Subway Surfers Hints and Tips

Subway Surfers Hints and Tips

 Clearly, the main goal of Subway Surfers is to stay alive as long as possible. As such, any hints and tips to do well at the game, without resorting to cheating or hacks, focus on this area.

Below are a few simple pointers on how to stay alive long enough in Subway Surfers to rack up some big scores and challenge your friends.

Use the Hoverboard

You will naturally collect a fair few Hoverboards on your runs in Subway Surfers. If you find yourself doing particularly well on a run, you should use as many of these as necessary to prolong your survival. Personally, I found it something of a distraction to have to double-tap the screen every time, not to mention the fact that you may not pay so much attention knowing that you can survive a hit.

Upgrade Your Power-Ups

The power-ups in Subway Surfers are a great gift when they come along. My personal favorite is the Jetpack, as it takes you up above the arena at great speed, is really fun to use, and means you can't get hit by any obstacles. Also, you earn points the whole time that you're using it, so extending the amount of time that it lasts is a great idea.

Stay Up High

The safest place to be in Subway Surfers is on top of the trains. This means that you can jump off the top of the train and move in the air - effectively making a diagonal movement. If you try this on the ground, you just move left or right - there are also far more obstacles to avoid on the ground. Stay up high and you should find you have an easier run.

Coins Are Not Essential

Of course it's great to have loads of Coins so that you can unlock the extra characters and boards in Subway Surfers, and upgrade your power-ups. However, it is not worth risking your life for a few measly Coins, so if you are on a great run, try to preserve it just by staying up high and out of harms way rather than making risky maneuvers for Coins.

General Mission Hints & Tips

Below you will find tips for some of the generic mission types which the game will throw at you:
Dodging: Dodging a barrier means to jump over it or roll underneath it.
Stumbling: Stumbling is quite difficult, but is achieved when you have jumped to clear an obstacle, but your timing is wrong. So jump too late, or too early so that you fall back onto the barrier. You know if you've successfully stumbled because you will hit the obstacle but won't fail the run - although the Inspector will catch up.
Use Hoverboards Without Crashing: To do this, activate the Hoverboard at the start of your run, where there arent many obstacles and it's easiest.
Jump Over Trains: You need to use Super Sneakers to be able to completely jump over a train.
Avoid Coins: Use a Headstart to help you avoid Coins.You should use a Headstart to avoid any Coins at the start of the level.
Bumping: To 'bump', swipe into the side of an object.
Stay In The Same Lane: To do this, use a Mega Headstart, then a Hoverboard.
Avoid Jumping: To avoid jumping, using a Mega Headstart, then a Hoverboard straight after it. You can then safely ignore any obstacles.
Jump 'x' Number of Times: To complete these missions, swipe up and then down immediately to do a quick jump - then repeat as required.
Still Stuck? Don't forget you can skip missions by spending Coins in the Shop.

Weekly Hunt

The Weekly Hunt is similar to the Daily Challenge, except, as the name suggests, it takes place over the course of a week. For every edition of Subway Surfers: World Tour, there are four Weekly Hunts. To complete the Hunt, you must find a certain number of Tokens to receive a reward.
The Tokens are specific to each edition, with New Orleans featuring Pumpkin tokens, while Tokyo used Japanese keychains for the collecting purpose. They are usually harder to come across than the Daily Challenge tokens, largely because you have a week to get them rather than just one day.
The Weekly Hunts began following the Rome edition and its Egg Hunt.

A Guide to Power-Ups

You can pick Power-Ups during play and these will help you to succeed. There are two types of power-ups: for single use or upgradable. Single-Use power-ups will be activated by you or automatically.

Upgradable power-ups are those that you will collect while playing your game.

Single-Use Power-Ups are: Hoverboard, Mystery Box, Score Booster, Mega Headstart and Skip Mission.

Single-Use Power-Ups

Hoverboard is most useful power-up and will save your life. While playing the game you will earn a lot of these but also you can buy in order to complete some missions. You have to double tap the screen to activate the Hoverboard. Cost: 300 Coins

The Mystery Boxes can be collected in game and purchased in the Shop.

Cost: Free while running, or 500 Coins from shop.

Score Booster will increase your Multiplier by 5 during a single run. It is expensive, it will cost you 3,000 Coins.

The Mega Headstart allows you to advance  1,000 meters on a single run.  Mega Headstarts  will appear in the bottom left side of the screen and you have to tap screen to activate. Cost: 2,000 Coins.

Skip Mission allow you to skip one mission and go to the next one. Cost: 1,800 Coins.

Upgradable power-ups

Super Sneakers allow your character to jump higher than normal. You can upgrade these in the shop and are used for bypassing trains.

Coin Magnet help you to attract coins but also help you to focus on avoiding obstacles and not to pay attention to collect coins. You can increase the duration of the Coin Magnet in the Shop.

The 2x Multiplier help you to acquire great scores. After you pick this multiplier, every coin you collect will be doubled.