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Misunderstanding how Aceton Assimilator works?
shookyang
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I get the radiation damage.
What I don't get is the subsystem drain.
My Aceton Assimilator says that it drains -26 to subsystems per second.
And yet, when I tested it with a fleetmate, they told me that nothing was changing on their subsystems. He even tried firing, and did not see any drain on his weapon subsystems.
So, is it broken? Or, am I just not understanding how it works?
What I don't get is the subsystem drain.
My Aceton Assimilator says that it drains -26 to subsystems per second.
And yet, when I tested it with a fleetmate, they told me that nothing was changing on their subsystems. He even tried firing, and did not see any drain on his weapon subsystems.
So, is it broken? Or, am I just not understanding how it works?
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Speccing into flow capacitors improves the drain in the tooltip, perhaps it only drains power when someone shoots at it.
Still, my 2 assimilators with -23 power per second cannot shut down a pve ship while tyken's rift (-10 per second) does.
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-23 (or -26) power per second is a lot.
But don't worry, it will be fixed when feds have access to it through a lock box.
Even still, if he wasn't seeing a drain, shouldn't it at least impact the energy regeneration somewhat? Particularly when they are firing? I would think two Aceton Assimilators would have done something...
Yeah, I saw the animation. I placed two of them within 5km of their ship. Still nothing.
Although the drain doesn't seem to work properly, the radiation damage, when fired upon by energy weapons, does about 1k damage without buffs.
I think by itself it won't do much. I use more as a support tool.
Seems odd.
I just did a quick test in chos nebula against a galor on elite setting.
According to the powers bar they drain 29 energy each, do 49 radiation damage every second and 984 radiation damage when hit with energy damage.
Against the galor they did 5 damage per second when shielded and 42-50 damage when unshielded.
The galor did slow down quite a bit, actually enough that the two assimilators took down the facing shield, although that happened when the galor used fire at will.
Do enemies in pve have resistances?
Also, if the power drain was working, it shouldn't drain their shields, just reduce their resistance. It's more likely that the radiation damage was weakening the shields.
If it was a static -29 to all power systems (like power siphon), 2 assimilators would be enough to do the same (or at least if ships have more than 50 power to all subsystems, which I doubt, they should move really slow as you can see when you drop a weak rank 1 tyken's rift).
I am pretty sure the drain doesn't work.
But like the 3p ground honor guard bonus, devs will never fix it for the 16% ppl who play KDF.
Like leech is, up to -18, but not -18 per second if you know what I mean.
Either way a dev needs to confirm it's working one way or another.
1x flow capacitor mk xii (very rare): +30
skills: +99
Honor Guard Deflector mk XII: +18
Rule 62 console: +17
aux power level: 118
With all of that, I get, I think, -27. Seeing as how you have 63 more points in Flow Capacitor, I'm curious to know what your Aceton Assimilators drain at.
4x flow capacitor mk xi rare. +104
flow capacitor skill. +99
Aux power is at 85 before plasmonic leech starts to stack.
I get -29.
I guess flow capacitor doesn't affect it. Much.
Haven't checked if drain increases with aux power.
When you tested them earlier, were you also attacking them with Plasmonic Leech?
If there's anyone that doesn't have drain resistance that would like to test it with me? I play at around 11pm PST. Send me a private message and we'll try and schedule some time to test this.
I tested the Aceton Assimilator against another fleet mate that had no points in Power Insulators (accept from some equipments).
It drained -13 from all of his subsystems and then was capped (about half of what the drain is supposed to do). Adding a second Aceton Assimilator did nothing (except more radiation damage).
When I tested it again with both the first and second fleet mates, with points in Power Insulators for the former and none for the latter, at the same time, the results were the same as previous tests.
That is to say:
1) The fleet mate with Power Insulator was able to 100% resist the Aceton Assimilator drain.
2) The fleet mate with no Power Insulators was able to resist 50% of the Aceton Assimialator or there is a cap on how much the subsystem can be drained. Also, the assimilator does not stack (not sure if that applies to 2 assimilators from the same player, or 2 assimilators from 2 players).
To my knowledge, there are no other drain abilities that are resisted 100% with Power Insulators. This doesn't seem correct to me. Especially for a c-store item.
Funny, some feds curse this item as being OP, iether as a single one or in groups, yet it seems to be subpar if one is skilled to resist drain and it doesn't even stack.
SO the old tactic of not firing upon it to boost its damage to maxium holds true.
So basically it does no drain if PI is maxxed, only radiation damage?
R.I.P
Avoiding attacking the Aceton Assimilators seems like the ideal situation. Right now, I'm only using for the radiation damage in PvP. When buffed with tac skills, it can do over 1k damage per energy hit before shields and resistance. it can drain shields pretty fast (as well as hull), if someone starts attacking it not realizing the damage it can do to themselves and their team. I also use for some payback against FAW.
As for Power Insulators, it appears that, if it's maxed, it completely negates the drain.
Not many of my fleet mates have Klingon characters, let alone Aceton Assimilators, so I can't test to see if multiple Aceton Assimilators from multiple players will cause the drain to stack. I'm kinda thinking it's not going to stack, period.
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