Ballistic Bro Changelogs Discussion

[Butcher]

The HMC effectively does not have sights.

ok, "aim mode".. I think you understood what I meant...

[Azarael]

I meant it from an implementation perspective. Its aim is almost dead-on regardless of how it's used.

[Butcher]

General
Team beacon will indicate HP by its color when healing weapons are in use or if the user specifies this to be a global behaviour. This required updates to all the code packages.

It's very useful to not waste HMC ammo. I notice the font size increased too...

It seems to be common agreement that HMC needs a boost. Would you consider to improve this weapon a bit?
Some ideas for it:
- Simply add some more damage to the secondary.
- or increase damage to only push/pull modes with a Decrease in damage on health mode.
- or improve strength of push/pull that you may effectively push or pull someone, maybe with a decreasing in time of use function. At first blast very strong and reduces with time of use.
- Usage of aim mode in primary with bonus.
- Add a shield mode for when the whole opponent team is targeting the healer.

[CaptainXavious]

Shield for tanking while team heals from you is implemented on the defibs.

If any of the alt fire modes were to do damage, I imagine it would be the heal mode simply so you can't lock an enemy down while also hurting them.

I think HMC is perfectly fine as-is (though I still feel primary could use a rework). The team beacon was all it needed to make it awesome.

[Butcher]

Shield for tanking while team heals from you is implemented on the defibs.

If any of the alt fire modes were to do damage, I imagine it would be the heal mode simply so you can't lock an enemy down while also hurting them.

I think HMC is perfectly fine as-is (though I still feel primary could use a rework). The team beacon was all it needed to make it awesome.

I agree tha HMC is a great weapon Xav and is a perfect match for Teamdeathmatch or Onslaugh or CTF. The issue is that with the actual Freon Skill system you ain't able to use this weapon and have a good result, so it needs in my concept a buff such that you are able to Kill. Nobody wants to be the medic if your skill is sinking in each match.
My suggestion is something like:
Heal mode, primary should have a shield generated (as shield gun in normal UT) for the duration of the charge pulse, and secondary only heal with no damage to the opponent.
Push/pull mode, Primary charge pulse as is and secondary with a bit more damage than the actual one including RFF. It could be matched with Viper secondary for balance.

[Aberiu]

Fixed bot aim

I finally managed to kill her when she went wicked sick. The whole match I was like
Makes me somewhat proud of my creation, though. lol

[iRobot]

Did you set the bot characteristics to be max stats when you made it?

A lot of skin creators seem to do that..

[Aberiu]

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Accuracy=+2,CombatStyle=+2,Tactics=+2,ReactionTime=+2,StrafingAbility=+2,Aggressiveness=-2,FavoriteWeapon=xWeapons.ShockRifle

I used to set them close to the max values back then because even godlike bots are usually too weak in duels with stock weapons. However, I've never seen anything like that before.

[Definitelynotjay]

Can we remove certain weapons from the bot's loadouts. Any bot with a powerful gun (R9, Railgun, M925, etc)
Destroys everyone. I'm getting absolutely owned.

[Butcher]

Can we remove certain weapons from the bot's loadouts. Any bot with a powerful gun (R9, Railgun, M925, etc)
Destroys everyone. I'm getting absolutely owned.

lol... super bots?... YOU MAY NOTICE THE IMPORTANCE OF AIM by this -> "use iron sights or aim mode" is the message