Synduality: Echo Of Ada - Cradlecoffin Customisation Guide

Synduality: Echo Of Ada has you play the game in a Cradlecoffin, the one machine that can actually survive on the surface of earth after a disastrous rainfall that kills humanity. In this all-weather mech, your job is to gather up AO crystals to build your funds, hunt down materials and, if that life gets a bit boring, hunt other players, too.

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The Cradlecoffin is how you do everything, so you'll never want to neglect it. The depth of customisation presented to you isn't quite at the depth you might expect in a mech-focused game, though every choice you make is crucial because you can just as easily lose it all. Here's every bit of choice you get to make with your Cradlecoffin.

What Are Cradlecoffins?

It's a rather morbid name, isn't it? Cradlecoffins are humanity's extension to allow them to explore the surface without having to risk their own lives. There's not even a human inside them, either. Rather, it is your Magus that commandeers them, an android AI that acts as your companion during sorties. The Cradlecoffin name refers to the chamber on the back of the mech where the Magus controls it from.

This coffin, as it is known in-game, is also the weakpoint of Cradlecoffins, and it deals exceptional damage when hit here.

Cradlecoffins are mechs, and while advertised as all-weather, they are anything but. They are extremely susceptible to rainfall, which will continually wear down their weather resistance until it starts taking away your overall durability as well. They also can't handle being underwater at all either, which leads to instant destruction. Cradlecoffins are designed for surface exploration exclusively.

They also run on a battery, meaning they can't actually stay out on a sortie forever. Spare Batteries do exist, but they are exceptionally rare outside of the CIC single-player missions, and those ones can't be kept. Cradlecoffins are powerful, but they are all about management. They're far from invincible, and very expendable.

What Parts Of The Cradlecoffin Can Be Customised?

As a mech game, you'd likely expect your mech, the Cradlecoffin, would have oodles of customisation choices for you to pick from. Alas, that's not the case. There are six parts of the Cradlecoffin that can be customised, and only three of them are physical parts of the mech itself. They are as follows:

• Body - This determines the majority of your Durability and Weather Resistance, as well as the entirety of your cargo weight (Output) and Battery Life.
• Arms - These give more Durability, and determine the speed at which you reload and swap weapons, and other bonus skills.
• Legs - These offer more Durability, and determine the distance of a quickstep, how much it overheats the Cradlecoffin, and other bonus skills.
• Weapon Slot 1 and 2 - You always have two weapon slots available, and any two weapons you want can be equipped in them.
• Excavator - This is used to mine AO crystals. Better versions allow you to mine higher-purity crystals.

Arms also determine the weapons types you can use. This can be Energy or Live Ammunition weapons exclusively, or allowing both types to be used.

And that's everything. There is no colour customisation, no choosing a name for your mech, and no weapon customisation either. It's rather limited, though maybe it's for the best. When you die, you lose every piece of equipment you own and other players can loot your mech for all its pieces. You wouldn't want to see someone else running around with your custom pieces, would you?

Customisation is accessed from the Sortie menu, and you can change your equipment and inventory from here. You can also click on the Cradle Customisation button to give you a wider display of all your stats.

You have two pits in your garage to build your Cradlecoffin, though you can't use the same parts simultaneously to make slightly different builds unless you have duplicates.

How To Increase Your Cradlecoffin Stats

After navigating to the Cradle Customisation menu, you will be greeted by a 3D view of your mech, as well as bars and graphs of all its stats. While Output will already be quite high (seemingly maxing out around 10,000), the other stats will be much lower. How do you increase these stats? Simple - you get new Cradlecoffin parts.

Each piece of a Cradlecoffin you can get comes with predetermined stats, and while these can reduce as their durability goes down with use, they can never go higher. Each piece is exactly what it looks like and can never be changed. As such, the only way to improve your stats is to get brand-new pieces. And how do you get these? Painfully.

There are only five ways of getting new Cradlecoffin parts:

• Buying them in the Item Shop after unlocking them in Requests. These are typically capped at green rarity.
• Crafting them after unlocking them in Requests. You are not informed of unlocked crafting recipes until after the request is complete.
• Being given them from completing Requests.
• Earning them from the Drifter Pass, Synduality's battle pass.
• Potentially looting them from defeated players.

You can't randomly find parts at all, and the best parts are typically given to you. The issue with this is that if you lose them, they are then gone permanently, and you will have to settle for the much weaker parts in the Item Shop. There are some great parts you can craft, though these are prohibitively expensive, require rare materials, and are crafted in real-time. As such, losing your parts will likely result in your starting over from scratch unless you've managed to stockpile many parts.

In most cases, the Cradlecoffin parts you unlock later will be direct upgrades of previous pieces, making losing them all the more cruel. If there's a part you can't bear to lose, make sure to insure it. This won't give you the item back, but will return most of its monetary value.

Certain rare parts, like the Daisyogre parts, are very expensive to insure, so try not to use them until you can afford the insurance.

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