Heavy Drone
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| "The pinnacle of automated defense technology. Their onboard AI is more cheerful than you may first assume." | ||||
| Base Health | 350 HP | |||
| Base Damage | 30 HP | |||
| Capturable | No | |||
| Found In | Space Encounters | |||
| Unique Drops | Mech Salvage Part (35%) Stick of RAM (10%) Silicon Board (10%) Copper Wire (10%) | |||
Heavy Drones are a type of robotic space monster found in space encounters. They are an uncommon enemy, typically only found guarding the mech bays of larger installations or hostile ships at lower threat levels, but can be found in open space at higher levels. Though they can come in a variety of colors, hull details and screen displays, they all exhibit the same behavior.
They act similarly to the Trifangle, homing in on the player and lining up to attack with blaster fire. The Heavy Drone is equipped with a pair of independently-targetable repeating blasters, which fire at set intervals without any sort of "telegraphing" of when they are about to fire. The drone may alternate between the blasters, or may fire both at once. Either way, the player must keep moving to avoid taking heavy damage.
Thankfully, the Drone is one of the largest space enemies and is fairly slow-moving, making it an easy target.
Trivia
- Like the other space monsters, the Heavy Drone is not capturable. Unlike most non-capturable (non-boss) monsters, it cannot be made capturable using a spawnmonster override, because the custom script it uses does not include the code to enable capturability.
- Heavy Drones have randomized parts similar to procedurally generated monsters. They have six different body variants, which are nearly identical in design but use different palettes that match those on the player's mech. There are five faces, which show different expressions when idle, aggressive, firing, or hurt.
- The heavy drone may be a reference to the robot GERTY from the 2009 film Moon. That robot also featured a display screen showing a simple emoting face.
