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DJINN Jecture
Templar of the Glowing Blade
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Posted - 2015.05.22 15:51:00 -
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So after all this time having my own personal Drone on PSHome and seeing it hover over top of my merc suited home toon, I was hoping that maybe we could bring in some personal Drones of our own to the battlefield. Something to Repair my armor or shields on my Fatsuit, something to guard my back while I Snipe, something to lend a healing hand to my brethren while I am shooting enemies in my LogiSis suit and can't man the repair tool or protect me from my enemies while I am.
- Reapair Armor
- Repair Shield
- Pew Enemies that are within 10-15m
The gist of the idea would be to have a separate drone type for each purpose (defense or logistics) that is equipped to the suit in an equipment or grenade slot (I am partial to the grenade slot but think this would be cool either way).
Drones would have HP and could be shot at and blown up or recalled to their holding slot where they would regenerate shields. Drone Armor HP could be repaired using a repair tool.
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DJINN Jecture
Templar of the Glowing Blade
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Posted - 2015.05.23 04:05:00 -
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Oh definitely great ideas towards uses for the drones.
See my thoughts were more along the lines of the drone we have on the PSHome (sorry no screen cap) the buddy robot from the thread not really what I was thinking but I'm open to rolling ball drones that stay close of can be directed if the floating behind me drone to protect my keister is out of the question.
I don't mind the form it takes but I believe that something like that would be useful and easy enough to make fit in with lore and could theoretically be included in lore as one of the tools mercs come up with to deal with the increasing Jovian presence in New Eden. Salvager Drones and Logi drones as well as combat drones exist already in Eve, they would be easy to represent in a similar manner in Dust even if they are super small versions of the ones used by pilots.
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DJINN Jecture
Templar of the Glowing Blade
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Posted - 2015.05.23 04:08:00 -
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Apocalyptic Destroyerr wrote:No, this would destroy the Logi Role.
I don't believe it would destroy the logi role, rather you would be able to have a better logi, able to do more with equipment (multiple drone types) while still keeping you in action as a logi reviving people, planting other equipment or keeping yourself up or your buddy next to you with more reps from the drone, and your repair tool or providing cover for you while reviving a team mate, there are many options here to be explored.
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DJINN Jecture
Templar of the Glowing Blade
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Posted - 2015.05.23 07:07:00 -
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Wow, I haven't seen that game before but yes similar, my thought was one drone for each ability, not the multiple ability drone, but yes.
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DJINN Jecture
Templar of the Glowing Blade
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Posted - 2015.05.26 13:05:00 -
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Talos Vagheitan wrote:Killzone 3 did a great job of multiplayer drones. CCP should take a very close look at this game for inspiration.
Interesting application of the drones in the orbit the beacon and kill people form. Not really recallable to repair though for use later in the battle, I imagine there is a limit to the number of drones in Killzone (as there would be in DUST?) so refilling depleted drone cartridge isn't an option at a nanohive for instance.
I would suggesting adapting the orbit behaviour to allow the drone to orbit the merc, or be stationary behind them floating with them and having a sentry like panning of their firing arc 180 degrees behind or in front of the merc selectable.
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