Spy Drones respawn?

[David]

A spy drone escaped and it doesnt respawn for me, any help?

[INsaneyAC]

The drones just fly off to another location. This comes up during a loading help tip.

You can find them at a location in the direction they flew off in.

The best way to approach the drones is when you hear the whirring sound look around slowly. As long as you don't look directly at them they won't react. So you can see them on the edge of the screen without a problem. Move into the best position to shoot them dead on and use the rocket launcher for a one hit kill.

[Landomatic]

Originally posted by INsaneyAC:

The drones just fly off to another location. This comes up during a loading help tip.

You can find them at a location in the direction they flew off in.

The best way to approach the drones is when you hear the whirring sound look around slowly. As long as you don't look directly at them they won't react. So you can see them on the edge of the screen without a problem. Move into the best position to shoot them dead on and use the rocket launcher for a one hit kill.

Nice! Was just wondering this myself as I finally killed one.

[Praesi]

I destroyed countless of them. Doesnt matter tho.

[Berghain]

They should be eventually be marked on the map or scannable with the Focus ability or something, because I missed quite a bunch of them. I had no idea you were supposed to be keeping an eye out for these things. My fist kill of one was coincidental and that's how I became aware of them.

I couldn't even write down or make a mental note of the location the ones that flew off went to, because at that point where I saw a black thing flying off in the sky I had no idea it was actually interactable or of importance.

[edubx]

You can eventually have them tracked via the Doctor tech's tree, so you end up revisiting settlings to see if the detector triggers.

[Berghain]

Originally posted by eblake:

You can eventually have them tracked via the Doctor tech's tree, so you end up revisiting settlings to see if the detector triggers.

I purchased that ability and still miss a bunch of them lmao.
Where does this marker for the purchased ability appear and what does it look like? It's not the same signal icon for chests and data pads, is it?

[UncivilS3rvant]

Originally posted by Diao Bombsky:

Originally posted by eblake:

You can eventually have them tracked via the Doctor tech's tree, so you end up revisiting settlings to see if the detector triggers.

I purchased that ability and still miss a bunch of them lmao.
Where does this marker for the purchased abikity appear and what does it look like? It's not the same signal icon for chests and data pads, is it?

Yes it is, but you can also hear the hum of the spy drone, it's quite distinctive...

[Landomatic]

They fly off and I've found a few to have respawned where I had missed some opportunities to shoot them earlier. But the real question is, are they the same drone?

[UncivilS3rvant]

Originally posted by Landomatic:

They fly off and I've found a few to have respawned where I had missed some opportunities to shoot them earlier. But the real question is, are they the same drone?

No because you can kill them and it opens a separate log entry for each one, plus there is an achievement for downing 30 of the buggers...

[Dutch]

This is kinda obvious but you can save your game right before you engage one so that if you miss it you can reload.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

Originally posted by Dutch:

This is kinda obvious but you can save your game right before you engage one so that if you miss it you can reload.

^this

not to mention, using the radar skill to track Spy Drones doesn't really help too much, as it uses the same frequency that the perks for tracking Storage Containers, Data Pads, and Feltrite Crystals also uses.