Since 2.0, and the fact that we can now do a LOT more actions in remote view, they changed some stuff.
Now I guess the character's soul detaches from its body when you go remote, as in, there are more variables that represents the player, depending on if you're in remote or not.

What i'm trying to say is that when you're in remote, several issues occur :
- The drones complain that they can't give you items because "inventory is full" (Maybe they don't use the correct reference and trying to insert into the "ghost character" that you control during remote view ?)
- If you go remote view and place your camera over a far away spot with jobs to do, that don't require drones to have items (deconstruction, killing biters), they rush to this spot to do the work, even though it's like super far away from the engineer. Needless to say, when dealing with biters this becomes a problem as the biters don't even fight back since there's no engineer around to trigger them.