Talk:Plasma Drone Mech Arm

Plasma Drone Mech Arm: Updates

I had tried to update this page with a more detailed description of the operation of the Plasma Drone Mech Arm. Unfortunately, there is a bug with the Mech Arms table on the Mechs page such that any edits on this page appear to cause that table to lose track of this page. Therefore, I'll make my edits here, and they can be incorporated into the article proper once that bug has been fixed by the site admins.

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Plasma Drone Mech Arm is a arm part mech component that can be crafted using salvaged materials found in space encounters. The crafting recipe has a chance to be learned after finding an Advanced Mech Blueprint. Once learned, it can be assembled using a Mech Part Crafting Table and equipped using a Mech Assembly Station on either or both mech arm slots.

While equipped, the player can use the Plasma Drone Mech Arm, while piloting their mech, to deploy a drone that orbits the mech, survives for a maximum of 2 minutes, and has 1500 health. Only one drone can be deployed at a time; attempting to deploy a second drone will do nothing. When an enemy comes into range, the drone, after taking 0.8 seconds to detect the enemy, fires a triple-burst of bullets every 0.3 seconds in a spread pattern, producing a fire rate of ~3.33 triple-bursts per second. Each bullet deals 20 damage, producing a theoretical maximum DPS of 200, although when the player and enemy are both moving, all three shots rarely hit, so actual DPS will be substantially reduced.

-- Rl.starbound (talk) 03:14, 17 September 2021 (UTC)