Highlights

• Utilizing Na’vi sense is essential for finding important items, enemies, and quest locations. It provides a strategic advantage in combat and efficient looting.
• Complete mining camps to unlock better gear, spawn new wildlife, and access unique materials for crafting upgrades.
• The forest of Pandora offers environmental hazards and benefits that players can use to their advantage in combat, making traversal more efficient and providing additional ways to damage enemies.

Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora puts players in the role of a Na’vi that was raised by the RDA during their initial visit to the planet. After their return years later, the main character is woken from cryosleep and must learn how to be a Na’vi and fight back against the RDA.

Pandora is an open-world player who can explore, complete side quests, hunt wildlife, or see the many beautiful locations throughout the planet. Between the RDA trying to tame the world and the hostile wildlife, Pandora can be a dangerous place; here are some tricks to staying alive.

10 Utilizing Na’vi Sense

Find Items And Enemies Through Walls

• Marked enemies can be seen outside of Na’vi sense to line up shots.
• Scan entire buildings for loot in seconds.

No matter which navigation mode players choose, utilizing Na’vi senses is key to finding important items or quest locations. Your Na’vi sense will mark NPCs, enemies, and wildlife, highlighting them to let you see their locations through walls while having them stay highlighted for a short time after going back to regular vision.

Highlighting enemies in battle or when stealthing around a base gives a massive upper hand that should always be taken advantage of to line up shots from powerful weapons to know when to sneak past. Finding and looting RDA chests is also an easy way to find better gear to use, with these chests also being highlighted by Na’vi sense, making looting much more efficient.

9 Complete Mining Camps

Find Better Gear & Spawn New Wildlife

• Make free-roaming in effect areas easier.
• Find new plants and animals to farm for unique materials.

Mining camps are scattered around Pandora and offer difficult encounters for players to try and complete. While these camps may just seem like a basic activity to complete, they do offer larger bonuses than just the items found while looting the chests within the camp.

Destroying Mining towers will heal the land around the tower, letting players harvest materials from this area and having more wildlife appear that can then be hunted. Some species of both planets and animals only begin to appear after nearby camps have been taken care of, making some recipes and crafting upgrades be locked behind completing camps.

8 Use The Forest

Environmental Hazards & Benefits To Turn The Tide

• Make traversal much more efficient.
• Additional ways to damage enemies without being shot at.

The forest of Pandora is alive in more ways than just the wildlife and Na’vi that live there. Many planets can be found throughout the forest that have different effects, from blowing up and giving speed bonuses to slinging those who touch them a short distance.

All of these planets have different uses in and out of combat. Running past particular planets while exploring can speed the player up, while explosive plants can have enemies lured nearby to take additional damage. Learning all the plants of the forest and using them to your advantage will give players an edge in combat, which is desperately needed as every fight will have players greatly outnumbered.

7 Cooking & Eating Right

Restore Energy & Get Buffs

• Very simple process to make powerful foods.
• Useful buffs to make any combat encounter much easier.

Players will quickly burn through energy as they explore the world and complete combat encounters. While food is mainly used for regenerating lost energy, many foods offer bonus effects that can take place for a few minutes after eating.

These bonuses can be very useful for increasing damage or reducing incoming damage, making difficult combat encounters much easier. The cooking process in the game is fairly simple, and players can easily stock up on large supplies of useful foods. Keeping your food inventory well stocked is an easy way to always be ready for the next RDA encounter.

6 Find The Right Weapon

Each Weapon Is Useful Against The Right Enemy

• Human weapons are very effective against vehicles.
• Most Na’vi weapons one-shot regular human soldiers.

Players are given multiple weapons to choose from, both from the Na’vi and humans. While human weapons break the harmony of the forest, they are very effective against the AMP suits often found scouring Pandora. Every weapon can be modified and upgraded to deal more damage, with each weapon also being more effective in certain situations.

When trying to hunt, Na’vi weapons are necessary to not spoil the kill while also maintaining the harmony of the forest. Killing too many animals with human weapons will lead to the Disharmony debuff and won’t make the results from hunting usable. While only three weapons can be equipped at a time, those three weapons can be cycled at any time through the main menu.

5 Take Combat Slowly

Watch Your Enemies & Make A Plan

• Use Na’vi sense to scan a camp and make note of enemy locations.
• Prioritize taking out AMP suits before other weaker enemies.

While Na’vi are bigger, stronger, and faster than humans, players will still always be at a disadvantage in combat. The AMP suits go well above equalling things out, and even with the right weapons, players will almost always be at a disadvantage in combat.

Stealth is one of the best tools a player can use when approaching a large group of RDA. Head-on firefights are incredibly difficult, even with various upgrades to make them more possible. Regular soldiers can be killed with only a single arrow of the basic bow, making it an excellent and quiet tool to thin out enemy numbers before any direct confrontation.

4 Maximize Your Combat Strength

Upgrade Your Gear To Maximize Combat Strength

• Required to explore stronger, more dangerous regions of Pandora.
• Can make clearing mining camps much easier.

Combat Strength is effectively your character’s level, giving a general score based on your weapons’s strength, active skills, and equipment stats. All of these things will need to be upgraded together, each playing an equal part in your character’s ability to take on tougher enemies.

Better gear pieces can be found and equipped and further modified to increase the effects further. While skill upgrades are permanent, gear pieces and mods can be switched in and out as often as players would like to maximize their Combat Strength.

3 Find Ancestor Skills Early

Powerful & Free Skills To Be Found

• Very powerful buffs that are easy to find and are already maked on the map.
• Get the Ikran first, then travel to each flower.

Ancestor skills are not a part of the usual skill tree and instead are earned by finding Tarsyu flowers. By finding and interacting with a Tarsyu flower, the new skill associated with that flower will immediately be unlocked, with these skills being much more powerful than those in the other skill trees.

The Eject skill allows players to defeat AMP suits with a single stun grenade and a melee attack and can be found very early into the game. Unlocking these skills is only limited by player exploration, with many of these skills able to be found incredibly early and strengthen your Na’vi with some useful perks to change up combat and exploration right away.

2 Hunt While Respecting The Forest

Avoid The Disharmony Debuff By Using Na’vi Weapons

• Always get clean and merciful kills.
• Get higher rarity materials for even more useful foods.

Hunting is a key part of getting food for cooking and other materials for crafting mods for gear and weapons. Unlike other games, Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora makes players respect the forest while hunting, as there is a judgment based on how players kill an animal. Hunting only with Na’vi weapons is key to respecting the forest and preserving the materials earned from a creature.

Getting a clean and merciful kill will not only preserve the obtainable materials but also give a higher chance of those materials being of a higher rarity. Killing too many animals in a short period of time or constantly using human weapons can also lead to the Disharmony debuff, making it more difficult for the players to progress for a short time.

1 Get Your Ikran Quickly

Explore Pandora From The Skies & Get Where You’re Going Fast

• Exploration is much easier and more efficient.
• Additional layer of combat as players can attack from above.

The mission Take Flight will have players tame and bond with their Ikran. This mission is found fairly early in the game, and players should prioritize the main story for the first few hours until this mission is completed.

Pandora can be a vast world, and traveling on foot can take a very long time. Your Ikran will make traveling not only much faster but also much more entertaining. Players can also fight from the back of the Ikran, giving players yet another tool to use in the fight against the RDA.