We’ve got spider drones, I think I’ve sen Swarm, Slaughterer and Lucifer
I think they’re cute and pretty nice, and way more better to “drive” around than the wheel ones. I have yet to try the lucifer one but the slaughterer one I do not like due to the insane knockback screwing you over after every shot, and I am neutral on the swarm, the reload is bad and not owning any or playing them means you suck at aiming them
Also they’ve updated the boosters on the drones I think, the ones with boosters really fly off now
the swarm is stupid deadly if you can aim it properly. the damage they can do is absurd. i was hitting 1000+ on the enemies vehicle at times. the lucifer is… bad… its reload rate is mind numbingly slow and the ability on them never really procs. slaughterer just plain sucks. phoenix’s are powerful and the tow missiles to are pretty strong but the reload time on them is long…
you people actually playing that for junk
I got to try them all out now, and found out there is also a Morta spider drone, which is pretty neat and can now give out more detailed opinions on them. I like how mobile they are, you can avoid enemy fire a lot with these things and be extra annoying because of how mobile you are compared to wheeled drones and move way better than them on all accords, except maybe speed when moving straight forward in a straight line
Swarm - Best overall spider drone, basic Swarm gameplay not much else to say
Lucifer - Weak, bad, awful, and my least favorite, the aiming angles of this gun at least on the spider drone are really bad, you simply can’t aim down enough and by that can’t really hit enemy drones at all, and sometimes even the leviathan depending on the terrain and positioning. When you do hit the leviathan, you basically do no damage. The Thresher bot does what this tries to do but way more better, and even goes beyond with added impulse to be annoying towards enemy players. Just plain bad, having superior spider movement means nothing when you can’t really hit anything most of the time or do any damage
Morta - it’s ok, but I do think that they did tone down the overall damage (some weapons are reconfigured on how much/little damage they do in this mode, compared to stock weapon performance) a bit too much, but it’s still usable, but not as usable as you’d imagine it would be. It’s a nerfed Morta
Slaughterer - This is the token bastard build of the spider drones, while the damage of the slaughterer does not do much anything to the leviathan, and this drone knocks itself onto it’s butt with every shot you take, it also knocks other drones down or sometimes sends them flying into the air. This is the anti-player build rather than an anti-levi build. You can be an absolute menace towards other players with this and fully charged shots, while it might take multiple shots to kill anyone (damage a bit bad) if you decide to target a specific enemy drone while it might not die right away you’re shutting it down from being able to shoot or fight. By the time you and him have gotten up your gun is reloaded again and fully charged, you pretty much stunlock people with it to some degree
I’ve hardly gotten to try the spider drones. Seems the mode now just locks you into selecting from whatever 5 options it RNGs for you at the start of the round, for the entire match duration. Pretty broken and unenjoyable.
Now I am wondering if they bring any of the new (imugi, fukibari, punji feels like a stretch but it could work with 2 on one drone) guns to the proper droneapocalypse at the usual april fools time
Imugi will be absolutely broken in deleting enemy drones if they add that so I hope not, but usually they add the newer guns to the “main event” even if they rolled the spider drones out already
I also wonder if they’ll bring back some of the old drones we have not seen in a while, off of the top of my head double gungnir, flute, pyre, spike. I miss Pointdexter (Flute drone) he was my favorite
And if they add the weapons that have not been seen before (I can’t remember if I’ve ever seen a Waltz or a Ripper drone) but I could go for a bit more variety. Maybe a Vulture drone? Maybe take out some other drones that have been in absolutely every droneapocalypse and all serve the same purpose, like the spike drone could replace the scorpion drone, Pyre instead of Nest, Locust instead of cricket, shake things up a little instead of just favoring the old favorites
Or since they spam the droneapocalypse mode so much, we might even get something entirely different on april fools day who knows