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Main: Almighty Pixel
Level: 4 Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:22 pm Posts: 346 |
Over the past weeks we've been busy working on improving the permanent drones across the board. All these drones listed have received a huge beef compared to what they once were.
Updated Drones: Highway Drone Advanced Highway Drone Autobahn Drone Motorway Drone Ancient Defense Orb Drone Titan Guard Armada Ambrosia Drone Armada Bastion Armada Defender Apollo Drone Adonis Drone Argonaut Drone Ambrosia Drone Andaman Drone Quu Drone Qa Quuu Drone Kasa Quu Drone Iko Drone Mzungu Energy Blaster Faranji Head Drone Plasmite Drone Plasmite Defense Platform Portable Surgeon Surgeon’s Platform Qafir Qafir+ Nihilite Paxian UrQa Denial Warpastic Pirating Drone Advanced Pirating Drone Attached Mining Defender Solar Collection Drone Attached Magic Attack Light Nuzzle Acid Drone Community Additions: Warpastic Drone+, obtainable via Ruby Steppes (splashing Warpastic drone). Armada Ambush Mine This includes a set of new specialised drones that are focused around similarity to the XYZ base gear content where you can invest into building some defensive platforms. These come in two variants from Apollo to Annihilator: - Platform which is the defensive side that's DPS drones with base pulses - Defender which is solely around HPS that includes base healing transference's. These drones can be seen at the top row of drones in the screenshot. New Drones: Apollo Defender Adonis Defender Argonaut Defender Ambrosia Defender Andaman Defender Achilles Defender Annihilator Defender Apollo Platform Adonis Platform Argonaut Platform Ambrosia Platform Andaman Platform Achilles Platform Annihilator Platform Expect these changes to be applied in the upcoming universe. Changes are in current universe now! Astral Injection fix included these following drones: Attached Magic Attack Nihilite Orb Drone Academy Drone Apollo Drone Adonis Drone Argonaut Drone Ambrosia Drone Andaman Drone Quu Drone Qa Quuu Drone Kasa Quu Drone Plasmite Drone Warpastic Drone Warpastic Drone+ Light Nuzzle Pirating Drone Advanced Pirating Drone Ancient Defense Energy Blaster Portable Surgeon Titan Guard Attached Mining Defender Armada Defender Armada Ambush Mine Armada Ambrosia Drone Armada Bastion Expect these changes to come in the next patch. Redid Armada Drone Visuals: more screenshots here. Added some special abilities to each drone. Blog posted about this! Armada Ambro drone has 2 mini rhino fighters it can launch. Armada Ambush has holoprojector of duplicates. Armada Bastion now has a superitem weapon. Armada Defender now has a point defence superitem and Armada spitter superitem. Some drones will receive pre-installed augmenters (cannot be Augmented, will have a comment in the description describing that they come with augmenters): Attached Magic Attack (Minor Recovery Augmenter + Hestia Augmenter). Attached Mining Defender (2x Adonis Assault + Adonis Electric Augmenter + Adonis Radar Augmenter). Armada Ambrosia Drone (Platform Augmentation Gamma + Station Mechanic's Augmenter). Armada Ambush Mine (2x Sup. Radar Augmenters). |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:13 am |
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Rank: Officer Main: cyraptor2 Level: 3713 Joined: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:38 pm Posts: 47 Location: Sunrise land |
Noice.
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Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:25 am |
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Rank: Main: ChikushodoPain Level: 3616 Joined: Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:19 am Posts: 97 |
Pixel is da best. Pixel for emp!!
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Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:51 am |
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Rank: Officer Main: number666.5 Level: 8924 Joined: Wed May 03, 2006 4:12 pm Posts: 3457 Location: nowhere |
Awesum!!
New drones and new looks! Pixel for emp 5 times in a row! _________________ Valkyrie300 wrote: You need to thoroughly think before sprouting exaggerated statements |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:34 am |
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Rank: Officer Main: Russian Power Level: 7505 Joined: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:34 am Posts: 57 |
will it still be possible to aug drones ?
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Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:06 am |
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Main: Almighty Pixel
Level: 4 Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:22 pm Posts: 346 |
Denis123 wrote: will it still be possible to aug drones ? Yes the beef was focused around putting augmenters on the existing drones. The new defensive and platform ones you can't. |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:12 am |
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Rank: Main: Ununoctium Level: 5960 Joined: Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:27 pm Posts: 1773 |
What about the armada ambush mine?
Will the annihilator defender be superior to the armada ambrosia drone? Nihilite, Warptastic and Qafir drones were always more a way to deliver grems than dps, why did you beef them? more tank? Did you give warptastics a splashing weapon so they can adequately prevent groups of players as opposed to 1 player from getting past? Edit: Do attached drones still take up valuable base slots on a planet and have they been given more range to compensate? _________________ Space for rent! |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:48 am |
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Rank: Councilor Main: 1-800-USE_THE_FORCE! Level: 9597 Joined: Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:36 pm Posts: 2769 |
Were you guys going to look into how to aug drones? Or keeping it the weird toss and drone scoop mechanic?
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Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:01 am |
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Main: Almighty Pixel
Level: 4 Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:22 pm Posts: 346 |
The Salty One wrote: What about the armada ambush mine? I did bring this up, and found out it was a temporary drone so that didn't apply to this beef. Will the annihilator defender be superior to the armada ambrosia drone? Looking from the testing figures the Armada Ambrosia Drone will be better than Annihilator Defender but if you look at it from a range perspective then it would be better the other way round. Nihilite, Warptastic and Qafir drones were always more a way to deliver grems than dps, why did you beef them? more tank? Yes, essentially more shield bank to prevent DPS bursting in a single amplification from a Fleet Commander. Did you give warptastics a splashing weapon so they can adequately prevent groups of players as opposed to 1 player from getting past? No, the Warpastics still perform a single laser shot effect like they do currently. Edit: Do attached drones still take up valuable base slots on a planet and have they been given more range to compensate? Yes, its still the same mechanic as it is currently. redalert150 wrote: Were you guys going to look into how to aug drones? Or keeping it the weird toss and drone scoop mechanic? Its gonna be the same toss and scoop mechanic, this was just to beef the existing perm drones. |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:20 am |
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What do you mean when you say we'll have to invest in the new defender/platform drones? Can they be rescooped? Do they require a large amount of metals/silicon/nuclear waste to build?
I suspect they may overshadow existing perma drones whilst being way cheaper, especially if the armada ambrosia drone still has terrible range. _________________ Space for rent! |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:35 am |
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Main: Almighty Pixel
Level: 4 Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:22 pm Posts: 346 |
The Salty One wrote: What do you mean when you say we'll have to invest in the new defender/platform drones? Can they be rescooped? Nope you can't re-scoop them once deployed Do they require a large amount of metals/silicon/nuclear waste to build? Yes I suspect they may overshadow existing perma drones whilst being way cheaper, especially if the armada ambrosia drone still has terrible range. Yes, the Armada Ambrosia Drone has slightly better range but is still terrible. |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:40 am |
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Rank: Main: Dark Steel Level: 9138 Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:35 am Posts: 2068 Location: Netherlands |
This perma drone rebalance was pretty overdue. Glad to see it's been done. I have high hopes for the new and updated drones! Keep it up Pixel, you're the best
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Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:43 am |
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I think the armada ambrosia drone needs to have at least a secondary shield transference with more range. Otherwise it's going to remain subpar as each drone can only heal a couple of bases, as opposed to the other drones healing anything in the galaxy. Not to mention using up all those planet slots...
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Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:11 am |
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Main: Almighty Pixel
Level: 4 Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:22 pm Posts: 346 |
The Salty One wrote: I think the armada ambrosia drone needs to have at least a secondary shield transference with more range. Otherwise it's going to remain subpar as each drone can only heal a couple of bases, as opposed to the other drones healing anything in the galaxy. Not to mention using up all those planet slots... Well the Armada Ambrosia Drone has 500 range (tested with a Adonis Assault and Station Mechanics). Say if you put a Platform Gamma Augmenter on it, it should reach 1k range roughly~. |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:15 am |
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In that instance it'd cover 1 planet and its moons, which only allows for a few drones and STM kits at best. In comparison I could spam 30 andaman drones and have them all healing the same bases.
I'm not seeing why the armada ambrosia drones would win in that situation, especially considering their far greater cost. _________________ Space for rent! |
Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:19 am |
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