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llllKylo_Renlll's avatar
4 years ago

Suggestion: Ammo/Medical versions of Ranger; also Casper's drone

I think it would be cool if there were more AI ground drones like Ranger.

I understand that Ranger has his own section labelled Drones in the equipment menu. Either this means that additional drones are planned, or they are simply leaving it open-ended in case they want to create more drones.

I suggest a few ground-based AI robotic drones:

Ammo runner drone. You can command this drone, like Ranger, to run around and supply ammo to anyone within a nearby vicinity, like a mobile ammo pack. It will have a recharge per-person just like normal ammo packs. If you do not command it to do things, it will autonomously run over on its own and supply ammo to nearby allies who are in a 10 or 15 meter radius.

Medical drone. Same concept as above but for healing. 

Anti-Air drone: For emergencies. It will lock on and fire on aircraft. The damage will be the same as a player-carried AA missile (approximately a quarter of a Hind's health bar.) It has no other way to defend itself (or you.)

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Casper drone:

Just like Sundance has multiple types of grenades, I suggest multiple types of drones for Casper.

The main difference between Casper's drone and the call-in drones is that Casper's is manually controlled and aerial. 

From now on, Casper's default drone will be known as EMP Drone.

Ammo drone: Fire magazines at reticle's location. Similar to Angel, you can shoot a few magazines in a row, but then it needs time to recharge. It can save up to 5 magazines. 

Medical drone: Wee woo wee woo. Heals allies that you shoot at. 

Assault drone: Offensive oriented aerial drone. Press the fire button to pew pew at enemies. Does low damage per shot, but has *much* more health than the other drone variants. It also has 20 armor and moves faster. It also has a self destruct sequence which can be cancelled by being destroyed.

4 Replies

  • @llllKylo_Renllll All nice ideas in my humble opinion, having more drones and Ranger types to fill different roles would be nice.

    You can sort of do the ammo/med drone at the moment by checking a box on it and flying it around as Casper, but dedicated versions would be more effective. There's also a UAV drone in Portal so they could bring that across to the main game too.
  • CloverDeuce's avatar
    CloverDeuce
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    And can we get some more skins for my Ranger buddy? I don't need 38 skins for a helicopter I never get to fly, but I would like to make my dog look good!!

  • @llllKylo_RenllllThose are really good ideas, I hope it’s noticed. I’d love to be lying wounded in a bush and a doggo comes running up with heals. Sit Ubu, sit.

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