In Saros, the Eclipse is dangerous in more ways than one, introducing more powerful enemies that can inflict an altered status condition known as Corruption. While most players will instinctively try to avoid it as much as possible, the game rewards those who understand when to embrace it. Mastering the balance between a fully working suit and a corrupted one is the key to mastering the game's most powerful offensive builds.
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What is Corruption?
During the Eclipse, you will encounter enhanced versions of enemies that fire a different projectile type. Distinguished by their yellow color, these projectiles cause Corruption upon impact.
Corruption does not deal direct damage that will defeat Arjun immediately. Instead, it decreases your maximum Armor Integrity, no matter how high your Resilience Growth Attribute is. This reduced maximum health can have a massive impact on your survivability, particularly during encounters with elite enemies and bosses where every hit counts.
How to Restore Max Health (Cleansing Corruption)
Fortunately, Corruption is not permanent during a cycle. It can be cleansed relatively easily through offensive play:
- Every time you fire your Power Weapon (hold L2 and press R2), a small portion of the Corruption affecting Arjun is cleared away.
- To stay healthy, you should focus on absorbing blue projectiles with your Soltari Shield to build Power, then spend that Power to blast enemies and restore your maximum health threshold.
- After learning the appropriate skill, you can cleanse Corruption by parrying as well
When Not to Cleanse Corruption
While cleansing Corruption is usually a priority, there are times when you actually want to remain corrupted.
As you explore Carcosa during the Eclipse, you will eventually discover Corrupted Weapons. These are Soltari Weapons infused with Eclipse energy that scale their damage based on your current Corruption level.
The damage increase is staggeringly high at maximum Corruption, so you can effectively turn Arjun into a glass cannon. In the hands of an expert player who can dodge and parry consistently, maintaining high Corruption with a Corrupted Weapon allows you to melt through enemy health bars in seconds.
Knowing when to play it safe, when to push your Corruption to the limit, and using Traversal Boost to learn when enemies are nearby before even looking at the mini-map is what separates a novice from an Echelon IV veteran.
This concludes the guide. For more help, visit our Saros: Complete Walkthrough & Guide hub.
Guide based on a completed playthrough on base PlayStation 5. Screenshots captured from the same version.
About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack. After joining Wccftech gaming section in 2015, he quickly expanded his video gaming coverage with in-depth reporting, interviews with iconic industry figures such as Grasshopper Manufacture founder and No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami, Team NINJA's president and Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda, and Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, reviews and on-the-ground coverage of major industry events such as Gamescom and E3. When he's not reporting or reviewing, Francesco can be found playing the genres he loves most, spending time with his six cats, reading, writing music, playing guitar and drumming for his progressive rock band.
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