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Hello! If you are thinking of giving Gunstar Metaverse a shot, you are in the right place. It is a 2D turn-based artillery battler that incorporates play-to-earn elements and allows you to own NFT items.

How to Start?

From the game’s website, you can click on play and jump right into the game from your browser. When you create a game account, the game will send an email to verify your account and request you to link Metamask wallet.

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First Steps

After creating an account, you will find yourself at the main menu, where you can jump right into the campaign mode. I suggest you try the training area first to learn the basics of gameplay, aiming can be tricky at first. The first level is set on Pearl Island. This island is a good indicator of what’s to come.

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Core Gameplay

If you are not familiar with 2D artillery battlers that are turn-based, you will get quickly accustomed to them. You, the other players, and the AI monsters are placed in a 2D arena for each battle, and you take turns firing at each other. You need to equip a pet before entering a battle.

Each pet has three unique skills; one ultimate skill and two standard skills.

Each skill has a damage range and a delay time. The higher the damage, the higher the skill delay will be. Ultimate skills have the most skill delay, and they can make you lose turns. Damage and delay numbers are randomized within their range.

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You can move, aim, and perform an action on your turn and strategize while waiting for the others. The terrain is fully destructible or not (in Raid Boss), this means you will need to take this into consideration when making decisions since every game will have different circumstances.

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Pets are divided into rarities such as; trial, normal, rare, elite, mythic, legendary, and ascended. Rosaging you get at the start is an exception, though, it’s rarity is called trial since you get it for free. Every pet has hit points, defense, attack, critical chance, critical damage, and movement stats, as well as a level. NFT Pets require GSC token and Pet Fragment (in certain levels) to level up or Trial Pet Rosaging requires RUNE to level up, which increases their stats. Pets also have energy bars that deplete when you join a battle with them. One bar of energy recovers every four hours.

There are two new NFT Pets released soon: Fiving & Buthresing. These two new pets only can get by using Pet Merging. (You need have enough Pet Fragments)

Pet Name & Rarity	Passive Skill	Skill 1 (Normal Attack)	Skill 2 (Enhanced Normal Attack)	Skill 3 (Ultimate)
Rosaging (Trial)	-	Fires 1 golden egg.	Fires 3 golden eggs.	Fires a golden feather that summons four other feathers upon impact.
Bawaving (Elite)	Attack power is increased by 30% when below 30% health	Fires a sound wave.	Fires a sound wave that breaks into a horizontal cone after 1s, dealing damage over an area.	Fires a sound wave that breaks into a vertical cone after 1.5s, dealing three waves of damage over an area.
Sniffing (Rare)	Opponents are unable to recover their health	Fires 1 venom ball that can roll.	Fires 3 venom balls that can roll.	Fires 1 bigger venom ball that can roll and explode in a cloud of poison mist dealing poison damage.
Horiding (Rare)	Heals itself and all teammates by 10% when it kills an opponent	Fires 4 fireballs that deal extra damage to the terrain.	Fires 6 fireballs that deal extra damage to the terrain.	Fires 10 fireballs that deal extra damage to the terrain.
Pifating (Normal)	Increases the movement speed of teammates by 30%	Fires a bullet.	Fires a mini pig that runs for 1.5s in the direction of its landing and explodes upon contact with any enemy.	Fires a mini pig that runs for 1.5s in the direction of its landing, dealing damage to all enemies in the way before exploding.
Woruffing (Normal)	Explodes on death, dealing 10% of its total health as damage to all nearby pets	Fires 1 worm shot.	Fires 3 worm shots.	Fires 1 mother worm shot that splits into five smaller worm shots, dealing damage.
Radenting (Normal)	15% chance to swap turns with the opponent	Fires 1 gravity ball.	Fires two gravity balls that pull in nearby enemies before dealing damage.	Fires 1 big gravity ball that deals damage before pushing away nearby enemies.
Fidiving (Rare)	Increase chance to double the number of bullets in skills 1 and 2	Fire 1 small fish bone bullet	Fire 10 small fish bone bullets	Fires a small fish that continually damages enemies and explodes eventually.
Buthreshing (Normal)	Has chance to skip the turn of the enemy that was hit by Buthreshing	Fire an aurora beam	Fire 2 aurora beams	Fires an energy ball that summons a tornado. It damages the enemies inside its radius.

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You select up to three usable items before going into the battle. You’ll be given a selection of items for starters. You can get more items by using RUNE to buy, spinning Fortune wheel or earning them from progression in the campaign or Raid Boss.

Item	Effect
Teleport	Teleport to a location on the map.
Goddess’ Drink	Heal 30% of a pet's maximum health.
Symbol of Death	Fires your skills twice for one turn.
Villainous Elixir	Increases damage output by 30% for one turn.
Immunity	Immunity to all damage until your next turn.
Shovel	Increases terrain destruction of all skills.

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There are three ways to acquire pets; buying from other players, buying pet eggs from the marketplace, and merging pet fragments. I suggest buying two NFT pets right when you start the game and not trying to level your trial pet. With two NFT pets, you can withdraw the Available GSC Token. Trial pet is not NFT and it can only earn RUNE (which can be used to buy Raid Pass or Support Items)

When you start a battle, the first thing you should look for is the mini-map at the bottom right. It shows how the terrain is structured and where the enemies are positioned. You can strategize and position yourself accordingly.

Making sure to use your second skill and ultimate when you are in a safe spot is also crucial since these skills will make you miss one or two turns.

I suggest just using your normal attack and using your higher delay and damage skills to finish off lower health enemies.

Your character will gain experience from winning PvE battles. Each battle won will gain max 100 exp. Character level and progression are crucial to getting better pets since if you buy and equip a pet that is higher level than your character, its level will be capped and equalized to your character.

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Earnings

I bought the two cheapest NFTs from the marketplace to start the game. They were 760 GST each. I recommend buying at least one more to maximize your profits. I was able to earn an average of 200 GSC from a week’s worth of gaming. I used two pets in the campaign, played every day, and completed some daily quests. I had to use my GSC to upgrade my pets in order to progress. There is not much left after only playing for a few hours each day. If you want to break even and withdraw your excess tokens, you will need to invest more time. Also, keep in mind that it takes seven days to withdraw your earned GST tokens.

I hope you enjoyed the guide. Gunstar Metaverse is an enjoyable game for everyone who loves side-scrolling 2D turn-based combat. You should give it a shot if it’s right up your alley. Thanks for reading!

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