
Weather can play a key role in your experience with The Falconeer. The second way to build up boost is through updrafts, which we’ll explain in a moment. By not inputting anything for a few seconds, your bird will glide naturally, and this will refill your boost meter. The first is by simply letting your bird be idle. If you find yourself struggling to build up boost before combat, there are a couple of effective ways to refill it. Ergo, most of the time it’s not necessary to use boost to simply travel. Many missions in The Falconeer allow you to skip right to the action by pushing the appropriate button when the prompt comes up (by default the A button on controllers). So while it’s tempting to use your boost gauge to fly faster between waypoints in missions, it’s ideal if you don’t. When you’re in combat, you’ll need as much of that boost gauge as possible to dodge, duck, dip, dive, and so on. There will be better regeneration mutagens available as you progress through The Falconeer, so be sure to keep it up to date as much as you can. Without this mutagen, combat will be much tougher. In early missions, this will allow you to disengage from combat long enough to get enough health back to safely re-engage. In early missions this will be a good thing, because you’ll want your shots to count. This will give you a higher damage output at the cost of rate of fire. Once you get a few missions under your belt, though, you’ll be able to afford the Magnetar Rifle. Your default Lightning Caster, while it will get the job done, is definitely not ideal. One is an upgraded gun, and the other is a mutagen that will give your bird regeneration.

In order to survive the early missions of The Falconeer, you’ll want two key items.

For the rest of this Falconeer guide, we assume you are using a controller.

That will work for the Falconeer just fine.
#THE FALCONEER ACHIEVEMENTS PC#
Thankfully, these days you can get a wired Xbox One controller for your PC for cheap. In this regard, any dual stick controller will do nicely for this game, but the game is really optimized for Xbox controllers. Ever since I started using a controller for this game, I haven’t gone back to the mouse and keyboard. Mouse smoothing was recently added in a patch, but it doesn’t change things much. You can try playing with the mouse and keyboard, but you’d be in for a bad time. However, if you’re playing on PC, you’re going to need one or the other.
#THE FALCONEER ACHIEVEMENTS SERIES#
If you’re playing the Falconeer on the Xbox Series X/S, this is not going to be a problem since you’d be using controllers anyway.
