Tips & Tricks | Basics Hatred Guide

Last update: 01 June 2016

The game, at least in theory, is rather simple, as it focuses mainly on shooting everything that moves, but the difficulty level (on the lower settings as well) will surely be of a problem to some of the players. Below you will find a list of tips & tricks, which might (and for some surely will) come in handy during your adventure with Hatred.

1. Don't waste your ammo, especially in the beginning missions - there's no point to just hold your finder on the fire button all the time, especially when your crosshair didn't even reach it's destination (target). Try to fire with short, three-or-so bullet series, and you will have a lot easier to eliminate your targets, not to mention that you will not waste so many bullets while doing so.

2. Don't waste ammo for your more valuable weapons (such as assault rifles, especially during the first couple of missions) to kill simple civilians - you can use pistols, as well as shotguns, to which there is an abundant amount of ammo. Remember, that you can also knock the civilian down with a kick, and then just use the execution - you won't waste a single bullet while doing so. Don't try this on cops, or soldiers, as they will almost always resist the kick and unload a series of bullets at your character.

3. Keep a constant watch over your health bar. Hatred is not a typical shooter-like game, in which, at the moment your character sustains serious injuries, you will just have to stick to a cover and just suck your thumb - it doesn't work like that here. You have to replenish the health of your character on your own, by performing executions.

4. If you have a low amount of health, it's worth to regenerate them by "using" civilians. First things first, the risk of sustaining any injuries is close to zero (provided that the civilian has not picked up a weapon), and secondly, you can just run towards such an individual, knock him/her down by using the kick action and finish it with an execution - this way you will replenish health and will not have to waste a single bullet.

5. Do not use weapons, which you will have a hard time getting ammo for (such as, for instance, AK-47, or the "typical" assault riffle during the first couple of missions), or those which share their ammo with others (like pistol and uzi) - by doing so, you will quickly run out of bullets and you will end up with two useless weapon slots, making you way more vulnerable to enemy attacks.

6. Adapt your weapon according to the situation. There's no point in shooting at the enemy on the other side of the screen by using a shotgun, as you will have to use multiple bullets in order to eliminate him.

7. Watch where you are shooting. There is a huge amount of different items in the game, which, upon being shot, explode violently - more than often the explosion is of the size of the whole screen, or consumes a series of buildings. A stray bullet may finish of an enemy, or can do the same with you, when you end up blowing the building in which you currently reside.

8. The same goes for explosives, mainly hand grenades and rocket launchers (as the molotov cocktail, as the fire itself, deals almost no damage to the player) - those two are enormously powerful weapons, but sometimes they can deal more harm than good (like, for instance, destroying a cover, which separated you from a group of armed enemies). Use them with extreme caution.

9. Complete side quests. Aside from the obvious rewards, such as bulletproof vests, and high amount of different types of weapons (or explosives), side quests allow you to unlock special respawn points, in which you will begin if your character gets killed during the mission. If you have no respawn points unlocked, or you have already depleted them all, upon death you will have to start the mission from the very beginning - some of them take more than a half hour to complete, meaning that a sudden death without the option to continue may be a painful experience.

10. Remember, that the game utilizes an advance physics engine, which translates to (sort of) realistic effects of destruction - instead of, for instance, running around the building in search of an entrance, you can just "make" your own entrance by blasting a wall with a rocket launcher, or a hand grenade.

11. Adjust the difficulty level to your playstyle. There's no point in trying to be a badass and play on the highest, extreme level of difficulty, when you will be dying 50 or so times in order to complete a single mission.

12. Collect ammunition from the fallen enemies. It is not replenished automatically upon reaching a checkpoint (which the game lacks, to be honest), and finding out that you ran out of bullets, when there is a dozen of enemies surrounding you may end up bad.

13. Reload your weapons before engaging enemies. If you have even as little as a few seconds of "free" time, when you are not fighting with anyone, reload all your weapons - by switching to the other gun you will have a full magazine and you will be able to use it immediately, without the need to reload, or you will not find yourself in a situation when an enemy closes on your position and you have 2 bullets left.

14. Try to approach enemies from the south (so that your targets are coming from the north). The reason is quite simple - by having your character on the bottom of the screen, you will be able to reach and see further (sometimes even several times further!) than when your character is on the top of the screen and the enemies are approaching from the south. By using this method you will be able to eliminate your enemies from a huge distance, almost always emerging from the fight without sustaining any injuries.

15. Use your grenades. From about the 4th mission you will have access to abundant amounts of grenades, meaning that you will be easily able to abuse them. You will stumble upon them way earlier as well, but you will have to take some effort in order to find them. A single, well-aimed grenade can get rid of a dozen of enemies at once.

16. Remember, that the amount of equipment your character carries is limited. You can only equip up to 3 different weapons, regardless of their sizes - you will have to decide, whether it is a good idea to bring a shotgun along, for which you will have abundant amounts of shells, but having in mind that the weapon itself is moderately effective in combat.