Useless Drones

[TurkeyMcMac]

It seem like missiles outshine drones in every situation. Maybe drones should be buffed.

[rusticc2]

Depends on the faction... Drones are excellent ways to finish off ships, but mainly, they are the most effective at distraction. Anyhow, A single drone has the potential to do more damage than missiles if given time (Considering the enemy does not have a massive amount of point defense)

[TurkeyMcMac]

I see.

[Niariekyil Arcyriea]

Think I may just try to develop the real Assault variant of the drone launcher
on my mod pack, but they'll probably have a bit longer launch rates

[Meranera]

Imo there are only 2 good offensive vanilla drones, the Tinkrell torpedo drone and the Borg drones.
The former is way too costly for what it does though, and the latter's not playable.
The scale-3 Borg drones have 600 dps, too bad the game crashes when you try to use them.

Terran ships with a drone launcher tend to keep their distance, which makes drones somewhat useful atleast.
Not sure if the drones from other factions cause the same behaviour.

[XDERP7]

turkey, stop saying sh*t, they don't need to be buffed, terran's drones are f*cking powerful in tournament, and f*cking annoying when you fight against them

P.S: excuse me for my aggresive answer :3

[Dexious Emera]

drones against a ship with no PD = ok

[Cheetah]

Drones seem plenty effective to me. But you have to use an excessive amount. I like to spawn small drone launcher ships to accompany me, usually a very tiny ship with 1 or 2 drone launchers fitted. Spawn about 50 of those, and they in turn spawn 100's drones when you target something. PD won't help against this kind of swarming, stuff melts against that many drones.

[danny420dale]

>stuff melts against that many drones.

Including my cpu and gpu, and neither are any slouch.