Encounter Guide
Overview
Encounters are the heart and soul of Outlaw Troopers! By mastering them, you will:
- Earn Credits, Gears, OLT Tokens, Sacred Gene, Radioactive Shards and Prestige.
- Gain Reputation to increase your seasonal Leaderboard rank.
- Complete A.R.C_Initiator_Quests for additional rewards.
- Defeat Dominators to find Fragments.
Combat Mechanics
For details on how damage, defense, and effects work during battles, see Encounter Combat Mechanic.
How to Start an Encounter
- Go to Explore -> Encounters.
- Select your desired Tier.
- Sector Intel: View the Map Layout and potential Node rewards.
- Hostile DB: View the specific enemies and Dominators on the planet.
- Rules: View the Encounter Rules.
- Setup Screen: Click "Initiate Encounter" to customize your build.
- Minimap Preview: View your current Map Layout in the top-left corner.
- Stats: Check your total offensive and defensive stats before deploying.
- Load: Quickly load your previous loadouts.
Note: The setup screen automatically loads your most recently used build.
- Deploy: Click "Deploy" and to pay the entry cost using Energy or a Discount Access Key.
Tiers
There are unlimited Tiers to explore. You must defeat the boss Node to unlock the next Tier.
- Training Tiers (1–4): Free to enter. These are intended for learning the game and do not reward Reputation or Credits. Map rerolling is unavailable.
- Standard Tiers (5+): Require Energy to enter. Energy costs and rewards increase every 4 Tiers. For example:
- Tiers 5 to 8 share the same cost and rewards.
- Tiers 9 to 12 share the same, and so on.
- Cleared Tiers: Tiers where the boss Node has been defeated. These can be rerolled for new Layouts.
- Uncleared Tier: Boss Node not yet defeated.
- No Credit Nodes.
- Fixed Map Layout (cannot be rerolled).
- Discount Access Key cannot be used.
- Radiation Nodes are inaccessible.
Encounter Rules & Reward Scaling
- Energy Scaling: Rewards scale based on the base Energy cost (before any discounts) of the Tier.
- This affects Credits, Gears, OLT Tokens, Reputation, Prestige and Radioactive Shards.
- Each point of Energy spent increases your reward bonus by 10%. For example:
2 Energy gives +10% bonus, 3 Energy gives +20% bonus, 4 Energy gives +30% bonus and so on.
- Node Scaling: Every time you clear a Node within an Encounter, difficulty increases by 20% and rewards (Credits, Gears, OLT) increase by 10%.
Note: Node Queue System allows you to select multiple Nodes at once. Your Ship will automatically travel to and process each Node until the queue is empty.
- An Encounter ends when you defeat the final Boss Node or if your Ship is destroyed.
Map Layouts & Rerolling
If you don't like the rewards on your current map, you can Reroll its Layout. Reroll is only available for cleared Tiers.
- Each Tier has its own saved Layout.
- Rerolling a Tier saves that Layout for that Tier only.
- Switching to another Tier loads a separate Layout.
- Each Reroll costs Normal Access Keys equal to 3x the Tier’s Energy cost.
- Free reroll (granted after completing an Encounter):
- Always generates a 3 × 3 Layout
- Has a lower chance to roll Credit Nodes
- Minimum rerolled map size: 3 × 3
- Maximum rerolled map size: 6 x 5
Setup Mechanics
- Ship Stacking: Owning multiple copies of the same Ship (virtual or permanent Assets) increases its level and base stats.
- Trooper Boons: Each Trooper provides unique "Active Boons" that changes daily, visible during Troopers selection process.
- Gear Score: Your total equipped Gear cannot exceed your Gear Score Limit. This limit can be increased via the Tech Tree.
- Default Skills: Choose 3 skills to bring into battle. These can be upgraded using Credits to increase their effectiveness.