Replaced Balor's Drones with 3 New Ones.

[deltarune2103]

About the PR

Replaced Balor's drones, differentiated them both in LPC recipies and research.
Strafer T1, Doorknob T2 and Bulldog T3.
Strafer is fast, easily destroyable.
Doorknob has good frontal armor, but sides and back easily destroyable.
Bulldog has great frontal armor, and other sides aren't as bad as doorknob's, has more powerful gunnery.
Bulldog also requires 20 sheets of plastitanium to create.

Why / Balance

Balor's drones are currently really weird, and both of them genuently should not be interchangable.

Media

Strafer:

Doorknob:

Bulldog:

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How to test

Load up
Buy balor
look at research console
research and look at mercenary techfab
use the vouchers in balor's shipyard
link them to control console
try using them

Changelog
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• add: Z-22 Balor has received a 3 new drones, Strafer, Doorknob and Bulldog.
• tweak: Z-22 Balor's drone research diversified.
• remove: Z-22 Balor's old drones Bow-man and Rac-man are removed from it's shipyard.

[deltarune2103]

looks like a fake fail check

[deltarune2103]

built and ran, works fine.

[waphun]

This is a massive nerf to the balor. 2 l85s are not strong weapons even on drones. They are good at shooting down missiles, jetpackers and lighter hulls but not really as main armament.
The ak570 is a weapon you put on a shuttle if you want it to have armaments without it being able to actually deal good damage. it's a nothingburger of a weapon.
The marauder is fineish. it's got alright damage but its main strength is its range and since drones approach at a fixed 400 distance, they can't really take advantage of that.

Compared to the previous drone armaments, which were double draupnirs (which have really high dps, especially en masse) and longbows ,these are not even close in their damage potential. They are just floating bricks which are neither useful nor interesting to fight.

[deltarune2103]

Drones are not supposed to be strong alone. Rac-man and Bow-man were ridiculous, and you could salvage their weaponry.
If you sincerely believe that L85 isn't strong at all, test it against a Plastitanium wall, Strafers are extremely cheap.

[Greenwall-Exe]

Drones are not supposed to be strong alone. Rac-man and Bow-man were ridiculous, and you could salvage their weaponry. If you sincerely believe that L85 isn't strong at all, test it against a Plastitanium wall, Strafers are extremely cheap.

I would not call the Rac-Man and Bow-Man strong at all lol, their guns are decent sure, well the draupnir is always in a weird spot since it gets buffed and nerfed regularly it seems, but the decency of the weaponry is counterbalanced by the fact that well...these things die if they get sneezed on. super fragile and the guns you get from them arent exactly rare. Also in addition they're like...all of the balors firepower purposefully

That being said I had planned on returning and adding a T2 series of civilian class researchable drones that would be a bit bigger and pack different weaponry when i had the drive but with all the PJB stuff going on i havent had any.

[deltarune2103]

The thing I do not understand about Rac-man and Bow-man is the fact that you can unanchor them, worst example is Bow-man, as it has a longbow. You don't want to know what you can do with 4 or more longbows.

[Greenwall-Exe]

The thing I do not understand about Rac-man and Bow-man is the fact that you can unanchor them, worst example is Bow-man, as it has a longbow. You don't want to know what you can do with 4 or more longbows.

could just make them un-anchorable? pretty sure theres a flag for that you can toggle if thats the biggest gripe. Guns being unanchorable will be an issue for every drone ship for you otherwise

[Greenwall-Exe]

Now that I'm awake and can look at these again with fresh eyes aside from the strafer, all these seem more powerful than the battle baegs given they can survive more than one hit without catastrophic failure. Maybe consider making them a second tier rather than removing the man series altogether

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