Codename CURE Total Beginner’s Guide

Overview

Total beginner’s guide for Codename CURE, based on Codename CURE 中文指南

••• Cover •••

••• Introduction •••

The guide includes basics, walkthroughs and other things.

If you think there’s something incorrect, leave a comment.

••• Translation •••

• Chinese
• Polish by mieszkoiyt

••• Game Info •••

Name: Codename CURE

Genre: First-person shooter, Survival, Cooperation.

Developer: Hoobalugalar_X

Final Release: Release 1.0

Price: Free

••• Game Modes •••

There’re 4 modes: CBE (CURE Bomb Escape), CSV (CURE Survival), CPVP (CURE Player vs. Player) and CCS (CURE Custom Survival)

If a map’s file name starts with cbe, it is a map of bomb escape. Such map can be divided into 4 groups:

• Group 1: Players follow the green sign to bomb zone. After bomb planted, go to the evac zone and escape.
• Group 2: Players follow the green sign to bomb zone. After bomb planted, try to survive in a specific period.
• Group 3: Bomb is planted as game starts. Players should get to evac zone.
• Group 4: Bomb is planted as game starts. Players should survive.

If a map’s file name starts with csv, it is a map of survival.

With waves increasing, zombies will be more and more, players should try to survive. If whole team are killed, you fail. No victory condition is in CSV maps.

However, there’re also some maps that have wave limits. These maps often tells you something like Just 7 Waves Hold On as game starts. If you survive in 7 waves, you win.

Classes are NOT usable in this mode.

Players should kill each other to get scores in this mode.

Based on how game ends, it can be divided into 3 groups:

• Group 1: Get new weapon by killing. Player is killed with the last weapon, and game ends.
• Group 2:There’re weapon supplies in some maps. Player’s score reaches a specific value, and this guy will win.
• Group 3: Countdown. When time reaches 00:00, game ends.

If a map’s file name starts with ccs, it is a map of custom. Usually, this kind of map will tell you what to do in game.

••• About Servers •••

Considering the readers are probably from all over the world, I won’t talk about ping in this chapter. Please check pings by yourself, based on your region.

Due to the seriously high ping, I haven’t played in some servers. For example, CPArg is more than 350 for me. As we all know, such a high ping is NOT something suitable for human.

Usually, you can learn what a server has with its tags.

It’s more easy to play in this kind of server. But it always takes a long time to get in for the first time.

• POU Severs (JP1, JP2, US1)

  JP 1 and US 1 have more mods, compared with JP 2. However, US 1 and JP 2 are more popular.

• Out of Time Servers (Mission, Survival, Dev, Test)

  You can get health and armor per zombie.

• CURE Test Servers (Defaults Maps Only, Survival, Survival and Classes)

  Just like Out of Time Servers

• 刘雨欣的CURE （Liu Yuxin’s CURE Server）

  Manual respawn is allowed. More importantly, this server is more popular than other servers. From 7:00 to 23:00 (CST), this server ALWAYS has many players.

Hard to win in these servers, especially when the difficulty is insane. However, it takes less time to get in them.

• the phunny pharm: codename creep
• FN/EN Servers (6 in all)
• =KOG= Server
• AMERICA LATINA BRASIL
• CPArg CURE

Try to delete this map in game folder (cure/maps or cure/download/maps, I’m not sure)

Generally speaking, there’s an official group (steam, discord or something else) for a server. You can record the cheater in game and send your .dem file to the group.

••• Things Should Be Noticed •••

1. It does NOT really matter which class you choose. Whether you win is more up to your skills. If skilled enough, you can even complete a map alone.

   However, you’d better choose support in a long map like Metro Tunnel. Teamwork is also necessary for such a map.

2. This game have many many many bugs. For example, a door that can’t be open, or you just jump out of an elevator but can’t get back.

   So, when you see something weird in game, just clam down.

3. If a server allows FF (Friendly-Fire), WATCH YOUR FIRE.
4. Zombies come from EVERYWHERE. What’s more, they often come out from some unexpected places. For example: from behind a rock, from behind a pillar, even from a corner that you’ve just confirmed.

   Zombies usually come from what you can’t see. Nonetheless, some mappers set spawn points in their maps. No matter where you’re looking, these points always create zombies.

••• My idea about Classes •••

I like pointman best. Pointman’s auto-shotgun is powerful. Their grenades are better than incendiaries, except in PVP (Player vs. Player).

Also, you can jump longer with bomb. Put a grenade on your feet and jump in a specific direction, you can jump far away by bomb’s thrust. Every map has 2 specific directions.

Their supply chest is really great. You can use it to:

• Heal your team, and give ammo.
• Hinder zombie’s attack. Zombies attack your supply chest first if it is in front of you.
• Jump on some impossible places, just from your supply chest. See my map guide for more details.

  Note: DON’T block other’s way on purpose with your supply chest. If you see someone doing so, kick him.

  If YOU blocked other’s way on purpose before, YOU BASTARD.

Their weapons are a bit weaker than those of other classes. MP5K has less ammo, compared with other primary weapons. Dual infinities and Five-Seven are both better than USP: Dual infinities have more ammo and Five-Seven is more powerful and accurate.

This class is my second choice if I can’t be a Pointman. Compared with Pointman, their primary weapon has more ammo and accuracy. Likewise, a Assault can use their bombs to jump longer.

Their security gun is really worth it. You can use your security gun to:

• Kill more zombies. Using security gun is a more effective choice to kill zombies, because it’s always accurate and has infinite ammo.
• Hinder zombie’s attack, just like supply chest.

Their Five-Seven and Pointman’s Dual infinities are the most powerful pistols in this game. PSG1 is also powerful too. You can kill heavy zombies more effectively with sniper gun.

In some servers, you can get 1 PT every time you kill a heavy zombie. Better to choose sniper for more kills.

This is not a class, just literally your fist, your punch. Fist is the most powerful weapon in this game, except the poor speed. Use your fists wisely, and you’ll save a lot of ammo.

In survival mode, you can complete the first wave just with your own fists, if you’re skilled enough.

You can use fists faster by adding some scripts in .cfg files. But I won’t write how to do it here, due to the potential debates on whether it’s cheating. You can just subscribe to this:

[link]
To clarify: This mod is a modification on .cfg files.

By now, there’s no one banned because of using fast fists script. Nevertheless, if someone claims that you’re cheating, it makes sense anyway.

••• Mistakes that Beginners often make •••

1. Stay somewhere for a long time. See this for more details:
   [link]
   Mostly stay somewhere WON’T make zombies less. On the contrary, more zombies will come. I suggest you to keep moving in a map.

   But you can actually stay on places that zombies can’t get to, such as some boxes or bug places.

2. Too worry about your ammo. If you can’t use primary weapon, you can use your pistol. If your ammo runs out, you have fists anyway. What’s more, there’s usually a player who chooses support, so just don’t care about your ammo, unless you’re in a survival map.
3. Go out when the elevator is activated. Remember, there’s absolutely no warning when the elevator is closing. Not only elevator, but also some doors and vehicles, everything related to evacuation.

   Besides, when someone has opened an elevator, get in as soon as possible. Don’t let this guy wait you for a long time. There’re just several minutes for your team. If you waste too much time, your team won’t have enough time to escape.

••• Game Trick: Hopping •••

ABH ( Accelerated Bomb Hopping )

SBH ( Supply-assisted Back Hopping )

PJ ( Prop Jump )

SH ( Slope Hopping )

You can use your bomb (Gerenade Only, NOT fire bomb) to leap longer.

Note: Only in 1 of the 2 specific directions will bomb hopping work. Every map has its own 2 directions, which means you’ve got to try them out map by map.

Example:
[link]

You can jump from a supply chest, in case where the destination is a little higher than your max jump height.

Generally speaking, you will lose the supply chest by doing so. There’s another way, however, that you can avoid this bad trouble.

Likewise, put your supply chest down, then jump on it. But after that, keep your back to the destination, holding S key and then pressing the space key. The instant your feet are about to leave from the supply chest, you should pick it up ASAP.

Well. I’m not sure if it’s true. It seems that when you stick to a movable prop that is vertical, you can jump on it, even if it’s a little higher than your max jump height.

Due to the great difficulty, I’ve tired only several times in game. It’s too hard to move and rotate something in CURE.

But one thing is true: somebody really did so. I saw a man jump this way before, in a Chinese server.

According to this guide[www.speedrun.com], you will get a massive pull force if keeping hopping on a slope.

••• Game Trick: Zombie Spawn •••

I will tell you how zombie spawns and how to make use of it.

Generally speaking, zombies come from what you can’t see, from places out of your sight. Let me show you 2 diagrams:

Let’s say that you’re in a room with a wall. As on the left, zombies come from behind the wall. It’s because you can’t see that place from the opposite side.

But If a teammate come in, you can ask him to stand behind the wall, so that there won’t be dead corner that your team can’t see any more.

Sometimes you will see a zombie spawn in front of you. It’ is because:

• There’re spawn entities in this map, which have NOTHING to do with your sight.
• The mechanism is NOT perfect. However, zombies still come from dead corner even in this case. It has a higher possibility to meet this glitch when your ping is higher than normal level (such as 220, 324, 400, 197…)

I tried in 2 maps before. Let me show you:

Left: Escape Zone, cbe_hotel
Right: cbe_pit

••• Game Trick: Attack Range •••

Players won’t be hurt if they get extremely close to a zombie.

As you can see, there’s always a small safe range surrounding a zombie. Both heavy zombie and causal zombie have this feature, thus you rather run into a zombie than try to run away, when it’s very close to you.

DO NOT do it when your health is extremely low, otherwise you’ll be definitely killed before getting into the safe range. Remember, the lower your health is, the more slowly you move.

Besides, I also don’t suggest you to do so when there’re more than one zombie.

••• Map Guide •••

This part is too long to tell you here. Just read this guide.

••• Other Content •••

[link]

••• Links •••

Codename CURE Fandom Wiki (Outdated) [codename-cure.fandom.com]
POU Sever Official Website[www.hw2.click]
Hoobalugalar_X’s Profile
Another developer’s profile in Bilibili[space.bilibili.com]
Ethosaurs full zombie survival collection(Many maps are ported from here)

Other Beginner’s Guide:
Codename CURE: Tactical Manual – A Combat Guide for Fun & Successful Missions
Beginner’s Guide to Codename CURE
The horror that is zombie spawns
Codename CURE All Classes Guide

Funny Guide:
How to run CC on a potato

••• My review on this game •••

This game is not bad, but still has large room for improvement. It’s a pity that this game won’t have update any more.