Robocraft Guide

The Basics of Sniping for Robocraft

The Basics of Sniping

Overview

A guide to teach people about sniping.

what is sniper

A sniper-class bot is a robot that uses a Railgun. There are multiple types of sniper-class bots.
These types are the satellite, airplane, hovercraft, and land vehicle types. These are not official names.

Land Vehicles

The cheapest to build and most basic type of sniper is the land vehicle. It usually has light armor and good movement, and most often can be found at hills.

Strengths:

-Fast
-Easy to control

Weaknesses:

-Easy to hit from air
-Can’t go over huge mountains

Airplanes

Airplane-class snipers are a very uncommon type. They use aerofoils and thrusters to fly.

Pros:

-fly super high
-fast

Cons:

-constantly needs to be controlled
-Aerofoils are expensive and aren’t heavily armored

Hovercraft

Hovercraft-class snipers are snipers that hover above the ground.

Pros:

-Hover above the ground

Cons:

-Can’t really go high
-Get flipped over
-Unbalanced if any hover blades are shot off

Satellite

Satellite-class snipers are snipers that rely on balloons, thrusters, or other kinds of transportation to move up high into the air, but mainly stay still.

Pros:

-Fly super high
-Stable
-Only other snipers/air vehicles can get you once you’re at a certain height

Cons:

-Not very manueverable
-Helium is weak, guys

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