Dominator

The Dominator, or Turret, is a large tank that spawns in the Domination game mode (and at one point in the center of tag mode). In Domination, if your team captures all of the Dominators, your team wins. Since the 25th of August, the Dominator is a playable entity; if your team captures a Dominator, be the fastest to press the H key (without spamming it) to take control of the Dominator. On the 26th of August, a Dominator was added to Tag Mode at the center of the map but was removed the day after. The Dominator is the among the largest tanks in the game besides the Arena Closer and the Mothership.

Dominator Variants
As of the August 26th update, 2 new types of Dominators were added, bringing the total up to 3. See them below.

Shared with all Dominators
All Dominators features a circle as their bodies and a hexagonal base. Their colors are dependent on which team captures it and the hexagon is always jet black.

Destroyer Dominator
The Destroyer Dominator is equipped with a short, wide barrel in front that has a small trapezoidal base, similar to the Ranger.

Gunner Dominator
The Gunner Dominator has three barrels in front. The barrel in the middle is longer and wider than the the other barrels, but shoots the same bullets.

Trapper Dominator
The Trapper Dominator is surrounded by eight equal-sized launchers. Each launcher faces a different direction, but they are evenly spaced. Its circle of Traps defends its from all sides but such protection has a very limited range and is weaker against tanks with a focused bullet fire.

All Dominators
Dominators can't move (except of the slight movement of the Trapper Dominator) and have over 4000 health points (per Dominator) with weak healing factors. The regeneration rate is the same for all Dominators. Their field of vision is at least a bit larger than the Sniper. All Dominators, be they the normal or Sandbox version, suffer no recoil.

Trapper Dominator
This Dominator's field of vision is about the same as the Hunter's. It is surrounded by eight launchers. Its trap speed is higher than a maxed Tri-Trapper's while its trap health and damage is about the same as a maxed Trapper. Also its reload is lower; and Auto fire is always on, no exceptions.

Gunner Dominator
This Dominator's field of vision is about the same as the Hunter and its upgrades' (not including the zoom out on the Predator). It has three barrels in front. Its reload is high and the bullet speed is normal. However, it has low bullet penetration and damage.

Destroyer Dominator
This Dominator's field of vision is slightly greater than a Sniper's. It has one barrel in front and very high Bullet Damage and Penetration, being about 5 times greater than a Mega Trap's. It has the bullet size of a Hybrid. Also its bullets can be knocked by enemy bullets or drones. However, its Reload and Bullet Speed are lower than a Hybrid or Destroyer.

Behavior
The Dominator, when AI controlled, targets the closest enemy. Even if an another player comes closer or the player himself or herself gets away, the Dominator will continue to target the player until the player goes out of its field of view. However when a Dominator gets contested or changes team, it will ignore its current target and attack the closest person to the Dominator. Dominators' AI was updated at unknown date, now Dominators are able to predict movements of players and they shoot with mind, making it harder to dodge their attacks.

Dominators prioritize players but if there are no players, they will target Polygons, Bosses or Arena Closers.

If the game is over and you manage to decrease its health to 0, it won’t be contested. Instead, it will be destroyed leaving nothing but the hexagon which the Dominator is normally placed on.

Gameplay
In Domination, these tanks are used as control points. They start off neutral, but any team can capture it by lowering its health to 0. Once the Dominator is under that team’s control, it can no longer damage that team. The team can shoot through the Dominator, but the enemy still can’t.

In order to capture a Dominator from the enemy team, you need to drop its health to 0 twice. When you do it for the first time, the Dominator will turn back to neutral mode. When you do that for the second time, the Dominator will be owned by your team. Whichever team lands the last blow on a contested Dominator will capture it.

In the latest update, if you press H before other players do, you will take control of a Dominator on your team, at the cost of losing the control of your tank, which will be destroyed slowly. A recent update added a Dominator in the center of the Tag Mode map, but capturing it is not essential to win. However, it was removed soon after.

All Dominators

 * Strong against: Low DPS, melee builds
 * Weak against: High DPS

Destroyer Dominator

 * Strong against : Slow tanks
 * Weak against : Fast tanks, long range classes

Gunner Dominator

 * Strong against: Low rate of fire
 * Weak against: High penetration, high rate of fire

Trapper Dominator
The best strategy is to swarm the Dominators. Your team should attack with all single-point troops (such as the Triplet or the Destroyer) and guard with crowd control troops (such as the Octo Tank). The “point troops” will cause massive damage to the Dominator while the crowd controls will prevent the opposing team from recapturing it. Also, try to avoid the bullets from the Dominators, it will do grievous damage, if not kill you outright. Assuming that the player has put some points into Movement Speed, they can simply distract the Dominator by avoiding the projectiles, as the projectiles fired are very slow. Try to not do this in front of teammates, as the projectile can accidentally hit them, most likely destroying them.
 * Strong against: Low rate of fire
 * Weak against: Long range, high rate of fire, tanks with strong penetration

If you get to level 45 and have Octo Tank, a nice tactic is to stay in the middle of a Dominator and shoot enemies. Another strategy is to use Max HP, Health Regen, Reload, and Bullet Damage. Get to the opposing side’s Dominator, use one side for the Dominator and the other for the other tanks.

Two tanks with high reload and penetration could move a Dominator's bullets and not get hit like say Triplet and Gunner or any high reload classes.

If you like to stay hidden, use the Manager or the Stalker. Just camp out at your base and protect a Dominator. A great tip for using the Manager is that you get a glass drone build (max speed, penetration, and damage) and hide your drones in the middle of the dominator, thus making the dominator appear alone if no players around. However, enemy Dominators can see hidden tanks, so don’t think you can get away with it. Be extremely cautious when you’re camping near your own dominators, as most tanks that capture dominators are usually Penta Shots, Sprayers or other spray-and-pray tanks. The large amount of bullets fired from these tanks can unintentionally hit you, forcing you to relocate your camping zone, otherwise you will be destroyed.

History

 * In very old versions of Domination, there could be a rare message which says "The (Location) Dominator is now controlled by a mysterious group". The notification would be gray. This still occurs when a Boss Tank kills a dominator.
 * As of the 22nd of August update, the Dominator 's AI still proritize players, but if there is none, they can target the Polygons, Bosses, or even Arena Closers.
 * As of the August 25th update, players can control a taken Dominator of their team as if it was a controlled tank, but still can't move.
 * When the Arena Closers have finished killing regular tanks, they will start to target Dominator(s) with a player controling it. That dominator then becomes contested.
 * As of the August 26th update, a Dominator was added to center of the Tag Mode map. The update also added new Dominator types explained above.


 * After a few days, the Tag Dominator was removed.

Trivia

 * If you use a Smasher, you can hide under a Dominator.
 * A Dominator's death screen is special. When they die, the death screen doesn't show how long they were alive, how much score they have and etc.
 * Its base, Traps, the Smasher, Landmine and previously the Mega Smasher are the only hexagrams (Polygons made up of 6 straight lines) in the game.
 * If a Dominator's health reaches 0 when the arena is closed, it will disappear . But the area’s and minimap’s tile color of the Dominator stays the same. In the 25th August, it was updated. It now gets contested instead.
 * The bullet of the Destroyer Dominator has the highest Penetration of all bullets in the game.
 * A dominator could easily take a boss.