ConnecTank – Tips and Tricks

Useful Tips and Tricks

Here’s a list of tips and tricks:

• The Pirate Hat and Fiery Collector M.O.D.s. grant you an additional tank part after defeating enemy tanks. Even though I suggest funding them as soon as they appear in the GoTankMe hub so that they can drop during missions, be wise and think twice before equipping them because they also have negative effects to deal with. The Mic Dropper tank has the Pirate Hat equipped by default but its max HPs is low, so you can quickly lose if an enemy exploits your tank weaknesses: again, wisdom is the key.
  
• There’s a little group of tanks that requires completing their dedicated mission first, before starting to show up randomly. These missions are usually assigned by a secondary character of the game, here are some:
  • the Recovering The Satellites mission from Finneas Fat Cat unlocks the Neil Strongarm tank;
  • the Ghost Hunters mission from Himmelbraun the Physicist unlocks the Panzergeist tank;
  • the El Desperado mission from Log Dog unlocks the El Desperado tank;
  • the Creepy Clowns Harsh The Vibe mission from Hootie and the Blowfish unlocks the Giggles tank.
  Even after completing their missions, the chances of finding such tanks are pretty small, so I strongly suggest prioritizing (that is, fighting) them whenever you find one. Anyway, you can always fund Bonnie Rae Quinn and BRQ-1 in the GoTankMe hub after each mission, to get a new tank part (retrieved parts will also be for tanks yet to encounter, by the way).
  
• Sometimes the desired mission doesn’t appear in the list of the available gigs, despite its requirements being fulfilled. In such cases, just close the game and start it again to “shuffle” the list of gigs. It usually works (based on my experience), but if the mission selection doesn’t change at all… complete one of the available missions (preferably without breaking the requirements) then try again.
  
• When you bump into character shops during missions, take a look at the M.O.D.s. on sale (if they have any): the Piggy Bank M.O.D. grants you 100 coins and it’s basically free money (it costs less than that); the same goes for the Overtime Payment M.O.D. which grants you 250 coins, but take the 50-damage side effect into account.

Now, one last tip about game progression and how to handle it better. The three campaigns of the game are not three separate things, they always unfold together through both the missions and the market share system. Since each mission tends to support only one faction at the expense of the others, it’s pretty much impossible to complete all the campaigns simultaneously, quite the opposite you’ll end up with the same old missions in the list of available gigs, over and over again.

I find it smarter to choose one faction and “stick” with it till the end of the related campaign, by avoiding missions that decrease its market share too much. While doing so, it’s also a good thing to prioritize missions assigned by the supporting characters of the current faction (ex. Syd The Skulpter for Lord Longneck), and reserve missions assigned by the opposing characters (ex. Danny and Dana Donovan for Lord Longneck) for later.

This way you can use the former to progress through each campaign and the latter to lower the market share when you’re done with it, also making missions rotate more often.