Can You Play Hogwarts Legacy On Pc With A Controller
Michael Rosiles
When you start a new game, the first thing you have to do is customize your playable character. This has become a staple in story games, and you want to take your time with these decisions as many of them are final. You can change you haircut, hair color, voice tone, and clothes later on in the game but this is the only time you will be able to customize your face, complexion, and name so make sure you like your face and name as you will be seeing those a lot!
The other major factors in character creation will be decided as you progress through the first chapter of the game. When you arrive at Hogwarts, you will answer a few questions, and then be sorted into one of the 4 houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. If you have a Wizarding World account, you can import the house you got on the more comprehensive sorting hat quiz. For Hogwarts Legacy however, the sorting hat quiz boils down to one question where you will select a quality you sense inside yourself. The character trait you select for this question will determine the house the game selects for. The corresponding answers are:
Traveling by Floo Powder is the preferred way to get around, but finding the right Floo Fire for where you want to go can be tricky. We recommend using the left side list to navigate to different sections of the castle and select the name of the place you want to go, rather than trying to move the cursor over the right flame, which can be extremely hard if there are multiple flames next to each other or on top of each other on different levels.
Lastly, we recommend you hold off on exploring the vast Scottish Highlands until you unlock your broom. You will unlock a broom through the main story at around 10 hours, and then you will have to purchase your own in Hogsmeade for 600 Galleons. While in the map, you can use left and right on the D-pad to rotate between the map of Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and the Highlands. In the map of the Highlands, you can press L2 a few times to zoom out and view the whole map, which is huge!
More importantly in the early game, you can use this spell to sneak up on disillusionment chests around Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, and each of these chests will reward you will 500 galleons, making this the best way to score some quick and easy currency in the early game. In the later half of the game, you will unlock the ability to capture and sell magical creatures, which is by far the best way to make money. You will also make a good amount of money if you sell your excess gear regularly.
Now that we know how to make galleons, what should you be saving it for. There are a lot of spells, tomes, plants, and potions you should be buying in Hogsmeade to set yourself up for success in this game. As previously mentioned, you are going to need 600 galleons to buy a broom, so keep that in mind. You will unlock the Room of Requirement as you start Chapter 2, which is what we will be spending a lot of money to upgrade. You are going to want to buy a planting station with at least 1 large pot. You can purchase the table with 2 large pots for 3,000 Galleons or the table with 1 large pot for 1,000 Galleons. With large planting tables, you can plant any large, medium, or small plant. You should buy all the seeds from Dogweed and Deathcap and The Magic Neep. You should also buy all the potion recipes from J. Pippins Potions. You will need all of these plants and potions for certain quests throughout the story, and buy purchasing the recipes and seed packets, you enable yourself to grow/brew the things you need for yourself, rather than spending money on a single plant or potion, thus saving you lots of money down the line. There are a lot of other upgrades to the room of requirement you are going to want to get but you should prioritize being able to grow all plants and brew all potions first.
As we also mentioned in a previous section, if you have a gear piece that is vastly lower than the others, you should purchase a piece of gear to increase your stat roll in that slot, which will increase the stat drops you get on future gear.
If you open all the locked doors in the game yourself without auto-solve, you will find yourself rotating your thumbsticks a lot to find that sweet spot. This can be extra annoying if your thumbsticks are worn down, greasy, or lacking grip. If this is the case for you, then check out our KontrolFreek Performance Thumbsticks. Our proprietary rubber has more grip for better control and comfort, and an increase arc distance, which reduces the amount of force needed to rotate those thumbsticks. Cracking locks with Alohomora will feel so much better with a pair of these babies on your controller.
After you progress through the story a bit, you will unlock Merlin puzzles around the map, which are marked by the leaf symbol, because you need to spread Mallowsweet leaves on the stone to activate the challenge. Completing these challenges will unlock additional gear slots. Having more gear slots is essential to not hitting capacity while you are questing. After completing your first trial, you only need to complete one additional trial to unlock 4 more gear slots.
Pressing R2 will cast your Basic Cast, which does a small amount of damage and is great for building combos. Pressing triangle when an attack is incoming will cast Protego, which projects a protective shield around you, and holding triangle after Protego will cast Stupefy, which is like a counter spell that stuns your enemy for a moment. Along with these 3 spells, Damage (Red) spells are your primary dueling spells. Expelliarmus is a classic dueling spell that will disarm your enemy. With the Ancient Magic Throw skill, you can press R1 to throw a disarmed weapon at an enemy to do massive damage. Diffindo is a classic damage slashing spell. Confringo and Incendio can be used in puzzles to blow up or light something ablaze, and in combat to similar effect.
Control Spells are similar to Crow Control spells in other games. Spells like Arresto Momentum, Levioso, and Glacius will prevent your enemies from moving and set them up for combos, such as Glacius to Incendio for a massive explosion.
Force spells move your target in a certain way. Accio is essential for gathering collectibles like flying field guide pages. Flipendo will send your enemies flipping through the air, which you can combo with a Descendo to slam them to the ground.
Lastly, we have utilities spells, which are used exclusively in puzzles and world exploration. Reparo will restore broken objects, Lumos will provide a light to guide you and complete certain mini-games, and Wingardium Leviosa is great for manipulating objects in puzzles.
This is why we recommend balancing your spell set with at least one damage, control, and force spell on each page. This will ensure you can break any shields that you need to in combat without having to swap out spells or switch spell sets.
Spell knowledge 1, 2, and 3 will each unlock an additional spell set. With all 3 of these, you will have 4 spell sets and can slot a total of 16 spells. This will be enough to slot every spell you could want to use in combat, and enable you to rotate through your sets, activating spells quickly, rather than having to go into the spell list and select your spell every time you want to use something other than the 4 spells your have slotted in your main set. This mechanic is essential for a smooth combat experience.
Swift enables you to hold down Dodge to vanish and quickly reappear nearby. This talent is incredibly versatile in combat and exploration. We use it all the time to walk quicker, but you can also use it to dodge attacks and quickly get out of water without walking slow.
We bought all 4 talents in this tree. These talents make it harder for enemies to spot us while we are disillusioned, we can run while disillusioned, and gives Petrificus Totalus an area of effect, so you can stealthily take out a whole group of enemies at once.
Noxious makes your Venomous Tentacula attacks deal additional damage and break shields. This is so useful as a utility item in combat, enabling you to use more damage spells on enemies rather than using control and force spells to break their shields.
Focus Potions reduce the cooldowns of your spells and Focus Potion Potency extends the duration of your Focus Potion by using any spells in the current set, which means you can cast spells with pretty much no cooldown indefinitely as long as you have a Focus Potion.
If you are wondering which Talents to get first, we recommend the Stealth and Core Talents first and then branch out into the Dark Arts and Room of Requirement Talents as you progress through the story and unlock the ability to take advantage of those skills.
This is a lot of information to take in; we know. But this game is a lot of fun and we want you all to have a great time with it as well. If you made it to the end, we love you! Please drop a comment down below and let us know which house you are in and how you are playing this game!
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