Power-Ups

**Power-ups** were introduced to Shell Shockers in August 2020. (Version 0.28.1) There are currently only two power-ups, **Hard Boiled**, and **Egg Breaker**. These power-ups occur on a five killstreak for Hard Boiled, and a ten killstreak for Egg Breaker. These power-ups were introduced at the same time as a new User Interface update which was later reverted because players were lagging. Both of these power-ups can only be gained once per life, and you must die before being able to reach the power-ups again. If the player switches teams at a 4 kills streak, the next kill they get will give them the Hard Boiled power-up even though they only have one kill for that team. This also works for Egg Breaker, and it doesn’t matter how many kills you have on the other team before switching (however this only works if you switch once and if you try to switch again it will not add up the deaths and it will restart the kills). If you don’t die, it adds up.

In the King of the Coop game mode, your killstreak can count for the next round, too. For example, if you had 2 kills, and then the round ended, you could kill three more players instead of 5 and get Hard Boiled. This is why you can see that, despite having a 1x Shell Streak, you get Hard Boiled. Your streak will still be reset however.

## Hard Boiled

You get the Hard Boiled powerup at a 5 killstreak. You used to be able to get the power-up rarely when only at a 3 kill streak and the lower your health was the more likely that you do. When you get the power up, a power up or '*woowwwhoohoo*' sound being yelled by a chicken is made and when you lose it there is a degrading chicken death sound. Your avatar has a sparkling effect around you when the power-up is active (this is not visible to you the player but is visible to anyone else who can see you either through spectate mode or just in game). The shield gives you 100 more health which cannot be regained. The Healthmeter changes into a blue shield. Your health is how full your shield is. After some damage, it goes back to the regular circular Health meter (If you had the Hard Boiled Power-up and you decide to despawn you will lose the power-up you had and you will be reset to 100 health. This will not affect your streak you will just not respawn with shield). One special thing you have when you have this power up is that if you shoot the pistol the bullet sound changes to a sparking sound. You can still be one-shot by an RPEGG missle or killed by one well-timed shotgun blast or even a crackshot hit right in the middle of your egg despite having 200 health.

## Egg Breaker

When you get a 10-kill streak, you get a power-up called "Egg Breaker" which lets you deal double damage to other opponents. The power-up initially lasts 15 seconds but increases by 2-3 seconds each time you get a kill. Your character flashes red when it is activated and your crosshairs stays red when it is activated. This powerup is more effective with spammer classes and less effective with one-shot classes like the Crackshot. The Whisk also one-shots opponents with this powerup even if they have full shield from hard boiled. The time does not double with double kills such as the use of grenades. It is very useful to use multi shot guns such as Semi Auto (Free Ranger), Shotgun (Scrambler), P90 (Whipper), AK (EggK-47) and the Tri-Hard when going for this powerup as you don't have to reload every shot and can get more kills with the extra damage. Also, for the Melee (Whisk), it's clever to use it; because during this powerup it one-shots players.