I wanted to put together a Free-to-Play (F2P) guide, but since I’ve spent money on the game, I don’t feel like I can really speak from a true F2P perspective.
Some players consider themselves F2P even if they make small purchases, such as the monthly battle pass or occasional items. While that’s fine, for this guide I wanted insight from someone who has reached high levels without spending any money at all. Fortunately, it wasn’t hard to find such a player.
If you’ve spent any time on the Mr. Autofire Discord server, you’ve probably met Deuce, a longtime player best known for being friendly, helping others, and his daily greetings and famous send off. Deuce was the leader in a top 5 guild since guilds were introduced. He recently moved to play with Pew Pew Pew and helped establish them as a top 100 guild!
Another huge accomplishment is Deuce was recently able to beat every world that has been released so far in the game.
I reached out to him with a few questions, and he generously shared his experience. I’ve summarized his responses in bullet-point form to keep things simple and easy to follow.
What is your advice for new players?
- Save every gem for premium gear.
- Accept that is going to be a grind. I have been getting up an hour early every day to do my guild and dailies for a long time.
- Use Auto hand gun until you have enough gems for Gemini
- Do tower and get grandma (Mrs. Surefire). She is my go to.
- Enter the giveaways on the Mr. Autofire discord. The one time I won it saved me 6 months.
Do you have any equipment advice for our new players?
- Save for gemini.
- Then save for shield generator.
- Ninja and necroshield are the best free armor in my opinion.
- Auto hand gun is the best free weapon.
- Learn to dodge down, not just jumping up! Game changer.
What are some of your struggles?
- Biggest struggle is watching people I started with blow it up and leave me in the dust. Overkill lol
- I’m still struggling with trials I’m just not strong enough. I just cleared 35 today for the first time. Perfect perks and still had to use 6 total revives. Never use revives until the last couple of rooms or the just go to waste. F2P we don’t get that many.
If you had to start over again, would you do anything differently?
- Save gems.
- I wish I never scrapped anything.
- One big mistake: Auto Rifle. I had like 12 to 15 million coins and used them to upgrade it… total waste. It helped for a couple of months. Now I wish I had the coins for hero upgrades.
Do you have any advice for ftp players of any level?
- I try to get one upgrade every day for my guild. So what ever element is being used tomorrow I try to upgrade one of the hero’s level or rings, ect.
- I play every chance I get. Today I played while bbq-ing. I also once was in the arctic circle hunting and got up at 2 am to use my buddy’s star link to get my daily’s in. So you need a lot of ocd!
- Level up every hero to 20 and 50 as fast as possible all hero’s bonuses same for pets.
- Buttons when they finally gave us a use were awesome for me 30k all the skins helped a lot!
- I hate tower but it’s very needed (for tower heroes). I just stay in gold and take my points.
- Grind castles even though they are boring as all get out but rings shards and hero medals make a difference.
What are some loadouts you’ve used?
You can see my current load outs in pew pew pew.
This was my main set up through about world 30.
Auto hand gun was my weapon until I got Gemini.
This was my setup through W35.
Thank you Deuce for sharing your insight and perspective. As your famous send off goes, “May 44’s be ever in your favor.”