Getting Started

This page will kept up to date as functionality is written. Everything here should be possible in the current version of Overthrow 2

You start Overthrow with only the following assets:

• $100 (On normal difficulty)
• A house
• A car (in your garage)
• A map

In order to progress the revolution you are going to need a few things, but you mostly just need money. You can get cash by doing any of the following:

Jobs

Jobs are the best way to discover the gameplay elements of Overthrow while earning cash. Just open the Overthrow menu (PC: U key) and click on "Jobs" to see what is available.

Pros:

• Instant Cash
• Learn the ropes

Cons:

• Only so many jobs are available
• Some jobs can be difficult to complete at game start

Capturing Villages

The smallest villages on the map can be captured without a fight. The occupying faction will abandon a village when support for the Resistance is over 75% of it's population.

Support for the town will go up a lot slower when the current support is > the modifier amount. So if 25% of the population supports the resistance and you have only placed down 5 posters, it will go very slowly from there, so you need to do more than just place posters.

How to raise support

• Capture any nearby radio towers by neutralizing the defense there
• Place 5 posters in the town (more than 5 will have no effect, see below)
• Deliver medical supplies to the center of the village by using your UAZ469 and selecting the action on your trunk
• Capturing any bases close to the town

The easiest villages to capture depend if they have a radio tower nearby. Ones without can be captured without firing a single shot but it will take time.

Effects

Captured villages, towns, and cities provide a decent amount of regular income. (about $2500/6 hrs for most villages on normal difficulty).

Posters

Putting up posters advertising the resistance will gain Support in a town that will garner donations from the populace. Go into a town and using the Overthrow "U" menu select "Place" and select posters. Put them on walls around the town and then wait for the support to go up. You can check the current support by using the "Map Info" item from the Overthrow menu and clicking on the town. It takes time for the posters to take effect.

Placing more than 5 posters in a town will have no effect, it caps out at +25% (5% per poster).

Pros:

• Raise support and work towards taking towns
• Can generate passive income for the whole resistance (from donations)

Cons:

• Takes a long time for support to increase

Deliver Medical Supplies

You don't need a "job" to deliver medical supplies to a town. At any time you can buy medical supplies (gauze, bandages etc) and deliver them to the center of a town/city. You will raise Support there which will lead to donations. Just put the items in your vehicle and use the "Deliver Medical Supplies" action on your boot.

Pros:

• Raise support and work towards taking towns
• Can generate passive income for the whole resistance (from donations)

Cons:

• Takes a long time for support to go up

Drug Dealing

Larger towns and cities have a "gun dealer" with a gun icon on the map, gun dealers also sell drugs and they can be sold to the civilians walking around for a small profit. If you buy the drugs in towns closer to ports they will be cheaper and can be sold for a higher profit in towns further from ports.

Pros:

• Instant profit, drugs bought from a dealer and sold in the same town will have 25% profit margin

Cons:

• Each civilian will only buy once
• Can be hard work to find and chase down civilians

Trade

Shops will sell items to you that can be taken to another town to be sold to another shop for a profit. Towns closer to ports have cheaper prices so buy there and drive them to a town further from a port to make a profit.

Pros:

• Guaranteed profit if you buy from a port and deliver it far enough away

Cons:

• Takes time to drive the distances required

Stealing

The Occupying faction stores all sorts of expensive items at their bases in caches. Infiltrate them and try to get away with the goods, or try to find the patrols they send into towns and kill/steal from them. Sell the (legal) items you steal at the various shops in towns.

Pros:

• 100% profit

Cons:

• Very difficult to sneak into bases or kill patrols without being killed yourself

Placing FOBs

In your place menu is a flag which you can put down as long as it isnt too close to any buildings, towns or enemy bases which will create a Forward Operating Base (or FOB). At an FOB you can place down any other items as well as build a Vehicle Maintenance Ramp, Medical tents etc. Anyone in the resistance can then fast travel to that FOB from anywhere on the map.

Capturing Bases

In each enemy base there is a flag in the middle with an action that will trigger a battle for that base. Capturing bases doesn't currently provide much of an advantage to gameplay over an FOB, but in future it will.