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Does anyone know if they've put out any changes/errata on this? It seems like a case of RAI versus RAW in terms of the strength score because it says it "Reduces the minimum strengths core required to fire the weapon without penalty, as determined by the harness' type." Then it lists a score of 12 for the light gunner harness. That's *already* the minimum score to operate lower level heavy weapons without penalty. I'd love to get something official from the Paizo people because I'm playing a gnome mechanic who recently got proficiency in heavy weapons and a squad machine gun.

Having looked through in the case of strict RAW DM interpretations you can go with the heavy bipod which is actually cheaper than the gunner's harness but takes either move actions to deploy in combat or a bit of in-character narration beforehand, but I like the "always on" facet of the gunner's harness.

The hover drone is useful because you can send it places you can't easily get to, like atop a building to hack an antenna/security system/etc. We used it to get some grenades up to someone who was on top of a building. Sometimes the best things in roleplaying games are the things you do with your imagination.

The only thing that's not being taken into account here is the possibility of Deadly Aim and the bonuses from the exocortex that bump it.

When you use deadly aim and other feats that calculate effects based on your BAB it factors in the increase from the cortex's combat tracking. So that means for my level 6 mechanic I end up with a +8 modifier to damage. Drones can't take the deadly aim feat.

I'm not sure how this factors into the "average damage" calculations you were pulling before but it was something I wanted to throw into the mix. I'm more a fan of building characters thematically myself, if I have a character who seems to suck either a) I haven't figured out how to use him right yet or b) he'll eventually die a glorious death and I'll roll up something else next time.