Beginner's Guide: Tips & Tricks

Having trouble getting started with your playthrough of Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Engage! Read our Beginner's Guide for tips on what to do first, what resources you should focus on getting, and the best units you should get your hands on in the early game!

Gundam UCE Beginner's Guide

Beginner's Guide Overview

When you start playing through Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Engage for the first time, you need to realize that the name of the early game is to collect as many Diamonds, Rainbow Haro Coins, and pull tickets as possible. This way, you will be able to pull for more mobile suits and pilots, then Transcend them to unlock additional skills that increase either their damage, utility, or both.

If you're having trouble with Gundam U.C. Engage's early game, we have a series of tips you can follow from the moment you've created your account up to when you start playing Co-Op to obtain stat-boosting Modules.

Reroll Until You Get Powerful Units

Rerolling in Gundam UC Engage can be done exceptionally fast. All you need to do is:

• Log into the game
• Choose a name for your account
• Claim your free currency amounting up to 30 pulls (or more, depending on the concurrent event) from your Gifts
• Try your luck.
• If the results are undesirable, tap the sandwich icon on the bottom-right of the home screen
• Tap the sandwich icon on the title screen and hit Create New
• Repeat until a desirable result is achieved

Right after creating your account, you have one priority only: Pulling the best units you can from the 72-Hour Limit MS Unit Assembly Banner, as well as the 72-Hour Limit Character Unit Assembly Banner.

You will have a total of 12,000 to 13,000 diamonds, which is equal to four 10-pulls on either banner right at the start. We recommend using the 72-Hour Limit MS Unit Assembly Banner first since Pilots in this game are more like "add-ons" to mobile suits - which are the main units you will be using in battle.

Since making a Gundam UCE account is easy, you can simply claim the Diamonds from the Home Screen, do 10 pulls four times with the 72-Hour MS banner, and if you don't get the units you need, then simply make a new account and try again.

When rerolling, we highly recommend aiming for any of the following units and getting at least one or two of them:

• Zeta Gundam
• Yellow Sazabi
• Gundam GP02A
• The-O
• Gundam GP04
• Sisquiede Titans Color

The Zeta Gundam is an EX spamming powerhouse, while the Yellow Sazabi is a powerful life-stealing skirmisher that does not miss. The GP02A is a tank with a devastating AoE attack that is useful in both PvE and PvE while The-O is a high damage evasive tank who heals itself.

As for the GP04, it's a highly accurate ranged fighter with a Sniper-like playstyle, while the Sisquiede Titans Color is actually a Sniper whose AoE EX skill damages all enemies while weakening the beam damage they deal.

Getting one, two, or even three of these units will put you at a big advantage when starting out in Gundam UCE, as they offer the most utility in the early game and remain extremely powerful even into the late game.

As for your UR Ticket Mobile Suit and Pilot Selectors, we recommend getting the S Gundam with Roux Louka as its pilot so you will have an accurate ranged attacker that often deals critical hits.

Reroll Guide

Get Enough Diamonds to Get More Rolls out of the 72-Hour Banners

Once you've got some strong units from the 72-Hour MS Unit Assembly Banner, it's time for you to start farming Diamonds - the main currency in Gundam UCE that's used for pulling more units.

You should try to make as many diamonds as possible and use them to pull from the 72-Hour MS or Pilot banners again before they expire, so you can have a shot at getting good mobile suits or pilots. Remember, these banners will permanently be gone 3 days after you've made your account.

After these banners expire, watch out for Extreme Limited and Super Limited Unit Assembly banners. From those banners, you can pull for featured units and units from previous banners that aren't available on the regular MS and Character Unit Assembly banners.

You can buy Diamonds from Gundam UCE's Diamond Shop. But for those who want to farm free Diamonds, there are two ways you can do so this early in your playthrough: Grinding the Main Quest, and Grinding Stoy Event Quests. Use up all the excess AP you get at the beginning of the game to gather as many Diamonds as possible.

Also, note that your Player Rank determines the content accessible to you. These missions will give you player EXP that will help you push to Rank 40. Getting there as fast as possible will give you access to other game modes you can farm Diamonds and other resources like the Arena, Clans, Coop Raids, etc.

How to Farm Diamonds

Grind the Main Quest

The Main Quest will be your main source of Diamonds in the early game of Gundam UCE. As long as you clear a mission with a 3-star ranking, you can get up to 90 Diamonds. Doing the first ten missions of every era should yield up to 900 Diamonds, totaling up to 2,700 Diamonds.

Grind Story Event Quests

Another way to grind for Diamonds is to complete any Story Event Quests that are currently going on at the time you made your account. After clearing these quests with a team provided by the story, you can start clearing these quests with your own units. Depending on the Achievement Missions associated with the event, clearing the missions again and again can get you hundreds of Diamonds.

Not that it may be better to take on these missions after going as far as you can with the Main Quest, so that you can be sure you've leveled up your mobile suits enough to be able to take on these missions (since they tend to have high-level enemies).

Complete the Daily/Weekly Missions as well as the Panel Missions

Another thing you will need to keep track of when starting out early are the Panel Missions and the Daily/Weekly Missions. Daily Missions and Weekly Missions are your typical dailies and weeklies in other gacha games, but completing your dailies can give you up to 60 Diamonds per day while completing weeklies can give you up to 270 Diamonds a week.

But the bigger priority for you at this stage is to clear the Panel Missions, a series of tasks that not only give out Diamonds but a ticket that guarantees you a UR unit from one of the game's gacha banners. You can get a total of 4,500 Diamonds through these missions, with the first 3,000 given to you after clearing the first set of Panel Missions.

Panel Missions Guide

Grind Resources From the Combat Power Augmentation Operations Event

Depending on when you've made your Gundam UCE account, you might end up coming across the Combat Power Augmentation Operations event, which allows players to grind for large numbers of EXP-raising materials, Coins, Unit Enhancement Points, and UR Custom Tickets.

If you need a lot of EXP to level up your mobile suits and this event is going on, we suggest you use up all your AP for this mode, since each CPAO match gives a whole bunch of EXP. UR Custom Tickets meanwhile, are useful for raising your Mobile Suit's Custom Level without needing materials. Raising an MS' Custom Level increases its stats like ATK, Increase Projectiles, Reduce Beam, and Critical Value. Players should accumulate as much UR Custom Tickets as they can, given how alteration can cost quite a lot by the time the late game comes along.

Unit Enhancement Points meanwhile are used in the Unit Enhancement process, where you allocate Enhancement Chips to parts of your mobile suit. Coins and Enhancement Points are used to pay for these changes.

So if you came to Gundam UCE at a time when an event like this is going on, put your AP toward clearing these missions for an early game boost.

Grind Resources From the Main Quest

If there isn't a CPAO event happening, then you will have to grind for resources the old-fashioned way: by clearing missions in the Main Quest. Not just once, but multiple times. The easiest way to do that is to use the Select All function. This button can be found in the Quests menu from the Home Screen.

In the Select All screen, choose the missions you want to replay again. You will also be able to see the kinds of Materials that the mission will give away. These Materials can be EXP materials to raise the level of your mobile suits and pilots, and Unit Alteration Materials to raise your mobile suit's Custom Level.

How to Custom Up? Unit Alteration Guide

Upgrade Your Mobile Suits And Pilots

There are several ways to upgrade your Mobile Suits and Pilots. For mobile suits, you can use Unit Alteration, Unit Enhancement, and Transcendence, or utilize the Skill Rate Up, Alter, Potential Unleashed, and Level Up systems. Each method requires different materials that you can obtain through various means. Pilots, on the other hand, are much simpler to strengthen. They only have the Potential Unleashed and Level Up systems, so it's much easier to raise their stats.

Keeping your team in tip-top shape is essential to keep winning fights. This is especially true if you plan on taking on the game's tougher stages, such as the Arena.

Take note that gathering resources for some of the upgrades (such as Transcendence) can take a long time because of how tough it is to gather the resources necessary like Haro Coins. Just keep pushing and patiently grind and you will be able to build your units bit by bit.

How to Strengthen Your Mobile Suits Guide

Learn How the Combat System Works

Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Engage is a game of positioning units correctly. To position units correctly, you need to know what kind of mobile suit counters another kind of mobile suit. The kinds of mobile suits in this game are divided into two: Types and Categories.

"Types" are the color of the mobile suits that dictates what unit they have an advantage and disadvantage against - similar to "Rock, Paper, Scissors." In Gundam UCE, Red-type units beat Green-type units, Green-type units beat Blue-type units, and Blue-type units beat Red-type units. Meanwhile, Yellow-type and Purple-type units are strong against each other and have no advantages or disadvantages against Red, Green, and Blue-type suits.

Type	Beats	Weak Against	Row Placement
Raid	Bombardment & Sniper	Armored	Front
Armored	Raid	Bombardment & Sniper	Front
Generic	None	None	Center
Bombardment	Armored	Raid	Back
Sniper	Armored	Raid	Back
Close Combat	Armored	Raid	Front
Support	None	None	Center

"Categories," on the other hand, are the roles that Mobile Suits take on during battle. There are seven Categories in-game, and each one of them has a special role in your team.

• Raid - Frontline melee units that are quick but tend to be fragile. They typically need to evade to stay alive. Strong versus Bombardment and Sniper units.
• Armored - Designated tanks in battle that can absorb high amounts of damage while having different gimmicks to sustain themselves from self-healing to DEF buffs to higher EVD on top of high DEF. Strong versus Raid units.
• Generic - Multi-purpose units that excel in numerous situations including ranged fighting and providing buffs and inflicting debuffs. Strong versus no one, but weak versus no one as well.
• Bombardment - Glass cannons that you should keep in your backline. Strong versus Armored units especially.
• Support - Support units that specialize in providing useful buffs to the rest of your team. Similar to the Generic units since they have no strengths or weaknesses.
• Close Combat - Frontline melee units that are not as fragile as Raid units and can excel in melee combat. Strong especially versus Armored units.
• Sniper - Units skilled at being accurate for long ranges. Particularly strong against Armored units.

Mobile Suit Categories Explained

Note that these won't always be the case, and the list above is only there so you have a good idea of what each category typically does. A lot of Raid units actually aren't really that good for melee combat since most of them have just 1 melee weapon. Some Generic units behave more like Sniper units with high accuracy and long range weapons, while some have kits that seem to be better suited for Armored units.

Keep these Types and Categories in mind as you form your teams. Ideally, you will want to synergize your units depending on their skills, but see if those skills complement their own roles and the abilities of their allies. For example, if the Hyaku-Shiki (a Raid unit)'s EX skill casts the "Unavoidable" debuff on all enemies, better to pair it with the Hamma-Hamma (A Generic unit) since its EX Skill stuns all enemies inflicted with "Unavoidable."

Combat System Explained

Set Up Haro Coin Farms

Rainbow Haro Coins are the most important currency in Gundam UCE next to Diamonds because you use them to Transcend your mobile suits. Transcending a mobile suit unlocks their transcendent skills, which expands their utility in battle. Some suits are even useless until you've unlocked their transcendent skills.

The problem is that the only way to do Transcendence is to have Rainbow Haro Coins, and Transcendence costs a good number of those coins. To get them for free, you need to set up what's called a "Haro Coin Farm."

In Gundam UCE, there are PvE missions called "Fragment Missions" that let you farm for pieces (or "blueprints") of mobile suits and pilots. Gather enough pieces and you will get a copy of that unit, which you can use to raise that unit's Potential. The higher the unit's Potential, the higher their base stats become, and the better their EX skill will be.

Once you've hit full Potential Unleashed (or "P5") for a specific unit, however, and play the Fragment Missions for that unit, they will give you Haro Coins instead of blueprints.

How to Farm and Use Blueprints and Character Pieces

We recommend farming the fragments for all the UR units available since these will grant you Rainbow Haro Coins, though you can focus on the Gundam Full Armor and Char's Zaku II first. But don't forget to branch out and farm Blueprints for all the mobile suits you can do Fragment Missions for.

SR and R units will only grant you Gold and Silver Haro Coins, which aren't nearly as important. Because of how important Rainbow Haro Coins are and how hard they are to earn, it's important to set up these Haro Farms as early as you unlock Fragment Quests.

Ideally, you should be spending all your AP to do all the UR Fragment Missions 3 times a day. Your daily AP won't nearly be enough to do so, but it's well worth spending coins and a little bit of Diamonds on AP to be able to do this. It's a very long grind, but it's well worth it in the end.

Among the units that you'll earn are the Char's Zaku II and the Gundam Full Armor (Thunderbolt), which stand out as Fragment Quests' best units by far. Unlike the other units from Fragment Quests, these ones are very good units who deserve spots on your team, especially early on when you don't have a lot of the meta units yet.

Haro Coin Farm Guide

Assemble Same-Color Teams for PvE and Gather Diamonds

The next thing you will want to focus on is assembling a series of teams made up of Mobile Suits of the same Color. This is because the Main Quest, Coop, and many PvE events in Gundam UCE mostly consist of stages where enemies are made up of one color only.

For example, if you were to face off against a team of Red-type mobile suits, then you would want to have a team made up of nothing but Blue-type mobile suits to have a type advantage and deal more damage.

We suggest building all-Red, all-Green, and all-Blue teams first, since you're likely to have many units from these colors at UR rarity. Later on, build all-Purple and all-Yellow teams as well. Make sure that the weakest unit in your team is in the sixth slot, so you can switch them out with what will probably be a more powerful Support unit from your friends or Clanmates.

Remember that these teams should be different from your main team; you will only use these teams for PvE, after all. Also, remember that you can save different teams using the "Data Management" button that can be found in the mobile suit selection screen that pops up either before a mission or after pressing the "Squad Formation" button in the Squad Menu.

Play Arena to Get Arena Medals and Buy MS Blueprints

Once you've gotten a decent roster of mobile suits and pilots prepared, it's time to head for Gundam UCE's premier PvP mode: the Arena! But don't join Arena matches expecting to win just yet. You will most likely lose in your first battles because even the players at lower ranks will probably have higher BP than you.

A good rule of thumb is to expect at least some victories in the arena once your team reaches 1 million BP. But even before you hit that goal, join Arena matches regardless because merely participating in the Arena entitles you to rewards like Diamonds, Arena Medals, and Recycle Points.

Arena Medals can be used at the Shop to buy Enhancement Chips, gacha tickets, and blueprints of certain mobile suits, while Recycle Points are used to buy Enhancement Points, Customization Materials, and certain Modules. Modules are items that you attach to mobile suits to give them certain stat bonuses.

One of the best purchases you can make in the Arena Shop are blueprints for the Char's Zaku II. Spending all your Arena Medals on these will allow you to get the unit to Potential Lv. 5 faster and thus, start earning Rainbow Haro Coins faster.

How to Get Started With the Arena?

Join a Clan for More Diamonds

Joining a Clan in Gundam UCE is not just a formality; it also comes with its own set of Daily and Weekly missions that you can complete for extra Diamonds.

But when the Clan Battle event rolls around, you will want to participate since you can win not only Diamonds, but Rainbow Haro Coins, Clan Medals, and Grand Coins.

Grand Coins are especially important since you can use them to buy Blueprints from the Shop for any limited UR mobile suit in your possession (important if you want to raise their Potential level). Meanwhile, Clan Medals are used to buy gacha tickets and enhancement chips.

Clan Guide

Play Co-Op for Modules

To strengthen your mobile suits even further, you will eventually need to get your hands on Modules. The only ways to get them are to play Cooperative Raids, and to buy a few select modules from the Recycle Shop in the Town screen.

Try to start a Coop raid on your own and only call for SOS from other players once you've gotten the raid boss to half their damage. That way, you will be rated as the player who dealt the highest damage and get extra modules for free.

Cooperative Raid Guide

Play Events

The game regularly holds various events. These can include celebratory ones for releasing a new Mobile Suit and/or Pilot, Clan Battle events where you and your clan fight for rank and glory, and others. Events like these usually include limited rewards, such as Mobile Suits or Pilots that cannot be obtained through other means. Of course, you can also earn various other goodies, such as Diamonds or even titles you can display on your profile!

Gundam UC Engage Tips and Tricks Guide

All Tips and Tricks

All Tips and Tricks Guides

Beginners' Guide
Beginner's Guide: Tips and Tricks
Reroll Guide	How to Farm Diamonds
Panel Missions Guide	How to Strengthen Your Mobile Suits Guide
Combat System Explained	Haro Coin Farm Guide
How to Get Started With the Arena?	Clan Guide
Raid Battle Guide	Mobile Suit Categories Explained
Other Beginners' Guides
Beginner Mistakes to Avoid	Daily Tasks Checklist
Research Guide	Gacha Guide
Gacha Guide	UR Selector Ticket Guide
Mobile Suit Stats Explained	Pilot Stats Explained
Deployment Guide	How To Rank Up and Unlock All Content Quickly
Fragment Quest Guide	How to Get Skip Tickets
How to Get VIP Points	Haro Pass (VIP Pass) Perks and Benefits
How to Farm Coins Guide	How to Get More AP
How to Farm and Use Blueprints and Character Pieces	Recycle Points Guide
Engage Link Guide	How Good is the Zock?
Intermediate Guides
How To Pair Pilots and Mobile Suits	Team Building Guide
Canon Mobile Suits and Pilots Guide	What Upgrade Should I Do First?
Transcendence Guide	Potential Unleashed Guide
Unit Enhancement Guide	Unit Alteration Guide
How to Get Grand Coins	How to Get Unit Enhancement Points
Modules Guide	Skill Rate Level Up Guide
What To Buy at the Shop	Clan Battle Guide (October 2024)
Master Battle Guide	Status Effects Guide
What Should You Look For in a Mobile Suit and Pilot?
Advanced Guides
What is the Current Meta?	How to Win at the Arena
What to Grind for in the Arena	Why Do I Keep Losing at the Arena?
Best Arena (PvP) Teams	PvP Team Building Guide
Top Ranked Arena Teams and Counters [October 2024]	Most Common Arena Mobile Suits and Counters
Mock Battle Guide
Game Mechanics
Title Guide	Account Linking Guide
How to Send an SOS	How to Get Friend Medals