Drones

see also: Micro-upgrades of Drones

Drones are your helpers in battles. They boost your stats, enhance supplies and help in many other ways. They can be purchased with crystals in the Garage in the “Drones” section. You are also able to upgrade them in order to make their effects more stronger.

To use the drone, you need to equip it, the same as any other gear. An equipped drone will appear in battle above your tank and will follow you, everywhere. Drones will automatically trigger following a specific event or action in battles -- you don’t need to activate them yourself. After the activation drones will become inactive until they are automatically recharged.

All drones have 2 standard parameters on top of their own unique features: additional turret damage and additional protection from incoming damage. If the drone is equipped and activated, the damage that your tank does is increased, and the damage that it takes is reduced by the number (percentage) specified in the characteristics of the drone. These parameters can be upgraded, the initial value is 1%, the maximum is 5% in the case of a fully-upgraded drone (excluding the base drone Brutus, which goes up to 10%).

Drone Settings

You can turn off the drones to be shown for yourself and all enemies in the interface settings if they distract you from battle.

Setting	Purpose
	Disables your drone, but still shows other drones. It is important to know that the drone will still be functioning in the background, it just wont be visible. Use this option if your drone is constantly getting in your line of sights.
	Disables others' drones, but still shows your drone. Here too, your teammates' and enemies' drone is still affecting their stats, supplies etc. - it just isn't visible to you. Use this option if you're getting distracted by the small dots hovering over other tanks.

Classification and Types

Drones are classified into four major types: Assault - who help out with attacking; Defensive - who help out with defense; Passive - who don't have any of their own unique effects; and lastly, Support drones - who will support a player in many situations.

Assault Drones

Name	Description	Effect	Price	Rank
Assault	Destroying an enemy tank reduces cooldown time of all active and recharging supplies.	Recharge: 12s Reduction of supplies cooldown: (3 → 15) s	20 000	Warrant Officer 1
Driver	Speeds up Overdrive recharge time while destroying tanks.	Recharge: 15s Overdrive Recharge Reduction: (10 → 30) s / kill	50 000	Warrant Officer 5
Sprinter	After picking up the flag, the ball or capturing a control point gives the effect of Double Damage, Double Armor and Speed Boost for a short time and repairs the tank.	Recharge: 20s Active Supplies Time: (10 → 20) s Speed Boost consumed: 1	90 000	Captain
Booster	After using Double Damage increases the effect for a short time.	Recharge: 3s Power up duration: 3 s Reduction of Double Damage cooldown: 10 s Additional supply power: (50 → 200) % Double Damage consumed: 3	140 000	Brigadier
Blaster	Blows up the tank after its destruction or self-destruct, damaging all nearby enemies.	Recharge: 35s Explosion damage: (1200-1800 → 2700-3300) hp Impact force: 150 Max splash damage radius: 5m Min splash damage radius: (12 → 15) m Weak damage: 10% Double Damage consumed: 1	200 000	Marshal

Defensive Drones

Name	Description	Effect	Price	Rank
Trooper	After spawning, applies to your tank the effects of Double Damage, Double Armor and Speed Boost for a short time.	Recharge: 20s Active Time: (10 → 20) s Double Armour consumed: 1	20 000	Warrant Officer 1
Miner	Allows for a certain number of mines to survive after the owner’s tank was destroyed.	Recharge: 10s Number of saved up mines: (3 → 30) Reduction of Mine cooldown: 10 s	50 000	Warrant Officer 5
Defender	After activating Double Armor increases the effect for a short time.	Recharge: 20s Power up duration: 20 s Additional supply power: (50→ 200) % Reduction of Double Armour cooldown: 10 s	90 000	Captain
Lifeguard	After receiving fatal damage, protects the tank from destruction and instantly repairs it.	Recharge: 30s Healing: (250 → 3000) hp Repair Kits consumed: 3	140 000	Brigadier
Saboteur	After placing a mine will also place several additional mines around the spot.	Recharge: 40s Number of mines: (3 → 8) Mine activation duration: (2 → 0.5) s Mines consumed: 4	200 000	Marshal

Passive Drones

Name	Description	Effect	Price	Rank
Brutus	This drone gives an additional a protection and damage bonus from 1% to 10% when active. The bonus granted depends on the upgrade level.	Additional protection: (1 → 10) % Additional damage: (1 → 10) %	1 000	Sergeant
Hyperion	Eliminates Smart Cooldowns and decreases cooldown for Double Armor, Double Damage and Speed Boost based on its upgrade level. Activating a Supply causes multiple supplies of the same type to be consumed.	Reduction of supplies cooldown and reload: (0 → 30) s	320 000	Legend

Support Drones

Name	Description	Effect	Price	Rank
Mechanic	After using Repair Kit, will grant an additional bonus to instant repair effect and expand the effect to nearby allies.	Recharge: 30s HP Bonus: (100 → 500) hp Heal Radius: (15 → 25) m Reduction of Repair Kit cooldown: 10 s Battle Score: 10 points	20 000	Warrant Officer 1
Engineer	Significantly increases the duration of supply drops and shares the effect of the picked up supply box with all allies.	Recharge: 10s Bonus Time (RK) (2 → 4) s Bonus Time (Other) (20 → 40) s Battle Score: 1 point	50 000	Warrant Officer 5
Supplier	Prolongs the active time of the supplies Double Damage, Double Armor and Speed Boost, and also “shares” the effect of activated supplies with nearby allies.	Recharge: 10s Active Time: (1 → 5) s Effects' Radius: (15 → 25) m Battle Score: 5 points	90 000	Captain
Trickster	After activating Speed Boost cancels the reload on all other supplies and shares this effect with nearby allies.	Recharge: 10s Effective range: (15 → 25) m Reduction of Speed Boost cooldown: 5 s Battle Score: 5 points	140 000	Brigadier
Camper	Speeds up the recharge time of supplies when the tank is at full health.	Cooldown on respawn: 7s Bonus supplies recharge speed: (100 → 500) %	200 000	Marshal

Batteries

Battery

Batteries are a new supply type, which will be automatically used in battles when you have any of the drones equipped. Same as other supplies, you will be able to purchases batteries in the Garage and in the Shop, find within containers and, of course, win in contests.

• One battery costs 300 .
• One battery is used per minute by any drone.

Interesting Facts

• Drones were part of a secret project, named "Project Energizer". They were first hinted when the developers edited the Development Plans page in the Wiki, where they added a mysterious point under the Work in Progress header. In a special thread in the forum, only one tanker correctly guessed what a part of it would be, Musa.
• Drones run on batteries, and they use them one at a time per minute, even if you're unwilling to use them. It is important to unequip a drone if you're not planning on using one, otherwise, they will waste your batteries!
• Initially, twelve drones were planned to be released, but only three were released in the first wave - «Assault», «Trooper» and «Mechanic».
• Contradictory to the first speculations, animated paints do move on the drone, but the movement is very hard to spot due to the small size.
• On the 23rd of June, an additional three drones were added, namely «Driver», «Engineer» and «Supplier».

• For the duration of the 2018 World UFO Day celebrations, the visual appearance of Drones was changed to a flying saucer.
• On November 29th, 2019, the «Hyperion» drone was added to the game during the Black Friday celebrations. The following day, it was also added to a special bundle available for purchase in the Shop from the rank of Marshal.