In 3.0 the drone is more annoying than ever before. It constantly shocks you if you accidentally damage it. It doesn't path correctly and can't ascend stairs. It is truly more trouble than its worth. Let us modify our character with the drone capabilities. The extra storage space, auto healing are the main ones that could be added as mods to the backpack. I try bringing the drone into tier 5 POI and it can never climb up to the same floor as me so I can't let it carry extra items. It never follows me inside of my base correctly either. It constantly gets stuck in walls and floors.
Can we just have an extended backpack instead of the drone?
- Thread starter crayzus
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Riamus
Hunter
I wouldn't want more storage on the character either. I think there is plenty already. I also wouldn't want to get rid of the drone. It's a pain at times, yes. And how much of a pain varies based on the game version because they keep on tweaking it and swinging the pendulum too far each time. But I still prefer that over more storage on the character. I'd rather they just fix the drone positioning.
zombiehunter
Scavenger
I've always hated how the drone pathing worked, and with 3.0 it's no better. It goes off on its own and still gets in your line of sight when you've got a gaggle of Zs coming at you, among other annoyances. I only use it for additional storage myself, so I would love to see perhaps mods for the backpack to increase storage capacity on that, similar to what they did for the vehicles.
Riamus
Hunter
Yeah, it's gotten worse in 3.0 again. They keep making it better and then making it worse over and over. One version it'll never stay in front of you and you have to spin circles to find it. Another version it'll stay far away and not want to stay in one spot long enough for you to reach it. Another version it'll stay right in front of you all the time and get in the way of mining, building, and fighting.
I have liked the suggestion of a hotkey to summon it in front of you whenever it's been suggested in the past. That at least solves the problem of being able to access the drone. If that is set to stay in front of you for something like 10 seconds and then move behind you automatically if there's space behind you, it would let you easy access inventory or give it commands and then have it get out of your way again. With that, you can make it so it never gets in front of you except when you press the hotkey or if it's helping to fight, which would only happen if it has the stun mod installed.
I think it would also be helpful to have radial options allowing you to set how close the drone stays to you, either just close and far or else close, medium and far. Far not being too far, of course... maybe 10m or a little more.
Rather than TFP constantly changing how it works and continually making it better and worse over and over again, giving us some control over it would be much better I think.
pApA^LeGBa
Hunter
One more row in the backpack as a mod for mid or late game wouldn´t hurt Maybe because i played this game for such a long time, but i am sick of running back and forth to the vehicle when clearing a POI.
Or remove magazines and books. Because those are a pain in the butt for the inventory. And the system itself sucks too, but that is another topic.
Or remove magazines and books. Because those are a pain in the butt for the inventory. And the system itself sucks too, but that is another topic.