P2 = Once you have 7 survivors this is your max, so don't go crazy looking for survivors if you have 5-6. Once you have the hunting rifle equip that and you will own. Beats even the AK-47 in my experiance. =)
~Q
P1 = Try to get less than 20% to repare the first day, dump the rest into searching for guns, day two do your best to hold out, if you can keep like 35% you're doing very well, then repair what you can but make sure to take a look at the gun-o-meter and put in enough hours, then yo get the magnum, make the magnum your primary weapon. Now you shoudl be able to do much better in the comming wave, now repair what you can of the stockade and search for guns, you can spend a couple hours on survivors. If you're lucky toget a survivor and you have 2 guys they will attack with you in the night. Do your best, just survive, repair the wall and go mainly for guns. Once you get the UMG, you will want to go mainly for survivors. It;'s pretty much easy after you get the UMG and 3x survivors, then you pump up your wall to 100% each time, and search for more survivors and a bit for guns, oncwe you have 5-6 survivors search mainly for guns again.
I hate games w/ controls like this, what the f! Learn that we're past 1982 and there are better keys than asdw to use for things, and no flipping weapons on your mouse sucks 'cause your f'n' left hand has the move the ship arount, . lousy, too hard to switch weapons when you're using the arrors, which is easier to move, too hard to move around right and pick the right weapon when you are using asdw, 2/5. ~Q
ZOMFG! I beated it on hard O_O
=D
Sell Fighters.
Gun RoF L1, Gun Damage -> L4, Gun RoF L2, Gun Damage Max.
Repair Drones ->L2, Drone Repair L1, Repair Drones ->L4, Drote RoF L1, Max Drones, Drone Repair L2
Gun RoF-> Max
Drone Repair L3
2x Lazer Turrets
Drone RoF -> Max
ANYTHING YOU WANT (I bought and upgraded all my fighters at this point and also bought a few middle turrets, the reast fo the game was much easier, fighters help get rid of mines, and keep the enemy away and you can concentrate on the big things w/ the gun)
~Q
FYI< Quick Start for getting into a new game jumped past the first checkpoint:
Start new game, pause, select 'start from last checkpoint'
(This ensures you can play the game from the first checkpoint with all your initial RU left.
This game Rocks, but hard is like MURDER! OMG when those three cap ships show up at the end I can blow up 1, and then almost one of the others, but then I get died every time -___-
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