Driver

Brutus	Mechanic	Trooper	Assault	Miner	Engineer	Driver	Defender	Supplier
Sprinter	Trickster	Booster	Lifeguard	Camper	Blaster	Saboteur	Hyperion	Crisis

Driver Assault
Available from
Third Lieutenant
Price
50 000

Driver is an assault Drone. It increases the amount of Overdrive charge gained by destroying a tank.

Garage description

Speeds up Overdrive recharge time while destroying tanks.

Mechanics

Driver is activated after destroying an enemy. In addition to the charge gained from the 15 points of the battle score, destroying a tank will charge the overdrive as much as scoring up to 6 additional points.

Note

The description of this drone's effects with "seconds of overdrive charge" is inaccurate: the drone does not remove time from the charge, but rather adds charge based on the Battle point charge rate of a hull. This rate varies from hull to hull, so not every hull will receive the same increase in charge percentage. Rather, they will receive the same amount of charge relative to their hull's active charge rate.

• - Overdrive Charge Added: (2 → 6) × Hull's Active Charge Rate
• - Recharge (sec): 3

Additionally, like all Drones, Driver provides a passive bonus to the strength of Boosted Armor and Boosted Damage:

• Boosted Armor supply's effect strength (%): 50 → 100
• Boosted Damage supply's effect increase (%): 50 → 100

Hull's active charge rate	Wasp 0.6%/pt	Hornet 0.5%/pt	Hopper 0.7%/pt	Viking 0.5%/pt	Hunter 0.6%/pt	Crusader 0.6%/pt	Dictator 0.7%/pt	Ares 0.7%/pt	Titan 0.5%/pt	Mammoth 0.6%/pt
Standard charge per kill	9%	7.5%	10.5%	7.5%	9%	9%	10.5%	10.5%	7.5%	9%
Charge per kill with 0/20 Driver	10.2%	8.5%	11.9%	8.5%	10.2%	10.2%	11.9%	11.9%	8.5%	10.2%
Charge per kill with 20/20 Driver	12.6%	10.5%	14.7%	10.5%	12.6%	12.6%	14.7%	14.7%	10.5%	12.6%

Pros and Cons

Driver allows activation of overdrive more times than normal in a battle.
Does not consume or accelerate the use of any supplies besides batteries

Tips and Advice

• To get the most activations of the drone, favor destroying tanks one at a time (no faster than once every 5 seconds) over getting multiple quickly or in one shot.
• This drone gives you the most percentage points with Dictator, Ares, and Hopper due to their high charge per battle point
• Driver is commonly paired with Viking to make up for its slow charge rate, and is also popular in Juggernaut thanks to how important Overdrives can be in taking out the Jug

Micro-upgrades

Like all Drones, Driver can be micro-upgraded to a total of 20 steps.

Step				Cost Step	Delay time	Cost Speed-up
0	2	50	50	-	-	-
1	2.2	52.5	52.5	1000	5h	2000
2	2.4	55	55	6160	1d 6h 48m	12320
3	2.6	57.5	57.5	11320	2d 8h 36m	22640
4	2.8	60	60	16470	3d 10h 21m	32940
5	3	62.5	62.5	21630	4d 12h 9m	43260
6	3.2	65	65	26790	5d 13h 57m	53580
7	3.4	67.5	67.5	31950	6d 15h 45m	63900
8	3.6	70	70	37110	7d 17h 33m	74220
9	3.8	72.5	72.5	42260	8d 19h 18m	84520
10	4	75	75	47420	9d 21h 6m	94840
11	4.2	77.5	77.5	52580	10d 22h 54m	105160
12	4.4	80	80	57740	12d 42m	115480
13	4.6	82.5	82.5	62890	13d 2h 27m	125780
14	4.8	85	85	68050	14d 4h 15m	136100
15	5	87.5	87.5	73210	15d 6h 3m	146420
16	5.2	90	90	78370	16d 7h 51m	156740
17	5.4	92.5	92.5	83530	17d 9h 39m	167060
18	5.6	95	95	88680	18d 11h 24m	177360
19	5.8	97.5	97.5	93840	19d 13h 12m	187680
20	6	100	100	99000	20d 15h	198000
Total	+4	+50	+50	1000000	208d 8h	2000000
Sum of selected items:				0	0	0
Step start + speed-up:				0