Barbara/Playstyle Tips

In-Game Tips

 * Barbara is a unique character as her skill is important for raising her physical stats.
 * Pay attention to areas with noises, and send off her turret drone for a surprise attack on her enemies!

General
The key to success with Barbara is managing Body Modification stacks on top of trying to maintain mastery, building armor, weapons and food. Ideally, Turret Drones should be utilized as soon as possible because it provides stacks which are immediately helpful for contesting and sustaining damage and if there are Gun mastery characters in the game, they will seek to use fast, strong Gun weapons for themselves such as F92S and V-PP so taking them for yourself early can be helpful but don't be too greedy and fill your inventory with numerous Gun components without worrying about armor, food and mastery.

One way of playing Barbara is to make a few easy-to-craft and supplement it with rare ingredients like mithril to make Mithril Shield, etc for basic survivability. This is all that she needs and the rest of the time she should be focused on crafting blue guns and using to to increase her stacks. If she is able to obtain many stacks from Body Modification, even a blue weapon and mediocre armor or even a few empty armor slots, she would be able to do more damage than having legendary weapon, or even taking fewer damage as if she was wearing legendary armors.

Building up Body Modification requires good game sense and some strategies. Scout is immensely helpful when it comes to using Turret Drones as it alerts you of how many people are nearby and where exactly. Otherwise, a good indicator of where other players are is where noise is made, especially when animals are spawning and respawning because players are very likely to be contesting for them and it will very often mean that people are there for you to activate a Turret Drone.

After building up a good amount of stacks, Barbara should have enough strength to be dealing high amounts of damage to others or at the very least, be strong enough to withstand a lot of damage. From then, it's only a matter of catching up on building armour, getting mastery and building food to survive. It is particularly helpful if you are able to find corpses or kill others as you can take their equipment instead of having to build a new item altogether.

It is not necessary for her deployed gun turrets to hit players in order to gain stacks. She would still gain the stack even if the turrets hit animals instead.