Tips And Tricks For Beginners In Tribe Nine

Tribe Nine is an excellent live-service RPG that features a retro art style in the open world and the usual anime style in combat. The gacha game features plenty of unique and interesting characters that the player can roll for and control in battles.

While there is a huge variety of mechanics in both the open world and in combat, getting used to it all can be quite challenging without proper guidance. These beginner tips will allow you to catch up with everyone quickly and ensure you don’t miss out on anything.

Investigate Every Interactive Object

As you progress into the game, you will encounter many chests and interactive objects, which may include items that can be used for crafting. Make it a habit to always approach any object that manages to stand out from the scenery and investigate it.

You may encounter trash cans and chests from the early game, and you can approach these objects and press the investigate button to make these objects drop items. You can then use these items in crafting by selecting the craft option from the menu.

Use Characters With Ranged Regular Attacks

By default, you’ll be using the main character in the open world to explore. The main character uses melee attacks, and attacking an enemy before they spot you will allow you to engage in battle with increased tension of all your allies.

Certain characters have better AOE regular attacks, and some of them even use ranged attacks, so it’s best to use a ranged character in the open world, such as Yutaka Gotanda or Tsuki Iroha. Using ranged attacks will allow you to easily get the first hit on the enemy while remaining out of their vision, giving you a head start in battle.

Utilize the Strategy Skills Of Each Party Member

In combat, each character has a unique strategy skill, such as healing or dealing increased damage for a short period. You can use this skill by switching characters during combat. You will have to learn what each character’s strategy skill does before using it so you can get the most out of it.

A good example of this is Koishi Kohinata’s strategy skill, as it allows you to heal your party members during combat but is only usable when you have built up at least five stacks of it by hitting the enemy. On the other hand, Yo Kuronaka’s strategy skill can only be cast after using his secondary skill first and lets you stagger your enemy more easily.

Using a specialized skill either consumes Stamina, or you’ll have to build up a meter by damaging enemies before you can use it.

You can check what strategy skill each character has by going to the character details section in the party menu. Once you’ve figured out how to utilize the specialized skill of each character in your party, you’ll be able to defeat much tougher enemies easily.

Focus On Counter-Attacking Instead Of Evading

Against most enemies, counter-attacking will allow you to deal increased damage while avoiding all damage, and you can even chain some special attacks if your tension bar is full. On the other hand, evading allows you to avoid attacks but doesn’t give you that much of an advantage against the enemy.

If the enemy is in extreme tension mode, it’s best to simply create some distance and avoid their attacks by using evade until their tension runs out. If you get hit during this phase, you’ll take a ton of damage.

Usually, you should try to counter-attack the enemy’s melee attacks and evade the ranged ones. Keep in mind that counter-attacking requires precise timing, but it’s easy to get used to it as enemies usually throw out an obvious sign before they attack.

Experiment With Your Party Composition

You can gauge each character by either their attack ability, break ability, or support ability. Characters that have better attack ability are more suited to being the primary damage dealer of your party, while characters that have a high rank in their break ability allow you to stagger enemies more easily.

For example, a team including Yo Kuronaka, Koishi Kohinata, and Yutaka Gotanda can be pretty strong early on because Yo can easily stagger enemies with his counterattacks, Yutaka can deal immense damage from a distance, and Koishi can heal everyone with his strategy skill.

Support characters are mainly responsible for tanking damage and providing your team with heals and buffs. It’s always a good idea to have at least one support character in your party at all times.

Utilize Your Tension Cards In Combat

Tension Cards are equippable items that grant passive bonuses to you and your allies. These cards automatically activate when certain conditions have been met. Some cards activate during Tension Phase One and Two, while others only activate when your allies’ tension is at the maximum.

A good practice is to equip tension cards for each phase of tension, so you keep getting stronger as your tension builds during battle. You should also check which tension cards provide the best bonuses and when they become active during battle.

Once your tension reaches a certain threshold, you can either use an ultimate attack or continue to increase it to reap the benefits of your tension cards. Once you use an ultimate attack, all your tension will be drained, and the tension cards will lose their effects until you build up your tension again to the required level.

You can equip up to five tension cards at once, and these tension cards can also be upgraded to increase the passive bonuses. Tension cards with a higher rarity often give better bonuses.

Absorb The Souls Of Fallen Comrades To Heal Yourself

While you can always rest at a respite to restore your health to the maximum, sometimes that isn’t a viable option as resting at a respite also respawns all the enemies. In that case, it’s a good idea to use items to restore your health.

However, before facing off against a powerful enemy, you’ll encounter many corpse markings on the ground, indicating other players that have been defeated on the spot. Here, you will encounter a tiny green flame on each marking, which will restore your health by a tiny amount when you approach it.

This token of friendship can mean a lot, especially when you’re about to fight against a boss. Absorbing these green flames will restore your HP so you can fight at your maximum potential.

Restart Or Retreat When Things Get Out Of Hand

The game gives you the option of retreating from a battle to a respite or to restart a battle altogether. This feature can be incredibly useful, especially when fighting against tough enemies or when things aren’t going your way in combat.

Retreating from battle will bring you back to the last respite that you interacted with, but you have to be wary, as this will also respawn all the enemies that you have defeated so far. To retreat or restart a battle, pause the game during combat, and you’ll be shown the options to restart or retreat on the pause screen.