C3P0 Nerf or not??

"Ultra;c-1726647" wrote:
I think testing is different for us and CG,

According to a Software Engineering book by Ian Sommerville, "Testing is intended to show that a program does what it is intended to do and to discover program defects before it is put into use. "

Basically, is C3PO working as intended? Does the game crash when he uses his basic or special? Does it freeze? Is he correctly granting one stack of translation per special ability? Is confuse debuff working as it should? Is translation applying the stacking benefits? does the game freeze when someone gains a translation after having a maximum of 4 stacks?

and so on... I think in that regard, C3PO was tested fine. I haven't seen or encountered any issues using him in a team. Haven't seen anyone else point out issues with his kit either.

Given how limited manpower and time they had, I understand they were unable to test C3PO in raids or pair him up with zFinn (although a very very obvious combination)

I think the testing isn't perfect by any means such as Bastilla not applying Tenacity correctly when she was released, and they shouldn't recommend squad synergies unless they've tested the unit with multiple team compositions by theorycrafting (which sorta implies they had time to test C3PO under zFinn lead)

This is great Input!

"YaeVizsla;c-1726649" wrote:

"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1726626" wrote:
The problem is that this is a continuous problem. Zfinn with BB8 and threepio is not much a stretch either.

Any faction that 3po matches up with should’ve been tested - esp leads.

If it were Chex mix I would understand lol

The only thing I get from cg now a days is a disorganized mess.

Except it's not zFinn with 3PO and BB-8.

People have tried that lineup with some Rebels and been unable to replicate it. The people who've managed to succeed with it are ones who have modded up potency to extreme degrees. It's such a specific setup not in terms of team comp but of mods that you can, in good faith, test the exact team composition used to solo Traya and instead get a reasonable result of a few million. The method is more than just slap these specific characters together and auto Traya.

You’re right. And my fault for being too general. I’m just always under the belief if you’re creating something to try your best to see what loopholes people work out. Obvi this is impossible to do for everything.

My take on it - again in a general way - if there are players that get this in 1 or 2 days, then the devs should be too. I get this is an extreme case but rebels are a faction that threepio is in.