@jamstraz have you seen a barnacle drone in survival?

@VikingTalon: What sucks is the armor seems to be grinder immune and it rips through any shield mods too.

Hacker drone isn't my problem. It's the Vengeance drone. The armor can't be ground down and that laser punches through any shield mod I have installed. The only way to beat that drone is to spawn multiple copies of my ship and hydro man over there and grind through a weapon block in the back and hit the AI block. Otherwise, I don't know if that beam rips through heavy armour yet. But it sure as hell makes light armor and shield mods useless. As of now I've disabled the mod until I build something stronger to take on the dangerous encounter. Per hacker drone? install the mod that disables it, disable the drone yourself or install the hacking computer mod that creates the firewall.

Bloody Vengeance Drone...*muttering old man speak*

Has anyone seen the barnacle drone spawn because I still haven't seen one...

that laser drone is revenge or vengence drone in insane

how to disable sniper drones. using weapons who bypass shields. that is not wanted at all. and spawning them like 5 a second. absolut insane unfair unbalanced.

seem need to update ? it keep spawning and attacking protos....

Yeah I have a version of the mod without the hacker drone cuz I saw all the people screaming at the dev to remove it lol so I'm just going to play and find out.

Have fun! :P

Btw it seems I had blacklisted the hacker drone in that save. I have forgotten how, but you may want to look into that as it can be very naughty! But if you keep your antennas set to short range only, it's not really an issue.

@r4v1n6 Alright, I think I know why the drones weren't in the spawn list.

I saw that your threat score was very high, and so I spawned in Instinct - Atmospheric Frigate to boost my Threat Score and then I ran the command and the drones were on the clipboard!

Thanks for the help r4v1n6!!!

@Scarfy Ok, just an example from one of my saves using this mod (and others):
https://pastebin.com/epqE7FWv

Generally you need to be in space for Corruption to spawn, other MES mods have other requirements.

@r4v1n6 so I did what you told me to do. The world I did this in only has this mod and MES enabled. Could you give an example of ships from this mod that would be in this list?

@Scarfy That depends on how many other eligble MES-spawns you have. With only this mod, it should be frequent. Try the command /MES.GESAP in chat to find out what is eligble in your current location.

How often do drones spawn?

Isn't it easier to just block the hacker drone spawn using MES if the person is having too much problem with it? Or can it appear randonly inside drone groups and that isn't disabled with the MES blacklist?

Boss Energy Cannon audio file causes CTD when heard.

Since people are still complaining about the hacker drone in 2024, I presume the mod is in fact still functional.

@immortal_man Blaming the user is not a cop out. But actually, blaming the mod because you can't handle the difficulty tweak, *is* a cop out. The mod clearly states that it is designed to make your experience more difficult. If you choose to download this mod, that is what you are subscribing for. Going into the comment section to whine about the fundamental purpose of the mod, will absolutely get you laughed at.

It is quite simple as this; If you don't like the difficulty, *DON'T USE THE MOD.* Read before you subscribe, saves you a lot of time and effort. Very useful skill to have. If you lose all of your shit because of it, nobody is gonna cry for you.

Sorry, player issue. Introduction literally states the drones can carry significant risk to players and have very different behaviours to vanilla PvE content.

If you download this then get pissy that's your own fault because the description tells you the trouble you're in for. You can either remove the mod or stop being a child and crying in the comments because you can't be bothered to read the description.

@FlareFluffsune Blaming the user is a cop-out. This goes for any software--if you make a feature that users consistently complain about, especially over many years, you should consider disabling or altering the feature. This applies even more so to what people expect to be a plug-and-play addition.

The hacker drone doesn't contribute anything significant to this mod. It's only caused players to get upset and create pointless arguments. That is a testament to its lack of purpose.

i never saw most frustrating mechanic than hacking drone.

There's been a pinned topic in the mod discussion forum since 2018. Not the mod authors fault if you don't care to read lol Not to mention the guide DOES actually tell you how it functions and what exactly it can hack and do.

This is supposed to be a very aggressive and punishing mod with ACTIVE threats. Which quite frankly from my years of experience playing it can be very well avoided (mostly) by just turning down the range of your antennae. Which by the way is also how you can avoid getting 'hacked' by the hacker drone. If you can't handle NPC's actively hunting you down to frick with you, you shouldn't play it.

This is beyond ridiculous. At no point in your summary or in the guide do you make it clear how disruptive the hacker drone is. Our server is a mess. Countless hours of effort and work are ruined. Every block shows on every HUD, and we can't shut them off. All our turrets were shut off so NPCs got in and trashed the place. All the lights were changed, blinking randomly, the only way to get the doors to quit opening and closing randomly is to just shut them off. Anyone reading this, who values their time and effort, don't install this mod. I'm not even sure how this kind of thing is allowed. This guy is just trolling the community.

Dose this mod works on the current version of the game ?, because no drones spawn, I use this mod for years so I think I know how to install it

10/10 My bro added this mod to his server. Wondering why my miner was spinning around! gave up came back an hour later for my bro to tell me that all our ships had been hacked.

With the developer having retired from SE modding has anyone taken over development of the mod?

that's just a drone spawning with a weapon that's not compatible with weaponcore

Every time a sniper drone spawns for me I receive the following error. Just wanted to mention it in case nobody else had! If you can't fix it nbd :-)

"sadly WeaponCore mods are not compatible with third party weapon mods, you must use one or the other. Incompatible weapons: Corruption-SmallMissileLauncher-Sniper,
The incompatible weapons listed above have been SCHEDULED FOR REMOVAL IN 60 SECONDS. If this is not acceptable either type /wc unsupportedmode or quit WITHOUT SAVING and uninstall all WC related mods"

For whatever reason the sim speed really tanks on my pc (going from decent to almost slideshow) whenever one or more drones are active. I have isolated the issue to a part of the script controlling the drones (in a onboard Programmable block). In Main() there's a check "CorruptionOwnerCheck", (possibly done every tick/frame eg up to 60 times/second) that seems to interact with the backend and absolutely destroys performance. If I comment it out or remove it, most of the performance issues are resolved.

i have a problem i cant enable this options - Enable Drones
- In-Game Scripting for some reason every time i activate this something in the game unable them can some one tell me what mod does this?

Yes, There is a function list for the Drones and what they do. Maybe a warning note about the Hacker Drone is a nasty one to contend with would have made me go look through the list and possibly allowed me to take actions to stop the hacks. The first attack took an hour to deal with. Now with even more ships and stuff added to the base. I don't know if I want to go through that nightmare of fixing everything the Hacker Drone screwed up! Shutting down the ungodly amount of hud contacts was bad enough. To have to go rename everything is just as bad!!!!

For some stupid reason comments are now 1000 characters or less. How stupid can Steam get!

How is this possible? The mod shouldn't even load anymore! I like mods and SE. But to put something in the game and not put something in the description to warn people and maybe create a counter defense system to stop the hacking and alert the player that it has approached. That way we could go out with an attack craft and destroy it. With all the mechanics in the game if you can create the Hacker Drone, you can create a defense system to halt the hack and alert the player.
This gives the player the ability to defend themselves from the Hacker Drone and not just deactivate it from the game.
I do like the concept of the whole encounter, but give us the tools to defend against it.

I do feel the frustration of those who didn't read the content of this mod. I didn't and then out of nowhere a Hacker Drone spawned in. The first one I have encountered using the mod. What an absolute pest!
Now I did deactivate the mod to see if I could come up with a solution.
Somehow, while playing last night another Hacker drone spawned. WITH THE MOD DEACTIVATED!

Half and half doesn't make a whole. IT says in the Description that this Mod ist not for beginners. You Guys doesn't ready carefully. Otherwise, there ist a Copy of this Mod with the hacker drone disabled...i would rather to Copy the world If you are unsure. Meridius make SE 5000% better with His mods.

The hacker drone is an absolute audacity, it destroyed the entire game for me, changed over 500 entries, I uninstall this rubbish mod

Why would you make something that you CAN'T Recover from. This is pretty shitty . I JUST LOST 500 HRS OF WORK CAUSE OF THIS MODE AND YOU PRETTY MUCH MADE ME QUIT THIS GAME FOREVER.........................................................................

Hi great work on your NPC builds! I am in love with them. May I get permission to reupload this mod as unlisted/use its assets such as its prefabs?

@kinngrimm it never end for boss

Is there an endgoal or endboss to tackle which then afterwards lets us live in peace or is it just a constant never ending struggle?

@Kyle,

I THINK you can disable the name corruption by going to the file "steamapps\workshop\content\244850\914369510\Data\Prefabs\(NPC-CPC) Hacker Drone.sbc" and changing line 1653 to remove "CorruptNames" from the list.

I don't know if you'd also have to modify "(NPC-CPC) Hacker Drone.sbcB5" to remove same from line 439

BOOM, no name corruption. Assuming the mod doesn't update. You can also just save a local copy of the mod from that folder to your local mods folder to make sure refreshes don't undo this change.

@GruntBlender *a resolution to this in my opinion could be to make the hacker drone do other things*
I'm aware of this but my suggestion was to change them because at the moment they deny the use of proper game play (the automatons update for proper function) and they are kind of infuriating, who here actually likes spending hours renaming everything because you forgot to turn off a beacon or antenna? (my point is anyway that these drones could still be hacker drones but just not as infuriating, personally i think it would be cooler for them to disrupt thrusters or gyro's or to fire guns or even to make lights flash and things, its still in the description of hacker drone but it adds to the game play in a way instead of a net negative on gaming experience with this part of the mod)

question, was the hound drone removed or something? everytime the hunter drone spawns or a scout drone spawns they spawn in alone, even if the scout drone finds me and i dont chase it or destroy it. it still doesnt tell the corrupt where i am, so i was wondering if something happened to the mod?

@Kyle, the hacker does mess with your thrusters and gyros, as well as turn off production blocks, etc. I just wish there was some utility to capturing these drones mostly intact.

got to say with the hacker drone and the automation blocks sort of breaks the use of drones and things but i was thinking on the hacker drone itself, seams its more just infuriating having to rename everything again but also it really does nothing other than deter people from using this mod. a resolution to this in my opinion could be to make the hacker drone do other things like fire thrusters or shoot guns (not at any target just fire a few rounds in whatever direction its facing), turn air vents from pressure to depressurise, maybe switch connectors to unlock/lock, flicker lights and things like this but to just rename everything is just a bit annoying to be honest (great mod don't get me wrong but what is the actual point of the hacker drone if it only renames everything and cause's a negative on game play?, why not change the mechanic of it to add to the game play instead or some defence that allows the use of antenna's and beacons also).

@GruntBlender, with modular encounters you can somewhat do this already with the weaponreplacer settings. Find the configurations for this, usually in your Instance/Saves/YOURSAVENAMEHERE/Storage/1521905890.sbm_ModularEncountersSystems/

All the configs are in this folder. The "config-grids" XML file allows you to enable weapon replacer, specify blacklists/whitelists for the guns to use, set the % chance for weapons being replaced, allow NPCs to use shields (if you are using that mod) and also dictate whether the replaced gun is exactly the same size or can go up and down in size, allowing NPCs to have the potential for more destruction randomly.

I'm enjoying this mod. A few drones don't work well with my combination of WC and WC vanilla weapon replacements, but it's still fun. Any plans/timeline on replacing the modded weapons like the sniper rocket launcher with vanilla weapons like the assault cannon or railgun?

question. what is the "critique drone" and what can it do? i cant find any info on them.

Hi, do the drones also spawn on planets like Mars and Earth or only in space and on moons?

Ty Phoenix, I really did not see that forum link.