These were exploits, people had multiple npcs following them around in the manner you describe SBing them, bubbling them, buffing them like it was going out of style and making said people near undefeatable.
Come on now you really think the devs were gonna allow something like this to stay in AE.
To good to be true all and all that.
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This is why we can't have nice things.
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Originally Posted by Lucky666
These were exploits, people had multiple npcs following them around in the manner you describe SBing them, bubbling them, buffing them like it was going out of style and making said people near undefeatable.
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More like "This is why we get nice things, then have them taken away."
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Originally Posted by Xyzyx
This is why we can't have nice things.
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Originally Posted by Soulie
More like "This is why we get nice things, then have them taken away."
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But yeah, exploits are things the devs cannot allow and didn't intend.
Now, explain to me why the enemy will not buff their own teammates, and I'll believe that this is WAI, instead of just poor A.I. being written off as a "fix" by the devs.
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Originally Posted by Kanto2
I used to have a little kin following me around, she'd keep me SBed all the time and would even throw FS once in a while.
Been a long while since I did that, but with the difficulty in finding teams and the lower damage output of my new toons I've un-shelved her and tried a couple of runs. No go. She happily spams attacks like mad and refuses to buff. *Once* in a while she SBs at the beggining of the mission, once in a while she FS', but all of it very rarely. I tried different combos of agressive and defensive, of customizing and standard, of giving lots of attacks and all the kin secondary to a minimum of powers. Nothing has worked, she happily spams attacks and refuses to buff. Any one has managed to make NPCs work lately? |
their is an NPC under the civilian tab that you can select as an ally that only does holds, and deals no damage. Most of the holds are sleep, but if you get about 10 of them following you around, it really helps.
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They do for one of my arcs, gave them kinetics as a secondary and they sb each other all the time.
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Originally Posted by SolSaviour
Now, explain to me why the enemy will not buff their own teammates, and I'll believe that this is WAI, instead of just poor A.I. being written off as a "fix" by the devs.
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I used to have a little kin following me around, she'd keep me SBed all the time and would even throw FS once in a while.
Been a long while since I did that, but with the difficulty in finding teams and the lower damage output of my new toons I've un-shelved her and tried a couple of runs.
No go. She happily spams attacks like mad and refuses to buff.
*Once* in a while she SBs at the beggining of the mission, once in a while she FS', but all of it very rarely.
I tried different combos of agressive and defensive, of customizing and standard, of giving lots of attacks and all the kin secondary to a minimum of powers. Nothing has worked, she happily spams attacks and refuses to buff.
Any one has managed to make NPCs work lately?