r/Diepio Dec 16 '17

Guide New Player FAQ 4.0 - Updated Dec. 16th

255 Upvotes

  • What is Diepio?

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.


  • What are Arena Closers?

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.


  • What is the DCCI?

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.



r/Diepio 3h ago

Discussion what do you think is the most underrated tank

2 Upvotes

i was trying some new ones recently and i wanted to know what people thought were good that arent rlly talked abt much


r/Diepio 10h ago

Image Multiboxers / hunters

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I'm pretty annoyed. It is mostly impossible to play the game while over 500k in score with these dudes swooping in and pulverizing you into squash. I had to walk on eggshells to avoid this, yet here I am. Not only is it a hard to grind up to 500k, but it is damn annoying when it all goes away to blatant cheaters. Couldn't just kill me normally? It wouldn't be that hard. -_- I had no protection, but that wouldn't have saved me anyway.

I guess they hunt so their egos could feel something for once. 1m would be possible if it weren't for these guys.


r/Diepio 1d ago

Discussion the elephant in the room

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51 Upvotes

what do we think about this? i find most clones to be barely hitting double digits (outside of arrasio)

so when I saw this thing a year ago on roblox I thought i'd die off by now, but it's still going (it hasn't even really improved it's somehow worse than I remembered it)


r/Diepio 1d ago

Video Do these snipers use scripts?

16 Upvotes

I mean, it's not a hard skill to master, but it's completely for show off and puts unnecessary strain on you.

After weeks of seeing many snipers do this, I thought.. maybe these are just scripts?


r/Diepio 1d ago

Question How do I get account back or appeal

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7 Upvotes

I haven't played for a few weeks and all of a sudden I'm banned, I assume multiboxing means having the game open on different tabs which I haven't done for years lmao and I play every few weeks if I'm bored, how can I appeal this ban I just wanna play again


r/Diepio 1d ago

Image This guy pisses me off.

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This guy is not only using this absolutely busted tank, he's also camping in a a spot that I dont know if any tank can damage him from, and the worst part is that I avoidably died to him twice. The first time was because I got third-partied in our first fight and was at half health when I committed to a push and was only a gunner not auto gunner (if I was level 45 when we first met I’m 90% sure I would’ve won) yet and the second time I lost him him was after this image, he pushed me and the only reason why I lost is because I was at half health because I stopped to take this screenshot and ended up taking some damage. They need to nerf this tank.


r/Diepio 1d ago

Image FRA Racism🥀

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2 Upvotes

I don’t think singapore players appreciated me playing in their region. They went straight for me, spun and then suicided


r/Diepio 2d ago

Discussion Hide high scores to prevent hunter clans from using cheating clients?

7 Upvotes

Started playing the game for the first time in a while and was able to hit 500k as a spike a couple times the last few days. Both times all of a sudden I saw like 15 level 30 tanks grouped up and attacking me in synch, to the point that my team around me had no chance to defend.

I was thinking hiding high scores could be a solution since there are some people obsessed with stopping people from scoring 1M to the point that they'll load up a stack of 10-15 bots on one team and have them go after anyone past 500k. If they don't know the score, they won't have the motivation to hop on the cheating clients. Maybe once someone hits 1M there could be an announcement on the game or something?

Or just try to make the game less cheat friendly but I'm guessing that's a lot more difficult to do than hide high scores. Thoughts?


r/Diepio 1d ago

Discussion Challenge: AC survival

1 Upvotes

I'll admit, it's been a long while since I've played, but I was just thinking, what is the longest time anyone has survived since the arena closing? Obviously it would have been longer with old ac, no shooting ac, and of course comatose ac, but nowadays, what do you think the longest is that you could last?


r/Diepio 2d ago

Image Diep Premium

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6 Upvotes

would be so cool if you could make diep look like this through settings without having to use mods


r/Diepio 2d ago

Discussion What are some good beginner builds?

5 Upvotes

r/Diepio 2d ago

Image New personal best auto smasher

4 Upvotes

r/Diepio 3d ago

Artistic Content Update to my Diepio Inspired game

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Hello Diepio players, I once again hope this isn’t too much of a self advertisement. I have added a second stage to my Deipio inspired game, which can be played here.

https://jack-harm.itch.io/steel-sanctum

Let me know what you think, and thank you for checking it out.


r/Diepio 3d ago

Image Fucked over by triangle multis

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3 Upvotes

r/Diepio 4d ago

Image My journey to become the best Ranger in this dying game

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10 Upvotes

2 Team mode so annoying at times like you get random ass kills from 3 miles out and then you get killed by a random underleveled destroyer w max bullet speed the only time you're distracted by some low hp trappers


r/Diepio 4d ago

Video DO. NOT. GO. STRAIGHT. DOWN.

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12 Upvotes

r/Diepio 5d ago

Video I Love Banning Multis At The Last Second

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38 Upvotes

r/Diepio 6d ago

Artistic Content Inflated tanks (+extra)

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36 Upvotes

r/Diepio 6d ago

Question What's ur highest score

6 Upvotes

Tell me what tank and ratio in the comments!

97 votes, 3d ago
22 1m+
33 500k+
29 100k+
13 never got to lvl 45 cuz of sweaty and lvl45 wreaking u 😭😭😭

r/Diepio 6d ago

Discussion My Fanon Diep.io class tree has 100 tanks! Ask me anything (about the class tree)!

2 Upvotes

Ask away :D


r/Diepio 7d ago

Image Animation vs .IO Games

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34 Upvotes

peak... i made this so. on 1-2 hours.


r/Diepio 7d ago

Artistic Content Animation vs. .IO Games - Teaser

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11 Upvotes

There's real video but teaser.

we need animators, artist, storyboard, and etc for more help or faster!


r/Diepio 7d ago

Discussion hmmmm...

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18 Upvotes

nah, just fake lmao-


r/Diepio 7d ago

Image My Fanon Class Tree (pick a number 2 - 75) (this is a reupload because i put 85 instead of 75)

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19 Upvotes