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Post by Pulse Hadron on Feb 19, 2021 23:21:36 GMT -5
Up till now I haven’t bothered with drones but last night thought I’d try something out with the drone junk that’s been won. So I put this Imitating Rifle Shooter chip in a drone and deployed it but I never see the drone fire. I believe it’s supposed to fire automatically every 10 seconds but I never see it fire, no animation, no damage to red. Except, when I first used it in my first test I think I saw it fire once, but never since. I’ll pick a red and track them for 30 seconds with line-of-sight at 300m and still it doesn’t fire. What’s up yo? Edit: hmmm, this Imitating Rifle chip says it shoots simultaneously with the robot while 2 other shooter chips say they shoot independently. I was testing this drone setup with a Loki in stealth mode which obviously isn’t firing. So, if I get the Target-seeking-minigun-shooter which says it shoots independently will it fire when my Loki is in stealth? It’s 5000 gold for the chip so I want to be sure.   |
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Post by ʂɬɛɛƖ on Feb 20, 2021 0:56:48 GMT -5
Imitating chip fires only when you do. Target seeking fires on its own. Not really worth the battery and definitely not worth the Au...
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Post by Pulse Hadron on Feb 20, 2021 1:27:20 GMT -5
ʂɬɛɛƖ thanks for the clarification. I don’t do drones and don’t know what’s good or bad but I’ve seen a couple times now a stealthed Loki running around with a shooting drone and it’s super annoying. Making my own extra annoying Loki is my only interest in a drone, don’t plan on investing anymore since it all looks weak to me. Unless maybe there’s a better way to do this or something I’m overlooking. I have 21 hours to decide 
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Post by Garbage game on Feb 20, 2021 2:32:17 GMT -5
ʂɬɛɛƖ thanks for the clarification. I don’t do drones and don’t know what’s good or bad but I’ve seen a couple times now a stealthed Loki running around with a shooting drone and it’s super annoying. Making my own extra annoying Loki is my only interest in a drone, don’t plan on investing anymore since it all looks weak to me. Unless maybe there’s a better way to do this or something I’m overlooking. I have 21 hours to decide If anything you'd want to be more stealthy in a Loki vs peppering people with "massive" 200dmg hits that say: "Hey I'm here trying to steal your beacon." I'd say the shooting drones are only kinda worth it on range bots like a Pulsar Leech or the Golden Turd that can still shoot drones while being a Golden Turd |
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Post by Pulse Hadron on Feb 20, 2021 3:05:41 GMT -5
If anything you'd want to be more stealthy in a Loki vs peppering people with "massive" 200dmg hits that say: "Hey I'm here trying to steal your beacon." Most people know there’s a Loki about, though it is funny the occasional time flipping a beacon right behind a red. I’ll have to learn to control when it shoots. My intent is to break up those dumb situations where I’m on a beacon with a red that can’t shoot me but the red can ignore me (apart from staying on the beacon). Shooting them can cause consternation and maybe get them to try something so then I can try something and the fight is back on! When I encountered this on the other side, I couldn’t hit the Loki but it was shooting me (unusual because I usually run Quantum Radar), it was greatly confounding, and yes it wasn’t hurting me much but it wasn’t insignificant. Though I don’t know how pimped out that drone was and maybe a pimped out Pilot too can affect it and boosters. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2021 4:41:36 GMT -5
Not using drones is like running a marathon, but you are the only one doing it while hopping in a sack. Hey, it's your misery alone but you really are missing out.
There are too many effect/bot/weapon combos for me to get into all that. Let's just say about the healing chips alone....
Healing when taking damage, extra healing when already healing, extra damage resistance when healing, etc... By itself can make it seem impossible to kill bots that where already hard to kill. I see mini guys like blitz acting like phantoms lol.
Not using drones...I think it's a bad idea with no honor in it for holding that fort lol. Besides they are kinda fun when you get into it. I'm having fun figuring them out.
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Post by Pulse Hadron on Feb 20, 2021 5:03:41 GMT -5
Let's just say about the healing chips alone.... Healing when taking damage, extra healing when already healing, extra damage resistance when healing, etc... By itself can make it seem impossible to kill bots that where already hard to kill. I see mini guys like blitz acting like phantoms lol.. That’s the thing, when I look at chip stats they sound really weak and can’t tell if they’ll really do anything. And the descriptions are incomplete so I can’t be sure what they’ll actually do. Plus it’s a mess, I think I get the whole drone mechanism now but it’s such a hassle to navigate and manage and primarily too expensive. Besides all that I have zero interest in playing high league. Looks like a bunch of gimmicky spazzes to me. I stay around low expert which has its share of spazzes but has variety, protracted engagements, and drones aren’t ubiquitous. Also that twitching dingleberry next to my bot is annoying. I’ll limit myself to one : ) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2021 5:25:46 GMT -5
Let's just say about the healing chips alone.... Healing when taking damage, extra healing when already healing, extra damage resistance when healing, etc... By itself can make it seem impossible to kill bots that where already hard to kill. I see mini guys like blitz acting like phantoms lol.. That’s the thing, when I look at chip stats they sound really weak and can’t tell if they’ll really do anything. And the descriptions are incomplete so I can’t be sure what they’ll actually do. Plus it’s a mess, I think I get the whole drone mechanism now but it’s such a hassle to navigate and manage and primarily too expensive. Besides all that I have zero interest in playing high league. Looks like a bunch of gimmicky spazzes to me. I stay around low expert which has its share of spazzes but has variety, protracted engagements, and drones aren’t ubiquitous. Also that twitching dingleberry next to my bot is annoying. I’ll limit myself to one : ) Yeah I get it. I'm really low League too dropped to E1 now. About to fall through the floor into diamond lol. But the drones are out there and everyone is applying them. I just don't wanna be behind on something else lol |
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Post by Pulse Hadron on Feb 20, 2021 21:38:50 GMT -5
Welp, I bought the chip and so far it doesn’t seem to have the effect on others that it had on me 🤣🤣🤣 Although I forget to use it most times because selecting a drone is not my habit.
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Post by Garbage game on Feb 21, 2021 0:51:35 GMT -5
If anything you'd want to be more stealthy in a Loki vs peppering people with "massive" 200dmg hits that say: "Hey I'm here trying to steal your beacon." Most people know there’s a Loki about, though it is funny the occasional time flipping a beacon right behind a red. I’ll have to learn to control when it shoots. My intent is to break up those dumb situations where I’m on a beacon with a red that can’t shoot me but the red can ignore me (apart from staying on the beacon). Shooting them can cause consternation and maybe get them to try something so then I can try something and the fight is back on! When I encountered this on the other side, I couldn’t hit the Loki but it was shooting me (unusual because I usually run Quantum Radar), it was greatly confounding, and yes it wasn’t hurting me much but it wasn’t insignificant. Though I don’t know how pimped out that drone was and maybe a pimped out Pilot too can affect it and boosters. Acid sprayer could possibly make it do ok damage over time, but more than likely just sucks. Just get the Chester pilot if you want some free hits while still in stealth |
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Post by Rollo Tomasi on Feb 21, 2021 6:53:08 GMT -5
Up till now I haven’t bothered with drones but last night thought I’d try something out with the drone junk that’s been won. So I put this Imitating Rifle Shooter chip in a drone and deployed it but I never see the drone fire. I believe it’s supposed to fire automatically every 10 seconds but I never see it fire, no animation, no damage to red. Except, when I first used it in my first test I think I saw it fire once, but never since. I’ll pick a red and track them for 30 seconds with line-of-sight at 300m and still it doesn’t fire. What’s up yo? Edit: hmmm, this Imitating Rifle chip says it shoots simultaneously with the robot while 2 other shooter chips say they shoot independently. I was testing this drone setup with a Loki in stealth mode which obviously isn’t firing. So, if I get the Target-seeking-minigun-shooter which says it shoots independently will it fire when my Loki is in stealth? It’s 5000 gold for the chip so I want to be sure. With scraps from a couple Ops Passes, Event Loot Box winnings, and one T3 Acid chip purchase, I assembled this, which is my most pimped out drone. I never spent Au on shooter chips, but still this has at least 6k Au into it and it’s roughly the same as having a single 2.12 500m Sting. It does about 72k every 20s as long as there are targets. I would def not spend the full Au required to assemble this from direct purchases.  |
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Post by maverick on Feb 21, 2021 13:09:45 GMT -5
Most people know there’s a Loki about, though it is funny the occasional time flipping a beacon right behind a red. I’ll have to learn to control when it shoots. My intent is to break up those dumb situations where I’m on a beacon with a red that can’t shoot me but the red can ignore me (apart from staying on the beacon). Shooting them can cause consternation and maybe get them to try something so then I can try something and the fight is back on! When I encountered this on the other side, I couldn’t hit the Loki but it was shooting me (unusual because I usually run Quantum Radar), it was greatly confounding, and yes it wasn’t hurting me much but it wasn’t insignificant. Though I don’t know how pimped out that drone was and maybe a pimped out Pilot too can affect it and boosters. Acid sprayer could possibly make it do ok damage over time, but more than likely just sucks. Just get the Chester pilot if you want some free hits while still in stealth I have acid sprayer in a wasp drone and can't tell you the amount of times I have recorded a kill from DOT effect. |
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Post by Garbage game on Feb 21, 2021 23:37:39 GMT -5
Acid sprayer could possibly make it do ok damage over time, but more than likely just sucks. Just get the Chester pilot if you want some free hits while still in stealth I have acid sprayer in a wasp drone and can't tell you the amount of times I have recorded a kill from DOT effect. Is it zero? |
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Post by maverick on Feb 22, 2021 5:06:33 GMT -5
I have acid sprayer in a wasp drone and can't tell you the amount of times I have recorded a kill from DOT effect. Is it zero? Well above zero. Many, many times. |
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Post by Pilot #RG# on Feb 22, 2021 5:14:07 GMT -5
Welp, I bought the chip and so far it doesn’t seem to have the effect on others that it had on me 🤣🤣🤣 Although I forget to use it most times because selecting a drone is not my habit. Decide which bot and drone combination works for you in advance. Then arrange the bot and respective drones in same order in hangars. That way you can double tap to select your drone and bot without much ambiguity. |
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Post by Garbage game on Feb 22, 2021 15:11:07 GMT -5
Well above zero. Many, many times. I don’t wanna be dismissive, but maybe its a thing below Master’s league |
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