Thoughts on new non-eng. stuff

Since engineer came out, obviously everyone is going to be talking about it alot. But I was wondering what everyone thought about everything else in the new update. (when i say everything else, I mean everything else that was intentional, not bugs or glitches).

My thoughts:
-I heard a lot of people complaining about Null Warlords at first, but not so much now. They own me only slightly more than the regular ones, so no nerf IMO. They're mostly bad in small spaces.
-You can actually aim at Vamp flies now! *happy dance* I haven't actually seen any splitting though since the new patch. Maybe I just need to play more.
-I was sort of disappointed to find that the cost of Blasts weren't reduced.
-New levels of LA means I don't get my precious Beam anymore. Still, it was a good fix to the problem of level 3 not being worth it for many people.

Anyway, what are the thoughts of my more experienced brethren?

I particularly like the ghost bug fixes.

I hate the addition to the beam every shot you miss it takes off 10 adren!!!!!!
Besides that every thing else is okay.

Grizzled_Imposter wrote:

I particularly like the ghost bug fixes.

Heh - providing I also fix what I broke when I fixed the other stuff.

For reference, I think the non-engineer changes are:

DruidsRPG
- Extra team artifacts, and LA changed to 4 levels. Key binding updated to support.
- Beam and bolt changed to work properly with the triple. Beam uses 10 adrenaline for a miss.
- Energy leech changed to only work on weapon damage (i.e. not rod, bolt, beam)
- medic blasts now heal your own pet, but you get no xp for it
- artifact kills now shown on F3 status screen
- Fixed bug where thrown health/adrenaline needed to hit the ground before being picked up.
- Ghost changes to stop weapons firing, reset zoom etc

Monsters
- VampireGnat and PoisonQueen slightly nerfed. VampireGnat score increased slightly.
- new Monster Controller with a slight preference for attacking higher level players
- BeamWarlord kill used to say zapped by a krall.
- Null Warlord now does slightly less damage but can null for up to 3 seconds.

But I may have missed something

Additional Ghost Changes:

Players Ghosting at end of wave teleport to destination.
Checks to make sure player has not "passed" destination.
Timeouts: Depending on level, Ghoster will not ghost for more than 16, 12, or 8 seconds (Ghoster will teleport to destination after timeout).

BotFodder wrote:

Additional Ghost Changes:

Players Ghosting at end of wave teleport to destination.
Checks to make sure player has not "passed" destination.
Timeouts: Depending on level, Ghoster will not ghost for more than 16, 12, or 8 seconds (Ghoster will teleport to destination after timeout).

Now ghosting in Seasons isnt so bad.

yeah ghosting is ok..(cept with that instant ghosting bug o.0..thats bad...

gottta say the nulls lords at first had me ticked cus bam one hit and i was done for ...but seein ive been playing on my engineer character..wiht lower health and absolutely no damage reeducation..i just have to say ti would be bad for noobs but aside form that its a good challange to balance out the engineeer class which btw is very good at bulting mini forts (with 2 enginneers its easy..)

the gnats havnt been a prob mtie be cus of the nerfing ..or it maybe just cus the sentinals get them either way its pretty good 3 thumbs up!

Szlat wrote:

- artifact kills now shown on F3 status screen

Does this include just the beam and bolt or is the rod also included?

ECHO wrote:

Szlat wrote:

- artifact kills now shown on F3 status screen

Does this include just the beam and bolt or is the rod also included?

Beam, Bolt, Rod, MegaBlast, Ultima.

Let me know if I have missed anything.

well there a blank that appears in the weapons screen fro killed by ...i believe tis titans....i culd go and kill myself to find out ..o.0...hmm...

--EDIT--
yeah titans rocks give blanks kiled by's in the wep section....

..so yeah..

Szlat wrote:

ECHO wrote:

Szlat wrote:

- artifact kills now shown on F3 status screen

Does this include just the beam and bolt or is the rod also included?

Beam, Bolt, Rod, MegaBlast, Ultima.

Let me know if I have missed anything.

How about repulsion? Sometimes AM can go repulsion-crazy on maps that you can fall off or lava etc...(I know I did before).

Heh, them flies are not that bad now. I don't either recall seeing one multiply at all. Do they still do it?

The null wookies ROCK!

I forgot to ask: Did Moof's summonable Queens and Giant Gasbags get implemented? Only 20 levels till my MM has both level 15 Loaded Monsters and 15 Monster Points.

XXBucketHeadXX wrote:

I hate the addition to the beam every shot you miss it takes off 10 adren!!!!!!
Besides that every thing else is okay.

well theres 1 simple solution to that.....don't miss. besides, any adren MASTER would most likely have an energy weapon, plus leech and drip and all that good stuff..so you'd have your 10 adren (and maybe more) back in about 3 seconds.

I think everything is great the way it is..love the new ghost, love the artifact kills showing up on F3, love engineer class. keep up the good work all you developers and admins and owners!!!!