The truck doors snapped shut and my teammate’s head rolled toward the grate. I held a heavy crate with trembling hands and the lobby felt smaller. The Defibro’s display blinked “Hi” and I remembered what second chances feel like.
I’ve spent enough matches with blown saves and wasted cash to tell you exactly how this bot changes the math. You’ll get my hands-on tips, what it does mechanically, and the smart reasons to carry or skip it. Treat this as field advice from someone who’s lost and won games because of one bot.
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The Defibro Revival Bot is a single-use rescue device you can buy from any in-match Service Station when it appears. It costs around $44K (€41K) on average, and yes, that number matters to budget-minded semibots.
Mechanics in plain terms: it seeks the nearest Death Head within roughly a 10-meter radius and attempts to revive it. It activates whether you hold it, drop it, or it falls from an exploded body. If a corpse is unrecoverable in a pit, the bot will transfer and revive at the Truck instead.
Defibro restores 50 HP on revival and then breaks. That single revival can decide whether a player escapes the Disposal Arena or feeds the scoreboard.
How do I use the Defibro in R.E.P.O.?
Carry it in your hotbar. You don’t need to equip it to benefit from its search behavior, but to manually revive a teammate you must hold it out and aim at the Death Head. It will handle the shock sequence on its own.
Place it where revives are most likely: near chokepoints, the Truck, or your exit plan. If you toss it onto the ground, it will travel to the nearest Death Head; it will not hunt across the entire map.
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Service Stations spawn items randomly, so think of the Defibro as situational insurance, not a guaranteed pickup. If you’re under level 10 with scarce cash, that $44K (€41K) bite hurts harder.
If you have surplus credits and play solo in a lobby where teammates vanish, it’s worth the purchase. If your group stacks multiple revival tools or carries high-resilience loadouts, you can save that cash for weapons or armor upgrades.
What does the Defibro cost?
Expect to pay approximately $44K (€41K) at a Service Station. Prices can fluctuate by match and spawn rules, so plan purchases around your cash flow and how many runs you intend to survive.
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Positioning beats hope. If you want Defibro to pick your teammate first, keep it on your person or drop it very close to where a down is likely to occur.
Defibro targets the nearest Death Head, so the player who carried it last is most likely to get revived. Use that to your advantage: if you play aggressive, carry it; if you play support, plant it near objectives.
Defibro is a quiet guardian, a pocket priest of second chances.
Can Defibro revive teammates automatically?
Yes, with limits. It automatically searches a small radius (~10 meters) and activates from the ground, equipped state, or if it separates from a destroyed semibot. It is not infinite — one revive per match, then it’s gone.
If the bot can’t reach a body because it fell into a death pit, the fail-safe sends the revival to the Truck, which can be both a lifesaver and a nuisance depending on where your squad is attempting to regroup.
Use the Defibro when a single extra breath changes the endgame, or skip it when cash or team composition makes another purchase smarter. Which risk would you rather take next match?