The game’s pick-ups add a greater sense of unpredictably to combat, offering a variety of offensive and defensive tools. To acquire a pick-up, simply run over it.
Each map has a number of pick-up spawn points where these items appear throughout a match or mission. Keep your eyes peeled for these pick-ups and grab them before your opponents can.
Pick-Ups
Proximity Mines
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These mines explode when an enemy vehicle gets close to them. Make sure you don’t get caught in the blast from one of your own mines—they’ll damage you too! Try dropping them on pick-up spawn points for sneaky kills. These mines are also a good way to stop someone chasing you. If you die, all mines you’ve dropped will explode.
Remote Mining charges
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Remote Mining Charges inflict more damage than the Proximity Mines. Once these mines are dropped, they must be detonated manually. You can drop several of them and detonate them all at the same time. Make them even more effective by dropping them near explosive structures or objects.
While making a high-speed turn, deploy a charge to throw it toward a target, then detonate it as you speed away. If you die, all charges you’ve dropped will explode.
Singularity Bomb
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The Singularity Bomb is the most destructive and dangerous weapon in the game. Once deployed, get away before detonating it to avoid getting sucked into a black hole. The black hole eventually collapses, causing a massive explosion. Just be sure to detonate it in a timely fashion, otherwise it will detonate on its own or whenever you die.
These work well in King of the Hill matches, ideal for clearing the hill of enemy vehicles. The black hole is most effective against light vehicles, but the resulting explosion nearly guarantees the destruction of any nearby vehicles that managed to escape the vortex.
Repair
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Run over this green wrench icon to repair your vehicle. Even if you don’t need to be repaired, consider grabbing this pick-up to deny its healing benefits to your opponents. However, during the Training Missions, avoid touching these pick-ups until you really need them.
Armor Boost
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The Armor Boost pick-up deploys an impenetrable force field around your vehicle for approximately fifteen seconds. During this time you take no damage from enemy weapons, mines, or charges.
However, Singularity Bombs still pose a threat—the force field will not protect you from being sucked into a black hole.Obviously, these pick-ups are very powerful, particularly in multiplayer matches, so grab them before someone else does.
Speed boost
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This pick-up temporarily increases the speed of your vehicle. While active, your vehicle has a yellow glow around it. These pick-ups come in handy during Flag Frenzy and Capture the Flag matches, making it easy to retrieve and score flags. But the increase and speed may also make an already fast vehicle, like the Miner ATV, difficult to handle.
Watch your speed, particularly when trying to stay on upper-level roadways. Plan your turns ahead of time to slide around corners.
Reconstructor
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The Reconstructor pick-up automatically repairs and restores all scenery items. This includes explosive containers, walls, and barriers. This is great when you want to make the world a more dangerous place again, or if you just want to spice things up. In some maps it can be useful to rebuild walls or ramps to open or close routes.