Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Here they are, TC changes so far (all schematics available now!)
BlueMorgoth wrote:
I'll wait for more info from you guys before passing judgement, but if the numbers are coming out to what I think they will be (inline with BE non-CH creatures) then I won't be disappointed, nor overjoyed either. Just shrug and move. It really hasn't made much difference in the end with the combat numbers: an AP0 or AP3 weapon is still going to take just as many shots to bring down a droid.
You are overlooking a lot of things if they take the armor away while makingdroids 'EQUAL' to a BE pet. The doctor buffs on a pet take it way over and above the droids easily (unless they give us 3K more HAM than a BE pet can have).
BE pets can come in a huge assortment of skins. We get 6 or 7 ??
They are rideable (may be moot due to vehicles, but they have that option).
Bah, I won't list them all again.
well then the patch 7 would be the stupiest idea ever I dont think I would use a droid with no armor having under 1k ham now that would be stupid and those combat modules will not help me as much not the droid does up to 90 dmg with the combat modules it makes up to 120 what a waste of resources and factory time for a droid that dont male alot of damage and doesnt have armor
I made a test between BE lvl 10 pet with 4.5k ham and my probot with medium armor and 820 ham my probot was doing about 70-90dmg when the pet was doing like-7-10dmg so i see that is they make the droids as the pets the prenerf droids that we have now would be much stronger then the droids with those famous 6 combat modules which bearly do 30damage more then now. What a joke
Droids Dont HAVE to be as good as BE pets...
Why ? - Because it will be possible to use BOTH at once..
If it were a case of having to choose between the BE pet or the droid, then yes they should and need to be of equal ability, however as we will be able to use both, then this isnt really an issue.
And lets not loose sight of the fact that publish 8 should be the BIG combat droid publish, not 7
KruppeRift wrote:
I think everyone here is missing one point..
Droids Dont HAVE to be as good as BE pets...
Why ? - Because it will be possible to use BOTH at once..
And lets not loose sight of the fact that publish 8 should be the BIG combat droid publish, not 7
Your right. I forgot about being able to have both out at once in this patch. That is a good point.
The BIG combat droid publish don't exist right now. They took that out in favor of utility modules unless something has changed.
Gribnitz wrote:
The BIG combat droid publish don't exist right now. They took that out in favor of utility modules unless something has changed.
Ahh Bugger
Was looking forward to building droidekka's or similar
I remember now, were getting entertainer modules and the like arent we....
This is incorrect. Publish 7 is supposed to be the combat publish, Publish 8 is supposed to be added utility, from whatTH posted in the "where we are and where we are going" thread.
KruppeRift wrote:
And lets not loose sight of the fact that publish 8 should be the BIG combat droid publish, not 7
Message Edited by duncje on 03-08-2004 08:29 AM
Gribnitz wrote:
Your right. I forgot about being able to have both out at once in this patch. That is a good point.
This will be key, and will take a little marketing work.
But i used the droid creature combo hunting with an alt last night. It worked pretty well, and let me tell you, the droid did much better than the pet. Now lemme qualify by saying the pet was a dune bantha (around 4K HAM, small kinetic resist) and the droid was a probot with 800 (and change) HAM with level 6 armor. Now granted the droid is from this era, and who knows what the new droids ability will really be. But taking on a spawn of swarming dewbacks, the bantha went down quick, i almost went down, ran outta aggro range, healed, rested my mind a bit, started to leave then went back and the droid was still going, so i finished the last of the deweys off and that was that. I was impressed that the droid with less than 1000 HAM outlasted the Bantha. I just hope the armor on the new droids works as well.
Wynn814 wrote:
The word on armor.
Thunderheart wrote:
Pistoller wrote:
TH can you tell us if droids armor is a bug or a nerf. Seems that with the higher ham we cant get medium armor on the droids anymore.
"I recieved a PM on this as well. I spoke with the dev and it has changed a little bit. From what I understand, there have been some changes. Before, armor was used once and gone forever. Now, armor can be repaired (with the new repair kits).
It used to be that the armor when crafted onto a droid would overwrite each other’s values instead of summing up multiple armor modules. Now it works properly and you should be seeing that putting multiple droid armor modules into a droid adds up those two modules capabilities and gives the droid the sum of their powers.
So basically, armor with a high rating that is used once and destroyed forever has been replaced with reduced armor that can be repaired and always usable."
Wynn814 wrote:
He posted that on the In Testing board I didn't PM him.
Ah, I saw the "PM" and got confused.
Take everything TH says with a grain of salt and a shot of Jose Cuervo (don't forget the lime). He is completely clueless when it comes to droids, and most things crafting related. They should have somebody that is knowledgable about the system respond to these issues, or just not respond at all. TH causes more problems than he solves around here.