Droid Engineer Archive

I tell my droid to stay, move off some distance, then start the attack. When the mobs are fully on me I tell him to attack...instead of using ranged attack he runs in to melee and takes damage.

Other times he seems to be using his ranged attack, but there is no graphics or other indication that it is happening beyond the monster takes hits. At least the monster is taking hits though.

But what concerns me most is that he is running off into the distance even when not under attack. Its like he's trying to find the right range for his attack and never can so he keeps going and going. I am having horrible flashbacks from being a creature handler and watching my 120K credit BE pet go running off mobs in tow pulling them out of my range until he is dead and they come back for me.

So be honest, are these battle droids busted and useless or what? I don't blame the DE or anything, but I do feel ripped off when my pretty hefty price tag robot only works as expected part of the time including running off into the wilderness.

BTW: He has a 600 combat rating, which I understand to be the highest you can get in an R3, max resists, and close to 4500 ham. Again, I think the DE made it as good as can be expected, what scares me is that it doesn't seem to matter

The ranged/melee radial toggle on the R-Series Combat Droid went AWoL a few publishes back. Its one of the known issues that we are trying to get addressed. Without the toggle command, the droid will chose to attack how it wants to.

Making SWG more Star Warsy. One droid at a time.