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Summary
Battle Bot Tactics is an asynchronous PvP bot-building, inventory-management auto-battler. Build the ultimate combat bots using whatever weapons, parts and modules you can find, then battle it out against other players and put your designs to the test.
Every bot is built on a chassis grid. Weapons, movement systems, utility modules and drones each take up real space, and you place, rotate and combine them to make the most of every cell. The bot’s AI module determines its behaviour, so a sniper chip on a bot carrying only short-range shotguns might be a terrible idea — or it might somehow work.
Combine different movement systems, chassis and weapons to create bots with different strengths and weaknesses: heavily armoured machines that can take a beating, long-range attackers that keep their distance, aggressive damage-focused bots, rapid-fire builds and more. There is no single correct way to build a bot.
Once your team is ready, press Play and watch the battle unfold automatically. Positioning, stats, weapons and the bots you built determine what happens next. Opponents are asynchronous snapshots of other players’ squads. Win or lose, you go back to the garage to improve and optimise your build.
Winning battles lets you progress through the arena and climb the ranks. Ranked runs, an Endless mode and online co-op with a friend are also available.
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