Guide

Spending upgrade money sensibly

How to decide between the upgrades available to a R.E.P.O. crew when each one is an item with its own purpose rather than a general improvement.

Applies to

0.4.0, read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

• Surplus money after a run
• An upgrade stand in the shop
• A crew that agrees on what is missing

Steps

1. Work out what the crew is actually short of before buying.
   the save records a name for every upgrade the game knows about
2. Prefer the upgrades that help the whole crew over the ones that help one player once.
   an upgrade records whether it improves the player or the gear
3. Put what you buy where it will be used rather than leaving it loose.
   upgrades are placed on a stand and cached with their position
4. Check the charging and battery situation before buying more battery gear.
   batteries and charging are their own items
5. Buy nothing on a run you have not yet extracted from.
   the shop is where upgrades are applied between runs

Common mistakes

• Buying an upgrade nobody in the crew will use.
• Spending everything and leaving nothing for the next run.
• Leaving a bought upgrade in the van.

Related entries

Extraction and the shopThe upgrades you find and buyAn upgrade is an item in the game rather than a value on the player.Extraction and the shopHow upgrades are kept track ofAn upgrade is modelled as its own object with its own information.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.