Season 1 – Week 1 – Missions and events: Protein Farm, Virus Research Institute, Genetic Recombination and City/Stronghold captures, Kimberly’s Exclusive Weapon

In this article all missions of week 1 will be explained.

The base guide for Season 1 – The Crimson Plague can be found at this link.

The most important rules about the War in Season 1 are here: Season 1 – Ultimate War Rules Guide

For each week’s missions and events a separate guide is available to keep these guides mobile friendly:

• Season 1 – Week 1
• Season 1 – Week 2
• Season 1 – Week 3
• Season 1 – Week 4
• Season 1 – Week 5
• Season 1 – Week 6
• Season 1 – Week 7
• Season 1 – Week 8 – Check out here what happens at the end of the season!
• Season 1 – Celebration

2 additional guides are also available:

• Season 1 – Tricks/Cheats
• Professions – Engineer and War Leader

Contents

Week 1

There are 5 missions in the first week, they unlock at different times.

Additionally the event Kimberly’s Exclusive Weapon starts at day one even if it is not listed in the weekly events.

All missions share the fact that they have:

• a reward chest goal, that is an activity performed by the whole warzone to accumulate points to unlock the reward chest. Once this goal is completed the mission goal is unlocked (unless specified otherwise)
• a mission goal that is the expected outcome and progression in the game (some of them are paired with a season event of the season as described in this link )

Week1-01: Unlock Virus Research Institute

This mission will start day 1 of Week1.
Both reward chest and mission goals are immediately available.

Mission goal

The main goal is to unlock the Virus Research Institute to increase the Virus Resistance:

• Level up Virus Research Institute to increase Virus Resistance. To level it up you need immune protein
• To generate immune protein you need Protein Farms. To level up Protein Farms you need mutant crystals
• To earn mutant crystals you need to do first kills zombie level.

In the new resource section you will find a complete list on how to increase immune protein and mutant crystals. Here there is only the quick way is suggested.

So basically all you need to do is:

1. Kill zombie with highest level finding them with the magnifying glass search on map
2. Level up Protein Farms
3. Use Protein to level up Virus Research Institute
4. Repeat from 1.

But be careful, if you attack zombies for which you don’t have the right virus resistance you will have damage debuffs. Even with damage debuffs you can still defeat some zombies but with more troop loss. If the debuff is too strong (Damage dealt %) it’s better to not attack directly but to use rally strategy described in the Game Action paragraph

To avoid huge troop loss you can ask help from your allies:

• Create a 1 hero squad, with the hero that has the lowest command attribute (so to bring along less troops)
• Launch rally on doom elite monsters, asking to participate to those that have enough Virus Resistance to be able to kill the zombie

With this approach you defeat the zombie and therefore you earn a lot of mutant crystals , with a minimum troop loss.

Reward chest goal

Week1-02: Unlock Protein Farm

This mission will start day 1 of Week1.
Both reward chest and mission goals are immediately available.

Mission goal

The mission goal is to unlock and level up Protein Farms.

Multiple Protein Farms are available. To unlock them level up the previous Protein Farm (they are named Protein Farms I / II /III / IV / V). To level them up you basically have to execute the same action as described in the Unlock of the Virus research center goal, so refer to previous paragraph to know what to do in this event.

Reward chest goal

Week1-03: Genetic Recombination

This mission will start day 2 of Week1.
The reward chest goal is immediately available, the mission goal is delayed by 24 hours

Mission goal

The mission goal will start in correspondence with the Season 1 week event called Genetic Recombination explained here

Reward chest goal

Week1-04: City Unlocks (Level 1)

This mission will start day 3 of Week1.
The reward chest goal is immediately available, the mission goal is delayed by 24 hours

Mission goal

The main goal of the mission is to capture Level 1 cities, it is delayed by 24 hours, and will start in correspondence with the Season 1 week event called City Clash S1 explained here.

I know this is a bit confusing considering that in season 1 you can capture both Military Stronholds and Cities: with this mission you will be able to start capturing Military Strongholds (a new map tile territory) for the reward chest goal, but to capture City Level 1 (the mission goal) instead you have to wait for the City Clash S1 event to start (so at day 4 of Week1)

Reward chest goal

Week1-05: City Unlocks (Level 2)

This mission will start day 4 of Week1.
The reward chest goal is immediately available, the mission goal is delayed by 3 days

Mission goal

The structure of this mission is similar to the one above (“City Unlocks (Level 1)”), with the difference that now the capture of the City Level 1 is used for the reward chest goal and this will be available right away at this mission start, while the main goal of the mission is to capture Level 2 cities, and this part is delayed by 3 days (so at day 7 of Week1)

Reward chest goal

Additional event: Kimberly’s Exclusive Weapon Rocket Shadow

Starting from day 4 of week 1, a new weapon will be available for Kimberly: Rocket Shadow

Prerequisites to activate Rocket Shadow:

• Kimberly must have 5 ⭐️

Even if you can activate the new weapon whenever you want (so you have all the time to bring her to 5 ⭐️ ), Kimberly’s Exclusive Weapon Battle pass , that gives a huge amount of items needed for the activation, will be available only until day 3 of week 2.

To activate Rocket Shadow you have to use the following items:

• 50 Kimberly’s Exclusive Weapon shards

After activation you can also use the following items to level up the weapon

• Universal Exclusive Weapon shards

You can find 70 Kimberly’s Exclusive Weapon shards in the Kimberly’s Exclusive Weapon Battle pass , enough to activate the weapon and to bring it to level 2.

You can find some Universal Exclusive Weapon shards in rewards chests in duel VS, in the event “Black Market” that is part of Season 1: Celebration and in some Season 2 activities. With Season 2 additional Kimberly’s Exclusive Weapon shards arrive through S2 Weapons of Legends.

Rocket Shadow details

• Name: Rocket Shadow
• Levels: up to 30 (it will be very expensive in terms of items to bring it up to level 30)
• Boosts: Hero HP, Attack and Defense. All-Damage resistance.
• Additional boots: Increases Kimberly’s skills max level

To see the power boost watch the video at the end of this paragraph with the whole activation process.

Preview of weapon attributes

Preview of Weapon Skills

Video of the whole activation of the new Exclusive Weapon Rocket Shadow

Purge Action

This mission will start day 1 of Week1 and lasts 7 days in total.

After the event starts, the time commanders first killed the highest level Zombie in the new season is recorded and ranked.

The higher the level of the Zombie killed by the commander, the higher the ranking. When the level of the Zombie killed is the same, the commander who kills faster ranks higher. Rewards are based on the commander’s ranking at the time of event settlement, the higher the ranking, the better the rewards.

During the event, settlements are made daily, and ranking rewards are delivered via mail.

Purge the Polluted Area

This mission will start day 1 of Week1 and lasts 13 days in total.

After the event starts, the time consumed by the Alliance to capture the Military Stronghold is recorded and ranked.

The higher the level of the Military Stronghold captured by the Alliance, the higher the ranking. When the level of the Military Stronghold captured is the same, the Alliance that captures faster ranks higher.

During the event, settlements are made daily. Rewards are based on the Alliance’s ranking at the time of event settlement, the higher the ranking, the better the rewards. Ranking rewards are delivered via mail.

Genetic Recombination

There are 6 genetic fragment types and they can be earned through multiple action as described in the new resources section:

Recombine genetic fragments

The event feature is quite easy, if you have at least one piece of each genetic fragment type you just need to click on Recombine to start and you will immediately receive rewards. So basically, you can’t make any mistakes.

Don’t panic to get genetic fragments, after 1-2 days you will be full of genetic fragments of all sorts, in fact if you play daily and do recombinations you will have more than 200-300 of each fragment type spare at the end of the season.

You will need a whole set of genetic fragments from I to VI as shown in the video below.

Rewards rates

Clicking on the question mark you can access the rewards rates:

Recombination limits and timings

• When the event starts you will have immediately available 10 recombinations
• Every 2 hours the available recombination count is incremented by 1
• The maximum amount of recombination at a given time is 30

Start exchange of genetic fragment with allies

You can exchange genetic fragments with your allies. To do so click on the exchange button on top of the genetic fragment you are missing or on the Exchange button on the upper right corner.

There are no limits on the number of exchanges you can start, but you can start only one exchange at a time.

Accept Exchanges from allies

Once an allie started an exchange request it will be listed in the Allies Exchange section where you can accept the trade.

You will be able to accept also exchanges directly from the chat if an allie shared it in the alliance group chat. Just click on exchange button that appears in chat and confirm the trade.

City Clash S1

Rules:

1. After Alliance Military Stronghold and City connection, Alliance R5/R4 can declare war on Cities.
2. After declaring war, the contest begins. Each alliance can only declare war on one City at a time.
3. if the alliance lacks Military Strongholds or Cities, it must first capture a level 1 Military Stronghold. After connecting territories, it can declare war on other Cities
4. Troops will be affected by toxins during sieges. Please increase troop Virus Resistance to reduce impact.
5. Siege battles are risky, with a portion of units dying directly. The specific ratio is detailed on Cities.
6. There will be first-time City capture rewards for participants. Alliance members will also receive City rewards. Alliances receive Loot chests as well, distributed by R5 or Butler.
7. After capturing a City, all Alliance members get buffs. The City enters a protected state for a period, during which it can’t be declared war upon by others.

Check also the Cities section and the Military Stronghold and City Capture rules.