Day One Xp/Money Farming

Best current setup for progression/grinding obscene amounts of XP and Money! (Was for the first week lmao)

Overview

This method no longer functions due to nerfs to custom game xp implemented to balance the game. It was fun while it lasted boys


Since the game is still in it's first day of public access, there aren't many available strategies for grinding/progressing through the game efficiently outside of any methods you might come up with yourself. However through some testing I've come up with a very efficient strategy for farming. I found the following strategy when playing online through another player (I wish I had saved their name for credit), and made sure to test and experiment with different strategies to find the optimal setup.

Yield

This setup will result in about 5k-7k money/gold per game, and will provide roughly 1-1.5 levels of experience per round as well. Each game should only take around two minutes or so.

Edit: See modification at the bottom of the guide for a more recent method of farming that can result in triple the gain that the original strategy used. (about 14k-20k per match with multiple levels of xp)

Setup

This strategy can only be effectively used in multiplayer due to the way xp is gained. When in single player, you will only receive xp for the kills you gain yourself. But in multiplayer, xp from kills is shared across all players on the team. This strategy uses this feature and works in streamlining it as efficiently as possible.

To start, open a public multiplayer lobby. Even if you don't have any friends to hop on with you just name the lobby "Xp and money farm" and people will join. I had no problem compiling and keeping a 12 player lobby full for the few hours I farmed on launch day.

Set the game to Team Deathmatch with the win condition at 100 Kills, which will allow you to rack up the most possible earnings per game. Additionally, set the number of enemy bots (or red team bots) to 9 and the friendly bots to 0. With a full lobby of players, you will shred through the AI in about two minutes or so. You can use friendly bots when playing by yourself but each match will take much longer.

For the settings, you want to make sure all modifiers are disabled. To ensure this, find which ones are listed until they all disappear from the list. Some of these are applied automatically, which you will want to disable. For some of them, change the status of the modifier until it turns gray at (100%). If you've done this correctly the XP multiplier should be at 75% in the menu.

You'll also want to set bot difficulty to level 20. I've experimented briefly with all different levels and found level 20 to be the most effective. Anything below provides too little xp, and anything higher quickly becomes obscenely difficult and makes the farm inefficient.

Also the map doesn't really matter but if you truly want the quickest matches possible the Missile map is the best choice because of how small it is.

You should be good to go with these settings! I leveled my medic to almost max and the game has barely been out for a day.

Edit: After more experimentation setting the game mode to Domination with a win condition of 200 points is far more efficient than Team Deathmatch, especially if everyone spawn camps the bots on the left side of Missile. The only caveat is that the matches take about three times as long, but with three times the yield as a result. Matches with these settings were regularly generating anywhere from 14k-20k money and I leveled my Tank 6 times in one match.

[forest :3]

cringe

[x1m0n3i9]

or, heavily nerfed*

[x1m0n3i9]

and now it's dead, fun while it lasted </3

[jbg93]

And sometimes act dumb and don't help much and other times they help more

[jbg93]

Great game but bots are cheating

[x1m0n3i9]

bots are cracked, made me wanna die, 10/10

[skelebozo]

epic