Zero Hour Assault: Game Guide

Your account

Create an account from the main menu: a name, a password and an e-mail address that you can reach.

Your e-mail address is how you get back in if you lose your password or change your device.

New device code: the first time you log in from a phone or computer you have not used before, the game mails a code to your e-mail address and asks for it once.

Every account that already existed is also asked once for this code at its next login, even on a device it used before. After that, only new devices are asked.

After that the device is remembered and you are not asked again on it.

The code stays valid for 15 minutes. If you mistype it, log in again and type the same code.

If somebody keeps guessing the code of your account, new devices are locked for 30 minutes, while your own devices keep working.

If your account has no working e-mail address, the game asks you to add one and confirm it with a code.

Changing your password in the game always asks for a code that is mailed to you first.

Never share your password or a mailed code with anybody, staff included.

You can create two accounts per computer and three accounts per e-mail address.

For Gmail addresses, dots and anything after a plus sign count as the same address.

Shift+P switches to another account.

On Android, iPhone and iPad, choose "Switch account" in the action menu (2 finger swipe down) instead of Shift+P.

Game menu, "Account settings": change your password or e-mail address, rename your character, set a status message and see the devices that logged in to your account.

Names may use any alphabet, 3 to 20 characters, without spaces, without the characters / \ : . and without invisible characters. When a name is refused, you are told why.

You can rename your character once every 14 days. It costs 150 zero tokens and is free with a paid account. You cannot rename or delete your account while you are knocked down or in a match.

Your first minutes

At your very first login a short spoken welcome tells you where you are, which key opens the match menu and where to find First steps.

You start in the lobby, on the match menu carpet at 5 0 0.

Open the game menu with O (on Android, double tap the top center of the screen).

The first line of the game menu tells you what waits for you: your next first step, or "Rewards ready".

First steps

First steps is a short checklist for new players at the very top of the game menu.

• Open the game menu.
• Claim your daily login reward in Rewards.
• Join or create a match from the match menu in the lobby.
• Visit the freedom fight map, from the same match menu.
• Defeat an opponent.
• Buy something in the store.
• Finish a round at the shooting range in the lobby.
• Bonus: finish a match with at least one other player.
• Bonus: lift a knocked down teammate.

Every step pays zero tokens and XP.

The full list pays a bonus, an XP boost card and the title Ready for Duty.

Battle royale, everyone for themselves

Everyone starts with only a pistol. Weapons, ammo and potions lie on the ground to loot. The last one standing wins.

The safe zone shrinks in six phases. The next zone's center and size are announced with a beacon sound.

The storm outside the safe zone hurts more every phase.

In the storm you hear a warning beep every second and are told how far and in which direction the safe zone is.

Eliminations are announced with the number of players left, and every eliminated player hears their final place.

Search and destroy, plant or defuse the spike

Rounds without respawn. Attackers plant the spike by standing 5 seconds on site A or site B.

Defenders defuse the spike by standing 7 seconds next to it.

The spike has a 40 second fuse and beeps faster as it runs down, with warnings at 20 and 10 seconds.

Wiping out the other team also wins the round.

Each round starts with a short frozen moment. Sides swap after round 3, and the first team to win 4 rounds wins the match.

Players who died come back for the next round. The sites and bases are listed in the zone tracker.

Team deathmatch, first team to 30 kills

You respawn a few seconds after every death.

The first team to 30 kills, or the best team after 10 minutes, wins.

Kill confirmed, collect the tags

Every death drops a beeping tag.

Your team scores only by picking up the tags of enemies it killed.

Picking up the tags of your own team denies the enemy their points.

Hardpoint, hold the moving hill

Hold the hill with your team to score a point every second. The first team to 100 points wins.

The hill sends out a sonar ping you can follow, and it moves every 60 seconds.

You hear when you step on or leave the hill, when it is contested and which team holds it.

The hills are listed in the zone tracker.

Gun game, a new weapon with every kill

Every kill instantly gives you the next of 10 weapons.

The last weapon is the knife, and the first knife kill wins.

A fall or a self kill costs you a level.

Infected, survive the infection

After 10 seconds one player becomes infected and fights with a sword.

Every survivor the infected kill joins the infected.

The survivors win if one of them lasts 4 minutes.

The last survivor is announced to everyone and gets a vitality potion.

Blackout, fight in the dark

Everyone for themselves, 2 to 8 players, in a dark arena. When you create it you choose 1 to 15 rounds, 3 by default.

In the dark you hear nobody's footsteps, and the nearby players lists, scopes, binoculars and the radar do not work. Gunshots and decoys are heard as always.

The floor is in strips from west to east: carpet, gravel, metal, glass and water. Your own steps tell you where you are, and L names your strip.

A light switch beeps somewhere in the arena. Step on it for 25 seconds of light: then you hear everybody again. After that the lights go out and a new switch beeps.

Every round you get a knife, a pistol with 3 magazines, 2 decoys and 2 small potions.

The last one standing wins the round. After 3 minutes the round is a draw. Most rounds won wins the match, and a tie plays extra rounds.

Kill messages in Blackout do not say where somebody fell.

Blackout has no bots.

Squad rounds, one weapon for everyone each round

Two teams, rounds without respawn. Every round everyone gets the same weapon: knives, pistols, shotguns, M4 rifles, sniper rifles, AK-47s, and then fists.

Wipe out the other team to win the round. After 2 minutes 30 seconds the team with more players standing wins it.

The first team to win 4 rounds wins the match. Bots can fill the teams.

Team dead match

Team dead match has no respawn. To win, one team must kill all opponents.

The play area shrinks as the match goes on.

Last man standing

Everyone fights alone, with no teams. The last player standing wins.

The play area shrinks as the match goes on.

Hand to hand combat

Teamed or not teamed. Players can only use punches and kicks.

Knife fight match

Teamed or not teamed. You can only use a knife, the map is smaller and grenades are not allowed.

You can collect up to 5 snowflake shards with Shift+Enter (on Android, triple tap the middle of the screen).

A thrown snowflake shard stuns the enemy for 3 seconds.

Snowflake survival

Teamed or not teamed. As in Knife fight match you collect snowflake shards, but freezing an enemy even once kills them.

Sniper duel

Teamed or not teamed. Players can only use sniper rifles, and grenades are not allowed.

The last team or player standing wins.

Sword duel

Teamed or not teamed. Players can only use swords, and grenades are not allowed.

You start with a wooden sword. The stone sword and the diamond sword can be found among the items on the map.

Explosive battle

Teamed or not teamed. Players can only use grenades and molotovs, no other weapons, not even knives.

A grenade is not thrown at once. When you use it you hear a sound; after it, press Enter again to throw (on Android, double tap the middle of the screen).

If you wait too long, the grenade explodes in your hand.

You start with 2 metal shields.

Abyss clash

Teamed or not teamed. Like Explosive battle, but the map has pits you can fall into.

There are metal cases you can climb, and grenades can destroy them. You start with 2 metal shields.

Zombie survival

The teams cannot hit each other. Both teams must kill the zombies on the map, and the last team standing wins.

Houses can be used for hiding. Press Shift+Enter (on Android, triple tap the middle of the screen) to enter a house.

Zombies that break down a door can enter the house and kill the players inside.

Players inside a house and players outside cannot see or hear each other.

Zombie vs player

One team is human and the other team is made of zombies. The last team standing wins.

Zombies have a lower-pitched walking sound and make zombie sounds now and then.

Zombies can only use their claws, cannot jump and cannot use items.

When a zombie hits a player, it gains health equal to the damage it does.

The play area shrinks as the match goes on.

Fainting: in this mode a death has a 50 percent chance to make you faint instead. You wake up after 1 minute with 20 health.

A team mate within 3 steps of a fainted player can wake them up earlier with the T key.

Capture the flag

Each team steals the flags of the other team and takes them to its own base. The first team to bring home 10 flags wins.

Take a flag with Shift+Enter (on Android, triple tap the middle of the screen).

Red flags go to the coordinates 100 100 0, blue flags to 0 0 0. Press Shift+Enter there to place the flag.

After every placed flag you hear how many more flags that team needs.

If a player holding flags dies or leaves the game, the flags drop at their last position and keep their colour.

Collector's arena

Teamed or not teamed. You cannot fight in this mode. Collect the gold items scattered on the ground for 10 minutes.

The team or player who collected the most items wins, and every winner receives 10 zero tokens, when the other side had a real player from another device and another connection.

Updates during classic matches

Every minute you hear how many players or team members are still alive, and how big the play area is while it shrinks.

The city

Brackenford is 600 by 600 steps.

In the center is Meridian Plaza with a fountain, and north of it the three-storey Halcyon Arcade.

The Thornwood forest lies in the west. The Silverrun Canal crosses the city, with five bridges.

In the south are the Ironmill Works with a rail yard, a foundry and warehouses.

There are also a hospital, a school, a chapel, a hotel tower, a town hall, a guard post, a library, a farm and a wide meadow in the north.

About 60 buildings can be entered, 30 of them family houses with a living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom.

Furniture gives cover, and you can jump onto it. Some houses have an upper floor or a cellar.

Real stairs lead between floors, up to the roofs of the big buildings and down underground.

Ladders lead to the water tower, the radio mast, the bell tower and several roofs.

The Underline is an underground railway tunnel under Lantern Avenue with three stations: Westgate, Plaza and Eastmarket.

There are also a forest bunker, cellars and a hospital basement.

Every street, square, building and room has its own name, and every room sounds like its size.

About 100 landmarks can be tracked: building entrances, bridges, street junctions, shops, metro entrances and supply stations.

Players inside a building and players outside do not hear each other through the walls.

Windows

Houses, shops and offices have 735 glass windows.

Shoot a window, or hit it with a knife, a sword or a thrown weapon, and the glass shatters. Everyone nearby hears it.

A thrown grenade breaks the glass it hits and flies on into the room. An explosion breaks every window within 8 squares.

A broken window is a real opening: you can shoot, look, walk and throw grenades through it.

Broken glass stays on the floor, so you hear the crunch when anybody steps through.

Windows repair themselves after 5 minutes with a soft glass sound, but never while somebody stands in the opening.

Walls and whole windows stop every bullet, knife and grenade.

Shops and chests

The store of the game menu is not available in freedom fight. The shops are in Tanner's Market, south east of Meridian Plaza.

Tanner's Market holds seven shops in market booths: the general store, equipment, weapons, explosives, potions, ammunition and vehicles.

The general store, with every category, is at 350 278 0.

Stand on a booth and press Shift+Enter (on Android, triple tap the middle of the screen) to open it. The zone tracker leads you to every shop.

About 220 chests are spread over the city: in houses, offices, wards, cellars, warehouses, the metro, the forest and the streets.

Press Shift+Enter near a chest to see the items inside and take them.

Emptied chests refill after a while with new random items.

Chests can be destroyed. Their items are lost, and the chest comes back later with new items.

Tanner's Market is a safe area. Nobody inside can be hurt, weapons and explosives do nothing there, the city's other fighters leave you alone and motors do not run you over. Protection ends for 30 seconds after you deal or take damage, and after 10 minutes in the market; you are told a minute before.

Airdrops, red zones, control points and extraction

Every freedom fight announcement tells you where it is: steps, compass direction and clock position from the way you face.

Airdrops fall every 6 to 9 minutes while people play there, in three tiers: common, rare and epic.

A supply helicopter brings the crate. You hear it over the drop point, a call 10 seconds before the landing with the direction, and the crate hitting the ground.

The first player at the crate takes it with Shift+Enter. On phones it is picked up by itself.

Airdrop loot is fair: ammo, potions, grenades, armour and the weapons of the map chests, never items that are bought with money.

The whole map hears who looted an airdrop. A crate nobody claims disappears after 6 minutes.

Red zone: every 10 to 15 minutes a part of the city is announced and bombarded 20 seconds later.

You hear whether you are inside the red zone, which way to run and how many steps to the edge.

The underground is a safe shelter from the red zone, and players who just landed are spared.

Control points: Meridian Plaza, Halcyon Arcade, Saint Verena Hospital, Brassworks Foundry, Cinder Rail Yard, Larkfield school yard, Hotel Aurelia and Rookery Park.

Capture a control point by standing in it without enemies for 20 seconds, or 30 seconds if somebody else holds it.

The capture pauses while enemies share the point. Group mates count as allies.

A held control point pays its holder 1 zero token and XP every 2 minutes, up to a daily limit.

A control point turns neutral when its holder's side has been away from the map for 5 minutes.

Extraction: every 15 to 20 minutes a helicopter comes to an extraction zone.

Reach the zone within 2 minutes and stay 5 seconds to bank the kills of your life for zero tokens and XP.

Supply stations: five stations along the streets. A beep marks each station.

Stand on a supply station for 3 seconds to refill the ammo of the weapon in your hand and get a small potion, once every 5 minutes.

Finding your way

The freedom fight compass gives the direction and distance to the airdrop, the extraction, the red zone, any control point and the nearest supply station.

After a compass choice, a guide beacon pings from the target every 2 seconds until you reach it.

Where am I tells the name of your place, the nearest landmark and your coordinates, and whether you are on a bridge or in the water.

Area report tells how many players are in each part of the city, without names.

The event status tells how long until the next airdrop, red zone and extraction.

A status report every 4 minutes tells how many players are alive, the busiest area and how many control points are held.

Choose your drop zone in the helicopter: every control point, every district, the four landing grounds at the edge of the city, a random spot and the active airdrop or extraction zone.

When you land you hear the events that are running. Rain, storms, dawn, dusk and night are announced.

One rain in three is a storm: thunder rolls every 20 to 30 seconds on the outdoor maps, quieter under a roof.

If you ever fall out of the map, you are put back where you last stood on solid ground.

In the freedom fight settings you can switch status reports, weather messages and other players' capture callouts on or off.

Other fighters in the city

The city is never empty: extra fighters can arrive by helicopter and parachute onto the streets like everyone else.

They loot chests, ground items, corpses and airdrops, so a chest you hear may already be empty.

They hear footsteps and gunshots, take cover, reload out of sight, throw grenades, shoot out windows and hold control points.

Walls muffle your footsteps for them: if you stand still and stay quiet, they may walk past.

When they fall they drop a corpse with everything they carried, and they come back later by helicopter.

Taking one down counts for your kill streak, gives a score point at most every 5 minutes and sometimes a zero token, with a small daily limit.

Freedom fight rewards and records

Killing another player gives 1 score point and a 50 percent chance of 1 zero token.

Repeated kills of the same player do not count for the freedom fight rewards, and recaptures of the same control point pay nothing for 15 minutes.

The daily freedom fight leaderboard counts kills, captures, airdrops, extractions and a combined score.

The kill leader of the day is announced, and yesterday's number one earns the Freedom Champion title.

Your freedom fight record keeps today and all time, your best life, red zone deaths and your longest survival.

Staying alive and active for 5, 10 and 20 minutes gives XP.

Badges: Airdrop Hunter, Point Taker and Extraction Pro.

Every 30 minutes the player with the highest kill streak on the map is announced as most wanted. Killing them gives 40 XP.

Groups in freedom fight

A group member's position beacon sounds different from other beacons.

If you hit a member of your own group, a distinct beep plays.

Motors bought on the freedom fight map stay on that map.

Watching in freedom fight

Choose "Watch your friends in freedom fight map" in the match menu to watch there.

The C and Z keys do not work while watching in freedom fight.

The left and right arrows move between players, L lists the players on the map, and Escape takes you back to the lobby.

If the player you watch enters a group base or goes back to the lobby, you switch to the next player.

The newest weapons

AK-47: a hard-hitting assault rifle with automatic fire at medium range, 30 rounds of 7.62x39mm.

MKEK MPT-76: a battle rifle with longer reach and heavier bullets, slower automatic fire, 20 rounds of 7.62x39mm.

Tayfun: a light machine gun with very fast fire, a 60 round belt and a long reload. It uses the same 5.56x45mm ammo as the M4.

M1 Garand: a semi automatic rifle with long range, heavy single shots and an 8 round clip of .30-06 Springfield.

KS-123: a combat shotgun with huge damage up close and 5 shells of 12 gauge, a little faster than the Ithaca.

They are in the store, in chests and in match loot drops.

Ammo cartridges for the AK-47, MPT-76, M1 Garand and KS-123 are in the store. Use one from your bag for a full magazine.

Weapon guide and inspect

Game menu line "Weapon guide and inspect" has:

• Inspect my weapons: both hands with fire mode, fire rate, loaded and spare ammo, damage, range, silencer and reload time.
• Weapon guide: every weapon by class with its real damage, range, fire mode, damage per second, magazine, reload time and where to get it.
• Compare two weapons side by side, with the better one named.
• Weapon mastery: bronze at 25 kills, silver at 100, gold at 500 with a weapon master title.
• My weapon stats: shots, hits, accuracy, headshots, damage and kills for every weapon.
• Weapon leaderboards: the top 10 players of every weapon.
• Ammo check: every ammo type you carry and which of your weapons use it.
• Weapon of the day: kills with it give bonus XP, up to 20 kills a day. It changes every day.
• Settings for the weapon callouts: low ammo, empty magazine, last magazine, draw callout and life summary.

Two weapons at once

You can hold a weapon in each hand.

In the inventory menu (I), the left and right arrows draw the selected weapon into that hand.

A number key draws its weapon in your left hand. Alt+Shift with the number key draws it in your right hand.

Left Control fires the left-hand weapon (on Android, tap or hold the bottom left).

Right Control fires the right-hand weapon (on Android, tap or hold the bottom right). You cannot fire the right-hand weapon while sitting.

X and Shift+X tell the ammo of the left and right hand. Grave accent and Shift+grave accent tell the damage and silencer of each hand.

Shift+1 puts away the left-hand weapon, and Alt+Shift+1 the right-hand weapon.

The scope beep sounds different when the right-hand weapon is on target.

Number keys for weapons

Hold a weapon and press Shift with a number key, for example Shift+2, to put it on that number. 1 is always punch and kick.

Then that number key draws the weapon whenever you carry it.

On Android, swipe left or right in the top part of the screen to switch weapons.

The weapon in your hand when you leave the game is drawn again at your next login.

After drawing a weapon you cannot fire it or draw another one until its draw sound has finished.

Aiming up and down

You can aim at targets above and below you.

With the classic walking style, the default, you aim with W and S. Without it, you aim with the up and down arrows.

Each press moves your aim 1 step. With Shift it moves 2 steps.

On Android, swipe up or down with 2 fingers in the bottom center of the screen to aim.

Alt+F switches between the two aiming modes (on Android, swipe left or right with 2 fingers in the bottom part of the screen).

Angle-based aiming gives half up, straight up, half down and straight down. Straight up or down sends the bullet only up or down.

Step-based aiming lets you aim from 1 step up to your weapon's spread, up or down. The bullet starts at that height and flies straight ahead.

Headshots and leg shots

A headshot does double damage: shoot someone two steps below you, or aim up as far as your weapon's spread.

A headshot sometimes makes the victim fall down.

A steel helmet protects from headshots. An active metal shield stops the fall from a headshot, but not the extra damage.

Aiming down as far as your weapon's spread can hit the legs. Only such a shot can knock a player down by the legs; a level shot never does.

A player hit in the legs falls down and must stand up again before drawing or using a weapon.

Weapon melee attack

Shift with Left or Right Control hits a player near you with the weapon in that hand (on Android, swipe right in the bottom left or bottom right).

It works only with weapons that use ammunition, uses no ammo, and cannot hit through walls.

The victim falls down and drops the weapon in their hand.

Throwing knives and swords

Shift+Space throws the knife or sword in your left hand, Alt+Space the one in your right hand.

On Android, swipe down with 1 finger in the bottom left or bottom right to throw.

Thrown knives reach 20 tiles and thrown swords 15 tiles, and they do more damage than a normal hit.

A weapon that hits is used up. A weapon that misses falls to the ground and can be picked up.

Reloading

R reloads and Shift+R unloads your weapon. You move slower while reloading.

On Android, swipe up in the bottom left or bottom right to reload that hand, and swipe down there with 2 fingers to unload.

With a weapon in each hand, the R and Shift+R keys do not work.

Unloading puts the rounds in your bag only as far as your carrying limit allows; the rest stays in the gun and you are told.

Scope beep

With scope enabled in the settings, a beep plays while your weapon is aimed at something it can hit, in range and in sight.

The scope does not beep while you are fainted, near an active jammer, or for a target behind a wall or inside smoke.

Silencer

A silencer can be put on every weapon that uses ammunition, shotguns included. It halves the range, and only players within 30 tiles hear a distant sound. Aiming up or down with a silencer also halves the range, not twice.

The weapon information key (grave accent), the scope beep and Inspect use the range your shot really has: with a silencer, a tactical silencer or while you aim up or down.

Fitting or removing a silencer takes a moment and you cannot move meanwhile.

The tactical silencer of the event store keeps three quarters of the range. It fits one gun at a time and takes 6 seconds to fit or remove. Its 7-day licence starts the first time you fit it, and it cannot be dropped.

You can carry up to 4 silencers.

You can fit as many silencers as you carry. A silencer comes off when you drop the weapon or when you die.

The newest items

• Bandage: heals 45 health slowly over 9 seconds. Taking damage tears it off.
• Med kit: hold still for 3 seconds and you are at full health. Taking damage interrupts it and you keep the kit.
• Energy drink: you walk and run 20 percent faster for 12 seconds.
• Ammo box: two full magazines for each weapon in your hands.
• Decoy: put it down and walk away; it fires fake gunshots from that spot for 20 seconds.
• Footstep lure: fake footsteps walk away from you in the direction you face.
• Motion sensor: for 4 minutes it tells you, with the direction, when an enemy comes within 12 steps of it.
• Trip wire: the first enemy who walks into it is stopped for 2 seconds and you are told where. It does no damage.
• Smoke grenade: for 24 seconds nobody inside the smoke shows up on player lists, binoculars, scopes or beacons. Steps and shots are still heard.
• Supply flare: in freedom fight it calls a supply helicopter to where you stand. Everybody hears it. Once every 20 minutes.
• Repair kit: repairs 250 health of the motor next to you at once. It is sold next to the motor in the vehicles category.
• Loot locator: tells the direction and distance of the three nearest items on the ground and of the nearest chest.
• Fire suppressant: use it while you stand in a molotov fire to put the fire out.
• Flashbang: thrown 8 steps ahead, it goes off 2 seconds later. Everybody near it who can see it is deaf and blind for 2 to 6 seconds and stunned for 2 seconds. A wall gives full cover, and it never hits you.
• Frag grenade: a bigger, louder hand grenade, 60 to 140 damage within 14 steps.
• Poison vial: use it with a knife or a sword in your hand; your next 3 hits with that blade poison the target, 2 health a second until an antidote, death or a match. A metal shield blocks it.
• Antidote: cures poison at once. It is kept when you are not poisoned.
• Silent boots: for 5 minutes only players within 8 steps hear your footsteps.
• Thermal scanner: tells the direction and distance of up to 8 fighters within 40 steps, also those in smoke or invisible. It works under a jammer.
• Field magazine (event store): 25 percent bigger magazines for 5 minutes of play.
• Combat stimulant (event store): the adrenaline fire rate for 1 real hour.
• Corpse bomb defuser (event store): disarms the bomb on your own corpse in 5 seconds. It stays in your bag when you die.
• Tactical silencer (event store): see Silencer.
• Secret safe, base alarm and base charger: for group bases, see Groups and bases.

Potions

Small potion, vitality potion and revival nectar restore a small, a moderate and a large amount of health.

You cannot heal while fainted or sitting.

Protection

Metal shield: protects you from hits until it breaks. You cannot move until its deploy sound has finished.

Steel helmet: protects you from headshots until it breaks. Its damage is kept when you take it off or log out.

Invisibility shield: for 15 seconds you do not show up on player lists, binoculars, scopes or beacons.

While invisible, only your footsteps can be heard, and you can still be hit.

Explosives and traps

TM62 mine: explodes when someone steps on it and damages everything within 15 steps. A few hits with a weapon also set it off.

A mine makes no warning sound.

Time bomb: once armed it explodes within 20 seconds and damages everything within 50 feet. M shows the seconds left.

Corpse bomb: switch it on or off. If it is on when you die, it explodes when somebody opens your corpse, and you receive 1 zero token.

Boom box: places a fake item on the ground. It explodes when somebody tries to pick it up, and you receive 1 zero token.

A molotov fire is the kill of the player who threw it.

Building

Barricade: a wall 10 tiles high with a platform on top that you can stand on. Gunfire destroys it.

Ladder: a ladder 20 tiles up. Gunfire destroys it. The player who placed it can take it back with Shift+Enter at its foot.

Base life amplifier: found in freedom fight chests, it adds health to a group base.

Information and tricks

Binoculars: show the players within 120 steps of you, and whether they are fainted.

Corpse scanner: lists every corpse on your map with its coordinates, its owner and how long it remains.

Jammer: for 2 minutes, players near it cannot use binoculars, the nearby players list or their scopes.

Spatial amplifier: place it on a player within 5 tiles. For 10 minutes the spatial amplifier controller tells that player's coordinates.

A destroyed spatial amplifier explodes and hurts everybody within 20 tiles.

Adrenaline shot: your weapon fires faster for 2 minutes.

The corpse bomb, boom box, corpse scanner, jammer, spatial amplifier, adrenaline shot, field magazine, combat stimulant, corpse bomb defuser and tactical silencer are sold in the event store.

In the lobby the event store also has "Sell items back": the event store items you carry are bought back for half of today's price, up to 500 event points a day (100 on the phone server). Timed items, permanent items and the bike are not bought back.

Backpacks

Backpacks do nothing: carrying limits are the same for every player, and neither the store nor the in-app purchases sell them any more.

Electric poles

Some maps have electric poles. They have 150 health, and gunfire or explosions destroy them.

A destroyed pole hurts everybody within 40 steps, the shooter included, and knocks them down. The player who destroyed it gets the kills, but not for shocking himself.

Jumping onto the platform of an electric pole kills you at once.

Death and your items

When you die, the weapon in your hand drops to the ground, and the items you found in that match stay in your corpse.

Some store items are permanent and are never lost.

Corpses make a bleeding sound and disappear after 10 minutes. If several corpses lie on one spot, Shift+Enter lets you choose one.

If your own corpse carries your corpse bomb, open it or use a corpse bomb defuser while you stand on it: the bomb is switched off in 5 seconds and the corpse opens.

Every match gives you a set of starting items, depending on the mode.

Favorite items

Select an item in your inventory and press Shift+U to make it your first favorite. U then uses it at any time.

Shift+Y and Y do the same for a second favorite item.

On Android, set up to three favorites in the action menu, and use them with a 2 finger tap, double tap or triple tap on the right side of the screen.

Motors

Buy a motor in the vehicles category of the store during a match, or at the vehicles booth of Tanner's Market in freedom fight.

Motors cannot be bought in the lobby or in a match waiting room. You can own 2 motors at a time.

A new motor appears 1 step ahead of you. Jump onto it, then press Shift+Enter to sit on it (on Android, triple tap the middle of the screen).

Shift+Enter starts and stops the engine.

Hold the up arrow to drive. The down arrow brakes and stops you at once. On Android, swipe up or down and hold.

The left and right arrows turn 45 degrees; with Shift, 1 degree (on Android, swipe left or right with 2 fingers).

Space plays the horn (on Android, tap the bottom center). You can choose one of four horn sounds.

Nitro: Shift+Enter while moving gives 5 seconds of extra speed, then 20 seconds to cool down.

Every 250 tiles you drive fill one nitro charge, up to 3. Nitro cannot be bought.

H while driving gives the dashboard: health, speed, gear, heading, driver, passengers, free seats, nitro and odometer, plus your own health.

Escape gets you off. If the motor is moving, you fall off instead.

Other players can ride with you as passengers. The first person on the motor drives it.

Locks: open to everyone, to your team and group only, or only to you.

A motor left unlocked and alone can be stolen, and you are told when it happens.

A warning beep plays when you come close to a wall. A crash throws you off and damages the motor, more at higher speed.

Health warnings sound at 50, 25 and 10 percent. Below 10 percent the motor may not start until it is repaired.

A parked motor sounds an alarm when somebody damages it, and you are told where it is.

Repair: stand next to your motor with the engine off and pay a few zero tokens, use a repair kit, or park it in a group base, where it repairs slowly for free.

Motor insurance: once a day you can restore a motor destroyed in the last 24 hours.

When a match ends, your motor goes back to the dealer and you get up to half its price back. You can also scrap a motor for up to half its price.

A player hit by a motor counts as hit by the driver.

You can give your motor or bike a name. Vehicles near you lists every motor and bike within 100 tiles with its direction, health and riders.

Motor locator: the direction and distance of your motors, with a sound beacon on the nearest one.

Game menu line "See your motors": dashboard, locator, locks, repair, nitro, trials, insurance and statistics.

Bikes

Buy a bike in the event store with event points. You can have up to 3 bikes.

Press Shift+Enter to get on, and hold the up arrow to ride (on Android, swipe up and hold).

Bikes have three gears: slow always brakes before walls and water, normal, and fast, which covers more ground but crashes harder.

Bikes have health. A crash damages the bike and throws you off.

Other players can sit on your bike, but only the first person on it rides. A bike left alone can be stolen.

Game menu line "See your bikes": dashboard, locator, locks, gears, trials and statistics. H gives the dashboard while riding.

Sprint trials and statistics

Sprint trials for motors (150, 300 and 600 tiles) and bikes (200 and 500 tiles) work on any map, with personal bests and top 10 leaderboards.

Your first finish of each trial every day pays a few zero tokens.

Vehicle statistics keep your distance, top speed, rides, crashes, rams, kills, repairs and best trial times.

Daily reward and streak

Claim your daily login reward once a day in Rewards. The 7 day calendar gives more zero tokens and XP every day of the week.

Your streak counts on after the first week, with a little more XP every week.

At 14 days you get an XP boost card. At 30 days you get zero tokens, a cosmetic crate and a title.

Your best streak is remembered.

Streak savers: you can hold up to 3. A missed day uses one, after the free weekly saver, so a short break does not reset your streak.

Play time and other rewards

Play time rewards: 15, 30, 60 and 120 minutes of active play a day pay zero tokens and XP.

Only real play in a match or in freedom fight counts, not the lobby, waiting rooms or standing still.

Comeback reward: after 3 or more days away you get zero tokens and an XP boost card, more after two weeks.

Play with a friend: finishing a match together with a friend gives bonus XP, up to 5 times a day.

XP boost card: plus 50 percent XP for one hour. Start it in Rewards, XP boost.

Token rewards above the daily token limit are saved and paid out to you later.

Levels and the season

Player levels go from 1 to 100. At level 100 you can prestige and start again for a prestige star, up to 20 stars.

Levels unlock titles and cosmetics, never combat power. Time away from the game builds rested XP.

Every month is a season with a Season Pass of 30 tiers and a free reward track of zero tokens, badges and titles.

The supporter row of the Season Pass holds titles, kill sounds, badges, XP boost cards, a streak saver and zero tokens.

The supporter row is open to paid accounts and to holders of the season supporter pass.

Season supporter pass: opens the supporter row for one season. It can be bought with zero tokens earned by playing.

A season supporter pass bought in the last 5 days of a season also counts for the next one.

Season rewards you reached but did not claim are added to your account at the end of the month.

Season leaderboard: the season XP of every player, with last season's winners.

The top ten of the season get a title, a badge and zero tokens, even when they are offline at the end of the month.

Game menu line "Progress, Season Pass and cosmetics": your level, the Season Pass, titles, cosmetics, profile card and prestige.

Missions and achievements

Three daily missions and three weekly missions, each with XP and zero tokens.

Finishing all three daily missions gives a clean sweep bonus, and days in a row build a mission streak.

You get one free daily mission reroll.

Freedom fight missions include looting airdrops, capturing control points and getting extracted.

The challenge of the week is a goal the whole server works on together.

More than 50 achievements in tiers unlock titles and achievement points.

Game menu line "Missions and achievements" lists them all with your progress.

Ranked play and bounties

Your skill rating rises when you defeat another player and falls when you are defeated.

There are eight divisions from Iron to Grandmaster, and every month is a new ranked season.

Your first 10 rated fights of a season are placement fights. After a promotion, a demotion shield protects you for 3 losses.

A match win adds a little rating and a loss takes a little, against real players only.

Repeated kills of the same player, team mates and bots never change your rating.

Bounty board: put 20 to 500 of your own zero tokens on a player who is in the freedom fight, for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours or 6 hours. Whoever kills them in the freedom fight collects the bounty.

You cannot put a bounty on a player who uses your device or internet connection, and such a player cannot collect a bounty on you. A payer who shares the killer's connection gets his own part back.

Unclaimed bounties come back to you. After a bounty is collected or runs out, the same player is safe from new bounties for 10 minutes.

Bounty announcements can be switched off in Social, Social settings.

Game menu line "Ranked play, bounties and rivals": your rank card, leaderboards, the bounty board and your rivals.

Events

Every 3 hours a server event starts: Double XP hour, Bounty hour, Headhunter hour or Token rush.

You hear warnings 5 minutes and 1 minute before a server event. Game menu line "Events, guides and server info" lists the next events.

The same line has the most wanted player, your streak rewards, the guides, the tips of the day, frequently asked questions and the server information.

The daily events of the game menu line "events" earn event points, which you spend in the event store.

You can also buy event points: any amount from 10 to 20,000 in the web shop, or packs of 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 through "purchases" in the action menu on Android.

Combat feedback and statistics

Multi kills, kill streaks, shutdowns, first blood, revenge, comeback, long range and nemesis kills are called out.

When you die you hear who killed you, with which weapon, from how far and how much health they had left.

Game menu line "Combat feedback and combat log": switch each kind of announcement on or off, and choose full sentences, short callouts or sounds only.

Streak rewards in one life: a radar ping at 3 kills, an enemy count at 6 and a heartbeat sensor at 9.

Game menu line "Statistics and leaderboards": kills, deaths, kill to death ratio, play time, matches, records and head to head results.

Chat

F11 chooses your chat language channel, and the slash key sends a message to everyone in it. There are channels for 27 languages and a free channel.

J sends to your team, apostrophe to your group, Shift+apostrophe to your community, and backslash to everyone on your map.

K replies to the last private message.

On Android, the action menu (2 finger swipe down) has every chat: group, community, map, public and team messages.

Links are switched off everywhere players can write. Only audiowander.com and nbmstudios.com can be shared.

A message with any other link is not sent, and you are told why.

When the public chat is busy, the staff can put it into slow mode: one message every few seconds per player.

Players within 8 steps hear your keyboard when your chat message arrives and while you write a private message. Switch it off in Social, Social settings.

Translation

Shift+L chooses the language your own messages are translated into. Control+Enter in a message box sends the message translated.

Alt+L chooses the language for reading. Alt+Enter translates the selected message in the chat history.

On Android, set the language in the action menu, "set translation languages", and double tap with 3 fingers to translate the selected message.

Game languages

Game menu line "languages": switch the language of the game.

Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish are fully translated: menus, messages, the store, missions, help texts and place names.

Players have translated the game into more languages, and you can help to create a new one from the same menu.

Voice chat

V: positional voice chat. Players on your map within about 30 tiles hear you from where you stand.

On Android, tap the middle of the screen with 2 fingers to switch it on or off.

B: community voice chat, heard by every member of your community wherever they are.

On Android, double tap the middle of the screen with 2 fingers to switch it on or off.

With push to talk on, hold V or B to talk; with it off, the key switches your microphone on and off. Shift+V switches push to talk.

Alt+V tells you who is speaking and lets you set their volume. The player menu (F6) also sets player volumes.

In the new game version, Alt+M mutes all voice chat until you close the game; press it again to hear it. A player whose volume you never changed plays at 100, his normal volume.

You can switch off incoming community voice chat in the notification settings.

Friends and profiles

Friends hear when you log in and out, and you can message them easily. Open the friend menu with F5.

Set your own online and offline message for your friends, up to 60 characters, in Social, Social settings.

Ignore a player: open the player menu (F6), choose the player and "Ignore this player", for 1, 6, 12 or 24 hours or for good. You no longer hear their chat, private messages, voice, typing, kill lines, last words, emotes or arrival announcements, and they are not told. The game menu line "Ignored players" lists everybody you ignore, with the time left; choose a name to stop ignoring it.

Blocking a player stops only their private messages and friend requests.

Going away: open the player menu (F6) on your own name and choose "Go away (AFK)". You can type a reason. The players list then shows "[AFK: your reason]" after your name. Anything you do brings you back. After 10 minutes without doing anything in the lobby you are marked as away by itself, and the lobby announcements about new and starting matches stop until you are back.

Shift+Enter on a friend's name shows their statistics, even when they are offline.

Game menu line "Social": who is online, friends, group tools, team-ups, commendations and your profile.

Your profile can have a motto, a favourite map and a looking for team flag. You can make your profile private.

Commend another player once a day as a good teammate, for fair play or for being helpful.

A watchlist tells you when chosen players come online.

Looking for group posts stay on the board for 10 minutes.

Veterans with 500 or more kills can sign up as mentors, and new players can ask an online mentor for help.

Groups and bases

Groups are created on the freedom fight map, in the game menu line "Group menu", for 1000 zero tokens. Group names follow the rules of character names: 3 to 20 letters of any alphabet, digits, underscore or hyphen.

Players can ask to join a group, or be invited.

The apostrophe key sends a message to your group chat, also while watching a match.

The group information menu shows the members and their total kills and deaths.

The owner can make members admins. Admins can invite and remove members, but not the owner or another admin.

Only the owner can take zero tokens out of the group, rename it, place or delete bases and delete the group. The owner can let admins publish announcements.

Group announcements keep the last 30 messages with author and date. The owner can pin up to 10 to the top. At login you hear how many are new, and the newest 3 are read to you.

Groups have a kill leaderboard, a daily goal of member kills, a list of online members and a rally message.

Every group gets a base when it is created, next to its founder and enclosed by a wall. The owner can add up to 4 more, and delete one of them from the group menu. A base attacked by outsiders in the last 24 hours cannot be deleted, and the last base can only go with the group.

Bases have chests for the members. Near a chest, Backspace puts the selected item in it, and Shift+Backspace a chosen amount.

The owner and admins see a log of who took what from each base chest, 40 lines a page, newest first. The action history can be read for each base or in general.

"Take everything" empties a base chest in one go, with the usual carry limits. The owner may use it, and at the base computer he decides whether admins or all members may too.

A closed base door opens with Shift+Enter and the base password. Only the owner and admins can change the password. Members on the base's trust list open it without the password; the owner manages the list at the base computer and can let admins manage it too.

An open door lets anyone in with Shift+Enter. The door closes again 2 seconds after it opens.

Inside, Shift+Enter at 0 0 0 of the base leaves it, or opens the door from inside. The base computer is at 30 30 0 and works only for members of the group. The base gun fires only while the base is under attack.

A base below 2000 health loses its door protection, and anyone can enter.

If all the bases of a group are destroyed, the group is deleted and the items in its chests are lost. A destroyed or deleted base takes its chest and secret safes with it, and everybody inside is put out at its door.

If you log out inside your own group's base, you come back inside it. Anybody else comes back outside, at its door.

Attack warnings name the base and its place. Group menu line "Mute attack warnings for 5 minutes" silences them for you only.

Destroying a base pays the attackers by their share of the damage, 100 zero tokens split between them, double for a group's last base, a quarter for a base less than a day old. Attackers with less than 3 percent of the damage, and attackers from a defender's device or connection, get nothing. Hand grenades, time bombs, mines, the ZK and molotov fire damage bases too.

Store items for bases: the base alarm tells online members when somebody from outside comes within 25 steps of the door or goes inside; the base charger keeps using base life amplifiers and base ammo packs from your bag while you are online; the secret safe is a password-protected storage spot inside your base that only you know.

Group war

Every week from Friday 22:00 to the next Friday 22:00, server time, groups collect points: breaking a base of another group, holding a base that took heavy damage, killing members of other groups on the freedom fight map, winning matches against real opponents, airdrops and bounties.

Groups of up to 6 members and larger groups have their own board. The top 3 of each board with at least 3 members win zero tokens for the group bank and a title for a week.

Game menu line "Group war", or "Group war" in the group menu: the boards, the time left, the rules and the last 8 weeks.

Communities

Communities are like groups without bases. Shift+apostrophe sends to the community chat, and B is the community voice chat.

Create, join and manage communities in the game menu line "community menu".

Creating a community costs 100 zero tokens for free accounts and is free for paid accounts.

Polls

Players can create polls with a title and a message. A poll has yes and no, or 2 to 6 answers of your own, with one choice or several choices per player. With several choices, choose an answer again to take your vote back.

Polls end within 24 hours. You can switch off poll notifications in the notification settings.