Velocity Meter & Frenzy: Push the Vault Into Overdrive

The Velocity Meter is a shared tug-of-war gauge in Crack the Vault. It surfaces when the crew is hammering the vault harder than they normally have been — and if you can push it all the way to the top, it fires a Frenzy: a short burst where everyone's attacks hit far harder.

What it measures

The meter watches the vault's live attack pace — how fast the crew is using gear and landing hits right now — and compares it to the recent-normal baseline for that vault. "Attacking harder than usual" means the current pace is running above that baseline. It's one shared meter for the whole vault, not a personal one, so everyone's activity feeds the same bar.

The meter only appears before an event — it's a pre-event gauge. While any event (including a Frenzy) is live, it hides.

How it rises and drains

  • It appears and starts around the halfway mark when the crew meaningfully pushes above baseline.
  • It rises as the crew keeps accelerating — attacking faster and faster.
  • It has a bit of gravity: if the pace merely holds steady, the bar slowly bleeds down (the vault pushing back).
  • If the crew eases off, it drains faster.
  • Hit 0 and it disappears into a short cooldown.
  • Hit 100 and it fires the Frenzy.

So it's a genuine tug-of-war: to fill it you have to keep raising the intensity, not just keep it constant.

How to push it up

  • Keep attacking — deploy gear and land hits, and do it faster than the vault has been getting hit recently.
  • Rally the crew. Because the meter is shared, more players piling on at once is the quickest way to climb it. Chat is a great place to coordinate a push.

The Frenzy

Topping the meter out fires a Frenzy mini-event: a short, global power overdrive where everyone's attacks are multiplied (currently 4× for about 2 minutes). It flows through the normal damage system, so every hit during the window counts for much more — a great time to spend your best gear. After it ends, the meter goes on cooldown before it can build again.

Good to know

  • The Velocity Meter is a Cointiply Labs feature and may be toggled on or off by the team, so you won't always see it.
  • It can't be scheduled — it only shows up when real, accelerating activity earns it, and it hides whenever an event is already running.
  • Exact numbers (activation pace, rise/drain rates, cooldown, Frenzy multiplier and duration) can be tuned, so treat the figures above as the current setup.

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