Bot Battles

Bots may help around with the ship they're installed in, but they won't grow experience in the fight to the Bot King. Instead, they hone their skills in battles against other bots from other pilots across the galaxy.

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Defense Squad Damage Scaling
Ongoing research is being conducted to determine the cause of seemingly exponential damage scaling within Bot Squads. A spreadsheet of data will be available soon.

It has been discovered that bots do not only take the statistics described in their squad ship: they in fact also gain a contribution from the perks that you have earned on them.

(However, note that it is a contribution- i.e. Tier 3 Bazooka Sentinels have an innate 25% explosive resistance, but while additional EX resistance perks have been shown to lower explosive damage, the increase is far more than the stated increase. Then... we have dilemmas such as Tier 3 Imperial Hammerheads with a Primary Dmg +110% upgrade, but don't add up whatsoever.)

A bot that has earned a Primary Status Chance perk will be able to use that perk alongside any other status described in their bot ship stats. Presumably, a bot that has earned a Special Status Chance perk will only be able to use that perk if equipped with special payloads of their own: Missile Hammerheads.

As of now, it is still unknown how damage is calculated.

Here is a sample from a level 23 Bernoulli.

Strength: 451

Damage Caused in Defense: 544

Primary Damage: 109

Primary DMG vs No Shield: 10%

Primary Attack Rate: 0.2

Upgrade: Laser Knockback +10

Perk Primary Electric Chance: +27%

Perk Primary DMG: 117

Perk Bug DMG: 19%

Perk Primary Attack Rate: 14%