Dynasty Warriors 4

Dynasty Warriors 4 Tips & Tricks

• Finding hidden items

  Spend a few minutes riding around the battlefield, destroying pots that are in sight. Some power-ups are in areas you would never expect, such as location where there are no enemies.

• Easy Kills

  Be sure to have a full musou and jump up, when you do, press y to hit the ground, when you touch the ground quickly press B to do a musou attack. (Do this very fast and with an officer that can hit enemies surrounding him/her.)

• Highest Level of Items/Weapons

  The highest level for ability items is Level 20, the highest level for Elemental Jades is Level 4, the highest level for weapons is Level 10

• Weapon Experience Points

  To get more experience points gamers need to fight more enemy generals with more charge attacks and higher combos.

• Ranking Points

  To get more rank points you need to defeat as many enemy generals and soldiers as you can. Also you can get more ranking points by clearing stages in the least amount of time.

• Raising ally morale

  The easiest ways to increase ally morale are to accept one on one duels when they are offered, winning these one on one duels, beat enemy generals, and annihilate many enemy soldiers.

• Free Mode

  Any character growth you earn in free mode is carried over to musou mode. If you want an advantage in Musou mode you should build up your characters (leveling up and growth) in Free Mode.

• Horses

  The Red Hare is the fastest of the horses; Di Lu Hex Mark increases your Luck; Fei Dian Flying Lightning increases your ride attack; and Jue Ying Matchless Shadow won't let you fall off when you are being attacked.

• Equipping characters

  All characters can increase the amount of equipment slots they have by 3 slots. Therefore if a character initially has 2 slots they have a possibility of 5 slots during the game. The most a character can have is six slots and those characters are Sima Yi, Zhuge Liang, and Pang Tong.

• Unlimited Kills in Nanman Campaign.

  In the nanman campaign level in musou or free mode, play it as you normally would on Normal mode and after you defeat meng huo for the 5th or sixth time zhu rong will mobilize and after you defeat her then there is total chaos throughout the map. If you are sun ce it works perfectly since you the commander and all over you soldiers including generals sub-generals and regular troops are all annihilated. I got 1800 kills before I got bored and killed meng huo.

• Sun Jian Getting the level 10 weapon

  Play the Search For The Imperial Seal level under the hard difficulty setting with Sun Jian. You must defeat Li Jue, Zhang Liao, Diao Chan, and Lu Bu. Finish the level with Sun Jian's level 9 weapon to get his Getting the level 10 weapon.

• Sima Yi Getting the level 10 weapon

  Ho to Battle Of Wu Zhang Plains level under the hard difficulty setting and defeat Wei Yan, Jaing Wei, and Ma Chao. A message will appear, stating that Dark Feather has been unlocked.

• Pang Tong Getting the level 10 weapon

  Play the Battle Of Luo Castle under the hard difficulty setting on the Shu side. When Zhang Ren appears, decline his duel challenge. Destroy the bridge and kill Zhang Ren.

• Lu Xun Getting the level 10 weapon

  On the Battle of Yi Ling level under the hard difficulty setting, protect and keep Zhu Ran alive until he successfully triggers the fire attack. Enter stone maze, and pass through it.

• How to beat Lu Bu easily

  To easily beat Lu Bu in a duel is to havs a lv. 10 weapon, have projectile charge attack(Jiang Wei, Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, Sima Yi, or Lu Meng), and lv. 3 or 4 Blast Orb.

• Lu Bu

  Play in Musou mode under the normal or hard difficulty as any character (edit officers included). In the Battle of Hu Lao Gate level, locate and defeat Lu Bu. You will unlock Lu Bu and Lu Bu's Musou mode story.

• Jiang Wei

  Play the Shu Musou mode as any character. Play the last level for every act until you get to the Battle Of Tian Shui level. Wait for Zhuge Liang to reveal his plan. Then, kill Jiang Wei's sub officers. Later in the level, Jiang Wei will surrender to you.

• Huang Gai Getting the level 10 weapon

  On the Battle Of Chi Bi level under the hard difficulty setting, eliminate all enemy entry points before the fire attack, then defeat Cao Ren, Cao Hong and Cao Pi.

• Guan Yu Getting the level 10 weapon

  Kill all the Wu generals at the Fan Castle level under the hard difficulty setting. Make sure that all your soldiers switch sides before you kill the Wu generals.

• Xiahou Dun Getting the level 10 weapon

  On the Battle of Xia Pi level under the hard difficulty setting, after the Xiahou Dun shot by an arrow event, defeat Diao Chan.

• Xiahou Yuan Getting the level 10 weapon

  On the Battle of Mount Ding Jun level under the hard difficulty setting, immediately kill the exchanging hostage Chen Shi. Then move directly to Huang Zhong. Defeat Huang Zhong

• How to beat lubu with any character

  I beat lu bu with in my opinion the weakest character in the game sun shang xiang by just simply using what I like to call STRATEGY I would attack him and when I got low health id run around and look for rice buns or whatever they are and would heal then go back and attack and usually id use my body guards to attack him from the front to make him block then I would go up behind him and start to attack from behind.

• Wind Scroll

  Play on any difficulty in the Battle of Xu Chang

• Counter-attack

  If you jump and press Triangle, but are hit in mid-air, quickly press R1 and Triangle again. Almost always, you will not get hit a second time.

• Weapons

  For a second weapon, get your weapon to level 4. For a third weapon, get your weapon to level 7.

• Taunting

  By pressing R3 u can taunt. Hint: (if u taunt it leaves you open for attack) but it as well lets the enemy guard down. by performing this it allows you to start a battle with any enemy.

• Easy weapon levels

  For easy second weapons or level 4 weapons, play The Yellow Turban Menace a few times. If you want to get your rank faster, also keep playing the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

• Art of War Scroll

  Follow the exact procedure to get the Charge Bracer, but with Dong Zhou's campaign at the Campaign against Sun Jian. Kill the generals until the Supply Captain appears, then kill him to get the item.

• Zhang He Getting the level 10 weapon

  On the Battle Of Jie Ting level under the hard difficulty setting, surround Ma Su and defeat him. Then, defeat all enemy generals and sub-generals.

• Yuan Shao Getting the level 10 weapon

  Play the Battle Of Guan Du level under the hard difficulty setting as Yuan Shao. Protect the ramming vehicle until the castle wall falls. You will then get the Sword Of Kings.

• Dong Zhou Getting the level 10 weapon

  Play the Lu Bu's Revolt level under the hard difficulty setting. Kill everybody on the screen where Lu Bu is the only one alive. If done correctly, Dong Zhou will make a comment.

• Da Qiao Getting the level 10 weapon

  Play the Battle Of Xu Chang level under the hard difficulty setting on the Wu side. Defeat Deng Ai, Hu Zhi, and Dian Wei

• Opening Edit sequences 1

  In the PRESS START prompt, if you wait long enough, you will see a sequence with someone breaking a rock. Here is an opening edit character, that if you select them for sequence one, that will have a bodyguard or friend break the rock for them.

• Nanman Level

  In the nanman level you dont have to kill him seven times. You could just go to the enemys (at the way bottom) then he will appear over there and he will say \"ah their already here??\" then kill him and u win!

• Guan Yu - Fourth weapon

  By killing every one of the Wu generals in the Fan Castle level under hard difficulty.

• Meng Huo and Zhu Rong

  For this trick to work you must be in Musou mode. By beating Meng Huo seven times throughout the stage and with at least one defeat in a duel. Or you can duel and beat Zhu Rong. Finish Musou mode and Meng Huo and Zhu Rong will become playable characters.

• Dynasty Warrior 3 costumes

  If you are in your first costume and you are facing yourself (for example, Sima Yi vs. Sima Yi), you will see yourself in the Dynasty Warriors 3 costume for that character.

• Highest Level of Items/Weapons

  The highest level for ability items is Level 20, the highest level for Elemental Jades is Level 4, the highest level for weapons is Level 10

• Weapon Experience Points

  To get more experience points gamers need to fight more enemy generals with more charge attacks and higher combos.

• Ranking Points

  To get more rank points you need to defeat as many enemy generals and soldiers as you can. Also you can get more ranking points by clearing stages in the least amount of time.

• Raising ally morale

  The easiest ways to increase ally morale are to accept one on one duels when they are offered, winning these one on one duels, beat enemy generals, and annihilate many enemy soldiers.

• Free Mode

  Any character growth you earn in free mode is carried over to musou mode. If you want an advantage in Musou mode you should build up your characters (leveling up and growth) in Free Mode.

• Horses

  Remember when you have a saddle the map will show your current location. You will see it with a cyan dot in the top right map and as a yellow saddle in the pause screen map.