Black Future ’88: Survival Guide

Black Future ’88 is a Rougelite Metroidvania Shooter.
You only have 18 minutes to beat the game or your heart explodes.
Of course you don’t gain control of your character for 5 seconds, so it’s more like 17 minutes and 55 seconds.

This guide will have every weapon, ability, and enemy, as well as some class building guides and maybe even strategies for handling game crashes.

Below, this guide contains

• Characters
• Weapons
• Bosses
• Enhancements
  – Boss specific Enhancements
  – Normal Enhancements
  – Cursed Enhancements
  – Character Specific Enhancements
  – Chem Enhancements
• Enemies
• Combinations of Gear and enhancements

This section is a basic explanation of the elements of your heads up display, feel free to skip it if you don’t need to use it.

Below is a picture of the game

In the upper left corner, there is a (depending on your HUD scaling choice) small info set featuring some important data.

The blue bar is your Blood bar which is basically a health bar.

Taking damage lowers your current health, which if it reaches 0, you die.
Certain things will add or subtract from your maximum blood, such as activating defense droids, or using blood thinners.

Directly below your Blood bar is your Deadlock Timer.

The Deadlock Timer traces how long you have left to live.
There are certain weapons, enhancements, curses, and items that alter the amount of deadlock time you have left.
If the deadlock timer reaches 0, you’re dead, it’s game over.

To the left of the Deadlock Timer is your money counter.

Your money is probably something you shouldn’t worry about too much in game.
You get it by killing enemies, and it is easy to rack up a lot of money fast.
You use money to purchase items, ammo, stims, and guns.
If you use a “Greenback” weapon, note that your money is your ammunition.

The final HUD element in the upper left corner is the Dash Charge.

The dash charge shows you when you can dash. Each dash charge requires around 2.1 seconds to refill, allowing you to dash.
There are a handful of enhancements that modify dashes and the charge rate for dash charges, as well as weapons that use dash charges as ammo.

Going to the bottom left hand corner, you can see your two weapons and ammo counts for each of them.

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At the bottom right corner is a mini map with information on it that will be explained in the next section of the guide.

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And lastly on the top right corner is a display of all your enhancements in this run through.

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As mentioned from before, the map would be explained in a later section of the guide.
This is that later section.

The icons on the map mean things.

Hauer is the starting character and also the most Vanilla Balanced character in the game.

Starting Gear

Weaponry

• Survivor’s Pistol / Infinite Ammunition
  
• Snake Bite / 44 starting Ammunition
  

He starts with 1 dash that takes 2 seconds to recharge.
His ammunition is normal as well as his blood.

All of the non-cursed, non-stim, non boss core enhancements in the game, with some notes

All of the cursed enhancements found in game.

This is a list of all enhancements possibly collectible from killing bosses.