Daionnis Magnifico
Doomheim
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Posted - 2012.07.12 02:47:00 -
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I rather like this idea, and it's one I've had for a good while now but haven't had the effort to post about.
Infantry Drones
So basically what you'd need is a specific type of dropsuit, which would be available for all races but the Gallente would have the best because, well, this is EVE and dammit the Gallente know their **** where it comes to drones.
Each suit would be able to fit passive drone damage and/or defense mods, as well as modules that may allow the use of more than one drone. Depending on skills you start at one drone and can potentially have a max of three with max skills and Drone Control Units, but three drones even on a prototype drone suit require massive PG/CPU and therefore are balanced by limiting weapon choices and modules/equipment.
Suits allow you to interface with drones in a way similar to how we aim the swarm launchers - Hold R1 or something and select a target. If it's an enemy your drones will pursue up to a range threshold (Extendable with range modifier modules) and attack the enemy by either dealing raw damage or sapping shields, or if you're nasty using webifiers to slow pesky scout suits down to a crawl.
Friendly targets could get shield energy back, armor repaired, ammo delivered, or whatever depending on your loadout.
Drones should be able to be told to sit/stay and can be used as sentries (Maybe a "siege" mode in prototype variants, allowing for long range/high DPS but slow tracking and zero movement) so drone suits can be used as a viable defense choice for capture points and strategic locations/chokepoints.
Potentially drones could be upgraded similar to vehicles with a fitting selection. Nothing game-changing here, maybe some damage mods or durability mods to supplement the mods already on the suit. Possibly scanner mods so your drones give you a sight boost allowing you to call targets easier.
Honestly, I think it'd be cool if you could hold R2 and use your mic to give your drones pre-declared commands, like "attack", "standby", "siege", "stay", "spot", etc.
Vehicle Drones
I think that at the moment HAV's are good at what they do, and LAV's are great for fast support and DPS.
Dropships however I think are lacking in firepower, save for being able to park someplace high and rain fire down with missile turrets.
Dropships should be able to fit up to five larger drones that do roughly the same things as infantry drones but with a larger logistic capability. Being able to fly a dropship and provide cover fire from infantry turrets while sending rep drones to fix up your teammates' vehicles would be amazing. |