Trust in Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ): How to unlock and level up friendship with agents

In Zenless Zone ZeroThe trust system is a mechanic for developing friendship with game characters and NPCs, for progressing in which you can earn quite a lot of bonuses: polychromes, achievements, unique combat enhancements for each agent and decorative elements for the account (live wallpapers and a title for the profile). By increasing sympathy, you can learn more about the heroes and the world they live in.

In this guide, we will explain how to open the trust system and chats with agents in ZZZ. We will tell you which events are most effective in increasing friendship, how to develop relationships individually with each game character and what rewards you can get for this.

All about the agent trust system in ZZZ

In ZZZ, you can become friends with any character that you received on your account. The whole process is tied to communication via messenger and live meetings, during which agents involve proxies in their daily life and reveal more details from their personal lives.

Why level up agent trust? There are at least two reasons for this:

• Valuable rewards: for reaching friendship levels with any agent, the player will receive trophies, which include polychromes, achievements, titles for the profile and live wallpapers for the main menu;
• Boosting agents in the Zero Cave: if you take a hero with a high friendship level for this mode, there is a chance for a unique resonator to appear, giving a significant buff for the current passage;

Improving relationships with characters is not a quick process, because the player needs to allocate time in everyday gameplay to search for a character in locations, planned invitations and dialogues with thinking over response options (some may not please the companion and reduce progress).

How to unlock the trust system

The conditions for opening the trust system are as follows:

• Reach at least level 31 of the Internet;
• Start the “Inserted story of Chapter 2 – Interlude” and complete the quest arc “Enby's Problem”.

Enby Demara is the first agent, on whose example you will learn how to use the contact list in Tuk-Tuk and invite heroes on walks. After the training event, the mechanics will become fully active, and on the streets of New Eridu you will come across more agents with whom you can also pump sympathy.

All about the Partner Dossier

Partner Dossier is an in-game archive that contains information about the participants of all known factions. You can access it through the contact of a specific agent in Knock-Knock (by the smiley icon), the general list of your characters (English “C” on PC → icon in the lower left corner) or the Work Corner on the first floor of the video rental store. From the dossier you can find out:

• Basic data: gender, height and date of birth of the agent;
• The current stage of the relationship, displayed on the scale with emoticons;
• Part of the biography and features that the proxy's brother or sister noticed;
• Archive with a repeat of situations that occur as sympathy is pumped up.

The partner profile is divided into two sections, which can be switched in the upper right corner of the screen:

• Faction. On the left side is a list of all game associations. When you switch to any of them, a list of participants whose banners were already available in the game will open. Above the character's portrait are described the conditions, having fulfilled which, you can begin to develop friendship.

• Location. Section for NPCs or other creatures. It opens after completing the personal quest chain of Soldier 11 “The Mole in the Cave”. So far, there is only a dossier on Blot – a black cat from Sixth Street, which the proxies are trying to tame.

Relationships with agents are divided into 4 stages, which are displayed as emoji (smileys): blue, green, yellow and orange. The table below shows their names and the benefits that open at each stage:

If the agent is already in the game, but the trust progress with him is blocked, then you need to wait for the story to unfold. So, Soldier 11 is the only one with whom you can befriend, but you cannot level up to the maximum rank. The reason is that on the live wallpaper the agents are in the location of their factions, and the headquarters of the Obol squad is not yet available in the game.

How to increase the level of trust in ZZZ

With the release of version 1.4, players have more ways to pump up trust with knocked out agents:

• Using invitations in Knock-knock contacts;
• Through random encounters;
• With the help of the new “Joint Walk” function.

Next, let's take a closer look at each method.

Tuk-Tuk Invitations

You have to schedule a chat with any agent once per real day.3 invitations (you can't invite the same character at a time). All contacts of heroes with whom you can develop friendship are in the messenger tab (quick access on the English key “Q”). To avoid searching for a chat with the desired agent for a long time, mark it with an asterisk to the right of the “Invitation” inscription – selected contacts are always at the top of the list.

Usually, any companion has two versions of correspondence, each of which leads to a visit to two locations to choose from. Therefore, you will be able to participate in four short meetings with a written plot. At the end of the meeting, bonus points are given out, which fill the trust scale:

• [Trust ++]. A significant increase that can be obtained by choosing pleasant answers to the agent or automatically at the end of the meeting;
•  [Trust +]. A normal increase when choosing neutral answers for the interlocutor;
• [Trust –]. Decreased sympathy when choosing answers that the agent does not like.

Be careful: all characters in the game have different personalities, so the approach to answers in dialogues needs to be individual. What one agent really likes can decrease sympathy for another agent (this does not apply to chat correspondence and quests to increase the friendship rank).

Joint walk

Please note that walks are available with all agents whose friendship level not lower than Sympathy. Special events in them can only be launched through the “Spend Time” tab.

The “Joint walk” mode is not tied to chat invitations and can be launched an unlimited number of times. Go to the agent chat and click on the corresponding button to get to a separate menu. It shows live wallpapers, at the bottom there is an icon with rewards and the “Spend time” action – click and select a meeting place (the recommended one is marked with a quest mark). During your walk in the place offered by the game, you will encounter such events:

• Wish events(short story dialogues without answer options);

Wish events of any character are rewarded equally: 150 Internet points, 10 polychromes, 10 thousand denni, 2 agent anomaly attribute chips (B rank).

• Entertainment events (the agent pays attention to them during a walk around the location);

Entertainment Events are specific places in the location, approaching which the agent will stop and say a short line, and before that an exclamation mark will appear above his head. When you are close, a companion's comment will flash in the upper left corner of the screen: “there seems to be something interesting nearby…».

To get the reward, you need to find any 5 entertainment events, for which you will receive: 22.5 thousand denny, 6 Rank B magazines and 3 Rank B power supplies.

• Games at Godfingers (joint gaming in the arcade on Sixth Street).

Walking with a companion along Sixth Street, be sure to drop by the Godfingers slot machines. Playing twice in the co-op mode “Dog Eaters III” or “Snake Duel” will unlock a small reward of 10 thousand denny.

Random Encounters

Random encounters can happen at any time of the day (for each agent individually). To understand where a particular agent is, open the map and look at the tabs with locations – if there is a mini-portrait of the character below, then you can talk to him in this area.

Even if you have talked to the agent and received points, go to the time of day change mode and rewind it so that there is a new day in the game – the meeting may appear again, and the number of such rewinds is quite high.

List of trust events for all agents

In this section, we will add detailed guides for each character. From them, you can find out where to meet and how to properly respond to agents in any situation, as well as what rewards are due for this. Pay attention to the table with links attached to the name of the heroes:

Rewards for increasing trust in ZZZ

For leveling up friendship with any agent, you will receive the following rewards:

• 80 polychromes;
• 30 thousand denni;
• Unique resonator for the Zero Cave;
• 3 agent anomaly attribute chips (B rank);
• Living wallpaper.

And individual rewards from the “Joint Walk” section:

• 50 polychromes;
• 750 Internet level points;
• 82.5 thousand denni;
• 10 agent anomaly attribute chips (B rank);
• 6 magazines specialist (B rank);
• 3 power sources (B rank);