Waydroid

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waydroid
Waydroid.png
Character

2

ID?Use this ID to Wish for waydroid

Waydroid

Faction

robots (Loved100 Reputation)

Demeanor

neutral

Inventory
Inventory
Mutations
Mutations
Experience?The XP granted when killed. Click
"toggle detailed stats" above for
a level-based breakdown.

250 XP

XP Tier

2

Role

Brute

Spawns in

Deathlands_Creatures


Extra info:

Limbs* (HoverRobot): * Excludes limbs granted via mutations
waydroid

A man-sized cylinder hovers just above the floor. They emit a low, menacing hum as they glide slowly, searching for intruders with their many protruding sensor arrays. A long, articulated arm, ending in a sparking rod, dangles from their side.

Perfect

Waydroids are robots typically found in Grit Gate. According to Argyve, they were built by the Barathrumites to guard Grit Gate.

Droid Scrambler Vulnerability

If the player character is holding a droid scrambler either in their main inventory or an equipment slot, waydroids are initially friendly towards them and their companions. Otherwise, they are hostile. The scrambler has no effect if held by a creature that is not the player character or dominated by the player character. In particular, having a companion hold it is ineffectual.[1]

Being affected by a droid scrambler even once renders a waydroid permanently unable to grant XP.

Tips

  • Even those waydroids inside of the Barathrumite enclave proper are hostile without a scrambler.
  • Their \shockrods often create electrical arcs, making combat alongside them hazardous and infighting common once their current target has been dispatched.

Trivia

  • Although they were ostensibly built by the Barathrumites, waydroids have their own hidden faction that is not mechanically related to the Barathrumites except insofar as waydroids are neutral towards them. (The only other faction they're neutral towards is grazing hedonists; they're hostile towards all others.) This causes their behavior to be based almost entirely on the presence or absence of the droid scrambler and not influenced by Barathrumite faction rep.

References

  1. XRL.World.Parts.DroidScramblerWeakness