Build Mode Camera Entity

[Exozen]

Build Blocks and Ship Cores should have an entity for the Build Mode camera to add Immersion to the game and more importantly, a way to counter Spying. These Cams would have a limited health pool, appear on Nav, be targetable by Turrets, and pass through friendly objects (but not enemy or possibly neutral ones).

When destroyed, the player would be forced out of the block (build blocks) or into flight mode (ship cores), and the block supplying the Build Cam would have to be repaired or replenished in some way. Perhaps just have a wait timer until a new one can be spawned?



For ideas of how it should look, think something like the monitor player-character in Halo's Forge Mode, in the Style of BOBBY AI.

 

[Lukwan]

There would be an added bonus too.

During a co-build it would allow you to see the other builder's location a make cooperation easier.

 

[kiddan]

I like this, for sure. Maybe enemies shooting a build drone/cam would shut the drone down until the ship/station is rebooted?

Also, being able to shoot the build drone would prevent the issue of someone in build mode simply replacing blocks as a boarding party breaks them, as the party could shoot the said drone.