However, others may make you visible by finding a crate on the map. Some crates will also restore invisibility to a unit that finds them. These can upgrade a units abilities in one of five areas, restore it to full health, damage it via Ion Cannon shots, kill every unit on the map, or max out its abilities for a short period. Mostly though crates are beneficial. The odd bad crate is more than made up for by the benefits of the good crates.
Many games therefore boil down to who can get crates more rapidly.
This puts a premium on the units which have high initial speed. They can dash around getting crates while the slower units are left to slog on with their basic attributes. For All mode of play. When you die all of your power-ups from crates are lost. In team games you can decide prior to the game whether or not the crates apply to all members of a team or just to the unit that opens them.