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Thread: Combat Droid Types (Discuss!)
That is a ground combat vehicle, how do i know this, becasue its used as a vehicle in a Graphic Novel I have and also it is a Ground vehicle in 3 of the different Star Wars games that I have.
Its a fast moving vehicle that has a single fire weapon on its front and lots of missiles, it also uses a sort of Turbo thing on it to accelerate.
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In addition, I noticed no one talks about that droid with the big cannon on its top from the very first Star Wars movie. It was an obvious combat droid.
Yeah it was a big droid that the Jawas pulled out when they where trying to sell droids to Uncle Owen and Luke.
And I notice that their are many droids we saw in the first part of the very first movie that are not available in this game. Like the one with multiple arms....
If anything those would be great additions to this game.
But perhaps the developers are planning to make a Droid Contruction system like the one planned for the Creatures that Bio-Engineers make. In taht case it wont matter really what chasis you choose, it will be dependent on what the droid engineer wants to build in it.
Oh well...one can only speculate at this time.
Ozma wrote:
I want to see a suicide droid. One that is pack with explosives. Runs into the con and blows it to hell. That would be really cool.
this is SWG, not israel.
For my own 2 cents, which may mean little..and I've dabbled in a couple other threads....
I think the DE community shouldn't seek to be merely an artisan. It should elevate the value of the DE in groups, not just what they create. There's plenty of pets. There's plenty of pets that only CH can wield, and they're tanks. So maybe you make ranged ones. I'd encourage you not to try to compete in that space.
Think of yourselves as tacticial specialists and in-group mech healers. Lobby for the capacity to heal droids in battle like a medic does organics. Lobby for the ability to make highly specialized droids that can make a real impact on some encounters.
Suicide/kamikaze EM-pulse droid purchasable for use against inorganic target (like say an AT-ST?)
Sentry droids that have chance of concealment on proximity radar...that increases the effective radar range of DE and allows them early warning of advancing enemies (faction relevence anyone)
Sentinel droids which are immobile turrets for defensive positions....Usable for city battles to help defend a tactical position.
Phosphorus flash/bang type droid that offers short-term AOE stun chance for players to escape, or get surprise (has zip effect on the big critters).
To me such things promote the value of the DE class as a whole, not in an unbalancing way but in a way that makes people want them in a group if some/all of these are DE use only.
Jacore
Just get it out and say "kamikaze", he speeds into your enemy blowing them both up. Would also force people to buy more droids from you guys
Here's a thought.
I haven't seen anyone bring this up yet. But "illegal" droids (Like assassin droids or other banned ones) sound like they would make a great addition to the game. Make the DE go get an illegal part from a smuggler, a weapon system from a Master Weaponsmith and you have yourself an illegal assassin droid that would not only enhance the DE class, but also the smuggler one as well. Because let's face it. They don't "smuggle" anything.
I'm not sure how you would get the suggler to get these illegalitems, maybe they would need parts from a DE or artisan to assemble, or maybe they get special blackmarket schematics under one of their linesfor specialized parts that are impossible to get except through the black market (i.e. your local smuggler). Seems like it would enhance both classes and get some interdependence that SOE seems to like so much.
Just throwing ideas out here.
What I am really hoping for is droid certifications.
Allow DEs to make extremely useful tankish droids for Bounty Hunters/Commandos/Droid Engineers.
More general, weaker probotish droids should be available to the other classes, but considering that BHs have a whole branch dedicated to "droid effectiveness" and that we could _really_ use a tank for the marks...it'd make sense.
I'd be so happy to be buying probe/tracker/droidekas from my resident DE once a week.
But yes, we need more assault droids. Even faction perks.
y'all forgot HRD I think it stands for human replica droids
Those are droids that actually look like human and I think those are called cyborg in other Sci-Fi... things. Anyway the concept is easy: faction pets. Since there are working humanoid pets that have basic combat functions ( I am not saying it should be as good as a dark trooper) upon successful ingridient combine, the customization process brings you to the "Character creation process" just like creating a process you can make your droid's appearance like making a new character.
they can use faction pet's AI model, less HAM less dmg, and use regular player's graphical model. everything's already existed. However if this really happens, it's gonna have a Master DE (perferably Master Artisan too because you gotta make it look like a human, not machines) ONLY droid. If it's not at least as good as the best CL15 animal pet, forget it, don't bother.
all your ideas are great ,, but i think it would be much easier and more realistic to just make a module that that gave a droid combat abilites ,, one for ranged and one for melee(electric stun) even R2 joined in combat a few times in the movies this way u could make any droid into a combat droid and of course they should add more droid styles to the blue print list
and my last thing is why the hell do droids have perma death - all throught the movies u see droids get REPAIRED doh it is a mechanical thing and if i can build a droid why the heck cant i fix one , and on that note in the movies u see peeps controling thousands of droids at a time but i can only control one a droid has a challenge rating just like living pet so why cant we have a level limit on what we can control ,,i mean a CH can control 3 pets at once , living unprogrammed things and rasie them from the dead , but i a droid engineer cant reapir my droids and cantcontrolmore then one preprogrammed droid at a time just dont make sense.
I'm not a DE, but here is what I'd like to see.
Battledroids,super battle droids,and droidekas (battledroids are relatively weak, would be given at novice DE, and would be easy to mass produce. Supers would be intermidiate, stronger than battle droids, harder to make, but not overpowerfull. Droidekas would be master DE, and would require materials from armorsmith and weaponsmith, but would be very powerfull)
Now, droid certs are a bad thing. Why? If you have certs, you automatically decrease your buyer-base, and it brings more attraction to the DE profession, which alsoraises your competition. Lose-Lose.But, I would like to see DEs getting the capibility to use more droids at one time (same as CH can have more pets at one time the higher they get)
I think that even with shields, droikekas should be good, but not indestructable.