There seems to be a bug when leaving a map while having the drones active leads to them being stuck in a perpetual (they are active but you cannot use them since they arent actually in the new map)

this is now an actual masterclass mod, something ive wanted for so long xD thank you again, for fixing the performance issues... godspeed mate, you deserve the points, good job<3

Yeah, the missing visual is a funny story.
When they shoot normally, the projectile appears to originate from behind them, which looks silly. My fix was to make the projectile tick several times right after being shot - except that was too many times, so the projectile would hit instantly, never rendering. So right now projectiles only tick one extra time (from three), giving them a chance to render.

jesus christ dude, i dont know what you did, but it legit is full 750 now... you fixed the issue and made them visually actually shoot bullets. THANK YOU, holy shit... i love you<3 actually thanks for fixing this...

Try this update, if it keeps lagging I don't know what to tell you, as both idle drones and combat are fine for me.

surprisingly, the lag pretty much goes away 50% when attacking, but if they are idle and following the pawn that summoned them, one drone takes my TPS from 750 down to around 100~, having 3 out reduces it to a whopping 20, idk if the fix did anything as i havent used it prior before said fix, but this just seems unreasonable that the claim is that "Made drones recalculate once every five ticks instead of once per tick" - when DPA shows it calls the function i mentioned 2x per tick, to a total of 120 calls/60 ticks

The latest update made it work a bit faster for sure, though it stills lags to almost a halt when the drones are attacking anything

after more looking into dubs performance analyzer, its safe to say it IS the drones, moreso "VanillaPsycastExpanded.MAC.Drone DoTick", its doing around 4.5k calls in 60 ticks (the actual fuck?). Please reduce the amount of calls the drones do, they dont need to be 1ms reactive, 30 tick updates are completely fine, but this is a bit excessive with the amount of updates they do

absolutely love this mod, but it lags so fucking bad xD
going from 750TPS down to 100 with one drone alive by itself, highly doubt that that should be the case

seems to have some kind of incompatibility with simple sidearms that caused gizmos to disappear when drafted. Removing broke everything.

Made drones recalculate once every five ticks instead of once per tick; This should be a good compromise between performance and reactivity.
Fixed an issue where chosen drone appearance was not properly saved.
Drones still don't like it when the game gets reloaded; I am still investigating.

So my pawn's drones changed from Lupin to default. Is there a way to force change the appearance back? The default really doesn't fit a medieval style playthrough.

Thank you

Dev mode destroy them, use the ability to explode them, or have them move into a broadshield/skipshield.

Don't really know what to do, awesome mod but kills my perfromance. Is there anyway to manually dismiss drones?

Yeah, the commissioner wanted the drones to be very smart. I could probably have used the 1.6 tickDelta system to make them less laggy, but I started making this in 1.5, so.

This is a really neat drone system!

basically, these are auto-attack bots that travels the map killing anything it finds,
they're invulnerable and a bit powerful, but its a useful thing,

There is a issue I'm having with it is that it causes the game to slow down a bit while the drones are active, but otherwise, pretty nice mod
the ability to change the design of the drones is a massive win for whatever scenario playthrough players might be doing

how do I do that?

Can you add more mod description and screenshots?

Sure, find me on the Rimworld Discord.

well...so far all my commissioned mods have done very well. how do I go about commissioning one from you? I normally use paypal.

Goated.

Well, you're welcome to commission me.

I would love for you to do 40k psyker and mechanics disciplines for VPE