10 Tips For General Gameplay

Even in the early stages of the game, there are plenty of activities for you to participate in. To make it simpler, all the activities you can engage in can be divided into 3 groups:

1. **Growth and development of your base** - construction and upgrading of facilities, training units, unlocking and upgrading heroes, and conducting research.

2. **Venturing and exploring the new world** is next. This includes gathering from resource tiles, attacking zombies, defeating lairs and even learning to attack another player.

3. **Campaign** mode where you progress from one stage and chapter to the next by battling zombie bosses in the puzzles.

With numerous tasks spread across each of these categories, although some have prerequisites that delimit your actions, it can be a challenge to decide on which aspect to prioritize. Fortunately, the game comes with a set of chapter objectives and a recommended quest line that serves as your guide towards an efficient level of progression.

It can happen that recommended quests will be among the chapter objectives you need to clear and on top of being able to choose which chapter objectives to clear first, you can also deviate from the highlighted quest and perform various activities depending on your preference. However, given that certain upgrades and features depend on the level of upgrade of certain structures, sticking to chapter goals and recommended missions is the best option, especially at the beginning of your adventure.

When it comes to the accomplishment of chapter objectives, you will earn experience points for each task you complete. Accomplishing all tasks for the chapter earns you a set of resources as rewards, which can include hero shards to help you unlock new heroes and strengthen the ones you have. There is a separate set of rewards to obtain after clearing the recommended quests as well and the resources you obtain with each task completed can further hasten your progression.

**KEEP YOUR FACILITIES BUSY**

One of the core determinants of how well you can make progress, lies in your ability to **multitask.**

One of the important structures you need to constantly click on are the **production facilities** - click on the farm, lumber mill, steel mill, gas fields and antiserum virology labs.

Next up are **training facilities** that provide you with troops. The trap factory is essentially similar to the training structures and produces traps to help defend your base from attacks. Upgrading these facilities will enable you to train or produce higher grade units and increase your overall might.

The **research facility** is unlike other structures that provide you with a single type of product in the form of military units or basic resources. The research center is a little more critical in the sense that you can choose on which aspect of warfare you would want to invest first. Research options are divided across 4 different aspects: **Economy; Military; Development and Fortification.** Each one is important and will lead to an advantage, but some will have to be prioritized over others, especially since you can only research one item at a time.

\***Development** relates to the basic functions of your camp like construction, research and training, which makes it the most important option to invest in at the early part of the game. **Economy** can also boost your performance early on as every bit of research on it improves the production and harvest of basic resources. A more enticing option would be the **military** tree, given that its focus is on your army's strength. With a peace barrier early on, though, you can save this for later just before you ready yourself for battle. **Fortification** is like the other end of the military and focuses instead on the defensive strength of your wall, traps and defenders.

Beyond the structures, the most important aspect of base-building that you need to constantly keep running is the **builder**, which is your means of constructing and upgrading structures within your base. By default, you will only have 1 builder and each new upgrade takes a lot more time to complete. You can purchase an extra builder for a day and the first one is free, so be sure to take advantage of it and continuously utilize it as best as you can.

One dichotomous choice to consider is whether to go for construction and upgrades that complete faster or those lined up in the quest line but take a lot more time to complete. In some cases, some upgrades will be dependent on the level of other buildings, which leaves less choice on what to build or upgrade next. For best results, it is best to consider 1 builder for long constructions and the other for the quicker ones. If you have to leave the game, then that would be the best time to consider construction queues that take a while to complete.

**BE SELECTIVE WHEN ENHANCING HERO'S**

Each hero comes with a unique ability as well as an elemental affinity. These different elements relate to how quickly they can use their special skills in the 3-match puzzle games and how effectively they can defend against other player teams in the arena.

Heroes have different rarity grades - ranging from 2 to 5 stars. You will have a set of 2- and 3-star heroes to start with and a random chance of securing more from Noah's Tavern. Naturally, securing 4- and 5-star hero's will not be an easy feat, but to begin with, the 2- and 3-star hero's you have can still manage to pull you through the challenges in campaign.

What is important is the elemental affinity each member of your hero team has and going for a team with each member representing a color or element is the way to go. This is because you will challenge enemy zombies and players sporting different colors as well as 3 each puzzles you will surely have each color represented.

Given that matching gems are the source of energy for heroes to use their skills in combat, what you would want is to ensure that each match 3 you make will empower one of your hero's.

Given the scarcity of hero's early on, you should consider upgrading the ones you have enough to deal with the challenges at hand. Once you have secured a higher rarity hero, you can swap him / her into your team and refrain from expending resources on the hero you no longer use.

Levelling hero's up is the most basic way of making them stronger. You need the unique resource Antiserum to level up heroes, but they do have level caps. You will need to evolve them first before you can level them again. \* To go from level 10 to 11 you need to evolve with combat manuals, again from level 30 to 31, level 70 to 71, level 130 to 131, level 210 to 211.

**Combat manuals** are sourced from battling through story stages and chapters in campaign. Obtaining duplicate hero's is not a waste at all, since you need extra frags to enhance them and boost their stats.

**STRATEGIZE AROUND PUZZLE COMBO'S AND HERO SKILLS**

Matching 4 or more gems together to unlock special tiles like the grenade & dynamite can certainly help you out in dishing more damage against the enemies. Similarly, being familiar with each of your hero's skills can also enable you to defeat enemies outside of matching gems. The more important part of surviving campaign stages and defeating players in the arena rely more on how you utilize these powers and abilities.

Eliminating enemies, regardless of how you go about it, is naturally the basic objective in every battle. For efficiency's sake, however, utilizing each special ability within your arsenal to its best requires strategic planning and timing to get the best results. In every stage, for example, the first wave of zombies are always the weakest. A few hits of gem matches should suffice to eliminate them quickly enough without even using the grenade effects, gem combinations, or your hero's abilities.

As your hero's charge up their abilities with every match of gems you achieve, it is sometimes necessary to match gems even if it will not deal damage to any enemy in front. Likewise, choosing a less flashy move to prep the remaining gems for a bigger combo should also be considered.

Saving as many of the hero's special skills for the boss battle is recommended. Between doing so and healing everyone to ensure they make it to the end of the stage is an exception though.

**DO YOUR PART IN THE ALLIANCE**

There are a lot of benefits to earn from being in an alliance, but for the most part, what you can gain from one relates largely on how active you are. For starters, being in an alliance can help you cut down on queue times in construction and research. As soon as you start a new build or research, you can click on the help icon above the structure to ask for help from your fellow alliance members. Each member that chooses to send aid will cut queue time.

In a similar manner, you should also keep tabs on the appearance of the help icon at the lower right side of your screen. Tapping on it sends you to the alliance help page and you can choose to send help to all alliance members with the click of a button.

Regularly visiting the alliance tech to donate resources for your alliances' growth is also among the regular duties you should accomplish.

Be sure to always check the alliance window whenever indicators appear as there are various activities you can partake in as an alliance member.

**TAKE YOUR TIME IN BATTLES**

As imposing as the sights may be, there really is no need to rush into making a move in combat as there are no time limits to worry about.

Having this mindset leaves little to no room for pressure so you can take your time to sort out the best possible moves, combos and preps on each turn.

Gems that fire at the zombies are replaced by tiles from the bottom of the puzzle instead of the top. As gems move upwards, choosing to match gems closer to the top of the puzzle have higher chances of triggering unexpected combos as more gems will be moving about. This does not necessarily mean that it is always advantageous, as you will sometimes need to hold off on powerful combos for the next level wave of the zombies or the boss on the last level.

**READY YOUR DEFENSE BEFORE ATTACKING**

It may happen that your peace shield runs out before you are ready to join the fray. Some events can grant you items that can replenish your shields for short periods of time and you can also purchase shields with diamonds.

What you should take note of, though, is that even if you still have time left for your shield to stay up, it will instantly vanish if you scout or attack another player.

While you may already be itching to test your mettle against the defenses of another player, be sure to make the necessary preparations first before you start to engage in skirmishes. What you should always assume is that once you attack a player, especially one belonging to an alliance, there will be retaliation.

There may be inactive players around your sanctuary that seem like easy targets. Make it a habit to not judge based on their base level as it is also possible for players with a lower level hq to exhibit more power than you.

Within your base, what you need to ensure is that your current warehouse level is sufficient to store all your basic resources. Anything in excess of what you can store in the warehouse can be plundered by another player if they defeat your base. Be sure to deploy heroes as defenders of your wall as well.

**ACCOMPLISH QUESTS FOR EXTRA REWARDS**

The rate at which you can generate and gather resources depends largely on the effort you exert in multitasking and strategizing around upgrades and ventures. As the resources needed consistently grows with each new level your base meets, you will constantly need more than just the outright resources you obtain out of your own effort.

Achieving both your daily and main quests, you earn rewards. All quests are categorized under the main quests and daily quests. The 3rd tab reflects the points you earn for every daily quest you accomplish and along with every alliance member's points, can earn rewards for you and your alliance members. BOTH quest types relate to the usual activities you should engage in as you play the game and can serve as your guide as well to look into areas you may have missed.

Main quests serve as milestones that indicate your overall level of progress across various aspects of the game. Some objectives within the list naturally take time to accomplish and, in some cases, unlock higher tier objectives after accomplishing the current one.

The daily quest objectives, on the other hand, are much easier to complete as these tasks relate more to the most basic activities you need to do following a routine. If you make it a habit to check the list of quests to ensure you reach and achieve the goals.

**EXPEND STAMINA**

Zombie lairs are more challenging to take on than the other NPC enemies. Launching a rally against a lair not only helps you use your stamina; it yields large amounts of antiserum to help you level up your heroes.

**CHECK YOUR BAG OFTEN**

You may have items in your bag that are best used sooner rather than later. Some can change your plans and strategy as soon as you know what the item does.

There may be consumable items that grant instant commander experience - this levels up your commander, which in turn opens up skill points on the talent tree.

You may have random and direct relocates, speedups, resources, gear, chip, cube and module enhancers and promoters.