Mini-Drones

Mini-drones or mini-bots are weak, small bots that use swarm tactics. Any damage will instantly kill them. They come in only a few varieties. The normal blue mini-bot, which fires basic bullet types, will tend to charge directly at the player while firing.

The purple mine-layer mini-bot will tend to circle around the player and lay mines in order to increase its lifespan.

The teal mini-bots fire phased bullet types and have the same movement patterns as the mine-layer minibots. Teal mini-bots always have a cloaking device at higher difficulty levels (over mission 40), while the previous types only have a 50% chance of having a cloaking device in the late game. The most dangerous minibots are in the very late game. They are the suicidal yellow minibots. They will home in on you in a circular pattern and do % damage to your shields if they touch you, but they die in the process. Yellow minibots always have a cloaking device.

Cloaked minibots will quickly vanish when they are far away enough from the player and will become visible as they approach the player.

The Super EMP will kill all minibots that are alive.

All minibots have simple swarm behavior. They will attack and retreat in coordinated waves.

Very rarely you will discover minibot factories. They are enormously durable and at specific intervals they launch vast swarms of minibots. The Bouncing Boomstick is often the best way to destroy these factories.