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How to Use Drone Parts to Maximize Power in Last War Survival
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If your squads feel great on paper but fall flat in real fights, it’s probably the drone holding you back.
The Tactical Drone is the quiet multiplier in Last War: it fights alongside every squad, never gets targeted, and turns its own stats into extra HP/ATK/DEF for your heroes.
When you keep upgrading it, everything you run starts hitting harder and surviving longer.
From First Unlock to First Buffs…
The Tactical Drone in Last War Survival is basically your silent carry. It tags along in every fight (world map, PvE, PvP) and while it can’t be targeted, it keeps bombing enemies and turning its own stats into buffs for your squad.
That means more HP, more defense, more attack, all just for leveling the drone. It’s not flashy, but it’s one of those systems that quietly makes everything stronger the more you invest.
Unlocking it isn’t instant, though…
You’ll first need to beat Block 38 around your base, the same fight where you rescue Monica. Win that, and the Drone Center pops up in your city. From there, you’ll handle everything drone-related: upgrades, parts, and eventually components and chips.
At first the Drone Center feels basic, but as you level up, new tabs unlock, and suddenly you’re juggling Drone Parts, Components, and Skill Chips.
Drone Upgrade Requirements in Last War Survival
Leveling your drone isn’t about luck pulls or random drops, it’s a straight-up resource sink, and knowing the requirements saves you from wasting time.
Here’s the deal: upgrades need two things.
• Battle Data: this is the EXP fuel for your drone. You’ll farm it from radar missions (purple and orange give the most) and from hunting zombies.
• Drone Parts: these are the gatekeepers. Every 5 levels, you’ll hit a checkpoint that demands a stack of parts before you can keep going. Early benchmarks are cheap, but as you climb, they’ll start chewing through thousands.
There’s also a neat little mechanic many players miss: crits. While your upgrade progress is under 80%, every tap has a 50% chance to double the EXP you gain. Go past 80%, and the crit chance shuts off. It’s a small thing, but over dozens of levels it adds up big.
Expect this system to be with you for the long haul…
The drone isn’t something you “finish”, it’s a slow-burn project that keeps scaling across seasons. But every level you push adds more ATK, DEF, and HP to all your squads.
It’s steady, it’s reliable, and it’s absolutely worth it.
Building Your Drone with Components…
Once your drone hits Level 15, you unlock the components tab, and this is where the real customization starts.
Six slots open up: Radar, Engine, Armor on the left, and Missile, Fuel Cell, Thermal Imager on the right. The left side stacks defense, the right side stacks offense.
Sounds balanced, right? Not exactly…
Here’s the trick most players miss: the left-side components drop about twice as often as the right-side ones. That means if you just rely on random boxes, your defense will skyrocket while your attack lags behind.
And in a game where damage wins fights, that imbalance will catch up to you.
The fix is simple: whenever you get a Component Choice Chest, always grab a right-side piece (Missile, Fuel, or Thermal). That’s how you keep your drone’s offense scaling with its tankiness.
Upgrading components has its own quirks too. Until Level 7, it works like a merge tree, you’ll need three of the same level to push to the next.
Once you cross Level 7, things change. Components switch to an EXP system, and you can feed duplicates straight into one item to push it higher. That’s where efficiency kicks in, because you’re no longer bottlenecked by having to collect exact triples.
If you’re serious about playing the long game, don’t sleep on the factories either:
• Drone Component Factory (HQ 15): push it to Level 19 to hit the sweet spot of producing 7 components per day. Doesn’t sound like much, but that’s almost 50 a week for free.
• Drone Parts Factory (Age of Oil research, HQ 30): maxes at 6 parts per day. Tiny numbers, sure, but at higher benchmarks you’ll burn thousands. That free trickle matters.
From Epic to Legendary: The Real Drone Chip Upgrade Path
If components are your drone’s bones, skill chips are the muscle. They unlock later, around server day 82 when you hit Combat Boost level 10, and suddenly you’ve got four new slots to play with: Initial, Defense, Attack, and Interference.
On paper, chips look simple: defensive ones trigger at the start of battle, offensive ones trigger every time your drone bombs. But here’s where players trip up—rarity is everything.
You’ll see plenty of people hanging on to heavily invested Epic chips (purple) because they’ve sunk time and resources into them. Don’t do it…
A fresh Legendary chip will outpace an Epic every time, even if the numbers look smaller at first. Why? Because Legendary effects usually last until the battle ends, while Epics are short bursts, like 15 seconds of stats that vanish before fights are even halfway done. In a long brawl, that difference is massive.
The grind to get chips is no joke either. An Epic chip chest in the Campaign Store costs 10,000 medals. That’s weeks of work for something you’ll eventually toss the second you land a Legendary.
Spenders who want to stay ahead should skip the Epic trap and funnel resources straight toward Legendary chips whenever possible.
Are Drone Skins Actually Worth It?
Yes, the game throws flashy drone skins at you, and yes, they come with a couple of stats (+ATK, +crit rate). But let’s be honest… they’re mostly cosmetic.
The boosts are tiny compared to what you’ll get from Parts, Components, and Legendary Chips. If you like the look, grab one during an event, but don’t treat skins as a power play.
Your Drone’s real strength comes from steady upgrades, not cosmetics.
Grow Stronger Without Overspending…
Drone Parts, Components, and Legendary Chips aren’t cheap, and chasing milestones every month adds up fast. That’s why it pays to be smart with where and how you top up…
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