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 every bit Rival Tech, these enemies all take unique behaviors, pose different threats, and in the case of Patrol Bots, also present an opportunity to assist players. In this quick guide, we will explicate how to hack Patrol Bots, and why you should practice information technology any chance yous get.

Patrol Bots overview

These flight drones are commonly encountered in Industrial Demolition missions, but they will also evidence up to protect their brethren in any Deep Rock Galactic mission if players try to hack a Prospector Data Deposit or set on a Prospector Drone. Patrol Bots can fly but otherwise are not very unsafe, as their health pool is average and their caput is a weak spot; they are almost ever accompanied by Shredders.

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

How to hack Patrol Bots

In club to hack Patrol Bots in Deep Rock Galactic, you mostly need to get lucky. This is considering Patrol Bots only become hackable at random, and there is no fashion to force it to happen. Whenever you destroy a Patrol Bot, it unremarkably tumbles to the ground and explodes; however, if information technology doesn't accident up and instead stands upright and motionless, you know you can hack it. In that country, you take 30 seconds to interact with the Patrol Bot using your Hacking Device, which volition result in the Bot becoming friendly. Yet, if you don't hack information technology with 30 seconds, the Patrol Bot will instead restore a bit of its wellness and fly up, attacking you and your Dwarven teammates again.

In that location are two circumstances nether which Patrol Bots in Deep Rock Galactic cannot exist hacked. If yous destroy them using a fire weapon they overheat and detonate instantly, leaving nothing behind to hack. Besides, Patrol Bots that show upwardly during the Flagman fight in Industrial Sabotage missions cannot be hacked by default. In all other situations, in that location is a chance a downed Patrol Bot will go hackable, though the odds of this happening are lower if you already have friendly Bots under your control.