HI, To add to what Simon wrote.
As you found out, you earn reputation, or rep, and experience, or called exp, while playing the game. This is done by kills, finding and donating items, or thru missions. The reputation helps you buy items in the safe zone or join missions. The experience helps you level up. Once you level up to certain levels, it makes it so that you can proceed to other maps or lead missions. Quests are for the most part map specific. So if you get a quest to find a flashlight while on map 1, the quest item will be on map 1. there is 2 exceptions to this. There are 2 quest items you can get from map 3 that take you across multiple maps. For now I won't go into those. Missions are the best way to level up. It costs so much rep to join a mission. Be sure to practice the warehouse maps on custom maps so that you know the layout of them before joining. Also be sure to tell any mission you join that you are new and that you will try your best. Otherwise they will consider you a truck sitter and kick you off of the missions. The purpose of the missions is to enter a warehouse and collect crates that spawn randomly over the map. Pick those up and drop off at your trailer to earn rep. Once all the crates are collected and dropped, you then return back to the safe zone you started from and you earn a bunch of rep and exp. As for chat. many use team talk, skype, or other other chat clients such as those. Especially to coordinate missions. much easier to talk then to text. And yes, the in game chat works well. Any future questions, just write here. You can also write me off list or look me up in the game. Good luck. And remember that dying is only half the battle. Shermanator [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Helms" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:39 AM Thanks for the help! That was another question I had. How do you progress in the game? Do you do quests to gain levels to get better weapons? If so, how do you access quests, level info, etc? Also, does swamp use teamtalk, ventrillow, etc, or is communication mostly ingame? Thanks again for the help, Nick --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
