Let's Discuss Drones!

[x_Sorinel_x 552]

Just got Crisis Drone from Ultra Containers (Iron Days 2021 event). It's good ? I read Wiki, but still don't undersant what it says. What are bonus supplies ? Or switching speed ?

I have only Brutus, level 3. Is Crisis better ?

Edited February 25, 2021 by x_Sorinel_x

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

24 minutes ago, x_Sorinel_x said:

Just got Crisis Drone from Ultra Containers (Iron Days 2021 event). It's good ? I read Wiki, but still don't undersant what it says. What are bonus supplies ? Or switching speed ?

I have only Brutus, level 3. Is Crisis better ?

A fully upgraded Crisis will reduce incoming damage by 75% instead of by 50% when double armour is enabled, increase damage by 150% instead of 100% when double damage is enabled, and increase speed by 110% instead of 40% when speed boost is enabled. However, you can only have one of the three active at any given time. Switching speed refers to how quickly you can switch between those three supplies. For example, with a fully upgraded Crisis, you can switch to double damage or speed boost 0.5 seconds after activating double armour if you so desire.

I would argue that Crisis is one of the best if not the best drones in the game.

 

Edited February 25, 2021 by ThirdOnion

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

On 2/25/2021 at 2:58 AM, x_Sorinel_x said:

I have only Brutus, level 3.

A level 3 Brutus? That's weak man. I didn't use my Brutus until it's 20/20.

[MRL-Missoula 96]

On 2/25/2021 at 2:18 AM, ThirdOnion said:

A fully upgraded Crisis will reduce incoming damage by 75% instead of by 50% when double armour is enabled, increase damage by 150% instead of 100% when double damage is enabled, and increase speed by 110% instead of 40% when speed boost is enabled. However, you can only have one of the three active at any given time. Switching speed refers to how quickly you can switch between those three supplies. For example, with a fully upgraded Crisis, you can switch to double damage or speed boost 0.5 seconds after activating double armour if you so desire.

I would argue that Crisis is one of the best if not the best drones in the game.

 

its good but it eats supplies like candy , especially if you switch often

[EternalGlory 62]

 

How even they get it-crisis? Chance is probably around 0.01% or 1/10 000 .

[x_Sorinel_x 552]

5 hours ago, FrozenRailgun said:

A level 3 Brutus? That's weak man. I didn't use my Brutus until it's 20/20.

Level 3 is good for about 2 hours daily, just to finish missions. Or 1 hour if I got 2 easy missions.

For level 20, maybe in 100 years. I never waste crystals on micro-upgrades speed-ups... And I only buy at 50% sales or higher.

[Akame 4,578]

On 2/25/2021 at 8:18 AM, ThirdOnion said:

A fully upgraded Crisis will reduce incoming damage by 75% instead of by 50% when double armour is enabled, increase damage by 150% instead of 100% when double damage is enabled, and increase speed by 110% instead of 40% when speed boost is enabled. However, you can only have one of the three active at any given time. Switching speed refers to how quickly you can switch between those three supplies. For example, with a fully upgraded Crisis, you can switch to double damage or speed boost 0.5 seconds after activating double armour if you so desire.

I would argue that Crisis is one of the best if not the best drones in the game.

 

Crisis is up there, but maybe only on some modes where like a flag/ball is involved. Personally I believe Booster and Defender drone are the current top tier regardless of modes.

I say this because, I have used Crisis very often, since it's release, also along with hopper when that came out. Right now, It can be possible to handle around 2 of these in a game provided you target them mainly. I.e yesterday, I was in ASL defence and saw a few of these 2020 combos and a bunch of them ran, including XVIIMOON, because the drone may have good speed, but if they get targeted correctly and have no distractions, then they aren't going to make much progression. This one other dude gave up picking the flag and just came to the defending side for kills with his AP Magnum Hopper Crisis, but he got bullied still because he got targeted by my team more often. For sure the speed is very high, could use a nerf, but then again they have no armor or damage buff, in many modes it's not a good thing to use.

Oh also, a max crisis' damage reduction is the same as a max defender drones damage reduction, so to tabulate; 

Hence can be seen that if you face a defender/max armor crisis, they will have a total of 68.33% (2dp) damage reduction, which becomes a damage reduction of 84.17% (2dp). The drone passive of 5% armor plays a fair part too in the reduction, so it's always ideal to use maxed drones too. Especially if Brutus is used, 10% bonus attack and armor are certainly viable on some combos like Vulcan/Twins, or turrets with a high firing rate.

It is always worse to face a horde of 9999 GS defender vikings and especially when on heavy hulls which are very common too, even with the current defender active time reduction, it is still a considerable force to face.

8 hours ago, FrozenRailgun said:

A level 3 Brutus? That's weak man. I didn't use my Brutus until it's 20/20.

Tbh as long as The brutus provides a few over 5% buffs, but it's still fairly costly for some to upgrade, it'll make you perform on par or better than most drone players, ofcourse will be difficult to face Crisis/Booster/Defender, but it guarantees that you will take less damage and deal more damage, even if by a small margin against even 9999 GS players if they are not using Brutus.

As you can see, a 5% drone player against a player of the same drone bonus will always deal less damage.

Main thing to point out is that a maxed brutus does take 5.5% less damage from a non brutus maxed drone player, which is a considerable amount, can make a difference at times.

Edited February 28, 2021 by Akame

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

10 hours ago, x_Sorinel_x said:

For level 20, maybe in 100 years

It take just couple of months or so to get Brutus maxed.

[x_Sorinel_x 552]

4 minutes ago, FrozenRailgun said:

It take just couple of months or so to get Brutus maxed.

If I micro-upgrade it only at 50% and no speed-ups, not couple of months, but couple of years... How many 50% sales each year ? Maybe 3-4 ? So 3-4 micro-upgrades each year.

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

4 minutes ago, x_Sorinel_x said:

If I micro-upgrade it only at 50% and no speed-ups, not couple of months, but couple of years... How many 50% sales each year ? Maybe 3-4 ? So 3-4 micro-upgrades each year.

Well assume you have 500k crystal to throw without sales. And it takes a bit more than 3 months to max out. A Defender and other drones takes whopping more than 6 months to max out.

Edited February 28, 2021 by FrozenRailgun

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

[EternalGlory 62]

On 2/28/2021 at 8:50 AM, x_Sorinel_x said:

Level 3 is good for about 2 hours daily, just to finish missions. Or 1 hour if I got 2 easy missions.

For level 20, maybe in 100 years. I never waste crystals on micro-upgrades speed-ups... And I only buy at 50% sales or higher.

Yes, it`s the cheapest way possible and this is the best in theory, but... i bet no one is doing this.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

Driver gang. 

 

 

[thunderhunter123 741]

Should we get different Augments for Drones in the future?

I really want to get an Augment for Defender where it can increase its defense duration for a longer time while adding another kind of con in the effect.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, thunderhunter123 said:

Should we get different Augments for Drones in the future?

I really want to get an Augment for Defender where it can increase its defense duration for a longer time while adding another kind of con in the effect.

So something like this?
 

50% duration increase (Meaning it lasts for 30 seconds)

Armor increase effect reduced

 

[wolverine848 13,097]

34 minutes ago, Rutgers said:

Yo does anyone know (from experience) the best drone to stack up points in a battle without it depleting your drugs so quickly? I tried using mechanic, and it was good for score, but used like 1k repairs in a few battles lol. Other than that, I never used another drone for score. 

 

Also when i say drugs, i dont mean batteries. I know that will be used no matter what drone I use. Thank you

@wolverine848 you seem to be knowledgeable when it comes to Tanki

I use Defender 24/7 now.  It uses up a lot of DA, but I doubt I will ever run out.  It's a general-purpose drone and keeps you alive longer to do whatever you are trying to do.  Of course all the stinking AP augments nullify it...

 

[wolverine848 13,097]

On 4/2/2021 at 7:00 PM, thunderhunter123 said:

Should we get different Augments for Drones in the future?

I really want to get an Augment for Defender where it can increase its defense duration for a longer time while adding another kind of con in the effect.

You need more than 20 seconds of Ultra-D?  Really?

Only kind of balancing for longer duration would be something like a speed penalty.  After all, more armor should slow you down...

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

1 hour ago, Rutgers said:

Yo does anyone know (from experience) the best drone to stack up points in a battle without it depleting your drugs so quickly? I tried using mechanic, and it was good for score, but used like 1k repairs in a few battles lol. Other than that, I never used another drone for score. 

 

Trickster. 

[wild001 1,422]

1 hour ago, Rutgers said:

best drone to stack up points in a battle without it depleting your drugs so quickly?

Trickster

it is best for both tactically and score wise, it use only nitro, and 1 only I think, the nitro you use. (I have 7000 nitro, only 800 RK)

trickster allow you to use RK twice, (keep nitro after you use DD,DA,RK once, then when you need reset , then use nitro, you can use all supply again,

wait 15 sec, pickup another nitro on ground, you can use all supply 3rd time)

also, when use nitro, best when with teammate around you. so they enjoy supply time reset as well, and give you 10 point for each teammate, work for both you and your teammate.

I got best 800 battle score per battle, my teammate got 1000 battle score with isadictmech setup

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team up with mechanic drone player, you can help them reset RK to share as well. so both winwin

Edited April 8, 2021 by wild001

[Okami 3,041]

On 4/8/2021 at 11:22 AM, Rutgers said:

Yo does anyone know (from experience) the best drone to stack up points in a battle without it depleting your drugs so quickly? I tried using mechanic, and it was good for score, but used like 1k repairs in a few battles lol. Other than that, I never used another drone for score. 

 

Also when i say drugs, i dont mean batteries. I know that will be used no matter what drone I use. Thank you

@wolverine848 you seem to be knowledgeable when it comes to Tanki

Trickster!

+ Out of all drones, it has the biggest boost in score for every teammate you share it with (10 points. That’s the same as Dictator’s Overdrive)

+ It doesn’t need any micro-upgrades. The only thing that changes when you MU is the range that the effect gets shared. A level 0 Trickster has the same range as Dictator’s Overdrive.

+ It’s easy to use. Just press 4 when you spawn and you will be able to use Double Armor/Damage immediately after instead of waiting for 5 seconds. If you pick up a Speed Boost box when your drone is ready to be activated again, it’ll reset the cool downs and you will be able to use a supply again once the first one ends. 

Edited April 13, 2021 by GrayWolf8733

[FogOfWar_XXX 793]

So in the last vlog, says equip a passive drone like Brutus and you will not consume batteries.  I equip Brutus, head into battle, and sure enough, it consumes batteries.  Is the update not in effect yet?

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

7 minutes ago, FogOfWar_XXX said:

So in the last vlog, says equip a passive drone like Brutus and you will not consume batteries.  I equip Brutus, head into battle, and sure enough, it consumes batteries.  Is the update not in effect yet?

Update is yet to come.

[FogOfWar_XXX 793]

Just now, FrozenRailgun said:

Update is yet to come.

Ahh,, okay, I was wondering what was going on.

[fghjkl54 1,517]

5 minutes ago, Rutgers said:

 

and i am sad that trickster drone transformed from supportive to offensive drone the normal trickster drone effect is gone (when i planed to buy it in the next discount)

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

1 hour ago, Rutgers said:

why use crisis when with trickster drone, you can have DA and DP on with a 70% nitro boost...all at the same time??? RIP to the people who actually bought enough energy in the Tanki Space event to obtain crisis drone lol, thats just dirty right there

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