Commander

Warning: portions of this page are out of date

The commander system was substantially revamped in winter 2016. This page has only partially been updated to the new system.

Commander intro

Your commander can be configured with a variety of modules to suit your play-style.

It used to be that modules had to be unlocked with points (awarded at level up) but that's no longer the case. You can add any module you want in-game using the upgrade commander button. To save time in game you can also pre-configure commander loadouts on the this page or the link under Commanders in the home tab of the lobby. At the start of the game you will now be able to choose between your preset commander loadouts. If you do not have any commander loadouts specified you can pick among several default "trainer" loadouts.

To keep the game balanced commander modules cost metal ingame and are not all applied at the start of the game. Commanders start at level 1 with a free peashooter and no modules but they can morph an unlimited number of times (but you'll eventually run out of modules after which it is pointless to morph). At Morph 1 (Level 2), commanders gain a single weapon. At morph 3 commanders gain a second weapon which can either be a second regular weapon or a special weapon. If a weapon slot is left empty the commander will be given a free peashooter in its place.

Each morph level gives a commander more health, more modules or weapons. Morphs have a base cost and additional cost based on the value of the modules or weapons that it will gain when the morph is complete. You can pre-configure your commander buildouts only through level 6 but you can upgrade any number of times in-game.

Unlike regular units, your commander is not disabled while morphing.

Modules and weapons

Number of slots per level

Commanders start at level 1. The number of modules and weapons increases with levels.

Commander level	1	2	3	4	5	6
Base cost	-	251	150	500	300	400
Total Weapon slots	0	1	1	2	2	2
Total Module slots	0	1	3	5	8	11

¹ Equipping weapons and modules costs additional metal.

Module types

Modules have cyan names in the unlock list, although their icon color depends on their nature. They fall into four categories.

Stackable

These modules each give fairly minor and specific bonuses to an attribute with a wide range of modules to choose from. They are the only module that can be placed on the same commander more than once but to do so the module must be unlocked multiple times. They are good for low ingame metal cost and are good for fleshing out a loadout. A single type of this module could be stacked many times to create an extreme commander. These are cyan.

Support

Support modules are not stackable. They can provide large expensive bonuses such as a shield, cloaking, jamming or a cloaker. There are also cheap ones such as resurrect and inbuilt radar. These are cyan as well.

Weapon Boosters

These modules are expensive but give a large bonus to a few specific weapons but can only be applied once. They are a space effective way to spend a module slot but make sure you have the weapon that they affect. They are purple.

Weapon types

There are 2 types of weapon, special and normal. Both weapon types are affected by the stackable range and damage modules. Weapon names are in red.

Normal

These are auto-targetting normal weapons that behave the same was as any other unit. They can be affected by weapon boosters and weapon converters given that it is the right weapon. They are all affected by stackable modules. They are red.

Name	Range	Reload time	Damage	DPS	Notes
Beam Laser	330			150
Flame thrower	270	0.16	10	60	Sets units on fire for 15s pierces units Does more damage against larger units
Heatray	300	0.1	45	450	Damage falls off with range
Machine Gun	285	0.16	30	180
Light particle beam	310	0.34	55	165
Lightning gun	300	1.66	220+550	132+330	EMP duration: 1s
Missile launcher	415	1	80	80	Homing
Riot cannon	275	2	220.2	110.1
Shotgun	290	2	32x12 (384)	192
Rocket launcher	430	3	360	120	Not homing

Special

Special weapons have a long reload time and must be manually aimed with the 'D' key. They are only affected by stackable modules. They are orange and can only be put on the level 4 weapon slot.

Name	Range	Reload time	Damage	DPS	Special Notes
Cluster bomb	360	30	300x8 (2400)	80	Bomblets spread (like a shotgun)
Concussion shell	450	25	750	30	Has Impulse (Tosses some units)
Disintigrator	200	30	1400	46.67	Damage varies on unit size
Disrupter bomb	450	25	350+2100	14+84	Has large AOE (512)
Hellfire grenade	450	25	200	8	Sets an area on fire (45s,40dps+3s burning)
Multistunner	360	25	550/800 x 16 (8800/12800)	352/512	Affected by flux amplifier. Max EMP time: 8s [upgraded: 12s]
SLAM	700	30	1512	50.4	High vertical arc

Key: EMP Damage, Slow Damage

Commander Chassis

There are 4 types of commander chassis to choose for a battle.

Common attributes

The commander you start the game with produces 4 metal and 6 energy per second. Additional commanders produced from the Strider Hub produce 0.4 metal and 0.4 energy per second. They all provide a sight distance of 500 and a sonar of 300. Chassis other than the Engineer Commander have 10 build power and 120 build range and the Engineer commander has 12 build power and 250 build range.

Chassis list

Note that attributes on level 1 and level 2 are equal. Morphing to level 2 provides no bonus other than the weapon and module slot.

Strike Commander

• All rounder
• Decent health and speed
• Can use the most weapon types
• Auto-regen bonus

Base Attributes	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
HP: 2500 Speed: 40.5 Autoheal: 5	HP: 3000 Autoheal: 12.5	HP: 4000 Autoheal: 20	HP: 5000 Autoheal: 27.5	HP: 6000 Autoheal: 35

Guardian Commander

• Best HP
• Medium speed
• Gains more HP from increased levels than other chasis do
• Able to use most non-exotic weapons

Base Attributes	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
HP: 3000 Speed: 40	HP: 3800	HP: 4900	HP: 6000	HP: 7200

Recon Commander

• Lowest HP
• Highest Speed (for a commander)
• Jumpjets
• Uses light weapons

Base Attributes	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
HP: 1600 Speed: 43.5 Can Jump	HP: 2100	HP: 2600	HP: 3100	HP: 3600

Engineer Commander

• Lowest speed
• Low HP
• Gains buildpower with levels
• Increased build range (250 compared to 120 for others)
• Fewer direct damage weapons

Base Attributes	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
HP: 2000 Speed: 36 Build Power: 12	HP: 2500 Build Power: 14	HP: 3000 Build Power: 16	HP: 3700 Build Power: 18	HP: 4500 Build Power: 20

Exact effects of attribute modifiers

Attribute modifiers are applied in this order:

• Commander Chassis absolute statistics
• Percentage modifiers both from modules and chassis
• Absolute modifiers

Percentage modifiers from commanders and stackable modules are additive, not cumulative. Five +10% speed modules multiply a commander's speed by 1.5 instead of by 1.1^5 = 1.61.

Percentage modifiers from weapon boosters and converters are cumulative and applied before other percentage modifiers. Think of them as changing the intrinsic stats of the weapon, rather than adding a bonus.