Recon Tower

Recon Tower  
General  
Category Multi-part structure
Hammer Large
Building  
Build cost 200 Build Supplies (100 in Season 1)
Build time 134 hits Large (about 118.3 s). Derived from the hammer swing timing, not timed in play.
Health 5,000 HP
Damage  
Bullets -80%
Melee -10%
Grenades -50%
Rockets +45%
C4 +50%
IEDs +200%
Internal name DA_Buildable_CrowsNest, with parts DA_Buildable_CrowsNest_BaseFloor, DA_Buildable_CrowsNest_FirstFloor and DA_Buildable_CrowsNest_Roof

The Recon Tower is a large tower built from a base floor, a first floor and a roof. Only the Large Hammer can build it. It has 5,000 HP and takes the same damage as the Bunker.

Overview

The Recon Tower costs 200 Build Supplies and has 5,000 HP. Its three parts each cost 10 Build Supplies and have 2,250 HP. The export gives no display name for the parts, so they are described here as parts of the tower.

Destroying an enemy Recon Tower pays 200 cash and 50 Role XP.

Building it

  • Cost: 200 Build Supplies for the tower, whichever hammer builds it. Each part costs 10 Build Supplies. The data does not say whether the part costs add to the 200. Nothing is charged at placement.
  • Hammers: Large only.
  • Placement: The tower must be inside a friendly Forward Operating Base radius. It cannot be placed within 3 m of a safe zone or while standing in one, and not within 1 m of a ladder.
  • Stack limit: 0, so the tower cannot be placed on top of another buildable.
  • Build stages: Five, at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% of progress. The earlier stages have 27, 47, 41 and 41 weak spots. A hammer hit on a weak spot adds more progress (see Buildables).
  • Parts: When the tower is finished, it turns into separate parts: a base floor, a first floor and a roof, together with the Hesco Blocks and sandbag wall around them. Each part is its own buildable with its own health. The floor and roof parts each have 2,250 HP. This is Derived from the stage data (see Buildables).
  • Build time: Estimated from the hits to build in the table below, one hit per swing (derived, not timed in play).
Building it Small hammer Medium hammer Large hammer
Hits to build cannot place cannot place 134 (about 118.3 s)
Hits to repair from zero health 60 30 20
Hits to dismantle (your own) 34 25 20

Seconds are an estimate: one hammer hit per swing, 0.567 s per hit for the Small and Medium hammers and 0.883 s for the Large (derived from the use animation, not measured).

The Large Hammer is the only one that can place the tower. The repair and dismantle hits for the other hammers are what their hits do; the data does not check them for this structure. The build count assumes normal hits, and hitting weak spots brings it down.

What it does

The data does not describe what a player can do on the tower. Its effect in play is its health and how it takes damage.

Durability

Source Change Share of damage that gets through
Bullets -80% 20%
Melee -10% 90%
Grenades -50% 50%
Rockets +45% 1.45 times
C4 +50% 1.5 times
IEDs +200% 3 times

The table below gives the hits it takes to destroy, for each source. For how the percentages combine, see the Damage Pipeline.

Hits to destroy (point blank, derived)

Derived from each source’s base damage and the damage table. It is not a count from play: each figure assumes every shot lands at point blank for full damage, with no falloff and no other rules, so real fights can differ. Base damage used: M4 5.56 mm FMJ 28, .50 cal FMJ 90, 120 mm rocket 150, M67 frag grenade 100 (it counts as a rocket against structures), C4 charge 250, IED 300. Each figure is the number of hits needed after every matching damage entry is applied.

Structure HP M4 5.56 mm FMJ .50 cal FMJ 120 mm rocket M67 frag grenade C4 charge IED
Recon Tower 5,000 893 278 33 35 27 12
Floor or roof 2,250 402 125 15 16 12 5

Season 2 changes

  • Build cost went from 100 to 200 Build Supplies. The data lists this change for the main tower only.

See also

Sources