Trick Shot

01. Event Overview

Trick Shot looks like a skill event, but it is an economy event. A failed attempt costs nothing, a retry is instant, and the smallest win pays the full stage reward. The one thing you cannot retry is the Energy Drink you spent to open a stage — and the price of a stage goes up 35× from the first stage to the last.

Brooke stands in a fixed spot in each stage with 5 bullets. You hold to aim, slide to set the direction and release to fire. Bullets ricochet off walls. Kill every enemy before you run out of ammo and you win. The event runs for 3 days and needs a Chief's Office at Lvl 7 or higher.

Tab	What it does	Paid with
Normal Stages	5 chapters of 16 stages (1-1 to 5-16), opened in order	Energy Drinks
Advanced Stages	EX-1 to EX-10, opened in any order after you win 2-1	Entry Permits
Game Changer	21-level pass that levels up as you spend Energy Drinks	Free track + 2 paid tiers
Clue Compendium	30-clue collection; one clue drops on each first clear	Clue Fragments
Support Pack	Paid packs, shown one at a time	Cash

02. Stage Costs

Chapters 1–2 and the first half of Chapter 3 are cheap; everything after 3-8 is a wall. Stages 1-1 to 3-8 cost 40 Energy Drinks at the start and rise by 4 per stage, to 196. At 3-9 the price jumps to 220 and then rises by 30 per stage, to 1,390 at 5-16. The first 40 stages cost 4,720 Energy Drinks in total. The last 40 cost 32,200 — 87% of the 36,920 needed to open every Normal stage.

The rewards do not keep up. Tactical Kits per stage stop at 1,400 from Chapter 4 on, so the Kits you get for each Energy Drink fall from about 5 in Chapters 1–3 to about 1 at the end of Chapter 5. You pay only once per stage: the cost unlocks the stage, and every attempt after that is free.

How Far A Budget Goes

The table below matches Energy Drink budgets to the last Normal stage you can open. The budgets are estimates (see section 06): they assume the stated 20 Energy Drinks every 30 minutes, no regen cap, and a full 3 days.

The Action Supply Box in the paid tiers says it gives 20 Energy Drinks, but its odds window shows 10. Both rows are shown until the first run settles it.

03. Stars and Retries

Stars do not change your rewards. Every stage pays one fixed reward on its first win, and a 1-star win pays it all. Stars feed the Stage Ranking (the ranking column is labeled "Stars"), but the game files do not include any ranking rewards. Until the first run shows that the ranking pays, 3-starring is for pride and practice only.

Stars count only the bullets you have left when the stage ends. Each stage gives you 5 bullets.

• ▸A loss costs nothing. Retry, reset and exit are all free. Only items you fired are gone.
• ▸Replays are free forever. Any stage you opened can be played again with no Energy Drinks, won or not.
• ▸The glowing bullets are the 3-star line. The ammo bar lights up the bullets you must keep.
• ▸A shot in the air still counts. The stage waits for every bullet to land before it calls a loss, so your last bullet can still win.
• ▸Replaying a won stage pays nothing. The game says so on the result screen.

Police Tape Skips

One Police Tape skips the Normal stage you are stuck on. You get no reward, no star and no clue, but the next stage becomes available to open. The skipped stage stays playable, so you can come back later. You cannot skip Advanced stages or 5-16.

04. Shooting Mechanics

The aim line lies by leaving things out. It is a straight line of fixed length that passes through walls and never shows a bounce. Your bullet does not stop where the line crosses a wall — it ricochets, and you have to plan every ricochet yourself.

Bullets also push loose objects: free boxes, balls and walls hung on a nail. In the later chapters some of these objects can crush an enemy, and an enemy that falls about four of its own heights dies from the landing. You are never in danger yourself, and no current stage has hostages to protect.

You can have more than one bullet in the air (there is a half-second between shots). The simulation runs on your frame rate, so on stages with loose objects the same shot can play out a little differently. If a physics shot nearly works, fire it again before you change the angle.

05. Advanced Stages

Advanced stages open in any order — so open EX-6 to EX-10 first. Each one costs a single Entry Permit, and the game does not make you go in order. The last five pay three times the Diamonds and twice the hero fragments of the first five, for the same permit.

The Advanced area opens after you win Normal stage 2-1 (the 17th stage, 1,224 Energy Drinks in total). Advanced stages use the same 5 bullets and the same star rules. They give no Support Progress, but they do drop a clue on the first clear.

Entry Permit Sources

• ▸Daily task: 1 per day for spending 600 Energy Drinks on stage unlocks that day.
• ▸Game Changer pass: 1 on the free track, 1 on Tactical Support, 1 on Elite Support.
• ▸Support Pack: listed as a source; the pack contents are not in the game files.

06. Energy Drinks

Spend at least 600 Energy Drinks every day of the event. The top daily task pays an Entry Permit for 600 spent that day, and it resets at 00:00 Server Time. If you save your Energy Drinks for one big day, you get one permit instead of three — and at EX-6 and above, each missed permit is 3,000 Diamonds. The game files also do not show a regen cap, so a full stock can stop refilling without warning.

Source	Amount	3-day total (est.)
Regen	20 every 30 min (+1 per Tactical Vest level)	2,880 – 4,320
Daily login task	200 + 1 Police Tape per day	600
Game Changer free track	Pass Lvl 4, 8, 12, 16, 20	1,140
Starting stock	Possibly 800 (unconfirmed)	0 – 800
Action Supply Box	20 or 10 each; paid pass tiers only	—

The 30-minute interval comes from the item text. Regen totals assume no cap and the full 72 hours.

Daily Tasks

Five of the six daily tasks count Energy Drinks spent on stage unlocks that day: 40, 100, 200, 400 and 600. One button claims every finished task.

07. Game Changer Pass

The free track gives back 63% of your first 1,805 Energy Drinks. The pass says you earn 2 points for each Energy Drink you spend. At that rate, the five Energy Drink rewards on the free track (1,140 in total) arrive by pass Lvl 20, which is 1,805 Energy Drinks spent. Claim each one the moment it unlocks — it goes straight into the next stage.

The 2-points rate is from the pass description. The "Energy spent" column is an estimate until the first run confirms it.

After Lvl 21, every extra 500 points pays a bonus supply of 100 Diamonds and a 1-Hr Universal Speedup, with no limit. A free player who spends about 4,600 Energy Drinks earns about 9,200 points — roughly 10 bonus supplies, or 1,000 Diamonds.

08. Tactical Equipment

Equipment	Effect per level	At Lvl 10
Tactical Vest	+5% Energy Drink regen (+1 per tick)	30 per tick
Walkie-Talkie	+5% Support Progress from stage rewards	+50%
Tactical Flashlight	+2 Clue Fragments when a stage drops a clue	+20

The Vest effect is confirmed in the game code. The Walkie-Talkie and Flashlight effects come from their descriptions only.

Support Progress

Every first clear of a Normal stage adds 100 Support Progress (Advanced stages add none). That is 8,000 for all 80 stages, but the milestones go up to 11,300. Without the Walkie-Talkie, the last nine milestones cannot be reached. Most milestones pay stage items; the ones worth planning for are below. Tap any ready box to claim every ready milestone at once.

Estimate: if the Walkie-Talkie adds its full percentage to each clear, 44 clears at +50% reach 6,600 and the Legendary Recruitments. The bonus only counts on clears made after the upgrade.

09. Clue Compendium

The Clue Compendium is the event's collection tab. You fill a theme book with clues, and each clue adds stars toward milestone rewards. It has two tabs: Theme Overview shows the book and the milestones, and Clue Search spends 10 Clue Fragments for one random clue or item.

The Compendium is worth 9,450 Diamonds, but the top milestone needs almost every clue. The first theme, Street Security, has 30 clues worth 65 stars in total. The last milestone asks for 60 of those 65 stars, so you can miss at most one 5-star clue. Clues give no stat bonuses; they are a reward track only.

One random clue drops the first time you clear any stage, Normal or Advanced. Each clue also pays 10 (1-star) to 50 (5-star) Diamonds, which you claim by opening the clue's card in the theme book. Collect all 30 for the theme reward: 5 Legendary Universal Hero Fragments and 3,000 Diamonds.

The 30 Clues

Clue Search

One search costs 10 Clue Fragments. A duplicate clue turns into fragments based on its stars (the game data suggests 3 for a 1-star clue up to 15 for a 5-star clue, unconfirmed). That is far short of one search per duplicate, so the Tactical Flashlight — up to +20 fragments per stage clue — is the only large fragment source a free player has.

These are the odds the game shows. No pity counter appears anywhere in the game data.

10. Common Mistakes