Better Drones

A mod that tweaks drones to make them more useful and less boring. Fully configurable.

Changes

Global

• Drones orbit their owner at a fixed distance like in ROR1

• Drones that are orbiting cannot collide with enemies

• Can be toggled off, overrides movement changes when enabled

• All drones have halved base damage and higher skill damage (so they arent op with drone parts)

• All drones are faster and have higher health and regen

• Drones prioritize enemies that have been recently pinged by their owner

• Allies no longer absorb hitscan attacks like Flamethrower and Double Tap

• Minions no longer absorb projectiles

Healing Drone

• Longer targeting range
• Faster healing
• Less aggressive
• Sticks closer to owner
• Stops healing targets above 85% health.

Incinerator Drone

• More range
• More damage
• 100% ignite chance
• More aggressive

Gunner Drone

• More range
• More aggressive
• More damage
• Higher knockback
• Sticks closer to owner

Missile Drone

• More range
• Less aggressive
• More damage
• Sticks closer to owner

Emergency Drone

• Longer targeting range
• Faster healing
• Less aggressive
• Stops healing targets above 85% health.
• Has a passive healing aura that heals nearby allies for 10% max health every 5 seconds
• Spawns in Sulfur Pools, Scorched Acres, Abandoned Aqueduct, and the Artifact Reliquary
• Sticks closer to owner

TC-280

• Longer targeting range
• More aggressive
• Much tankier
• Has a passive laser that switches on in intervals of 5 seconds, applying several supportive debuffs to it's current target

Gunner Turret

• Longer targeting range
• Tankier
• Energy Shield that switches on for 5 seconds after dealing 1000% total damage, blocks projectiles from the outside.

Changelog

1.2.5

• made drones not make idle noise
• smoothed out orbital movement for real this time

1.2.3

• Added orbit offsets for solus probes and strike drones

1.2.2

• Nerfed Gunner Drones to be less free win friday
• Smoothed out the orbital movement to be less snappy
• Gunner Turrets have a periodic shield that activates upon dealing a total of 1000% damage

1.2.1

• Added config for orbit height

1.2.0

• Minions ignore projectile collision from their owner
• Reduced Gunner Drone knockback
• Reduced Emergency Drone healing aura to 10%
• TC-280 laser no longer applies Beetle Juice

1.1.1

• readme change lmao

1.1.0

• Added a configurable blacklist for orbital movement

1.0.0

• mod exists now