#drone tactics

[vgadvisor]

[jodjuya]

Gave "Drone Tactics" a go after seeing a Tumblr shitpost about it.

Nintendo DS title. Turn-based tactical combat on a isometric square grid, featuring human pilots controlling giant-insect mechs.

I was very unimpressed with it. The plot was tedious and uninspired, the visuals were adequate but nothing to write home about, and the combat was slow and clunky with some truely baffling design decisions on full display. Played through three missions before giving up on it, thinking to myself literally the entire time "why am I even playing this game when I could be playing Fire Emblem instead??"

My issues with it:

The most generic, flimsy, paint-by-numbers isekai plot you could ever imagine

Insects in the parallel dimension are regular earth sized insects (or they are, at least, regular sized when they gatecrash our dimension. Unsure if either the children or insects are resized when they get over to The Insect Dimension...), but they are sentient and live in insect societies that mirror the human-style societies on regular-earth. But also, they can transform into giant mechs called "Drones" if you use a special magic card on them. But also also, ONLY humans can use those special magic cards to transform/summon/create Drones. But also also also, the humans native to this Insect Dimension have all gone mysteriously extinct, so therefore regular human children from regular earth have to be summoned across dimensions to do the mech summoning/piloting, but ONLY children who already love insects because otherwise the trans-species telepathy doesn't work and the sentient insects can't talk to them. Also their science teacher has also been isekai'd—either "too" or "previously"—and he pilots a snail mech which functions as a mobile storage hanger for the children's mechs.

It's dumb and goofy and I'm not a fan.

Why use an isometric grid when your controls are strictly cardinal??? It's horrible and I hate it and there's a reason why no other games do this. Even worse is that because you're attempting to stuff a diagonal grid onto a rectangular screen, the corners get truncated and this causes your cursor to slide off in the next-best direction to whichever direction it is you're pressing on the d-pad at the time. Horrible design. F-tier stuff. Unintuitive and shit.

'melee' and 'guns' are two separate combat styles, with separate stats for each. Okay, fine; so far so normal. But every unit has equal access to both abilities, and 'guns' has zero range, so it functions identically to 'melee'! Additionally, every unit has a different spread of stats—naturally—so this means every unit has a fixed preference for which type of attack to use! Admittedly, I didn't progress beyond the very beginnings of the campaign, so possibly it would have made a difference later on, but from what I saw there was zero tactical advantage made available by every unit having both types of attack. All it added was an extra step to every single turn of combat for every single unit. Why?? What did this add to the game? Why did you do this??

[the-one-true-joshgold]

Drone tactics

Kabutomushi Artillery Tankhead by Emerson Tung

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

(Pomni inhales hell-ghosts; the Absolute Solver symbol appears in her eyes)

Pomni, Cyn voice: `[Ah ... freedom.]`

Kinger: POMNI! (pulls her back) You get out of her, you damn evil souls!

Pomni, Cyn voice: `[Oh hey there --- KiKiKiKinger! How's --- the wife?]`

...

Jax: I love doing anything!

[anastasiamaru]

The UAV crew of the "Rubizh" brigade

Each drone is personally tested by the crew commander to ensure it is functional and safe for the pilots.

Once it's cleared,it's ready for action😏💥🤫

The results speak for themselves—through the popular videos showcasing the destruction of enemy personnel and equipment, and the ever-growing statistics of russian losses

Kharkiv direction

[roseofhybrids]

You guys reckin Uzi knows the orbs on the disassembly drones' heads are eyes?

Like, would N or V have thought to mention that at any point

[gordon-furman]

Various half life creatures and maybe characters interacting with them

not rlly half life but have some opposing force creatures....

[weliveinhell]

New rule for myself:

No more reading Space Marine novels just because they have Tau as antagonists. No matter how desperate for new Tau lore/action scenes I am.

It's just going to piss me off with the blatant favoritism. I'm not asking for every book to be the Tau version of Storm of Iron but ffs if Chaos can put up a damn good fight can the Tau be written with them putting up some damn resistance using their strengths for once?

[foxtrotsigma]

Anti-drone guns of the world.

[nocternalrandomness]

Stormy sunset at Creech AFB, Nevada

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[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

Uzi, struggling to resist possession: Gahhh! What is this!? Is this the Absolute Solver!?

Cyn: `[I don't --- know! That's --- scary!]`

[yergink]

here's the thing. i fully understand that sometimes art is purposefully built to be taxing or amateur or difficult to engage with, and i can appreciate the intent behind those decisions, but at the same time sometimes it's just. it's just that you made a thing bad on purpose and now i don't want to keep looking at it. 

[queers4years]

HI IM SORRY IF THIS IS ODD. I saw your tags in the NYC drone post about seeing drones above the protests in Chicago. I'm so fucking glad someone else saw them and thought they were weird. When I saw this post I remembered seeing one just towards the end at the park and I wasn't sure if it was civilian or not. EITHER WAY thank you for saying something, I'll be sure to make people aware of this possibility

It's dystopian. I've seen one dip so low it was it almost bumped into someone's flag. (I wish they swatted it down). It's been happening since 2020 unfortunately. It's an unfriendly reminder to disguise your appearance when demonstrating.

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