Elite: Game talk
13 Jan 2017, 9:35pm
http://massivelyop.com/2016/06/01/how-elite-dangerous-engineers-update-triggered-a-player-massacre/
It appears from that article that some scaling back was done after I left.
13 Jan 2017, 10:36pm
Simon DaturaI hope not. Last thing we need is to make the NPCs easier.
Your answer was not helpful and actually it seems to have been misleading.
14 Jan 2017, 11:50pm
SoonzuhDid some digging and found this to put my post in context:
http://massivelyop.com/2016/06/01/how-elite-dangerous-engineers-update-triggered-a-player-massacre/
It appears from that article that some scaling back was done after I left.
There was an awful lot of hand-wringing and wailing, before a march with pitchforks and torches. I was one of the crowd that actually enjoyed the more challenging NPCs and was sad when they turned it back down. For a while, PvE actually became fun and closer to fighting a human. Still, there are many other examples of worse AI issues e.g.: a pirate follows you as you drop on a station, ignoring that they face certain death when they fire on you in front of one meeelion big guns.
15 Jan 2017, 6:05am
15 Jan 2017, 10:12am
Simon DaturaSo they did make NPCs easier did they?
Yes, although you could probably say that they made them difficult for a very short period of time with one patch and then reversed it fairly quickly with another.
15 Jan 2017, 10:36am
Seriously though, the NPCs were fine before the patch. I enjoyed the challenging AI.
15 Jan 2017, 11:27am
15 Jan 2017, 12:05pm
15 Jan 2017, 12:22pm
Simon DaturaSo then the comment about my answer being not helpful was unnecessary.
Seriously though, the NPCs were fine before the patch. I enjoyed the challenging AI.
Only the person who made the comment can answer that. Ditto.
15 Jan 2017, 12:25pm
NumaThere wasn't so much of a nerf rather than fixing the impossible weapons they had gotten in 2.1, the perceived drop in difficulty was mostly due to that. And as much as I can understand the dispointed top guns, FD have to balance the game around the average pilot. That unavoidably leaves a bored high end pilot group and a low end rabble group still complaining that it is too hard. Though to me it seems that 2.2 got it mostly right. The complaints of too easy or too hard are at an all time low on the forums.
I know, we need to make it fun for all people. I think I have a solution though. I have invented the idea of a 'difficulty setting'. It would allow players to choose how hard the combat would be. Now don't tell anyone, because I haven't filed the patent yet.
15 Jan 2017, 12:27pm
Evgeny ZiComplaints too low already cuz no one doing combat now because its too broken and there are much more fun games to play?
Probably a bit of that, but I think most people are focusing on the bug with the FAS cockpit design and how it needs to be urgently fixed by FD.
15 Jan 2017, 12:43pm
Ozmundo VasqualezI know, we need to make it fun for all people. I think I have a solution though. I have invented the idea of a 'difficulty setting'. It would allow players to choose how hard the combat would be. Now don't tell anyone, because I haven't filed the patent yet.
Not working in an MMO setting. One difficulty for all. In ED you could make it work, by only instancing players together that play on the same setting, but that would split the players up even more.
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