Dockable option for drones on all vehicles

[Knoxvilles_joker]

To lower lag while operating a vehicle and tie the drone location to the vehicle location, could we add a drone option to dock drone to vehicle. This will stop the lag issues caused when moving with a drone and allow a recovery option should one fall below the map.

 

[Riamus]

To lower lag while operating a vehicle and tie the drone location to the vehicle location, could we add a drone option to dock drone to vehicle. This will stop the lag issues caused when moving with a drone and allow a recovery option should one fall below the map.

I don't ever have lag from that, but it sounds like it could at least reduce the number of times players lose their drone. I haven't had that happen in a really long time, but I know people still experience that.

But I think that a lot of players would be like me... Never remembering to issue that command. Perhaps a better option is to automatically "dock" the drone whenever you get on a vehicle. That way people don't have to remember to do it or to take time to do it.

 

[Knoxvilles_joker]

I don't ever have lag from that, but it sounds like it could at least reduce the number of times players lose their drone. I haven't had that happen in a really long time, but I know people still experience that.

But I think that a lot of players would be like me... Never remembering to issue that command. Perhaps a better option is to automatically "dock" the drone whenever you get on a vehicle. That way people don't have to remember to do it or to take time to do it.

The problem is after you hit a loot rich POI, you can't stow the drone in your inventory...

 

[Riamus]

The problem is after you hit a loot rich POI, you can't stow the drone in your inventory...

But we weren't talking about picking it up. My comment was to use your original idea, but make it automatic.

And regarding picking it up, that's the one and only instance where picking up something that is filled with stuff ends up being a bad decision. Since you can only have one drone at a time, you can't fill more than one up with stuff. And if you pick it up even when it's full of stuff, you are actually losing one inventory space compared to leaving it flying around. It isn't like a vehicle, where you can have as many as you want and could fill them up and then carry a dozen around for extra space. With only one, it doesn't actually help to pick it up when the inventory is full. So I think it would be fine if they let you pick that up when it has a full inventory. But there also isn't much reason to do that except if you want to keep it "alive" during horde night or some other larger fight and it happens to have stuff in its inventory.

 

[Knoxvilles_joker]

But we weren't talking about picking it up. My comment was to use your original idea, but make it automatic.

And regarding picking it up, that's the one and only instance where picking up something that is filled with stuff ends up being a bad decision. Since you can only have one drone at a time, you can't fill more than one up with stuff. And if you pick it up even when it's full of stuff, you are actually losing one inventory space compared to leaving it flying around. It isn't like a vehicle, where you can have as many as you want and could fill them up and then carry a dozen around for extra space. With only one, it doesn't actually help to pick it up when the inventory is full. So I think it would be fine if they let you pick that up when it has a full inventory. But there also isn't much reason to do that except if you want to keep it "alive" during horde night or some other larger fight and it happens to have stuff in its inventory.

However the mechanic, just change it so things work better...

 

[Riamus]

However the mechanic, just change it so things work better...

I agree. Though I do like your docking idea. It would basically either place the drone at a specific location in relation to the vehicle while you're on the vehicle and not calculate actual movement for the drone unless there's something that prevents the drone from being in that position, or it hides the drone as if it "docked" (or landed) on a "docking station" on the vehicle and then when you exit the vehicle, it appears again. I think either option works, though the hidden option would likely work the best. The downside of the hidden option is that no one sees the drone flying around with you, and some people would probably not like that.