Portable drone
This mod contains BLUEFOR, OPFOR and INDEPENDENT versions of AR-2, AL-6 drones and Remote Designator.
To place this drone, you need to have item AR-2 (portable) or AL-6 (portable) or Remote Designator (portable), which you can find in virtual arsenal under misc items and Portable drone battery, which is under magazines. Remote Designator does not use batteries, so you don’t need to have Portable drone battery in your inventory.
Place the drone using Ace self interaction menu —> equipment —> place drone.
If you don’t have battery in inventory, the drone will be placed without fuel.
To pick up the drone you need to use Ace interaction menu on drone and then select pick up drone.
WARNING!!! The engine of drone needs to be turned off for you to be able to pick up the drone, check battery status or replace battery.
It is recommended to use portable drone batteries, because when you replace them, those batteries will retain their capacity, so they work similar to rifle magazines.
You could also see the charge of the portable drone battery in your inventory. It is shown as white bar to the left of battery icon.
If you want to check the battery status, which is inside the drone, you need to use ace interaction menu and select check battery.
AL-6 Drones come in 3 variants. first two differ with skin and third EOD variant comes with mine detector with range of 15m and 4 mine disposal charges, which you can use to clear minefields.
With EOD disposal variant comes with new item: Drone EOD charges . You need to have this item in your inventory in order to rearm EOD AL-6 with mine disposal charges.
AL-6 EOD is placed without ammo, so you need to rearm it first through ACE menu.
