Surveillance Drones
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Surveillance Drones are a coalition initiative that can be found in the Military section of the initiatives panel.
Usage
Drones can be unlocked after the initiative "Deploy Coalition Soldiers 1" has been purchased. Then, the Drone will appear once in a while, scanning 1 zone each run.
- They prefer to target zones with insurgent presence, and will linger for a limited period of time (from 10-12 turns), providing temporary intel while revealing any insurgent camps.
- Drones can be augmented with upgrades for increased general effectiveness.
- The Drone is not counted as a standard unit and therefore will have unlimited tours of duty.
- Drone help reduce high chance for Airstrike causing civilian casualties in zones that drone scan
- Drone has basic cooldown is 35 turns, and it reset if the game has caculation zone to scan or player using ability drones.
Upgrade
| Name | Cost* | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Rapid Drone Rotation | 8 | Reduces Drone cool-down by 40% |
| Fuel And Endurance | 5 | Increases Drone uptime (Stay 2 times longer) |
| Combat Sensors | 7 | Drones grant strength boosts to allies soldier in the area (Strength boosts by 2 times) |
*base cost without inflation
Trivia
- The icon resembles the MQ-9 Reaper, a drone commonly used by the US Military in international warfare.
- The in-game sprite is re-used from Plague Inc.
- In real life, thanks to the wide availability of AA Weapons, Drones are often destroyed in combat. This isn't the case in-game where insurgents are helpless against them.
- When Surveillance Drones are fully upgraded, it is possible to see two drones on the map at once - One active and the other withdrawing.\
- Rebel Inc drones have the exact same sound and has the same image pop up as the drones in Plague Inc's Vampire Plague and Siminal Flu diseases.