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Hive Skirmish
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I'm pretty sure devs are aware of this, but just a polite reminder =)
Most of the bots in hive skirmish missions still just sit around and do nothing until attacked. Only a small portion of the bots are active at a time. This includes the xang xi bots.
You guys know that flares fired by NPCs do not trigger on other NPCs right? So having "friendly" wraiths spamming flares during hive skirmish only hurts players through collateral damage.
I'm pretty sure devs are aware of this, but just a polite reminder =)
Most of the bots in hive skirmish missions still just sit around and do nothing until attacked. Only a small portion of the bots are active at a time. This includes the xang xi bots.
You guys know that flares fired by NPCs do not trigger on other NPCs right? So having "friendly" wraiths spamming flares during hive skirmish only hurts players through collateral damage.
"You guys know that flares fired by NPCs do not trigger on other NPCs right? So having "friendly" wraiths spamming flares during hive skirmish only hurts players through collateral damage."
When I saw the Hive Skirmish title, I was just about to chome in with this... yeah, it's absurd that a wraith can spam flares at a guardian or hive bot and they just streak past. In fact, as far as I can tell, flares fired by NPCs will not detonate on other NPCs in any event. Unrats and Border Skirmish suffer from the same thing.
When I saw the Hive Skirmish title, I was just about to chome in with this... yeah, it's absurd that a wraith can spam flares at a guardian or hive bot and they just streak past. In fact, as far as I can tell, flares fired by NPCs will not detonate on other NPCs in any event. Unrats and Border Skirmish suffer from the same thing.
Could be an issue with friendly fire. Since they are all part of the same "faction" shots will bounce off
Friendly fire would cause the flares to detonate, but do no damage. The flares don't even explode. I've seen them pass straight through slow moving bots or capships during some battles like that.
Yeah. I didn't realize that was still the case; there was some asinine check in there intended to prevent your own rockets from hitting you but all bots were considered to be the same person. I fixed that on the test server last night, I think. Didn't fully test it yet. Also fixed the fact that the collectors weren't mining.
As for the hive skirmish bots.. yeah.. bots are pretty bad at figuring out what to do when they're in groups, and I need to focus some effort there. Hmm.
As for the hive skirmish bots.. yeah.. bots are pretty bad at figuring out what to do when they're in groups, and I need to focus some effort there. Hmm.
Took a few hive skirmish missions today that ended literally about 2 minutes after I got in the sector. Most of them were listed as 10-15 bot counts, but ended after 4 or 5 kills.
more annoying is to enter the sector and there is no red dot anywhere.
happened to me a few times too