This could be as fortunate as crashing into the oxygen system, or as pointless as tumbling into a hallway devoid of systems, subsystems, and crew members alike.
Where the boarding drone breaches on the enemy space cruiser is neither up to the player’s discretion, as it will break through a room at random. An unlikely circumstance if the space cruiser is built for boarding warfare where the intended goal for victory is to defeat all of the enemy crew, to be able to safely salvage from the abandoned space cruiser. So there is no reason to willingly depower the boarding drone unless it is necessary to preserve some part of the ship, or otherwise achieve victory by powering up something else. Since the boarding drone will never actually be inside the player’s space cruiser’s interior, it will always be in a hostile environment, and it is irrelevant to any enemy crew members whether the boarding drone is powered on or off, they will still attempt to destroy it. The player’s only real control over its behavior is just by being able to power it on, which deploys it to the enemy space cruiser, or by powering it down, which if it is not destroyed in such a scenario then its shoulders will slump and it will be left defenseless to any hostiles. Again it will choose whatever happens to be close to it. Once it has completely destroyed whatever it was attacking, like the oxygen system being brought completely down to red, the boarding drone will trundle in a random direction to something else and immediately begin attacking that. The boarding drone has little in the way of prioritizing between the importance of targets, and so it’s really only criteria for attacking something with its arm welded laser is just being close to it.
The boarding drone will unfurl itself and begin attacking whatever is in closest proximity to itself, whether that is an enemy crew member or a system. Just the mere act of delivery will tear open a literal hull breach, and so that is an added effect every time the player’s boarding drone is sent out to attack. The boarding drone is an offensive type, that when activated by clicking on its schematic, the green tinged robot will be sent hurtling through spaced, curled up like an escape pod, to smash through the hull of the enemy space cruiser. The addition of the boarding drone to that layout basically makes it armed to the teeth for crew brawling, as the basilisk mantis cruiser has a four person crew teleporter. Awesome.”Īt least one space cruiser comes equipped with the boarding drone from the hangar, the basilisk mantis cruiser. “Breaches through the enemy hull and wreaks havoc. So just by having a drone schematic on board somewhere may net the player some extra rewards from a random event where it otherwise wouldn’t happen.
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Some overlap with weapon based blue text options though, like the beam drone being applicable for cutting free a random pirate ship trapped between two massive boulders in an asteroid field. There are actually a few blue text options that will appear when your space cruiser has certain drone schematics equipped to its drone control system or in storage of the space cruiser’s cargo. They do not need a crew member to be controlling them is the point, and so there is no benefit, or really any actual use in manning a drone controls system, as great as that would be. The drones themselves are like machines with automatic behavior designed for their purpose, like combat for boarding drones and shooting down missiles for defense drones. Because of this builds that rely on the drone control system can have greater flexibility than builds that focus on the weapons controls system, but come at the cost of a higher expenditure of drone parts, as drone parts are one of the three limited resources for the player, the last one on the right.ĭrone schematics are the blueprints used for the actual drones. They can be anywhere from forming a super charged barrier like the zoltan shield, or crashing through one of the walls of an enemy space cruiser to attack its inhabitants like a space facing terminator, equipped with a laser and treadmill, to miniature ships buzzing around shooting at the enemy with beams and lasers. Drones can be destroyed in the field, and in reaction it will take the drone schematic some time to re-initialize to be ready to deploy again, so there is no way for you to permanently lose your drone schematics short of disposing of them yourself.ĭrone schematics themselves come in many different variations that serve a motley of purposes for the space cruiser and its captain. Without a schematic, you have no way of using a specific drone, and so each drone schematic takes up one slot in your drone control system.
Drone schematics are what you need to deploy different drone types in the game Faster Than Light.
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