The fancy guns and needed upgrades in Dead Trigger are expensive, and plowing through missions won’t earn you the cash needed to afford the good stuff. Don’t want to run around with a Colt 1911 for all the missions? Want to use something with more stopping power than the Scorpion? Follow this guide:
Use The Scorpion: The Scorpion is not the best weapon in the game, but it’s all you have to use before you have a more cash than you can stuff inside a pillow case. Make sure you have bandages. Pick a mission where you have to find boxes, and then bring them back to a waypoint. Find all the boxes, but don’t bring back the final box yet.
Now kill zombies for as long as possible. Kill them via head shots because for each head shot you earn ten bucks. With luck, you will blow off a couple of limbs as an added bonus, earning five dollars per limb. Hopefully the odd zombie drops a stack of cash. Via this method, you can earn a thousand dollars in a couple minutes.
Don’t worry about ammunition. Zombies drop plenty of ammunition. If you find yourself low on bullets, conserve ammunition by tapping the fire button instead of spraying.
Another tip: hang out by the waypoint. This way, if you find yourself out of bandages and near death, you can finish the mission. Completing missions also gives you money, thus there is no point in dying.
Use The Shotgun: Once you have put together five grand with the Scorpion, purchase the shot gun (RMGT 870). With the shotgun, You can earn money like Walter White. Same as with the Scorpion, pick a mission that has you finding boxes and bringing them back to a waypoint. Before finishing the mission, Camp by the waypoint and turn zombies into ravioli with your boom stick.
The shotgun makes it easy to decapitate zombies, severe their limbs, and blow them up. within ten minutes you could earn 1.5 k. The AK47 doesn’t seem so far away now, does it?
Look For These Cases: Randomly placed in some missions are these cases, which when found give you hundreds of dollars. They will only appear once per mission, so you can’t exit out of a mission to respawn cases. Always look for them to increase your cash flow.
I hope these tips help you earn more than enough money to buy the high level weapons and upgrades without having to spend real cash. Check out my review of Dead Trigger here.
[...] Should You Upgrade Scorpion Or Buy Uzi? An upgraded Scorpion costs the same as an Uzi, and will give you the same stats, plus better damage. (180 vs 150). More damage is always good as you are more likely to blow zombies into little pieces or take an arm off before killing them. Remember, these give you extra cash during missions. You can check out my how to earn cash guide. [...]
I read both of your guides on Dead Trigger and honestly.. they suck. It’s cool you like to share your view on the game, but get your facts straight pls. Some things don’t make sense. With a scorpion you make $1000 in a couple of minutes and with the shotgun $1500 in 10 minutes? Then the scorpion would actually be better..
Here is some real advice for the non paying players on iOS:
- Upgrading weapons is a smart thing to do, when you plan to use those weapons for a long time. So plan ahead. Buy the scorpion, but don’t upgrade it. Instead put your money in upgrading the AK47 and buy the character improvements (without gold).
- The briefcases with gold actually DO respawn, when you die before finishing the mission. I did it on several occasions and it’s by far the easiest way to earn big bucks. You should really try this, cause it offers an extra advantage. Since you’re gaining cash that’s not directly related to killing, your XP stays lower.
- “But I thought leveling is a good thing?” I’m not saying it isn’t, cause clearly you’ll need higher ranks to unlock better stuff. But all you cheapcakes out there (like me) will soon discover unlocking isn’t the problem. The problem is cash. Since your rank also seems to influence certain difficulty aspects, it’s advisable to keep it balanced.
- Don’t use expensive items when there isn’t an absolute must to do so. It’s pointless to use several bandages or medikits, when you only get a couple hundred dollars. Otherwise your cash will grow very slowly. Save up the cool bonus rewards for the later missions to come.
- Get good at avoiding damage. Don’t stand with your back to the wall, but have some room behind you. Then just before a zombie is gonna smack you, run backwards. He will miss, giving you time to reload and finish him. Sometimes it’s wise to run around a group of zombies and make them all come from the same direction.
- Last but not least: control your ammo!! For a long time you will only have two weapons. First use your best weapon, untill it’s (almost) empty. Switch to the other weapon when you get a break. From this point all ammo the zombies will drop is for your best weapon, cause they only drop ammo for the weapon that you’re not using at this moment. So in no time your best weapon will be refilled again and you can switch back. Of course now the dropped ammo will be for your weaker weapon again. But at least you get the most time shooting with your best weapon this way. It’s no rocket science.
Good luck
Everything the above poster says is correct, however, one thing that I must add is, making big money in the shortest space of time is arena, arena, arena. get good at popping heads and the money simply rolls in.
He is very right. When I wrote that guide, there wasn’t an arena
one more thing.. i just need and equip a single powerful weapon only..so i dont need to change weapon..and zombie keep giving me ammo when my ammo near deplete.