The Energon Pub

by **Archone** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:20 pm

In a recent battle my autobot Archone was privileged to fight alongside an autobat named Nyteshade. Nyteshade was armed with "set of Twin Targetmaster Swords, 'Masamune & Murasame'" and I'm curious as to how they obtained such a weapon. Was this from a now removed content as with the minicons? Or something else? Also, is it possible to name non-targetmaster weapons like that?

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:19 pm

Archone wrote:In a recent battle my autobot Archone was privileged to fight alongside an autobat named Nyteshade. Nyteshade was armed with "set of Twin Targetmaster Swords, 'Masamune & Murasame'" and I'm curious as to how they obtained such a weapon. Was this from a now removed content as with the minicons? Or something else? Also, is it possible to name non-targetmaster weapons like that?

nope. i believe those are prototypes for future things.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:54 am

Secret Mod business.

Anshin is our lab rat. You don't want to see what Sustain does to him with her "experimental make-up".

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:13 am

Burn, what have we told you about being helpful to the players.... :lol:

Anshin's Targetmaster is one of two weapon prototypes (the other is on a Decepticon), nothing to do with the old Minicons at all I'm afraid. Its designed to see how far we can stretch the weapons statistics without compromising the games balance and is just the first of a few updates and alterations the staff have planned, including a revamp and upgrade of the melee weapons to try and make Skill a less-pointless stat, some Star Wars/Transformer cross-over weapons (I think most of you can guess what they are likely to be) and, unfortunately, you have just missed the chance to suggest names for a future batch of weapons we are currently working on, however if you keep an eye on the forum here in the coming week or so (once the staff get to work on them... *cracks whip*) you'll get your chance to chose your favourite from a shortlist to be added.

Personalised weapons will most likely be available further down the line in hunt-style minigames such as the Alt Hunt we have running currently, but that requires a remarkable amount of behind the scenes organisation so may be a while.

also, not completely relevant, but I wrote this for a recent tourney and it wasn't needed, so figured I'd share...

This is
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making a profit out of a crisis.
Tonight with your favourite co-hosts, Nemesis Wheelie and Tits McGee Zombi Cheerleader

- Hello Minions, I'm Zombie Cheerleader, welcome to our Minicon special.

- Good evening. I'm Nemesis Wheelie. On tonight's show I'll be looking into the military applications of forcing a helpless lifeform to join your war, even if it leads to their extinction in the process.

- And I'll be giving you the lowdown on how best to care for your Minicons to keep them at optimum battle efficiency whilst trapped inside their little red and white ball.

- ...wait, what?

- But first we go to a pre-recorded interview with Minicon specialist, the Autobot Hot Shot, who until last Thursday was Cybertrons premier hunter of these little guys and who, controversially, also likes jAam.
Minicon hunting is a simple sport, pure in the fact that its just you versus the helpless little bugger. That makes it easy to trap once you have found it, but locating them - that's the hard part! These things are barely 1.5 meters tall, without keen senses and a quick wits you'll tread on them if you're not careful.
- So Hot Shot, how do you answer your critics that using Minicons in battle was is the enslavement of a helpless race, draining it of power and forcing it to fight for its life simply to allow you to shoot a red laser instead of a green one? Do you not think that's cruel?
No, I don't. See, these things aren't like people, they're more like pets. Once you catch them in your specialised electrified-net they don't try to reason with you or escape, they just swear continually until you clip them on wherever you need them to enhance your performance in everyday life, they aren't exclusively used in battle you know!
- So how did you react to the news that, as their population declined on this universes Cybertron, they would be extinct in under a month?
Like this: NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! But then I found me some of these other guys, almost as tiny as Minicons, but I'm yet to squeeze much power out of them - usually they just scream when I impale them on their peg...
- Um, are you sure those are actually Minicons there, it was our understanding that they went extinct almost 4 years ago...
...eh? So what's this little guy all about th-*explosion*
- Um... Very informative Hot Shot, thank you very much.

- We have just been asked to read this statement out from the Micromasters Defence League, which appears to have ...Hot Shots severed head attached?.. oh.
MDL wrote:"Guzzlers! Micromasters are not, REPEAT NOT, Minicons. The next brightly coloured idiot who tries to insert one of us into ANYTHING will find out exactly how Big Daddy got his name. Understood??"
- You heard it here first! WarPorn News Network, education that you'd never get at university.

- That's all we have time for, tune in next week when we look at Immigration control and ask the question that's on everybody's lips currently: Nebulons, are they legal in hand luggage?

- So, until next time this is WWPN, making a profit our of a crisis, saying good night!

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:23 am

Psychout wrote:Burn, what have we told you about being helpful to the players....

... Don't ... be?

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:26 am

Burn wrote:
Psychout wrote:Burn, what have we told you about being helpful to the players....

... Don't ... be?

Ah, that'll be where we went wrong then. :lol:

News Credits: 7 · by **alldarker** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:55 am

Psychout wrote:(...)
Anshin's Targetmaster is one of two weapon prototypes (the other is on a Decepticon)(...)

Yeah, I was wondering what that weapon was that Nosferatu is carrying, to make him almost unbeatable! Don't know if he just has a good build, or if it's the new weapon he's carrying, but if it is the weapon... it might be a bit overpowered

And if not... what's he paying that RNG???

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:18 am

alldarker wrote:
Psychout wrote:(...)
Anshin's Targetmaster is one of two weapon prototypes (the other is on a Decepticon)(...)

Yeah, I was wondering what that weapon was that Nosferatu is carrying, to make him almost unbeatable! Don't know if he just has a good build, or if it's the new weapon he's carrying, but if it is the weapon... it might be a bit overpowered And if not... what's he paying that RNG???

I'm willing to bet that a part of it is set-up, but I think you'll find it it bit easier to fight against over the next few days, were into the second half of the closed-beta for these now.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:26 am

alldarker wrote:
Psychout wrote:(...)
Anshin's Targetmaster is one of two weapon prototypes (the other is on a Decepticon)(...)

Yeah, I was wondering what that weapon was that Nosferatu is carrying, to make him almost unbeatable! Don't know if he just has a good build, or if it's the new weapon he's carrying, but if it is the weapon... it might be a bit overpowered And if not... what's he paying that RNG???

You're slipping AD if you missed this last weekend.

News Credits: 7 · by **alldarker** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:35 am

Burn wrote:You're slipping AD if you missed this last weekend.

Didn't miss it, just prefered not to pay any attention to it. >:oP

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:46 am

And here I was wasting my time all of last weekend trialling different settings so that people could get a bit more enjoyment out of this game, and that's the thanks I get.

News Credits: 7 · by **alldarker** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:01 am

Burn wrote:And here I was wasting my time all of last weekend trialling different settings so that people could get a bit more enjoyment out of this game, and that's the thanks I get.

Not even sure what I was supposed to see in that mission. Strafer Cannon? Cool name, but was it any good?

But seriously, if you guys are working on new and exciting stuff, I'm all for it, and you have my support. Just make sure it makes me get more XP :grin:

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:11 am

alldarker wrote:But seriously, if you guys are working on new and exciting stuff, I'm all for it, and you have my support. Just make sure it makes me get more XP

Thanks for the positive support guys, we really appreciate it.

We are, as always, limited in the changes we can make, but we will keep working to improve the game wherever we can.
Please don't be afraid to pipe up if something isn't right though, none of us are prefect (although I am pretty good). :grin:

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:21 am

alldarker wrote:Not even sure what I was supposed to see in that mission. Strafer Cannon? Cool name, but was it any good?

We've got a lot of redundant options from stuff that was oh so close to being implemented, just had to run through things to see if they made any difference.

They didn't.

The Strafer Cannon was basically an testing weapon with maxed out maximum and the lowest minimum damage, which when fed by high strength ... well 85% was on the high end of the scale, and 4% at the other end. :lol:

We know how to make them ridiculously over-powered, now we just have to introduce some new weapons while making sure they're balanced.

News Credits: 7 · by **alldarker** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:33 am

Burn wrote:
alldarker wrote:Not even sure what I was supposed to see in that mission. Strafer Cannon? Cool name, but was it any good?

We've got a lot of redundant options from stuff that was oh so close to being implemented, just had to run through things to see if they made any difference.

They didn't.

The Strafer Cannon was basically an testing weapon with maxed out maximum and the lowest minimum damage, which when fed by high strength ... well 85% was on the high end of the scale, and 4% at the other end.

We know how to make them ridiculously over-powered, now we just have to introduce some new weapons while making sure they're balanced.

Thanks for the real info. That's actually quite enlightening. And I suddenly understand the 90% hit on Predaking in that mission, I actually thought it was more due to Predaking being nude (i.e. no armor) and having crappy luck.
Yeah, pretty awesome weapon when it does the max damage. Send me one :grin:

Nah, it's all good and keep up the good work: it really is appreciated.

by **_Anshin_** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:48 am

alldarker wrote:
Psychout wrote:(...)
Anshin's Targetmaster is one of two weapon prototypes (the other is on a Decepticon)(...)

Yeah, I was wondering what that weapon was that Nosferatu is carrying, to make him almost unbeatable! Don't know if he just has a good build, or if it's the new weapon he's carrying, but if it is the weapon... it might be a bit overpowered And if not... what's he paying that RNG???

Nah, its actually the build that has more to do with it than the weapon. Trust me, I have moved it between characters and noticed a difference between the two characters in terms of attack and damage.

News Credits: 7 · by **alldarker** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:54 am

_Anshin_ wrote:
alldarker wrote:
Psychout wrote:(...)
Anshin's Targetmaster is one of two weapon prototypes (the other is on a Decepticon)(...)

Yeah, I was wondering what that weapon was that Nosferatu is carrying, to make him almost unbeatable! Don't know if he just has a good build, or if it's the new weapon he's carrying, but if it is the weapon... it might be a bit overpowered And if not... what's he paying that RNG???

Nah, its actually the build that has more to do with it than the weapon. Trust me, I have moved it between characters and noticed a difference between the two characters in terms of attack and damage.

Thanks. And darn, I was hoping it was the weapon...

_Anshin_, good to see you've come on board with the ability to provide some development in the game. Taking a risk there, though: of course you MUST know what happens to everyone who's ever tried to develop this game any further... they suddenly and inexplicably DISAPPEAR from the face of this earth!

by **_Anshin_** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:38 am

Yeah, I originally put the Target masters on Darq while I collected base data on Nyteshade. After a day of collecting I moved it over to Nyteshade. I can tell you that unfortunately Potentate's characters are just effective and deadly with or without a weapon.

Also a nude Predaking would definitely drop faster than a 5 ton rank 5 armor Predaking. I just recently swapped stats on Darq and have noticed a difference on Damage taken via base attacks and damage taken via tactic attacks. Just as an FYI though, 10 tons of Rank 10 will take 24 hours for your character even if you reset them. I hate to think what it would have been if I stripped off 10 tons of rank 8 first.

I still say we test Potentate for performance enhancing Energon. I heard Bristleback had started selling it from one of his asteroid caches.

by **Bristleback** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:13 pm

_Anshin_ wrote:I still say we test Potentate for performance enhancing Energon. I heard Bristleback had started selling it from one of his asteroid caches.

That's a filthy lie i am not selling performance enhancing Energon... i haven't got any left err i mean at all, never had any, nope not me. :WHISTLE:

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:01 pm

alldarker wrote:_Anshin_, good to see you've come on board with the ability to provide some development in the game. Taking a risk there, though: of course you MUST know what happens to everyone who's ever tried to develop this game any further... they suddenly and inexplicably DISAPPEAR from the face of this earth!

Dammit man! Saying it only makes it happen faster!