Current game features do not allow for shield generators yet, cloaking is dodgy at best, but drone weapons are pretty easy to do but they'd simply be rocket launchers with a different appearance.

aww but as rocket tower without ai it would be possible to target the missils by ya self

PLEASE ADD DRONES IT WOULD BE SOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Not speaking for the team, or as a dev, I just do models) It would basically be a missile without smoke trail, just a glowing ball, the block itself would look ancient-ey though, if that's enough of a difference from normal missiles.

Yes this would be enough for me. It just should be like a drone. Thank ya for your quick answer! ;)

i dont think its currently possible to make lock on rockets and then drones. maybe by using a part of the gun turret targeting so it could target anything thats not you.

Originally posted by joe_frearson:

i dont think its currently possible to make lock on rockets and then drones. maybe by using a part of the gun turret targeting so it could target anything thats not you.

For balance sake I'd doubt that being an option, it'd have to be manual firing regardless of how the drone itself is done. An auto firing, multi directional, fast moving explosive would be way too powerful. It'd essentially be a remodelled missile launcher and missile until some sort of guided missile is possible.

I have a few ideas personally on how the block could look, but I'm new to the team so it's up the the other guys how it will work and look.

Originally posted by Neronix17:

(Not speaking for the team, or as a dev, I just do models) It would basically be a missile without smoke trail, just a glowing ball, the block itself would look ancient-ey though, if that's enough of a difference from normal missiles.

but wasent the whole selling point of the drone weapons their ability to punch through a target multiple times and than keep moving from target to target. From what I understand unless the drone is physically shot down (What weapon would have the precision or power to do this I am not sure) or run out of power. They are completely reuseable and return to the platform that launched them provided they survive combat

Originally posted by Mike Loeven:

Originally posted by Neronix17:

(Not speaking for the team, or as a dev, I just do models) It would basically be a missile without smoke trail, just a glowing ball, the block itself would look ancient-ey though, if that's enough of a difference from normal missiles.

but wasent the whole selling point of the drone weapons their ability to punch through a target multiple times and than keep moving from target to target. From what I understand unless the drone is physically shot down (What weapon would have the precision or power to do this I am not sure) or run out of power. They are completely reuseable and return to the platform that launched them provided they survive combat

I don`t think that its possible to make a drone wich could "punch through a target multiple times [...]" As I know are rockets in Space Engineers just fireable explosives without any other function, which is kind of stupid. Hopefully the devs make possible that the missiles could be remote controlled or just be controlled by GPS.

Originally posted by Neronix17:

Current game features do not allow for shield generators yet, cloaking is dodgy at best, but drone weapons are pretty easy to do but they'd simply be rocket launchers with a different appearance.

I think an easy missile function for the drone weapons would be best for now.

Originally posted by Mike Loeven:

Originally posted by Neronix17:

(Not speaking for the team, or as a dev, I just do models) It would basically be a missile without smoke trail, just a glowing ball, the block itself would look ancient-ey though, if that's enough of a difference from normal missiles.

but wasent the whole selling point of the drone weapons their ability to punch through a target multiple times and than keep moving from target to target. From what I understand unless the drone is physically shot down (What weapon would have the precision or power to do this I am not sure) or run out of power. They are completely reuseable and return to the platform that launched them provided they survive combat

Even if that was possible in Space Engineers, I personally wouldn't want it, ridiculously over powered, I'd imagine most servers would either disable it completely or only have it enabled for admins. Missile-esque drones are closest we could get right now.

Even if there were Drones, you would have to posses the Ancient Technology Activation Gene and a controll chair o_o

ok thats right but then the Jumper would need an Neural interface too and the activation gene so...

Gene therapy

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