Space Engineers Survival (Episode 3) - Attack of the DRONES! [2024] 

Should call the little attack drones "Java Shots". Sending some hot Java down range.

Attack drone name! S - Sleak A - And W - Weak

You cannot hack/take over any blocks while the Ai Control Module (The Pink Remote Control block) is still there, it automatically takes control of any block attached to the grid. Also, You can turn off the "P" affecting the connectors. In the Connector settings it says "Use for Parking".

To help send the drones all at once, you could add a timer block to them and in the timer block, setup all the actions you want, like unlock connector, enable all thrusters, enable ai etc.

The drones you have built are definitely "fire and forget" disposable units. Love how compact we can build these drones now. Definitely would build some heavy duty drones for your use, better armor and more weapons.

Remember that you can turn off Use for Parking on connectors- for example, on the Drone Rover.

Attack drones could be called Coffee Beans (partly because you are sending them into the "drone grinder" where they get smashed into tiny pieces) :D And I think you can exclude connectors from the P button? Not 100% sure and I don't have the game installed rn so I can't check easily, but I am pretty sure some blocks had that option

Name the attack drones the “wasps” warfare augmented security precision snipers.

Also destroy the remote control of the outpost to claim it

hey andrew this is the best space enguineers series i have ever watched and ive been playing/watching series for 3 years now and never seen one better than your keep it up and i hope you have an amazing week. also i had a sugestion you could add automatic solar pannels for extra electricity (add a targeting module and camra and hinge and roter and set it to follow sun it will follow the sun and give peek electricity for the entire day) you could put like 4 solar pannels on it and it gives around 1mw an hour which isnt alot but still could help. cant wait until you post a new one

Andrew, friend, buddy pal guy friendo french toast. While I love your "inovations" in swarm tactics, it might be helpful to send more than one drone in at a time. Look, build a bigger drone, with a strong core, and a becon. Have all the smaller ones follow the bigger drone using the "follow becon" command.

To avoid the issue of pressing P disconnecting the drones, untick the 'Use For Parking' setting on each Small Connector. For the attack drones, I think you should call them Gnats (the G is silent) as while they are small, they have quite a bite to them.

NO! Bad Andrew! NO USE "P". Bad! 33:00 The anti-personnel field doesn't hurt you inside a vehicle, so...stay inside the vehicle and use your drones.

Instead of turning off the thrusters you can turn off the dampeners when you connect. It's done in the background when you connect to a static grid, but you need to do it manually when you connect to a rover ;)

I liked your approach to taking put the turrets with the rover using cover and just popping your gun over was very tactical

Suggestion on drone attacking: While drones are not docked to a carrier, for each drone make groups of their own thruster groups, batteries, AI's etc... Then, when you dock them on a carrier, slap the timer blocks on a carrier and set the timer blocks to activate all the systems on a drone and undock them, you can also use event controllers to activate AI on each drone, just set it to detect the connector of a drone to be disconnected and activate the AI stuff. Ofc, you can go separate groups for each drone so you can release them one by 1 or whatever and also you can name everything same and activate all at once with 1 button press :D I know it is a lot of AI controller stuff settings to set but it works well for me :D One more thing, use the feature of turrets/AI aiming controllers and set them to target enemies weapon subsystems instead of any by default. That way, each drone/turret will always shot on enemy weapons until it's destroyed and it will stop shooting when it's done. I mean, you have better chance of winning the battle when all the guns are focusing on enemies weapon systems (guns/turrets etc) In multiplayer games, when I build turret(s) or some AI aiming thing(s), I always set them to target enemy weapons, weapons are only subsystems that are threat for my ship of being destroyed. My setting that I use for the aiming is always to target large or small grids, not to target enemy players, not to target meteorites, missiles etc, only target is a fixed weapon or turret weapon and that's it. I also usually slap only 1 or 2 anti personnel turrets which only target is enemy player and all other stuff is Off as well and they are not targeting grids, only players etc. Anyway, keep up great content Andrew and great channel. Can't wait for next adventure to see Hope this info gives you some ideas in the future. And don't forget to NOT use the P key for docking/parking (on rover hot bar, select cockpit from G menu and find option for toggle hand brake and put it to hot bar, I always put it on number 1, it is the best way to stop the vehicle fast without moving the hand all to the other side of keyboard ^^ and it is similar to P key but without side effects :D ). Also for docking, always use connector switch lock toggle on a toolbar. Anyway, keep up great work

The attack drones should definitely be coffe grounds, they even have the color of ripe ones

I like this start scenario, the first thing I did was to fix the broken ship enough to move it to an iron deposit and start building a base there.👍

One issue is that your drones are under powered. a single small battery can't power a single one of those engines so your just about maxing power just going up without heading in a direction. possibly adding a battery and getting rid of one of the downward facing thrusters may make your drones a little more survivable by making them faster and more responsive.

You could call the fighting drones C.O.F.F.E.E. Combat Overwatch Focused Firing Engagement Equipment

You can press send blueprint to assembler when on the projector so everything gets manufactured

Just recently started playing the game even though I’ve had in it in my library for years😂but your series really motivates me

Call the attack drone "SPITE". Like the Sprite, but meaner. :P

The drones are giving big ace combat 7 vibes and I love it

I always uncheck the box for connectors to be used for parking in all of my builds. Then they can't disconnect when you park. Also, how about Firefly for the new drones? Kinda multiple meanings there.

Think you hit peak space engineering as your backpack yeeted back to your base, casually respawn, build another drone and get back to it without missing a beat. x'D

👍 In the older versions the Splitsie mantra "Never press P" was a very good advice. When you routinely used P to park I had bad expectations. Will the P cause problems or will the toggle "Use for parking" on connectors save the day? Sadly - problems was caused. lol

Loving this entire series. New sub

I think that you should name the drones Espresso Shots

Turn the connectors on the drones to "not used for parking" so that you can press p and they wont disconnect

Awesome small little attack drones, possible name: Mosquito

I was literally in the middle of typing to blueprint the drone and then you started talking about doing it 😂

4:48 a few minutes later... discovers hollow planet theory

For the drones, I both suggest not usocking them before you enable AI, perhaps as some suggested, put a timer on each that you can trigger, that or make an encompassing group on the carrier that is all of them and have a hot bar that sets them in certain modes. Then all you need to do is set their batteries to auto, ai on and then undock them. Some may have some slight collisions, but that is better than sending them in one at a time. I also suggest changing out the gun for an auto cannon, they aren't as fast but they pack more of a punch and will be more effective against large calliber guns.

Adding 1 or 2 of the new (small) Flat Thrusters pointing down on the top of the rovers would give you more control. Turn on Thrust Override to about 50% power... you will see a huge difference in the way the rovers handle in the low gravity and ice. Just remember to turn them off when you get out/park the rover or they will drain your batteries.

reminds me of where I grew up in upstate NY, in the late 50's.

sneaky use of terrain in this episode.

An outpost could be a nice call for that location

Sending the drones in single file reminded me of bad guys charging at John Wick one at a time lol

Also... You can tell connectors to not act as parking. So they won't be impacted by pressing "p"

I like "Whisper Wings" for the attack drones

Still catching up on the series so ignore this if it was already said and tried later. Your biggest issue with the drones was starting and activating them manually. If you could have them automatically launch at the same time their numbers could have protected them. Like when the turrets focus one the others could start shooting undisturbed.

I'd also have ammo production on drone charging vic to charge and restock all same time

That Parallax base almost isn't worth claiming. It was a pain to find and hack every control block (lots of buried ones), and then I found that none of the pre-existing automation was connected up properly (like the med bay). I ended up grinding nearly everything down in order to connect things semi-properly.... and then when I was 99% done, a big Parallax ship showed and blasted everything to scrap :( /next time, I'll just scrap everything down to the bare ice

Maybe you could make honk the tonk 2 or lots of little honkette the tonkettes

One thruster pointed down will keep you from flying upwards

I would Name the #Drone Spitfire just because I love the plane

They added a setting for connectors recently to toggle if they are used for parking. You can set it so the connectors on the caffeine carrier aren’t used for parking then you can press p

Batteries coming off of recharge on the "carrier" is because all the all the attack drones have the same grouping (same hot bar config) after building you have to set up Done A Battery group ... Done B Battery group...Done C Battery group ... while at base then you can use timer block on "carrier" to dispatch Drones at the same time. Braking/ turning on "ice" increase the friction on the perspective wheels Grinding the Remote block, Medbat, and Control seat(s) on the ""Outpost" will give you control of it

More drones, more firepower, more armor.

There should be backup batteries in the build its like other outposts ive found during my gameplays so even if you knock out the main power youd have to wait for batteries to deplete before rushing in thinking its unpowered, it stopped people from rushing like the inhibitors.

Since your drone is really small and short, AND mounted on a ROTOR, you COULD just make the projector ROTATE and THAT would make it ALWAYS reach. ~( 'w')/

26:45 I'm honored that my input is considered! \(^_^)/

Instead of grinding down unwanted ore, just create a secondary tunnel offshooting where the ore is at. Make it at a 30 degree angel and deep enough to handle multiple boulders of unwanted ore. Then just empty your inventory at its edge and away rolls the unwanted stuff. You only have to dig the pit once and is much faster.

The base is visibly a wavpoint for your ennemy's ship. You could build a huge surface to orbit cannon (either railgun or custom projectile/klang-gun).

Andrew just remove the connector fuction when pressing P there is a setting for that in them

Just go into the settings of the connectors and uncheck the box for using them for parking to stop them from disconnecting when you use P.

If you dock the drones at a 45 degree angle toward the front the thrusters wouldn't hit each other.

I was one of the ones who suggested hummingbird, thanks for the shoutout. :) \m/

SPOILS OF WAR! But before you go too far, get rid of that remote that calls in new enemy support fighters!

3:45 YOU PRESSED THE FORBIDDEN BUTTON!!! YOU SHALL BE PUNISHED BY HAVING DESTROYED SHIPS!!! 5:44 It's more like Under The Frozen Sea.

In the caffeinated theme, the little rover can be "The Buzz Buggy" [since some people react to espresso like that] OR... "The Espresso Express" maybe?

that was fucking badass

Those drones acts like "wasps"

I say strip the base to the bones & rebuild it in your image! Staff it with drones programed to patrol & recharge, auto rebuilding any that get fragged.

Attack drone "S&W 125" Play on words for Smith & Wesson, but in your case, as you said, "sleek and weak".

Tbh for your next attack on something big i would make up a load of one way drones/cruise missiles, so like the ones you had but with warheads & a timer, set the timer & then fly them as close to the target as you can, might even if there shot down explode near enough to do some damage to them.

'Firefly' for the attack drone

For the drones you should call them A.T.T.A.C.K ALL THESE THINGS ARE COOL KILLERS

Funny thing is, the way those drones are set up, one COULD, if they needed to, just make them full time active so they were like their own little turrets on there before they went into total AI mode. Not sure what the scripting for that would be like [since I can't write code] but it would, in theory, be possible. Doubling as broadside turrets, AND aerial drones at the flick of a switch.

coffee theme, the drone should be "Roaster" as per coffee roaster

with build vision you can disable the drone carrier connectors park lock / unlock while parking, so you can use p with out dropping the drones

nothing has good breaks on ice I guess

Assault cannons have a 1400m range, but they can only target up to 800m (similarly artillery also can only target up to 800m despite its 2000m max range)

The drones could be Nespresso Pods

Also, U should build an armored airship, one with the best turrets & layered armor on the underside, & lots of maneuverability & speed.

Maybe the drones could be named 'Expresso' given their small sizes and the punch they pack.

To claim the outpost you must destroy the Remote Control on it. And for the psrk problem there is a check box on the connector to disable park function.

You needed more drones, or else missiles [maybe the ballistic hydrogen tank type missile]

could name the drones "C.O.K.E." Combative Operation Killing Engine

Finally, good lord

After I finish this series, maybe I’ll check out the mobile survival but I’ll probably forget

The attack drones need to be called "Cherry Bombs" with that candy apple red paint job :P

Second comment. The truck's power problem: Is it possible to prioritise where the power is being sent? If drones are being charged And it needs to drive, you might be able to prioritise what drones get charged. Edit: I would make a purpose build vehicle with ALL the guns, to annihilate everything. Totally overengineered mad max in space.

watching this intently. Really good stuff. Im running into an issue where when ever my drones are locked to a connector they do not show up for remote access. If I manually unlock them they appear on the list. Spent ages trying to figure it out. Only fix ive founf at, is to add a disconnect button to the drone. No ideal though. Anyone know why im having this problem?

Name them hornets

Will the drone auto control, still give commands, if the drone is connected to the vehicle? You can have a truck with those drones automatically targeting enemies as you drive, and detatch a drone to focus on priority targets.

turn off parking for the drone carrier connectors, so if you use "p", the drone will not disconnect and fall off

You can set the connectors in the settings of disabling the park so they dont disconnect. And name - -Dragonfly

if you want to use P just parameter your connectors to not be use for parking You dont need to have a visual to send the drone what you should do is activate the ia when they are all connected on you and them disconnect the drone from your truck

You should name your drones coffee beans

I'd be tempted to add some warheads to the drones and try crashing one into it the turrets

Still love all of the SE content

It would be cool if you had an spectator camera to see the drones blowing up.

Would have been cool to make a fleet of kamikaze drones or missiles to fly into the base defences

Vehicle should be named Mocca-R "moccar"

decided to try out the senario, built me a little car and that’s it so far

I'm just curious about timeline and when things happen, are you recording the next episode 20 hours later? Or do you wait longer or shorter? Edit: it's now 40 hours later

How about an event controller? You could set it up so that when you disconnect the connector it automatically triggers the AI block.

I think you should call the drones red shirt 1,2,3..etc