My build is beside that walker and this player in the foreground as a top speed of 20kph and we can find more like this if we look more careful, in a game in the nameless tower there was a bot with breakers ( relics ) i had 3 specials and one epic, other bot with tsunamis or typhons
WTF?, it’s PVE not a competitive mode
Yha in pvp with my 9k dragon heli I get to fight people 15 to 18k quite abit…so many people have like pin point accuracy even when you manuver while your cloaked at half the map away XD
Just as bad in PVE. I launch rockets from a copter, go cloaked and perform evasive swerves, and bots STILL hit me as if they know exactly where I am, while I’m still cloaked.
Firetruck this bull hockey. 37 points for my kill assist. Had to encircle a spider cannon bot to get the three more points far away from the neutral base. Had to flee when the whole red army came for me. I had taken some hits from the spider bot to protect my turrets, but I was still pretty healthy. Adesun three hits me out of cloak and dead. Me < 9,000. Adesun > 15,000. Ridiculous! Me = Special weapons. Adesun = Legendary weapons. Ridiculous!
I’m still stumped about droners. They’re an enigma.
There’s, like, a bunch of lowskill weapons that barely require input and let alot of mistakes slide. Goliath avalanche, tracked nests, cyclones/reapers, imugis, hybrids…
Drones still insist on playing the WORST class in the game in terms of firepower. Like DAMN bro at least pick the nest build, it’s the same “press the button once every 10 or so seconds” but you have to HOLD it for a second. But nah. Drones.
Not even OP ones like fatums (which can deal ~700dps + heating up parts for your team while also being extremely oppressive due to their cooldown perk), vultures (oppressive and don’t require you to be as close to the enemy team) or at least yaoguais, maybe annihilators.
Naaah we’ll pick the worst damaging ones. Or better yet, we’ll pick a SENTRY GUN which is more disruptive to your team than to the enemy team. smh my head
Turrets do not mind lag or 9 fps. Plus, I play passive melee. The point you miss with your off topic posts is that my below 9000 ps vehicle was in a fight with 17000 ps! Which is ridiculous whatever weapon I am using! Which is the topic! Not pick on droners post! Make your own topic!
I started with turrets until i had a game where there were only two of us, those stupid things left me helpless, i would drop them, the other guy would run and that’s it.
Then i switched to flying drones, and it was a sense of freedom that i never had before. High octane fast paced, i felt invincible ( mind you at the time, it was pools of fire everywhere, playing SGs were a two edge sword, you had to be careful, because, as soon you pinned someone down you were open to attacks, mainly from incinerators and other stuff ) very refreshing. In top of that… races as i knew it ended…so…
Surprisingly Falcons suited like no other weapon to my game style. Hawks were a step up from Falcons and they are the best drone there is. Every time i see a Yaoguais i know i will have the skies, granediers, sidekicks, fatums, Owls, you name it. Only other Hawk build can be a danger.
R2D2 e.g. is one of best accomplished co-drivers they made not because it’s for drones but the way he functions ( pretty strait forward ) unlike others that have several conditionals to make them work. Billie is other very well made.
Which reinforced the way i like to play ( pretty aggressively, close quarter ).
Downsides are many, they have less HP than the old gasgen for once.
Do you know how many cannon builds i destroyed with Hawks alone? I lost count.
Now, annihilators, they look a pretty good propotition, only three that will mean a smaller build, perhaps i could use my aggressor again
I don’t see the point of vultures or any other drone that you throw and they stand there hanging in the sky, they still hide a lot, annd they flee when you go to them
Every drone is used in a different way but for the way i like to play Hawks works so good. Specially in Next step due to fast paced and helis and walkers the firepower is not so concentrated on the ground.
Non direction rockets seems fine to me too, i’m testing the Specials wasps and they seem ok, reapers too, Cyclones…been there done that. They are meh…i don’t like them , i don’t hate them.
For me the problem of many weapons is the firing mechanics…e.g. Varuns…WTF?
Snowfalls…pretty similar to waltz…i don’t like it. they were a let down, that delay…nah
Sorry man, but if that is the main reason…
any other drone will do a better job with lags and 9fps and some don’t have that moment of "what i’m doing here? Right, i’m a drone i have to lock on someone "
I don’t care if it’s offtopic (imagine caring for that, in 2026, on a dead forum for a semi-dead game)
you wouldn’t have that much problems if you had a good build, my 10k leech hyena build was an enough nuisanse for 15+k builds.
But on the end of a day, it’s a easilly predictable 6x6x3 target with 50 hp.
You’ll achieve the same results with vectors of all things. How so? Look for average damage of every flying drone you’ve mentioned and compare it with average damage of vectors.
Not even mentioning how with flying drones, your skill floor is on the same level as the skill ceiling. With vectors your skill floor is a bit higher, but so is the skill ceiling.
Because they were weak players. I’ve seen with my own eyes how two scorpio builds were fighting for 2 minutes missing 90% of their shots. And the two thirds of what they hit was on irrelevant parts like construction ones, and not in crit spots such as cab/weapons/hovers.
Of course i understand that it’s the way you play and you enjoy it (and at least you try something other than drones) but there are players that don’t even want to change, like… Come on… There’s, uh, bigger fish in the sea. Why stay in the arcade and feeding the enemy team with no consequences when you can enjoy the other gamemodes lol
btw i dunno where you live, but
in my country we can get a used gtx 1050 for 5000 rubles (~66$) and a gtx 750 for 2000 rubles (~26$). with former being able to run the game in a reasonable enough graphics on 1080p mode with 75 fps.
that’s like, spare change for you (if you live in usa as your profile suggests). according to ebay they’re roughly in the same price range there lol
well that’s the point of this topic.
PVE the builds don’t have to be good, perfected or finished.
It would be nice to have a sandbox to test our ideas, improvements and so on to be able to bring those to PVP, and later on, to competitive.
i say it would be nice because the devs changed the description on patrols, the old description was exactly for practice that’s why the rewards are minimal and there’s no fuel gains in patrol.
your 10 k leech hyena build is as much food for a 18k or 20k bot as that guy in my screenshot that has 20kph top speed.
with those über killer bots with relics and legendary will leave no alternative to test concepts in PVP… and i think nobody wants that.
bots in the garage or in adventure are no options.
Unlike some guys here i rarely post new builds, you know why? because i’m always tweaking the ones i have
I was able to put the same armour of a heavy in a medium cab. a prototype of mine had no plows, 8 generations later it has 7 plows and so on.
I’m currently working on a build, remember a build of mine that you improved?
well, i need a build for other factions other than steppens and scavs.
So, first gen ( PVP ) SG build, second gen is what you know ( Raids ) it has 28 tons, 15K PS ( with cyclones )
Now it has 22 tons 10k, with no major compromises ( i’m also testing the thing about bots resistance to damage according to how High PS players builds are ).
But that build will be the basis for a proper build for battle against other factions .
Well, i like what i like and sometimes with a passion but even then everything has a limit. that’s why hawks and sidekicks felt so fresh to me at that time. But i just made 40k wires in the next step, i’m a bit tired of the grind, of the drones. i need something else that can go with my play style.
But i know what you mean, there’s two guys that i came across a few months ago, they had the same build when i was running 5k / 6 k builds ( pre slaughter brawl event ).
But you never know what’s going on on the other side of your monitor, other factors out of crossout may have their influence.
being poor internet, old computer, play for kicks once in a while, or other
They won’t ever bother fixing or developing PvE considering it’s mainly a PvP game, and that is a wasted opportunity. And I’m not even sure they know their own game in the PvE regard. PvPers would have to comment on the PvP aspect.
I remember when they removed 3 maps some 5 years ago to work on them and update them. It was Fortress, Ship Graveyard and one other I can’t remember but the point is WHY remove those from the game at all? They can still work on them while they are currently up (at the time) then just simply add the updated versions to the patch. It made zero sense! That’s what you’re unfortunately dealing with here. It’s all about short term profit not actual reputation building, promotion or growth.
For flip’s sake this game could’ve been Triple A a LONG time ago if they had any real vision outside of the money box. And the silly thing is that would’ve actually made them MORE money!
I won’t be surprised if this comment gets deleted or I get banned from forums for critiquing even in this slight manner. Sorry for the semi-rant!
I was never a droner & highly annoyed at the users of . Until looking at the different backgrounds for our banners. After checking what is needed to gain a new banner backdrop I decided to dive into drones feet first with a fast 2 module drone build with a cloak. Low PS build does well if you don’t do something stupid and get killed. Yeah drop & run ! After most bots are now using buffed relics I like to keep them busy swatting the flies while my teamate’s work them over. The perfect diversion IMHO. I am in it as a challenge for banner back grounds for the full experience of playing crossout. “Another feather in the proverbial cap” “To each their own” it is said.
19000 with >9000. I had four Special weapons while my killer had two Relic weapons and over double my power score. Then the enemy bots are double my power score and the 19000 power score person is my ally and becomes useless and I get nothing for my time and kill assist.
Why am I in these battles? Ridiculous!
