Star Survivor - Guide to Basics

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Space Basics

Space Basics

Threats in Space

Each mission in Campaign Mode, and each map in Challenge / Endless mode takes you to a different area. The following stats will tell you how peaceful or dangerous this area is.

Starting Hate

The higher hate you face, the more enemies (both in volumen and variety) you get at the start of your mission. Hate growth with each overkill, so longer you stay on map the fiercer enemies become.

Gas Clouds

Gas clouds block your visibility and make it difficult for you to spot enemies in them.

Asteroid Density

The space is full of asteroids. Go around them, shoot them, or use tractor beam to yield them into your weapons.

Ion Storms

Ion storms are blue-ish circled areas with ion discharge. Ion clouds stun enemies and overcharges your ship when within, but beware not to overload.

Overcharge: Increases overall fire rate up to 3x.
Overload: When the Overcharge meter maxes out, the ship will take damage.

Rewards for the Brave

According to the law of consevation of energy… You kill something, you get somehthing. Other than the usual gem pickup, there are some surprises that you don’t want to miss!

Experience

The green little dots dropped by enemies you kill. The level-up bar at the bottom of the screen tells you how many gems you need to upgrade to the next level.

Credit

The yellow diamond-shape gems dropped by asteroids when hit.

Blue Orb

Dropped by destroyed asteroids sometimes. When your ship makes contact with the blue orb, it will trigger an extra upgrade screen for you to choose upgrades from. (Your experience points won’t be affected)

Green Orb

Dropped by destroyed asteroids sometimes. When your ship makes contact with the green orb, you will collect all experience points in the area.

Astro Chicken

Dropped by destroyed asteroids sometimes. When your ship makes contact with the astro chicken, you heal 1 HP.

Special Installations

Hatchery

The hatchery spawns new enemy drones and it won’t stop until you destroy it once and for all.

Station

Hover above a station to absorb its credits. When you deplete the station, you will get an extra upgrade screen. (Your experience points won’t be affected).

Credits Guide

Better to be sad and rich, than happy and poor. Yet, reasonable investments make everyone happy!

How to Get

Shooting Asteroids — Usually big ones give more than their broken pieces.
Mining Stations — Hover over them to see them light up and start dropping credits.

Where to Spend – in Game Modes

Level up Reward re-rolls. Initially cost 0, but price increase with each next re-roll.
Campaign Boss Reward re-roll — cost 1000 for the 1st re-roll.
Shops in Campaign — price depens on progress. So prices in shop closer to the beginning are cheaper than those shops that are closer to the boss. Re-rolls cost credits and only re-roll options you haven’t bought (if you bought 1 card, next re-roll won’t re-open it).
Upgrade Stations in Campaign — cost increases with each re-rolls. Cost also increases with progression (Like Shops).

Where to Spend – in Library

Discover Cards in Library. Gives you 3 cards to choose 1 from. Each following gacha costs more. But you can always play Challenge and Endless to unlock more cards.
Upgrade for the deck — upgrades card for the exact deck. Its cost is refunded if you delete the card from the deck.

Where to Spend – Ships

After choosing mode, you will see the starship choice page. Buying ships cost credits, and each following one costs more. So, the 1st one is as much as 1k, but the last one is 16k.

Limitations

Campaign, Challenge, and Endless only use credits earned in the run, and not get into your total credit bank. The credits left after each run go to your general bank to spend on cards and ships.

Game Modes

Campaign Mode

Choose a ship to enter a campaign. Each campaign map is randomly generated. You will encounter different missions, upgrade stations, and merchant outposts before you face one of 3 bosses. Different missions set you different goals, for example, kill X enemies, survive for X seconds, or destroy X asteroids. In upgrade stations, you could spend credit to upgrade cards in your deck. Merchant outposts have new cards in store for you. The reward for the Campaing is upgraded card of your choice, that will be permenantly upgraded for the whol game.

Challenge Mode

Choose a map and kill your way to the boss. All card drops will be coming from your selected deck in the ‘Deck Builder’.

Endless Mode

Well you know the drill. Survive for as long as you could! All card drops will be coming from your selected deck in the ‘Deck Builder’.

Ships

Ship	Starting Weapon	Starting HP	Tips	Equipment Slots (Front/Rear/Left/Right)
SS Survivor	Auto Turret	3	All-around attacker.	4/1/3/3
SS Hornet	Fighter Squadron*3	4	Bigger in size so mind your turning!	2/1/4/4
SS Voyager	Cruise Missile Recharging Shield	2	Invulnerable while boosting with shield.	2/3/3/3
SS Falcon	Ion Repulsor	3	Fires a repulsor blast whenever an exp node is picked up.	3/2/3/3
SS Defiant	Beam Turret	3	Stealth cloak phase through enemies when boosting.	3/2/3/3
SS Galactica	Heavy Cannons	3	Levels up whenever it takes hull damage.	2/1/4/4

Combos

Weapon 1	Weapon 1	Combo	Effect
Auto Burst Turret	Atom Beam	Point Defense	Super fast firing, low damage turret. Shots beams.
Particle Collider	Railgun	Black Hole Generator	Creates a Black hole that pulls everything in its radius in. That includes the player as well
Tagging Module	Ion Beam	Dread Beam	A turret. Enemies hit run away from the player. They can collide with over enemy’s and damage them.
Bullet Sphere	Tesla Coil	Tesla Sphere	Spawns orbs like the bullet sphere. but orbs shoots lightning at enemy’s in range like tesla coils.
Auto Turret	Shield	Segmented Shield	Shield with a bigger radius. Firepoints determinants how many segments you get. each segment has a fixed size. so you need a certain number to cover you hole ship.
God Beam	Heavy Cannon	God Strike	Creates an explosion of heavy cannon rounds at enemy location.
Ion Trident	Heavy Cannon	Ion Cannon	On impact or on despawn creates an ion cloud that overcharges you and slows down enemys. only use that with the ship that is immune to overlode damage or you could die.
Balistic Missile	Ion Trident	Ion Bolt	Lightning strikes enemy from above.
Scout Drone	Plasma Cutter	Blade Drone	Scout drones gain rotating plasma blade. you basically start shooting plasma shurican that collect xp.
Ion Fence	Auto Flak Cannon	Ion Barrier	Shoots like the Flack. ON impact or despawn the rounds create ion barriers between them.
Cruise Missile	Prox Mines	Cluster Missile	On impact the missiles spawn mines, that explode on contact or after a certain time.
Fighter Squadron	Prox Mines	Orbital Mines	Spawns mines that circle you ship. max number of mines is limited
Ion Repulsor	Shot cannon	Knockback Wave	fires like the shot cannon but with far more knockback. Basically a better shot cannon. More projectiles more knockback more damage
Lancer Beam	Auto Sniper	Sniper Beam	A turret. Shoots a beam at enemy’s. firepoint generates parallel beams.

I sincerely hope this was helpful. Good luck to you!

Star Survivor – Guide to Basics