In case you were wondering why the drones suddenly got a whole lot cheaper and didn't require metal, on my last update there was an accidental cross-pollination where the OET - Resource Integration mod applied those values to the default recipe which replace metal with steel and nanotube steel.

That's now been fixed.

Sweet!

Alright, saw the Jan 2 update, so let's test it. Loaded up the in-game Mod Editor, use the cheat for all technologies, and... Victory! Battle Drone Station now shows up in the Drones of War category, as well as all the actual mod-added Drones of War.

And I also checked an older save that I know didn't have the Drone 1.0 showing as build-able, and it's there too. So this is friendly to older saves.

I think the issue is that PNG is capitalized on the image file name, which is apparently a quirk with the mod editor that can cause inconsistent behavior. I'll convert it to lowercase and see if that helps with the error. The image is definitely there and attached though.

That said, it won't have an affect on the 1.0 drones from appearing. That's just the image used for the mod itself, i.e. the one you see on this page.

Did you open the mod in Mod Editor? If so, it will download a local copy of it, and that needs to be deleted before you unsub/resub to refresh the mod as it will keep that one even if updates are made.

I'm in the process of doing a Guardian's playthrough to replicate the 1.0 drone not showing, which should be done today.

Appreciate your feedback and help. :)

And after unsubbing and resubbing to this mod, I still have the same error message in Game Log.

Huh. I forgot I could do a quick test in Mod Editor mode. When I go to that mode, with my current mod list, and hit research all, the Drones of War category says "This Category contains the following devices" and the normal Battle drones are missing from that list. So if you and I are having different outcomes from the same test, you likely won't be able to replicate the issue.

Oh that's odd. in Mod Editor mode, I went to File>Game Log, and while browsing through it, I noticed an error message.

"Lua 0:00:36:396
Could not load image Mod/GbmjKzn/Images/battledrones.PNG!
Lua 0:00:36:419
[ResManager Error] Cannot find file with base path: Mod/GbmjKzn/Images/battledrones.PNG
Lua 0:00:40:354
*** Reloading assets from folder BinAssets/"

I don't know if that's relevant???

Interesting. Basically all I did was change it to show in that submenu, no other changes to unlocks or anything like that. In Mod Manager, when unlocking everything, it shows fine.

I'm doing a new playthrough and will see if I can replicate it, and adjust accordingly. If I can't fix it, I'll plop it back to it's vanilla setting.

I had a recently started save also have an issue with Battle Drone 1.0 not showing up as a build option in the Drones of War submenu. What's odd is, I had a different save from before that I clearly remember having Battle Drone 1.0 show up in the correct submenu. But I don't recall if that save was prior to the December 12th update to this mod.

Alrighty, I'll see if I can replicate it.

it was from a new game i started about 2 days ago

Hi Ahous. Is that from an existing save that was using the mod prior to the update?

Vanilla Battle Drone doesn't show up in build menu, i looked under Drones of War submenu as well

EP value? Sorry, I don't follow.

Do these increase the EP value?

Fixed the stations from having overlapping drones on the Tank and Battle Drone 2.0. Can't build them next to each other any longer. Others are fine as their drones still just take up one tile of space.

The vanilla Battle Drone is now also under the Drones of War submenu.

Apparently there's an issue where the laser FX are functionally different from all the others in the game, and thus can't be attached to weapons and mounts in the same way.

There's a possibility support might get added to SAD_CommonLib, but as it stands it's not fixable. So, just pretend they're invisible lasers (which do exist!).

IIIIInteresting! That's effectively a whole new endgame playstyle!
Yes, I am definitely going to try this one out! :D

Thanks, I added a note in the text. Highly recommend getting the Guardians DLC if you don't have it yet BTW.

You need the dlc for this mod. i see them in my research but i cant research them just a heads up