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I'm reading these boards and SWGcraft boards and it's all soooooo confusing. Anyone know what the plan is?

I read an IGN interview about vehicles and in it the Dev mentioned that some stuff for DE would be coming in that patch as well as one in Jan.

Also there is a lot of talk about Droideka's coming out. Where did this rumour start?

I gotta know 'cause I wanted to be DE since before the game started but once in I read about all the problems and as a player I couldn't see how I would be needing a droid. Then I bought a R4 as a walking crafting station. His price? 300 credits. That's right 300!!! (He's great. I named him Grendal and I use him all the time- but he doesn't hold his customization so everytime I pull him out he's another color) I bought another R4 with a medic module for 500 credits. (He also changes color everytime I pull him out).
From this I thought I would stay completely away from DE until I saw something was going to be done.

In that time I've begun to head in the direction of smuggler- Still crafting and using Scouting skills- Gathering resources- I've made a pretty lucrative career out of supplying Slicers with CDEFs to grind their way to Master and selling power ups.

NOW I finally ground out enough XP to go DE, AS, ARCH, or WS. I would really like to pick up DE and try to master it by the time the patch is out- It would help to know what the hell is going on with proffession though.

I like a lot of the ideas that have been mentioned- Droideka's in particular (which I believe should NOT be only for DE's but at the same time maybe only a couple of proffessions could use them- Like squad leaders- I hate to give BH's and Commandoes another toy but someone has to buy these things. also A DE HAS to be able to control more than one droid at a time. And If droids truly randomly spoke It would just kick ass- Especially if you could proram a number of sayings yourself (like a real programer would)...

Anyway these are all dreams- I want to know what IS going to happen.



Anyone?...

Tevin Stargunner
Radiant

No one knows what's really comming our way, I doubt even Sintrosi is privy to all the changes comming our way right now. All we have to go on is one of the Devs saying Low to medium level combat droids in January and high end ones in February. I hope we're going to be getting additional changes but we don't even have any loose Dev comments to disect right now.

We'd like to know too, Hotdog... The truth is, we've all heard and experienced the hot air coming from the Devs, with next to nothing in terms of "concrete" changes.

Heck, even the fabled profession posts TH were supposed to release 3 weeks ago aren't even here yet. I presume there may be more info in that, but who the heck knows?

Long story short: You know probably as much as us. Thanks SOE!

The December patch will not offer a lot in the way of fixes for DE. The patch notes for this patch (in tentative form) are up here: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=TestCenter&message.id=40610&page=1

From what JustG has said, the January patch will be largely for DEs and include the "low to mid-level" combat droids. The February patch will contain the heavier hitting combat droids. Honestly, no one knows what these will be, what their stats will be or how they will work yet. They've promised to post more as they finalize their development schedule for the next 4 months... I'd expect to see a development post on the issue within a couple weeks.

the patch in DEC gives DEs an animation for bending over and wincing.

j/k

I haven't heard about the Dec patch, but I think the Droideka idea came in because they are adding a combat droid schematic. alot of people think the combat droid may be a droideka, but i don't think anyone knows for sure. there are already npc droidekas as well as another combat droid - some security or assassin droid, not sure which it was - so it will likely be that we get schematics for one of them.

I'd say go with whichever crafter you want based on what is out now. I doubt that any single schematic will make DE worth it unless you want to make droids for fun.

Thanks Ya'll.

Hmmmm...Heavy Combat Droids in Feburary? I could deal with that. And if they get personality chips going and all that I would be real jazzed.

As for the assassination droid I know PRECISELY what that is. It's IG-88. I know because he handed me my ass twice the other night before I wised up and figured out that if I just run in front of him, keeping out of his fire range (which he wasn't shooting at me he would just walk up and kill me pretty much) and shoot over my shoulder I would defeat him. I hope the combat droids we get are more helpful than that.

Tevin Stargunner
Radiant

*looks into crystal ball*

It seems to me the January patch will offer DEs glass, a convex transparent image of myself, and an upside-down room.

Added protocol droid combat animations

great C3PO with a rocket launcher

gnirak is right folks.

I didn't see anything in those notes in the way of DE. Yes, there are some droid animations but not much more than that.

CH got a whole page of changes though.

For real guys, what the hell is going on?

Tevin Stargunner

Radiant

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=42017&page=1

Thats is the link to find everything thatI know of that hashappened in this months code on Test Center. I haven't seen the Protocol animations that were listed, due to not being able to craft them yet without a factory. I think the patch notes were listed incorrectly and should have stated Probot Animations, since they appear to be a lot smoother now, but I'm not 100% sure of this

As soon as next months code hits, I will be testing the begebers out of it, so that I can pass it along to the rest of the community

This is nothing more than animation whena protocol driod being beaten on. Previously,the protocol droid would not even flinch when hit with damage and would simply stand rigid- so don't get your hopes up, protocol + Binary Load Lifters are still worthless..

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HOTDOG wrote:

I didn't see anything in those notes in the way of DE. Yes, there are some droid animations but not much more than that.

CH got a whole page of changes though.

For real guys, what the hell is going on?

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Yes they get a page. It is mostly a nerf for every creature handler. Not just a smack to the dabblers in creature handling. They are basically removing the usefulness of more than one creature pet unless one is a mount. Since most of the Master Creature handlers I know are going to ride a speeder and use a et it won't really hrt them much. It is going to make grinding to master creature handler harder also. So if DEs get a page I hope it isn't a nerf like the creature handlers are getting. Of course there isn't that much they could take from the DEs to be honest. I do hope ( I know that is worthless ) that the DE patch will be a big imporvement. I realy wish they hadn't nerfed critter like they did. It now sets a level at which the combat droids are going to be since they don't like people having a 2.2k HAM light armor 30% resist pet what does that say about our future droids? Are we looking at a nerf on the armor modules in the future? I hope not.....