Hyper Light Breaker: How to Get Golden Rations

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• Where to Find Golden Rations
• Golden Ration Uses

Hyper Light Breaker features various resources, including the rare Golden Rations, crucial for essential upgrades. The game doesn't clearly explain resource acquisition, but this guide provides reliable methods for obtaining Golden Rations.

Where to Find Golden Rations

Early access gameplay offers two primary ways to acquire Golden Rations: exploration and cycle restarts. During gameplay, explore the map for chest icons; these often contain resources for upgrades, potentially including Golden Rations (indicated by a distinctive icon above the chest).

Areas containing Prisms (marked by golden diamond icons) frequently have nearby Golden Ration chests.

Alternatively, initiate or wait for a cycle reset. Cycles represent Overgrowth instances, resetting when your revives deplete. Upon running out of revives, choose to retry the map (losing resources) or fully reset the cycle at the Cursed Outpost. Successful cycle resets grant Golden Rations as ranking rewards.

Golden Ration Uses

Golden Rations are vital for progression in Hyper Light Breaker, primarily used to unlock permanent upgrades at your base. Spend them to enhance character abilities or acquire new vendor services.

Golden Rations also unlock Sycoms, which define your Breaker's stats and passive abilities, significantly impacting gameplay style.

Upon earning your first Golden Ration, prioritize the extra medkit upgrade from Pherus Bit. This significantly aids survivability, especially given the game's punishing combat mechanics.

Death during a run results in resource retention, but equipped weapons, amps, and perks sustain damage, potentially leading to permanent loss.