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Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.05.12 13:06:00 -
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Hecarim Van Hohen wrote:(oily drone on drone action)
Hot.
Hecarim Van Hohen wrote:Game modes, drones and the player. What would you like to see?
Would you like to see AI Drones in Exploration mode as a form of PvE?
Rogue drone invasions happening (rarely?) mid-match (PvPvE)?
Rogue drone incursions as exploration / mission sites?
Training drones for shooting ranges, tutorials and practice areas (with selectable "difficulty", damage (dps), damage type and drone size from light to heavy)
How about a horde mode that was so often asked to be implemented to Dust?
I have wanted a PvE system to fight drones since Uprising 1.0. I would like to see this fleshed out with two primary game modes: survival and extermination.
Survival Mode wrote:
- Minimum three merc squad required
- Time limit: None
- Rewards: SP + ISK (increases the more drones that are destroyed)
Survival mode pits the squad against waves of drones that increase in size and difficulty. Every 4 - 6 waves a boss wave event occurs that ramps up the difficulty. Successfully completing the boss waves awards bonus ISK. You may only die once before being eliminated, but you can be needled back to life.
Extermination Mode wrote:
- Minimum four merc squad required
- Time Limit: 15 - 30 minutes
- Rewards:SP + ISK (flat payout if mission is a success) + Chance for salvage
Extermination mode drops the squad into an infested drone hive. Mercs must search and destroy drones and their nests. Lower difficulty missions may only have the mercs destroying 10 - 20 drones within the time frame. Higher difficulties may have them fighting more drones, immobile drone gun placements, nests that can repair near-by drones, drones with EWAR, and a variety of other obstacles. A CRU is dropped at the entrance to the mission so mercs can die multiple times in this mode.
He imposes order on the chaos of organic evolution...
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Ripley Riley
Incorruptibles
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Posted - 2014.05.12 13:35:00 -
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Hecarim Van Hohen wrote:Equipment drones, what types of drones would you like to use?
Logistics drone for added support capability?
Sentry drone to aid you defend that one point you are holding by yourself?
ECM/ECCM drone(s) to inhibit enemies scanners, boost yours, reduced dB
Assault drone that hovers around you blasting away at enemies trying to kill you?
Shield/armor drone that protects you from certain amount of damage?
Stationary alarm drone that sends you a notification when it detects hostiles in X meter radius?
Accessory drones like what you are describing could occupy your equipment slots and have a whole tree of skills devoted to them. I would like to see a super-light variety of drone that fires at whatever you are aiming at, but only when you move within the drone's optimal range. They make circles around your merc a la electrons around an atom until they need to fire.
They would not have a high amount of HP, but they are small targets and moving relatively quickly so killing one isn't easy. They also won't be no-scoping badasses like the turrets currently in Dust 514. I'm thinking their initial weaponry will match the rifle weaponry used by each race (e.g Amarr drones would have a scrambler rifle, Caldari a rail rifle, and so on).
He imposes order on the chaos of organic evolution...
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Ripley Riley
Incorruptibles
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Posted - 2014.05.12 18:35:00 -
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Ender Storm wrote:PVE is all nice ad dandy, but wheres the risk?
Turn friendly fire on, make it where the ISK payout is divided by the number of mercs in the squad. That is how I imagine a legitimate mercenary contract would work anyway.
Merc 1, "Hmmm... it's just me and merc 2 left... and the ISK payout basically doubles if he's dead..."
*Aims at merc 2's exposed back.*
Merc 2, "Hey man, I need that nanohive whenever..."
*turns around*
"**** me..."
*BLAM!*
He imposes order on the chaos of organic evolution...
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