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The Underwater Drone is an enemy featured in Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown, exclusively in the Plug 'N' Pray episode's Trackside Tragedy level. It is a very short-lived enemy: on the maximum difficulty level there is a total of five of these enemies and they are all found in the same underwater area, which can be acessed near the beginning of the level.

Their attack is the same as the Sentry Drone, they will try to kill Duke by ramming into him and exploding in the process. Their appearance is decidedly different from the sentry drones, though, with an artificial sharkskin built around the chassis, complete with a dorsal fin, and impeller jets on the back instead of anti-grav units, to allow them to maneuver around underwater.

Also, another enemy robot similar to the Underwater Drone makes an appearance in Duke Nukem: Zero Hour. In it, it's a red color and will home in on Duke, firing torpedoes.

Combat Analysis[]

Weapon effectivenesses
Mighty Foot

15 kicks
Pistol

25 shots
Shotgun

2-3 shots
Chaingun Cannon

17 shots
RPG

1 rocket
Pipe Bomb

2 bombs
Shrinker

Not effective
Expander

10 shots
Devastator

5 rockets
Laser Tripbomb

2 mines
Freezethrower

6-8 shots
Incinerator

N/A
  • The values given for the Shotgun and the explosive weapons are minimum values only.

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