Best Drone Weapons?

[Mecron]

an X-Ray beamer IS a phasor for all intents a purposes...you just can't pump that much sustained power through a light barrel.

[chris0101]

One tactic I tried that was effective for Morrigi heavy drones was 2x chakkar. Was very effective and immediately makes drones a priority to take out.

[mystiqblackcat]

I always go for Beamers on swarm drones and Plasma/Fusion/AM Cannons on Heavy Drones. I like the idea of putting PD on drones; makes me think of Star Wars style fighter battles. Although it sounds fun I'd like to know how practical it is.

[Clarity]

mass drivers or ap mass drivers are great on heavy drones for dreadnought era, as almost all of the shots will hit at the same time resulting in incredible knockback(and damage of course)

[patton1942]

they chew my frame rates down to almost nothing, so be aware that older machines struggle with that many bullets on screen at once.

I had fusion cannons on all ships, and 2 dreadnought carriers worth of AP driver rounds at an enemy world with full light and medium sats and hundreds of reserve ships.

I had to use sensor window.

[Zastaver]

I had to use sensor window.

HA amen to that. also mass shotgun/stormer Zuul heavys are lagfingtastic

[DervMan]

In a multiplayer game, when the enemy launched their Strikeforce CnC-worth of Liir Drones armed with Light Emitters, I could make a cuppa tea... between each frame. Okay maybe not quite, but the machine was sitting at 0.0 FPS for a long time.

As to mounting point defence on Drones, it can work very well if the enemy are using Interceptor Missiles. It meant the difference between Drones being completely ineffective to Drones being effective in the right number. It also looked amazing, although it was kinda slow.

[TriNova]

I find that some of the best weapons to put on Drones are ones with quick time to targets. Phasers are my favorite for heavy drones, especially on the Liir drones. Its just the swarms of beams from improbable angles that gets me. It also heavily reminds me of the Oculus from Mass Effect 2.

Just a thought, has anybody tried disruptor whips on Zuul drones? What has your experience been with them?

[Profound_Darkness]

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Just a thought, has anybody tried disruptor whips on Zuul drones? What has your experience been with them?

Just found out something strange.....

Zuul drones with Disruptor whips = funny (bad funny)

It's also a little buggy too, sometimes the drones acquire targets, sometimes they just hover around the drone ship and wait till enemy is in range.

As far as weapons go. Sniper cannons were rather lame however if I microed them (have drones on weapon group 2 and hold fire to recall drones) they might be interesting. Sniper cannons with some other short range high dps weapon could be good (thinking of Morrigi 3 mounts).

BTW: Morrigi drones armed with pulsed phasors and a single PD phasor is quite neat vs enemy drone swarm...

url to the part in question... (and a bit of a plug).

[The Magus]

Man, that was a pretty tight vid, PD.

[DervMan]

Nice video. So I'm guessing that's what SotS looks like on a chunky machine..?