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DRONECOM

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EntwicklerBig Beard Games
PublisherBig Beard Games
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A real-time naval sensor-warfare game where EMCON is everything: every emission that finds the enemy helps the enemy find you. Design your own drones: subs, ships, aircraft, missiles, and launch them from carriers. Physically modelled radar, sonar, IR and ESM in a moddable CIC sandbox.

EMCON is everythingDRONECOM is a real-time sensor-warfare game played from the seat of a combat information centre. If you can't detect something, it isn't there, and every emission you make to find the enemy is an emission the enemy can use to find you. Radiate and you see further, but you light yourself up. Run silent and you survive, but you fight half-blind. Managing that trade-off: emissions control, EMCON, is the whole game. A sensor model that actually models sensorsDetection isn't a stat check. Whether you get a contact depends on the emitter's power, the target's signature, the range, the terrain, and the curvature of the Earth. Four sensor domains: radar, sonar, IR and optical, active and passive. Run passive, track on bearings: RWR/ESM and passive sonar give you a bearing, not a range. Turn bearings into a firing solution: target-motion analysis over time, cross-fixes from two or more receivers, or frequency-difference (FDOA) geolocation between paired ESM sensors. Real propagation: earth-curvature radar horizons (fly low to stay under them), terrain line-of-sight masking, and look-down ground clutter with a Doppler notch. Deep acoustics: thermocline layers, convergence zones, shallow-water loss, and speed-dependent cavitation that gives you away when you push your boat too hard. Authentic CIC displays: read the plot in NTDS symbology, and watch contacts develop on a B-scope and a bearing-time recorder (BTR) waterfall. Battle damage assessment: a contact you've struck stays uncertain until your other sensors confirm the kill. No automatic confirmation. Design your own everythingNo fixed rosters. A built-in blueprint designer lets you build drones of every kind: submarines, surface ships, aircraft, helicopters, missiles and torpedoes, from chassis, sensors, warheads, engines and flight models. Trade payload against speed, signature against sensor power, range against stealth. The submarine you design plays by exactly the same rules as the torpedo hunting it. Carrier warfareLaunch, recover, refuel and rearm your drones from one or more drone carrier flight decks, well decks, VLS cells and torpedo tubes. Manage your inventory, your fuel and your economy, find the enemy carriers before they find you, and destroy them. Friend or foeIdentification is a problem, not a given. IFF works on detection confidence, allied teams share a datalink picture, and misreading a contact means friendly fire is on the table. Command solo against the AITake the CIC seat against AI opponents across procedurally generated archipelagos. The whole loop: design, deploy, detect, attack plays single-player, against an enemy that has to find you the same way you have to find it. Or take it onlinePlay over Steam: host or join through the Steam overlay and invite links. Fight head-to-head, or put two commanders on allied teams and take on the AI together. Spectators can watch the whole tactical picture unfold from the CIC. A moddable sandboxEvery unit is data, so everything is moddable with a text editor: chassis, sensors, warheads, flight models, AI tuning. Map seeds are shareable procedural archipelagos. DRONECOM isn't a historical sim of real hardware and it isn't sci-fi: it sits in the gap between — a grounded, near-future sandbox. Sound and styleDRONECOM leans all the way into the combat-information-centre aesthetic:a dark, dense, mil-standard tactical console rather than a 3D spectacle over an original, adaptive synthwave soundtrack that scores the battle in real time. The information is the game. For players who likeThe sensor depth of Cold Waters and Sea Power, the tactical picture of Command: Modern Operations, and the design-your-own-fleet freedom of Nebulous: Fleet Command, without committing to pure historical simulation or full sci-fi. A note from the developerDRONECOM is built by one developer, in the open, alongside a community that's shaped it since the first prototype. The full core loop already works, solo and online, and I'm building outward from there. If sensor warfare, EMCON doctrine and moddable sandboxes are your thing, wishlist the game and come help decide what it becomes. On the roadmap: Deeper sensor & electronic-warfare modelling: decoys, countermeasures, and a fuller fire-control kill chain More capable and varied AI opponents: distinct personalities, deception, AI-designed fleets Expanded combat, tactics and scenario options Richer terrain and environment Ongoing online-play polish DRONECOM is in active development: wishlist to follow along, and join the Discord is where the day-to-day decisions get made.

Genres und Kategorien

ActionSimulationStrategySingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortColor Alternatives#category_contrast_controlsCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable Difficulty#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo SoundStatsFamily Sharing

Plattformen und Anforderungen

windows: yesmac: yeslinux: yes
PC
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  "recommended": "<strong>Recommended:</strong><br><ul class=\"bb_ul\"><li>Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system<br></li><li><strong>OS:</strong> Windows 10/11 64-bit<br></li><li><strong>Processor:</strong> Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600<br></li><li><strong>Memory:</strong> 16 GB RAM<br></li><li><strong>Graphics:</strong> NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580<br></li><li><strong>DirectX:</strong> Version 12<br></li><li><strong>Network:</strong> Broadband Internet connection<br></li><li><strong>Storage:</strong> 500 MB available space</li></ul>"
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Mac
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  "minimum": "<strong>Minimum:</strong><br><ul class=\"bb_ul\"><li>Requires an Apple processor<br></li><li><strong>OS:</strong> 15.0<br></li><li><strong>Processor:</strong> Apple M1<br></li><li><strong>Memory:</strong> 8 GB RAM<br></li><li><strong>Graphics:</strong> Apple Silicon<br></li><li><strong>Network:</strong> Broadband Internet connection<br></li><li><strong>Storage:</strong> 500 MB available space<br></li><li><strong>Additional Notes:</strong> No controller support — plays with mouse or trackpad and keyboard.</li></ul>",
  "recommended": "<strong>Recommended:</strong><br><ul class=\"bb_ul\"><li>Requires an Apple processor<br></li><li><strong>OS:</strong> 26.3.1<br></li><li><strong>Processor:</strong> Apple M4<br></li><li><strong>Memory:</strong> 16 GB RAM<br></li><li><strong>Graphics:</strong> Apple Silicon<br></li><li><strong>Network:</strong> Broadband Internet connection<br></li><li><strong>Storage:</strong> 500 MB available space</li></ul>"
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Linux
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  "minimum": "<strong>Minimum:</strong><br><ul class=\"bb_ul\"><li><strong>OS:</strong> Ubuntu 22.04 or equivalent<br></li><li><strong>Processor:</strong> Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD Ryzen 3 3200U<br></li><li><strong>Memory:</strong> 8 GB RAM<br></li><li><strong>Graphics:</strong> NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 560 / Intel Iris Xe, 2 GB VRAM (Vulkan 1.2 Required)<br></li><li><strong>Network:</strong> Broadband Internet connection<br></li><li><strong>Storage:</strong> 500 MB available space<br></li><li><strong>Additional Notes:</strong> No controller support — plays with mouse or trackpad and keyboard. Requires Vulkan drivers (mesa-vulkan-drivers on Ubuntu). Integrated GPUs below Radeon Vega 8 class may require reduced resolution.</li></ul>",
  "recommended": "<strong>Recommended:</strong><br><ul class=\"bb_ul\"><li><strong>OS:</strong> Ubuntu 24.04<br></li><li><strong>Processor:</strong> Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600<br></li><li><strong>Memory:</strong> 16 GB RAM<br></li><li><strong>Graphics:</strong> NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580<br></li><li><strong>Network:</strong> Broadband Internet connection<br></li><li><strong>Storage:</strong> 500 MB available space</li></ul>"
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Managing that trade-off: emissions control, EMCON, is the whole game. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><span class=\"bb_img_ctn\"><video class=\"bb_img\" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/31d47f371c434fae38ef81b76642b93b.poster.avif?t=1786796144\" width=1170 height=656 ><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/31d47f371c434fae38ef81b76642b93b.webm?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/webm; codecs=vp9\"><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/31d47f371c434fae38ef81b76642b93b.mp4?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/mp4\"></video></span></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >A sensor model that actually models sensors</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Detection isn't a stat check. Whether you get a contact depends on the emitter's power, the target's signature, the range, the terrain, and the curvature of the Earth.</p><ul class=\"bb_ul\"><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Four sensor domains</strong>: radar, sonar, IR and optical, active and passive. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Run passive, track on bearings</strong>: RWR/ESM and passive sonar give you a bearing, not a range. Turn bearings into a firing solution: target-motion analysis over time, cross-fixes from two or more receivers, or frequency-difference (FDOA) geolocation between paired ESM sensors. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Real propagation</strong>: earth-curvature radar horizons (fly low to stay under them), terrain line-of-sight masking, and look-down ground clutter with a Doppler notch. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Deep acoustics</strong>: thermocline layers, convergence zones, shallow-water loss, and speed-dependent cavitation that gives you away when you push your boat too hard. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Authentic CIC displays:</strong> read the plot in NTDS symbology, and watch contacts develop on a B-scope and a bearing-time recorder (BTR) waterfall. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Battle damage assessment</strong>: a contact you've struck stays uncertain until your other sensors confirm the kill. No automatic confirmation. </p></li></ul><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><span class=\"bb_img_ctn\"><video class=\"bb_img\" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/5c4b2a586ba130022a728bc1b2d01950.poster.avif?t=1786796144\" width=1170 height=816 ><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/5c4b2a586ba130022a728bc1b2d01950.webm?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/webm; codecs=vp9\"><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/5c4b2a586ba130022a728bc1b2d01950.mp4?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/mp4\"></video></span></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Design your own everything</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >No fixed rosters. A built-in blueprint designer lets you build drones of every kind: submarines, surface ships, aircraft, helicopters, missiles and torpedoes, from chassis, sensors, warheads, engines and flight models. Trade payload against speed, signature against sensor power, range against stealth. The submarine you design plays by exactly the same rules as the torpedo hunting it. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><span class=\"bb_img_ctn\"><img class=\"bb_img\" src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/894ceeef8fd758f428b7092a94b1bc01.avif?t=1786796144\" width=1300 height=920 /></span></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Carrier warfare</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Launch, recover, refuel and rearm your drones from one or more drone carrier flight decks, well decks, VLS cells and torpedo tubes. Manage your inventory, your fuel and your economy, find the enemy carriers before they find you, and destroy them. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><span class=\"bb_img_ctn\"><video class=\"bb_img\" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/e04580456d90497926ee4adf52bb9a61.poster.avif?t=1786796144\" width=1170 height=816 ><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/e04580456d90497926ee4adf52bb9a61.webm?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/webm; codecs=vp9\"><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/e04580456d90497926ee4adf52bb9a61.mp4?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/mp4\"></video></span></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Friend or foe</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Identification is a problem, not a given. IFF works on detection confidence, allied teams share a datalink picture, and misreading a contact means friendly fire is on the table.</p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Command solo against the AI</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Take the CIC seat against AI opponents across procedurally generated archipelagos. The whole loop: design, deploy, detect, attack plays single-player, against an enemy that has to find you the same way you have to find it. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Or take it online</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Play over Steam: host or join through the Steam overlay and invite links. Fight head-to-head, or put two commanders on allied teams and take on the AI together. Spectators can watch the whole tactical picture unfold from the CIC. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >A moddable sandbox</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Every unit is data, so everything is moddable with a text editor: chassis, sensors, warheads, flight models, AI tuning. Map seeds are shareable procedural archipelagos. DRONECOM isn't a historical sim of real hardware and it isn't sci-fi: it sits in the gap between — a grounded, near-future sandbox. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Sound and style</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >DRONECOM leans all the way into the combat-information-centre aesthetic:a dark, dense, mil-standard tactical console rather than a 3D spectacle over an original, adaptive synthwave soundtrack that scores the battle in real time. The information is the game. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >For players who like</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >The sensor depth of Cold Waters and Sea Power, the tactical picture of Command: Modern Operations, and the design-your-own-fleet freedom of Nebulous: Fleet Command, without committing to pure historical simulation or full sci-fi. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >A note from the developer</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >DRONECOM is built by one developer, in the open, alongside a community that's shaped it since the first prototype. The full core loop already works, solo and online, and I'm building outward from there. 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      "about_the_game": "<h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >EMCON is everything</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >DRONECOM is a real-time sensor-warfare game played from the seat of a combat information centre. If you can't detect something, it isn't there, and every emission you make to find the enemy is an emission the enemy can use to find you. Radiate and you see further, but you light yourself up. Run silent and you survive, but you fight half-blind. Managing that trade-off: emissions control, EMCON, is the whole game. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><span class=\"bb_img_ctn\"><video class=\"bb_img\" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/31d47f371c434fae38ef81b76642b93b.poster.avif?t=1786796144\" width=1170 height=656 ><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/31d47f371c434fae38ef81b76642b93b.webm?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/webm; codecs=vp9\"><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/31d47f371c434fae38ef81b76642b93b.mp4?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/mp4\"></video></span></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >A sensor model that actually models sensors</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Detection isn't a stat check. Whether you get a contact depends on the emitter's power, the target's signature, the range, the terrain, and the curvature of the Earth.</p><ul class=\"bb_ul\"><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Four sensor domains</strong>: radar, sonar, IR and optical, active and passive. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Run passive, track on bearings</strong>: RWR/ESM and passive sonar give you a bearing, not a range. Turn bearings into a firing solution: target-motion analysis over time, cross-fixes from two or more receivers, or frequency-difference (FDOA) geolocation between paired ESM sensors. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Real propagation</strong>: earth-curvature radar horizons (fly low to stay under them), terrain line-of-sight masking, and look-down ground clutter with a Doppler notch. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Deep acoustics</strong>: thermocline layers, convergence zones, shallow-water loss, and speed-dependent cavitation that gives you away when you push your boat too hard. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Authentic CIC displays:</strong> read the plot in NTDS symbology, and watch contacts develop on a B-scope and a bearing-time recorder (BTR) waterfall. </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>Battle damage assessment</strong>: a contact you've struck stays uncertain until your other sensors confirm the kill. No automatic confirmation. </p></li></ul><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><span class=\"bb_img_ctn\"><video class=\"bb_img\" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/5c4b2a586ba130022a728bc1b2d01950.poster.avif?t=1786796144\" width=1170 height=816 ><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/5c4b2a586ba130022a728bc1b2d01950.webm?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/webm; codecs=vp9\"><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/5c4b2a586ba130022a728bc1b2d01950.mp4?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/mp4\"></video></span></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Design your own everything</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >No fixed rosters. A built-in blueprint designer lets you build drones of every kind: submarines, surface ships, aircraft, helicopters, missiles and torpedoes, from chassis, sensors, warheads, engines and flight models. Trade payload against speed, signature against sensor power, range against stealth. The submarine you design plays by exactly the same rules as the torpedo hunting it. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><span class=\"bb_img_ctn\"><img class=\"bb_img\" src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/894ceeef8fd758f428b7092a94b1bc01.avif?t=1786796144\" width=1300 height=920 /></span></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Carrier warfare</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Launch, recover, refuel and rearm your drones from one or more drone carrier flight decks, well decks, VLS cells and torpedo tubes. Manage your inventory, your fuel and your economy, find the enemy carriers before they find you, and destroy them. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><span class=\"bb_img_ctn\"><video class=\"bb_img\" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/e04580456d90497926ee4adf52bb9a61.poster.avif?t=1786796144\" width=1170 height=816 ><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/e04580456d90497926ee4adf52bb9a61.webm?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/webm; codecs=vp9\"><source src=\"https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4545260/extras/e04580456d90497926ee4adf52bb9a61.mp4?t=1786796144\" type=\"video/mp4\"></video></span></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Friend or foe</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Identification is a problem, not a given. IFF works on detection confidence, allied teams share a datalink picture, and misreading a contact means friendly fire is on the table.</p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Command solo against the AI</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Take the CIC seat against AI opponents across procedurally generated archipelagos. The whole loop: design, deploy, detect, attack plays single-player, against an enemy that has to find you the same way you have to find it. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Or take it online</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Play over Steam: host or join through the Steam overlay and invite links. Fight head-to-head, or put two commanders on allied teams and take on the AI together. Spectators can watch the whole tactical picture unfold from the CIC. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >A moddable sandbox</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Every unit is data, so everything is moddable with a text editor: chassis, sensors, warheads, flight models, AI tuning. Map seeds are shareable procedural archipelagos. DRONECOM isn't a historical sim of real hardware and it isn't sci-fi: it sits in the gap between — a grounded, near-future sandbox. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >Sound and style</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >DRONECOM leans all the way into the combat-information-centre aesthetic:a dark, dense, mil-standard tactical console rather than a 3D spectacle over an original, adaptive synthwave soundtrack that scores the battle in real time. The information is the game. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >For players who like</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >The sensor depth of Cold Waters and Sea Power, the tactical picture of Command: Modern Operations, and the design-your-own-fleet freedom of Nebulous: Fleet Command, without committing to pure historical simulation or full sci-fi. </p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><h2 class=\"bb_tag\" >A note from the developer</h2><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >DRONECOM is built by one developer, in the open, alongside a community that's shaped it since the first prototype. The full core loop already works, solo and online, and I'm building outward from there. If sensor warfare, EMCON doctrine and moddable sandboxes are your thing, wishlist the game and come help decide what it becomes.</p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ><strong>On the roadmap:</strong></p><ul class=\"bb_ul\"><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Deeper sensor &amp; electronic-warfare modelling: decoys, countermeasures, and a fuller fire-control kill chain </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >More capable and varied AI opponents: distinct personalities, deception, AI-designed fleets </p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Expanded combat, tactics and scenario options</p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Richer terrain and environment</p></li><li><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >Ongoing online-play polish</p></li></ul><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" ></p><p class=\"bb_paragraph\" >DRONECOM is in active development: wishlist to follow along, and join the Discord is where the day-to-day decisions get made.</p>",
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