FIRMWARE (FW) – every time you win a biolab fight you will be rewarded with a firmware; to see them, click on “shop drones firmware;
they are listed in the middle of window;
moving the mouse over one allows you to see the powers given;
clicking on it selects it;
clicking on the leftward arrow will install the firmware on a drone (a drone symbol will show where it is)
clicking on the rightward arrow put the firmware in list for merge, even if its installed;
you can install 1 firmware on each drone.
you can only merge 3 firmware
Firmwares DON’T stack… only the one on the selected drone will apply.
Firmwares can bestow many powers; here’s the list of them:
• Critical chance(4-20%) cool with a LIHGT drone; it stacks, even if you don’t read it at drone page
• Boss damage(5-25%): applies to cadavers, citadels and labs; very cool
• Toughness bonus (+100 / +5000) above lvl 3 it’s not bad; it’s shown on “firmware” bonus among stats
• Arena damage(3-15%): applies to arenas n masses: not bad, maybe as 2nd firmware for pvp
• Block chance (4-20%) cool with a HEAVY drone; it stacks, even if u don’t read it at drone page
• Grenade defense(5-25%) pitiful.
• Endurance bonus (+100 / +5000) above lvl 3 is not bad; it’s shown on “firmware” bonus among stats
• Health boost(3-15%) very col, especially at high levels, with good stats
• Reflect chance (4-20%) cool with a EMP drone; it stacks, even if u don’t read it at drone page
• Armor penetration (5-40%) reduces defense talent, probably… secondary trait..
• Anticritical(5-25%) nice, but non lifesaving
• Antiblock(5-25%) mean, but not overwhelming
MERGING FIRMWARES
1. First of all, decide what you want - a ware to help you in arena or one for cads - and focus on the traits to help u better with that. Most people focus on leveling up the blue ones (for attack) but green (defense) and yellow (uni) are also useful. For arena, search for Arena trait (plus toughness or crit is good), for Cads, use Boss trait (plus again crit and toughness).
2. FirmWare level Does NOT Matter at all. It is a mere sum of all the traits in that ware - see picture 1: endurance 3 + armor penetration 2+ antiblock 2 = 3+2+2 = 7 - the lvl of the firmware
Only the level of the Trait matters - maximum lvl possible: 5 (and that is your Goal)