Gunward guide: wall breaker tips and lane strategy

Gunward is an endless lane shooter. Your rig fires on its own; your only decision is which lane to be in. This guide explains how walls, gates and Wardens work, and how to read the road well enough to go deep.

Your rig drives down one of five lanes and fires automatically at whatever is in front of it. Tap a lane dot, or drag, to steer. Five rows of the road are always in view.

Each wall shows the seconds of your fire it needs; each row shows the seconds until it reaches you. Clear the wall before its row arrives and you drive through. Arrive while it still stands and the run ends, unless a Shield takes the hit. Prefer raw numbers? Me → Wall numbers switches to hit points.

• 01
  Read three rows ahead.Pick a lane you can finish now and still leave yourself a route through the next two rows. The rig crosses lanes at a fixed speed, so a far lane chosen late may be out of reach.
• 02
  Take gates early.Every gate adds at least +2 damage a second, and that bonus lasts the whole run. Gates are cheapest in the first rows, before wall health has grown. Skipping them early leaves you short later.
• 03
  Never race an armoured wall.If pink armour sits in your lane, move. Armour is built to be steered around, not broken, so decide early and steer while there is room.
• 04
  Give the next wall a head start.After your wall breaks, your fire keeps going and lands on the next row's wall at a quarter strength, in whatever lane you are in. If the lane you need next is already open on the current row, slide over early and start wearing its next wall down.
• 05
  Earn Breach with clean rows.In endless runs, every 12 clean rows in a row, where the wall falls with time to spare, earns a Breach charge. You can hold one. Spend it on a wall you misjudged instead of losing the run.
• 06
  Plan for the first Warden.It reaches you about twenty seconds into Endless. Decide early whether to take the gate beside it or line up for the larger Warden bonus. Later fortresses arrive every 25 rows.

Your gun changes as your damage grows. The look is purely cosmetic; the damage number is what matters.

Armory items are bought with scrap. A run takes at most one of each, however many you hold.

The ranked Daily is one run a day on one road, with the base rig and no items, for every player. Workshop upgrades and Armory stock do not come along, so the board is decided by reading the road. The server replays your run with the game's own engine before it counts. Starting the Daily claims your attempt online, so it needs a connection.

The top three each day win scrap and a trophy. A weekly league runs Monday to Sunday, UTC, with tiers from Bronze, Silver and Gold based on your ranked Daily distances. Play three Dailies in a week to qualify for its reward.

Free includes the ranked Daily every day and five endless runs a day, the full road, every gate, the Workshop, the Volume Foundry program and your last 10 runs. There are no ads, no lives or energy, and no revives sold at the moment you lose.

Gunward Pro removes the daily run cap and adds the Loaded Daily, a second Daily on its own road and board where your Workshop upgrades and up to one of each Armory item except Scout come along. It also adds the Arsenal and Salvage Foundry programs, auto-collect, two more Armory stock of each item, three Pro rig finishes and a 25-run history. Choose the one-time Gunward Full Game Unlock or a StackForge Play Pass, which covers Pro across StackForge games. Pro never touches the ranked Daily.