Deploy
1. Deploy the drone
Drop a helper into the belt. Once it is out, you are playing with an extra eye — and an extra scoop — that rivals can also hunt.
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Deploy the drone. Let it scan or scoop. Fight around its feed.
CLASHROIDS drone is the deployable helper loop: drop a drone, let it scan/tag contacts or assist the scoop, then fight and bank around the feed it gives you. Free in the browser. Steam Coming Soon (app 4296990) — wishlist toward 10K+.
The drone loop
Scan
2. Scan / tag
Let the drone light contacts and mark yields. Its feed turns fog into choices: chase, bank, or cut someone else off.
Assist
3. Assist the scoop
Use the drone to help grab ore or hull while you cover. Two scoops beat one when the lane is contested.
Fight
4. Fight / bank around the feed
Play the fight and the bank off what the drone shows. Protect the helper, cash the haul, and do not leave the feed orphaned in a hot lane.
Why drone play sticks
- » Deploy drone → it scans/tags or assists scoop → you fight and bank around its feed.
- Distinct from map-awareness radar (ping → reveal → deny fog), squad-human fleet (callouts and shared pressure), and chase intercept (catch a fleeing ship) — drone is a deployable helper you fight around, not a map ping or a human wingman.
- No invented keybinds, tech-node names, Lab steps, or weapon stats — trust what the drone feed shows when the lane heats up.
- Wishlist on Steam so Early Access fleets land already drilling helper discipline.
Go deeper
- Radar — ping, reveal, deny fog before fleets plant.
- Fleet — squad play that keeps the belt contested.
- Intercept — catch fleeing ships before they bank.
- Mining — find rock, crack ore, scoop, bank before rivals.
- Cargo — load scrap, fly heavy, bank or drop for rivals.
- Salvage — mark wreck, scoop hull, bank before rivals.
- Scrap — full economy: smash rocks, bank, claim hex, plant turrets.
- Boosters — sustained afterburner when the feed says chase.
- Warp — short-range blink that cuts angles across the belt.
- Wishlist — Steam app 4296990, free browser + Early Access goal.
- Play — free browser asteroid PvP, no download.