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The Hunter-Seeker is a support power used by the Pacific Front from their Robot Ops Control Center. It releases the namesake kamikaze drone which seeks a random enemy ground target and purposely crashes itself onto it, causing high damage, and also releasing a cryo payload in a large radius around the target area to deal as much damage as possible to nearby enemies. While the Hunter-Seeker drone travels to its target, it will fire lasers at nearby enemy units, which are effective against infantry.

If the Hunter-Seeker drone targets a unit with less than 200 health, it will immediately kill it but it will not detonate, instead it will move on to find another target.[1] This happens frequently when it initially targets an infantry unit.

The Hunter-Seeker drone cannot be shot down by any means, which includes the Blasticade superweapon. However, the Hunter-Seeker drone will not target invulnerable units or structures, whether through the Iron Curtain effect or through the erasing effect of neutron weapons (e.g. Chrono Legionnaire).

An interesting quirk to note is that each Allied War Factory present on the battlefield will release a Hunter-Seeker drone upon activation; the maximum limit of Hunter-Seeker drones that can be released at a time is five. This significantly improves the support power's potency – provided the commander is able to afford the additional cost and power to build and maintain the additional War Factories.

AI behavior[]

Automatically used by the AI once Hunter-Seeker is off cooldown.

Appearances[]

Hunter-Seekers will search and destroy enemy units and structures automatically. Once you confirm their launch, they'll spawn from your War Factories, up to 5 per activation.
—Allied intel during Operation: Stormbringer

Act One[]

  • The enemy will start using Hunter-Seekers to attack the player in Think Different. However, in this mission, only 3 drones can be summoned at a time.

Act Two[]

  • In Reality Check, Hunter-Seekers are used during the final boss battle when Norio is at 50% health. However, they will only be deployed where Cryospears will be targeted.

Special Ops[]

  • In Digital Demon, the Hunter-Seeker becomes usable for the first time to the player.

Challenges[]

  • In the Regenbogen Challenge, Hunter-Seeker drones will head for the players' bases in massive numbers when the battlefield turns to yellow light. Every 3 minutes, at most 10 drones will be spawned by each enemy, one per Power Plant. If an enemy base is low on power, its respective drones won't be spawned.

Behind the scenes[]

  • During development for 3.3, there was originally a planned support power named "Tengu Strike" which is a quick anti-armor drone strike[2]. The current Hunter-Seeker support power may have succeeded it.

Trivia[]

  • The support power resembles the Hunter-Seeker from Tiberian Sun, but the latter can only release one drone at a time, and has much more destructive power.
    • In fact, the Tiberian Sun version is able to destroy even a Construction Yard in one explosion while Pacific Front's Hunter Seekers can only damage buildings moderately.
    • The Mental Omega version also prioritizes enemy targets and not neutral targets like civilian structures, unless there are no more enemies on the map.
  • The Hunter-Seeker Drones bear resemblance to the Burst Drones fielded by the Empire of the Rising Sun in Red Alert 3.
    • In addition, the internal name for the weapons are called "Sunburst" (SunburstBomb and SunburstLaser), which is a reference to the Sunburst drones from the Final Squadron protocol which is also owned by the Empire of the Rising Sun.

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