Zenless Zone Zero is the latest gacha RPG from Hoyoverse that’s free to play. Unlike Genshin Impact, it’s not open-world, but players can explore parts of the city of New Eridu, the primary game setting. ZZZ is an RPG that places more emphasis on intense combat action and material collection for enhancing agents. In this game, you’ll need to optimize your agents for combat and fight through hordes of Ethereals to progress. Here are some Zenless Zone Zero tips to help you on the journey.
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Make the Most of Ranged Character Agents in Combat
Some of the agents in Zenless Zone Zero have ranged attacks with which you can inflict damage on enemies from a distance. Billy Kid is a ranged attack agent you’ll start with from the outset and should utilize throughout the game for optional combat commissions. It’s easier to preserve health for ranged agents like Billy because you can attack enemies without going near them when utilizing such characters. These are some of the other ranged agents to include in ZZZ combat teams:
- Asaba Huramasa
- Zhu Yuan
- Rina
- Grace Howard
Billy Kid
Keep an Eye Out For HIA Coins
Six locations in the game include numerous HIA coins for players to collect. It’s worth collecting these coins since you can exchange them for in-game resources with Sage in a Barrel. Plus, you can receive more materials and Dennies by completing Officer Mewmew’s seeker medals for collecting HIA coins in different locations. These are the locations where you can collect HIA coins:
- Sixth Street
- Brandt Street
- Lumina Square
- Ballet Twins Road
- Blazewood
- Port Elpis
One thing you must do for coin collecting in different locations is kick Sage in a Barrel to ensure they spawn. Find and speak to the Sage in a Barrel dustbin in the different locations to give it a kicking. Then, you can collect HIA coins and talk to Sage to exchange them. To collect HIA coins, you must usually speak to certain NPCs highlighted with speech bubble marks or interact with objects that include shiny coin sparkles during different times of the day.
Sage in a Barrel
Fight it Out at the HIA Club to Level Up
Leveling up Inter-Knot and your agents is crucial to progression in Zenless Zone Zero. You’ll sometimes need to reach certain Inter-Knot levels to unlock certain story commissions during the game. Fighting Etherals in the virtual combat simulations at the HIA club is a quick and easy way to accumulate Inter-Knot for leveling up when needed. Select fight simulations for basic materials and select the Investigation Specialization card to amass Inter-Knot for combat completion.
The Investigation Specialization HIA Club card
Increasing your Inter-Knot level also enables you to level up agents, which is crucial to enhancing their combat stats. However, you’ll need to amass agent promotion materials to raise character levels. You can also amass the materials for leveling up characters by completing the HIA Club combat simulations in the Agent Promotion category.
Eat Some Grub at Waterfall Soup Before Combat Commissions
General Chop’s Waterfall Soup is certainly the best dining venue on Sixth Street, where you should eat some grub before starting a story or optional combat commissions. There, you can pay to eat numerous dishes that provide variable temporary combat boosts. For example, eating Seafood Noodles for 2,500 Dennies will increase your agents’ physical damage by 30%, which is a big combat boost that’s worth the price.
General Chop’s grub
Select Characters to Exploit Recommended Attributes for Combat Commissions
One thing to take note of for combat commissions is the recommended attributes. These recommended attributes tell you which attributes enemies are weakest against for specific combat commissions. All your agents are proficient in one of the fire, electric, ice, frost, physical, and ether attributes. Select to deploy agents with whom you can inflict the recommended attribute damage for combat commission when you can choose them.
The recommended attributes for a story mission
Drink a Coffee a Day for Free Battery Charge
Coff Cafe is the place to go on Sixth Street for coffee lovers. Make sure you visit Coff Cafe because you can drink one free coffee a day there. Drinking that free coffee will give you 60 more battery charge for completing more daily activities. You’ll need some battery charge for these activities:
- Notorious hunt
- Combat simulation
- Routine cleanup
- Expert challenge
A free coffee at Coff Cafe
Redeem Codes for Extra Bonuses
Redemption codes you can redeem for in-game bonuses are temporarily released for Zenless Zone Zero with regularity. You can redeem such codes for Dennies, Polychrome, Official Investigator Logs, Polychrome, and more besides. The two redemption codes that are currently valid are ZENLESSGIFT and ZZZ16SPECIAL.
This ZZZ Wiki page shows you what redemption codes are currently valid. To redeem those codes, you must be at Inter-Knot level 5 or higher. These are the steps for redeeming codes:
- First, start your saved ZZZ game and bring up the menu.
- Select More > Redemption Code on the in-game menu to bring up a box where you can input the codes.
- Then, input the code and click Redeem.
The Redemption Code box
- You’ll also need to claim the code bonuses via mail. Select Mail and the redemption code message, which includes a Claim option.
- Alternatively, click the Claim All button to collect all your mail bonuses.
A Redemption Code reward box
ZZZ isn’t an especially tough game to play, but the Zenless Zone Zero tips above will probably make your in-game journey smoother. There are currently six chapters to complete in the game, but Hoyoverse is expanding ZZZ’s story with seasonal epilogue updates. So, there could still be plenty more in store for Zenless Zone Zero after you’ve finished those six chapters.
