invalid Idea for a new "Augment Drone"

[JustBlackWolf 885]

Take this idea with a grain of salt people, please

I thought about this for a while now, and in the end i decided to suggest it.

What is it about?
It's about a new Drone (thanks captain obvious)

Drone effects: This drone is designed to be a fully support drone, the thing it does is, share the effect of the HULL augment you have equipped with nearby allies.

With this drone equipped, Gauss EMP salvo and Vulcan's incendiary band will not be an issue anymore not only for you, but also for your teammates, provided you have the correct augments equipped on your hull.

 

This drone sounds hella OP, and trust me, i believe it is too, hence why i'm suggesting that if it gets accepted and implemented, it should be released like the Crysis drone, only obtainable through containers, exotic item. It's a drone designed for a supportive player, so i'm not sure how many people will want it.

This drone will have no cooldown, this means it is always active, unless the player gets hit by EMP, but doesn't have EMP augment equipped.

The only characteristics that can be upgraded of this drone are:

Damage and armor boost (like every other drone)

Range (or area of effect radius, call it however you want) of lvl 1 drone will be small, like Mechanic's one.

To balance it out, it has a limit 

Limit of allies it can connect to:

Example lvl 1 can connect to a maximum of 2 allied tanks (2 + yours)

while max lvl can connect to a maximum of 15 allied tanks (15 + yours) <-- edited this value after the recent update which changed the size of teams.

Player gets 5 EXP for every 30 seconds they're connected to one ally (5 per ally) the time does not have to be all at once, it can be cumulative

[Spy 14,904]

Valid

This drone can become a hindrance for other players, what if I equip lightweight and give people in my team lightweight effect, or heavyweight etc. 

[JustBlackWolf 885]

3 minutes ago, Spy said:

Valid

This drone can become a hindrance for other players, what if I equip lightweight and give people in my team lightweight effect, or heavyweight etc. 

Obviously you can always unequip the drone if you have no interest in sharing a certain augment with your teammates, why would you share lightweight or heavyweight in the first place?
Unless you want to sabotage/troll on purpose, i don't see the reason of doing that

[Spy 14,904]

1 minute ago, simofigooo said:

Obviously you can always unequip the drone if you have no interest in sharing a certain augment with your teammates, why would you share lightweight or heavyweight in the first place?
Unless you want to sabotage on purpose, i don't see the reason of doing that

Heavyweight is useful in certain situations, but some players wouldn't notice and share the wrong augment with the rest of their team.

[JustBlackWolf 885]

I agree with you, heavyweight can be extremely useful in some situations

[Maf 32,328]

The idea is interesting, and the sharing problem can be solved by stacking the augments together, with exception of lightweight construction. Yes, that does mean that a team of 8 could, in theory, equip all the different modules and be fully protected from all status effects, but it would require them to be in range of each other, and it would prevent them from using any other drones. As far as drones go, that would be fairly balanced.

However, the drone user should also get another kind of benefit on top of that, because simply sharing (even if it gives bonus score) is not enough of an incentive to use the drone. At the moment, all sharing drones give an additional effect, such as extra HP from Mechanic, extra supply duration from Engineer/Supplier, supplies recharge from Trickster. So you need something else.

[JustBlackWolf 885]

Thanks Maf, i will think of an extra bonus provided by the drone ^^

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

So if you equip Heat Immunity with the drone......

Than Firebird is literally a dead turret.

I mean, it already was, but this drone would kill it beyond death.

[wolverine848 13,097]

16 hours ago, simofigooo said:

This drone sounds hella OP, and trust me, i believe it is too, hence why i'm suggesting that if it gets accepted and implemented, it should be released like the Crysis drone, only obtainable through containers, exotic item. It's a drone designed for a supportive player, so i'm not sure how many people will want it.

So only buyers will be able to get this since they are the ones that buy lots of containers to supplement the containers they get from missions and challenges...

Great - add another layer on the Pay-To-Win onion.   

[JustBlackWolf 885]

Eh, i made that so only a few people can afford it, as Tanker said, it can completely make useless certain turrets and such.

[wolverine848 13,097]

6 minutes ago, simofigooo said:

Eh, i made that so only a few people can afford it, as Tanker said, it can completely make useless certain turrets and such.

Yeah, those few people are buyers...   don't they already have enough?

[JustBlackWolf 885]

i guess they do, but imagine implementing this drone in the normal way, wouldn't it be catastrophic? 

Plus i've noticed they're testing something new that gives you at least 1 container every day, so you'll get your chance of winning an exotic item

(yes they're testing it on the test server)

 

[yellowghetto 3,206]

17 hours ago, Spy said:

Valid

This drone can become a hindrance for other players, what if I equip lightweight and give people in my team lightweight effect, or heavyweight etc. 

So true. The mixing will be confusing and people might get effects they don't even want for their combos.

 

This isn't necessarily a "support" if people get things they don't want. I am sorry, but this is a downvote from me.

[JustBlackWolf 885]

I'm sure that you must be really distracted to not notice such thing, lol. Still not a valid reason to bring up when talking about implementing the drone or not. 

idc either way

[alkyng 3,081]

It will help mults with LightWeight to flip other teammates easily

[JustBlackWolf 885]

yeah, but would mults spend a lot of money to get a drone, and even upgrade it, JUST to troll teammates?

And they can always be banned, then they'll regret doing that.