Streetsweeper

A Streetsweeper is a combat drone that was added in v1.3.0.

Appearance
The Streetsweeper is a black orb with a single white 'eye', miniature helicopter blades, and either a flamethrower or machine gun mounted underneath.

Combat
The Streetsweeper can be summoned by activating a Streetsweeper Box. Once activated, the Streetsweeper will attack anyone that is not on the team of the person who released it. If it is opened by natural causes e.g. explosions or a long fall, the Streetsweeper will attack anyone and everyone.

It will spawn with either a flamethrower or machine gun. The flamethrower will spit fire in short bursts, a little like a burst version of the actual Flamethrower. If it spawns with a machine gun, it will fire 3-round burst bullets that don't do much damage. Also, the helicopter blades can damage people by cutting them. However, the Streetsweeper is not conscious of this and will cut anyone it passes. Streetsweepers are armed with a laser sight as well.

Health
The Streetsweeper has around 75 health (I'm not sure) and when lowered to just below halfway, the white eye will flash red with a high-pitched beeping. On death, it's weapon and blades will disappear, causing it to fall to the ground, and after a few seconds it will explode similarly to a Propane Tank.

Trivia
The Streetsweeper is used by the MetroCops as a predator drone.

The Streetsweeper is visible on one of the posters available in the map editor and some of the official maps.

If a Streetsweeper crate is destroyed on the exact frame it is opened by a players' interaction it spawns 2 drones.*

* needs further checking

History

 * v1.3.0: Introduced, challenge Streetsweeper Sweep-up also introduced.


 * v1.3.2: Flamethrower bursts fire more slowly in and increased machine gun spread.

Categories: Weapons