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Things Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Doesn't Tell You
In Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, you are presented with a dense and vast open world for you to explore. Whilst the game strives to ease you into the systems and mechanics of Pandora, it’s quite easy to get overwhelmed, lost, and confused about what to do.
This page acts as a comprehensive breakdown of some of the key things that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora doesn’t tell you, that you’ll want to know early on.
Stick to the Story
Though you might feel inclined to immediately begin wandering off the beaten path and explore the beauty of Pandora, it’s highly recommended that you stick to focusing on the main story until you have completed the Take Flight main mission.
This is where you’ll track down and bond with your Ikran flying mount. Not only can the Ikran expedite your exploration and completing of side content, but it also unlocks the fifth Skill Tree that you can then begin to invest Skill Points in.
Seek Out Tarsyu Flowers
Tarsyu Flowers allow the Na’vi to connect with their ancestors, and within Frontiers of Pandora they also provide access to Ancestor Skills. These are incredibly potent and unique abilities, the first of which you’ll automatically encounter and unlock during the Songs of the Ancestor main mission. From there though, you’re on your own.
Thankfully, you can track the location of these Tarsyu Flowers via the Ancestor Skills page of your menu. Hover over a specific skill and press △ or Y on controller, or G on keyboard and the location of the associated Tarsyu Flower will be displayed on your map. Keep in mind that you may not be able to instantly access certain ones due to pollution or the fog of war, requiring story progress and/or completion of RDA installations to unlock.
There is also a difference to watch out for; Tarsyu Flowers are different to Tarsyu Saplings. Flowers provide the Ancestor Skills described above, as well as two Skill Points. Saplings on the other hand will provide a single skill point, and no Ancestor Skill.
The HUD Can Help
Sometimes on your HUD you’ll notice a hazy directional arrow/line. It’s almost always worth heading in the relevant direction as this will lead you towards points of interest including (but not limited to) Sarentu Totems or Bellsprig health boost plants.
If you are heading in the correct direction, the arrow/line will transform into a full circle. As you approach, you can then use your Na’vi Senses to pinpoint its exact location.
If you're still a bit lost on where to go for the current Quest, check the map for a tall, pale blue beam that marks the objective. You can also use Na'vi Sense to look for a pale blue diamond, which also marks the objective's location.
Speak to All Vendors
As you explore Pandora and encounter the various Na’vi tribes, you’ll meet different vendors - weavers, weapon crafters, cooks, and more. Even though you might not need to purchase or sell anything when you encounter them, you should ALWAYS speak to them on first meeting, particularly if they have the 'Receive' prompt as you approach them to interact.
Many of these vendors will have crafting designs that you can purchase from them for free, though you’ll need to tab over to the second menu to access these free items.
Clan Favor Is Important
Through completing side quests and destroying RDA facilities, you’ll begin earning the Clan Favor currency. This will allow you to obtain rewards from vendors, so is well worth your time to accrue. You can also increase Favor by donating resources to the contribution baskets located at each clan’s HQ.
Be careful not to let your Clan Favor reach it’s maximum capacity though, as this will cause any additional actions in the open world to not reward you with additional currency.
Plants That Bite Back
Pandora is an undeniably gorgeous and lushious environment with countless flora to harvest and gawk at. You’ll want to be careful though, particularly in the opening hours of your journey when you aren’t accustomed to how each type of plant life behaves.
A large number of them have specific mechanics: providing resources, acting as bounce pads or grapple points, and also explosive defence systems. Be sure to scan every plant you see with your Na’vi Senses to see what it does (if anything), as well as add an entry to your Hunter’s Guide.
Don’t Grab Everything
Much like the movies, Frontiers of Pandora incentivizes respect for the environment and not taking more than you need. Whilst your instincts might be to immediately begin grabbing every resource and material you see, your Pouch has limited spaces for each type of item/resource. With that in mind, you’ll want to scan for specific resources you need and only harvest them when they are in their perfect state (time of day, weather conditions, etc.).
Via the menus you can also pin the specific resource you need for a certain upgrade, as well as tagging individual materials through the Hunter’s Guide entries, assuming of course that you’ve unlocked that resources entry.
Check the Map Often
For a world as visually impressive as Pandora, you might be thinking that the last thing you want to do is spend time in the map menu. But it’s well worth your while! The map is displayed in 3D, letting you tilt up and down to see the full extent of your surroundings (particularly useful if you’re on the floating mountains).
The map also color codes different things - blue beams are home bases/HQ’s, pink streams are Tarsyu Flowers where you can acquire Ancestor Skills, and green ones are your custom waypoints (though you can set them to be whatever color you wish). Purple dots are undiscovered POI’s, and blue dots are those that you’ve already visited.
By tapping up on the D-Pad or C on keyboard, the different biomes will be highlighted along with breakdowns of what flora, fauna, and crafting materials can be found within each one. If you happen to have a resource pinned, tapping down on the D-Pad (or X on keyboard) will display the material tracker that will let you cross-reference with the different biomes.
Keep Yourself Well Fed
Both yourself and your Ikran (once you’ve unlocked them) will constantly end up with a depleted Stamina bar that prevents you from healing. Not immediately obvious either, but using Fast Travel will also deplete your Stamina bar by 20%. As such, you’ll want to use Cooking Stations whenever you find one to make additional recipes to add to your inventory and use when you’re in a pinch.
There is a skill that you can unlock for your Ikran that will allow you to skim over deep water and feed your Ikran automatically, lowering the requirements of having large amounts of food on hand at any given time whilst you explore.
Power Indicator
Though the game does point out the power indicator during the opening sections of the story, it can be easy to forget. Appearing alongside mission titles in the Quests tab dictates how difficult the encounter or mission you are currently in will be relative to your equipped gear.
In the top corner of the Character page of the menu, you might see an exclamation point. If so, some of your gear is too weak. If that exclamation point is underneath a specific piece of equipped gear, you’ll want to swap it out for something stronger if you can.
Hunter’s Guide Help
Within the Hunter’s Guide, you can inspect the various fauna (and human enemies) that you’ve encountered throughout your journey. Not only can you learn more about them, but you can also specifically highlight their weak points that’ll give you useful information the next time you’re out hunting, or storming an RDA installation.
Stay On The Move
Whilst the Na’vi are incredibly strong, hostile fauna and particularly the RDA forces you’ll encounter can quickly kill you if you’re staying too still and soaking up bullets and/or bites and slashes. Luckily, the Na’vi are also incredibly fast and agile and you’ll want to continually take advantage of that. Run and jump to dart between cover, and gain distance and height advantages from enemies. You can sprint and charge jump in every direction, not just forward, so strafing is a totally viable option. Not only that, but you can run while notching an arrow or firing rifles, letting you storm an enemy in cover if it’s safe to do so.
Hack The Planet
While some may consider it superficial and slow compared to charging in guns (or arrows) blazing, hacking can prove to be a potent tool in your arsenal.
Not only can it open certain chests and solve puzzles throughout the world, hacking allows you to disable turrets from a safe distance. You can even simultaneously hack several things at once, further expediting the process and bettering your odds.
Change How You Look
You might be under the impression that once you’ve designed your character in the opening of the game, you’re locked in with those looks. Not so! Throughout the world at various camps and clan home bases, you’ll find a small structure called a Changing Place.
Interact with this and you’ll be able to rework your character's appearance as you see fit, as well as apply any Bodypaints or hairstyles that you might have access to and/or unlocked throughout the game.
Loot Completed RDA Facilities
While some players will automatically search every nook and cranny for resources after completing an RDA facility, it can be easy to overlook something incredibly important that you unlock after completing each one.
Be sure that after the cutscene finishes upon destroying a facility that you enter through the doors that open (often immediately in front of you), as this grants access to an otherwise locked storage room that houses multiple yellow crates with Spare Parts, weapons and gear, and RDA Duty Rosters (which can be collected from the computers in the room).