Drifter patrol

sotanaht

Just a trick to make the rediculously expensive drifters a bit more resilient. Use the patrol command and make them move between two close by spots (about 1-2 drifter-lengths in travel distance). The result is a fast moving, fast turning drifter that will probably take a marine more than a single clip to kill, buying you time to get it out of harms way.

You can use the command queue to have the drifter begin patrolling after he finishes growing his current structure by holding shift and selecting a move and patrol point after he starts building. It doesn't work if you just shift right click on the building to grow though, he actually has to be growing it when you queue the other commands.

Mestaritonttu

What the f-... Yeah I totally knew drifters had a patrol command. I did. I was just letting them rest. It's hard work, all that floating they do.

clankill3r

I would also like that if a drifter get's hit that it would perform some dodge movement by itself. Going up and down and strafing a bit.

cpt000

Drifters should be cloaked now - they cost nearly 3 times as much!

Mestaritonttu

Would be fun if shade hive made drifters cloak, shift hive made drifters uber fast and crag hive made drifters regen hp.

maD_maX_

@mestarionttu. +1 to drifter hive base upgrades...

sotanaht

cpt000 wrote: »

Drifters should be cloaked now - they cost nearly 3 times as much!

If you can, sure, but having drifters in forward positions is too valuable, and you can't afford to put shades everywhere.

Cannon_FodderAUS

I thought this was discussed or put in the Balance mod at one stage. Each type of hive will give a little bonus to the drifter (eg. shade = cloak), but I think in the end, the abilities were used instead (shade = hallucination). Given the cost of drifters, I think it is reasonable to give the drifter the bonus (shade = cloak, shift = speed). If people feel it is overpowered, make the upgrade cost T.res eg. 2 t.res to make the drifter cloak after you have a shade hive.

Nazrudin

I hate that the command key for patrol is C when my map key is C.

It's annoying!

And no, I like my map key to be C

Side1Bu2Rnz9

@Nazrudin could not agree more with this. I always pulled up my map to get a better view of the action, but now if I click anywhere after doing this my drifter starts patrolling between that lace and where I clicked... Annoying and really needs fixed.

xen32

For price like this, drifters should be controllable in first person mode by khamm, Dungeon Keeper style ^_^

AurOn2

Cloaked drifters, would, potentially, not be nearly so op as it used to be, given you can now actually SEE cloaked objects.
Super fast drifters though, deary me.

Kalopsia

For the amount of res they cost and lack of health/armour...giving drifters cloak again would save aliens lots of wasted res.

CragChrist

Drifters don't float. They hoovar.

Mouse

CragChrist wrote: »

Drifters don't float. They hoovar.

without flapping