How to hack Patrol Bots in Deep Rock Galactic

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With the Rival Incursion update, Deep Rock Galactic introduced a host of new AI creatures for players to tangle with. Collectively known as Rival Tech, these enemies all take unique behaviors, pose dissimilar threats, and in the case of Patrol Bots, as well nowadays an opportunity to help players. In this quick guide, we volition explicate how to hack Patrol Bots, and why you should do it any chance you get.

Patrol Bots overview

These flying drones are ordinarily encountered in Industrial Sabotage missions, but they will also testify up to protect their brethren in any Deep Rock Galactic mission if players try to hack a Prospector Data Deposit or attack a Prospector Drone. Patrol Bots can fly but otherwise are not very dangerous, every bit their wellness pool is average and their head is a weak spot; they are almost always accompanied by Shredders.

When a thespian hacks a Patrol Bot, information technology temporarily becomes friendly and engages enemy AI. While in this state, the Patrol Bot volition continuously lose health, until it inevitably shuts down.

How to hack Patrol Bots

In order to hack Patrol Bots in Deep Rock Galactic, you lot generally need to get lucky. This is because Patrol Bots just go hackable at random, and there is no way to force it to happen. Whenever you lot destroy a Patrol Bot, it usually tumbles to the footing and explodes; however, if information technology doesn't blow upward and instead stands upright and motionless, y'all know yous can hack it. In that country, you accept 30 seconds to interact with the Patrol Bot using your Hacking Device, which will result in the Bot becoming friendly. Notwithstanding, if yous don't hack it with 30 seconds, the Patrol Bot will instead restore a bit of its health and fly upwardly, attacking you and your Dwarven teammates once more.

There are two circumstances under which Patrol Bots in Deep Stone Galactic cannot be hacked. If you destroy them using a burn down weapon they overheat and detonate instantly, leaving nothing behind to hack. Besides, Patrol Bots that show up during the Flagman fight in Industrial Sabotage missions cannot be hacked by default. In all other situations, there is a adventure a downed Patrol Bot volition get hackable, though the odds of this happening are lower if y'all already have friendly Bots nether your control.