If I decide to get drone control, these are my picks. I went for Crew Teleporter and Cloaking instead of the Hacking module. Members Online. Shield Piercing Missiles ignore shields. Beams through Zoltan shields (the tail end of beams can do damage to rooms after the beam has done damage to the Zoltan shield). advertisement. Teleporting basics: Can send as much crew as teleport pads are available. Originally posted by Dr. Provides a blue option after destroying any Loot Transport event (gives medium amount of ) ID:. This is only against 0 evasion though - Combats can miss while Beams can't. The first thing to understand is that your main shield never helps against missiles or bombs. As hidden Augment: AUG HIDDEN id --- adds the augment as hidden, it will still retain its effect but it will not take up a slot, you may only add 2 hidden augments this way. Ancestry - Find the secret sector with the Rock Cruiser. Tip nr. Subsystems are the same as systems, except they do not use power. This is the second time it happens, so I'm 100% sure this is real and I'm not just imagining things. When I…Engi A is considerably better than Engi B. 1 Overview 2 Choosing your hacking target 3 Defences against hacking 4 System upgrades Overview Launches a hacking drone that attaches to the enemy ship. . (Actually, I prefer Defense I over II because the latter can be "distracted" by laser fire and let the missiles through!). The thing fires 2 shots but needs only 1 energy. Drones - While missiles are annoying, don't overlook the boarding drone. Nebula seen ships exchange fire. hachkc • 9 mo. Drone recovery arm. The plight of the shieldless Stealth ships is often cited as the biggest random-number-based swing in FTL. IMO that's invaluable. FTL Ship Analysis: Engi Cruisers. If you haven’t got a defense drone, or the enemy drone breaks through, get ready for the hurt. Drones are created instantly, but drones that operate within the ship, system repair and anti-personnel drones, need a short time to start up. Crystal Weapons are the only non-missile using weapon that a defense drone can shoot down, which is a significant disadvantage for this ship. However, if you have your boarders in the systemless room the boarding drone will get pushed to another room even if it targets the empty room. This event can occur only once per sector. (Defense Drone) Use a Defense Drone to protect their ship. To elaborate a little on what I said earlier, I think Hull Repair Drone shines best when you fulfill 3 factors all at once: You have good shields. carnage is a bit overrated imo, but still powerful. Business, Economics, and Finance. It mainly bugs me a little that the enemy AI ships defense drones are better than yours. As an example, if you've ever seen a Hacking drone latch onto the helm of the Kestrel or the Weapons on a Federation Cruiser, and your Defense Drone didn't even pay it any attention whatsoever, that is a result of the glitch. Small asteroid belt distress beacon (equivalent of Defense Drone) Systems [] Artillery Beam [] Crushed pirate (equivalent of Beam weapon or Beam Drone) Cloaking [] Auto-ship fight in plasma storm (equivalent of Engines 6-8). 2. But the bigger problem is that drone control becomes a waste of system slot in late game. The shield overcharger seems to be bad by design. IMO MK. More specifically, on defense drones : Having 2 Defense drones up is kinda bad, unless you got the extra one for free, and even then. If the ship is very long (i. When I play on normal I always go for drones or cloaking for missile defense, hacking or mind control for support and always a teleporter against the flagship. Mind Control is handy, but not essential. If it. I find DD2 mostly useless as I want it targeting only things that bypass shields like missiles and drones. Crowrevell's ships guide distills each ship to a brief summary, presenting strategy in the context of the ship's weaknesses and strengths. Haywire Defense System The shield overcharger seems to be bad by design. Generally if the enemy has poor weapons and evade you turn off the Artemis and do a slow-and-steady pummeling using the BL2, if it has good weapons or a particularly annoying drone other than a defense drone turn off engines for a moment and shoot down weapon/drone control with the Artemis, and finally if the poor ship is one of those rare all. Defence Drone 2 can also be good as a way of mitigating damage earlier in the game. FTL: Faster Than Light. If you wanna use a defense drone, you are better off using a regular one for it instead of omni, but use omnidrone over any other anti-drone i’d say. Generally you can try to game the Defense Drone II's timing to some extent by waiting for the lasers to hit your shields, and only then deploying it/turning it on and hoping it shoots the missile instead of the lasers, but it's still a bit tricky. I think that others have already given you excelent advice, but I would also like to add one trick with Zoltans in general: the power bar from. Bombs are the second class of weapon that expends missile ammunition, and like missiles they completely bypass enemy Shields. It seems that the MK. Why not just buy a Defense II drone, which does. Can be used together with Hull Repair Drone : the drone vanishes after repairing 3-5 hull points, so jumping after 2 repairs makes those repairs. Two combat drones is great, as is a defense drone + combat drone. Drones are good at sustain damage. 28 ships, 28 victories, and 0 defeats later, I can officially say I am good at FTL. Damage: 1 laser, 2 damage, pierces 1 level of shieldsBombs work but don't base your decisions on defense drones. The Stealth ships are pretty big so defense drones don't shoot stuff down efficiently. - Asteroid fields may cause severe game lag. It's not as good as hacking, but I'll take anything to keep me alive. Defense Drones Don't Do D'anything! "While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles . They can only be shot down by Mark II Defense Drones. Leto Missile (Zoltan A, Federation B) 2 seconds faster than Artemis, 1 less damage, not worth it. Those heal between 3 and 5 hull points every time. again and again and again, practically every time i get to the flagship and i have the defense drone, the hacking module gets past in the first or second try. It can only be destroyed if the enemy hacks your hacking system. The fire will slowly damage the system and give the enemy crew additional damage - and they can't put it out either. FTL Sectors Alignment Chart — Danger vs. Rock Plating - With the Flagship fight being more of a DPS race now, having ~18% more effective HP can actually be pretty relevant. obviously have level 4 shields. It says: "You find the source of the distress call, a small research station. Have weapons powerful enough to take enemy weapons partially offline but not to keep them down the whole fight, but have boarders (or fire weapons. OmniDrone isnt best used as a defense drone but as an anti-drone replacement. The Captain's Edition loadouts show off some of the new features in the mod, as well as create a tougher challenge; these loadouts can be reverted back to their originals with an additional (optional) mod, CE Vanilla Player Ship Loadouts. I had a combat drone and a defense drone mark 1 with level 2 drone system. Drones can't stop lasers (unless it is Defense Drone mark II; if you fire in a volley it can only stop one laser shot), and beam weapons never miss once you got the shields down. Ancestry – Find the secret sector with the. 34 votes, 13 comments. When activated, this will prevent (or interrupt) their hacking process. Defense drones can be dodged by de-powering the hacking drone as they shoot, which freezes the hacking drone in place and causes all shots to target ahead and miss. Remember to not send in crew because you still want to keep that person alive so the flagship AI doesn't activate. Required Aspects: Purchase FTL: Faster Than Light Suggested Aspects: Don't pirate it :p Achievement Walkthrough:. For the tables of all weapons, see Weapons (tables). I got all the way to the end but messed up the 3rd phase of the flagship. I find DD2 mostly useless as I want it targeting only things that. -oh wait never mind. Allows you to send your crew-members to board enemy vessels. Or an extra shield layer. Have a defense drone to take down enemy missiles (a volley fully blocked by defense drones and/or shields doesn't count either). Not having this system means. P. A defense drone 2, which has the same cost and power requirement, can block more projectiles in most situations, can block projectiles that would do multiple points of damage to. Zoltan Cruiser [] Shields Holding - Destroy a ship before it gets through the Zoltan Shield. Sensors: I don't think I have ever bought them if I didn't start with them. For more information, see Crystal weapons. #2. hachkc • 9 mo. This knowledge can guide you to what you have to do, in order. Basic Laser (Mantis A, Kestrel B) 1 shot every 10 seconds… there are better weapons for 1 power. This event can occur only once per sector. Aim the Hull Missile at a system-less room for 4 points of damage. Wish I got a pic of it (was trying to speed run,) but I got the fire on small research station random event. Faster Than Light by Subset Games. Givin' her all she's got, Captain!Lasers are general-purpose energy weapons. Prevents enemy defense drones from targeting anything. Hull repair drones are quite rare in stores or in general, and buying one (probably the most. 1 drones seem much better than MK. Opening Main Menu or 'Save+Quit'ing the game replaces any drone of the Drone Control system offered at the Store with the Defense Drone Mark I. But I assume you're talking about the drones in phase 2? anti combat drone actually provides some decent protection against this. I can't upgrade both shields and dodging with the increased scrap cost on ship upgrades!Favorite Drone: Combat II Favorite Weapon: Flak II (I’m still not very sure yet) Halberd Beam, {Flak Gun Mk I | Breach Bomb Mk II}, Burst Laser Mk II, Heavy Laser Mk I; Hacking. Skinny Pete Nov 8, 2014 @ 10:37am. During a previous run of mine, I was saving a bit of scrap to buy Drone Control, and I try to always buy it when it comes with a free Defense I schematic. You can just buy extra reactor power early and net crazy amounts of scrap per fight from free healing for the rest of the run. ) Anti-Ship II drones are nearly identical with the exception that they fire roughly twice as fast and take twice the power, allowing you to field a anti-ship and defense drone, for example. That's why you never get it in those situations). A defense drone will shoot down boarding drones, or you can try to destroy their drone system. Having something which can constantly break shield allows you to focus your guns on systems you want to target. Use a drone to protect their ship. 4 shields and 40%+ evasion is pretty solid defence even without cloaking. If you want to beat defense drones, then go for swarm missile without brining a second thought in your mind. If Israeli defense forces launch a ground offensive into Gaza, they could use a mix of drone-enabled hacking tactics to find Hamas targets, coordinating cyber operations and. Added. I'd advise to be careful about some of these. I think they both have a chance to miss missiles though, even though they travel slower than lasers so I'm not sure. 2: Diplomatic Immunity - While using the Federation Cruiser, use your crew in four special blue events by sector 5. Additional systems. Each system occupies one room. The Fed. 1 Moves slower, but a shorter distance and shoots immediately. (Teleporter) Offer to beam them aboard your ship. My ideal build is pretty simple: Two defense drones mk I, a combination of shield piercing weapons which will disable shields in one volley,Lv 3 Shields, and as much engine power as you can generate. FTL: Multiverse makes changes to most systems both in terms of balance and gameplay. Defense I drones can’t shoot down lasers or ions so you can’t use those to distract it. It’s biggest weakness is having a medbay for a raider build but it works for the first few sectors as you can really build up your crew’s fighting ability. It stops Hacking and Mind Control, but not for very long - and the hacking will have already landed on your ship anyway. If you're running defense drones, you should always try to have one extra system upgrade beyond what you need as a. If you don't have good shields, then spending 85/42 scrap on shields makes more sense than buying/keeping a hull repair drone. Ancestry - Find the secret sector with the Rock Cruiser. This is the Slug Cruiser ship unlocking event. The hacking drone will almost always get through even against two defense drones. The number of guaranteed stores is determined by the sector type. Defense drones are more common in certain sectors than in others. 1. They also begin firing faster than most weapons so they can sometimes cause damage at the start of the fight (particularly on unshielded ships), especially if they're mark 2. Get a drone control system and a Defense drone Mk 1 (They often come standard with a drone control system). Reach Sector 8 with the Mantis Cruiser using Layout B. Go to CIVILIAN_ASTEROIDS_BEACON_LIST2 (Repair. Defense 2 is good, but it requires more energy and it might shoot a laser when you need it to shoot a missile instead. I've tried hacking their hacking system, all that does is shut down the enemy hacking drone for a while rather than destroy it. I was wondering what had more worth, the Defense 1 Drone or Repair Burst. It seems to be better in pretty much every possible way. Ships, crew and equipment. The player controls the crew of a lone spaceship affiliated with The Federation, which is currently on the losing end of a massive rebellion. When the drone reaches the enemy ship, it latches onto the hull and becomes invulnerable. had enough drone parts at the end to have a hull repair. IMO MK. What do you guys think?The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. This is a guy who wants to live. Defense Drone 2 is extremely weak and should only be used if desperate. Yes. ) Backup DNA Bank - A bit of a luxury, but cheap enough to be. Whilst a deeply officious and obtuse people, they generally favour diplomacy over acts of aggression and are known for being fair and just in their. 1: Never be dependent on missiles to win; as you said; the enemy requires only a defense drone to stop your missiles. As an example, if you've ever seen a Hacking drone latch onto the helm of the Kestrel or the Weapons on a Federation Cruiser, and your Defense Drone didn't even pay it any attention whatsoever, that is a result of the glitch. This is, horrifyingly, actually less unreasonable than the prior achievement. The Firebomb Rock. Or hacking. Members Online. It causes entities of all kinds to be rendered invisible to defensive drones as long as they are outside of their area of vision. A Defense Drone 1 only helps you in a fight where there's some physical projectile incoming (flak, missile, asteroid, boarding/hacking drone). Crew Teleporter is a system that allows teleporting your crew to and from an enemy ship. There are a few ways to get past defense drones. The distress signal is coming from a small space station orbiting an uninhabited planet. . Hacking the Weapon Control is a very good defensive choice. Garbage Tier: Ion Intruder (*I haven't actually played with this much, but my impression is that it's very weak for the player) Anti-Drone Drone. It's fortuitous that the Engi Cruiser A is relatively easy to unlock, as it's a surprisingly solid ship right out the gate; the less time new players are liable to be trapped with the Kestrel Cruiser A, the better. You get 20 seconds charge time when cloaking and hacking are synchronised which. More chance to pop a Kool-Aid Man (boarding drone) or hacking drone before they arrive, some missile / asteroid / flak defense, and cloaking drone ships are effectively neutered. Not only that but its possible to have three MK. x5-452. Your Defense Drones gets downed 3 times in one battle against a ship with 2 basic lasers? Every defense drone will shoot at hacking probes and launched boarding drones-Anti-Missile: shoots at missiles and fake projectiles (like secondary flak ones) (Example: Guardian (M), Amphi-Defense) -Anti-Drone: shoots at enemy combat drones attacking your ship (Example: Guardian (D), Trinity Defense Drone (D)) Meh. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. defense drone 1, seems to miss missiles way more often. Also, drones are expensive in the long run. So, you have a 1 in 5 chance of the drone hitting a systemless room and you're stuck. For more information, see Missile weapons. Tip nr. new hazard: blue/white star that occasionally causes "ion pulse", probably similar to solar flare except it does ion damage instead of fire (thanks u/IrishBandit) new subsystem: battery which appears to temporarily increase total reactor power (thanks u/Histidine) PDS hazard shows "PDS TARGET LOCKED" before the fireball appears and so far only. It seems that the MK. I kind of need all the defense I can get with my current setup so I booted up a defense drone and defense drone 2 at the same time. The best counter is cloaking. Drones are a consumable item, similar to missiles, that can either defend your ship, or attack the enemies. The defense drone was is fairly simple, all you need to do is time your shots so 2 missile fire at the same time. I use my mind control to counter enemy mind control. This event can occur only once per sector. - Player Defense and Anti-Combat Drones are less effective in protecting the frontmost part of the ship (bug in vanilla FTL). General Exploits : The Sven Maneuver : You need a Weapon Pre-Igniter. 3 shields and no cloaking is risky. I define it as the developer define it. I did eat quite a few missiles cause I refused to give up the double boarding for defense drone. Indeed he argues that "commercial drone technology is so widely available that anyone could build a crude DIY attack drone for a few hundred dollars, and some terrorist. Toggle drones serve two different functions and can be swapped out before battle, such as the Guardian drone which serves as both a standard anti-missile defense drone as well as the anti-drone! Amp drones too can be configured before battle, but are swapped between different power levels to scale their effects for early, mid, and late. Drones can be risky to use, as they simply shut down should your Drone Control. Does not recover Boarding Drones, Ion Intruders, or hacking drones. The intro text for this event varies, and could be any of the following:Like any projectile weapon, lasers can miss. 2: Defense Drones Don't Do D'anything! - While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles. All these things are almost always better defensively than a shield overcharger drone. Ancestry – Find the secret sector with the. For two power, you have essentially hard-countered missiles. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect ship presence. Defense Drone I and II will shoot it down before it latches (most of the time). The defense scrambler also stops anti-combat drones from targeting your own combat drones/boarding drones. themojorising. Defense drones will look at an incoming hacking bit when it gets close enough so if it looks like the hacking bit is going to hit something benign you can depower the defense drone and let it through. Instead, try buying a defense drone 2. Can be used together with Hull Repair Drone : the drone vanishes after repairing 3-5 hull points, so jumping after 2 repairs makes those repairs. Drone Control is not a standard system and many ships launch from the Hangar without it. If you rely on Hacking, Defense Drones just shut you down. Double Combat 1 is much stronger than Combat 2 when you use drone micro. It's great with any ship using drones but especially Engi A, and makes Stealth C suddenly a lot better when I can have shield drone/anti-drone/defense drone out every single battle without burning parts. When the drone is not destroyed, it will still be stunned for 5 seconds. Unless you have a drone recovery system of course, but that thing is expensive and not always available. I'd assume ion intruder as well, but I haven't seen that. For a more detailed chart of. #15 < > Showing 1-15 of 18 commentsEven still, drone control can be versatile even without defense drones. Lose 1 Drone Part, receive low Scrap and rewards. Drone Arm [] "Combat and Defense drones will be retrieved on jump if not destroyed" Costs 50 and 3 ; Refunds the droneparts for combat/defense drones that are deployed at the moment of jumping, allowing for sustainable usage of drones. Only recovers your deployed external drones: combat drones - after the ship fight, defense drones - after initiating the FTL Jump. Prevents enemy defense drones from targeting anything. -1 . The Overcharger Drone just seems to be a bit of a waste of time. View Mobile SiteThe Boarding Drone. So for 150 I could get one bar of cloaking, or for 85 minus the selling price for the System Repair drone it came with, I immediately got Hull Repair and DD I online. ago. I prefer mark 2. Faster Than Light by Subset Games. Edit Non-AE drones added by the mod Captain's Edition imported some of its expanded weaponry into drone systems, greatly diversifying the pool of drones to choose from. No that's fine, FTL is a difficult game. On Zoltan B, the only thing that worries me is starting without a shield and dying in some horrible asteroid fight with drones / Heavy Lasers / whatever. 31 votes, 10 comments. You can try to time the hacking drone by distracting the defense drone with targets, such as swarm missiles, flak, etc, even a boarding drone. Based on this table, we can see that the shield overcharger isn't very good at blocking shots. Each laser shot temporarily removes a shield layer. The exterior doors (vents) can be used to vent oxygen from the ship's rooms into space. It appears a small laboratory fire got out of control and is threatening to destroy the station. If you already have a defense drone you don't need that and should go for hacking. • Remove Defence Drone exploit. ftl drone tier list . shareofhonor Jun 2, 2015 @ 8:28am. Defense drone is also pretty good for completely preventing missiles. Slug A/C, Engi A/B/C, Rock A/B/C, and Lanius A/B all are safe from this bug. This event is the 1st step in the process of unlocking the Crystal Cruiser and the Ancestry achievement while using the Rock Cruiser . Without being able to bring down its shields, the beam weapons are useless (unless I had the 2 damage ones). To me, drones in FTL feel kinda the same way. 8% of Uncharted Nebulas have no stores at all. Add a comment. The Merchant has a Drone System, and he will gladly use it at will. Beams and ASB shots do not collide with anything. 6%. Drones are another system that may need taking out, anti-personel drones are quite the beasts. Quick takedowns means lots of extra scrap to buy a weapon with, or more drones. With a Glaive Beam, an Anti-Ship Drone can turn a 4 damage beam into an 8-damage one, and an 8 damage beam into a 12 damage one! Depends, if you can reliably keep their shields down, I vote for beam every time. They have no oxygen, and they automatically repair systems over time (at 1/3 the speed of a human). They offer goods and services in exchange for scrap. I had the glaive, mark 2 ion (which I sold the heavy ion to get in sector 7), ion blast, couple of combat drones, the defense 2 drone, an automated reloader (the heavy ion and ion blast got me through most of the run with this reloader), cloak, and hack. Ideally Id like to have a mark I and a mark II defense drone. FTL: Faster Than Light. This is especially important if weapons get hacked. I think B has slightly more confortable start with two shields and defense drone. While all drones can potentially be useful, some of them require very specific circumstances to be worthwhile. The effectiveness of the defense drones depends greatly on the length of your ship (the x-axis) since all ships are 'approximately' the same width (y-axis). I let the hacking drone through first time before deploying defense drones. Or cloaking. So think of Ion weapons on a Torus to be used to take down shield systems to allow other drones and such to deal damage the more more vital systems. I use my mind control to counter enemy mind control. You can even go 2v4 for a while in this situation; the point is not to. obliviondoll 8 years ago #3. Agreeing to improve the ship reactor in exchange for resources in the Improve reactor for supplies event while. Send your crew in a shuttle to help put out the fire. Also, you don't have to do it while only HAVING missile weapons on your ship, you just can't USE those weapons in the fight. Drones. A combination of a cloaking field, a defense drone, and 2 ship combat drones can be a powerful strategy for defeating the flagship. On hard mode, you're likely to run into a foe with a defense drone within the first two sectors. Obviously you do realize that you should fire both weapons at the same time at their Drone Control and keep Drone control damaged enough so that the defense drone is offline. Interesting hacking drone trick. I do have drone recovery arm. Augments. Gen. They can be encountered as starting crew on the Crystal Cruisers, in Tektite (the 3rd layout of the rock ship), in the. That can be pretty useful if you use drones a lot. Also, while hacking counts as a non-missile attack if the drone reaches the enemy ship, boarding parties don't. It transitions between those by jumping away when it dies. FTL: Faster Than Light. Click on the SELL tab at the top. A gunship overwhelms the drone with flak and lasers. Defense drones are a must for phase 2. 5. Defense drone to shoot down the hacking drone, when it's attached, hack the hack, or wait for the CD then missile their hack room #4. You watch as the drone tears through the creatures while debris and dead bodies fly out of the breach. 3. Power toggle on drones to get them past defense drones Pre-igniter glitch / Sven manuver. Mark II defense drone- hitting lasers is nice but often it will shoot a 1dmg laser and let a 3dmg. jump away and re. First of course because of the ability to launch those defense drones that will destroy missiles. It can only be destroyed if the enemy hacks your hacking system. Bombs can miss, but not when targeting your own ship. Members Online. Notably, this also prevents missile hits, therefore defense drones are NOT ever really needed, this allowing to focus even more on offensive drones instead! Reason #5: Engi C starting weapon - Dual Lasers. I am annoyed at those green shields when I'm boarding-heavy. Combat drones are mostly just good for getting that one extra shield bubble down for the rest of your lasers (especially when using hull/heavy lasers for "punch" instead of a beam). Ray Robertson 님이 마지막으로 수정; 2018년 3월 15일 오전 12시 41분What is the point of this thing? I have shields to stop lasers and asteroids, what I want to stop is missiles. Keep in mind that most battles in FTL are decided in well under a minute. Engi B is the one that I think is completely awful. They arrived to the FTL universe with the release of FTL: Advanced Edition. Descended from a splinter group of Rockmen who rejected their species' violent ways long ago, the Crystalmen are almost completely unknown in the galaxy, having hidden from all other sentient life. The defense drone mk II also takes 3 power, but shoots down projectiles every second or so. This is the achievement we're after in this guide. A defense drone shot was coded to lead its target and a hacking drone was coded to stop when depowered. One gets mind controlled. Consider, if you beat the enemy ship quickly, you still have the drone and a breach to deal with, and you can't fix the breach until the drone is broke. Your overall oxygen will drop, but it's worth to make fighting the drone easier. Defense Drones Don’t Do D’anything! – While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles. When one fires, shut off your drone for a split second (causing the shot to miss), then power it back on again. i know that the other ships had trouble shooting the missiles down when the. i like to roleplay that my Lanius mutiny to go do morally ambiguous Lanius activitiesYeah, the drone landing on weapons is very bad, and adds a significant amount of RNG to phase 1 (although usually not a make-it-or-break-it extent). They also begin firing faster than most weapons so they can sometimes cause damage at the start of the fight (particularly on unshielded ships), especially if they're mark 2. FTL: Faster Than Light. The Overcharger Drone just seems to be a bit of a waste of time. I kind of need all the defense I can get with my current setup so I booted up a defense drone and defense drone 2 at the same time. - NPC ship escape time is irrespective of engine level / damage status, and either too fast or too slow (bug in vanilla FTL). Enemy ships become more powerful with each new sector, but each type of ship is limited in the systems, weapons, drones, and crew it can have. Defense drone level 1 is usually a priority for me; they cost just two power, can be turned on and off at will during battle if you need to shuffle power, and are pretty effective unless you're dealing with multiple missile launchers and/or an asteroid field. What you really need is a way to cripple the flagship's offense while you find a way to pass through his shields. It takes 3 power to generate 1 zotlan shield after 8 seconds and potentially more shield taking 3 more seconds each layer (accoring to wiki). Opening Main Menu or 'Save+Quit'ing the game replaces any drone of the Drone Control system offered at the Store with the Defense Drone Mark I. - Defense drone MK1. 2. That way it's guaranteed to smash the drone and would have roughly the same effectiveness as a Defense Drone when it comes to Boarding Drones and Hacking. By switching drones from offence to defense when needed and using cloak to avoid heavy attacks, you can avoid the majority of the Rebel Flagship’s salvos. For reference, Defense 1 Drones have a 1 second cooldown and Defense 2 Drones have a 0. (Boarding Drone) Launch a Boarding drone into the station. The drone cannot go to the oxygen room, because your crew have already "reserved" the tiles. There's some very dangerous fights, particularly ones with heavy lasers and/or combat or beam drones, that Defense Drone 1 won't help out at all with. No, it's a part of Advanced Edition.