How to play
Everything you need in one page
Open the game, type a name, press Quick Play, and shoot what comes at you. Here is the rest.
Starting a match
- Quick Play puts you in the public room. If it is full you go to the next one.
- Play Room with a room name of your own: anyone who types the same room name and picks the same map is in your match. Share it with your friends.
- Pick a map (Arena, City or Docks) and a view (top down or first person). You can switch view at any time.
Controls on a phone
| Left thumb | Move. |
|---|---|
| Right thumb (top down) | Aim, and shoot while you hold. Only the direction matters, not how far you drag. |
| Right thumb (first person) | Drag to look around. FIRE shoots, and you can keep dragging from the FIRE button to look while you fire. |
| SWAP | Change between the rifle and the shotgun, once you have unlocked the shotgun. |
| MIC | Hold to talk to your team. |
| 1ST PERSON / TOP DOWN | Switch the view. |
| MENU | Settings: look sensitivity, camera distance, volume, invert vertical look, microphone on or off, frame rate display. |
| Tap a name | Mute or unmute that player. |
Controls on a keyboard
| W A S D | Move. |
|---|---|
| Mouse | Aim. In first person click once to capture the mouse, then look around; Esc frees it. |
| Left click or Space | Fire. |
| V | Switch between top down and first person. |
| 1, 2 or Q | Rifle, shotgun, or swap. |
| Hold T | Talk to your team. |
| 1, 2, 3 | Choose a perk when the cards are showing. |
| Esc | Settings. |
Perks
After each wave you are offered three of these. Pick one. If you do nothing, one is chosen for you when the next wave starts. The first offer always includes the shotgun.
| Damage | +20% damage. |
|---|---|
| Fire rate | +20% fire rate. |
| Vitality | +30 maximum health and heal 30. |
| Speed | +10% move speed. |
| Regen | Heal 1.5 health every second. |
| Pierce | Rifle shots go through one more enemy. |
| Shotgun | Unlocks the shotgun: eight pellets, short range. Taken again: two more pellets. |
| Armour | Take 15% less damage. |
Enemies
| Grunt | The basic creature. Walks straight at you and bites. |
|---|---|
| Runner | Smaller, much faster, and not as tough. From wave 2. |
| Brute | Big, slow and very tough. From wave 3. |
| Spitter | Keeps its distance and spits slow shots at you. Cover stops them. From wave 4. |
| Titan | The boss, every fifth wave, with a ring of shots every few seconds and an escort. Its health bar sits at the top of the screen. |
Red arrows at the edge of the screen point to enemies you cannot see. Enemies get tougher for every extra player in the room.
Staying alive
- Cover blocks bullets and spit. In first person you can shoot over low crates.
- Heal items (green, spinning) show up when someone is hurt, at a random place and time, and disappear after about twenty seconds.
- Revive. Stand within a couple of metres of a downed teammate for three seconds to bring them back with 40 health. Everyone is back at the start of the next wave.
- If everyone is down, the run is over and the game starts again from wave 1.
- If your connection drops, you have twenty seconds to come back to the same place with the same score.