Road of the Dead 2/Upgrades

There is a large variety of upgrades available in Road of the Dead 2, from upgrading the humvee itself to Diane and Cocheta's weapons and individual skills.

### **Experience Upgrades**

These upgrades can only be obtained through experience and playing the game.

#### **Driver Skills**

##### Driving

* The higher this is, the better the character can drive
* Turning is easier as you level up.
* This only applies to the current driver
* Levelled up by avoiding enough obstacles

##### Toughness

* The higher this is, the more damage from explosions and gunfire the character can withstand
* Leveled up by taking damage from bullets or explosives and recovering. **(Verification required)**
* This applies to both characters

#### Shooter Skills

Applies individually to each weapon each character can handle

* Accuracy
	+ The range of where the bullet is able to go is decreased, ensuring a more accurate shot, and less bullet waste.
	+ Leveled up by hitting targets more than missing
* Reloading
	+ Faster Reloading
	+ Leveled up by reloading over time
* Handling
	+ Guns follow the view much faster, allowing rapid movement between targets without the gun lagging behind.
	+ Levelled up by using the weapon frequently
	+ Reduce the time it takes to equip and unequip the current weapon, making weapon swaps almost instant (~0.1 seconds) between guns that have maxed handling.

### **RP Upgrades**

These upgrades can be obtained using the ingame currency RP (Road Points)

#### **Car upgrades**

The humvee itself can be upgraded to increase the chance of survival. A decently upgraded humvee is almost neccessary to make it out of Evans City alive.

##### Tires

* Stronger tires reduces the impacts of spike strips, oil spills and corpses on the motion of the car. Increases number of hits before grinding metal.
* More traction. Better control on when and how fast your car turns. When combined with a driver with a high driving level, this can create a near-instantaneous response time between pressing the arrow key, and when the car turns.

##### Engine

* A stronger engine means faster acceleration, allowing the car to move faster and respond quicker.
* In addition, the durability of the engine is significantly increased, allowing the engine to take more damage.

##### Armor

* Armor protects the engine and provides more resistance to collisions and explosions.
* The armor takes majority of the damage dealt to the vehicle until it is completely broken. After it breaks, crashes will directly damage the engine.

#### Firearms

Each character ingame has 4 weapon that can be used with each character having a different variety. One weapon other than the pistol will be unlocked at the beginning of the game for both characters while the rest of the weapons will have to be unlocked with RP.

Diane can use the:

* Pistol
	+ A low-damage starter weapon in the game, has unlimited ammo reserves but mediocre mag capacity. Fairly inaccurate even when maxed out. Reload speed is decent enough.
* Shotgun
	+ A very high-damaging weapon but inaccurate when shooting at ranged targets. Ammo reserve and mag capacity are decent but reloading speed is somewhat slow.
* Compact Sub Machine Gun (Locked)
	+ A high-damaging and accurate weapon, ammo reserve is large and mag capacity is decent. Reload speed is fast. Overall good.
* Assault Rifle (Locked)
	+ A weapon that does very high damage, is extremely accurate, and ammo reserve is large, but mag capacity is somewhat limited but in exchange for the reload speed that's as fast as a second. What more could you ask for?

While Cocheta can use the:

* Pistol
	+ Same as Diane's. An inaccurate, mediocre weapon that has limited mag capacity but an endless amount of ammo reserve.
* Assault Sub Machine Gun
	+ A very accurate, high-damage, and rapid-fire weapon. Reloading it is also fast but not as swift as Diane's full-auto weapons. Has a decent mag capacity but limited ammo reserve.
* Auto Shotgun (Locked)
	+ Inaccurate but packs a punch. Also has a very fast rate of fire allowing you to mow down even mutated enemies very quickly. Has a decent mag capacity and high ammo reserve.
* Light Machine Gun (Locked)
	+ The bullet hose of the game - Does extremely high damage with a rapid rate of fire. Ammo reserve and mag capacity are huge but in exchange for sluggish reload speed even when maxed.

##### Firearms upgrades

Each firearm ingame can be upgraded individually in 3 aspects with RP. Each aspect has 4 levels to purchase.

* Damage - The amount of damage the weapon will deal with a single bullet.
* Accuracy - The accuracy of your weapon when firing, allowing you to hit further targets more easily.
* Capacity - The size of the magazine or tube where the bullets or rounds are stored.

Other aspects of each weapon such as reloading or handling can be levelled up through experience as stated before.

### Mounted Weapons

There are two different mounted weapons that can be attached to the top of the vehicle that can be equipped by pressing "5". The machine gun and rocket launcher. It can help with detering the mobs of zombies or more usefully, remove obstacles in the path. These weapons can be bought with RP but are quite expensive and its ammo cannot be replenished through the usual means and instead can only be replenished through repurchasing the weapon in its entirety.

The machine gun is an fully automatic large capacity mounted weapon that will quickly shred through any enemy in its path. However, it is very inaccurate. The weapon can destroy small vehicles with a wave of bullet very quickly. Large vehicles (which must be destroyed in 3 parts) will take longer.

The rocket launcher is a slow shooting, explosive mounted weapon that will destroy anything in its blast range, including the humvee itself if the gunner isn't careful. The rocket launcher can instantly destroy small vehicles or a section of a larger vehicle in a single shot. It will also instanteously destroy any enemy, regardless of health, in its range. However, it is a dangerous weapon that will inflict heavy damage if not used properly and also is quite slow.