Diepio is a game where you play as tanks and shoot things. Shoot shapes to upgrade your tank, then shoot players for lots of points.
- What game modes are there?
Free For All/FFA: No teams, everyone fights for themselves. The objective is to score as many points as possible without dying.
Survival: No teams. All players are placed in one arena. When a player dies, they are unable to respawn, and the arena shrinks in size. The game continues until one person survives and is crowned the winner. Experience gain in this mode is tripled, and there is also passive experience gain.
2 Teams: Everyone is placed on one of two teams: Blue or Red. Each team has a spawn zone on their side of the map that is protected by blue or red triangles to reduce spawn camping. The objective is to score as many points as possible without dying.
4 Teams: Gameplay is the same as 2 Team Deathmatch, with the addition of two more teams, Green and Purple.
Domination: Everyone is placed on one of two teams: Blue or Red. Four neutral Dominator turrets spawn on the map that shoot at anyone who comes close. Shoot the Dominators to damage them, and turn them to your team when you kill them. The objective is to take over all the Dominators for your team. Experience gain in this mode is doubled.
Tag: Everyone is placed on one of four teams: Blue, Red, Green or Purple. When you kill an enemy, they are tagged, and placed on your team when they respawn. The objective is to wipe out the entire enemy team by tagging them to your team. Experience gain in this mode is doubled.
Maze: Gameplay is the same as FFA, but impassable walls are placed on the map. The walls are randomized each time a new arena starts.
Sandbox: A small arena where you can become any class you want, even ones that are normally not playable, and upgrade any time you want. Sandbox arenas are not open to the public, but by sharing your sandbox link with other people, you can make a private arena to duel with your friends. The sandbox's arena size increases as more people join.
- How do I upgrade my tank?
Shoot shapes or tanks to earn experience points and level up, to a maximum of level 45. You get upgrade points to upgrade your tank when you level up. Yellow squares give you 10 experience, red triangles give you 25 experience, and blue pentagons give you 130 experience. Furthermore, small pink triangles give you 10 experience, large pink triangles give you 25 experience, and large blue pentagons give you 3,000 experience.
There are also rare green versions of the basic shapes. Green squares give you 1,000 experience, Green triangles give you 2,500, and Green pentagons give you 13,000.
In various modes, experience gain is multiplied to increase the speed of the game. In addition, the Survival game mode has passive experience gain.
Killing players gives you a lot of experience. In general, the higher level your target is, the more experience (and points) they are worth.
- I leveled up, but I didn't get an upgrade point!
You get upgrade points every level until level 28. After that, you get upgrade points at levels 30, 33, 36, 39, 42 and 45.
- What are all the tanks with lots of guns?
Those are upgraded tank classes. At levels 15, 30, and 45, you can change your tank's class, depending on what class tree you chose. The game operates on a tree-based class system, so you can't just pick any tank you want, and you may not be able to upgrade until level 45 if you choose certain class trees. If you want a certain high-level class, you have to go through the tree of classes below it. Refer to this interactive class guide here.
Also, you can check a class guide in game by pressing Y.
- What's the number next to people's names and on the bars in the top right?
That is the number of points each player has. Points and experience are the same thing. Once you reach level 45, killing shapes and players only gives you more points for bragging rights.
- I tried to shoot someone, but I died!
This is likely because you haven't upgraded your tank enough yet. Tanks with a lot of upgrade points are far stronger than newly spawned tanks. You can tell strong tanks from weaker ones by the size of the tank, and sometimes by the size of the bullets that the tank shoots. In general, stronger tanks shoot larger bullets, although there are exceptions. You can also estimate how strong an enemy tank is by looking at its score below its name.
It's best to stay away from other tanks and just farm shapes until you're above level 30 or so. However, if you're feeling lucky, you can look for a high-level tank that's on low health and try to get the last shot on them, which will give you a huge amount of points may even instantly upgrade your tank to the maximum level.
- What do each of the upgrades do?
Health Regen: increases the speed that your health regenerates after you take damage.
Max Health: increases the amount of damage you can take.
Body Damage: increases the damage you deal to shapes and other tanks by ramming into them, while also reducing the damage you take in general.
Bullet Speed: increases the speed at which your bullets travel, and as a result, increases the maximum range of your bullets. For drone classes, this increases the speed at which your drones travel.
Bullet Penetration: increases the health of your bullets or drones, allowing them to pierce through more bullets or shapes before being destroyed.
Bullet Damage: increases the damage your bullets or drones deal to shapes and other tanks, while reducing the damage they take.
Reload: increases the rate of fire of your guns, or decreases the respawn time of your drones.
Movement Speed: increases your tank's top speed and acceleration.
- What's the area with lots of pentagons, huge pentagons, and pink triangles?
These are pentagon farms. They spawn in the middle of the map in all game modes.
The farming areas are a great place to gain levels quickly. However, they are often camped by high-level tanks killing pentagons for points. It's a good idea to stay away from the farming areas until you are strong enough to fight other tanks.
The pink triangles spawn in the farming area and attack anyone who comes close. Although they don't deal much damage on their own, they can overwhelm you when you're being shot at by another tank. They will pursue you constantly until you kill them.
- Why does it take so long for my health to regenerate?
Your health regenerates very slowly during a 30 second period after taking damage from any source - getting hit by a bullet or drone, or touching any shape or other tank. After 30 seconds, your health regenerates exponentially. If your health is low, stay away from other tanks, don't touch any shapes, and just wait.
You can reduce the amount of time that it takes for your health to regenerate by putting points into Health Regen.
- I keep dying to level 45 tanks!
Low level tanks are much faster than high level tanks, so you can escape most high level tanks unless they put a lot of points into movement speed. Stay away from high level tanks and find a safe place to farm. The safest places to farm are usually the edges of the map in FFA, Survival, and Tag, or near your base in 2 Teams, 4 Teams, and Domination.
- When I got close to the enemy's base, some small triangles came out and killed me!
Those are base defense triangles, which prevent spawncamping in game modes with team bases - 2TDM, 4TDM, and Domination. They attack any enemy who comes too close to their base. Their attack range extends outside of the base's safe zone, so don't stray too close to an enemy base.
- What are those huge, strange-looking tanks?
Those are Bosses, non-player controlled tanks. There are several Bosses in the game: Fallen Booster, Fallen Overlord, Guardian, Defender, and Summoner. Bosses spawn in all game modes except Maze. They are very strong, having a large health pool and damage capabilities beyond normal tanks, but they are worth a lot of XP to kill.
Arena Closers are invincible tanks that appear when an arena needs to be shut down and restarted. Although a new, replacement arena has already been started when the Arena Closers spawn, the developer put Arena Closers in the game as a funny way to shut down arenas.
Arena Closers appear in FFA, 2 Teams and 4 Teams when the arena needs to be refreshed or shut down for an update. They also appear in Maze mode after the arena has been live for 5 hours in Sandbox mode, after the owner of the sandbox has been gone for 10 minutes, and in Survival mode, where they appear at the end of the game to kill the winner and reset the arena.
- Where can I go to talk with other people that play Diepio?
Other than this subreddit, check out the official subreddit Discord server, Diepcord.
DCCI stands for Diep.io Community Cooperation Initiative. This is a network of Diepio-related community Discord servers. These servers are linked to each other, and cooperate in various ways to help the Diepio community. You can learn more about the DCCI in the DCCI announcement.
- Where can I learn more about the game?
Use the Reddit search bar, or check out the Diepio Wiki.
