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What happened to the Romulan Drone Ships?
xarles2013
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After the last patch I've noticed the Romulan Drone Ships do pretty much nothing, they have become unresponsive to my commands, ordering them to attack or guard or anything (except recall), they will just sit still, sometimes they follow me and do what I so, most of the time they will sit still and do absolutely nothing. I've also noticed now they can't take a hit at all, dying rapidly to almost any ship they face and they deal almost zero damage. I'm seeing a single fighter do more damage than one Romulan drone ship. After my last run in the Vault I've also come to notice they vanish from my hanger display. One second they are there with full health and shields, the next, gone. No where to be seen, then minutes later they will reappear. I don't know what happened during the last patch, but please reverse it, something has caused their damage output to go way down, their shields can't take a hit and they die rapidly, they sit still and don't follow commands, they vanish and reappear minutes later, something is wrong and desperately needs to be fixed.
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Which version of them are you using? There's been some been some bugs with special abilities not working right on the advanced and elites ones that might be related.
Well in stuff like the vault you're running all over the place...using full impulse and it seems when you get a certain distance from your pets they don't display. They don't use full impulse themselves and when they catch up to you they appear again.
elite drone don't respond to command will not dock anymore but on rare occasions.
Last tues patch messed up a lot of pets.
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What I do is give the dock command by clicking on the command in the drone window and not on the command in the weapon bar. I do this if the drone is within 10k from me.
Once they dock, issue a command from the weapon bar and everything should be alright.
Also, if they wander off too far chasing an enemy due to the attack command, sometimes they will just hang there after thier target is dead, especially if you are further than 15k from them. Once that happens nothing will cause them to accept commands, so I just issue a new drone even if it resets thier experience.
As for the failing to dock, there is a pause of i think 6 seconds before they actually dock but only if they are within the dock range. If you keep moving faster than they can keep up they will not dock until they can stay at the dock range for the required 6 seconds.
One of the ways I devised to keep my experienced drones with me is to issue the dock command when cubes/transformers/other large vessels are at 20% health so they can dock by the time the enemy pops. Then I full impulse to my next victim while cloaked and activate the attack button once within range. They will exit the hangar and attack while I decloak and alpha.
It works well to keep the experienced drones with me.
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I can't really say, I need more testing but I can definitely say Disruptors suck more than ever since patch.