Drones with 2 weapons

[Battlegamer]

Hi everyone,

Seems as though when a mechanic reaches 3rd level it might become possible to have a combat drone which has two weapons mounted. If we’ve got that right — does the drone have a penalty for firing both the way a character would?

Thanks :)

[Name Violation]

It can't make 2 attacks until you gain the class ability expert A.I.

#of attacks aren't based on # of weapons.

You could have 1000 weapons or 1 and you still only get 1 attack or 2 if using expert A.I.

[EC Gamer Guy]

I would say yes it can, with penalties. The Mechanic would have to sacrifice his move and swift to do it though, under Master Control.

The way i interpret Expert AI is that this ability allows the drone to make full attacks without input from the Mechanic.

[Name Violation]

D'oh
Master control will let you do it.
But you still don't need 2 weapons

[LordRiffington]

A drone with two weapons can have one melee, one ranged. That could be very useful.

Okay, that's using the "Melee weapon arm" rather than the "Weapon mount," but on a certain level, they're the same thing.

[Battlegamer]

Ok - many thanks!!

[LordRiffington]

It's also worth noting that if you have two weapon mount mods, you can mount a longarm or heavy weapon. You'll probably need to spend one or more mods on the requisite proficiencies if you go that way.

[Lias kb22c]

One of my player mounted 2 different type of range weapon so if an enemy is resistant to one he use the other one

[kaid]

The most common two weapon mount setup is going to be to use them both to work as a long arm/heavy weapon mount or ranged weapon/melee weapon. Not a lot of utility wielding two small weapons or two melee weapons. The big thing you would gain for doing so is extra battery/magazine capacity and potentially different resist types in case you are fighting a variety of creatures with specific resistances.