drifter patrol

Cannon_FodderAUS

Hi all,
Anyone know how to get a drifter to patrol an area (ie. give them waypoints the will continue). I saw it done in game before, and would love to know how to do this when I am commanding aliens.
Thanks

CCTEE

i think you can discover this great secret without help.

turtsmcgurt

click the drifter, press C and click somewhere on the map. it will patrol between the point you clicked and wherever it currently is. it's nice to keep your drifters in this state if they aren't being immediately used. especially useful for mid to late game when you need to worry about sneaky phasegates, just have them patrol through all the potential rooms.

Coelispex

turtsmcgurt wrote: »

click the drifter, press C and click somewhere on the map. it will patrol between the point you clicked and wherever it currently is. it's nice to keep your drifters in this state if they aren't being immediately used. especially useful for mid to late game when you need to worry about sneaky phasegates, just have them patrol through all the potential rooms.

How do you set multiple waypoints?

turtsmcgurt

you don't, that's too high tech afaik

Cannon_FodderAUS

@turtsmcgurt thanks so much. I kept trying the usual RTS buttons for multiple way points (shift, alt, ctrl) but no joy. C is so not an obvious choice (can't see the "patrol" option when I select a drifter.

I think if you press shift or alt or control (I am not sure which, but its one of them), you can set multiple way points, but then it doesn't patrol, the drifter just goes from one way point to the next (and build stuff if it gets to a way point with things to build).

OnosFactory

Uh oh, what if my map is C? Isn't my map C by default? <- Oh, my bad, I see what you mean, left click on the map which is accessed by C.

Cannon_FodderAUS

@OnosFactory‌ I would change the default map when you are commanding from C to M or N (I used to use C - the default), and it mucked with my hot keys when I have the commander build menu there.

MistenTH

The drifter menu also has the patrol command on it. Since you'll use it fairly rarely (versus say, cysting), just click on the command, then on the map.