The only Drone we get to try is the base unit, the Grenadier Elite. The basic Butcher has a devastating melee attack using his sword thing, the Savage Boomer throws the new burrowing underground grenade that's in Gears 3, the enormous Grinder touts a mini-gun while the rather ponderous and difficult-to-handle Mauler possesses a shield and whirls a mace around his head. The chunky, golem-like Boomers are heavy and slow but have pounding runs available on the A button. Later on, there's the Serapede, a low-profile creepy-crawly who lacks offensive power but is very hard for the humans to spot. Next in the same Beast class you get the Wretch, who lopes around, can vault over cover and has an agile dodge, but most rely on fairly weak melee blows. The short charge time on your blast means that using the critter is a matter of precise timing.
Intended by Epic just as a means to ensure players always had a way to earn more Tokens, no matter how broke, the Ticker is actually the most popular choice by far in playtests, says the Epic rep.īecause it's cheap, or because it's fun? It's definitely a lot of fun.
The basic unit, always available in the games I played, is the Ticker, the little skittering bug that scurries across the map and then self-destructs.
