Zero Online Thaiger Guide

If you're wantin to check out Zero Online for yourself, you may be overwhelmed with the controls and stuff at first, but you'll get the hang of it real quick. But I'll give ya the rundown on the controls real quick, so you got an edge when you get started.

A couple controls you may not know when you begin:

- You move with the mouse. You talk to npc's with the mouse. You fight with the mouse. All these are done with the left click. But the right click allows you to use your xp move, which is your skill move. I didn't know that one when I started.

- Ctrl + left click allows you to jump from here to there. Real useful when pwning some huge bot and you don't wanna die! Your engine output decreases each time you use it, so use this jump sparingly!

- There's an autopilot in this game! If you're doin a mission and you don't know where to go, use it! It's up there on the upper-right hand corner of the screen. If you left click while on autopilot, you can cancel it if ya want.

Your paperdoll and how to equip more than one weapon:

I didn't know about this until recently xD. But whether you choose artillery (gun guy) or infantry (wuss with a sword), there are different types of weapons that you can equip. For artillery, you get the rifle, the machine gun, the shotgun (my default), the frost gun, and the flame gun (for total pwnage). When you check your unit's paperdoll, click the "arsenal" button on the left to check your weapons. There are 4 slots, so just choose one of them you want your weapon to be equipped to and right click the weapon. Baddabing! Done! When you want to switch weps, just... (oh shit! Pk tournament! 1 sec....shit I got 3rd >:-O) hold alt and select the number your weapon is equipped with (like I got the flamer on 4, so I just alt+4 to switch from the shottie).

Everything else is pretty much explained on their site here. Also, when you use your xp move, it also decreases your engine output (there's a little meter under your hp). Your items have a durability factor too. If it gets to zero, it's broken, so you have to repair them when you get a chance. Fortunately, it's not expensive to do, and money is easy to get in this game.

Potency

It's like a ranking in World of Warcraft. The higher the number, the more exp you get, but it's mostly used for bragging rights. There are many ways you get gain potency points: by leveling up, upgrading your weapons or armor whatever, by having a mentor (I'm available xD), or by using CAP or something (don't understand that part yet xD). You can also join with fleets and/or squads and share potency points.

On to the Guide!

Eventilation

Ok, when you first start out, there's this noob mission for you to do. Take it! When you finish, you'll end up at lvl 20 and can evolve your unit (lvling in this game seems quick, but this mission is only for the beginners). From there, you can fight the bad bots outside the Steel Warship maybe until you lvl up to about 30. After that you should check out Blaze Ocean.

When you get to Blaze Ocean, the event thing differs. You might find three guys standin around this thing with light shootin out of it. The one in the middle has missions for you, the left one needs some kind of special item, and if you have one to give, he will give you a reward (unique items or exp), and the one to the right has 3 missions where you kill a boss (he rewards you with unique stuff too!). Some of the missions here is, like you talk to this guy, walk a couple steps to talk to another guy... and you finished a mission! Nice n easy! And with the autopilot, these events are even easier.

Total Pwnage

You get three ways to pwn: left click attack (regular), right click attack (xp skill), and your overdrive (total pwnage). When your overdrive meter hits 100, you just select the overdrive skill you want and get to work. Also, if you can use an overdrive from another weapon if you want, just switch the wep.

While you're on a mission, if you see a mob of at least 5+ bad bots, I stop the autopilot to take em to hell, then I go back to autopilot. So that's more exp. While you're in Blaze Ocean, you might autopilot past some bad bots that are higher than your level (their names will be in red). Use a little skill and take em out! They give a little more exp. One thing about this game is that it's not hard to gain exp, but it's not totally easy to level, so it doesn't get boring. One of my tactics is to just stand there and let them walk up to me, and when I round up enough of em, I just jump out of the mob and pwn em all at once with the shotgun. The jump ability is very useful for workin some strategy! Oh, and the shotgun. If you start out with the infantry unit, that's fine, but I have an artillery unit, and I use the shotgun as my default weapon. When you left click a bad bot to attack, for other weps, you just kick the thing or elbow it xD. But with the shotgun, you do alot more damage.

Try to keep alot of space in your cabin though, since you'll want to pick up the drops from the bots, and when they drop a mission item, you'll want that to gain more exp.

Like I said before, it's very easy to gain exp, but it's not as easy to level up. All in all, it's a fun game to play, you won't get bored with it as quick as with EO.

Metal music with this game is recommended.