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Beginners Guide to DarkOrbit

Starting out in DarkOrbit I’d suggest focusing on making money the first couple of hours by destroying enemies. You want to earn credits in the beginning and spend all that you make on missiles and ammunition. Just buy a lot of it in the beginning so that you don’t have to worry about running out [...]

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Bonuses and mulitpliers

There are many types of bonuses and multipliers in Dark Orbit, and knowing how to get the most out of them is very usefull. You use these bonuses or multipliers when you go to the bank to buy for example uridium. I not a big buyer of anything in the bank really, I prefer to [...]

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Ranking system and the different ranks

In addition to levels in Dark Orbit there is also something called ranking. The ranks go from general all the way down to basic space pilot. There is only one general for each company in the game, so getting that rank is extremely possible. To get any of the top ranks in the game you [...]

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Galaxy Gates guide

There are three galaxy gates in Dark Orbit, which are called Alpha, Beta and Gamma. You have to build these gates yourself using the metalizer at the galazy gates page. It costs 100 uridium each time you try to get a pice to one of the galaxy gates, so it can get quite expensive. Now [...]

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Uridium

Uridium is kind of like the money of the game, and you’d like to get as much uridium as possible. You need the Uridium for repairing your ship if it’s completely destroyed, like I mentioned in the repair bot article. You also need uridium if you want to buy the elite equipment in the game, [...]

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Drones Flax and Iris

Flax and Iris are the two drones you can buy in Dark Orbit. Your drones will circle your ship and defend you depending on which way you have equipped them. The Flax and the Iris drone are quite different. The Flax is the credit drone and only has one slot, while the Iris drone is [...]

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Levels and leveling up

One of the goals of this game like so many others is to level up your character. When you level up you will get access to more features in the game. It decides which maps you can access for example and at higher levels you will also get access to more quests.
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Keyboard commands and controls

Lets start with the keyboard commans you need to use when flying around in the game.
Ammunition change: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Rockets change: E, R and T
Mines : Y and M
Portal jumps : J
Hide status bar and mini map: H
Show mini map: B
Hide resources boxes and mines : F
Change ship configuration: C
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