Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 - Professor Character Guide
Out of all the starter characters in Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2’s roster, the Professor is arguably the strangest. Where the Detective and the Witch share many of the same characteristics, the Professor stands alone as a bastion of the unique. He is also one of the harder picks from the get-go.
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Mixing a tanky statline, with a rapid-fire starting weapon, and a dabble of summoning, there is a lot to mess around with. This variety leads to complexity, so picking the Professor can often lead to a rather steep - and long - difficulty curve. There are a few things you can do to make things better, however.
The Professor is a lab-coat-wearing, plasma-rifle-wielding combiner of the eldritch arts and scientific study. He is all about consistent - but low - damage, but he has some abilities that let him push out a bit of burst, whilst also increasing his already tanky body.
The Professor is a bit of a trap though. His high HP and ability to boost that even further comes at the expense of movement and Energy. He is simultaneously the hardest to kill in a bad situation, but getting out of that situation is significantly harder to do.
The Professor is rocking the “Main Device”. This is basically a plasma rifle that fires superheated balls of energy at enemies. It looks cool, it sounds cool, but in reality, Main Device is a bit underwhelming.
The biggest drawback to this weapon is it's incredibly low DPS. 50 DPS is almost half that of the Detective, and whilst the Professor has more shots and therefore reloads less often, it doesn’t make up for the wet-noodle-like feel of the gun itself.
Speaking of reloading, Main Device takes a full 2 seconds to reload, and that
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