How can i change the weapon in turret drones?

[FSHerrante]

when I go to the deployment station of one of these drones I can change the type of weapon it will use, but when I do it, does not recognize the corresponding type of ammunition. it always shows 0 even if there is corresponding ammo in the drill's storage for the equipped weapon, and unsurprisingly it won't let me to deploy it.

Is it necessary to research level 2 drones so that they can equip weapons other than the pistol?

[TheFireDragon]

There's no "level 2" drones. You assign them a weapon, which they then need to equip. If that weapon is not available in storage, they can't equip it. They can't take in ammo if they don't have a gun to put ammo in.

[FSHerrante]

Originally posted by TheFireDragon:

There's no "level 2" drones. You assign them a weapon, which they then need to equip. If that weapon is not available in storage, they can't equip it. They can't take in ammo if they don't have a gun to put ammo in.

It shouldn't tell me there are weapons available and allow me to assign them if they're not in the drill's stash, I thought it was some kind of glitch.

Thanks.

[TheFireDragon]

That would be limiting. It's good to be able to assign a weapon to a drone even if it's not in storage, so that when the weapon does arrive in storage, the drone can instantly work without needing any manual input.
What happens is the icon on the drone module shows a bright red warning of a missing gun. That's how you know what the problem is.

[FSHerrante]

Originally posted by TheFireDragon:

That would be limiting. It's good to be able to assign a weapon to a drone even if it's not in storage, so that when the weapon does arrive in storage, the drone can instantly work without needing any manual input.
What happens is the icon on the drone module shows a bright red warning of a missing gun. That's how you know what the problem is.

Yeah, but really if you're playing for the first time you don't know that this weapon should be in general storage.

The only thing you understand is that by default he equips a pistol that doesn't exist and you assume that he will be able to equip the others in the same way, making it seem that the problem is that he is not able to load ammo.

[TheFireDragon]

Definitely agreed on all of that. The drone should either come with no gun equipped at all to begin with, but that would be annoying in the long-term. Or the quest should also have you change a weapon to a shotgun or whatever to explain the steps.

[LordFacepalm]

my buddy and I just picked up this game 3 days ago and got to this point... we had this exact question and couldn't figure out what we were missing

thanks for posting the question and thank you FireDragon for the answer