Loop Hero: Why Players Should Carefully Place Battlefield Cards

Devolver Digital’s Loop Hero has amassed more than 500,000 players and redefined the roguelite genre. Instead of controlling how the Loop Hero‘s protagonist swings their sword, all of the game’s battles play out automatically. Players can only passively buff the Hero and affect what monsters spawn on the map by using a deck of preselected cards. Every card in Loop Hero has its own special ability that often comes with is a detrimental effect, like the Battlefield card.

These cards are the main way players can find rare loot to power up Loop Hero‘s protagonist. Battlefields spawn a chest at the beginning of every day, but defeated enemies in adjacent tiles have a chance to come back to life as ghosts. That might not sound detrimental to a run, but Battlefields come with two other game-changing nuances that Loop Hero’s card description doesn’t tell players.

Battlefields are an important part of any successful Loop Hero run. That means it’s paramount that players learn how to place the cards optimally, so they don’t end up ending their loop instead of continuing it. Here are all of the finer details about Battlefields that Loop Hero doesn’t tell new players.

Loop Hero: Battlefields Explained

Choosing the correct tile for Battlefields in Loop Hero is actually a lot trickier than it seems. That’s because they have multiple secret interactions with other cards, and they spawn different loot depending on what loop players are on. Users should always place Loop Hero‘s Battlefields towards the start of their loop since loot quality scales based on the loop number, just like the strength of enemies. Placing the tile at the end of a loop will make the gear players received immediately outdated as soon as their next lap begins since enemies will be one loop stronger than the gear that was just picked up.

Aside from front-loading Battlefields in Loop Hero, players must space them out as well. Overlapping Battlefields create Blood Paths, which spawn annoyingly durable enemies called Blood Clots. These might seem like a minor nuisance at first, but as players continue to populate their loop, they can begin to slowly chip away at their health along with the countless other monsters on the field.

Loop Hero is filled with these minor details that might not seem like a big deal at first, but they can seriously hamper a run if players aren’t careful. While one Blood Clot is easily defeated at the start of a round, once it’s time to fight Loop Hero‘s first boss, a pack of them could defeat an unsuspecting traveler.