Seriously though, this thing sounds unnecessarily complicated and just a nightmare to balance. I think there's more interesting augments which could be added.

Because the drone is activated via DA rather than a separate key, waiting for the opportune moment to use it means running around without DA until that moment. And trust me, I experimented with Defender enough times to know that it's extremely difficult and annoying to try and make the most of its 5-second activation time, and you usually end up either wasting it or getting suddenly killed before you can react (because you didn't have DA enabled). For that reason most people who used drones (myself included) decided to go with Booster, at least until Defender got its duration buffed.

The problem is that you can choose exactly when you will shoot, but you cannot choose when you will take damage. Anyway, I agree that Defender is very powerful, although this is skewed by the ongoing experiment, which will be removed and HP brought back to normal in a few days.

What about the "AD Immunity" immunity augment that gets added on top and makes you ignore the AD immunity augment? We need to go deeper! ?

It was basically a side effect of the flash console panel. Devs decided to enable it because there was no harm in letting players use the feature. But if anything like that is added in HTML5, it will be a full-on user friendly cinematic camera and/or spectator mode, rather than some wonky and inconvenient tool that's used via specific console commands. But I really doubt it will be made.

It won't. When Flash is closed, I'll archive this topic.

Topic merged

Damn, you got Crisis and Ares XT, and you're asking if exotic rewards are real? ? I mean, gotta keep those standards high, I guess.

I gotta say, this purely depends on the type of PC you're using. I got a new PC a month ago and had maybe 3 or 4 crashes TOTAL ever since, compared to a crash once every 3-8 battles.

It's real, but extremely rare. I'm guessing the chance of getting an exotic is around 0.1%, or 1 container out of 1000. I personally got 1 million cristals from a container last year, which was one of two exotic rewards I found (the other was some skin). Didn't you get Crisis drone from an Ultra container recently? That's an exotic reward.

Topic merged Nothing simple about this idea. In order to look decent, it requires a complete redesign of the in-game lighting engine. This is a humongous task, although something like it may be planned for a future update, since devs said in a recent stream that they will be able to improve lighting in maps in order to make them look better. Adding dynamic headlights may end up being part of that update, but there is no guarantee any of it will happen at all.

such text. much feedback. very detail. wow It will definitely not be permanent, but it might be brought back in a future event. I'm not sure why you liked it so much, since most people said it was slow and boring, as it was really difficult to get kills. I agree with them.

This happens when a moderator moerges another topic into here. Happens every time, but not much we can do about it unfortunately.

"A lot" is an understatement when the Hopper has 4000 hp, 50% protection from your turret and a fully upgraded Defender drone.

That's a difficult metric to calculate, player numbers are naturally declining at the same time. So the question is, did all the changes help counteract that decline, and how big the effect actually was? Either way, the data is not publicly available.

You have the right to play anything you want. XP/BP is still there, and in the HTML5 version it's even completely free of charge (no PRO pass needed). But because of its nature with upgrades/supplies/drones/augments/etc. all disabled, it used to be a very efficient way to farm resources, where you get a steady stream of crystals just from playing, with no pressure. Now this sounds great for players (and it was), but the game economy suffereed significant loss because of this method. So yes, the reasons for disabling battle funds in format battles are almost entirely materialistic. The only other reason is to encourage format battle enthusiasts to go into MM more often, since maintaining high player counts makes MM work more effectively. I must point out that almost all other games, that have an option to make your own matches with custom settings, do not give players any rewards for playing in such battles.

? nice one

Topic merged This was suggested multiple times before. We reported it to developers and there's a link to a previous version of this idea in the second post of this topic.

I agree with some of these. Played a few rounds of CTF yesterday, and I have to admit it seemed more fun and more intense compared to normal settings. But then again, I was using a Mk8 Hopper, so I had the privilige of being able to force enemies to drop their flags with my OD if they had too much health/protection/armour. 5-minute battles are definitely not my thing. 8-10 would be a much better length, especially since end battle rewards are no longer the main source of stars, so there is no incentive to earn stars as fast as possible. Yeah. The first time was with crystal boxes, though that was less of an experiment and more of poorly made update that was quickly removed due to overwhelming negative feedback. There was at least another one or two supplies experiments, which also lasted a couple weeks and got reverted. I remember one of them made it so that everyone had extremely long supply cooldowns which didn't get reset upon death.

ok get outta here already Closed. (guys this is a joke i'm not actually being toxic, hate and i are best friends pls don't cancel me)

Guys I get it now. We have to play with fewer people per map due to social distancing requirements! Kind of a late response on behalf of devs, but I repect them for taking active steps towards keeping the players safe!

With a soft foam baseball bat prop*

All hulls get have double health, and the listed turrets get double energy. This just means they can shoot for twice as long before needing to recharge, but their damage remains the same.

Probably to gather enough data. 2 weeks must have been chosen as a compromise between getting enough data and not being too long to endure.

Topic merged Please read the first post of this topic carefully, as it explains that the test server would not be enough to get realistic results from changes this extreme. It had to be done on main servers.