Frontrunner
- Toughness
- Low
- Watch for
- Weaves toward the core and explodes on contact.
- Counter
- Shoot early. Never let a pack reach the core.
Game manual
How to hold
the sequencer.
Bots attack you and the core in the middle of the arena. Lose either and the run ends. Each block is a wave; clear it to finalise it.
Move and aim
Move with W A S D or the arrow keys. Your drone aims at the mouse; hold the left button to fire along the aim line. You cannot pass through the core.
On touch, the left thumb moves and the right thumb aims and fires. Lift the right thumb and the drone auto-aims at the nearest bot.
Dash and pulse
Space or Shift. A fast burst in the direction you are moving, during which nothing can hurt you. It recharges in about 1.5 seconds; the cyan ring at the bottom left shows when it is ready.
Bots
Fork
- Toughness
- Medium
- Watch for
- Splits into two fast forklets when destroyed.
- Counter
- Finish the forklets before they scatter.
Oracle Spoofer
- Toughness
- Medium
- Watch for
- Hangs back at range and fires at you. Spreads its shots from block 9.
- Counter
- Strafe sideways and close the gap.
Sandwich
- Toughness
- High
- Watch for
- Flashes, then charges in a straight line.
- Counter
- Sidestep the charge or dash through it.
The Reorg
Arrives every fifth block. It cycles through bullet rings, a rotating spiral, a swarm of summoned frontrunners and a straight charge. Below half health it speeds up.
- Rings: find the gap and stay outside the inner ring.
- Spiral: circle with it, not against it.
- Charge: it flashes first. Dash sideways.
- Beat it to repair your hull and the core.
Pickups
Gold shards drop from every bot and fill your level bar. Rarer drops come from tough bots and the boss.
Gold shardExperience. Pulled in when you get close.
RepairRestores 30 hull and 15 core.
OverdriveFaster fire and movement for 7 seconds.
Pulse chargeFills half of your pulse ring.
Upgrades
Each level offers three, weighted by rarity. Epic upgrades turn up about a quarter as often as common ones. On the daily seed, everyone gets the same offers at the same level.
Common · max 8OverclockFire 18% faster
Common · max 8Heavy Calldata22% more damage
Common · max 5Finality Crit+8% crit for 2.5x
Common · max 4Gas OptimiserMove 10% faster
Common · max 6Rollup Armour+25 hull
Common · max 4Wide MempoolBigger shard pickup range
Common · max 3Fast FinalityPulse charges 30% faster
Rare · max 4Fork ShotOne more projectile
Rare · max 3Deep PierceShots pass through a bot
Rare · max 3RicochetShots bounce once more
Rare · max 5Core ShieldingTougher, self-repairing core
Rare · max 3SlipstreamDash recharges faster and rams
Rare · max 3Self RepairRegenerate hull
Epic · max 3Validator DroneOrbiting gun drone
Epic · max 3Bridge ArcHits chain to nearby bots
Epic · max 3LiquidationBots can burst on death
Combos and score
Every kill within 2.6 seconds of the last one extends your chain. Each 8 kills in a chain adds x0.5 to your multiplier, up to x5. Taking a hit halves the chain.
Clearing a block pays 150 points per block number. Beating the Reorg pays 1,500 per boss depth.
12 killsx1.5
A 10-point Frontrunner at x1.5 is worth 15 points.
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