When getting ready to start your adventure in Zenless Zone Zero, there can be a lot to process right off the bat. From wild new terminology like Hollows and Proxies to a whole new combat system, it can be tricky to learn to swim as you're thrown in the deep end.

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Luckily, through a well-guided tutorial paired with exciting new characters and unique animated cutscenes, learning all the game mechanics becomes an easier task. But, if there's anything you missed during all the exposition of your first mission, The Hare And The Proxy, then you've come to the right place to catch up.

The Hare And The Proxy Walkthrough

The Hare And The Proxy is the first part of the main story mission, Business x Strangeness x Justness, that you will have to complete. This mission will automatically begin once the opening cutscene is finished.

After watching a cutscene involving Anby and Billy's situation in the Hollow, you will be greeted by Nicole, the leader of the Cunning Hares, who needs you, the Proxy, to find her missing team members and escort them to safety.

This mission is a combination of cinematic cutscenes, combat, and puzzles, each one broken up by tutorials into the various gameplay mechanics.

Accessing The HDD System

The Hollow Deep Dive System, aka the HDD, is a series of television screens that serves as a puzzle challenge in between combat encounters while completing commissions.

To navigate around the HDD, you can move up, down, left and right to move one tile in any direction and trigger events to progress in the mission.

The first section of the map is relatively easy to navigate. Simply move right until you reach the magnifying glass. This will open a new section of the map. From here, move right and then up to claim the Gear Coins. However, you will eventually need to go down and trigger your first round of combat.

Combat

Hitting the creature with glowing red eyes in the HDD means that a combat sequence will begin. Each Hollow you explore has a difficulty level, as well as different Ethereal foes. In this case, you will have to fight a series of Tyrfings and Alpecas, both of which are minor Ethereals.

Because this mission is part of the tutorial, you will automatically be assigned the agents Anby and Billy to use, and they will both be at the appropriate level for combat. For more information about how combat works in Zenless Zone Zero, read here.

Once combat is complete, you will be returned to the HDD map to continue navigating through the Hollow.

Finishing The HDD Puzzle

With combat complete, you should be on the bottom-left corner of the map. From here, you can move right to heal your agents.

Once you move right two tiles, a cutscene will trigger, and an enemy tile will spawn near the start of the map. This represents a group of Ethereals that are now chasing you.

Move to the right towards the red button. Once pressed, this will activate a series of tracks that will speed you along your route.

Before taking the track upwards, make sure you have claimed everything in the area, as you will not be able to backtrack.

Take the tracks up, then move left towards the glowing orange tile. This tile represents a "safety valve". You will then be prompted to either side with Anby and use coins to open the safe, or side with Billy and let him try to pry it open.

If you side with Anby, you will lose all of your Gear Coins, but the safe will be opened without any repercussions. If you side with Billy, you will not spend any Gear Coins, but Billy will sustain a small amount of damage.

From here, go down and then right to the checkered flag tile. This will trigger the final boss battle of the commission.

The Boss Fight

You will enter combat with Anby and Billy against a Metro Goblin.

Metro Goblin

Faction: Ether Mutants

Type: Ethereal

Weaknesses: Ice, Ether

Resistances: None

For this boss fight, you should target the Metro Goblin as much as you can early on to increase your decibel rating, then switch to Billy once the additional smaller foes spawn.

Billy's ability to target multiple enemies will be key in defeating the smaller Ethereals quickly so you can return to attacking the Metro Goblin. If you have enough of a decibal rating, activate Billy's ultimate attack while smaller enemies are present.

If there are no smaller foes, switch to Anby and use her skills and ultimate, since she is better at targeting single foes.

Once combat is complete, your commission is complete as well!

Rewards

For completing The Hare And The Proxy commission, you will receive:

  • 60 Polychrome
  • 8 Official Investigator Logs
  • 2 W-Engine Power Supplies
  • 14640 Dennies (if claimed in the HDD)
  • 8 Trainee Investigator Logs
  • 4 W-Engine Batteries

After a few final cutscenes, you will unlock the agents Anby, Billy, and Nicole to use for future commissions. In addition, you will have completed the game tutorial, and have access to the overworld and additional missions!

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