Drone Gun CS-Virus
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The Drone Gun CS-Virus is a rare weapon that shoots three small drones, which jump at and attack enemies, draining their health. The weapon has a slow rate of fire, though the drone projectiles can be quite effective at quickly removing a character's health. This weapon is manufactured by the Civil Security.
It features an open barrel, with a hump on the back of the weapon. This weapon is not reliable on difficulties above easy, as the enemies will switch to PSI Blades and destroy the drones before they can reach them. Strangely, robots are also affected by the virus. It can be used against the Corvettes on level 41 to destroy them quickly.
The Drone Gun CS-Virus was most likely made to take down technology such as Corvettes or other vehicles; they go into the cockpit and kill the enemy manning it. The vehicle is not harmed, however, only with Drones and Corvettes, they will explode.
Location
The Drone Gun is found only on Level 40, being used by Civil Security Bosses. The weapons can be taken from crates and picked up by the Marine and his allies, though the main protagonist will have to drop his Ray Gun C-01y. It cannot be upgraded or purchased in the equipment shop.
Drones
Drones are small bug-like capsules that can be fired from the Drone Gun CS-Virus. These are destructive modules, as they will drain the health of any enemy they come into contact with, and they will follow them. Drones do not behave like bullets, they are affected by gravity, and they will jump to various locations in order to attack enemy players. After a short period of time, drones explode and die. Once attached, it will stick on.
Tips
- You can lead the drones into water where they become very sluggish, as they cannot swim as well as player can.
- You can also cut them with your PSI swords, or get to high grounds.
Trivia
- Custom Maps featuring this weapon will not be approved, possibly because of glitchy scoring: player A kills player B, but gets no points from the kill while player B is counted as dead.
- Drones can be moved with the Kinetic module.
- Drones can only be destroyed with PSI blades.
- Drones lose mobility in water, but can still attack you if you get too close.
- Drones pop within 10 seconds or so after firing.
- It has the lowest rate of fire.
- It is only found in Level 40, for unknown reasons.
- It works great in multiplayer, specially if swords are disabled, due to tracking players.
- The gun itself is shaped like its bug-like projectiles.
- This was the only homing weapon in-game, before the introduction of the fan-made Falkonian Anti-Gravity Rocket Launcher.
- When playing on easy difficulty, enemies don't defend themselves with swords.
- When playing on normal difficulty, its projectiles can cause enemies to fight each other if they cut each other accidentally while defending themselves from the drones.
- When playing on normal difficulty or higher, the gun becomes quite useless due to its poor fire rate and enemies defending themselves with ease. It can still work as a brief distraction however.
