Tank Robot

Tank Robot
Basic Information
Health:	Varies Lowest: 10000 Mannhunt: Wave 6D, 6E, and 6F Highest: 60000 Caliginous Caper: Sub-wave 8G/Broken Parts: Wave 6D
Speed:	25%

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We don't know what this thing is, but it's big as hell, looks unstoppable, and it probably runs on human blood. We're just guessing that last part, because it's usually covered in it. — Day 1 of the Mann vs. Machine update

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Tank Robots (referred just as Tank) are large bomb-carrying machines that arrive with the robots in Mann vs. Machine modes. They carry no offensive weapons and thus have no direct way of harming the player. They can take an extreme amount of damage before they are destroyed, far more so than any other robot. The Administrator announces the entrance, progress, and destruction of each tank.

After entering the map, tanks slowly travel along a set path to the bomb hatch before deploying their bomb and ending the round. This path is unique to each map and may differ from the path of other robots in the wave, if any. They have their own bomb, independent of the one carried by the other robots, and in waves with tank(s) and bomb-carrying robots, both the tank and the robots must be destroyed to complete the wave.

Tanks are immune to all effects outside of damage and critical hits; they can only be stopped via destruction. They cannot have their movement interrupted or slowed; standing in front of one will simply push the player away for no damage, while players that cannot be pushed away due to walls or props are crushed to death, and buildings in the way are destroyed. They cannot be burned or soaked by Jarate or Mad Milk, they do not give metal to Widowmakers, they cannot be sapped or marked for death, and they have no heads to shoot or backs to stab. Finally, they resist approximately 75% of Minigun damage, severely reducing a Heavy's damage output against it.

Tanks have a health meter below the "robots remaining" display on the HUD, and as they are more damaged, they will acquire bullet holes and cracks and lose parts, like the covering on their treads. The final tank of a mission has distinctive white stripes; this does not correlate to any of its properties.

Health

Each Tank in a wave has a given amount of health based on its intended difficulty and the length of the path it must travel.

Health	Mission	Wave
10000	Mannhunt	6D, 6E, 6F
12000	Mannslaughter	3B
13300	Cave-in	4
14000	Mean Machines	5A
15000	Disintegration	5
16000	Quarry	6B
17500	Cave-in	2B
18000	Machine Massacre	4, 7A
	Mech Mutilation	1C
	Disintegration	2D
20000	Doe's Drill	3, 8
	Mann-euvers	2
	Doe's Doom	7
	Mannhunt	3
	Ctrl+Alt+Destruction	7B
	CPU Slaughter	6C, 6E
	Machine Massacre	7D
	Mech Mutilation	3D
	Cataclysm	4A, 7A
	Mannslaughter	5C, 5E
	Benign Infiltration	4A
	Disintegration	4A, 5B
21000	Quarry	1
22000	Desperation	4
22500	Mann-euvers	7
24000	Doe's Doom	2A
25000	Day of Wreckening	2, 6B
	Cave-in	6B
	Mannhunt	5C
	Disk Deletion	6, 8A-1, 8A-2
	Data Demolition	3D, 4A
	Ctrl+Alt+Destruction	5
26000	Mean Machines	3A
28000	Crash Course	3
30000	Crash Course	5
	Data Demolition	6B, 6D
	Ctrl+Alt+Destruction	2A
	CPU Slaughter	6A
	Benign Infiltration	6C
	Broken Parts	3D
32000	Data Demolition	6A
33000	Crash Course	6B
	Broken Parts	6B
35000	Quarry	5
	Ctrl+Alt+Destruction	7D
	Desperation	7A
	CPU Slaughter	4
	Cataclysm	3A
	Caliginous Caper	4
	Bone Shaker	2
	Broken Parts	6B
40000	Caliginous Caper	5
	Bone Shaker	4A, 7
	Broken Parts	2A
42000	Caliginous Caper	7
45000	Desperation	7C-2
	Cataclysm	7F
	Broken Parts	2A
46000	Bone Shaker	7F
60000	Caliginous Caper	8G
	Broken Parts	6D

Elimination

When a tank is the only robot in the wave (excluding support-class robots like Snipers), it should be focused by all players until it is destroyed. Kritzkrieg Medics and Canteens are extremely effective when paired with sustained high-damage classes like Heavies, Pyros, and Soldiers, or when used with Demomen using his Grenade Launchers and Stickybomb Launchers. Wrangled Sentry Guns also deal massive damage to tanks, but may have to be relocated once the tank passes out of their range or if they're in the tank's path. As well, the hitbox of the tank is very large, making weapons with "bullet spread", such as the Frontier Justice, effective even at medium-long range.

If a tank arrives with other robots, especially giant robots, consider killing the robots first, as tanks do not deal damage and can usually be dealt with after the regular robots if they have not traveled more than halfway. After arriving at the bomb hatch, the tank will take a while to deploy its bomb, so the team still has time to destroy it.

Related achievements

Mann vs. Machievements

Balls-E Destroy the tank during the final seconds of the bomb being deployed. Clockwork Carnage Destroy two tanks within 5 seconds of each other.

Clockwork Conqueror Destroy a tank within 20 seconds of its arrival.

Update history

August 15, 2012 Patch (Mann vs. Machine)

• The Tank was added to the game.

August 17, 2012 Patch

• Fixed a crash related to server plug-ins spawning a Tank before the game is ready.

September 4, 2012 Patch

• Fixed the looping tank sound not playing if it was spawned far from the player.
• Fixed tank destruction effects playing at the map origin.

December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)

• [Undocumented] Rage from Buff Banner, Concheror, upgraded Minigun, and Mmmph from Phlogistinator can now be generated from Tanks.

November 22, 2013 Patch

• Fixed a server crash related to damaging the tank with the new Medic shield

Bugs

• If multiple tanks are in a wave, the Administrator may sometimes state that a tank is halfway through the wave even though it would just have spawned.
• Tanks in Romevision deploy their bombs incorrectly: The upper half of the Tank will flip on its side, the Bomb will come out of the X in front of the Tank (it will not actually open up, and the X faces upwards), and the bomb will basically be flying through the air once the Tank deploys it and will detonate as a normal bomb would.

Gallery

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  Lightly damaged

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  Moderately damaged

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  Heavily damaged

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  Final wave skin

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  The Tank as seen in Romevision

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  Romevision lightly damaged

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  Romevision moderately damaged

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  Romevision heavily damaged

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  Romevision Final wave skin

External links

• "Machines" official announcement, with the hint of the Tank Robot.