Containment Bot

Containment Bot is a GATE security robot encountered in Cascade Laboratories. It is a more advanced and more dangerous variant of the Security Robot, built on the same basic architecture but equipped with immurement protocols. In practice, that makes it tougher, faster, and more disruptive to fight than its predecessor, especially in close quarters.

The bot is visually similar to the Security Robot, but uses purple accent colors and has built-in armor plating on its shoulder joints and thighs. As it takes damage, this armor is destroyed. Like other GATE Robot models, it has a small gray panel next to the eye; on the Containment Bot this panel bears GATE’s logo.

Containment Bot stays inside a Charging Pod during the day and patrols at night, but it can activate immediately if anything approaches the area around its pod, which is marked by purple hazard stripes on the floor. It is hostile to the player, Order soldiers, other entities, and player-deployed objects near its patrol route. Compared to the Security Robot, it has fewer attacks, but it can sprint to close distance quickly and catch unprepared players off guard. Its main purpose is not simply to kill, but to capture targets and imprison them if possible.

Its melee kit is limited but dangerous:

• Thunder Fist is a sweeping arm attack that can electrically stun a player who blocks with a shield.
• Capture Target attempts to grab a target. Once grabbed, enemies and players cannot use items or weapons, and the attack will always break a player’s leg unless it is already broken.

A Containment Bot does not die when its torso reaches 0 health. Once that happens, further damage is applied to its head health instead, giving it an effective torso-based durability of 800. Hitting the eye, which counts as its head, is the fastest way to bring it down.

Containment Bots drop both guaranteed loot and harvestable materials. On defeat, they always drop Jailbroken CPU, Vit, Fizz Bang, Rootbear, Pop Snarkle, and Kizz Cola. They can also be harvested for Metal Scrap, Glass Scrap, Tech Scrap, Coil, and Robot Oil.

Known locations include the Vacuum Chamber Door leading to the Security Sector in Cascade Laboratories, the Wildlife Pens Lobby near the tram in the Aquarium, the Adjustment Wing of Cascade Laboratories, and Containment Block Dirac at the security checkpoint before Containment Block Anning.

For combat, the same general approach used against Security Robots works, but stronger equipment and defenses are recommended. Ranged weapons and explosives can make short work of it, and deployable base defenses placed near a Charging Pod can destroy one with relatively little risk. If a player is captured, dealing enough stagger damage before the bot finishes locking them away can cause the player to be dropped. Equipping the right item can also reduce the risk from Tesla Coils, and another can make the bot ignore the player entirely, allowing safe passage across the purple hazard stripes near Charging Pods without triggering it. Containment Bots cannot grab non-human entities, so against those targets they will keep attacking until the target is dead.