for the monster larvae under the flower where you take the sword and in the second cycle you need to feed these monsters. But the mechanics of creating new places to plant seeds is very annoying.
@@STRANNKI vaguely recall his dialogue about monsters buried deep below! Suppose it makes sense that that's what the devs were actually intending. Pity they didn't make it clearer.
How did you get in that ceiling in Infinty Lake and how did you get to that ledge on the left where the ball rolls down past the monsters?
The ceiling near the top with the skull thing guarding it? With a lot of ducking patience. Hate those enemies. In theory, you can use the splicer upgrade on them to move them about and dump them out of the way somewhere you never plan on going again, but I didn't find that until 28+ hours into the game.
As for the ledge, I very tediously spliced Ubarbu (the one that grows in forks) up towards it and stuck an Ogu Munin platform on it. Make sure you have the cortex ability that lowers your aggro range as those skull enemies suck balls.
9:26 Whoah you got to the top of the green area? I just grew blue trees on the left side and sliced a mushroom to the top top to make to the left area with the cranium thing. But I still can't get up top to that dang eyeball statue because I can't figure out how to go to the right area (the same mushroom tactic gets me horizontal distance but not the vertical jump). Any hints for me?
Your tactic was almost certainly faster than mine to get to the Mycelium. Mine took 45+ minutes and a lot of trial and error. You don't really need to go to the statue if you've already got the brain, as all it does is open up a Thruster Juice pit that lets you fly over there more easily. If it is map coverage you're after, though, the note on the map in the video was how I did it. The springy tip of a Wildling was what gave me the boost up I needed (though bouncing collision sometimes doesn't work and you just drop straight through it when you're trying to get height. I imagine it's a speed vs collision checking issue).
Thanks! I finally ended up just splicing a million tendrils on to get there. It sucked.
Like 4 or 5 spots suuuuuck to splice to get to, everything else is manageable for me but those particularly spots just suck.
Could you possibility tell us how to get into the pacifist door in Vasa’s Legacy? I made it there without killing anything and it still said “blade detected.” So I’m assuming you can’t have the blade on you? But you can’t get out of your spawning zones without a blade because of all the cracked walls you need to break down. Appreciate it in advance!
As for my experience…. I’m going for the 100%. Have about half the shamans connected. As for buying the map…. I’m from the US but it’s showing your currency. Will it work with US currency? I’ve used your free maps before and appreciate all the assistance it’s given me in other games and would like to contribute.
You've reminded me I was putting together a brief map slice for that door! It requires preparing in advance, but there's a way of prepping a route so that you don't need to hit any of the cracked walls. Lemme just slap it together real quick!
drive.google.com/file/d/1F-6ijxPGDx7Fb6y-Ne4BFYiM3CACa-bC/view?usp=drive_link There ya go!
Now, onto your other question: shouldn't be an issue currency wise. There'll probably be a conversion, but I think Paypal/Stripe tell you what that should be before you confirm anything :)
Does the true ending require another playthrough or am I able to go back to all 7 shamans that I destroyed in post game to get the ending? Thanks in advance for any answer you can provide.
Can go back to the shamans with the Living Network tether. No need for another playthrough. :)
That spot in the Gardeners zone, you really dont have to take the left path. You can literally use a Stuccato Seed, and just straight vine up... and put some Ugo Mugin platforms on the Vines. And use Stuccato Brambles as needed to get the network up there. Its much easier. Honestly Stuccato, you can place a leaf on ANY root system, and you will get leaves and brambles. Making it very easy to strip it of brambles. de-root the plant, and place it back down, move a leaf, and ta-da a whole new set of brambles. Stuccato is the MVP of the endgame.
Yup. Figured out the brambles trick far too late.
is there an upgrade for the reader? I'm somehow missing it on the map
No upgrade for the reader. I looked but got the achievement for all upgrades without finding one.
Please can anyone tell me what might be the final area for 100% map? I have everything else unlocked and connected i have 5 extra brains and everything i can see on my map except that extra space above the beggining area that you have, i tried growing some plants up there but ran into an invisible wall. Is there a way to get up there? Is there a total # of brains i need if i chase em down ill get them? Do i need to hit every corner of the unmapped areas... That cant be can it? Anyone please help thankyou
For 100% map you just need to uncover everything, not collect everything. In theory, there should be a pink border to areas you haven't fully explored. If you can take screenshots, I could have a look for you as I know from personal experience if you stare at the Ultros map for too long you just CANNOT see what you're missing.
(And no, the area above the GAME START doesn't count. That's just a weird thing from how I tried to shade in the edges of stuff.)
I know i am merely freaking out because i collected everything so now i havent slightest where else is undiscovered. There is no pink and unless all short cuts must be open in the same run that shouldnt be an issue. I would send screen shots but idk how on yt i have been flying and falling on the uncharted parts as much as possible
I got it there was some pink left in infinity lake however it would not appear until i was close to it for some reason
@@NickJoeBeg Hurray! Glad you got it sorted! Infinity Lake was the last piece I needed too. There was a tiny nub I hadn't uncovered (though it was definitely pink for me and I was just being dumb). So frustrating they haven't got something like that working 100% of the time.
I can’t believe you actually 100%’d it
Technically I have three achievements left that involve splicing plants together or piling up food, but yeah, the map is 100% and...well... an experience I won't be repeating any time soon!
I’m currently a couple hours or more in and I’ve probably spent the last 45mins or more of it completely lost not understanding how to get where it is I need to be going and it’s to the point I may just put the game down because it’s so incredibly annoying.
I'm 30 hours on and haven't gotten to the first ending
You must be doing a LOT of exploring! Hope you're enjoying it!
@demajen yes i think i connected the living network through places i didn't need to lol
23:22 - Fortunately, a 100% completion guide surfaced (though it's more of a walkthrough video than a guide, but still better than nothing). I spent around 10 hours trying to navigate the Living Network to reach those darn statues on the map edges, but I gave up. After watching someone else do it, I can say this: it's NOT a puzzle. There's no 'elegant solution' here; it all boils down to tedious and incredibly frustrating time-wasting.
In the video, the guy just kept spawning endlessly growing leaves from the cactus (or whatever it's called in the game), and seriously, what's interesting about that? Spending half an hour on mindless routine just to unlock another piece of the map?!
I don't understand why they introduced such an irritating mechanic. The first half of the game was great. The second could have been better; for instance, if food worked as compost immediately instead of waiting for the next cycle. Similarly, creating additional planting spaces could have been easier. Why force players to lose all their collected seeds just to stretch out the time? Why complicate the soil 'health' system like that? And why add such randomness, where one seed might sometimes grow a flower on the tree for connection to the Living Network, and sometimes not? There are so many highly questionable game design decisions.
I don't plan on going back to the game; it's a complete waste of time, which is a shame. I recommend everyone to just go for the bad ending and watch the good one online; it's absolutely not worth the time investment.
I dont blame you for charging for the map (the time and frustration levels required to make it warrant some value)- i have scoured around and couldnt find a guide that comes close. I wont buy it however as I dont have the herculean amounts of patience required to actually connect the whole network. I mean just from my attempts without a map guide I found the growing/ splicing to get solutions to map puzzles boring beyond words. I like the puzzles, just too fiddly to solve and as you rightly put it not satisfying (like puzzles in the game portal are rewarding with the right level of challenge). I will say I enjoyed this game until the first ending and would describe it more as a puzzlevania than metroid.
Yeah, if it wasn’t for my stubbornness I’d have totally not bothered and even now I really wish I hadn’t. Map sales have been very low so I think people have just not bothered with Ultros or maybe just got the first ending and said it was enough.
Listening to the first 10 minutes, I believe I would not like playing this at all. Too bad, I was hoping for another good metroidvania.
It's definitely an acquired taste. Does some things really well but for every 1 cool feature there are 2 mediocre ones and 1 awful design choice. It's competent, with flashes of brilliance far outweighed by frustrations. Goes into the C-Tier on my MV tierlist.
This is NOT a 100% map =) And u dare to ask money for it
Some hidden areas with a mycelium completely ignored e.g. in geggamoja refinery.
My "cosmographical meditations" achievement says otherwise, but do please tell me how you'd do better.