Heat Meter

The heat meter is a mechanic in Bomb Rush Cyberfunk which activates once you tag enough graffiti spots in any of the areas in New Amsterdam. Once the meter is active, it will appear in the upper left corner of the game screen, and the police start coming after you in the current location.
The meter has 6 levels, with the levels represented by the number of stars currently shown in the meter itself. You will go up to the next level if you continue to spray graffiti, and also by fighting off enough of the police. At each level, a new portion of the police force will start actively fighting you:
* Level 1: Regular police with batons. After a certain point in the story, some of these officers will also shoot at you with guns.
* Level 2: Turrets
* Level 3: Armored units with large shields and batons
* Level 4: Snipers
* Level 5: Attack helicopters
* Level 6: Walking tanks
Note, for further information on how to deal with each type of police unit, please see the New Amsterdam Police page.
At certain points in the game, there will be times where the player can freely spray graffiti around an area without activating the heat meter. These points are generally between the time the player arrives in a new borough, and before they finish completing certain challenge missions from the borough's local rival crew.
Besides that, starting in Chapter 1 after the Franks' challenges are completed, the heat meter will only go up to level 1. The next level in the heat meter will be available for each crew that is defeated during the story. Once the game is finished, all 6 levels will be available during normal gameplay. Otherwise, certain levels such as snipers and the walking tanks will only appear as part of story-specific battles before the player can encounter them normally via raising the heat meter themselves.
The heat meter will stay active between areas, so moving from one location to another will not stop the police from coming after you. If you move to the hideout, police will not appear there, but once you leave into the rest of the city, the meter will return at the same level it was before entering the hideout.
The only way to cancel the meter is to enter a public toilet. Once you exit, the toilet in question will remain closed until you exit and reenter the location.
==Trivia==
* There is a game achievement for getting the heat meter up to level 6 outside of story and side missions.
Category:Game Mechanics