We need drones!

[exotic sparrow]

The drone can be used for reconnaissance or as a kamikaze drone. You can control it using a laptop. And most importantly, I really want the developers to read this and answer - will they add it or will they not?!

[iron meteor]

This would be so cool

[exotic sparrow]

This would be one of the best updates after helicopters and cars.

[unborn breach]

Would be cool to be able to order items from shops and have it drone delivered- could be an additional fee for the shop to add. The shop owner would need to purchase a shop drone for instance.

E.g
ak 3500 sulfur
Ak via drone 4200 sulfur

[exotic sparrow]

There is no such thing even in Rust. Let's just add drones to start with.

[unborn breach]

Doesn't have to be like rust, they are different games. Rust does have drone deliver, it's called drone market place.

[exotic sparrow]

I just think it's going to be difficult to implement here. Just let them add drones first, and then you can do delivery and anything else.

And most importantly, I really want the developers to read this and answer - will they add it or will they not?!

[unborn breach]

It was just an add on suggestion for the thread, just drones would be a nice addition

[amber wagon]

wouldnt work well with quest, but if they can circumvent that then maybe

[exotic sparrow]

Breachers did a good job with the drone. I think they can do something like that.

[amber wagon]

its just having both the base and wherever the drone is loaded at the same time is pretty resource intensive but its not impossible to get around that, breachers map is much smaller then strayed so its not that bad in breachers

[exotic sparrow]

I think it's possible to do this. But we must wait for the developers' response on this topic. I'm waiting for them to read and respond. You can make the drone fly at 100 meters and no more.

[light knot]

The game culls things that aren't in your view, to do a drone it'd eliminate some of the benefits of culling on top of having to render a second camera to the screen you used to control it. I wouldn't say it'd be impossible but I'd say it's unlikely due to the resource cost of having something like that running in realtime

[pale hamlet]

i think having a drone station, a desk with a controller, or maybe a mini copter cockpit with a screen would be best for how you control it, an give it a range for how far from the station it could be would fix the loading problem

[amber wagon]

Read the message from genghis, he explains why thats not really helpful in the performance issues. The only way I could see it working is how it is in breachers, where you essentially become the drone. That way you don’t need to render a second camera. However there’d probably be a loading screen in-between switches because it’d have to load and unload stuff

[pale hamlet]

that would Probably be best, hope it happens

[amber wagon]

Atleast from my pretty limited knowledge the culling wouldnt be too affected by the breachers method as you still cull what you can’t see. Just a bit of loading. Could just have a screen that says “connection terminated” or “booting connection” for a couple seconds while everything loads

[pale hamlet]

all i can say is, maybe in time the devs might get around to it, im sure they're working on some fun stuff the community will enjoy, i cant wait for the next updates

[light knot]

Yeah, honestly that would probably be the only way to reasonably do that keeping the quest 2 in mind, especially using generated maps and user built bases vs something that has set levels that can be managed more

[exotic sparrow]

The main thing is there is a way to do it! Let the developers read this topic and maybe answer this topic. I have not seen them answer about drones.

[light knot]

If they did consider it it likely wouldn't be for a while, there's still a lot on the current roadmap to be accomplished