In that situation? Shields up and run through... at close range most enemies don't track fast enough. You might lose shields and up to 30% health (if there's a half dozen enemies) but you'll come out ok.
I was talking about grenades there.
OK, but as pointed out elsewhere in-thread, they throw to the last place you were seen. In scavenger encounters, this really hasn't been a problem for me so far as it's simple enough to just keep moving and not allow yourself to be pinned down. In conflict zones, it can be more of an issue as you're often engaging another NPC when the grenades come in, which sometimes results in shields going down. There is a visual indication that a grenade is coming in, along with a sound. Either of those and I will disengage and move.The grenade chucking was added to counter us hiding on roofs, but their ability to target you perfectly in 3D from one shot, even at 200m+, is a bit off, even if they can’t shoot straight.
If someone shoots me in the back of the head I’ve got a 2D scanner to determine the direction and I’ve then got to figure out what height it came from. NPCs can presumably tell from the burning sensation the trajectory of the plasma shot.
Don't be afraid to remap the keys - I also found the default bindings led to me dropping shields when I meant to crouch, because I'm used to C being crouch from the Unreal Tournament days. I moved grenade to G (which I'm used to from countless other games) and shields to X (which I don't think I've ever hit by accident, but if you do ever press that choose something further away).
Fair enough - we get hit indicators though and grenades leave a "light trail" that helps with target acquisition. We can handwave that with "NPCs get hit indicators too." I actually think that's consistent; NPC ships use highest threat and can target the last ship that hit them.
Which is exactly why I think that very little in terms of NPC behaviour actually needs to be changed. More information about threat levels and a clear, consistent correlation between the reported and actual threat levels is all that really needs to happen.
You think moderators are here to control how you speak? You can't just say whatever you want and hope the moderators don't catch it? There's a set of rules to follow that you are breaking (flaming) in this case.I’ll act how I like, if the moderators have a problem with me they will let me know.
Pretty much all I’ve seen from you is complaints about the combat system and you shifting the goal posts on what’s wrong with it whenever anyone has made a suggestion to you.
You come to this thread, not to discuss the OP’s point, but to warn them of the “facetious faux-intellects” and when people try to offer help, you just make out it a sign of their perceived superiority, bringing nothing useful to the conversation.
Looks to me like you’re projecting.
That would fail, because the edge of many buildings has an overhang, which also has a simple solution, which would have the side effect of enemies not walking under covered spaces. It would also fail on non- building rises.
