list of different mob behaviors and attributes?

ussjohnbrown

Is there a list of what types of mobs do what?

Like which shoot poison, which have shhot fire, which are fast vs slow, which explode or have special animations upon death etc. ?

markhawkman

well, Borg, Romulan, and Voth ships have special death animations. Borg make masses of floating debris when exploded, Romulans singularity collapses, and Voth do that Warp ship thing.

ussjohnbrown

Im thinking of ground combat specifically

thay8472

They all shoot at the same pace really ... that said ...

(?) = not sure

Federation: Phaser
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Klingon/Orion/Gorn/Nausicaan: Disruptor
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Some Lieutenant mobs for the Klingons and Gorn spawn 'dogs' in addition to themselves.

Romulan/Reman: Disruptor
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Romulan/Reman Republic: Disruptor/Plasma
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Cardassian: Phaser
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Breen: Cold / Polaron (?)
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Dominion: Polaron
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Devidians: Proton (?)
Death animation: They combust (?)

Tholian: Antiproton (?)
Death animation: They fall to the ground

-Captain level mobs have an ability to one hit kill via a mine of death or their 'backpack' of death-

Species 8472/Undine: Psi / Antiproton
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Borg: Plasma
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Kobali: Polaron
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Hirogen: Tetryon
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Mirror: Phaser
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Elachi: Disruptor
Death animation: They fall to the ground
Death animation 2: the flying robots will explode

Vaadwaur: Polaron
Death animation: They fall to the ground

Fek'lhr: Poison / Kinetic (?)
Death animation: They fall to the ground (?)

Heralds: Antiproton (?)
Death animation: Some explode, others get vaporized by their sticks.

Wildlife (Targs/ Snowdogs / Epohhs etc ): Kinetic
Death animation: They fall to the ground

duncanidaho11

As far as I know, no one has compiled a list of those characteristics for ground mobs. I think people just pick up a sense of who does what from working with them in the Foundry or playing the game (these are the same basic units). And there's big advantages to that intuitive approach given how much variation there can be within mobs.

Some members will have some special characteristic, ex. cloaking devices, targs, or shields, which others of the same group don't. It depends a lot more on rank and faction, not mob, and a lot of those special abilities are exclusive. Treating each as its own category therefore has definite problems associated with it. Something like "poison" may have general idea behind it (ie. poison) but the units that use it (Fek'lhr ensigns, Bluegill, spiders) differ so much in how that you're going to need a special description for each faction (and rank) explaining all their variation. And at that point you're better off just making a general set of descriptions rather than a spreadsheet, considering this applies for just about everything. Weapon speed? Are they KDF? If so are they using their ranged or melee weapon? Ranged? Could be a pulse wave, but others use dual pistols and other disruptor weapons too. Depends on what mob and who in that mob you're talking about.

Fundamentally STO NPC's haven't been built to make a trait/stat spreadsheet easy to make. That isn't to say that no one could (you would just have to generalize a lot), but it's something you'd probably have to do yourself if interested.

markhawkman

Oh yeah, pet summoning. Some summon pets. You can't change how the pets look at all. This is especially important with Remans, Hirogen, and Cardassians, but only the Captain mobs.

Don't we also have a mob that includes a Changeling? Pretty sure they look the same in combat no matter what we skin them as.

duncanidaho11

markhawkman wrote: »

Oh yeah, pet summoning. Some summon pets. You can't change how the pets look at all. This is especially important with Remans, Hirogen, and Cardassians, but only the Captain mobs.

Klingons too (targ), and Gorn (attack saurs). Those handlers will also be included in mid-tier mobs.