Mad Max Guide: [Our Tips and Tricks]

You may be max enough, but are you mad enough? Here’s a clue: I don’t know what that means. After spending almost 40-50 hours in Mad Max, however, I’ve come up with some beginner tips and tricks that you wish you’d known before you started playing Mad Max.

Here’s a quick round-up of all the things that you need to keep in mind:

Play The Story Mission

As I moved forward at the beginning of the story, the first most important thing I did was to start grinding and getting my car ready for the ultimate finale, this told me that the game is more than a bit heavier towards wasteland tasks than it is towards the main quest.

So, take your steps, and enter the end game with a powerful car, you’re going to need to conquer a lot of enemy bases, take down a lot of enemy towers, clear a lot of minefields, and gather a whole mess of scrap metal and waste. If you don’t do enough of this in between the story missions, you might wind up doing a lot at once before the final missions of the story.

Build Cleanup Crews ASAP

In Mad Max, scrap metal is very important because it is the basis of just about every upgrade in the game, and collecting it is time-consuming and important at the same time. However, collecting scrap metal can get tiring very quickly. That’s why your first order of the business should be putting together a cleanup crew to pick up the fallen scrap for you.

Once you complete Jeet’s first stronghold story mission, talk to him about making modifications to the base. Then track the cleanup crew node on your map, search the locations of the parts you need, and go out and get them as soon as possible. Get back to the base, find the node again, and build it. From then on, scrap from demolished cars will be collected automatically, this is a major lifesaver.

Know Your Challenges

There are two ways to upgrade Max:

1. Through the menu, where you can tinker with his dusters, shotgun, knuckle, clothing, appearance, and fighting skills.
2. By visiting a mystical weird guy named Griffa who usually wears a very massive backpack in history and appears periodically in various spots in the desert.

To increase Max’s abilities with Griffa you’ll need tokens, which you can earn by accomplishing some certain challenges. Try to keep an eye on which challenges are almost complete before you hit the waste. Go ahead to the menu’s legend tab, there you will find a list of challenges and how far you’ve progressed.

Always keep an eye on the top of the challenges list before you hit the ruins, so you know a quick and easy way to get some tokens. In this way knowing the details about the challenges will keep you way ahead of your game.

Upgrade Your Car’s Suspension

With a lot of exciting and different things to upgrade on your car, like rams, spikes, flamethrowers, and nitro chargers, it’s pretty easy to overlook your suspension.

It’s vitally important although most of the Mad Max’s races are optional tasks, two races are required to advance through the story missions, and beating them is going to be more about the handling and steering of your car rather than ramming other cars. The suspension isn’t a fancy choice for a war machine, but sometimes you need to be specific about some things.

Remember That Fast Travel Swaps Out Your Car

In Mad Max, the fast travel system is quite flexible, unlike Bethesda’s games. You can fast-travel pretty much anywhere whenever you want, even in the middle of a fight. But know that if you’re driving a car other than the Magnum Opus, it’ll disappear when you reach your destination and be replaced by the Magnum Opus.
 
So, if you’re drifting in a faction car in your Chum’s buggy or Archangels, do not fast-travel unless you’re completely done using those other vehicles. Otherwise, you’ll have to get it back from a stronghold garage.

Use Chum

Your good’ol hunchback mechanic Chumbucket is happy to point out local glamor while you drive around, such as approaching deadly parties, war parties, and scarecrow towers that need to be invaded.

Your hunchback buddy can also spot minefields. If you hear him shout about “boom-boom fields”, check your map as fast as you can. If there isn’t a minefield icon, either mark or memorize the spot on your map to come back with the dog instead of Chum to clear it.

If You’re Caught In A Storm, Make It Worth Your While

Dust storms are thrilling, exciting, and deadly as hell. They can turn your ride into a burning wreck and no time and can fling you into the sky when you step outside. They also blow a lot of debris around your surroundings, including massive boxes of scrap metal and there are a couple of ways to get them.

The safest way from my point of view is to try the weather storm by getting into cover. Not inside a friendly stronghold that will cause the storm to pass quickly but a camp or some other structure to protect you from the waste and lightning strikes. After some time, the storm will let you explore and you can grab some of those huge crates of loot lying around in the dust.

Let The War Criers Live

You’ll find war criers in enemy camps, sitting in the seats of dangled cranes. When a brawl begins, they start shouting encouragements to the goons you’re fighting while simultaneously beating their drums, which certainly gives them a buff. Generally, you’ll take the War Criers down before a brawl begins.

Just once, though, let them live. After the brawl, when they see that their War Boys are dead, the same guys that were screaming to kill you, they’ll realize that they were just dangling in their goofy chairs at the mercy of a dangerous and furious wasteland legend, their attitude will change. Looks like they were just doing their job, you know?

With these basic introductive tips, your beginning of the game will be pleasant enough and you’ll breeze through Mad Max.