DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS – Basic Guide (Controls, Tips and More)

This guide is to help share with you controls, tips, and things i’ve learned over the course of playing the game so far. Take this with a grain of salt.

Guide to Basics

All credit goes to Dhrakast!

Controls

Now as I like to use the defaults for keyboard and mouse I will be using those sorry. First, I would like to go over some handy controls.

• Q is used to ping items, this will help your team identify items and what’s around you.
• Tab is your emote wheel, sometimes this can be used as communication stickers will show up near your portrait at the bottom right of the screen.
• Middle mouse wheel is to use items, I know it’s wonky, I really recommend changing this button if it feels uncomfortable for you.
• Control is to hide/crouch, if you’re close to a wall you can use control to put your body against it. I don’t recommend using this system when the raider is high enough to use Ki detection.

That’s all I have for this section.

Gameplay

Here in this section i’ll go over different pings, icons, and systems.

Ok, when you first spawn in you’ll notice that it shows the location you’re spawning in. Make sure to do a quick scan of where you spawned and where your teammates are at. This will usually tell you where the Raider/Villain spawned at.

Now you can see i’m spawning in area B of the map. Use this and remember what each zone looks like and you’ll be learning the map/s in no time.

Now you’ll see different pings when you ping items the cooldown drink looks like soda in a circle the barrier defense is a shield with a cross, the rocket launcher is exactly what it is. You can also ping downed people granted they are already marked. One of the things to note when someone has been downed already is in the bottom right they will have an x next to their portrait.

Sometimes if you see the raider destroying the machine you can stop them with a kaioken rush, a rocket launcher, galick gun, dragon change, or running up to them and punching them with left click (that’s an achievement). This can be extremely crucial to do especially if the super time machine is close to finishing.

Here is a tip to know as a Raider/Villain, if you destroy a zone with a place power key it decreases the charge up time from that zone to about half of what it was. Not entirely sure on those numbers though. Also if you can evolve by auto evolve as cell save that human for your next level, the early increases help.

Now here is a really important thing to know so take notes.

Skills passive/active need to be level 10 before you can use them without having to use that character. i.e. Say I have charm pose from bulma but I don’t want to use bulma. I have to put in enough spirit to get the skill to +10. Then I can use the skill without having to have the Bulma skin on.

Ah yeah, that’s right. You’re wondering what that DP symbol is when you open chests sometimes right? That’s a point or points towards your dragon pass. I’m not entirely sure how much but they are fairly rare.

Farewell Note

Tl:dr read your keybinds and pay attention to your surroundings.

Raiders Tips

• Check around a few crates for a radar, civ radar gonna be yer best bet but don’t spend too much time opening crates.
• Usually level 2-3 radars will spawn on an area adjacent to where ya spawned.
• Would recommend goin into practice mode on each stage to get a feel for where everything spawns (someone posted a chart of these spawn points but I forgot where it is, will link when I find it).
• Checking around cities or towns usually will net more civ’s than other areas yet thats up to a coin flip as sometimes they’ll be more populated in cave abundant areas.
• Putting on headphones & raising yer volume will help loads generally but esp for raider.
• Everyone but Broly & Zamasu will benefit from hanging onto at least one dragon ball so they can’t wish for a level 4 ult dragon change.
• Destroy everything you see, be it buildings, vending machines, maybe objects & vehicles.

If ya see a cave, don’t go in unless you’re certain no ones around, if a survivors in there, try poking them from the outside with ki blasts & super attacks (if ya know it’s safe by all means go in to finish off), otherwise ya might get trapped in there & possibly killed.

• To take as little damage as possible, try mixing up with flying in an upward zigzag or upward spiral pattern, cancelling flight to descend, maybe rise straight up.
• Ya fly faster when locked on to a survivor & not firing ki blasts.
• Also combo breakers are good at getting out of eating a lot of supers, yet sometimes it’s better to not use it right away (namely if yer fighting a squad), i.e. in scenarios where the survivor lands a stun then about to throw out a super attack.
• As a raider even if you’re lower level, ya can still melee a survivor a level above ya if they whiff a vanish kick, are about to perform a super attack, are flying away, or are in the middle of an active skill that whiffs similar case with vanish kick.
• Learning to snipe with supers or sometimes ki blasts will also help in takin out survivors & slowing down key progress from far away.
• Fly closeish to the ground without being on ground level so ya can hear civs &/or survivors, feel free to try taking out survivors on the way to getting more power, this will also waste their resources at least a little.

Area Destruct when a key has been found or save it to slow down a shenron summon (can summon in Area X too which can’t be destroyed), or if ya got level 2 within less than a minute & just want survivors to get less supplies, this will decrease the Super Time Machines progress speed by 5%, if an areas been destroyed after a key in whichever destroyed areas been planted, STM progress wont slow down.

• Destroying an area where a supply box is will also help a bunch if the super time machine isn’t high up in progress, supply boxes during STM phase will no longer spawn in 2 areas at once.
• If not (which is usually), do yer best to stop survivors from opening & using the supply boxes during the STM phase, if they do, you’ll either lose or be in for a rough fight over the STM.
• Don’t tunnel one survivor for too long or sit over a finished off body waiting for it to bleed out, this will waste your time & give survivors more time to find keys, plant them, get supplies, dragon balls, screw ya out of more civs, etc.
• If there are 3 or less survivors left in the game, Escape Time Machine beacons will spawn, winning as Raider this way will net less rewards including experience, but blowing up ETM will result in a win, namely when STM is either not out or destroyed.