update Drones & Supplies update

[Spektrix 440]

I really like the booster update because when you use Railguns Large Caliber augment and you shoot someone with the boosted damage it doesn't do critical dmg most of the time which is a bit annoying tbh but ig this will change it. (This doesnt just apply to railgun ig i just used it as an example)

Edited October 7, 2021 by Spektrix

[LONDON.ENGLAND 302]

57 minutes ago, Bydo said:

 

for the price changes.. why? you just did this twice now and this would be third time . lets hope its a charm to give players better 

Apologies, but where do they mention price change? Cant see it in the patch notes

[2shots2kills 2,364]

I am fine with Defender nerf, but I suggest to reduce the number of supplies consumed from 3 to 2, same for Booster.

[Iron_Man 2,376]

Booster gets nerfed greatly

Me:

Defender gets nerfed, just 28 hours after I purchased it.

Again me:

Well, I guess that was inevitable

[readyfireaim 369]

1 hour ago, Marcus said:

Boosted armor and Boosted damage

• Cooldown time is decreased from 30 to 20 seconds;

• Smart cooldown for Boosted damage is decreased from 10 to 5 seconds.

 

Speed boost

• Cooldown time is decreased from 30 to 20 seconds;

This one seems unnecessarily complicated. Why screw with them? Not that it matters that much, but still.

 

1 hour ago, Marcus said:

«Driver» drone:

• Overdrive Charge Added is 10 seconds instead of 6 seconds;

• Master Sergeant — 20 000 crystals.

 

«Trooper» drone: 

• Maximum duration of activated supplies is decreased from 20 to 10 seconds;

• Drone's recharge time is decreased from 20 to 3 seconds; 

• Removed the consumption of an additional unit of Boosted armor supply when activated;

• Master Sergeant — 20 000 crystals.

 

«Engineer» drone:

• Maximum added duration to the effects of other drops (BA, BD, SB) is decreased from 40 to 30 seconds;

• Master Sergeant — 20 000 crystals.

Lower ranks? Cool. Driver looks to be a nice drone to use now. Trooper... ehh no. I main it on an alt and that decrease is rather sad. But they did make up for it with the decreased reload. Engineer? Never used it so can't really judge, but from experiencing it, I'm guessing this is just a minor nerf.

1 hour ago, Marcus said:

«Sprinter» drone:

• Added reduction of Speed boost cooldown — -5 seconds;

• Drone's recharge time is decreased from 20 to 9 seconds;

• Warrant Officer 2 — 50 000 crystals.

 

«Miner» drone:

• Maximum number of saved Mines is increased to 100 units; 

• Reduction of Mine cooldown is increased from -10 seconds to -15 seconds;

• Drone's recharge time is increased to 30 seconds instead of 10 seconds;

• Warrant Officer 2 — 50 000 crystals.

 

«Supplier» drone:

• Maximum supplies additional active time is increased to +10 seconds instead of +5 seconds;

• Drone's recharge time is decreased from 10 to 3 seconds;

• Warrant Officer 2 — 50 000 crystals.

Well, nice to see more drones at a lower rank. Sprinter: never used it. I don't think anyone ever used it. Can't judge. Miner: oh my goodness. That's a buff. Except for the reload. I feel like this is gonna be the next Saboteur. Supplier: Well, I was expecting a much more significant buff for my main drone. But any buff is welcome.

1 hour ago, Marcus said:

«Assault» drone:

• Maximum reduction of supplies cooldown is increased to -15 seconds instead of -5 seconds;

• Added consumption of an additional unit of Boosted damage supply when activated;

• Third Lieutenant — 90 000 crystals.

 

«Lifeguard» drone:

• Added reduction of Boosted armor cooldown — -5 seconds;

• Drone's recharge time is increased from 30 to 60 seconds;

• Third Lieutenant — 90 000 crystals.

 

«Mechanic» drone:

• Maximum bonus to instant HP regained is increased to +1000 HP instead of +500 HP;

• Reduction of Repair Kit cooldown is increased from -10 to -15 seconds;

• Drone's recharge time is decreased from 10 to 3 seconds;

• Third Lieutenant — 90 000 crystals.

Assault got pretty much nothing. I wonder if this will make it more noticeable on the battlefield. I never noticed it that much. Lifeguard got kinda sorta a nerf? Should be interesting to see how that plays out. Mechanic got a definite buff, even with the longer RK cooldown. More battle points for you Dictator users!

1 hour ago, Marcus said:

«Blaster» drone:

• Added reduction of Boosted damage cooldown — -5 seconds;

• Removed the consumption of an additional unit of Boosted damage supply when activated;

• Added the consumption of 3 additional units of Mine supply when activated;

• Major — 140 000 crystals.

 

«Saboteur» drone:

• The number of additional mines is decreased to 7 instead of 8; 

• Consumption of additional units of Mine supply when activated is increased from 5 to 7 units;

• Drone's recharge time is decreased from 40 to 30 seconds;

• Major — 140 000 crystals.

 

«Camper» drone:

• Drone's recharge time is decreased from 7 to 3 seconds;

• Major — 140 000 crystals.

That's a weird change to Blaster. Mines? Huh? Otherwise nothing really seems to have changed. Saboteur got a nerf. Oof. Good thing I didn't buy it. But I'm guessing that it's still gonna be too common in Rugby/CTF/Assault matches. Camper: can't judge. Gotta wait for the rework.

1 hour ago, Marcus said:

«Booster» drone:

• Additional Boosted damage bonus is decreased from +200% to +50%; 

• Duration of additional Boosted damage bonus is increased from 3 to 30 seconds;

• Reduction of Boosted Damage cooldown is decreased from -10 to -5 seconds;

• Duration is increased to 30 seconds instead of 3 seconds;

• Major General — 200 000 crystals.

 

«Defender» drone:

• Additional Boosted armor bonus is decreased from +100% to +50%;

• Reduction of Boosted armor cooldown is decreased from -10 to -5 seconds;

• Duration is increased from 20 to 30 seconds;

• Major General — 200 000 crystals.

 

«Trickster» drone:

• Duration is increased from 10 to 30 seconds;

• Major General — 200 000 crystals.

Great. Booster's overpowered. Defender's been nerfed. And Trickster has a huge buff. If anything's gonna mess up the game balance, this is it. We'll just have to wait and see. Then again, they are all now obtainable rather late in the game. That's good.

1 hour ago, Marcus said:

«Hyperion» drone:

• Consumption of additional units of supplies when activated is decreased from 2 to 1 unit;

• Field Marshal - 320 000 crystals.

 

«Crisis» drone:

• Boosted damage bonus is increased from +50% to +60%; 

• Boosted armor bonus is decreased from +100% to +90%.

Eyy I can finally use Hyperion but it's not that important but still that's cool.

Crisis. Um. Great. I can get one-shotted by Isida more quickly now. The armor nerf isn't gonna change anything if the Crisis guy can run up to me and destroy me before I can blink. Not looking forward to that.

Overall, eh. Not a lot of overwhelming stuff here. I feel like there is something that is really going to be super weak or super powerful, but I have no idea what it is yet. We'll just have to wait and see.

[DMR 676]

I'm waiting for the kits of hyperion drone in shop

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

What are developers working on to remaster camper?

I like the increased surviving mines for the miner drone.

[tank7 320]

The only drone not nerfed is brutus . Also now crisis is clearly better than booster + defender.

[Catbird 117]

So at last it has happened. Crisis is the uncontested most powerful drone. No more competition from those pesky free to get drones. This is going to be an.. interesting shift.

[fghjkl54 1,517]

Just now, tank7 said:

 

burtus doesn't need any change

it's the only balanced drone right now

[pocrettttt 277]

19 minutes ago, readyfireaim said:

 

 And Trickster has a huge buff. 

 

Thats not a buff, this already works as 30 seconds, they didnt changed nothing of trickster

Garage description

Increases the active effect of speed boost for a short time.* Increases reload speed of Speed Boost while using supplies. Using Speed Boost consumes additional supplies of the same type.

*This detail listed in the garage is incorrect; the boost lasts the entire 30 seconds.

[Spy 14,687]

Very interesting.

[TheRealHZFJ 707]

I don't even have to explain why this update is an absolute disaster, and BTW this coming from someone who has Crisis maxed and A LOT of supplies in my garage.
      
Supplies cooldown decrease means more spam = more supplies being used which for f2p - well good luck to yall.

Drones like Defender + Booster being nerfed is just insane when u look at the fact that Saboteur ( which single handedly makes me not play this game ) was barely touched. Then they buff stuff like Crisis. Price changes just make no sense as well - They buff price of drones by like 2x crystals but they were just killed with this update.

At this point all I have to ask is....What is with Alternativa in 2021?  Every decision they make cannot even be called a blunder because its worse than that. From status effects just being annoying to deal with, to clan system getting basic features which should have had YEARS ago and u have to pay a fortune to use, while clans still give no reason for average player to care for, then challenges being in the worst state they have ever been, not to mention every new content is put in Ultra containers.

These type of updates make FIFA look fun...and that's saying something.
 

Edited October 7, 2021 by TheRealHZFJ

[ZivOfficial 290]

26 minutes ago, tank7 said:

The only drone not nerfed is brutus . Also now crisis is clearly better than booster + defender.

I don't think there is really a reason for it to get nerfed lol it's a pretty simple drone

[yellowghetto 3,206]

Booster is OP now. Crisis, why changed? Defender, bad. What changed for Trickster....? Hyperion, no longer as advertised; not a Legend Drone.

Edited October 7, 2021 by yellowghetto

[Graphics 599]

I don't have drones

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

@Graphics

I have all the drones, including the Crisis drone from ultra containers.

[Poeiaah 60]

37 minutes ago, Iron_Man said:

Booster gets nerfed greatly

Me:

Defender gets nerfed, just 28 hours after I purchased it.

Again me:

Well, I guess that was inevitable

i also just bought io, but i think it still will be good 

[yellowghetto 3,206]

Medium and Heavy Hulls have a shared set movement speed. In the patch notes, it says all Light Hulls, will have a speed of 9-12m/s. Does this mean their speeds or unchanged, or what? Someone please clarify for me.

[Espoir 991]

7 minutes ago, Poeiaah said:

i also just bought io, but i think it still will be good 

Booster is not nerfed at all lol.. Yes, it deals less damage, but it's for 30 sec instead of 3 so basicaly it's way better than before you can now use it with another turret than only hammer and shaft, it's more valuable with other turrets now.

Edited October 7, 2021 by Espoir

[Frylock 1,617]

1 minute ago, yellowghetto said:

Medium and Heavy Hulls have a shared set movement speed. In the patch notes, it says all Light Hulls, will have a speed of 9-12m/s. Does this mean their speeds or unchanged, or what? Someone please clarify for me.

This means that all light hulls when maxed will have the same speed.

[Frylock 1,617]

Who ever is saying that booster is nerfed don't worry...In fact it's even better. WHY? Despite booster getting a huge damage nerf the drone actually gives more benefits. The benefit will be that you don't have to worry about the drone eating rapidly on boosted damages supplies meaning it will be more merciful when using the drone. Secondly, this would also give an indirect buff to status augments since now the duration of booster is 30 seconds instead of 3 seconds. The only HUGE problem I have with this "Buff" is that it will now make shafts even more OP and more campers will appear plus you will have long range turrets dominating battles again. Overall booster is getting a buff not a nerf.

What do you have to say about this @TheCongoSpider I want your input about the so called booster nerf. LOL To me it seems more like a buff

Time for me to use status augments again XD

Edited October 7, 2021 by MysticBlood

[JoyRide 80]

Booster is OP now. Considering  the weakness of the  defender drone  it makes  scoring a goal  or  delivering a flag  in assault very difficult. Probably not worth the effort any more.

A much weaker defender drone should be cheaper to use. (Less extra supplies)

 

Edited October 7, 2021 by JoyRide

[NikmanGT 4,362]

26 minutes ago, MysticBlood said:

The only HUGE problem I have with this "Buff" is that it will now make shafts even more OP and more campers will appear plus you will have long range turrets dominating battles again. 

 

Idk why i am scared seeing this

[2shots2kills 2,364]

I can't wait to get attacked by AP Magnums with Booster Drone always active...

Edited October 7, 2021 by At_Shin
Removed Inappropriate phrasing.