Quasimorph Beginner Guide

You command clones, not heroes

On the tactical map you move a disposable body. Your operators stay on the Magnum — they are the persistent agents who receive XP, class perks, and augments. When a clone dies, the operator survives, but the run loot and sometimes the mission progress do not. Treat every deployment as a logistics decision, not a role-play protagonist.

Time passes while you travel

Contracts appear and expire as days tick on the solar clock. Travel five days to the Moon for a quiet espionage job only if you can afford the downtime. Early on, pick missions one or two jumps away so you are always learning combat instead of watching shuttles.

Once the Magnum rhythm clicks, the next question is how harsh permadeath actually is — that is the section below.

Percy is the community training wheels

Percy ships with broad physical resistances (+5 all resistances in community testing) and high durability — pairing him with Eclipse Blades for melee or Scouts of Hades for SMGs is the standard first-week recommendation. Victoria and Kenzie excel later once you understand wound management and range discipline.

Print a new clone only when you must

Re-cloning after a wipe is cheaper than losing a rare weapon, but it still costs time and sometimes chips. Before you push a fourth descent floor "just for one crate," ask whether the operator's next clone can replace the gun you are gambling.

With permadeath understood, you need contracts that teach systems without ending the campaign — next section.

Read Power before you click Accept

Faction Power scales enemy count and gear quality. A 3,000-Power Dilthey garrison can spawn dozens of fighters; a 700-Power target might only field a squad. Flip contract sides if the UI allows — sometimes working *for* the weaker faction gives you a softer map.

Mars comes later

Mars and its moons are campaign milestones, not day-one vacations. Build credit income, class perk levels, and a storage buffer on Earth-orbit and Lunar jobs first. The extraction guide covers descent pacing once you are ready to push deeper floors.

Contracts tell you *where* to go; loadout tells you *how* to survive the Training Center and first real firefight.

Class chip on day one

Scouts of Hades rewards SMG, shotgun, and assault rifle fire with accuracy and maintenance perks — the generalist starter. Eclipse Blades trades range for melee burst and dodge triggers. Pick the one that matches the weapon you actually found in storage, not the one a tier list says is S-rank in month three.

Do not deploy your only copy of a rare gun

Keep duplicate weapons in the hangar until you can afford to lose one. Early wipes hurt less when your clone carried spare SMGs from the Training Center loot pile instead of your only upgraded rifle.

Surviving the first fights is mostly combat fundamentals — AP, stance, and cover — but a few Magnum modules make the second week smoother.

Credits flow from extracted sellables

Your first income is not mission payouts alone — it is the pile of guns and armor you sold after extracting. Run shorter contracts with high loot density until the Store and Fabricator stop feeling broke.

Chips unlock classes and recipes

Class chips and datachips drop from missions and trading. Do not consume rare chips for classes you have not tested in the Training Center. The class guide ranks all fourteen 1.0 classes once you have a few hours in.

Before you queue another contract, scan the mistake table — most early wipes are process errors, not bad RNG.

One habit that fixes half the list

Before you descend the next floor, ask: Do I know where extract is, and can I reach it in one turn if everything aggroes? If the answer is no, you are still looting — not extracting.

When the loop feels automatic, move to the combat guide for AP, stance, cover, and wound triage in one place.