Name: Tugboat Drones
Type: Alernative Engineer Special Module
Recharge: 3s
Energy: 150 per drone
Drones: 4
DPS: 250 Thermal
Drone Health: 3,000pts
Deployment time: 30s
Function: These advanced drones will aide in towing you or your allies from place to place. They are essentially a fuel tank with engines and a very small blaster for area denial. Upon approaching an ally, the user can send one of the drones to them. The drones will each increase maximum speed by 5% and rotation speed by 3%. Any ally can only have a maximum of 3 drones active at any time, aside from the user. drones will redeploy for the user if they are given to an ally. Allies with drones will grant you buff assists for kills, but the drone damage is considered to be theirs.
Tooltip: Drones meant to help increase user manoeuvrability. Drones can be placed on allies, for a maximum of 3 per ally.
Don’t want to be negative, but the main use will be restricted to just speedy things up or?
Do the drones have expiration times?
For destroyers/Detonation this would be handy.
+1 to this.
2 hours ago, Lord_Xenon said:
Don’t want to be negative, but the main use will be restricted to just speedy things up or?
Do the drones have expiration times?
For destroyers/Detonation this would be handy.
+1 to this.
I was thinking of having them just speed things up and make movement easier. This would replace their healing ability, and their burst healing ability would instead share the speed boost with an ally.
44 minutes ago, TheDarkRedFox said:
I was thinking of having them just speed things up and make movement easier. This would replace their healing ability, and their burst healing ability would instead share the speed boost with an ally.
For once, you posted a balanced idea Fox. I think you are learning how to make good suggestions.
I’m not too sure about that. I was just thinking about their utility. It is a rare occasion where non-frigate allies sit still long enough for me to heal them with the drones, and the moment my shields are low enough for drones to start healing me, they are being destroyed, so why not instead add mobility. As we all know, mobility means life in this game, and engineers are definitely meant to the the speediest frigates around.
ALTHOUGH , because of how the developers are directing the game, this module will more than likely become a special module for a single ship. I am hoping that it will be for the Polus or Valor or something, but having them on the Grizzly-M would be outrageously fun.