DroneBeat

DroneBeat

Overview

Type: Machine

Hit Points ✯✰✰✰✰

Attack Power ✯✯✯✰✰

Mobility ✯✯✯✰✰

Utility ✯✯✯✰✰

Learning Curve ✯✯✯✯✰

DroneBeat is a drone launching tank, which fires exploding drones that fly in a very unusual trajectory pattern. DroneBeat has very low HP, but high damage potential and can achieve unique bungee knockouts with its SS. DroneBeat's standard shots do not destroy much land or offer much utility, but its SS can do both to an exceptional degree. Because of its very peculiar shot trajectories, DroneBeat can be a somewhat difficult tank to master.

Shot 1

S1 launches a single beacon, about which a single drone which is also launched will fly towards in a oblate trajectory (as if orbiting it in a sense, or spiraling towards it). It will deal moderate damage, around 240, with a direct hit. Because it hooks inward as it approaches the target, it can be blocked by land or other obstacles that are behind the target. On the other hand, tanks that are hiding behind cover in front of them can be reached more easily than with standard-trajectory shots.

Shot 2

S2 works similarly to S1 except that the drone flies in a different pattern. Here, it sharply curves upward then back down initially before chasing directly after the beacon. It will do around as much damage as S1, if slightly less.

Special Shot

With its SS, DroneBeat launches 5 drones quickly inline with one another, which follow a beacon in the same fashion as S1, except the adjusted angle of the drones is much lower, allowing them to be "shotgunned". The collective damage of the drones will be rather significant, at around 500 damage if they all hit, and each one will destroy a significant area of land if they make contact with land rather than a tank or totem.

Tips and Techniques

1. SS (and to an extent, S1) can be launched in a way that they fly all the way around the far edge of the map and come up directly from underneath. With SS, this can be used to secure a bungee shot with the correct angling.

2. Wind tends to directly affect the beacon rather than the drones themselves, so when adusting for wind, it helps to consider the beacon's trajectory (and how that will change the drones' flight) rather than aiming directly with the drones' aimer line.

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