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Black Future ’88: Survival Guide

Posted on November 21, 2019
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

Heads Up Display Help

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
Black Future '88: Survival Guide

In the upper left corner, there is a (depending on your HUD scaling choice) small info set featuring some important data.
Black Future '88: Survival Guide

The blue bar is your Blood bar which is basically a health bar.
Black Future '88: Survival Guide

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.
Black Future '88: Survival Guide

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.
Black Future '88: Survival Guide

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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.
Black Future '88: Survival Guide

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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Map item guide

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

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The icons on the map mean things.

Character – Hauer

Black Future '88: Survival Guide

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

Starting Gear

Weaponry

  • Survivor’s Pistol / Infinite Ammunition
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  • Snake Bite / 44 starting Ammunition
    Black Future '88: Survival Guide

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

Character – Ghost

Non-Cursed Enhancements

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

Enhancement Name
Enhancement Icon
In-Game Description
Rabbit’s Foot
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Weapons and Items drop more often and are better.
Undiscovered
Trigger Fingers
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Better Firing Speed
Animal Heart
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Faster Firing Speed if you have a low blood count
A Fancy Hat
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Extra charisma gets you better shop discounts and more options in buff selection.
Spiteful Heart
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Killing Synth-Heads refunds a little ammo.
Black Mirror
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Your Projectiles can now bounce.
Remorse Supressor
Killing things lets you immediately use the dash.
Saving Grace
Longer Dashes. Dashing through bullets can sometimes heal you.
Flak Jacket
Less damage from explosions
Bandoliers
Find more ammo in weapons, higher ammo max.
Second thoughts
Get an extra dash charge
Heavy Boots
Destroy everything nearby when dropping from high places.
Vagrant Core
Gain tremendous dash mobility but running consumes your deadlock time

Cursed Enhancements

All of the cursed enhancements found in game.

Enhancement Name
Enhancement Icon
In-Game Description
Blood Rounds
In your darkest hour, turn your blood to ammo.
Optimistic Locking
You cause more damage when at high blood count, but Skymelt spawns more enemies

Boss Core Enhancements

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

Enhancement Name
Enhancement Icon
In-Game Description
Boss collected from
Jupiter Core: Fast Clocking
Greatly reduces cooldown of dashing.
This core is obtained from the Jupiter and Juno boss fight. Kill Jupiter last to have a shot at getting this enhancement.
Juno Core
Create a hot beam when you dash
This core is obtained from the Jupiter and Juno boss fight. Kill Juno last to have a shot at getting this enhancement.
Uber Core: Ground Slam
Downward dash and hit the ground with a powerful attack
This core is obtained from defeating Uberhelm.
Avalanche Core
This core is obtained from defeating Avalanche.
Note: This guide is still work in progress. we will update later.
Written by FlynnFaust

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