Eternal Evolution - Card battle & strategy

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Eternal Evolution guide - Tips to evolve your gameplay

Tip #1 - Position Wisely

You are able to position five heroes on the battlefield across a three-by-two grid. You can put two heroes in front, two in the middle and two at the back, though as there can only be a total of five, one row will only have one hero if you are putting all five out.

You will need to consider the charged attack range of your heroes when placing them out on the field, especially if you are primarily looking to play with auto-attack. Ensuring that your attacking heroes are close enough to the enemies but behind tank heroes can help you go further in the game, and making sure long-range and healing heroes are more towards the back can help keep them alive to boost you and do more damage.

Tip #2 - Auto vs Manual play

It is so tempting to just put the game on auto, upgrade whenever you can, and let Eternal Evolution play for you, but when it comes to bosses or more hardcore enemies, you will need to help your heroes out. You can see in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen when your heroes light up that you should use their attacks. Some heroes work well on auto, especially those that don't need such a delicate aim or ones that are just used to heal your team.

However, sometimes it's good to turn off auto-attack on select enemies and make sure that you are the one positioning their attacks, so that you can make the most out of it. This is especially useful when you have enemies who are hatching out of eggs, as killing them before they hatch is much more useful than after they have fully spawned in.

Tip #3 - Get to know your Heroes

There are a lot of unique aspects to each and every hero that you recruit. They have different upgrades, different skills, and different charged attacks. When you start to build out your team, it is worth exploring the various heroes that you have and planning out your team wisely. Having a balanced team that is able to attack, heal, and defend itself is important, and spending time to learn about your new heroes - as well as keeping your older heroes upgraded - is a very large part of the game.

There is a rarity level to the heroes within this game, and you can use Rare heroes to get Elite heroes by fusing them. You can also get rid of some of your common heroes for coins to help get more powerful heroes. Keeping around heroes that aren't helping your team is never a good thing.

It is also worth noting that you can reset one of your Heroes, gaining back everything that you had to spend to level them up. This means that you can power up a well-needed hero when you have no other option, then reset them to power up a better one when you recruit them!

Tip #4 - Check your stats

Heroes have two to four skills depending on how rare they are, with at least one basic attack and one passive attack. If you spend time checking out your heroes' skills, you can figure out what equipment is best to pair with them, creating a better skill set with the items that you can use as you are playing. Eternal Evolution does direct you to put items that feel like a common choice for a specific hero on them - ones that fit that hero's class or skill, displaying a Thumbs Up icon on it when equipped.

There is no real point in not putting equipment on your heroes, so if you are playing in auto, do check in regularly and make sure that the treasure that you have been gaining is well used.

Tip #5 - Level Up your Heroes

Levelling up your heroes does cost resources, but it is the best way to make them more powerful and allow them to take on greater enemies. Once you have hit the level threshold for a specific hero, the Level Up button is gone and an Advance button is there. To Advance a hero, you will need Soul Rubellites, which are rarer than the gold and XP needed to level one up. Advancing a hero will give them a new skill or upgrade a skill they currently have, which can make them much more powerful.

Tip #6 - Follow the red dots

Whenever you log into the game, you will find there are a lot of red dots around the screen. Often, these lead to areas where you can collect rewards and bonuses. Things like your daily login bonus are well worth collecting, even if you do not have time to play for that day. These rewards can give you resources, new equipment and heroes to add to your team. Free items are always good and in a game about collecting resources, you can never have enough of them.

Tip #7 - Check Resource Packs

When you get a Resource Pack, you will find that it is set for a specific amount of hours, not a specific amount of loot. Using them early on in your game, before you have progressed through some of the main campaigns, will be a waste as when you play more of the main campaign, you will see that your Idle Rewards chest will pay out more loot. Keeping these resource packs until you are further in your campaign or until you need a boost to really upgrade your heroes is the best way to make the most of them!

Eternal Evolution Beginner’s Guide

COMBAT BASICS

Everything on this planet wants you dead, so return the favor.

Eternal Evolution’s combat is pretty similar to that of the hero stages of Lords Mobile in that you can aim your hero’s ultimate skills. That being said, you are unable to control where they move, and unit positioning is highly important, especially for units that don’t do melee attacks as all heroes have a limited range with their ultimate skills. You can get away with using Auto-combat most of the time, but good use of manual aim, especially with AOE attacks, can help your team punch above their weight.

Unit Positioning

Omar may look thickly armored, but under that shell are all guns. While fun when pointed at the enemy, all that ammo makes him a bit vulnerable.

Before every fight, you must position your heroes across your side of the battlefield. Normally, you want the melee heroes, especially tanks, to go in front, and damage dealers behind. Note though that most skills have a maximum range, This means you may want to put some of your attack heroes in the middle so they’re close enough to the enemy to hit them with their ultimate skills and put the ones with the longest range, support units, or healing units in the rear.

Related: Eternal Evolution Elite Heroes Tier List: A Complete Ranking of the Elite Units

That way, they’re close enough to the fight to reach out and touch their targets, while still letting the beefy tanky guys take all the hits for them like the loyal meatshields they are.

Aimable Attacks

Aim where it hurts.

The main mechanic of the game’s combat system is your ability to aim when using your Heroes’ Ultimate skills. To aim an Ultimate Skill, hold down your Hero’s glowing portrait icon, then drag your finger toward where or who you want the attack to hit. There are many different kinds of attacks, such as linear attacks, attacks that hit in a cone or circle, or attacks that pick specific targets.

How an attack is aimed, along with how spammable it is, typically determines whether or not you set that hero to Auto Combat. This mechanic also allows the enemy to do things that would be considered complete nonsense in other games without it being unfair, such as spawning enemies behind your team in the middle of battle. So watch out for that!

Auto Combat

Some heroes really don’t need micromanagement, while others will rise above and beyond with your guidance.

Auto Combat in this gamer is markedly different from most other auto-combat systems in other games similar to Eternal Evolution: You have the option to set certain Heroes on your team to Auto while keeping others manually controlled.

Knowing who to set to auto makes it a lot easier to manage ult usage. You will normally want spammy Heroes or Heroes with attacks that tend not to be worth aiming set to Auto while setting AOE units or single target nukers to Manual so they can either use their AOE strikes efficiently or snipe targets you deem to be top priority.

Healers are also a good choice to set to Auto so they can keep the team topped up without your say-so. This way, you aren’t overwhelmed by a heavy micromanagement workload.

Of course, setting any Hero to auto has its downside: They will always attempt to center their Ultimate skill on a single, specific target. This means they’re much more likely to hit a suboptimal number of targets with their AOEs than, say, if you had manually aimed the shot in the empty ground between multiple foes.

If you’re using Auto, you may want to find a Hero who can cram enemies tighter together. Note in some modes you may be given mercenaries to borrow for the duration of a run: They start out in Auto, but you can set them to Manual like any other Hero.

HERO ANATOMY

Learning how to manage your roster of fighters is key to staying alive on this awful planet.

How heroes work in this game isn’t just with their combat skills, as the lower tier heroes are useful for upgrading the higher tier heroes. Each hero has multiple skills and a single ultimate, though all the smaller skills are used automatically through the fight whether or not you set them to manual controls. When building your individual Heroes and their team, have a plan in mind!

Hero Rarities

Jokes about crab evolution aside, Omar really is a fairly reliable choice.

We’ll be perfectly honest, there is no such thing as “Waifu over Meta” in this game, and it is heavily enforced by how character tiers are designed to be used. And, as a personal sore point for our sentimental old writer, the agonizing lack of a Lock Hero button for collectors. While there are up to 6 tiers, you can only draw 3 tiers of heroes: Purple Elites, Blue Rares, and Green Commons.

The rarities work similarly to how Figure Fantasy handles them minus the part where mid-tier units are long-term viable choices there: You can fuse Rares together into Elites, which then allow you to fuse them with real Elites to turn those into Epics  (Gold, which you can’t get by dumping diamonds into the Recruitment gacha) or better. Commons have it even worse, being sold off for Dismissal coins to get more Rares to power up Elites.

You will also notice how short-term lower-tier units in this game are meant to be by taking a peek at the Gallery: All units start off with just their Ultimate and one auto-firing Common skill, but Elites get a maximum of 4 skills, Rares get 3 skills, and Commons only get 2 skills tops.

That being said, don’t be afraid to use Rares to fill a slot for a job you need early on: The game allows you to reset a Hero, gaining back everything you used to level them up, though not any dupes you used to evolve them. If you need a healer badly and the game just doesn’t want to hand you any Elite ones, use a Rare one first then give all their stuff to any Elite healers you find later. Commons on the other hand are a hopeless cause.

Team Building

Who to pick, who to pick…

When making a team, it is usually good practice to have a varied roster of damage dealers, front units, and support or healer units, with the type of damage dealer you use being dependent on the task at hand. Speaking of damage dealers, Assassins and Rangers tend to work well on singular targets, while Energy heroes tend to be a mixed bag: Some do good single-target burst damage, while some have AOE attacks.

Make sure also to try and get the team to help each other out: Check the skills of your heroes to see what stat they use to deal damage, and have support or any other sort of buffers raise those stats accordingly. The game also has a useful Strategy button on the upper left of the Hero’s screen, which gives you armor and teammate recommendations.

Skills and Gear

Know the ins and outs of your team.

Each Hero has 2-4 skills depending on their initial Rarity, with Commons having a maximum of 2 skills, Rares with 3, and Elites with 4 max skills. Usually, one of them is their Ultimate skill, while they may have 2 types of common skill (basically special attacks they automatically do in the middle of their basic strikes) and a passive.

Reading their skills allows you to more easily prioritize their equipment builds and who to pair with them: the ATK stat doesn’t always determine how hard their skills hit, with characters such as Oisa’s ultimate and common skills getting their damage from her DEF stat instead.

While you may want to build your heroes’ equipment in a unique way as to fit a task you have in mind, the game is nice enough to point out items that might be a common-sense choice for a hero: Any equipment piece that fits a hero’s skill or class gets a Thumbs Up icon when equipped. This usually applies to Epic (IE, shiny Gold) tier or better equipment since that’s when gear starts to branch out into different types.

[Why this game will be your favorite in 2023]

Collect Unique Heroes

Explore a world with 3 factions and over 100 heroes, including cyborg Terran angels, robotic soldiers, animal-inspired creatures, and mythological gods, all brought to life on your screen.

Strategic Gameplay

Employ top-notch strategies to lead your squad in battle. Seize complete control of the battlefield to assert your dominance.

Fantasy Sci-fi World

Whether you prefer AFK or hardcore gameplay, immerse yourself in a fully realized sci-fi universe that sets the stage for your epic journey.

Stunning Artwork

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Enjoy Idle Features

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