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
• No longer spawns naturally
• Is now a guaranteed map secret on rallypoint (does NOT count as an interactable for spawn credits)

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

1.7.2

• fixed bullets that have no attacker assigned breaking entirely

1.7.1

• (mostly) fixed jitter with orbital movement (drones will still jitter a bit when running at very high speeds)
• all drones no longer have collision with their owner

1.7.0

• nerfed the gunner turret shield (damage req: 1000% -> 2500%; duration: 5s -> 4s)
• nerfed the missile drone's damage output (missile count: 6 -> 5)
• fixed the stat halving not affecting scaling

1.6.3

• reverted 1.6.2

1.6.2

• updated BepInIncompatibility

1.6.1

• orbital drones are no longer targeted by enemies

1.6.0

• cloak propagates to drones if orbitals are enabled

1.5.5

• fixed healing drone ai for real this time

1.5.4

• moredrones compat

1.5.3

• fixed healing drone ai being really dumb and not healing the player often

1.5.2

• orbiting radius is now larger
• fixed mechanical enemies also being perfectly accurate

1.5.1

• tc-280 now scales cost properly

1.5.0

• added proper offsets to the tc-280 and empathy cores so you can see now
• made the tc-280 no longer naturally spawn
• made the tc-280 a guaranteed map secret on rallypoint
• tc-280 is now orbit blacklisted by default

1.4.1

• fixed gunner turrets orbiting the player (hopoo why are they flagged as flying what)

1.4.0

• heavily nerfed tc-280
• tc-280 laser is now disabled by default
• added config for drone transparency (default is 50% transparent)
• made healing drones not ignore you
• drones now evenly position themselves around you while orbiting, instead of randomly clumping up
• incinerator drones no longer orbit by default
• gave an orbit offset to strike drones from the backup
• gave an orbit offset to the tc-280 prototype

1.3.0

• 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