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Recruits
Recruits, how do they work ? They’re the most useful tool you have in Botworld Adventure once you know how to handle them: with love, care, and watchful supervision.
Acquisition
Recruits are unlocked by upgrading your boat.
- First Recruit: Boat Level 4
- Second Recruit:Boat Level 7
- Third Recruit:Boat Level 11
Management
After unlocking Boat Level 7, you gain the option to change their bots, abilities, and boosters.
Mechanics
Recruit fights are simulated, similar to using the auto-battle option during fights, meaning synergies between bots, abilities, and boosters matter. A good recruit can punch above its weight.
Squad Cup
You won’t win that one alone!
Common strats
Distribute your high lvl bots for each recruit to make them equal to enemies
Tie Breaker
6 bots from you and your recruits fight 6 bots from opponents to define who will win. In tie breaker there will be bots with larger number of remaining health.
Jobs
Important revenue stream, some pretty neat rares & epics, and sometimes the easier way to get some annoying Boat mats
Recruits is the best way to get coins. There’s a lots of job where you can earn 100, 600 or even 2000 if you enough lucky.
Jobs options reset every 6h
Full Jobs list
Tip
If you’re waiting for Uberbot, try and pick short jobs so you know you’ll have a chance to pick Uberbot at every reset
Don’t forget to reset your jobs with ads if you really want that Uberbot job!
Reinforcments
Decoy
1 recruit = 1 less fight. Neat for Bosses/Megas !
Farming
That’s not your job, let them do it for you!
But make sure you tanking damage from energy guns, or your recruit protection will be way weaker.
Composition
“Hard to mess up” objective
Recruits are dumb. It’s less about giving them a powerful comp, than it is about giving them tools they won’t hurt themselves with.
Don’t think can this bot/ability do good with this recruit? but rather can my recruit use this bot/ability so poorly it doesn’t even help it win a fight ?
Avoid: easily-disabled bots
You’ll see a recruit place a Mort in melee range of a bot, or fail to protect Mort if it’s too close. Placing Scatter or Brute too far away from the fight achieve the same result of doing absolutely nothing.
Any bot that needs a combo or some kind of help from the player (placement, supporting bots or abilities, etc) will do poorly in the hand of a recruit
Suggested list of Bots to Avoid on your recruits: Mort, Brute, Scatter, Flamer, Beat, Bigshot (without Stun Immunity), etc…
Prioritize: self-reliant bots
On the other hand, bots like Rocketeer and Dune Bug are very self-reliant bots, as most Evaders and Splashers (veto Mort) tend to be. Their reliable damage, mobility, and effectiveness in hands-off situations lend them to be more beneficial for recruits to pilot.
Suggested list of Bots to Prioritize on your recruits:Rocketeer, Dune Bug, Ram, Thump, Fork, Virus, Pluggie, Longshot, etc…
Abilities
The same reasoning applies, give them abilities that require anything like planning ahead and watch them fail miserably.
Ever seen a recruit using SCT endlessly on Brute ? I have, that’s fun, but achieve exactly nothing good:
- Brute never gets in range of anything to hit
- Spend every ounce of power available
All of a sudden the fight is 3 bots + botpack (the opponent) vs2 bots + no botpack (your recruit). Not great.
Thinking of giving your recruit Hasty Ground ? Well here’s hoping it uses it on KO and not Bigshot. etc.
Avoid abilities that can easily be wasted:Chaos Translocator, Supercharged Chaos Translocator,… more to add
Prioritize abilities that will always have a beneficial outcome:Hypercharge, Direct damage or Poison, Shield, Chaos boostermore to add
Try it out!
The best way to figure out what works and what doesn’t for a recruit comps, is simply to just go and spectate it in action. Either:
- Squad Cup: whenever available. Take notes, maybe even record ?
- Autobattle: load up the 4 bots you have in mind for your recruit comp, add 2 lvl 1 bots you have left in your boat, and have a few fights in the wild. It’s not the exact same thing but close enough that you will surely learn a lot, I know I have!
AI Priorities
The recruits/autobattle AI clearly has favorite bots/abilities and its own priority rules. AI LOVES to use Hyperdrain, even if ult is on 1% charged.