Vulture droid

"Thufir;d-255997" wrote:
So what’s going on with that. Assists on enemies with buzz droids is random nowadays. Did something change?

Summoned droids always had only a chance (I think it was 70%) to assist. Unfortunately you can read that text only if you check the Unique of a summoned unit in battle.
However there are bugs and they almost never assisted recently. There are also issues where Plo koon enters, but the Buzz droids are still visible (but seem to be gone as these ships don't lose health or are attacked by assisting vultures).

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Vulture-droid-second-life-problem/td-p/11376189/highlight/true/page/4

3 weeks ago lol. Wow, just crippling an in-game counter for weeks without mentioning it. Classic.

"Thufir;c-2359841" wrote:
3 weeks ago lol. Wow, just crippling an in-game counter for weeks without mentioning it. Classic.

there are issues for years. Every time they "fixed" it, something else went broken

"zatho;c-2359870" wrote:

"PeachyPeachSWGOH;c-2359866" wrote:

"zatho;c-2359865" wrote:

"PeachyPeachSWGOH;c-2359864" wrote:

"Thufir;c-2359841" wrote:
3 weeks ago lol. Wow, just crippling an in-game counter for weeks without mentioning it. Classic.

I rarely do the Mal counter on the Executor, before or after the bug was introduced. I'm just curious - are there stats showing a significant drop in the win rate before and after?

Yesterday I saw some assists. Maybe they have fixed some issues (by accident).

Assists from the vulture replacing the OG? That would be the fix. Other spawned vultures do assist fine.

"By accident" sounds rather scary. :D

summoned ones. But these also were not assisting the past weeks

the only vulture droid not working 100% of the time has been the one replacing player vulture droid. the other summoned droids work fine; the visual buzz droids but there not being buzz droids is a whole other issue.

"PeachyPeachSWGOH;c-2359864" wrote:

"Thufir;c-2359841" wrote:
3 weeks ago lol. Wow, just crippling an in-game counter for weeks without mentioning it. Classic.

I rarely do the Mal counter on the Executor, before or after the bug was introduced. I'm just curious - are there stats showing a significant drop in the win rate before and after?

I would think the Executor heal targeting AI change is probably more relevant than the one broken Vulture droid. Besides, on good runs, that droid dies early anyway.

"PeachyPeachSWGOH;c-2359864" wrote:

"Thufir;c-2359841" wrote:
3 weeks ago lol. Wow, just crippling an in-game counter for weeks without mentioning it. Classic.

I rarely do the Mal counter on the Executor, before or after the bug was introduced. I'm just curious - are there stats showing a significant drop in the win rate before and after?

Yes there are stats, but no you can't see them. Only CG has them.

As far as VD's, they have never worked right and every time they get "fixed" something new is broken. Don't expect them to ever work right and you'll be happier.

"Thufir;d-255997" wrote:
So what’s going on with that. Assists on enemies with buzz droids is random nowadays. Did something change?

There's three "Vulture Droids" in the game code. The farmable unit, the one that spawns when the farmable unit dies if you have rank 8 Unique, and the ones spawned by Malevolence. The farmable one can have between 70-100% chance to assist depending on what level its Unique is at. The other two have a 70% assist chance.

A few months ago, CG fixed something where some of the Summoned Vulture Droids were assisting too often or weren't assisting each other. When they did that, it broke something in the Vulture Droid that gets spawned when the farmable one dies. Now that one never assists. So: farmable with Rank 8: always assists; summoned from farmable: never assists; summoned from Malevolence: assists 70% of the time. We're just waiting for a fix to the second one at this point.

I enjoy how the fixes made it worse.

Just make all vulture droids assist on buzz droids regardless of summoned or not.

Mucking around with %s clearly is too much work.

I'd be fine with the summoned vultures just dealing 70% damage on assists rather than an all or nothing 70% of the time. But CG is absolutely in love with RNG because it frustrates people, which opens wallets. So... whatevs