One page for what Hood Rivals is and how an account grows in it — then the dedicated guide for whatever stage you are in.
Everything in this paragraph is official Roblox listing data or labeled community documentation, checked 2026-10-14.
Hood Rivals is a competitive third-person deathmatch shooter on Roblox by A-Grade Productions — created August 7, 2026, capped at 30 players per server, and open on all platforms. You queue solo or with a party into short fights across seven officially named modes (1v1, 2v2, 3v3, Team Deathmatch, Free For All, Gun Game, and an advertised Ranked), earning kills, wins, and levels. Levels unlock guns — with a documented second route through the lobby ARMORY safe that sells them for in-game cash — while cases, spins, and a limited shop sell cosmetic skins, shoes, watches, tattoos, and finishers that can now be traded with other players. The game's public milestones are the six kill badges (10 through 5,000 kills) and a global leaderboard whose TOP10 and TOP100 earners get a visible logo. There are no codes, no published patch notes, and — per the official description — permanent bans with no appeals for exploiters and stat farmers.
Each guide is a full reference with its own sources, dates, and FAQ — not a summary card.
The first-session path: what the core loop actually is (queue, fight, earn, upgrade), which free rewards exist (spoiler: there are no codes — the honest starting inventory is the free PumpShotgun), and the mistakes that cost new players money in their first hours.
The ladderThe full climb: levels and what they gate, the armory safe's cash route to the 2,500-cash ARP, the six kill-badge checkpoints with real award counts, and the reported level-40 gate in front of Ranked — separated cleanly into official versus community-documented.
The grindThe four currencies (kills, wins, levels, cash) and which mode farms each fastest, a five-step target-based session plan, the honest difficulty curve from badge award data, and the ban-policy lines no grinder should cross.
The queuesAll seven officially named modes plus the community-documented Arcade — what each format actually asks of you, which party size fits it, and an interactive chooser that matches your lobby to a mode without inventing queue rules.
Yes — half the official mode list is solo-native (1v1, FFA, Gun Game), servers hold 30 players, and the kill-badge ladder is a solo-measurable goal. The modes guide matches a solo lobby to a queue; the squad planner covers what changes when friends show up.
Nothing published says so: guns unlock through levels and the armory's in-game cash, the recommended first gun is free, and cases and skins are cosmetic. The resource calculator shows exactly what money buys — bundles, discounts, and cosmetics — and what it cannot buy (published power).
The badge award counts give the only honest curve: 10 kills is a first-session milestone (1.90M holders), 200 kills marks a regular (3.3% of players), and 5,000 kills had 287 holders game-wide at the October 14 check. The farming guide turns that into session plans with your own measured rate.
As of October 2026, no code system is documented — two independent code trackers list no codes, and no code product exists on the Roblox API. The codes page keeps the dated evidence; if that changes, it will show up after an update, which the updates page watches.
Your bracket on the official 10→5,000 ladder.
Robux math on every documented price.
Roles, ranges, and the pre-match checklist.
Community weapon rankings with sources and dates.
Weapons, items, modes, and systems — the reference layer.
The dated watch on patches, prices, and the Ranked story.
A-Grade Productions publishes no patch notes, stat tables, or payout numbers, so every guide on this hub separates three layers: official Roblox data (modes, badges, prices — checked 2026-10-14 against the Roblox APIs), community-documented gameplay (tier lists, unlock routes — labeled with publisher and article date), and creator reports (labeled as title-only). Where a claim is not documented anywhere, the guide says so instead of inventing a number.
