The Energon Pub

Attack the torso on every single one actually. The trick is to throw as much offense as you can at them. I'm an Impala (level 5) and I have my pulse gun attack special maxed which is like an 800 damage attack, my car katana is maxed which is like a 600 damage attack, and I have my "sure footing" maxed to increase the power and accuracy of my basic attacks.

I just line up with pulse gun, car katana, and then I mix between whatever attacks after that (basic attacks are all the same for me).

I take about 500 damage a hit but usually I destroy the drone in 2-3 hits. Today I won all 10 of my matches compared to just 4 yesterday when I finally caught on.

Yup, those are ways of destrying them only, now we are talking of weaknesses. You do more damage attacking those areas I mentioned as weaknesses.
Supersize your wins by attacking their weakness with everything that you have.

So, how does one know a weakness? When you completely destroy this part, the scouting report will say ie. "Novabotox exploited Drone-1958438's weakness"..

1. Plasmadrones : ARMS
2. Vortex Drones : LEGS
3. Shock Drone : ?
4. Glacier Drone : TORSO (not weakness, but seems to work)

Ok, here they are, with these, I've won each and every match I've pitted.. just target the one area with each five moves (all offensive) and see the results:


1. Plasmadrones : ARMS
2. Vortex Drones : LEGS
3. Shock Drone : HEAD
4. Glacier Drone : TORSO

PS. these work even with level 1 chevybots!!

lol thanks nova, I lost quite a bit to these drones before knowing about these weakness's. Want a taste of what we level 10'ers eat for breakfast?

PLASMA DRONE (Winner)

- punch / legs
- punch / weapons
- range / head
- kick / torso
- kick / arms

MANGATRON (Loser)
CHEVY SILVERADO
- autoBotShield / selfDefense
- kick / torso
- punch / torso
- range / torso
- kick / legs

Plasma Drone D-656887's attack hits MANGATRON's legs, causing 1102 damage.

MANGATRON's attack hits Plasma Drone D-656887's torso, causing 900 damage.Plasma Drone D-656887's force crashes into MANGATRON's weapons, causing 1102 damage.

MANGATRON's force crashes into Plasma Drone D-656887's torso, causing 900 damage.Plasma Drone D-656887 fires their base laser cannon and scorches MANGATRON's head, causing 1102 damage.

MANGATRON missed Plasma Drone D-656887's torso completely.Plasma Drone D-656887 missed MANGATRON's torso completely.

MANGATRON pounds on Plasma Drone D-656887's legs, causing 900 damage.Plasma Drone D-656887's impact hits MANGATRON's arms, causing 1102 damage.

Man, what would I do without the defense upgrades lol....

No problem mangatron, just post it here if you lose even 1 match with these. I know I haven't, over 30 fought matches with different bots, levels 1-5, all won.

novabotox wrote:No problem mangatron, just post it here if you lose even 1 match with these. I know I haven't, over 30 fought matches with different bots, levels 1-5, all won.

Hmhh, lost 1, always remember to use your most powerful attacks, I was toying around with just punches and the drone destroyd the arms of my bot.. so I lost.. grr...

mangatron wrote:Man, what would I do without the defense upgrades lol....

Actually, offense is the way to go against the drones. I'd ditch the defense for extra special attacks and damage boosts. I kill drones in one or two hits.

Winner - Blackjack

BLACKJACK fires a round of sonic energy at Shock Drone M-896673's head causing 925 damage. Shock Drone M-896673 missed BLACKJACK's head completely. HEADSHOT! Blackjack wins.

lkavadas wrote:

mangatron wrote:Man, what would I do without the defense upgrades lol....

Actually, offense is the way to go against the drones. I'd ditch the defense for extra special attacks and damage boosts. I kill drones in one or two hits.

Winner - Blackjack

BLACKJACK fires a round of sonic energy at Shock Drone M-896673's head causing 925 damage. Shock Drone M-896673 missed BLACKJACK's head completely. HEADSHOT! Blackjack wins.

You have to remember that I am the only active level 10 player battling the drones, and as nova suggested I'm posting a recent battle that I almost lost (against the Glacier drone no less)

MANGATRON (Winner)
CHEVY SILVERADO
- punch / torso
- kick / torso
- range / torso
- punch / torso
- kick / torso

GLACIER DRONE (Loser)

- range / head
- punch / head
- range / legs
- kick / torso
- kick / weapons

MANGATRON's impact hits Glacier Drone T-168629's torso, causing 900 damage.Glacier Drone T-168629 missed MANGATRON's head completely.

MANGATRON's attack hits Glacier Drone T-168629's torso, causing 900 damage.Glacier Drone T-168629's impact hits MANGATRON's head, causing 1102 damage.MANGATRON obliterates Glacier Drone T-168629’s torso! Game OVER.

First of all, history lesson: During my run to the first level 8, 9 and 10 player, I used Avalanche. Powerful, destructive autobot. With only 700 base damage I deal to the drones, that would take about 3 to knock them out. But my loss against the drones prompted me to switch to Silverado, as you can see does 900 damage. Now Glacier seems to not have a weakness, which means I would have to take some damage. If I had used Avalanche, as he has less defense upgrades, I would have lost the above battle. Using Silverado, with his two additional Enhanced Defense I am able to withstand at least two hits from a drone. Remember that we can miss, and if we can't take the damage we in turn get 1-hit KO'ed, remember?

That's why Silverado's Defense upgrades are priceless, if I miss I can still have two more chances of knocking out the drone via it's weakness. That and being at the highest level has given me enough upgrade points to upgrade all (except 1) upgrades to their max.

By the way, hitting Shock Drone in the head is difficult. You'd might want to use high accuracy moves to hit the head (I've had no success with laser cannons)

Ummm, doesn't Avalanche or Silverado have any special attacks? Who cares about the base damage when it just takes one or two of your special attacks to get the KO?

As an Impala I have a maxed out "sure footing" deal which takes ten points. It increases the effectiveness of my attacks. On top of that I have the special attack "pulse gun" completely maxed out at 10 points and then I have all of the rest of my upgrades in my "car katana" attack special which is like 8 or so points.

If you get big, high damage specials you can whail on the drones. I rarely ever miss drones, even the shock drone when it comes to headshots. This is the rule for me, not the exception. The drones are easy as cake to hit. All of'em. I honestly don't think stats displayed accurately represent the performance of the drones.

Plus I haven't lost a single match to a drone after the first day when I was clueless about them. All of my fights are over in three turns or less with the greater bulk being one or two hits.

Switch over to the Impala for a bit and go offensive. You'll trash drones like mad.

lkavadas wrote:Ummm, doesn't Avalanche or Silverado have any special attacks? Who cares about the base damage when it just takes one or two of your special attacks to get the KO?

Avalanche. Special weapons: Deflector shield, Energon grenado. Deflector shield has power dependant on opponent move used against it. Has high failure rate on misses or defense mode. Energon Grenade has 100 less damage compared to physical attacks. Slightly better than laser cannon, though just as accurate as well.

Silverado. No special weapon upgrades. Has mostly defensive upgrades in Intimidation, Autobot Shield and 2 Enhanced Defense upgrades. Pure brawler if I must say so myself, as I notice this bot is probably for the most advanced users, with only two, 2 upgradeable weapons that Bumblebee has to unlock, Silverado Shocker and Vicegrip. The rest of the upgrades are purely for enhancing his current abilities. Pretty soon he can become a drone in himself lol

Which, these drone battles had me thinking. Do these autobots have weakness'? Maybe if you....attack Impala's legs he won't be as agile, or if you knock HHR topside the head his brainpower won't be of any use

With the drones it is all really simple.. the drone power matches your level, they dish out less damage against level 1 bots, to keep it interesting. So with a level 1 bot you can beat any drone with the weaknesses I gave, just as well as with a level 10 bot, makes really no difference.
I have beaten bots after they destroyd my legs. I have crushed Glacier Drones torso on move 2, and then countering, they've crushed my torso, but since I broke them first, the victory is mine.

When attacking a weakness, the damage amount is not a factor, if you destroy that part of the drone, you win even if the drone inflicted more damage on you.

If you of course miss attacks, then you'll lose, weakness or no weakness. Thus I use Cobalt, with the Battle Baton maxed and laser Cannon, since Cobalt is accurate with any ranged attack.
I rarely miss, thus I rarely lose, against drones, that is.

mangatron wrote:Which, these drone battles had me thinking. Do these autobots have weakness'? Maybe if you....attack Impala's legs he won't be as agile, or if you knock HHR topside the head his brainpower won't be of any use

Well, destruction of a section on Autobots like the legs or arms won't end the fight like it will the drones who have them as a weakness. But if you destroy the arms the bot can't launch any physical attacks. If you destroy the weapons they can't launch any ranged attacks. If you destroy the legs it immobilizes the bot and makes all your attacks hit. Other two end the fight obviously.

So I cracked the code for the 5/25 transmission, but maybe I did something wrong or need to do something more.... it just gave me the address
http://www.chevrolet.com/autobot/zzxxst.html
but it's just a wav file and I can't figure out how to get a code from it.
If you challenge me I will tell you how I cracked the first part of it heh heh.

user name Bestus Maximus, email ulixes@juno.com

Ulixes wrote:So I cracked the code for the 5/25 transmission, but maybe I did something wrong or need to do something more.... it just gave me the address
http://www.chevrolet.com/autobot/zzxxst.html
but it's just a wav file and I can't figure out how to get a code from it.
If you challenge me I will tell you how I cracked the first part of it heh heh.

user name Bestus Maximus, email ulixes@juno.com

Well, I found the corresponding website for that file, however there was no code present. The file name was dated for tomorrow, so I will check back then.

Here's what I did:

I wrote down the alphabet:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

I wrote down the original:
knPj Po sld DgFWqnkdU XFaTJsF nO Uld vBSqBmsZ QBfd cSBf blFuZ TxNanM POsn eBR aVsUPm

Now I noticed that other codes I had broken started with "Look here for the answer" type messages. And as a cryptographer, I know that THE is where I usually start cracking codes - find all the 3-letter words and make one "THE" and start adjusting the rest of the letters in other words and see what pops up.

Then I noticed that the 3rd and 7th words were the same except the first letter - lowercase and uppercase, both within 2 letters of each other.

And it struck me:
adjust all lowercase letters +1
adjust all uppercase letters -1

What came up was:
knPj Po sld DgFWqnkdU XFaTJsF nO Uld vBSqBmsZ QBfd cSBf blFuZ TxNanM POsn eBR aVsUPm

LOOK ON THE CHEVROLET WEBSITE ON THE WARRANTY PAGE DRAG CHEVY SYMBOL TO FAQ BUTTON

So I went to chevy.com. found the warranty page, click-n-drag on the chevy icon in the flash movie, dropped it onto the FAQ button in the flash movie, and POOF - the message appears.

I had already cracked a code a while before, and this code wasn't being accepted by the system, so something was funky - my housemate gets to suck-it - no tickets for him.

What's the deal with some folks getting 200 battles in a day, zooming to the top, and disappearing?

And does anyone else think it's bizarre that the top-two who blew past me and Mangatron (Yo! Manga! Wassup!!!!!) are users # 10067 and 10063 respectively? And they screamed to the top and now they haven't gained any wins since...

I'm thinking that the system doesn't check for email validity. Just say your email is "one@somedomain.com" and submit the challenge. Then "two@anotherdomain.org" etc.

That's why Buthunder and Butthuniderisweaksauce got de-rezzed way back leaving me and Manga leading the pack.

I got suspicious of all the 0win-0loss challengers though, so I stopped accepting 0-0 challenges because I didn't want to risk deletion because someone else was cheating their way to the top and covering their tracks by challenging me as well.

Yo Pelgaro, finally one of the top ten joins in on here, it was getting kinda lonely here lol.

You know, I held the top spot for like a week or so, and the day I traveled I noticed I was up on Nerdy and Makami by about 8 wins. When I logged back in man, I was shocked. They went about 100-150 up on me and all of a sudden, they "died" Creepy, I knew it when the two Butt-Thunders went way ahead of the pack something was up. Now I think Nerdy and Makami are similar too lol. I mean, for just two lousy days they both flew past us 100+ wins more. And the drone battles weren't even up that time, and look now, neither of them have won a single battle against a drone.

And, too bad about the drones Pelgaro, I wish they didn't use up our challenges or else I'd battle you again. Why didn't make it like separate, like 10 challanges a day and 10 drone battles a day, that would be cool. I barely get a challenge nowadays with the drone battles upon us

mangatron wrote:Yo Pelgaro, finally one of the top ten joins in on here, it was getting kinda lonely here lol.

I did a google for "weakness drone vortex plasma shock" and stumbled on in.

I got my 4 "code breaker" tix. I'm 90% sure I'll be in the top 2,000 for the next set of tix. I'm just amused to have been way up the top for so long. I learned after 15 fights - no reason to go defensive. And I was at 15 losses for the longest time after that. Took a few tries to get drone weaknesses down - still haven't seen a specific weakness for Shock and Glacier drones.

I should hit Lvl10 tomorrow, or today if some folks send challenges my way. I'll happily toss a challenge at you then.

Last time we battled, you only did 13pts more damage to me than I did to you. You did much more to me percentage-wise though. Clearly the victor. (humble bow).

That game is a waste of 10 minutes of my life cuz!!

Wildrider2 wrote:That game is a waste of 10 minutes of my life cuz!!

You must not even know how to play to say something like that. What did you do, battle 10 drones and lose every one of them? Come on dude, there's alot of fun in this game. Like this recent battle of the level 10 titans, mangatron VS Pelgarotron!

recent battle between mangatron and Pelgarotron wrote:MANGATRON (Winner)
CHEVY EQUINOX
- roadThunderLauncher / arms
- kick / arms
- punch / torso
- range / torso
- kick / torso

PELGAROTRON (Loser)
CHEVY HHR
- pulseGun / arms
- clubRocker / arms
- range / legs
- range / legs
- range / legs

PELGAROTRON missed MANGATRON's arms completely.MANGATRON missed PELGAROTRON's arms completely.

MANGATRON deflected PELGAROTRON's attack to its arms , sending 128 damage back to PELGAROTRON's arms while still taking 192 damage itself.MANGATRON critically pounds on PELGAROTRON's arms, causing 810 damage.

MANGATRON deflected PELGAROTRON's attack to its legs , sending 72 damage back to PELGAROTRON's legs while still taking 108 damage itself.MANGATRON missed PELGAROTRON's torso completely.

PELGAROTRON missed MANGATRON's legs completely.PELGAROTRON dodged MANGATRON's attack to the torso.

PELGAROTRON fires their base laser cannon and scorches MANGATRON's legs, causing 540 damage.PELGAROTRON deflected MANGATRON's attack to its torso, sending 108 damage back to MANGATRON's torso while still taking 162 damage itself.

Great battle Pelgaro, man I just wish my Road Thunder hit lol, it might have been a sure win for me

mangatron wrote:

Wildrider2 wrote:That game is a waste of 10 minutes of my life cuz!!

You must not even know how to play to say something like that. What did you do, battle 10 drones and lose every one of them? Come on dude, there's alot of fun in this game. Like this recent battle of the level 10 titans, mangatron VS Pelgarotron!

recent battle between mangatron and Pelgarotron wrote:MANGATRON (Winner)
CHEVY EQUINOX
- roadThunderLauncher / arms
- kick / arms
- punch / torso
- range / torso
- kick / torso

PELGAROTRON (Loser)
CHEVY HHR
- pulseGun / arms
- clubRocker / arms
- range / legs
- range / legs
- range / legs

PELGAROTRON missed MANGATRON's arms completely.MANGATRON missed PELGAROTRON's arms completely.

MANGATRON deflected PELGAROTRON's attack to its arms , sending 128 damage back to PELGAROTRON's arms while still taking 192 damage itself.MANGATRON critically pounds on PELGAROTRON's arms, causing 810 damage.

MANGATRON deflected PELGAROTRON's attack to its legs , sending 72 damage back to PELGAROTRON's legs while still taking 108 damage itself.MANGATRON missed PELGAROTRON's torso completely.

PELGAROTRON missed MANGATRON's legs completely.PELGAROTRON dodged MANGATRON's attack to the torso.

PELGAROTRON fires their base laser cannon and scorches MANGATRON's legs, causing 540 damage.PELGAROTRON deflected MANGATRON's attack to its torso, sending 108 damage back to MANGATRON's torso while still taking 162 damage itself.

Great battle Pelgaro, man I just wish my Road Thunder hit lol, it might have been a sure win for me

iT LOOKS FANCY AT FIRST BUT all it is a simulation!

Pelgarotron wrote:Took a few tries to get drone weaknesses down - still haven't seen a specific weakness for Shock and Glacier drones.

They don't have any.
These whuch I wrote down will give you a high percentage. I lost two matches against drones, out of my 53, using these. Both losses against the Shock Drone, and both times missing an attack.

1. Plasmadrones : ARMS
2. Vortex Drones : LEGS
3. Shock Drone : HEAD
4. Glacier Drone : TORSO

PS. these work even with level 1 chevybots!!

Try these out, with always your two first strikes being your most powerful ones. I noticed that when fighting drones your accuracy is like 200%. I very rarely miss against drones. Vx. bots (or bits as I like to call em) I miss all the time.

Wildrider2 wrote:That game is a waste of 10 minutes of my life cuz!!
It looks fancy at first, it's only a simulation!

(spellchecked, caps-lock checked, and grammar corrected)

That's what every GAME is, Sparky... a simulation.

And unless that simulation is:
A. Giving you enjoyment
B. Teaching you a skill
C. Providing a reward (like free movie tickets)

Then it *IS* a waste of time.

novabotox wrote:[They don't have any.

I can't provide proof, but I have to respectfully disagree about the weaknesses. It could be a bug thats preventing them from showing up. God knows the developers of this (http://www.2advanced.com) game are not perfect - ex: that week where the site was down, and the number of times bots had access to the top-end enhancements before they were opened up.

However, each drone SHOULD have a weakness that is exploitable.

That's why I say I haven't found those weaknesses yet. I am 100% sure they have them though. Well, more practical to say "The developers believed their code to be accurate in presenting a weakness for each type of drone."

Hell, I write buggy code all the time. And that's why I work in software QA - cuz I love making devs cry. (smirk)