Unreal Tournament 3/Scavenger

The Scavenger is maybe the strangest looking vehicle in the game. It is small, with the pilot nestled inside a transparent sphere and movement driven by two tentacles. Orbiting the pilot's sphere is a drone made of energy which serves as a weapon. The Scavenger has the capability to draw its tentacles in and roll along at a high rate of speed, but with very little steering ability.

It is especially effective against infantry and slow firing armor. Fast vehicles are not a good matchup for the Scavenger.

Movement
Normal movement keys are usable from the pilot position to move forward, backward, left or right. The jump key jumps to help clear obstacles, and the crouch key crouches. Under normal movement, the Scavenger has a medium rate of speed.

The special rolling ability increases the Scavenger's speed significantly.

Primary Fire
The pimary fire button sends the orbiting drone out to attack your target. To inititate an attack, you must get an enemy in your targeting reticle and hold down the primary fire button until you hear the beep signifying a target lock. As long as you hold the primary fire down the drone will orbit them and go through them causing damage. Before the drone can damage the enemy, it must travel to the enemy, so the distance of your target matters in how fast you can hit them.

Secondary Fire
The secondary fire button initiates the special rolling ability described below. The ability stays in effect for as long as the secondary fire button is held down.

Special Abilities
When the secondary fire button is pressed, the tentacles are drawn up and the Scavenger becomes a bounding, bouncing, rolling ball that will crush infantry. It travels at a high rate of speed. Jumping and crouching do not work in this form.

While in the rolling form, if the primary fire button is pressed, the tentacles will re-appear as spiked blades twirling sideways around the base of the ball, and the ball will rise a bit off the ground and do a lot less bounding. This form does good damage against vehicles if you can ram them.

Strategies & Tactics

 * If nothing else is available, the Scavenger is one of the fastest means of transportation in ball mode; use it to get somewhere fast
 * Goliaths and Leviathans can be killed in time by jumping on top of them and attacking, since they cannot shoot you there
 * Nemesis vehicles or base laser turrets will eat your Scavenger as an appetizer; stay away from them
 * The drone does not target air vehicles unless they are very close to the ground, so hide from air threats
 * Mantis vehicles also are a bad matchup because your drone will not catch up to them before they kill you
 * Get enemy infantry in front of you and roll over them quickly