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The way you tell the difference b/w the two is that the yellow barrels have the text in yellow letters, DE-10 Barrel, and the white ones just have the default white text. The color of the actual barrel remains black on both.



It has been said that there are hidden stats on the barrels and generally the yellow barrels have better stats than white ones, but I don't know if there is any way to determine how much better because the stats are hidden. Also if there are higher stats on the yellow barrels then not all would necessarily be the same. Some yellow barrels would be better than others.

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Ackis wrote:

Thanks K'rux... when I first heard about colour of barrels, I thought they were like Geo cubes.

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They are actually. With the geo cubes, white is just an artifact, yellow is for damage, and red typically is for condition. Still, among the red and yellow there is a range of effectiveness. Ihaven't seen any red barrels so I can only assume that you have white and the supposedly better yellow. Like the cubes, it is a component for the looted schematic. But the real difference as mentioned before is that you cannot see the stats.

Message Edited by dorsai78664 on 07-05-2004 11:51 AM

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dorsai78664 wrote:

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Ackis wrote:

Thanks K'rux... when I first heard about colour of barrels, I thought they were like Geo cubes.

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They are actually. With the geo cubes, white is just an artifact, yellow is for damage, and red typically is for condition. Still, among the red and yellow there is a range of effectiveness. Ihaven't seen any red barrels so I can only assume that you have white and the supposedly better yellow. Like the cubes, it is a component for the looted schematic. But the real difference as mentioned before is that you cannot see the stats.

Message Edited by dorsai78664 on 07-05-2004 11:51 AM

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Errr... the way it was explained meant that there was one barrel, and that some are special "loot" barrels, that is, they're yellow named, like weapons with dots/mods...

Now I'm all confused.

There are white barrels, and yellow barrels, and then there are barrels with yellow names?

You can't have DOT'd DE-10s. The weapon doesn't have one naturally -- unlike the Mod Republic. The colours on barrels are the same as all other loot. White is your normal baseline -- like a trash loot weapon off an NPC -- and yellow is a better version -- like if that same trash weapon dropped but had a DOT or skill mod on it, the name would be in yellow instead of white.

Let's just throw in some random numbers for an example: a white barrel might be min damage: 25 max damage: 25 speed: -.300 or something.

A yellow barrel would be better than that, it might be something like: min: 30 mac 30 speed: -.500 or something.

Of course, these numbers are just imaginary since we have no clue what the stats on barrels are. It would be nice if we did. *pokes a dev in the back* hint hint.

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Ackis wrote:

Errr... the way it was explained meant that there was one barrel, and that some are special "loot" barrels, that is, they're yellow named, like weapons with dots/mods...

Now I'm all confused.

There are white barrels, and yellow barrels, and then there are barrels with yellow names?

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Sorry if I was unclear. Thereis onlyonetype of DE-10 barrel andit isalways looted. Sometimes the looted barrel willbe white named, sometimes it will be yellow named. (Just like if you loot a standard weapon with no DOTs or skill modifiers and the nameis white.If it is exceptional or has DOTs, modifiers, etc.the name is yellow). Other than the color of the name there is no noticeable difference since there are no stats displayed.

I think the idea that yellow named barrels are bettercomes from things like Krayt Tissues, where if you loot standard +30 tissues the name text on them is white. If you loot higher ones, like +60 or above, the name text of the first tissue in the setis yellow.