In PRAGMATA, Upgrade Components are a limited resource found across the Lunar Base that allow you to enhance Hugh's Suit and Primary Unit (main weapon) as well as Diana's Hacking. While you may think that spreading components across the three may work best, doing so will make the beginning of the game more challenging, especially when you start encountering more powerful bots that pack a punch and have quite a bit of health.
As such, you should prioritize upgrading some components over the others.
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Quick Summary: The Best Upgrade Priority
If you want to have as few troubles as possible from the very start of the game, follow this investment order:
- Hacking: The most critical upgrade. It deals decent damage, and with upgrades, it keeps enemies vulnerable longer.
- Suit: Necessary for survival. Bigger bots and bosses on Standard difficulty deal massive damage that can knock Hugh down in a few hits, if your positioning and dodging are not on point.
- Primary Unit: Lowest priority. Improved hacking and additional weapons make up for the lower damage your basic gun deals.
How to Upgrade
Upgrades in PRAGMATA are handled in the Shelter, your main hub on the Lunar Base.
- Firmware Updater: Use this terminal to spend Upgrade Components on Hugh’s Suit and Primary Unit, and Diana’s hacking efficiency. The maximum upgrade level is determined by story progression.
- Unit Printer: Use this terminal to manufacture new Secondary Units (weapons) and Hacking Nodes from blueprints unlocked by collecting weapons and nodes across the Lunar Base using Lunafilaments. New abilities, such as Fast Moves (Perfect Dodge), can also be learned via the Unit Printer by spending Pure Lunum.
Upgrading Priority
Hacking (Highest Priority)
Upgrading Hacking increases Diana's damage output for completing hacking grids successfully and the Weakpoint Exposure duration.
- Almost every enemy bot in PRAGMATA features reinforced plating that blocks Hugh’s gunfire. Diana must disengage these defenses through the hacking panel.
- By upgrading this first, not only you can deal more damage, but you also get more time to attack exposed weak points, thus giving bots fewer opportunities to damage you. This also increases Heat Gauge Buildup, which further reduces the enemies' chances of attacking you.
Suit (Mid Priority)
Upgrading Hugh's suit increases Health and Defense.
- Hacking regular bots is quick, but bosses feature more complex hacking interfaces and are designed to interrupt hacking with powerful, wide-area-of-effect (AoE) attacks.
- Since you may have trouble defending against certain bots the first few times you face them, improving health and defense is very important to prevent getting sent back to the Shelter during these intense confrontations
Primary Unit (Low Priority)
Upgrading the Primary Unit increases damage, stagger, and ammo capacity for Hugh’s default weapon.
- This is a low-priority upgrade because the Primary Unit, while being the main weapon, is not meant to always be your primary offense.
- By maximizing Hacking, you can often defeat smaller enemies directly. For bosses and larger bots, you are more likely to rely on limited-use secondary weapons (like the Attack Unit), which deal significantly more damage than a fully upgraded Primary Unit ever could.
This concludes our guide. For more help, visit our PRAGMATA Complete Walkthrough and Guide hub.
Guide based on a full playthrough completed at Standard difficulty in the PC version of the game. Screenshots captured from the same version
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