Official Guide: Aircraft Advanced

Author: Spectator of Walls

Credits: Game Team, State of Tranquility

**Get your own Aircraft!**

Aircrafts have landed in State of Survival. It's time to get your pilot mode on and start building! Let’s take a look together at how to do it.

Requirements to unlock the feature:
- HQ Level 20
- State needs to have reached 50 weeks of age

Once you reach the requirements, you’ll be able to install the hangar in your settlement. This is where you’ll be able to access your aircraft, upgrade it and complete missions.

When clicking on the building, you’ll get two options, the hangar option is where you’ll be able to see your aircraft and upgrade it

The Hangar

On the bottom-left side, you’ll be able to find the components you will need to upgrade and level up your aircraft and your statistics. Two different items will be needed to upgrade: titanium alloy and carbon fiber panel.

Note: the benefit gained through the aircraft is permanent and will not leave once the event around the aircraft is over. Statistics on health and lethality of type of troops is also permanent and will impact all gameplays.

As in all upgrades on the game, the number of items required starts to be different between the two at some point in the levels. To try to help you upgrade as you wish, there is a redeem store open in the Hangar that allows you to exchange one type of item for another. Be careful with it as it is limited to 5 exchanges each per week.

When upgrading your aircraft, you will need to upgrade them by 10 levels on each component to be able to gain a star and upgrade again 10 new levels on each.

In the top left corner, you’ll be able to see aircraft skills. Depending on whether you are a rally leader or a joiner, you’ll have to choose your skill well.

- Rally Enhancement: when launching a rally or acting as the garrison commander, a friendly troops’ attack amplification increases by x%;

- Tactical Supplies: when joining a rally or garrison, friendly troops’ attack amplification increases by x%;

- Protective Paint: when joining a rally or garrison, friendly troops’ probability of being heavily wounded is reduced by x% (troops will be lightly wounded instead).

Note: during a rally or a garrison, the skills of the airplane will count as followed:

- 1 rally enhancement: max 6.24%

- 2 tactical supplies: max 5.20% - 3 protective paint: max 15%

Below you’ll find the full table of the evolution of skills according to your aircraft level and the type of player who should choose each skill.

By clicking on the little icon list next to your airplane star level, you’ll be able to open a menu summarizing your aircraft skills and the benefit you gained through the upgrades you did on it.

Once you have unlocked the aircraft, you’ll be able to see it available on your marches when attacking or rallying. By default, it will always be on your first march, so do remember it while doing your formations.

The benefits of the aircraft will be appearing directly at the end of your battle reports on the march or rally where the aircraft was. If it is a rally report, you’ll be able to see the entire rally aircraft benefits, meaning your aircraft as well as the counted joiners ones.

### **Joint Exercise**

Your second option when clicking the hangar building will be Joint Exercise. This will give you access to some PvE levels where you’ll be able to gain free items to upgrade your aircraft. You will have two different modes: solo assault and coordinated operation. As of now, only the solo assault is available in states, we will update this guide once the coordinated operation is out.

Enter the solo assault menu, and you’ll discover levels of PvE to combat with some new titles and rewards to gain.

When clicking on a level, you’ll be able to see several pieces of information on the menu opening on the right side of your screen. At the top, you will see a rating appearing, this will help indicate whether you are able or not to defeat this level with your aircraft’s current level and upgrades. As long as the indication is green, with some strategy, you should be able to beat it. You’ll also get a preview of the amount of rewards you’ll get by defeating this specific level.

The PvE levels are a reworked version of Gol Goroth, an event launched for the 2nd Anniversary of the game, but in the solo assault you’ll be going in alone to defeat the monster

You’ll have only two marches available until you reach level 31 where you’ll be getting a 3rd one, so choose your heroes carefully to make the most damage.

Tips:

- We would encourage you to not use resonating heroes, except for the Joker and to not be afraid to use older generations as their skills might give more damage than your highest most recent ones.

- Be mindful of the monsters popping around you and jump places before they reach you, this will avoid you from getting the debuffs on you. Killing the light green infected will give you buffs as well.

- When the boss starts trying to grab you with vines, you will get a warning message at the bottom of your screen, jumping before it catches you will save you precious time.

You can only complete each “normal” level once and get rewards. Boss levels, marked with a bigger number and in light blue, will give you higher rewards as they will be harder than the others. You will be able to redo these specific levels AND get rewards once a day.

Note: both playing the boss level as a challenge or raid mode will count as your one chance a day to kill the level.

Every day, you’ll be able to gain an E-pass. These E-passes will be useful to do the boss level in raid mode. This means the level will be automatically completed, and you’ll get the reward without actually having to play it. You can only use these pass on levels you already won.

Boss levels are generally identified easily since they have different monsters to beat and generally have little tumor to hit, just like in Gol Goroth’s Maw to diminish its defence shield. Here are a few of the bosses.

You’ll be able to see the damage and effect of your plane on your battle reports at different places.

During the solo assault, your plane will be able to use a new set of statistics that are attached to the level of your aircraft, the more stars, the higher the benefits. This new set will be crucial to your success against some bosses, as they can be decisive on the last percentage of health of the infected.

These statistics will indicate critical hits you can do on rounds of attacks on the infected. If you look at them closely, you’ll see that Crit Rate counters the Crit Resistance Rate stat and Hit Rate counters the Dodge Rate. The Crit Rate will determine your chances of doing critical hits, the Crit Damage and Crit Resistance Rate will intervene only on critical hits. So to summarize:

- **Crit Rate:** chances of doing critical hits

- **Crit Damage:** additional damage done during critical hits

- **Crit Resistance Rate:** decrease received damage on critical hits done by the enemy

- **Hit Rate:** chances to hit with one attack

- **Dodge Rate:** chances of dodging an attack

If you get stuck on a level, don’t worry about it, level difficulty will be decreased every day with the following rate: 2% for the first month, 3% for the second and 5% beyond.

You might also encounter red levels, called emergency levels. These levels have a much harder difficulty and might seem impossible to reach. Luckily, the emergency state only lasts a certain amount of time, and you’ll be able to go through the levels more easily after it.

Back to your solo assault main menu screen, you’ll also be able to find this crate with rewards and titles. You’ll be able to unlock them by completing levels of assaults.

Below, you’ll find the complete charts of rewards depending on the level reached and completed, as well as the titles you can gain throughout the levels.

### **Aircraft Research**

When you unlock the aircraft in your state, in addition to the hangar building, you will have an event called Aircraft Research launched. This event allows you to gain parts to upgrade the aircraft, thanks to diverse tasks.

You’ll also be able to gain EXP points thanks to these tasks. These points will enhance your Certification Level and give you additional rewards on each one reached. Please find the chart below of all levels, points needed and rewards gained.

That’s it for our discovery of the new Aircraft feature! We hope this will have helped you get your brain around it and to have a great journey with your Aircraft. Good luck!