Let's Discuss Drones!

[cool12345 41]

 Picture of a clock: This is the drone's main ability. For each time you destroy an enemy, your active supply's(ies') remaining time will increase by that amount which, in your case, is 12.6 seconds. 

For example: You approach an enemy while using double armour and speed boost. You then destroy that enemy. If you had 20 seconds remaining on your double armour and your speed boost when you made the kill, the time would be increased to 32.6 seconds. 

 

 

 Picture of a shield: This is one of the drone's two passive abilities. That number is a % and it gives an increase of that % to your hull's armour. 

 

For example: If you have M4 Hunter, it would have 3,000 HP. When you equip your Assault Drone, it would increase your Hunter's HP by 4.2% meaning that when you equip the drone, your Hunter's HP increases to 3,126 HP. 

 

4.2% of 3,000 is 126.

3,000 + 126 = 3,126

 

 

 Picture of a broken shield: This is the other passive ability of the drone. That number is a % and it gives an increase to the damage of your turret of that number. 

 

For example: Shaft M4 deals 3,300 damage. When you equip your Assault Drone, that damage becomes 3,439. 

 

Smoky M4 has a damage range of 420-650. When  equip your Assault Drone, that damage range becomes 438-677. 

 

Railgun M4 has a damage range of 800-1,600 damage. When you equip your assault Drone, that damage range becomes 834-1667. 

 

 

All drones have those two passive abilities. The passive abilities are always active when equipped and do not need to be activated like your drone's main ability. In order to receive the passive abilities, you must equip the drone. You will not acquire the hull armour increase and turret damage increase if you do not have your drone equipped.

 

 

I hope this helped.  :)

 

THANKS for taking the time to explain this to me.  Have a Great Day and All The Best!.....John.

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

I tested the change to the Camper Drone. Tanki needs to revert those changes NOW.

 

At 20/20 upgrades, if you're at full health, all of your supplies reload in 5 seconds. You can plant a mine every 5 seconds. Your repair kit becomes available in 5 seconds. Your double armour, damage and speed boost become available in 5 seconds. That is complete madness. You can be immortal with that. Before the change, it took 15 seconds instead of 30 seconds to recharge your supplies. 5 seconds is way too little.

 

You wouldn't need to worry about dying because you can use a repair kit, wait 5 seconds, and then peek-a-boo again because you already have a repair kit waiting to be used at the right time. You wouldn't have to worry about the enhancement supplies because they recharge in 5 seconds which is enough to survey your surroundings and then engage once again is that short space of time. 

 

It is too overpowered and needs to be removed. Sure, you would only get that kind of use out of it at the Legend rank but you can attain what it used to be at 10/10 upgrades now. If you're accustomed that, you wouldn't need the extra upgrades. 

 

 

Wow, just wow. You can plant 13 mines in 1 minute. It's not more than the Saboteur Drone but you can place it in the same spot and kill an hull that touches it, even a heavy hull.

 

 

Or you can just be the next Godmode_ON with that kind of power. :blink:

[CooperO 7,956]

I offer to add drones alterations :D That would be amazing, like you buy alternation for saboteur and u can place mines at one place instead of circle, or for example blaster drone with alternation you could heal allies instead of making damage..that would be amazing, i could make list of each drone alts just not sure if devs read this topic..

You should definitely consider posting them here:

Ideas for Alterations

[Kill_the_Propaganda2 684]

I would have assumed that a drone named "Brutus" would look intimidating. This looks more funny than intimidating. 

 

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

I would have assumed that a drone named "Brutus" would look intimidating. This looks more funny than intimidating. 

 

*Whistling* It does look funny, at least it's less P2W than other drones LOL.

[Nicola_M 1,563]

Looks like Marvin the Martian out of Bugs Bunny to me.

 

[Kill_the_Propaganda2 684]

Fully upgrading the Brutus Drone costs 500,000 crystals as per the Russian Wiki.

 

The total time it takes to upgrade without speed-ups is 104 days and 4 hours (exactly half of the other Drones which all take 208 days and 8 hours). 

 

 

One way to look at it is a drone that always has a 50% sale on micro-upgrades. 

[Viking4s 10,791]

I already bought it :D and upgraded it.

[Kill_the_Propaganda2 684]

I already bought it :D and upgraded it.

Fully?

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

I might buy it when the drone sale arrives.

 

The Brutus drone of course.

Edited May 31, 2019 by DieselPlatinum

[XxStriker 519]

Fully upgrading the Brutus Drone costs 500,000 crystals as per the Russian Wiki.

 

The total time it takes to upgrade without speed-ups is 104 days and 4 hours (exactly half of the other Drones which all take 208 days and 8 hours). 

 

 

One way to look at it is a drone that always has a 50% sale on micro-upgrades. 

Informative, thank you. Seems... Somewhat affordable.

[Viking4s 10,791]

Fully?

No, I can't afford that. Plus I never do it fully nor pay for the Speed up ()unless it is special discount day which will happen soon), I usually stop at 15MU or so. After that it becomes a rip off.

[XxStriker 519]

I'm using engineer while there are 3x funds, to give an edge in battle to my team (And myself, because of the increased duration of drops) and I'm getting annoyed to hell by those nut-sized brain allies who don't turn the turret and do their worst to steal the supply boxes from me, even if I would literally give them the SAME IDENTICAL effect, on top of giving it to the other 6 members of the team and myself.

 

These people are effectively undermining the entire team's scores!

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

I'm using engineer while there are 3x funds, to give an edge in battle to my team (And myself, because of the increased duration of drops) and I'm getting annoyed to hell by those nut-sized brain allies who don't turn the turret and do their worst to steal the supply boxes from me, even if I would literally give them the SAME IDENTICAL effect, on top of giving it to the other 6 members of the team and myself.

Yes, I run into this problem as well but it's with Legends and/or players between General and Generalissimo. Some of them see the drone and stop before taking the supply so I could take it. They are observant. 

 

I blame the duration of MM battles for the lack of observation taken by allies and/or enemies. Everything is out to get you (even your own teammates e.g. trolls and mults). Your objective is to kill, capture a flag, kill, capture a point, kill, defend a point, kill, score a touchdown, or kill. Anything else takes second priority, and that includes observing which drones allies (and probably even enemies) are using. I make sure to look at what drones my allies have because I know how impactful certain drones are. If I see a Supplier or Engineer Drone on an ally, I would let them take it so that both of use get the effect. And when that effect wears off, I would be able to use that supply immediately since I didn't have to manually use it before. 

 

If I see an enemy with the Booster Drone, I would run away and try to kill them from far. If I'm suing Isida, I would try to kill them so that only I will be affected by the blast and not potentially 3 of my grouped teammates if the player had killed me. 

 

This may also be happening because they have the "Show other drones" option in their settings deactivated.

 

 

 

I had expressed my want for yearning for an indicator of your allies' drones so that players can make useful judgments that can turn the tide of battle. 

 

 

These people are effectively undermining the entire team's scores!

But are they aware of this? No. They may have had their "Show other drones" option off so to them, no one is using a drone. So in your eyes, they're making the team lose but in their eyes, their team just loses because of team being underequipped/underefficient. 

[I-Hate-Druggers 192]

I want to ask if drones are a necessity in my rank. I don't think at my rank there's any time to worry about drones and batteries when everyone is focusing on muing their turrets/hulls.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

I want to ask if drones are a necessity in my rank. I don't think at my rank there's any time to worry about drones and batteries when everyone is focusing on muing their turrets/hulls.

Drones aren't a necessity at your rank but they help once they're upgraded enough. At your rank, you should have access to 7 drones. If you do decide you would like to use a drone, you can choose which one would suit your playstyle. My first drone was the Mechanic Drone because rather than attack, I loved to stick by my teammates and help them out.  

 

I would stick to upgrading my turret and hull combinations and buy drones when I have crystals to spare in the future if I were you. A high stock of batteries is a must. If you have over 500, then you can even consider buying a drone. Because having a drone is an upgrade and knowing you have an upgrade sitting write there is bound to tempt you into using it which will suck out your batteries. 

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

I want to ask if drones are a necessity in my rank. I don't think at my rank there's any time to worry about drones and batteries when everyone is focusing on muing their turrets/hulls.

I would buy the Brutus drone first, because it's the cheapest drone out there.

 

 

Anyway I found some exploits with drone you're unlikely to notice:

 

Driver drone with Hunters EMP could get you like 6 or 7 over drives in a battle depending on how many tanks you're killing. I use this only if I need to do OD missions.

 

Blaster drone with thunder or even sledgehammer rounds.

[XxStriker 519]

I would buy the Brutus drone first, because it's the cheapest drone out there.

 

 

Anyway I found some exploits with drone you're unlikely to notice:

 

Driver drone with Hunters EMP could get you like 6 or 7 over drives in a battle depending on how many tanks you're killing. I use this only if I need to do OD missions.

 

Blaster drone with thunder or even sledgehammer rounds.

Exploits? Do you mean strategies? :huh: Exploits are usually abusing bugs to your favor.

 

And well if you have a team with large amounts of engineers you can have the entire team on drugs all the time, so yeah, that one's not weak at all either.

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

Exploits? Do you mean strategies? :huh: Exploits are usually abusing bugs to your favor.

 

And well if you have a team with large amounts of engineers you can have the entire team on drugs all the time, so yeah, that one's not weak at all either.

 

Exploits doesn't have to always involve bugs or glitches. It can involve simple flaws in the game itself. Like for example:

 

·In May of 2017, magnum was released and after its charge rate was increased to 3 seconds, magnums would just lob shots off ledges down onto lower elevations where enemies would usually be at. It became a HUGE problem in team battles especially in maps like noise and silence.

 

·Groups can be exploited to where you can have a Vulcan (with incendiary band) and isida team or even a group of wasps.

 

Others include the use of alterations like:

 

· Using sledgehammer and shoot beyond stock thunders range of max damage.

 

· Using auto cannon to get criticals more often.

 

· Using incendiary band to deal fire damage.

 

· Using uranium to deal more damage per shot.

[XxStriker 519]

Exploits doesn't have to always involve bugs or glitches. It can involve simple flaws in the game itself. Like for example:

 

·In May of 2017, magnum was released and after its charge rate was increased to 3 seconds, magnums would just lob shots off ledges down onto lower elevations where enemies would usually be at. It became a HUGE problem in team battles especially in maps like noise and silence.

 

·Groups can be exploited to where you can have a Vulcan (with incendiary band) and isida team or even a group of wasps.

 

Others include the use of alterations like:

 

· Using sledgehammer and shoot beyond stock thunders range of max damage.

 

· Using auto cannon to get criticals more often.

 

· Using incendiary band to deal fire damage.

 

· Using uranium to deal more damage per shot.

That's just... Game mechanics? These aren't exploits, they're completely intended by the devs.

 

The first 2 are literally strategy, and the others are... Alterations, things you pay with crystals to utilize. How are these exploits? They're all completely intended by mr hazel, disruptor of balance.

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

That's just... Game mechanics? These aren't exploits, they're completely intended by the devs.

 

The first 2 are literally strategy, and the others are... Alterations, things you pay with crystals to utilize. How are these exploits? They're all completely intended by mr hazel, disruptor of balance.

Strategies that can't be countered. In other words, exploits.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

If you stay alive with full HP for 2 minutes, this is what you can achieve with a max-levelled Camper Drone.

 

 

And I had many more planted around the map. 

Edited August 1, 2019 by TheCongoSpider

[Retaliate 503]

Is booster drone worth it anymore? They changed it from 5 seconds to 3 seconds active time, 3 seconds can hardly get me 1 kill if that. The only time it would be helpful is if the enemy team were in a pile. I feel like im paying 300 crystals a battery for 1 kill most the time.

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

Is booster drone worth it anymore? They changed it from 5 seconds to 3 seconds active time, 3 seconds can hardly get me 1 kill if that. The only time it would be helpful is if the enemy team were in a pile. I feel like im paying 300 crystals a battery for 1 kill most the time.

Nope, in fact it never was worth it.

[ghost-guns 1,486]

Is the saboteur drone worth it?

 

Is it active throughout an entire battle (for example when I press 5 will it always lay multiple mines) or is it only active for short periods of time?