A suggestion for the "Borg Assimilator Probes"

imperialspartan

So these is my own opinion for these Hanger Pets, the Probes have an awesome design and the ability is good, the only thing I say to help them is adding a Plasma Torpedo to help the DPS for them, nothing to fancy just the Torpedo for the Normal, Rare, and Elite variant, so I do hope in the mid future the developer add the Torpedo to the Probes

lianthelia

The main problem with them is they need to get the killing blow to get the damage boost and unless you're soloing and let them get the kill they rarely get it

husanakx

lianthelia wrote: »

The main problem with them is they need to get the killing blow to get the damage boost and unless you're soloing and let them get the kill they rarely get it

I doubt they make any changes to them...
Having said that a Plasma torp isn't a bad idea. It would really help them get the final kill.
Especially if they were to give the purple versions a copy of HY 1... and the elites a copy of HY 3 or something.
The romulan drones with Plasma torps can land 300k torp hits on a advance console build. That would be more then enough to get the odd killing blow as destructible plasmas will also retarget.

It could be all that is really needed to fix them. Give them a torp give them HY patterns.

rattler2

Hate to say it but it could be a balance issue. Make them too powerful, and you'll have an entire armada of assimilated ships filling the map. Might also negatively impact other players in TFOs.

While it is possible the Probes need a bit of a boost, you also have to consider the multiplayer side of things and how any kind of boost may impact that. I doubt it was intended to be able to singlehandedly assimilate every ship on a map like some kinda sound like they want to be able to do.

I mean is it doable as is now? Probably, but would take a lot of work to do it, and probably almost no firing from the carrier itself to guarantee that assimilating shot. There are also other ways to assimilate ships as well that we've had for a while so in a theme build there are alternatives that can work alongside it.

husanakx

rattler2 wrote: »

Hate to say it but it could be a balance issue. Make them too powerful, and you'll have an entire armada of assimilated ships filling the map. Might also negatively impact other players in TFOs.

While it is possible the Probes need a bit of a boost, you also have to consider the multiplayer side of things and how any kind of boost may impact that. I doubt it was intended to be able to singlehandedly assimilate every ship on a map like some kinda sound like they want to be able to do.

I mean is it doable as is now? Probably, but would take a lot of work to do it, and probably almost no firing from the carrier itself to guarantee that assimilating shot. There are also other ways to assimilate ships as well that we've had for a while so in a theme build there are alternatives that can work alongside it.

Unless I'm mistaken they can only assimilate one ship each. They basically turn into the assimilated ship. Unless I'm mistaken they cap out at 4, for this reason.

It would be hardly any more broken then having 5 or 6 Fleet support spawns with the 3 ship clicky out at one time by the end of any TFO that doesn't end in 3m. I mean I can easily spam 15-18 fleet support ships into TFOs like SB1.