jeff mc beth wrote:
Can you change the +25% max Shield effect on the aura? I find it really pointless when you have an aura for such short period of time which gives such an effect, you can't constantly generate it via popping tweaks. It's just pointless, you can't utilize such an effect.
I think my exact words on test were "Please don't go quoting stats or such like on the forum, as they're all under revision". Aura is the same thing - I'd already made the changes from the 1st build, it just saves me time if I don't have to rebuild test #1000 for each change I do (shield bank was because I wanted to see just how much bank a player could get from the ship, and if +shield charge / bank would be broken - and yes, it is)
Dropships / parasites should be working now, without instant destruction, which is the major sticking point with balancing this ship - the testing angle is that we've not had fighters / missiles who use parasites before, and we needed to see exactly how effective they were*. I'm going to have to tweak certain more things about them before they're usable, due to class effects & spamming issues (as is ever the case).
Missiles using parasites is a major step forward, in terms of the potential for Environmental damage effects, AoEs, Boss stuff and so on; one of the major issues we've had is that getting the environment (SOBs / background) to effect the player is simply not possible - cue lots of hacking around to get stuff done. You won't see anything but the end result, which I hope will be cool, but it involves this (i.e. invisible AoE missiles generating environmental damage and so on).
*Yes, 25 seconds kinda surprised me as well - I put stupidly high values on their debuffs because I expected them to need it for us to see it at all. /facepalm