How to Play Diep.io

Diep.io is a fun shooting game, where you play as a tank and shoot other players on the opposing team. There are many modes to play, and this How.com.vn article has all sorts of tips and tricks to play and win! From controls to strategy, this article covers it all.

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Go to at the main screen. Here you can choose your nickname and the mode of gameplay, and then start playing by pressing ↵ Enter on your keyboard. Here you can also see your achievements by moving the cursor to the right side of the screen.
- There are different modes of gameplay in diep.io. You can choose between:
  - FFA, which involves "free for all" gameplay, where anyone can kill anyone.
  - Survival, which is basically a 'battle royale' in which 10 tanks play against each other on a map that is slowly shrinking. Also, during Survival, every point you earn is worth 3 points, so if you get 10 points, you get 30 points, if you get 25 points, you get 75 points. If you get 100 points, you get 300 points.
  - 2 and 4 Team (TDM) options, which is played with teams. When you play teams, there is a base, and if anyone from the opposing team(s) get to close, little triangles will attack them until they are too far away. Also, anything from the opposing team that touches the base will instantly disappear.
  - Domination, which is teams played with four giant tanks (called Dominators) in the middle. Whichever team controls all of them first wins. When you kill a Dominator, your team gets to control it.
  - Tag, in which 4 teams try to completely eliminate each other. If you kill another team's player, that player will respawn on your team.
  - Maze, which is FFA, but instead there are walls in the game that are randomly placed when the arena closes. This mode replaced Mothership mode in 2016.
  - Sandbox. Here you can test out every tank you wish with god mode (Press G). This is single-player unless you join a party or someone joins yours.
  - Mothership(removed). 2 teams try to protect their Mothership.
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Begin the game. When you start, you will spawn somewhere as a level one tank.
- Move by using the arrow keys or WASD.
- In the middle is your tank, which you control. Below it is a green bar that shows how much health you have left (it only shows if you are damaged).
- In the upper righthand corner is the leaderboard. It shows the 10 tanks with the highest scores.
- In the lower righthand corner is the map, which will show where you and team bases are in the game.
- In the center in the lower part of the screen is your tank info. It says your nickname, score, level, and type of tank in use.
- In the lower left-hand corner is the tank stats, which will be explained further down.
- In the upper left-hand corner is the upgrades, and they will not show up until you reach level 15, 30 or 45, which will be explained alongside tank stats.
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Shoot by left-clicking on your mouse. You can choose where to shoot by moving your mouse and aiming it at an object.
- There are three kinds of objects: squares, triangles, and pentagons. These objects give you points to level up when you destroy them. If you destroy a square, you get 10 points, if you destroy a triangle, you get 25 points, if you destroy a pentagon, you get 100 points.
- The shapes have 'health,' too. This will appear underneath each damaged shape and slowly recover over time. When the shape is destroyed, an 'exploding' effect will occur and you get points.
- Pressing E on your keyboard will activate auto-fire, which will make your tank automatically fire without you needing to manually fire. When you fire, there will be a knockback and you will move depending on where you are firing, called "recoil."
- There are special shapes as well. In the central area of the map is the Pentagon Nest. Here you can find lots of pentagons and larger, stronger versions called 'alpha pentagons'. However, they are guarded by little pink triangles (called crashers) that bump into you and deal damage. If you destroy a small crasher, you get 10 points. If you destroy a large crasher, you get 25 points. Randomly, you might find a green shape. These are very rare. Destroying one gives you the 'Shiny!' award.
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Level up. As you level up, you can choose out of these to upgrade: Health Regen, Max Health, Body Damage, Reload, and Movement Speed. Choose wisely; there are limited stats upgrades.
- Once you reach level fifteen, you can upgrade your tank.
  - If you want to play the smasher branch of tanks, you'll have to wait for level 30 to upgrade to it.
- You can upgrade the stats by clicking on the '+' next to each stat, or using numbers 1-8.
- To plan ahead, you can also hold U and then select the stats that you want to upgrade in the future. The selected stats will automatically upgrade instead of prompting you first.
- Holding M and then selecting the stats will tell the game to max out that stat ASAP.
Enemy tanks can shoot and kill you, so be careful, but you can also shoot and kill them. There also bosses that will spawn occasionally as huge, powerful tanks.
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Avoid common pitfalls. While losing is a part of games, you should follow these tips to avoid being killed too easily.
- Don't go near enemy tanks if they outnumber you. You can get killed pretty easily.
- Don't go near enemy bases (applies to team modes only). These bases have powerful drones that will chase and kill you until you go far enough away from the base.
- Don't get to close to bosses. These monster tanks can be killed, but doing so is very difficult.
- Don't, as a general rule, go for a "balanced" build, that is be a bullet tank or a ramming tank, don't upgrade health/damage and bullet stats equally.
- Don't ram into too many things without Max Health (stat 2) and Ram Damage (stat 3) somewhat upgraded, because you will receive damage when ramming into something.
- Even if you thoroughly follow these instructions, You will die many times. Try to have fun anyway!
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Know what types of tanks there are. Bullet spammers, snipers, drone users, rammers, trappers and destroyers are the different kinds of builds you can create.
- Bullet spammers overwhelm you with a lot of bullets and are used with the Penta-Shot, Spread-Shot, and Octo-Tank.
- Snipers can fire one fast and devastating bullet (rangers and stalkers) while drone users control little triangles or squares (called drones) to attack you.
- Rammers deal damage by bumping into you and are Boosters, Fighters, or Smashers.
- Destroyers can fire one huge and slow bullet that deals a lot of damage (Annihilator, Hybrid, Rocketeer, Skimmer) and Annihilator is sometime used as a rammer because of the huge knockback. Also Rocketeer, although it is a Destroyer-Branched tank, fires a super-fast bullet with a Machine Gun barrel attached to it, boosting the bullet forward.
- Trappers spawn differently shaped traps which deal a lot of damage if you walk into them.
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Know how to deal with bosses. These are AI controlled tanks which have a lot of health and deal quite a bit of damage. They spawn in every game mode besides Maze and won't attack players lower than level 15 unless attacked.
- The Guardian of the Pentagons is a large pink triangle which spawns a lot of crashers that swarm you.
- The Fallen Booster tries to ram you.
- The Fallen Overlord will follow you with its drones.
- The Summoner has yellow square-shaped drones like the Necromancer tank, except that it can spawn drones, unlike the Necromancer, who has to ram into a square with it's body or one of its drones to get a drone.
- The Defender places traps and can shoot you with its auto-turrets.

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What do you do at lvl 45?
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Fight over people. Gain score. Get #1 on the leader board. Wander around and shoot everywhere.
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How to spawn bosses in sand box mode?
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It used to be possible, but since the game got updated, it's not possible to do this anymore.
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How do you evolve tanks in Diep.io?
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Get to the level 15 or above, lvl 30, or lvl 45. It will show the available upgrades based on your tank, and show you how it looks like and what it's name is. Simply click on the tank that you want to upgrade and it'll evolve into the tank that you clicked on.
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Press and hold Y to view the tank map, which will show every possible tank upgrade in the game.
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Pressing C will activate auto-spin, and your tank will spin instead of point at the cursor. Press C again to deactivate.
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Spin to 'team'.
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