Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Publish 7 Feedback: Droid & Droid Engineer Enhancements
"It used to have 3194 HAM with 40% resists and medium armor"
Does it still have that HAM? It should be roughly three times better at tanking than the new probots then.
What of Droid Experimentation?
This has been the worst undocumented thing in the DE profession. Effectiveness is pretty much the only one I know that does anything to change stats. Even then on the components there is no real way except something like a 99% one line experimented item to acctually know it is good due to the 90%+ quality based on resources. Speaking of resources - alot of the sub-components seem to play no part in the combines of other sub-components or final combine yet unless you are in the know you would experiment the items just in case it does matter. Again no docs on it from SOE to tell what is worth experimenting and what doesn't matter. Let alone what the experiment lines possibly change.
Today I made an ADV Probot Droid and it took me 1 hr 20 mins using mostly all 90%+ experiments to basically get the same results as what others seem to be getting on the average resource droids. I even experimented on the Level 6 Armor just in hopes that the Composite Segments I made up and experimented would have some new effect on resists. Instead I get some placeholder 40% on the droid.
Are combat modules stacking?
They seem to but the fact that the created item numbers seem to have a foriegn relation to the min/max dmg the droid does it seems tough to tell what the big differance in a few numbers is. This is especially bad with the experimentation at higher ranges being of little change. This is compounded by the fact that I am not sure once again what in the experimentation lines does what for all the various components or droid combines.
Are combat droids helpful to non-combat and new characters?
Are the Droid Damage Repair Kits and Droid Wound Repair Kits working properly?
The ADV Probot shows as Challenge Level 13. Tested him against some Huurtons and he had a normal and a scout on him. Used the Repair Kit C on him which is 992 available repair energy, no idea how the subs factor into it since they seem to have various charge stats and so on. Of the 26 I had it took 11 to kill the 2 mobs. He basically just stayed in one place and keep fighting no matter what command I gave him to try and move away from the mobs.
To me droids should move about as the controller tells them even if they are fighting. After all they are rather complex creations (especially at 1 hour + to make one with no factory parts on hand).
As for new characters due to the increased production time / resources / harvester/broker costs of droids and the former costs on them I could not see them affording a somewhat useful one without the outside help of others.
Thanks for stealth-nerfing my probot, or I guess I could have missed it in patch message. but I dout it ! all I have to say is I hope you all get you stuff gether before this game sink's completly.
Prior to the publish my probot was:
- 40% Resists to All
- Medium Armor
Now, my probot is:
- 40% Resists to All
- No Armor
I am Mad as hell , and did what only I can Do! ! !
Douglas E Calhoun.
Especially the part about the droideka art/chassis. And as a long standing
MDE I can honestly say that it feels like we just get scotch tape plastered
all over our broken profession, publish after publish, they are just trying
to patch together a Droid system that just doesn't work. They give us one
thing, and they take away 2 or 3 others, never actually giving the DE's and
gaming community what they really want.
New droids that enhance and make more enjoyable the overall playing experience.
What they have given us today is dissapointing. And I hope someone out there
is listening.
I have the feeling, one of the two parties is totally incompetent.
Either the DEVs or the player.
It's all the same with every Publish. DEVs do something and player complain. Something is wrong with you guys!
Now we have to find out, which side is the bunch of idiots...
You know, I wasn't paying attention when I logged in earlier today; this time I was.
I just saw the "Droid Invasion" icon.
You mean to tell me that EVERY SINGLE PLAYER to SWG is logging in to see that picture today? Of the Corellian Corvette which isn't going in for two weeks?
The R5 isn't even in that picture...Really, in spite of the changes to our profession that were obviously time consuming, did you really want to rub in our faces how bad it was?
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Complaining about things that have been known for some time (ie. no droidekas etc.) is counter-productive, and contributes to a whole lot of emotional wind that the developers have to sort through to actually find any bugs.
If the changes affect you so much, you should have read the notes and checked out the test center, and the test center forums before it went live.