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Tips to Be a Rocket Soldier Legend
----------------------------------- Written by LoganEX * Play as Hunter and grab the rocket launcher from the crate while using your secondary weapon. * Grab it again using your primary weapon. * You can now kill tigers and armored bugs easily. Use building and height advantage to rain rocket down on bugs. * You can kill a small crowd of bugs by yourself. Instead of reloading your first rocket launcher, switch to your second launcher for maximum rate of fire for short burst damage. * During extraction, you can punch through any bug blockade by yourself. During defence phase, you can plug any hole by yourself and hope a team mate can repair the wall before you run out of ammo. * Just make sure you have portable ammo station or use your team mate to kill single small to medium bugs. You will not last long alone, but when you do have ammo you can be one man army. * You would have to use knife on single small bug if there is no team mate around, but it is not good idea to knife regular bugs as you would be trading health away.↑ Top
XP List with Tips
------------------ Written by Monkey Simple list of the types of experience gained throughout the game. -=XP Amounts=- The following amounts are the same regardless of the difficulty. -=Combat (Kills)=- * Drone: 1XP * Warrior: 1XP * Gunner: 5XP * Tiger: 50XP * Grenadier: 100XP -=Support=- * Paid Respects: 7XP (Interact with a fallen soldier) * Rearmed Ally: 20XP (Someone refilling using your Ammo Fabricator) * Revived Ally: 30XP -=Mission=- * Trooper Extracted: 25XP (per survivor) * AAS Complete: 250XP * ARC Slam Complete: 500XP -=Side Objectives=- Assuming the following events will have XP bonus in future updates: * Retrieve Lost Resources * High Priority Targets (Exterminate Bugs) * Repair Generators -=Things that don’t give XP=- * Building / Repairing / Destroying base structures * Carrying or depositing Gas Canisters back to base -=Tips=- Ammo Fabricators can be a great source of XP if placed strategically as each time a team member uses it, you get 20XP which can quickly stack up: * Place an Ammo Fabricator next to barricaded Bastions that are defending a key location. You get XP whenever they refill ammo and they help protect you and others in return. * Placed near key locations in general such as Refineries making it easier for defenders. * Place Ammo Fabricators near bunkers to help out the occupants that are defending the base. Also place where there is no Ammo in an area of defence. * Using the Med Bot to revive multiple downed allies at once can give a nice chunk of XP. Given the long cooldown it might be worth to hold using it until someone is seconds away from dying, in the event others go down after you’ve used it. * Playing on a harder difficulty doesn’t change how much XP you get, only a higher chance of spawning Tigers and Grenadiers. You can still get a nice amount playing on Easy difficulty and Tigers and Grenadiers go down quick so easy XP if you’re fast enough.↑ Top
Tips to Level Up Fast
---------------------- So, some things some of the veteran players probably know but maybe will help players who have recently got into the game. -=Fast Levelling Tips=- I am going to go over the correct way to level quickly and perhaps a bit of an exploit. Let’s start with exp gain. -=You get exp for the following=- * 1 exp for killing a drone/warrior. * 5 or 20 exp (can’t remember exactly) for killing a gunner. * 50 exp for killing a tiger * 100 exp for killing a grenadier. Note: you don’t have to actually get the kill, but at least assist in the kill. You’ll know because it will pop up with a kill marker. * 20 exp for a teammate resupply off of your ammo station. * 20 exp for a revive. * 10 exp for a heal. I’m sure i’m missing some, feel free to correct me on any numbers or any additional exp income. -=Best way to earn exp in game, the correct way=- * Get kills on special bugs. each kill on a grenadier is equal to 100 kills on drones. No brainer. * Lay out supports such as resupplies and heals. * Spread your shots. Note: this is to level up quicker. These tips are not always the way you should play to have the best impact on the team. If everyone spreads their shots on as many enemies and no one finishes the kills, you can see where issues may arise. I’m telling you how to level, not win.). Exp exploit: Useful for only support and hunter. Bastion must level the way that it supposed to be done. Exploit must be done with a friend, I think. * Run the resupply utility. * Find the first bunker that spawns the resupply ammo crate. You need to be able to resupply your utility. * Lay down you resupply drops, grab more, and lay em down again. rinse and repeat. * Your teammate shoots one shot, fill up on ammo using your resupply drop, shoots another shot, and do it again. Rinse and repeat. You get 20 exp for every time your teammate uses your resupply. So 80 exp for each resupply you lay down that he uses completely. By shooting and resupplying after each shot (not reload) you can go through a full resupply every 4-5 seconds. That’s equal to 80 kills on drones every 4-5 seconds. Do the math. Unlimited exp. My friend gained 2 levels in one match, over 3500 exp. Note: your teammates will hate you, because you are not helping the team at all. You may be friendly fired…been there done that. Note: In some ways, perhaps the exploit should be fixed, but I really like the idea of being able to earn exp through support actions, rather than just kills. -=Last tips for noobs=- * You can put the ore canister on your back if you’re an operator. * Don’t stand under the red smoke, no matter what they tell you….been there done that. * Instead of grabbing the rocket without thought…pull out your pistol and then pick up the rocket. It’ll replace the pistol instead of your main gun (I went quite a while without knowing that.).↑ Top
Guide to Better Base Building
------------------------------ Real quick gents, FYI auto-turret shoot at everything, including low value threats and they don’t shoot far away. Put up a twin MG to target priority threats like grenadiers, gunners and tigers far away before they even get to the base. Auto cannons are great if the wall isn’t constantly manned. So try to place an auto cannnon and an MG in each area. Don’t build inner walls. If you build good outer walls with overlapping fields of fire you don’t need inner walls. Inner walls also confuse players when retreating and blocks field of fire if bugs are inside of the base. Keep the base as small as possible to concentrate player fire power and fields of fire. Use the game’s natural buildings as defenses since the bugs can’t destroy those. The longer the walls are the more stretch out the players are and the more diluted the firepower is. * Don’t use the large gates, they’re a waste of space. * Try not to use bunkers, they cost a lot of resources that can be used for turrets. Position the watch towers 45 degrees from the center of a wall and put a manned MG in the outer corner of the watch tower to watch the sides of the walls. Kind of like this. MG Field of Fire / MG \ MG Field of Fire _____wall_____/ watch\______wall_______ \tower///// \ / Last thing but most important, build bases with overlapping fields of fire i n mind, especially with auto cannons and manned MGs.↑ Top
The Secret Behind Efficiency
----------------------------- Written by Katmorphous333 * When you are an operator at a refinery and an ore canister is ready to be picked up, do not pick it up! * We all know you want to put the canister in your backpack badly but try to control yourself for a second. * Instead of grabbing that canister right away, restart the refinery right away! * Then once the refinery starts the process of making another canister for you to carry, only then you should grab the ready canister to put in your backpack. * Remember, restart refinery first then grab canister, easy as pie! * Never waste everyones time by grabbing the ready canister first! * Your tiny ore filled brain never thinks about what happens when you pick up the canister first instead of restarting the refinery, so I will tell you. * First you waste everyones time when they could get to other objectives faster. * Second all that wasted time can accumulate to 5 to 10 seconds lost PER canister. So if you multiply this by 4 since the refinery can only make 4 canisters before entering cooldown, I know its hard but try to keep up, it means that in the long run we lost 20 to 40 seconds minimum! Which can give enough time for the game to spawn more bugs at your refinery team, which adds more chances of you failing to bring back all canisters or even defending the refinery. * Third it lets you bring the ore back to base faster, 20 to 40 seconds can make all the difference in base building when the game decides to spawn a big ambush at the base. -=Extra Tips=- * We know how much you love to put your grabby operator hands on those canisters but naughty naughty, do not pick a second canister unless you are about to leave the refinery with it. Otherwise you end up leaving it on the floor which leaves it vulnerable to be destroyed by bugs. * We all know how you love spamming your noobtube to kill bug packs surrounding the refinery, BAD! bad operator!, canisters can explodes from your noobtube, all it takes is one blowing up and they all blow up! * The only times you should put your greasy paws on a second canister is when you know that the bugs will destroy the refinery, so move them to a safe place on the side, make use of that fast carrying speed efficiently for once! * Do not drop your second canister just to kill drones and blow up your canister in the process silly! You can 1hit them with melee. * Always carry 2 canisters if you can, you are much faster than even a hunter carrying these things, make yourself useful! and dont be selfish thinking only about yourself carrying only 1 canister in your backpack for your own survival!↑ Top
Tips to Manipulate and Use Canisters
------------------------------------- Written by Stardust You need to hold down m1 until a charge icon appears. That will charge how hard you throw the canister. And if I remember correctly… to switch the canister from your pack to your hands is key (I dont remember correctly but its one of the number key). This feature came out in 0.4.0 with Horde but most people missed it (or failed to realize the potential). Proper use (time it with a jump/sprint so you can throw higher & further) can enable a Hunter to bring ore to base quicker & safer than conventional route. I’ve been doing this for a while and happy to see it’s catching up ^^ (like the trick with TMG on top of watchtower). -=Tips=- * When a refinery is destroyed, any extracted canister will fall out and remain on the ground so don’t shoot blindly into it if you can help it. This actually allows a solo Hunter to safely extract all 4 canisters and stash them for later pick up – just activate refinery and kill enough bugs for the extraction to complete, let bugs destroy refinery & move on; jump down, pickup canister & stash it, build refinery and repeat. (just be careful of 1-2 stray bugs sometimes come up from behind you when you’re building the refinery) * Bugs are attracted to dropped canister, however ONLY the Drones will nibble and eventually destroy it, the Warrior just push it around and stare at it. Take your time clear out the bugs around a canister, don’t be hasty and destroy it with stray shots. * If gas refinery is far away as a Hunter you can go solo and stash 4/8 canisters ready for later pick-up, it saves a lot of time. Faraway ore refinery are less tempting and people might just ignore it so don’t waste effort. * A Bastion can juggle with more than 1 canister (2-3) to bring them back to base, however it’s fairly risky so not recommended. It’s quite amusing to see when somebody can pull it off though.↑ Top