Vertibot

Vertibots are robots encountered in Appalachia in 2102.

Characteristics
Vertibots are an automated version of the standard vertibirds. Besides their autonomous nature, they appear to not be significantly different from piloted versions. Vertibots are usually found escorting cargobots and will turn hostile if either the cargobot or the vertibot itself is attacked by the player character.

Gameplay attributes
Vertibots are high level robotic enemies that require a great deal of care in fighting. It is quite easy to be overwhelmed due to their generous armor, health pool, and ability to fly. If attacked, the Vertibot will continue attacking until it either is destroyed, kills the attacker, or loses interest. In that case, it will not respond to any harassment fire. Notably, survey Vertibots identical to the regular ones appear during Event: Fly Swatter in the Ash Heap, allowing for a near-constant supply of Vertibots to shoot down.

Three under the Strategic Air Command will usually appear escorting a SAC Cargobot carrying a Nuclear keycard and will attack anything that either attacks them or the cargobot.

If a player character controls a public workshop with a Vertibot landing pad, the pad can be repaired to spawn a friendly Vertibot, which will automatically take off and attack enemies. Vertibots can be summoned by vertibot signal grenades collected from a yellow box near the landing pad, and will arrive to assist the player character in combat. However, the assisting variant has lower stats. Vertibots are resilient to ballistic attacks but explosive and energy weapons prove effective against them.

Locations

 * They are most often found near former military camps and Brotherhood of Steel installations, such as Camp Venture and Fort Defiance, and in the Mire and Savage Divide regions of Appalachia.
 * A vertibot landing pad with a crate of vertibot signal grenades can be found just outside the entrance to the converted munitions factory.
 * Some of the public workshops come with a vertibot landing pad as part of the area the workshop covers, such as the Poseidon Energy Plant yard or Wade Airport, but will need to be repaired to spawn the vertibot, which will defend the workshop and general area until all threats are eliminated, at which point it will return to the landing pad to repair and recover health until attacked again, or it is destroyed, requiring the landing pad to be repaired again to spawn a new one.
 * One can be found crashed into Wade Airport.
 * Two more are crashed into Morgantown Airport.
 * Three can be found in Watoga, two on rooftops, and one in front of AMS corporate headquarters.

Appearances
Vertibots appear only in Fallout 76.

Gallery
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