{"$schema":"https://uar.cedricdessalles.dev/guides/schema.json","format":"/guides/format?mos=FP500CombatWalker","version":1,"mos":"FP500CombatWalker","slug":"the-fp-500-combat-walker-played","title":"The FP-500 Combat Walker, played","modes":[],"ranks":["wo"],"skills":["MainWeaponry","MainWeaponry","MainWeaponry","MainWeaponry","Chassis","Chassis","Marksmanship2","Marksmanship2","Marksmanship2","Marksmanship2","Chassis","Chassis","Rocketsthermoguided","Rocketsthermoguided","Rocketsthermoguided","Rocketsthermoguided"],"sis":[{"num":20},{"num":17},{"num":22}],"blocks":[{"type":"markdown","text":"The Combat Walker's game, top to bottom. One class arrives as a machine with a 200-round drum that takes 20 seconds to change. Warrant Officer track only, one per game."},{"type":"columns","columns":[[{"type":"markdown","text":"# first\n**Main Weaponry, all 4 points**\n\nThe community's build takes all 4 before anything else, then [[skill:Chassis]] 1 for [[ability:Turbo]] and Chassis 2 for the 3 life a second."}],[{"type":"markdown","text":"# then\n**Marksmanship, Chassis 4, Rockets**\n\n[[skill:Marksmanship2]] for the crits, [[skill:Chassis]] 4 for a fifth off the reload and [[ability:EngineOverheat]], [[skill:Rocketsthermoguided|Rockets]] last, mainly for the 0.1 move speed a level. The wiki's order stops at level 16 and leaves [[skill:IEMRockets]] out."}]]},{"type":"columns","columns":[[{"type":"markdown","text":"# on the way\n**100 kills with rockets**\n\nRocket kills are counted in any mode above Recruit until [[ability:FlareGun]] is yours. The counter starts at 100, 500 with the Outbreak modifier, and runs down. Rocket a unit owned by an ally or a neutral and you lose 50 kills of progress, 250 with Outbreak."}],[{"type":"markdown","text":"# always\n**Count magazines, not rounds**\n\nA reload takes 2 [[item:Magazines|magazines]] off your count and you land with 10. Magazines are on the first ground item table. Most other ground items are infantry gear the walker cannot hold. Its own 31 are on [the Gear tab](/mos/FP500CombatWalker/gear)."}]]},{"type":"section","title":"The machine","children":[{"type":"columns","columns":[[{"type":"markdown","text":"# Landing\n- It does not walk off the Phantom. The script drops it from 40 high onto a fixed point, a 1 s fall, and the slam shakes the camera of every hero within 8. Your camera stays locked until it lands; the Overdrive panel appears 3 s later.\n- There is no sprint bar for the walker; the script skips it. [[ability:Turbo]], from [[skill:Chassis]] 1, is its only burst of speed.\n- One walker per game, on the Warrant Officer track only: the Enlisted and Commissioned buttons are greyed out for it. With the Classical modifier it is off the roster."}],[{"type":"markdown","text":"# Reloading\n- The drum holds 200 rounds and a change takes 20 s. The reload code takes 2 s off per [[skill:MainWeaponry]] level, then multiplies by 0.8 at Chassis 4, by 0.7 with [[si:3]], by 0.85 under an Instructor aura, and by 0.95 to 0.8 under a Leadership aura. 20 s is 12 with Main Weaponry 4, 9.6 with Chassis 4 on top, 6.7 with Quick Thinking on top of that.\n- Every change spends 2 magazines and discards what was left in the drum. The walker cannot hold a Magazine Extender.\n- [[skill:Chassis]] 3 grants [[ability:JamImmunity2]]; until then the miniguns can jam."}],[{"type":"markdown","text":"# When it dies\n- A dead walker is a wreck, not a body: it is brought back by repairing the wreck, not by a medic. An engineer's [[ability:Reconstruct]] does it. So does the [[unit:Wmk72RTo3|Wmk-72 RTo 3]], a bot the [[mos:MilitarizedColonistTransportNova|APC]] builds as an item: used within 12 of the wreck, it walks over, revives it and blows itself up. With no dead vehicle within 12 it drops back on the ground as an item instead of being spent. With the Auto-revive modifier, or for a player with no XP on record, a drop pod delivers that bot on its own 2 s after the death.\n- It comes back at 400 life and 50 energy, its camo and its unlocks re-applied, and with jam immunity whatever its Chassis level."}]]}]},{"type":"section","title":"Overdrive and Engine Overheat","children":[{"type":"columns","columns":[[{"type":"markdown","text":"# Overdrive, F1 and F2\n- The class panel that appears after landing: `F1` one level up, `F2` one down, or click its arrows. The keys only answer while the class mini panel is shown.\n- Levels 0 to 5, the number on the panel. Each level is move speed paid with your own life; the panel's description on this class page lists the numbers per level. The community's page warns it can kill the walker.\n- The level is never reset. It is written only by the `F1` and `F2` handlers, and the revive fix puts back jam immunity, the camo and the unlocks, not an Overdrive behaviour. After a revive the panel still reads the level you died at while nothing sits on the hull, until one press of `F1` or `F2` puts a behaviour back."}],[{"type":"markdown","text":"# Engine Overheat\n- [[skill:Chassis]] 4 unlocks [[ability:EngineOverheat]]. The community's page notes there is no off switch. It ends at 30 seconds, when the energy runs out, or on a [[ability:Reload]], which costs 2 magazines and whatever was left in the drum.\n- [[item:PowerCell]] (190 energy over 20 s) is what refills the tank afterwards."}]]}]},{"type":"section","title":"Rockets","children":[{"type":"columns","columns":[[{"type":"markdown","text":"# Two ways to fire\n- [[skill:Rocketsthermoguided|Rockets]] must target a unit. Your first point in it also sets [[ability:Rocketsfreeaim]] to level 1, and the script never raises that level; [[ability:SwitchRocketsMode]] flips between the two.\n- There is no free-aim EMI: the only free-aim ability in the class's list is the plain Rockets one.\n- Any rocket you fire (Rockets, free aim, [[skill:IEMRockets|EMI]], [[ability:ClusterRockets2]]) makes the AI-controlled biological units within 5 of the target point scatter, and paints a target marker on the ground for 1.5 s. Only computer-owned units are moved. Your minis and every hero stay where they are, and both rocket tooltips say the blast hits allies."}],[{"type":"markdown","text":"# The flare gun counter\n- The counter runs in any mode above Recruit until [[ability:FlareGun]] is unlocked, as an objective only you see, under the [[mission:unlock-ranks|Unlock ranks]] trigger group.\n- The trigger only counts kills whose damage effect is one of RocketDamage1 to RocketDamage4; which of the rocket abilities fire those effects is not in the extracted data.\n- A rocket that kills an ally's or a neutral's unit raises it by 50, 250 with Outbreak, but only when that unit is biological or one of the vehicles or sentry guns. Every other kill, your own units and your minis included, lowers it by 1.\n- The counter starts at 100, 500 with Outbreak. At 0 the objective completes and rank 1 is yours in every game after."}]]}]},{"type":"markdown","text":"## The six ranks\n\nChecked when the game is won, in this order, each needing the one before it. All six together also unlock the Fire Hound decal.\n\n| Rank | Unlock | Earned by |\n|---:|---|---|\n| 1 | [[ability:FlareGun]] | 100 kills with Rockets, 500 with Outbreak, in any mode above Recruit |\n| 2 | Auxiliary Generator | winning PMC |\n| 3 | Shield Amplifier | winning Hard, Insane, Nightmare or Apocalypse with the Outbreak modifier |\n| 4 | [[ability:Floodlights]] | winning Hard, Insane, Nightmare or Apocalypse with the Tier 1 modifier |\n| 5 | [[ability:MotionSensor]] | winning Insane, Nightmare or Apocalypse with the Outbreak modifier |\n| 6 | [[ability:ClusterRockets2]] | winning Nightmare or Apocalypse with 5 hits or fewer and no death |\n\nRanks 2 and 3 are behaviours the script puts on the hull at spawn, an auxiliary generator and a shield amplifier; the map's data carries no tooltip for either, so what they do exactly is not written here."},{"type":"section","title":"Guns and gear","children":[{"type":"markdown","text":"| Weapon | Damage | Period | Range | Notes |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---|\n| Dual Miniguns, stock | 70 to 82 | 0.13 s | 22 | -20 against Heroic; 60 % of the damage within 2 of the hit, 40 % within 3.5 in a 25 degree arc |\n| {{item:DualMinigunsHellfire}} | 77 to 87 | 0.13 s | 22 | +10 against Armored and Massive, -20 against Heroic, a wider splash. Not with the Laser. |\n| {{item:DualMinigunsLaser}} | 80 to 90 | 0.125 s | 22 | Same bonuses and splash as the Hellfire, a shade faster |\n\nBoth guns are ground drops from the map's item tables. The first table runs 30 s in and every 380 s after: the Hellfire is on it at 1 in 4, only once CAS is on station. The second table runs every 370 s once the script turns it on: the Hellfire at 1 in 3, the Laser at 1 in 5, and the Laser is on that table only. Range is 22 stock and 28 with Main Weaponry 4; sight stays 22."},{"type":"columns","columns":[[{"type":"markdown","text":"# What to bolt on\nThe community's list, checked against the item data. Six slots.\n- {{item:AimAssistvehicle}} · +20 % damage and 15 % attack speed; does not stack.\n- {{item:RecoilSuppressorvehicle}} · +1 range and a 10 % slow for 1 s, 15 % once an Assault Engineer [[ability:Craft|crafts]] it. Massive are immune.\n- {{item:ReconDroneModule}} · detection, +1 vision, +1 range. The walker cannot carry a flashlight; this module, the rank 1 [[ability:FlareGun]] and [[si:5]] are its ways of seeing the invisible.\n- {{item:ShieldGenerator}} · +5 armor and 200 shields; or the {{item:MinorShieldGenerator}}, 100 shields. Not both.\n- {{item:WeightReductionvehicle}} · +0.04 move speed. The community's page carries two."}],[{"type":"markdown","text":"# Consumables\n- {{item:PowerCell}} · 190 energy over 20 s, the vehicle's energy cell. [[si:15]] hands the walker 4 Power Cells where infantry get 2 energy cells.\n- {{item:Nanitesw13z}} · 100 life and the severe vehicle ailments cleared, at once.\n- {{item:Magazines}} · 3 magazines a use. An {{item:AmmoCase}} holds up to 10 and hands them over when used. A reload takes 2.\n- {{item:EMIRounds}} · +30 damage against robotics, an Invasion drop.\n- {{item:SAMSitePacked}} is on the walker's list but nothing in the map creates one."}]]}]},{"type":"section","title":"What the community says","children":[{"type":"columns","columns":[[{"type":"markdown","text":"# SI picks\n- [[si:20]] with [[si:17]]: the wiki's first pair, for sitting on a hill and kiting with your buddy.\n- [[si:20]] with [[si:22]] for PMC: the extra life against grenades and rockets.\n- [[si:5]]: the detection is the point, since there is no flashlight; the +2 range matters less, the guns already outrange the 22 sight at Main Weaponry 4.\n- [[si:3]]: the wiki calls it almost pointless because it would not stack with Chassis 4. The reload code multiplies the two: 9.6 s becomes 6.7 s.\n- [[si:11]] and [[si:13]]: the SI panel refuses both for the walker. The wiki adds [[si:9]] to the useless list."},{"type":"markdown","text":"# Looks\n- Eleven of the camos have a walker skin: Default, Woodland, Night, Desert, Snow, Nano, OctoCamo, Purifier, Corrupted, Hell Scape and 2024 Voltage. Walker-only: the Cops camo, reserved for 19 players, four light colours and a no-light option.\n- Type -meow or -roar in chat for a leopard or a tiger skin."}],[{"type":"markdown","text":"# Where it cannot go\n- [[ability:Lift]] is filed with the jumps: the script refuses it, like the Predator's [[ability:HydraulicJump]], into the two No lift boots regions around the RA facility, with a stop order and an error message.\n- Walking into the Jump1 region at the RA, or the Mayor Gate Jump region, blows up the walker or any biological player unit; both are in the [[mission:jump|Jump]] trigger group."},{"type":"map","title":"AO Thalim · the jump regions","caption":"The regions the jump triggers test, from the map file: Lift is refused into the two No lift boots areas; entering Jump1 or the Mayor Gate Jump area on foot is fatal.","marks":[{"kind":"area","tone":"hostile","label":"No lift boots","at":{"region":"No lift boots"}},{"kind":"area","tone":"hostile","label":"No lift boots 2","at":{"region":"No lift boots 2"}},{"kind":"area","tone":"hostile","label":"Jump1, fatal","at":{"region":"Jump1"}},{"kind":"area","tone":"hostile","label":"Mayor Gate Jump, fatal","at":{"region":"Mayor Gate Jump"}}]}]]}]},{"type":"markdown","text":"Numbers are read from the map file: its unit, weapon, item and panel data and its trigger script. The advice is the community wiki's, checked against them."}]}