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New Elite Command Kodai Fighters have a design flaw which is effectively a double nerf
pottsey5g
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The new Elite fighters don’t make a lot of sense to me with the design. They lose 8% raw DPS to gain an ability that once every 40 ish seconds they gain a Torpedo Spread 1 from Command Auras. The problem is the Elite Fighters have an inbuilt Rank 3 firing mode that is replaced by a lower damage Rank 1 firing mode.
It looks like we are giving up a Torpedo Spread 3 to gain a Torpedo Spread 1 on top of losing 8% raw damage.
The idea behind Command and Temporal abilities for the new pets is a great idea but the way it’s been implanted doesn’t really work, doesn’t open any new game paths or benefit the player in any way. In fact it hurts the player as the Command Kodai Fighters are a double downgrade over Kodai Fighters.
Why would anyone want to lose 8% base damage and give up torpedo spread 3 to gain torpedo spread 1? Unless I am missing something I don't understanding the reasoning behind the design.
This next bit is technically not a bug. I have given up trying to make use of Entropy and Temporal Fighters. Love the idea of the Temporal Fighters and the way they apply Entropy. But once Entropy is applied I am not able to do anything effective or useful even with the new Temporal Replication which sounded great but has been very disappointing in function. The wording is misleading as it doesn't work on commander powers like it says. I trigger RSP3 and nothing happens. None of the Commander powers I use work with the new Temporal Replication trait.
EDIT: Further update:
Elite Command Kodai pets only have HY1 and TS1. The UI says different but I am not seeing any HY3 or TS3 in the combat log or on screen.
As a Engineer Carrier I am finding "Temporal Replication" trait near impossible to use. Very little seems to count not even Commander powers like Boarding party.
It looks like we are giving up a Torpedo Spread 3 to gain a Torpedo Spread 1 on top of losing 8% raw damage.
The idea behind Command and Temporal abilities for the new pets is a great idea but the way it’s been implanted doesn’t really work, doesn’t open any new game paths or benefit the player in any way. In fact it hurts the player as the Command Kodai Fighters are a double downgrade over Kodai Fighters.
Why would anyone want to lose 8% base damage and give up torpedo spread 3 to gain torpedo spread 1? Unless I am missing something I don't understanding the reasoning behind the design.
This next bit is technically not a bug. I have given up trying to make use of Entropy and Temporal Fighters. Love the idea of the Temporal Fighters and the way they apply Entropy. But once Entropy is applied I am not able to do anything effective or useful even with the new Temporal Replication which sounded great but has been very disappointing in function. The wording is misleading as it doesn't work on commander powers like it says. I trigger RSP3 and nothing happens. None of the Commander powers I use work with the new Temporal Replication trait.
EDIT: Further update:
Elite Command Kodai pets only have HY1 and TS1. The UI says different but I am not seeing any HY3 or TS3 in the combat log or on screen.
As a Engineer Carrier I am finding "Temporal Replication" trait near impossible to use. Very little seems to count not even Commander powers like Boarding party.
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Elite Command Kodai pets only have HY1 and TS1. The UI says different but I am not seeing any HY3 or TS3 in the combat log or on screen.
As a Engineer Carrier I am finding "Temporal Replication" trait near impossible to use. Very little seems to count not even Commander powers like Boarding party.
PS5.
Temporal Replication :
"When your Bridge Officer uses a Shield Drain Ability, your ship has a 33% chance to trigger a Rank 1 Gravimetric Conversion, Rapid Decay and/or Timeline Collapse Temp Ops Ability automatically.
This has an internal Cooldown of 20 seconds"
That is different from what the blog says and what the traits says on the PC version.
Screenshot of the combat log showing the double nerf with the loss of HY3, TS3 and raw 8% DPS drop.
I am also still struggling with "Temporal Replication which sounded great but has been very disappointing in function. The wording is misleading as it doesn't work on commander powers like it says. I trigger RSP3 and nothing happens. None of the Commander powers I use work with the new Temporal Replication trait." tried almost all my Engineer Commander powers none of them are working.
As I said before the idea behind the new Command pets and Temporal pets is really, really good. But the implantation is poor as they do not work. How can we fairly judge the pets when they are in this broken state. My worry is no one is using them as they are broken so this great idea is going to be abandoned due to lack of player use not because the idea is bad but because the pets have never been fixed.
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