Virus War: Walkthrough, Cheats, Tips, and Strategy Guide, Part 2

Unlock and Upgrade your Secondary Weapons

Keep cruising from level to level; eventually, starting when you hit level 5, then level 20, and more, you’ll unlock secondary weapons, which mount automatically to your ship and provide additional firepower. You can switch back and forth between any unlocked weapon that you want that’s unlocked.

Keep in mind too that the most recent unlock isn’t necessarily the best secondary weapon. The question of best or worst depends on your playing style; for example, the first secondary weapon that you unlock, the Big Green Bubble Shooter, can do HUGE damage just by floating multiple bubbles across the screen and having crowds of viruses run into them.

It’s generally one of the best secondary weapons in the game, and the farther into the game you go, it becomes more and more overpowered compared to almost every other secondary weapon, due to the ability to hit any and every number of viruses without disappearing until it floats off of the screen.

With each secondary weapon, you can upgrade both the firepower and the strength of the weapon. Strength upgrades are hugely expensive and it isn’t immediately obvious what they do. The name is non-specific.

The strength upgrades are as valuable as their price would suggest, though. They increase the firing speed of your secondary weapon as well as the size of each shot. Each upgrade is a “bigger, faster, better, more” upgrade, so to speak.

Firepower upgrades, on the other hand, simply increase the amount of damage done by each shot. At first the increases are small, but as the levels get higher, so does the amount of firepower per upgrade.

Occasionally, you can watch an ad video in order to try out a highly-upgraded version of your secondary weapon for one stage. The upgrades will be completely ridiculous (level 100 Strength and level 2,000 Firepower, for instance), allowing you to see just what all of those upgrades do, as well as allowing you to beat a tough stage far more easily.

Earning Tons of Coins and Becoming Rich

To earn more coins extremely quickly, be sure to take the ad video offer whenever you finish the level. Once you take the offer, a commercial will play, and when the commercial is done, your income will be tripled. This is especially worth it on levels where you earn a particularly high amount of coins.

When the bar at the bottom of the level fills up, you’ll open up the Jackpot area. Once the ad video finishes, instead of the usual x3, you’ll get a roulette that you can spin for a x10 bonus maximum. The minimum bonus here will be x4, so even if you are an unlucky spinner, you still win.

On the main level select menu, there is also a little area where coins will collect, giving you a small passive income. Go here and collect your coins frequently; they add to the amount of upgrades you’re able to do, allowing you a whole bunch of extra firepower.

They won’t earn a massive amount of coins in a short period of time; this is more for long term earnings. After you have been offline for a long time (such as overnight, a week, or more), go here and since the passive income circle never stops earning, you’ll be able to collect a gigantic sum of money.

How To Get Free Gems

Gems are the premium currency of the game, but despite that status, you can load up on gems for free in multiple ways. One of them is to keep collecting the login reward every day. Collect for seven days in a row and days two, five, and seven will provide gems.

The other way to earn free gems is to complete entries in the Viruspedia, located under the hamburger menu button right under the login rewards area. Fill the bar underneath one of the viruses, to begin with. When the bar is full, a red dot will appear next to the Viruspedia button.

When it does, go to the Viruspedia and a gem reward will be available. The gem rewards can be earned when you kill a specific number of the virus. Kill enough of it to fill the bar, then collect.

Energy

Energy in Virus War works similarly to how to does mainly in puzzle games. You use five energy to play a stage, and then if you beat the stage, you regain the energy that you spent. If you lose at the stage, your five energy will be gone.

Luckily, you get 80 energy maximum. So if you use all of your energy, it will be a very short time before you get enough back to play one level again as you recover one energy every six minutes. It takes awhile to get the full load back, though.

You can spend gems to get your energy back, or you can wait out the energy restoration. If you’re on a super tough level, use the last of your energy right before you go to bed, and when you wake up, your energy will be restored. Or use Stage Select to make it easy to get free energy.

Stage Select – Go Back and Replay Old Levels

This game has a limited level-select feature in it that is completely hidden, but allows you to go back to any of the previous six levels before the current one that you’re on. All you have to do is tap on the number of the level that you’re currently on.

Once you do, a small hex grid of level numbers will pop up. You can pick either your current level, or you can pick any of the six levels before it. This provides an excellent option if you want to earn some extra coins but you’re coming up to a level that’s a bit too tough to beat.

What this option is really good for, though, is cheesing your way to free gems, and by extension, free energy. When you replay a level, every virus that you kill will fill up the Viruspedia. As you hit certain Viruspedia milestones, you’ll be able to collect free gem rewards. And every time you play any level (including old ones), you won’t lose energy if you win.

So go back to old levels and play them again, knowing you’ll win. Fill up the Viruspedia, then go there and collect your free gem rewards. Then if you are almost out of energy, go and spend your gems on some energy. Then start moving forward and challenging the current levels, especially the boss levels.

Monthly Membership

There is a monthly subscription membership that you can buy for just five dollars per month, or whatever the equivalent is in your local currency. The membership is inexpensive, yet it includes plenty of bonuses to speed up your progress.

For one thing, you will earn 400% currency whenever you watch an ad video, instead of the 200% that you would normally earn from taking the ad bonus without the subscription.

Second, whenever you die in the middle of any level, you will have the option to restart from where you left off by paying just one gem. This is in addition to the usual video restart, giving you two restarts per level.

Finally, you will earn a whopping 50 bonus gems per day when you have the membership. This is more than enough gems to buy plenty of restarts, as well as lots of extra coins and energy.

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