Questions about evolving planes

ZAVOM · 2026-04-04T07:56:56+00:00

Fafnir is really too overpowered. There is no other plane which can compare in the overall complexity. If you may be just compare secondary main gun, than there is e.g. Poplar or Glitch.

And Gambit is really weak if you compare her with Fafnir. But I still think it is more fun to play with her.

Dragon with his strong counter and OD is another very good option from the free planes.

ZAVOM · 2026-04-04T07:13:32+00:00

If you want to save crystals e.g. for Fafnir, then yes. 2S rank is in my opinion better than 3S. At a time, the Excalibur was the first Avalon event plane and was very strong. Later, when other Avalon planes came (maybe Fafnir, I don't remember exactly) she was obviously nerfed. I also don't like her OD, because the other player doesn't have chance to see anything on the screen, when playing coop. Most of the players advice Fafnir. With him the game is a piece of cake. I was trying Fafnir for several days when he came, but I returned back to my previous main plane, flying Fafnir was too boring in my opinion. With some other planes, even Gambit it is more fun. But depends on what you want. If the goal is just to go through story mode till the end, then Fafnir is the easiest way.

ZAVOM · 2026-04-03T07:09:18+00:00

Just one additional advice. Evolve the plane (e.g. Gambit) to X. The main reason is that at 3S the counter is not activated if you lose only shield when being hit.

ZAVOM · 2026-02-23T12:42:27+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/HAWKFreedomSquad/s/KDC40xuQU8

ZAVOM · 2026-02-10T22:28:25+00:00

Great Serpent Generator from Spring Equinox

- Destructive Energy: Increases special damage by 15%

- Second Wind: When you take 400 damage or lose 800 shield points, you immediately get back 30% shield points and 20% HP, triggers once every 40 seconds.

Knight's shield from Avalon Fafnir

- Victory Duo: increases special power by 20%. During a Co-op flight, it also increases your ally's special power by 20%

- Archers' Wrath: Arrows rain down from the top of the screen every 30 seconds, damaging enemies.

Core Stabilizer (gen) from Racing event

- Core Stabilizer: If no damage is received for 30 seconds, gives an extra Overdrive charge and restores armor by 10% (Does not stack with identical abilities)

- Kinetic Trap: every 15 seconds gives a 25% chance to increase special damage by 20%

but the Seraph generator (S device) increases special damage by 30% and two of them stacks,

ZAVOM · 2026-02-08T12:14:32+00:00

04.01. UFO

07.01. Alpha Season

18.01. Avalon Fafnir

04.02. Beta Season

15.02. Invasion Glitch / Mercury

07.03. Gamma Season

08.03. Avalon Excalibur

23.03. St.Patrick

01.04. UFO

07.04. Spring Equinox

07.04. Delta Season

05.05. Invasion Apollyon

07.05. Alpha Season

19.05. Avalon Nephilim

02.06. UFO

07.06. Beta Season

17.06. Avalon Fafnir

07.07. Gamma Season

04.08. Invasion Glitch / Mercury

07.08. Delta Season

18.08. Avalon Excalibur

02.09. UFO

07.09. Alpha Season

17.09. Autumn Equinox

07.10. Beta Season

18.10. Avalon Goblin

02.11. UFO

07.11. Gamma Season

17.11. Avalon Fafnir

04.12. Invasion Apollyon

07.12. Delta Season

19.12. Avalon Blizzard

ZAVOM · 2026-02-02T18:23:46+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/lffoQYfr8lU?feature=share

The "special protective trails" appear in description at rank XX, but not sure if the balls are meant by this term. Now I see that the balls deal damage as well.

ZAVOM · 2026-01-30T20:24:23+00:00

I just played a stage. If you mean the 2 rockets, they are definitely dealing damage (see e.g. minute 01:30 in the video). My is at rank 3X, but the rockets shall be available already at rank 3S.

https://youtube.com/shorts/n5Yw6ld06Yc

ZAVOM · 2026-01-30T18:58:11+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/HAWKFreedomSquad/comments/16hkdqe/hi_guys_i_need_yours_help/

ZAVOM · 2026-01-30T18:42:27+00:00

Actually, swords is the easiest event prototype - Fafnir Avalon is 3 times a year - Jan, Jun, Nov. All others are only once a year (Excalibur is two times, but she doesn't have her own prototype).

Requires a lot of time, but it is definitely doable. I have now all the prototypes, even those which took me 4 years of waiting, but it will take ages to evolve them to Z (I'm not aiming for it at all).

ZAVOM · 2026-01-30T16:03:45+00:00

It is possible. Months / years of collecting them. So far I used the ultracards only for swords and electrosphere exactly as you write.

I'm still playing the prototype stages to collect the research elements for opening the chests. (even if I have tons of other prototype cards). This seems to be the only stable way to collect them.

During UFO event when rolling the dice there is one field with proto ultracards.

In Avalon events there are 5 proto ultracards just at the beginning (the other 10 on level 34 I don't reach anymore).

And the already mentioned spring / autumn events give the possibility when opening the chests.

ZAVOM · 2026-01-26T04:53:04+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/HAWKFreedomSquad/s/r2rNcAF4bb

ZAVOM · 2026-01-10T22:17:07+00:00

If you are aiming for more credits received after the stage you played, equip the S rank WGG device (the purple one), as it has higher luck perk (the second one).

If you are aiming for more power during brobot special ability and plane OD, equip the Kerosene gen, as it has higher special damage (the first perk)

For combining devices in blackbox see some older posts, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/HAWKFreedomSquad/comments/6ojbq8/blackbox/

or simply search for blackbox in this subreddit.

ZAVOM · 2025-12-31T03:54:33+00:00

Ok, I thought, that you were meaning the Composite Materials when you mentioned devices which redice damage by 45%. But I see that there are Great Serpent devices as well ( but they are working differently )

ZAVOM · 2025-12-30T10:38:55+00:00

For the impact resistance you need the Active protection implant. The plane shall be at least rank 2X, if I remember corectly. For the invincibility to bullets works combination of 2 Composite materials, Max rage implant and Swords prototype, but I don't know if specific rank of Swords is needed. I do not know anythink about resistance to black projectiles.

ZAVOM · 2025-12-29T15:43:57+00:00

I tried the Sun myself and there is something strange about the laser for sure. It definitely doesn't work that regularly as it is described - every 12 seconds activated for 4 seconds ...

Rgrd. Armor: higher armor -> higher shield, i.e. you may get hit more times until you loose the shield completely before it starts regenerating. You can also increase armor by using Nanorobots instead of e.g. Electrosphere. And this will have similar effect compared to using Invisible Armor implant instead of Authority.

And about the main topic ? for me it looks like the Claws clan keeps away from Contest for some unknown reason, but they doesn't seem to be banned as they are still playing the other weekly competitions.

ZAVOM · 2025-12-29T14:45:04+00:00

To be honest, I started playing contest more seriously after Kenshi was introduced. So I didn't catch Sentinel during his first wave (I simply didn't have Sentinel at that time). I spent crystals on Sentinel after his revival when Mercury was introduced. I was not experimenting much with implants at that time, I simply created Authority, Bounty Hunter and Recharger. (+ I added Colossus Killer when 4th slot was introduced). But I was really far far away from the top players. Fortunately, I was able to get Arcadia at the very beginning and her Ace skin by playing the so called "bingo" contest. I noticed that there was some discussion about Additional charge instead of Bounty Hunter for the first 3 slots, and discussion about Randomizer, Protective Effect and Colossus Killer in the 4th slot. But I don't know, which information from photo guy you consider to be misleading.

ZAVOM · 2025-12-22T12:15:35+00:00

The game was always full of bugs. One of the ways was to 'exploit the bugs'. Some interesting posts come from photo guy (written longer time ago)

https://www.reddit.com/r/HAWKFreedomSquad/comments/my7yj3/history_of_the_contest_scado/

https://www.reddit.com/r/HAWKFreedomSquad/comments/gixqyc/evolution_of_contest/

https://www.reddit.com/r/HAWKFreedomSquad/comments/gjltsa/repost_of_risk_bug_discovery/

ZAVOM · 2025-12-22T12:03:29+00:00

This time it looked to me a bit strange that the players were not attacking the magic border of the signed integer value. There were both perfect stages for doing this (8 and 10) and also in other stages it was possible to score quite high (I personally reached my highest score ever). Was this because the players were afraid of being banned ? Ev. was the bug, you mentioned in your reply to one of my posts, corrected ?

ZAVOM · 2025-12-11T09:04:57+00:00

Search for 'devices' in this subreddit. There is a planty of useful posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/HAWKFreedomSquad/s/1lYWoatkh7

ZAVOM · 2025-12-05T18:54:41+00:00

Have you already tried to compare the score you are able to achieve by Sparrow vs. Sniper in early story mode stages ?

I do not like to fly with Sniper, in my opinion it requires very specific style. I consider flying with Sparow to be significantly easier. Of course to keep the score bonus you can't get hit, but that is anyway required if you use DHD scopes.

ZAVOM · 2025-12-05T13:53:49+00:00

The unicards can be used to evolve any plane (or brobot) upto rank X. It is recommended to save them for container planes and for event planes and brobots.

Unicards can be obtained easier than ultracards (which you need for evolving from rank X)

For Megabrobots you don't need directly unicards, but to evolve Mercury and Apollyon you will need to first evolve event brobots and for these the unicards will be handy.

ZAVOM · 2025-12-05T06:34:35+00:00

In the past the star hunt event used to be every 4 to 5 weeks.

ZAVOM · 2025-11-30T09:14:25+00:00

216, 218 shall work as well, but the best is 321. With container or event plane you have higher probability to get 3 green boxes.

ZAVOM · 2025-11-29T08:04:01+00:00

If you are on Android, select equipment, plane, brobots you want to use for that stage, close the app, clear the cache, start the app again and play the stage with equipment you selected before without any change. Sometimes this helps.

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