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Kingmoon guide: controls, nitro, flags, Guardians and bosses

Kingmoon guide with keyboard and touch controls, nitro, how to plant flags, mission types, Guardians, the 5 bosses and the Hangar. Checked in the game.

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This guide gathers what you can check inside Kingmoon itself: keys, ship numbers, the rules for each mission type and how to defeat each boss.

The game is simple to understand. You fly the ship, land to plant the flag in a sector and defend what you conquered. What changes from one planet to the next is the mission rules and what shows up along the way.

Controls: keyboard, mouse, touch and gamepad

On a computer, the keyboard flies and the mouse only aims. There is no auto-aim: you point the crosshair where you want to hit.

Every key can be rebound in Settings, on the Controls tab.

• W accelerates (hold) and S or C brake. A and D turn the ship. R and V raise and lower the nose.
• The mouse aims. Left click or J fires.
• Shift turns on the nitro. In space, the same Shift triggers the warp.
• Space with a direction performs a maneuver: with A or D it is a barrel roll, with S a half-turn and with W a quick dash.
• E lands, takes off and returns you to the ship. Holding F plants the flag.
• 1, 2 and 3 (or the mouse wheel) switch weapons. Q calls the mech. M opens the planet map. P or Esc pauses.
• On foot: WASD walks, Space jumps, Shift runs and the right mouse button aims close up.
• On phone, in landscape: floating left stick to fly or walk, right stick to aim, and buttons to fire, maneuver, nitro, accelerate, land, plant, jump and open the map.
• With a gamepad: A maneuvers or jumps, B interacts, X plants, Y opens the map, RT fires and L3 turns on the nitro.

The ship: speed, nitro and hull

Cruising speed is 70. Holding W, the ship reaches 112, and with the nitro, 170. In space, the ship moves faster and the warp goes past 500.

The nitro has a tank of 100 and burns 25 per second, so it lasts about 4 seconds in a row. It does not recharge over time.

• Low pass: flying fast less than 10 above the ground recharges the nitro.
• Planting a flag gives back 30 nitro. Dodging at the right moment, passing through a ring on the Ring Route and saving a flag also recharge it.
• Some enemies drop nitro items.
• The hull has 100 health and regenerates after 5 seconds without damage. Hitting rocks and buildings at a speed of 70 costs about 27, and at 112, about 43.
• The ship is never destroyed: with the hull at zero it is disabled for 6 seconds and comes back with 45 health.
• To land, press E below 170 altitude and outside of space.

Flags and sectors

Each planet is divided into 24 sectors. A conquest mission asks for a number of sectors or a percentage of the planet, such as 60%.

Planting takes 3 seconds of holding F and only works with no defenders within a radius of 42. An enemy sector requires you to tear down its flag first.

• Sector with an aerial Guardian: planting is blocked until you defeat it and the guide light turns on.
• A flag has 100 health and regenerates after 6 seconds without being attacked.
• The Threat Director warns of each attack 5 seconds ahead. The siege time is always at least 1.3 times the time it would take you on nitro, and never less than 35 seconds.
• The alert shows the sector name, the clock and an arrow at the edge of the screen with the distance and the arrival time on nitro.

Mission types

There are 25 missions, 4 planets and 1 boss per system. Each type changes what the mission asks. Stars reward finishing, not losing a flag (or, against a boss, not getting knocked out) and finishing under the mission's time.

Aerial Guardians and fighters

Every enemy sector has an aerial Guardian, which appears after the enemy flag falls. There is a 5-second alarm, a dogfight and, when it goes down, a guide light shows where to plant.

Besides the Guardians, squadrons of 2 to 4 fighters attack: robots fly in a V and aliens in a swarm. The elites launch a slow missile that a maneuver can dodge.

• Ace: fast and dodges shots. Stay on its tail.
• Bomber: only hits you if you pass underneath. Fight from the sides.
• Carrier: has 2 bays, and hitting them deals 1.6 times the damage. It releases drones.
• Gunner: heavy fire. Circle close to it.
• Phantom: vanishes from the radar. Search the sky.
• Swarm: 6 bodies sharing one health bar.
• Shield: protected from the front. Attack from behind.
• Ram: shows a red line before charging. A maneuver dodges it, and afterward it is vulnerable.

The 5 bosses

Each system ends with a boss that has 4 phases alternating between ship and on foot. Some parts can only be hit by the ship, others only by the hero's rifle.

Hangar: heroes, ships and weapons

Crystals from missions buy heroes, ships and weapons, and each one levels up to level 3. The first of each group comes unlocked.

Ship, mech and garrison upgrades

The ship has 6 parts with 5 levels each: hull, engine, wings, cannon, missiles and shield. Upgrades change its look, and the paint jobs come from the badges you earn.

The mech only charges by taking down enemies, never over time. Each level lasts longer: 15, 18 and 21 seconds.

• Garrison: each flag has 3 slots. Shield, turret and drone cost Cores and get stronger with each level.
• Surrender: when almost the whole enemy garrison falls, the survivors surrender. Hold F near them to recruit them, for free.
• Vault: each flag collects 1 Core every 25 seconds, up to 12. Fly low, through the ring above it, to collect.
• Cards: at 25%, 50% and 75% of the mission, the game offers 3 cards and you keep one until the end of the run.
• Daily chest: 30 to 150 crystals, with a bonus on the seventh day in a row.

Frequently asked questions

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