Guard dog missiles?

[Nix]

There's 5 little missiles shown on the UI, but they don't seem to do anything at all.

I've faced all enemies in all factions and the guard dog only fires SMGs at them. It doesn't join in when I throw a grenade or fire a missile. I can't reload the recoilless rifle with the guard dog backpack, either.

What does it do??

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=585319420

[Leslandes]

The same icon is shown on Angel (the healing bot) it have that white bar that depletes and when it does it chill on your back to reload.

I assume the Guard Dog operates the same way... shoot until it ran out bullet and docks on your back to reload.

[CfromAbove]

Yes it operates the same way. Furthermore, those icons are bullets, not missiles.

[Thaxor]

So what do they represent? I could see on the Guard Dig but have been stumped with it on my Angel.

Maybe just copy/pasted the UI over and its meaningless on the Angel?

[Valhalla Awaits]

Originally posted by Thaxor BDC:

So what do they represent? I could see on the Guard Dig but have been stumped with it on my Angel.

Maybe just copy/pasted the UI over and its meaningless on the Angel?

They represent remaining ammunition/charges. When the guard-dog fires at enemies it uses up it's ammo. When it runs out, it has to return to your backpack to reload.

The Angel also has a limited ammount of heals before it has to recharge, represented by the same icons.

[Nix]

Originally posted by Valhalla Awaits:

Originally posted by Thaxor BDC:

So what do they represent? I could see on the Guard Dig but have been stumped with it on my Angel.

Maybe just copy/pasted the UI over and its meaningless on the Angel?

They represent remaining ammunition/charges. When the guard-dog fires at enemies it uses up it's ammo. When it runs out, it has to return to your backpack to reload.

The Angel also has a limited ammount of heals before it has to recharge, represented by the same icons.

That's the bar on the left. I know that's ammo.

I'm talking about the missiles on the right. The guard dog itself never fires missiles on it's own, there's no dedicated key to make it fire missiles, it's not the amount of guard dog reloads left, and you can't reload launchers with it.

[CfromAbove]

Originally posted by Nerfed:

Originally posted by Valhalla Awaits:

They represent remaining ammunition/charges. When the guard-dog fires at enemies it uses up it's ammo. When it runs out, it has to return to your backpack to reload.

The Angel also has a limited ammount of heals before it has to recharge, represented by the same icons.

That's the bar on the left. I know that's ammo.

I'm talking about the missiles on the right. The guard dog itself never fires missiles on it's own, there's no dedicated key to make it fire missiles, it's not the amount of guard dog reloads left, and you can't reload launchers with it.

Those "missiles" are designed for distinguish doge/angel from other backpacks such as jetpack or supportpack

[Vanzerfull]

Originally posted by Nerfed:

Originally posted by Valhalla Awaits:

They represent remaining ammunition/charges. When the guard-dog fires at enemies it uses up it's ammo. When it runs out, it has to return to your backpack to reload.

The Angel also has a limited ammount of heals before it has to recharge, represented by the same icons.

That's the bar on the left. I know that's ammo.

I'm talking about the missiles on the right. The guard dog itself never fires missiles on it's own, there's no dedicated key to make it fire missiles, it's not the amount of guard dog reloads left, and you can't reload launchers with it.

It's not missiles. It's just an indicator(i'm not talking about a line)
But i found it a bit confusing, yes. At first i was thinking it's how many times drone can recharge or maybe similar thing to resupply pack, where your fellow helldivers can take ammo to load their guns :) But it's just indicator and nothing more

[Valhalla Awaits]

Originally posted by Nerfed:

Originally posted by Valhalla Awaits:

They represent remaining ammunition/charges. When the guard-dog fires at enemies it uses up it's ammo. When it runs out, it has to return to your backpack to reload.

The Angel also has a limited ammount of heals before it has to recharge, represented by the same icons.

That's the bar on the left. I know that's ammo.

I'm talking about the missiles on the right. The guard dog itself never fires missiles on it's own, there's no dedicated key to make it fire missiles, it's not the amount of guard dog reloads left, and you can't reload launchers with it.

It's just an icon to distinguish what kind of backpack it is. In this case a drone resupply pack. (Hence why both angel and guarddog have the same icon, they both operate the same way by reloading themselves in the pack. The bar to the left of it is the capacity itself.

[Ojisan]

Right side = Icon, Left side = the ammo/charge gauge bar