Postby caralimon » Sun 23 Jun, 2013 12:18 pm
Ok, here's a little think I've been thinking about, Mekboy and his Kustom Force Field.
My understanding is it is a bit underwhelming in Retail as a T2 accesory upgrade at 100/25, hence why its ranged damage protection was increased from 50% to 70% and the knockback type changed from weapon to ability. This is the tricky part:
In retail, your KFF-activated Mekboy can not only be tied up in melee by weapon-knockback immune units such as an Iron Halo FC, but also can be knocked back/down by melee charging units, such as the ever-charging Autarch.
So, my understanding is this happens because charge attacks like the Autarch one do ability-knockback and Kustom Force Field only provides weapon-knockback immunity, right?
Charge attacks that inflict knockback are still ability knockback in ELITE, right?
If all this is right, the current scenario in ELITE is this, an Iron Halo/Termmie FC gets knocked back by a KFF Mekboy, so do terminators and all other weapon-knockback only immune infantry in game. BUT, normal charging melee units like the Autarch can still knock him back and de-setup him if the Mekboy is sporting a Deffgun.
Is this right? Does it feel right that Termmies can't reach (and potentially desetup) a KFF Mekboy but an Autarch can knock him back?
All this comes from getting sick of seeing my active-KFF Mekboy being knocked back over and over by Autarchs and the likes in Retail. I can't test this against the AI in ELITE, but from reading ELITE change notes it seems it is still the case.
The way i see it, Elektrik Armor is an offensive oriented WarGear against blobby ranged races, while KFF is a more defensive Upgrade more suited to be combined with DeffGun, but as it is (in Retail at least) it doesn't quite do its intended job. If I'm not messing up somewhere, I would happily trade the buff from weapon to ability knockback for weapon+ablility-knockback immunity.
The rationale is this, if I let an Iron Halo FC (or a CL) walk up (possibly through my DeffGun fire-arc) to my KFF Mekboy and spank him, i deserve to have him spanked. But my KFF Mekboy deserves to be immune to those damn Autarch charges, they should be knocked back by my Force Field before reaching me in the first place.
Please correct me if I messed up any of my assumptions.
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caralimon on Sun 23 Jun, 2013 12:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.