The Automaton is one of the tier 4 upgrade options from Spammer and Auto 3. It has four stacked auto turrets on the front, designed to be a workable variant of the Auto Tank before it was removed. Each turret can fire independently and aim towards the cursor, making this tank a combination of area denial and focused fire. The Automaton has no upgrades as of now. This tank was made by Toriellabella, with artistic contributions from Enigmium.
Design[]
The Automaton features a circular body with four auto turrets stacked on the front to resemble the cannon setup of Streamliner with one gun missing. Each auto turret has the same width as a usual auto turret, but the lengths vary.
From Spammer[]
From Spammer, the Automaton gains one extra cannon, makes each cannon thinner, and mounts each cannon on its own auto turret.
From Auto 3[]
From Auto 3, the Automaton gains one extra auto turret, varies the lengths of each one, and focuses them all to the front.
Technical[]
The Automaton loses its Auto Spin from Auto 3, instead choosing to focus on a more direct line of fire to more resemble Streamliner. Unlike the Auto 3, if the player is not holding any of the mouse buttons the turrets will not aim at anything. While holding left click, all of the turrets aim towards the cursor and will fire just like a Streamliner. While holding right click, each turret will aim independently at any object it sees. No two turrets will aim at the same object. Each turret has the recoil of a normal Auto 3 turret, leading to the potential for a ramming Automaton build that Streamliner does not have the option to utilize. Each turret is weakened as to not overpower Streamliner.
Strategy[]
- Strong Against: Multiple enemies, tanks with low reload, Trapper branch tanks.
- Weak Against: Smasher branch tanks, Tri-Angle branch tanks, Assassin branch tanks.
As the Automaton[]
- Avoid encounters with drone users. While holding right click, your turrets will most likely aim for the drones and not the tank, which will leave you open towards attack. While holding left click, your firing width is thinner than a Streamliner's, leaving you fragile.
- When fighting tanks such as Annihilator, your left click fire rate is more than enough to nullify their bullets.
- When dealing with Trappers, you can use your right click ability to fire at the traps and then use your left click ability to gun the enemy trapper down. This is most effective against Mega Trapper.
- When dealing with tanks such as Octo Tank, your bullets are small enough to naturally ghost through theirs, similar to how Gunner Trapper's front bullets can do this. You can gun them down this way.
- One possible defense against Smasher branch tanks is going for a ram build, in which your turrets can propel you around and let you ram into opponents. If your stats happen to be better than theirs, you can score a kill.
Against the Automaton[]
- If you are playing as a Stalker or a Landmine, you can hide from an Automaton and wait for them to get close enough to attack. Due to their auto turrets not being able to locate you, you can easily surprise them by ramming them or shooting them with a high velocity bullet.
- Spike players will have to tread carefully when dealing with an Automaton, due to the fact they can consistently gun you down. You can easily juke an enemy Automaton and score a kill that way, you'll likely be faster than them anyway.
- Fighter players can easily boost around an enemy Automaton. You can use your side cannons to slowly gun them down.
- If you are a Predator or a Ranger, you can see an Automaton and snipe them out from far away before they even get the chance to lock onto you and fire.
Trivia[]
- This is the first tank that I had ever made, way back in 2017.
- This tank's appearance in Woomy Arras had a square base for the turrets instead of a circular base
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