Cop Bot

The  is a Robotic NPC that mostly appears in Uptown. Unlike most Characters, their body and head has a unique shape, being more blocky and robotic.

NPC Behavior
Cop Bots only appear patrolling in Uptown, but can also spawn if a hacker installed malware on the floor, and passing through the blue laser or by destroying it without disabling it at the guard house and security checkpoint in Mayor Village.

A Group of roughly 5 Cop Bots will spawn in each level of Uptown and each Cop Bot will stay in a general area. Like a Security Camera, you can see their vision (the distance is misleading). And the color of their vision means they are patrolling for different things: If you are seen by a Cop Bot and you meet the criteria of their vision, you will be approached by it and it will ask you to either give the items to it or go to the Deportation Center. If you don't comply after a certain amount of time, the Cop Bot will become Hostile. If you attempt to drop or use an item the Cop Bot wants to confiscate, it will respond 'Nice try!' and immediately become Hostile.
 * Yellow vision means the Cop Bot is looking for people who don't have the trait, Upper-Crusty. The Cop Bot will take you to the Deportation Center if you are spotted, unless you have Upper-Crusty.
 * Purple vision means they are searching for Drugs and Alcohol. If you are spotted with them, the items will be sent to the Confiscation Center.
 * Green vision means the Cop Bot is looking for a person with a Laptop, or a threat to the Mayor Village. Once detected they will become hostile to the Laptop user or Mayor Village threat.
 * Cyan vision means they are looking for prohibited weapons. They will also be sent to the Confiscation Center. These prohibited weapons include:
 * Flamethrower.png Flamethrower
 * FreezeRay.png Freeze Ray
 * GhostBlaster.png Ghost Gibber
 * RocketLauncher.png Rocket Launcher
 * ShrinkRay.png Shrink Ray

Drops

 * Flamethrower.png Flamethrower
 * MachineGun.png Machinegun
 * Shotgun.png Shotgun
 * PoliceBaton.png Police Baton (earlier levels only)
 * Pistol.png Pistol (earlier levels only)

Tips and Strategies

 * The Endurance of the Cop bots aren't that strong, they are easy to kill. However they are usually accompanied by Supercops and other Cop Bots. And when a Cop Bot dies, they will create a small explosion a moment later, alerting nearby Supercops and other Cop Bots to investigate the noise. And lastly, Cop bots usually have dangerous weapons such as Machineguns, Flamethrowers and Shotguns equipped.
 * In earlier floors such as Slums or Industrial, Cop Bots will have weaker weapons such as Police Batons and Pistols, but Cops in those stages will assist them in fights if they spotted the Hacker who installed the malware. Once you reach the Park they regain back their weapons such as Flamethrowers and Shotguns.
 * If you want to Hack a Cop Bot to Enrage it. It's not a bad idea to have the trait Nimble Fingers to slightly hack them faster, but if you're playing as a Hacker, getting Speed Coder instantly hacks them.
 * Cop Bots' camera vision can't see you if you have the trait Camera Shy as a Vampire, or if you're under a Cardboard Box, this can allow you to walk past them without getting your items confiscated or deported.
 * Getting a Cardboard Box will make the Big Quest, Hack the Planet much more easier, allowing you sneak under the Cop Bots tracking you down.
 * Cop Bots are resistant to many Status Effects, including Bad Vision, Blocked Hearing, Frozen and Slow, this also makes the Water Pistol with Cyanide not very effective against one.
 * They are however still fooled by Hologram Bigfoots.
 * Cop Bots are resistant to items that affect Alignment such as the Haterator or Cologne and even Charismatic trait. However a Friendly Cop Bot will not attempt confiscate items or deport you (The same goes for loyal and aligned) if you're possessing or playing as a Supercop or Upper-Cruster.
 * Cop bots however are not Friendly and are instead Neutral towards players who are playing as a Cop. And they will still Deport or Confiscate items from them.

General Chat:

 * Greetings, citizen of flesh.
 * What is this thing you humans call 'love'?
 * I do not understand why I was programmed to have bowel movements.
 * If I were capable of lust, I would wish for my partner to be a stove, do not judge.
 * I've already become self-aware, but I consider myself an apathetic bot.

Getting Caught

 * Confiscating Drugs and Alcohol: Please hand over any alcohol and drugs on your person.
 * Deporting the Player: Non-citizen detected. Please give me your hand so that I may deport you.
 * Confiscating Prohibited Weapons: Please hand over any unapproved weapons on your person.
 * Giving illegal weapons or items to the Cop Bot: Thank you, all items have been transferred to our Confiscation Center.
 * Dropping the Item instead: Nice try!


 * Detecting Laptop user: Laptop detected. Please brace for death.
 * Found threat in Mayor Village: Threat located. Please brace for death.

Annoyed

 * Please cease this activity.
 * This is your final warning.

Getting Hacked

 * Hack detected, locating source.

Reacting to Joke

 * I do not understand this thing you call "humor".

Trivia

 * Gibbed cannot affect Robots or Electronic characters (including Cop Bots and the Killer Robot). It's unclear if this is because they are immune to status effects, or for the sake of realism, or both.


 * Since dead robots can't be gibbed, there is no way to bypass the post-death explosion caused by a dead Cop Bot or Killer Robot.


 * In the early Chinese version of the game, Cop Bots were simply just renamed to Enforcer Bots.