Small Engineer + Attack droid rework

[SomeRandomFish]

Suggestion of a small rework for these 2:
Engineer:
Inside a squad players using engineer class ship or at least any ship that has at least a repair target item should be able to see if their squad mates have their repair droids/shields/protectors ready so when we hurry to heal them before its too late we dont see them activate one of those 3 right after we used our healing on them and wasted it while we could have used it on a different squad mate who didnt have them ready, they should be able to see if one of those 3 are ready for a player on the squadron tab (the one where you could see all of your squad mates' hp, location or close the squad)

Attack droid:
simple one just make them not go crazy amd shoot random stuff...sometimes when i activate it to make it shoot something im shooting a few moments after wards i look at my attack droid and see it going for a death squad and im sitting here like "OH MY GOD NOOOO" maybe a toggle command for it? like make the droid only attack targets you command it to attack

 

[Vesperion]

Engineer:
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Basicly when i go for Engi i already start using the item when a sq mate is around 50% of the HP what may sound a bit "rushed" but considering that the items of the engi have a relative short CD (TR and Prot at least) it gives the sq mate enough time to survive and still have the RD ready on his own.

I have also seen the other version as well where i basicly did not use my items cus i waited for the Engi to do his job just to do nothing at all and i ended in Pod then .

Attack droid:
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Most simple solution would be that the AD only attacks a unit that you aim for and ignores everything else (basicly passive/command mode), Aside from that the ADs have such a paper armor that they currently drag stuff in and then go down after just a couple of hits leaving you with all the mess and have an insane CD until it can be used again

 

[KingSub]

Suggestion of a small rework for these 2:
Engineer:
Inside a squad players using engineer class ship or at least any ship that has at least a repair target item should be able to see if their squad mates have their repair droids/shields/protectors ready so when we hurry to heal them before its too late we dont see them activate one of those 3 right after we used our healing on them and wasted it while we could have used it on a different squad mate who didnt have them ready, they should be able to see if one of those 3 are ready for a player on the squadron tab (the one where you could see all of your squad mates' hp, location or close the squad)

Attack droid:
simple one just make them not go crazy amd shoot random stuff...sometimes when i activate it to make it shoot something im shooting a few moments after wards i look at my attack droid and see it going for a death squad and im sitting here like "OH MY GOD NOOOO" maybe a toggle command for it? like make the droid only attack targets you command it to attack

Would be nice feature but it is not necessary. We've got HP/Shield and Prot. bar and also in SQ Window we see already HP and Repair process.

I think the Attack droid is smarter than before. He acts faster and smarter. He less tend to shoot to anything for no reason

 

[dontbelive]

Would be nice to have a scan function for the AD, scan enemies and let AD do his job. Otherwise the AD takes lot of time to attack a new enemie. Also would be cool to add more armor to the AD cuz of the cooldown time.

 

[dontbelive]

Also would be cool to add more armor to the AD cuz of the cooldown time

Wanted compare the AD with the DD (Deflection Droid). Looking at both items DD is more powerful than AD (if it gets hit ofc, but in calon it will get hit often so this item is op there) bcuz it has a small cooldown around 25 seconds.

Both gets instant pod after OS, Aggrobomb, Sticky Bomb and guess who is instant ready and deals way more dmg .

AD needs to get 1/3 or 1/4 of dominator armor cuz of its long cooldown.

 

[hektor.barbossa]

Good engineer know when use what,what rd have sq members,look when they use,how long cd etc so basicaly no need any changes ...

Attack droid - who uses it ?

On lc you dont see range,you need to "know".
Same is with ad,need to know when use him to not pod.
It has many flaws, but which one has not .....

Nothing is perfect here and there is no reason to expect it to be.
You have to deal with what is there .

 

[KingSub]

Attack droid - who uses it ?

On lc you dont see range,you need to "know".
Same is with ad,need to know when use him to not pod.
It has many flaws, but which one has not .....

Nothing is perfect here and there is no reason to expect it to be.
You have to deal with what is there .

I build with my brother disruptor for tc and attack droids are awesome by the way you dont have to split your cryo with attack droids, so it is the most underrated tech. Sure he has weak armor, but remember how much damage the strong attack droid deals

Everything has his own strength and weakness in a game. So i agree with u here