Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Droid Module Focus (Detonation): Information, discussion and bug-reporting (04/24/04)
Jenden
Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:46 am
#92
MSP0 wrote:
Lairs have always taken half-damage from blast weapons. Throw a grenade at one, and you'll see the difference between the damage stated in the combat window, and the floaty number.
ah, ok, probably same deal applies to the turrets to then. Thanks for the heads up.
Irxox
Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:09 pm
#93
Just a quick note, since I'm reading this.
/tellpet works with droids too. It's a silent command that allows you to talk to pets and droids a longer range than /yell works.
that means you could have two macro buttons set up, one with /tellpet chase, another with /tellpet droiddetonate
TheRealTK421
Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:20 pm
#94
This won't work with these modules. The chase part would but they don't have a "/detonatedroid" command to program. So, no voice or /tellpet commands.
Irxox wrote:
Just a quick note, since I'm reading this.
/tellpet works with droids too. It's a silent command that allows you to talk to pets and droids a longer range than /yell works.
that means you could have two macro buttons set up, one with /tellpet chase, another with /tellpet droiddetonate
You have to target the droid and use its radial or type/macro the command.
/bow
Respectfully,
TheSmokey
Tue Apr 27, 2004 1:41 pm
#95
Heyas
Couple of quick questions (this may prove that I am dense):
1) How is the pathfinding AI? ie. Do I need line of sight on the intended target (If I am standing in a room and my target is in the room next to me, connected by a corridor, will the droid be able to make it's way to the target?)
2) Does the blast damage work through walls, etc? (hope not)
3) (this is the question to prove my dense-ness) I call the droid, poof, there he is. I then target my enemy, then do a /chase. Droid rolls/walks away. At what point do I issue the detonate command? Do I basically wait until I "figure" he is in range of the target?
Thanks in advance.
Thranxx
Tue Apr 27, 2004 1:48 pm
#96
I would think the best order of use with these would be to click the player then run this macro:
/tellpet followtarget;
/pause 2;
/target MSEBomb;
/detonatedroid
/tellpet followtarget;
/pause 2;
/target MSEBomb;
/detonatedroid
WarHero1016
Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:32 pm
#97
I got a smuggler to sick one of my detonation mouse droids on me, It has a detonation power of 39. I had no armor on except for composite boots. My boots prevented 685 damage and I recieved 1182 damage to my action. Also I had left my bike out beside me, it was almost at full condition and the bomb destroyed it! I forgot I had it out so i didnt mean for this to happen but I thought It was funny 
That was with 2 detonation modules with 9 detonation power each. 9 is the most I have been able to get at about 96% experimenting. I assume 10 is the highest, so probably 40 is the highest detonation power of the adv. mouse droid.
Straker_Atrella
Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:50 pm
#98
Ok now obviously, the MSE is the most "economical" droid to put this in, but if somebody wanted, couldn't you pack 6 of these into a better droid frame? Then really blow stuff up?
Kollos
Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:22 am
#99
Straker_Atrella wrote:
Ok now obviously, the MSE is the most "economical" droid to put this in, but if somebody wanted, couldn't you pack 6 of these into a better droid frame? Then really blow stuff up?
Yes.
The Mouse Droid tops out at a rating of 40 which should do nearly 7k damage if tests so far have been accurate. Toaster Bombs, as I call them, are reasonably economical. I plan to sell them for about 6k as long as I can find cheap Tolium.
A fully loaded R3 tops out at a rating of 60 and testing on Test Center indicated that such a droid did over 10k damage in a single blast. That's a pretty expensive bomb, though - I charge 18k just for an R3 chassis due to the difficulty and resources used.
Dyna_Jones
Thu Apr 29, 2004 2:41 am
#101
I had a R3 bomb do 50k to a turret. I've decided on two lines of bombs. I have the expensive high OQ line of bombs and I found a cheap source for some low OQ Tolium and I am making a budget bomb line.
After that turret test I've gotten orders for over 50 R3 bombs.
Jenden
Mon May 03, 2004 10:00 pm
#102
These don't seem to be working quite right. I've been running some tests with some friends and it seems that about half the time the droid will say its doing damage to a nearby target (listing damage and everything in the combat spam) but the targets aren't taking any damage. Anyone else able to confirm this? I first noticed it with creatures (it didn't seem like it was taking down enough) and then ran tests against npc's so I could track the unique names.
Jenden
Tue May 04, 2004 6:44 am
#103
TheRealTK421 wrote:
Jenden wrote:
These don't seem to be working quite right. I've been running some tests with some friends and it seems that about half the time the droid will say its doing damage to a nearby target (listing damage and everything in the combat spam) but the targets aren't taking any damage. Anyone else able to confirm this? I first noticed it with creatures (it didn't seem like it was taking down enough) and then ran tests against npc's so I could track the unique names.
I'll keep my eye out for this. If you see/gather more info, make sure to get it at me.
/bow
Respectfully,
cool, I sent in a /bug report with all the detailed information (date, time, location, npc names, damage values listed, etc...), I'll see if I can get you more info.
Malitevv
Tue May 04, 2004 10:47 am
#104
I have neither smuggler nor BH so I can't test these things myself, but my customers have not yet reported back any problems with them. I've had customers use them in vanilla PvP with good results and I've got BHs using them. One BH has already used one of my tricked out R3 bombs (with 58 detonation rating) to decimate a fleeing Jedi mark. Says the droid blew up while underwater and knocked the jedi from max to half health even though he was wearing composite armor. From what I understand, composite should be the armor that best defends against these things, but the droid blast got through.
Did have a BH blow one up on myself also. It ripped through my wookie armor and incapped me instantly. It also blasted my crafting droid to an immediate incap with a loud and very entertaining squeel. 
No reports of them not functioning yet.