As far as I can tell safespotting is not possible anymore.
Problems:
- 90% of the time you are in a shooting inside Drone you cannot see anything because of constant flashed screen. Consider removing the effect or at least have it have no effect on the healthbar of the drone.
192706 Zhurke: slith: you had epilepsy warning- Drones are really fragile now. You can get of a maximum of 8 shots at those big leutenant spawns before you have to fully regenerate your health. Especially for PEs who try to woc this is a unacceptable high timesink. You spend about 70% of your time regenerating your drone. Either give them more health or boost regeneration rate.
- Drone projectiles should spawn exactly centered, currently it is almost impossible to use cover with a Drone.
Rigger without LE = more money lost on Drones than money earned.
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28-10-12, 20:34 #1Tessier-Ashpool S.A.
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28-10-12, 20:39 #2Bitter Old Fart
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Why should droning be any faster than any other leveling/hunting means?
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28-10-12, 20:48 #3Tessier-Ashpool S.A.
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Thats the thing about it, it is slower now... and sorry for the editing frenzy.
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Probably due to the lack of any other form of AOE.
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Get your sorry droner ass to regant, like everyone else =>> Problem solved
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Removal of the fuzzy screen when hit would be good.
A slight increase in protection from drones would be ideal.
I'm no droner but I can see problems with it
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Removing or altering the noise on damage is absolutely needed now. Originally Posted by IanKett
As for the hitpoint increase, I would agree that a boost of perhaps .25 would make sense, but then this, like many many other issues is a matter of balancing. Maybe increase hp a little with #175 to avoid civil unrest, and revisit the issue with the inevitable balancing patch(es)
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I dont really get it. Cleared out chaos caves without losing a raptor... just wasnt as quick i guess as using a RK1000 and 'the old methods'. Safespotting appears to be fixed, the method used in the doy tunnel's seems a bit overkill though as the drones now practically crawl across the floor...
Drones have always had that flash when it gets hit, why is it such an issue now? oh right
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So the AOEless droner can mooch off of AOEing Tanks and APU Monks? Originally Posted by BlueRobot
No thanks.
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lol what?
Drones had their lives increased years ago, only to have it decreased now, and eventually increased again? huh?______________________________________________________________________________________
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Originally Posted by Forget My Name
Learn to read Patchnotes. Originally Posted by Patchnotes
I really think the GMs should close non constructive/whiney threads and start banning ppl from the brainport who still whine about the droner changes.
It always was about the fucking exploit and they fixed it now, everyone who's still whining now is just a fucking exploiter and can't hide behind the "not every droner is an exploiter" bs anymore.
That said, maybe make drones able to shoot during the heal, but only if that other exploit is fixed as well.
From all AoE Weapons, drones are the most precisely and easiest to aim. I don't know what your problem is, but it sounds like you want to be able to position your done where it can't be hit while you can hit the enemy, which is exploiting. Taking cover doesn t have anything to do with shooting and would be useless for drones anyway. Originally Posted by slith
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Calm down. I don't understand why you are raging. Go outside for a bit and take in a deep breath. Relax...
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No insults, no raging.
BUT: This forum is there for helping the devs with ideas and testing, and people have been huge assholes about the droner changes, and its a pain for the people who try to be constructive, as well as very disrespectfull towards the volunteers.
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Originally Posted by BlueRobot
That appears to be fixed aswell.
However healing and shooting at the same time would just be stupidity unless the heal rate is reduced, as it is currently it takes a stupid amount of mobs to outdamage the heal, basically that owuld give you a godmode drone. would just have to relaunch it a bit more often.TITAN
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The fact that your first response was to accuse me of exploiting the game is an insult. Originally Posted by BlueRobot
All you had to do was educate me with the current planned changes for the game in the latest patch notes without the snarky attitude. In the end, I forgive you, and I hope you can move past this
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Fragile drones are a step back 8 years, and the fuzzy screen hit is fine for me.
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I didn't adress anyone in this thread, with my suggestion about handling those ppl as trolls. I was talking generally.
About the heal: Of course you would have to make sure the heal doesn't get op, but balancing drones for PvE should be easy, since droners mostly do solo PvE and you can adjust their strenght mostly without fucking with the PvP balance or strength of Team-PvE.
My suggestion would be to lower their dmg, adjust the heal to a degree where you can still solo chaos caves but slower than with non droner Teams and make their health so that you could only solo high level areas like mc5/doy tunnels/ceres labs so slowly that it wouldn t be worth it.
About drones being too fragile: I didn't read anythin in the Patchnots about changing their health, so I don't think they changed that. If someone says the patch made them too fragile, wouldn't that mean he exploited before the patch ?
If they actually changed the health of drones, they should write that into the notes.
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