Zombie Waves Codex
Events

Genetic helpGenetic help

A race on gene awakening: everything the event pays out is keyed to one counter — how many awakenings you have rolled. It drives five parts of stage tasks and a top-100 board, while the battle pass levels on stamina spent instead. The event pays in the very currency it runs on: Gene Awakening Cards.

Duration: 7 days
GenesQuestsBattle passLeaderboard

One counter runs the whole event

The event tracks exactly one number: how many gene awakenings you have rolled. Stage tasks and the leaderboard both read it. Rewards come in the same currency an awakening is paid with.

Gene Awakening CardGene system →

Two 7-day phases — the same set of ladders with the count starting over.

What the event hands out for free:Gene Awakening CardGene Awakening Card

Three sources that need no draws up front, plus the gene system's own free daily awakenings on top.

Watch-an-ad pack, once a day×7
Bundle chain — rungs before the paid one×2
Free branch of the battle pass×18
Free gene-system awakenings over 7 days×21
Awakenings per run, all in48

That is 48 awakenings — short of what the very first stage task asks for (80). The 25-task ladder tops out at 2,400, so without buying in it never opens at all.

Stage tasks

Five parts of five tasks. A task clears when the awakening counter reaches its threshold; finishing a whole part pays separately.

Part 1Part reward:
80 awak.
160 awak.
240 awak.
320 awak.
400 awak.
Part 2Part reward:
480 awak.
560 awak.
640 awak.
720 awak.
800 awak.
Part 3Part reward:
880 awak.
960 awak.
1,040 awak.
1,120 awak.
1,200 awak.
Part 4Part reward:
1,320 awak.
1,440 awak.
1,560 awak.
1,680 awak.
1,800 awak.
Part 5Part reward:
1,920 awak.
2,040 awak.
2,160 awak.
2,280 awak.
2,400 awak.

Project: Full Throttle!

The one ladder here that counts stamina spent instead of awakenings.The paid branch is $9.99.

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Leaderboard, top 100

1. Rank is decided by the number of gene awakenings. 2. When the event ends, rank rewards are sent by mail. 3. For this run only, awakenings performed before the boost event opened are counted as well.

Advertised prizes:

#1
#2
#3
#4–5
#6–10
#11–20
#21–50
#51–100

Bundle chain, 38 rungs

The rungs are strictly sequential: the next one unlocks only once the previous has been claimed.

Rung 3 costs money, which locks everything behind it. Only the first 2 are free in practice, even though 29 of 38 rungs are marked free or ad. The game says so itself:«You need to claim the pre-requisite rewards first.»

1ad
2free
3$0.99
4free
5ad

Direct packs

Best rate: $0.99 for 16 cards, $0.06 each.Worst: $99.99 for 250, $0.40 each — the more you spend at once, the worse the rate.

ad1/day
Diamonds5001/day
$0.991/day
$2.991/day
$4.992/day
$9.99×3
$19.99×5
$49.99×10
$99.99no limit