hi! i was going through the recent steam news and saw you weren’t quite sure how to handle the hunts, figured i would throw in my two cents
The long and the short of it is depth charges on the drones
during a hunt, and potentially being equipped on military drills (maybe refinery? They do need to find resources), special metal detector modules/COGs/Vehicles could be seen
during combat these don’t really do much, but the point would be to put some thought into the decision to go subterranean
If you DO go underground, the COG AI would then move into a “subsurface search”, where detector equipped units would go around and try to find where you went, probably finding you because, who would’ve guessed, a giant metal tube under the ground is rather easy to find with ground penetrating radar/magnets, especially if you saw it get buried
when they do find you, they would send cheaper, smaller, slower drones down to your deptgh and detonate them, almost like a mini earthquake bomb
how you would avoid it? Kill anything with a detector BEFORE you surface, once you’re under though, i’ve got no idea, maybe expensive iron-tier decoys? (Iron is ferromagnetic after all…)
Just some thoughts i figured would be worth sharing
(copied from my same post on the discord)