[0.9.105-BACKER-ELECTRON#5216] No Drone Damage Stat as Tech Specialist

[Dyamonde]

When you play as Tech Specialist and choose Attack Drone as your perk, the Stats Page gets a new entry showing your Drone Damage (beneath where it shows ranged damage).
Sadly right now this stat is only shown while you're on the default Drone. As soon as you equip a Drone Accessory (Tam Wolf, Siegwulfe, Laser Drone...) the Stat is gone from the list, making it very hard to compare which Drone you actually want.
And comparing it just from combat log, i can see almost no difference between the default, the "free" Tam-Wolf and the 10k Credits Siegwulfe...

 

[Jacques00]

Adjusted for the next release, but I may revert the change if the values end up being unreliable. Drone stats tend to change based on what is being used as a drone, and they don't always attack the same way (which is why the stats are hidden when another drone is equipped).

 

[Dyamonde]

if the stats display doesn't work, please at least put some base stats in the item description of the Accessory Drones, so the player has at least some info to compare them with.

 

[Theron]

To give you some idea:
Default Drone: (1 + Level) + (random between 0 and ((2 + Level) / 2)) Electric
Tam-Wolf: DD * 0.9 Penetrating Kinetic
Tam-Wolf 2.0: (DD +1) * 0.8 Penetrating Kinetic + (DD +1) * 0.3 Electric
Siegwulfe: DD + 1 + (another 1, maybe) Penetrating Kinetic
Laser Sentry: DD * 1.1 Burning
+the interaction with Attack Drone & Drone Control.

 

[Dyamonde]

To give you some idea:
Default Drone: (1 + Level) + (random between 0 and ((2 + Level) / 2)) Electric
Tam-Wolf: DD * 0.9 Penetrating Kinetic
Tam-Wolf 2.0: (DD +1) * 0.8 Penetrating Kinetic + (DD +1) * 0.3 Electric
Siegwulfe: DD + 1 + (another 1, maybe) Penetrating Kinetic
Laser Sentry: DD * 1.1 Burning
+the interaction with Attack Drone & Drone Control.

Thank you VERY much, that is incredibly helpful. though what's with the "maybe" on the Siegwulf damage?

 

[Theron]

It's a random factor. Looking at it again, I should have said DD + (1 or 2).
Actually, it's
((DD + (1 or 2)) * 0.9) Penetrating Kinetic
+ (0 to 2) if Bimbo-Domme (I think).

So, yeah. Drone damage is complex. I hope Jacques00's changes are good enough to stay.

 

[Jacques00]

I've made an edit for the next release that allows all drones and drone-like items to have their attack stats available outside of combat. This should now make it possible to view the stats and potentially compare to like-items. The values should be viewable in the combat stats (under the respective categories), as well as in tooltips and the inspect screen (under the "Dynamic Physical Damage" or "Dynamic Lust Damage" categories), where applicable.

Alongside that, damage flags should also be visible in the combat stats. Hopefully this gives better clarity on what these items contribute towards combat.