Season 1

Professions

Unless your HQ is level 30 and you have most of your tech and bases upgraded, picking engineer is best because it helps you grow faster in tech and base upgrades. That said, at least 1 person on the alliance needs to be warlord

Obtaining Mutant Crystals

• Kill zombies and doom elites
• Doom elite levels go to 60
• Each time you kill a new level, you get more crystals
• Genetic Recombination
  • Clicking on this tells you how to get the fragments for each type
  • When you have enough fragments in each of the 6 types, clicking recombine gives you crystals
  • You can trade the fragments in the same way you trade map pieces. You should only need to do this in the beginning because you will gain them very quickly.
• Goal progression and virus resistance unlocks protein and crystals
• A few season tasks give you minimal crystals
• Participating in server tasks also award crystals

Weeks 1-3

• Week1
  • Unlock Protein Farms and Virus Institute and upgrade them to level 30 as quickly as possible. Virus Institute doesn't need to be level 30 but at least 28.
  • Protein Farms
    • There are 4 by default but paying for the weekly pass gets you a 5th.
    • The weekly pass is $4.99 and has a 5th protein farm. It is not really worth it because the 5th protein farm disappears if you don’t keep renewing it and just not enough buff.
    • Always upgrade them together because every level up is the same 720 output/hour so it is cheaper and the same benefit to upgrade them all to level 1, then all to level 2, etc.
    • At the end of week 2, your virus institute will be somewhere between 28-30 and all the protein farms will be level 30
  • Virus research upgrades to level 30
  • Virus Institute
    • If you can’t beat a higher level doom elite, you can create a rally with one hero, a weak one, and then someone who joins can take out the elite and you won’t lose much
    • Your virus resistance will be equal to the strongest players virus resistance in a rally
  • Emergency center is a new building in base different from the hospital
• Week 3
  • Crystal quantity becomes an issue
  • Air force/Tank/Missile bases become available and need crystals

Strongholds

• Capturing Strongholds is the key to moving forward in Season 1 and ensuring the alliance gets good Influence Rewards which ensure better alliance rewards at the end of the season.
• You have to capture a level 1 stronghold first before capture others.
• At the start, you can only hold 3 at a time, and you have to start at a level 1.
• Whenever capturing something, at time of capture, it has to be connected (adjacent) to your land (where your base, city, or stronghold is on the map).
• Once you have a stronghold, you can abandon connecting pieces but still keep what you captured.
• Strongholds take 1 hour to fully abandon so make sure to drop it 1 hour or more before you plan on capturing a new one.
• You can only take 2 strongholds/day total; not 2 per server.
• Captured strongholds get 36 hours of automatic protection

Cities

• Can only have 4.
• Can only take 2 per day total; not 2 per server.
• Rules surrounding capturing them and abandoning them are the same as Strongholds.
• Cities level 1-5 captured, will increase the number of strongholds you can capture by 1 (city level max is 6).

Outposts

• Can only have 4 but the number of them unlocks as the season progresses.
• Once placed, they are permanent
• Outpost can be placed on other servers but only 2 per day total regardless of what server.
• Outpost 1 can be place on a stronghold level 2 or less,
• Outpost 2 can be place on a stronghold level 4 or less.
• Outpost 3 can be place on a stronghold level 6 or less.
• Outpost 4 can be place on a stronghold level 8 or less.
• Save last outpost to the last day of the season to help you get more points and push you into a higher reward range for the alliance.
• Outposts can be destroyed and the only time you care is the initial time you land on that server.
  • Up to 20 people can garrison an outpost.
  • Outpost is invincible while being constructed.
  • Once complete, members of the server can attack your outpost.
  • Once outpost is complete, you can attack a city/stronghold connected to the land of that outpost.
  • Setting up an outpost connected to a stronghold that no one on the server can get to due to connected land, ensures you have that stronghold longer.
  • If an outpost is destroyed while you are capturing a city/stronghold, your capturing will be paused until your outpost is fully repaired which means that your city/stronghold could get taken from you during that time.
• Influence Rewards obtained from cities and strongholds increase your influence points which pay out at the end of the season. Warzone duel wins also give influence points.
• You can teleport for free to anywhere anytime during the vs event.
  • You can attack anyone in the mud at any time during the vs event regardless of what day it is.
  • You can’t attack anyone outside of the mud outside of vs day.
• Early in the season, you want to captures strongholds and kill early corruptors to do it. You can capture without the full resistance required early on.
• Should allie with alliances on other servers to ensure you can take the land you are wanting to.

Virus Affects

• o For every stack of the virus, you have negative impacts such as lowering your morale and making units become seriously injured in your squad.
• o At max stacks, your base turns into a bomb and explodes and spreads 50 stacks of virus to bases around you.
• o When a person has a virus, you can click on the base and a suring icon exists and you can help them remove the virus.

Season 1 Events

Crimson League

• Crimson legion is like zombie siege.
• Occurs at noon server time.
• The zombie’s pick one of your cities and send 30 waves.
• Have the full 20 people garrison.
• If you don’t successfully defend, it can destroy the city but may not depending on the level of defense.
• Every time your squad gets attacked during this wave, you will likely have 500 stacks of the virus and when you return to your base, you will get 100 stacks at your base.

Hero Promotion

• Mason can be upgraded to UR; requires an upgrade shard.
• At 100 virus resistance, you get a hero badge that allows you to promote Mason.
• Before you do this, make sure to wait for:
  • Hero day for the points.
  • Mason has to be 5 stars.
  • Dump all your skill medals into Mason because you get them all back after UR upgrade.
  • Make sure his wall of honor is at 160 or his upgrade won’t be worth it.
  • All skill medals and shards get rewarded back to you.
• Mason turns into 3 starts after UR upgrade.
• Instead of requiring gold shards to upgrade UR hero’s, Mason will require purple shards for upgrade but twice as many as you would if they were gold. This is why you want to make sure you have him at least at level 160 in the hero wall before upgrading him.
• You earn his hero shards throughout the season.

Hero XP Swap

• This is great if you get new UR Hero’s and want to bring them up quickly, you can swap them with someone higher in XP to get that XP right away.
• Great way would be if you had a purple or blue hero you weren’t going to use anymore, you could swap the new UR Hero with this other hero and that other hero would become level 1 and the new UR Hero would take that Hero’s XP level.

Exclusive Weapons

• Exclusive Weapon Release Schedule:
  • Day 4: Kim
  • Day 18: DVA
  • Day 39: Tesla
• To get them, you have to pay for the Exclusive Weapon Battle Pass for that Hero which is $19.99 USD.
• Weapon Activation Requires a 5 Star Hero.
• When you activate the weapon, the game offers those exclusive chests that start at $4.99, than go to $9.99, etc. and only are available for 7 days. Don’t activate the weapon until you have some money to burn on these exclusive offers to maximize the benefit of the weapon if you plan on spending money.

Black Market

• Releases Day 57
• Discount shop like New Years
• Starts with the Bingo Task (similar to the drone puzzle thing we had). Complete as quickly as possible as it awards black market cash.
• You can get cash for free by doing radar tasks, secret mobile squad, doom elites, zombies, wanted boss, zombie invasion, Doom Walker, General’s Trial, Alliance Exercises. Daily earned limit is 600. If you don’t get all 600 in a day, whatever is left rolls over to increase the max for the next day.
• Can refresh the store 8 times per day; the first several are free and the rest are 10-30 diamonds.
• 1 item is free per refresh.
• The $4.99 packs for 800 cash are the best packs you can buy and sold daily.
• Don’t hit refresh until you have obtained the free item and purchased the hero shard VALUE one if available. The top ones are the best value.
• The value and offer ones are typically the best to go for.
• This is how you get exclusive weapon shards.
• Eternal Pyramid is offered here giving you the Construction Speedup.

Season 1 Rewards

• Rank is based on the last day.
• Winning Warzone Duel permanently increases your Influence points.
• God of Judgement Monument is a must because it increases march size.
• Mythic Blueprints.
• Currency is obtained via Capital Reward Day (unlocking all chests on Capital day gives 50 of the season merit medals).