Quite why people moaned about not being able to choose special effects is beyond me. The while point was that they were special. Not liking that part at all.
Patch Notes Update Update 2.1.03 Incoming
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Is this a fix for the missions offering you a bonus for completing early, but the timer is already showing 0:00 minutes when you receive the mission update?
Yep. If you don't get an effect naturally, it's two levels to get the one you want. If you do get one, it's one level to choose it.
Don't get me wrong, it's good to see an update but still no fix for the black shapes at resource extraction sites on Xbox one is a bit ridiculous.
While usually I am first to drop an eponymous "Git Gud" I think this is actually an excellent point. Up until 2.1 Combat rank has been a matter of numbers, the NPCs were phenomenally easy to deal with allowing players to essentially "farm" their way to the top ranks. Now with the changes to the AI shifting the focus onto skill as the primary determining factor, those who rushed to Elite (and many did so in order to win the competition of "first to Elite and 3lite") are now facing enemies they have not developed the requisite skill to face down. Having NPC rank spawns based upon the combat ranks achieved prior to 2.1 and the AI upgrade is going to massively frustrate those players, and I think that should have been taken into account.
**Disclaimer**
I'm not high ranked in ANY of my PF ranks. I AM enjoying the challenges I face now. However I can see this from the other side and do believe that this is a valid issue.
Absolutely agree with this.
Because they have specific functions that are new. Functions that can be used for specific way to play the game.
If you go to an Engineer with the intent to improve damage but instead get "healing beams" (or the other way around) the effect will go completely against what you were trying to achieve.
- Reduced the number of engineer mods on AI ships substantially, now only Deadly & Elite rank ships are guaranteed to have mods and any below Master are guaranteed to have none
Does that mean every single NPC Deadly or Elite Ship will have ENG Weapons, or is there still some randomness?
Does that mean every single NPC Deadly or Elite Ship will have ENG Weapons, or is there still some randomness?
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Exactly my feelings on the matter too.
As any player who can destroy Expert NPCs will (eventually) reach Elite Combat - how soon before players find that their NPC opponents are less "fun"....?
hopefully this fixes the BUZZ CRASHING
Agreed, this would be far more immersive and much better for the players
- When determining the rank of NPC ships, use the player's combat rank, rather than their highest PF rank, although add 1 rank if their trade or exploration rank is higher than their combat rank
- Improvements to turret tracking: When evaluating confusion the turret will now take into account the apparently linear acceleration of the target actually caused by angular acceleration of the firing vehicle.
Yes. All of this. Much better. [up]
- Improvements to turret tracking: When evaluating confusion the turret will now take into account the apparently linear acceleration of the target actually caused by angular acceleration of the firing vehicle.
Yes. All of this. Much better. [up]
But the specials should be just that. Anything else is a bonus. What should happen now is every effect should get "rebalanced" so that they aren't as good since people are now able to choose. Or have it that naturally occurring ones are better than player picked as a way to rebalance. Also the rep gain with engineers needs to be looked at as it is way to easy to gain rep.
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Guaranteed.
Maybe, we should have an option to make a One Time drop to our combat Rank. Say, down two levels.
Its a One time thing per account, and should not be allowed if you currently have the Combat Rank of Elite AND have ships parked at Founders World.
Other than that, if this patch lowers the interdictions that I have been having (not the levels of the NPC's but the Raw Number of times) then it will be much better for me. Get one tonne of anything in your hold and it puts a sign on your back to "Kick Me" and every NPC in the area can read it and does
Brett C
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So if I am level 5 with say todd and I don't get a special I will be demoted to level 3 and will then need to craft 3 level 3's and 3 level 4's to get back to where I was?
What if I craft a level 1 upgrade, do I get demoted back to level 3 ?
Sorry to be a grumpy git, but with so many people protesting about the material acquisition and RNG mechanics if it is how I describe it hasn't that just thrown a whole load of petrol onto things?
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Great work, thanks!
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