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Thread: Droidekas should be stronger than Super battledroids and battledroids.
McCusto
Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:01 pm
#14
And they should use their acutal weapons. SBDs have blasters on their arms... yet they use Melee. And what is up with the Battledroids? Why do they use Heavy Axes?
Snargle
Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:33 pm
#15
and while your at it why not make droid engineers make some droids that are worth it...such as ones being mentioned.
Dackrendarck
Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:41 pm
#16
/agree
Droidekas should be made much more difficult, and I like the idea of a seperate HAM bar for the sheild that would have %100 lightsaber and melee resists. This would force them to be taken out with high-end blasters and rifles, as in the movies.
I also agree that BD and SBD should be made much easier, easier than stormies at least. And the SBD should be about even with storm commandos, but less than dark troopers but can still wipe the floor with a storm trooper. Maybe the combat revamp could include a revamp for NPC's and creatures that are out of wack.
Narreem0884
Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:00 pm
#17
Melee would work against Droidekas, provided you could get close enough. Lightsabers wouldn't though. The shields in Star Wars are based on kinetic energy principals. Fast moving things are bounced off the shields while slow moving things can walk right through, like in Episode 1. Energy is absorbed. The only thing that should be able to take out the shields on a Droideka should be an ion cannon or a melee fighter. I've only fought the Droidekas in this game and was disappointed by the lack of a challenge.
TakO_Paleae
Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:07 pm
#18
/agree
this is the most logical thing i have heard in a long time
obi-wan and qui-gon (sp?) did /forcerun3 out of there when the droidekas showd up
Randomperson
Sat Jan 08, 2005 7:27 pm
#20
KalonarT wrote:
They made Jedi run for the hills, nuff said in my opinion.
Giving them the graphics of /forceshield when a laser hits them would be great, infact: add a HAM bar for shields, much like Force Power. Melee and Jedi shouldnt be able to join the fight until said shield is down.
Infact, do the shield option for anyone with a PSG! Just give them a graphic of a back mounted generator, and a nasty encumberance.
But anyway... great idea. Battle droids are weaklings, Gungans beat the heck out of them. SBD's are pretty nasty due to the rate of fire, and Droidekas are reasons to run away.
Personal Shield generators should have practically no encumberance, but only defend against blasters. And make them a bit smaller. They're gigantic.
Brandon_shreve
Sat Jan 08, 2005 7:35 pm
#21
Dackrendarck wrote:/agreeDroidekas should be made much more difficult, and I like the idea of a seperate HAM bar for the sheild that would have %100 lightsaber and melee resists. This would force them to be taken out with high-end blasters and rifles, as in the movies.I also agree that BD and SBD should be made much easier, easier than stormies at least. And the SBD should be about even with storm commandos, but less than dark troopers but can still wipe the floor with a storm trooper. Maybe the combat revamp could include a revamp for NPC's and creatures that are out of wack.
EDIT
Message Edited by brandon17394 on 01-08-2005 06:37 PM
galvatronicus
Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:19 pm
#22
SBD's are the stupidest mob in the game, hands down without a doubt.
Brandon_shreve
Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:22 pm
#23
galvatronicus wrote:SBD's are the stupidest mob in the game, hands down without a doubt.
i was gona say a stupider one... but there is none
Brandon_shreve
Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:24 pm
#24
oh... and seeing a Droideka roll up on you in the corvette, then un ravle then upload its shield, like in episode I would look ace, and not 60 stupid SBDs jumping all over you
galvatronicus
Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:27 pm
#25
Aye
brandon17394 wrote:
oh... and seeing a Droideka roll up on you in the corvette, then un ravle then upload its shield, like in episode I would look ace, and not 60 stupid SBDs jumping all over you
Ultiamus
Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:05 pm
#26
Iconcur and Battle droids shouldn't have battle axes either
Starcloud wrote:
Quite frankly, the developers just took the art models and slapped whatever stats they felt like onto the resulting creatures.
Battledroids should be less powerful than your average stormtrooper. Light armor, low resists, No LS resist.
Super battle droids should be somewhat more powerful than your average stormtrooper, but not much more. Again, light armor, moderate resists, no LS resist.
Droidekas should be about the level of your current battle droid, *but* that force shield should give them highresists, including Lightsaber, and medium armor.
Yes, that does mean revamping the Corvette, Death Watch Bunker, and Droid Engineer's Cave, along with a few other miscellanous things, but it should have been done this way in the first place.
Leave *all* heavy armor ratingsfor vehicle-type stuff like AT-STs, AT-ATs, and massive creatures like Krayt dragons. Nothing else in the game should have anything better than medium armor.