Diep.io

**Diep.io** is a 2D tank shooter game that involves players fighting bosses, shapes, and other players. Created by Matheus Valadares and released in 2016, it became a quick hit, and is still a popular .io game. It has since spawned numerous sequels, including Arras.io and Obstar.io. Diep.io has several gamemodes and hosts a large number of active arenas per gamemode. Diep.io has its own Fandom Wiki and Wikipedia article.

## Gameplay

   Players play as tanks that try to shoot at each other, as well as randomly generating polygons. This allows players to gain experience, eventually leveling up, allowing them to select upgrades. Players can also choose a tank upgrade at levels 15, 30, and 45.

### Upgrades

Commonly known as Stats, these upgrades help a player destroy shapes faster, have a better chance against enemies, or be able to ram enemies using an upgraded body. Tanks can gain up to 33 stat points, which may be put into the following upgrades (each one can be upgraded 7 times):

 Max Health
 Body Damage
 Bullet Speed
 Bullet Penetration
 Bullet Damage
 Reload
 Movement Speed

If a player uses a Smasher branch tank, they only have Health Regen, Max Health, Body Damage, and Movement Speed, and are able to invest 10 stat points, instead of 7, into each.

### Shapes

Shapes spawn randomly throughout the map. Crashers are shapes that target the player. The Pentagon Nest, at the center of the map, spawns many pentagons and occasionally Alpha Pentagons. Very rarely, shapes may spawn green, which gives more experience. Special shapes like the Alpha Pentagon and Crashers cannot spawn green.

 Crasher

### Tanks

Tanks are used by players and finish leveling up at level 45. Once a player reaches level 15 they can choose to upgrade to one of 4 classes, Twin, Machine Gun, Sniper, and Flank Guard. The player can also choose to ignore an upgrade and remain the tank they are currently, doing so will not allow the player a year to upgrade their tank again until they have unlocked the next tank upgrades. Some tanks can only be gotten by ignoring tank upgrades like Smasher class tanks where you need to reach level 30 as a Basic Tank or Sprayer where you must reach level 45 as Machine Gun.

### Bosses

Bosses are rare, randomly spawning entities that can overwhelm solo players. There are 5 bosses in the game: Guardian, a pink triangle that fires small crasher-like drones; Defender, a red triangle that fires traps and bullets; Summoner, a yellow square that fires necromancer drones; Fallen Overlord, a gray Overlord that fires many tiny gray crashers; and Fallen Booster, a gray Booster that attacks players by ramming.

### Gamemodes

There are eight gamemodes in Diep.io, each with their own separate perks. FFA, 2 TDM, 4 TDM, Tag, Survival, Maze, Domination, and Sandbox. FFA is a mode where every tank are enemies. 2 TDM is a mode where there are 2 teams and players on the same team cannot damage each other with each team having a base that they spawn in that the color of the team they are on and are protected with fast strong drones that will attack enemies that get to close. 4 TDM is the same as 2 TDM but with 4 teams and bases instead of 2. Tag mode is a mode where there are 4 teams and whenever a player kills a player on a different team, the player will then spawn on their team. The game ends when all players are on a single team. Survival is a mode where a small number of tanks all spawn at the same time and last tank alive wins. Domination is a mode where there are 4 big, automated tanks that don't move with lots of health that must be capture by each of 2 teams. When a team removes all of its health it will change to the color of the team that killed it. Dominators doesn't attack a team if it is captured by them. When a captured dominator is killed it becomes contested (yellow) and will attack a player on any team. Whenever all dominators are captured by 1 team that team wins. Maze mode is FFA but with a randomized map with walls that cannot be shot or moves through. These maps can create narrow passages and dead ends which makes more opportunities for strategies. Sandbox mode is a mode where the player can freely change between any tank and can give themselves points letting them experiment with different tanks and stat builds. Sandbox mode can also be made multiplayer so you can fight with friends or groups and allows special tanks like a weakened version of dominators and arena closers can be played.

## Community and Reception

The Diep.io community is known as among the most toxic, with bands of "hunters" chasing down the leaders of an arena or swamping the arena with bullets, rendering gameplay very difficult. However, the "more civilized" players have gone on to create the Diep.io Fandom Wiki, Wikipedia articles, and spinoffs of Diep.io such as Arras.io and Woomy-Arras.io.

The game has been critiqued by many magazines such as Vice, Player.One, and even Forbes. It has been praised for its diverse gameplay offering a variety of playing styles and techniques. Famous YouTubers such as Sinbadx and Corrupt X create very popular content on Diep.io and have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. It's very simple gameplay, active community, and well-balanced upgrade tree makes it one of the most popular .io games ever.

## External links

* Diep.io - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diep.io
* Diep.io Wiki - https://diepio.fandom.com/wiki/Project:Home - Also home to the Arras.io Wiki.