Hi @tonyelogro
We have now brought this to the teams attention for further investigation.
Please also note, the summoned Vulture Droids only have a chance to assist when a Separatist ally attacks an enemy with Buzz Droids debuff.
EA StaffHi @tonyelogro
We have now brought this to the teams attention for further investigation.
Please also note, the summoned Vulture Droids only have a chance to assist when a Separatist ally attacks an enemy with Buzz Droids debuff.
There is no text in either description of (malevolence or vulture droid) kits that describe a distinction between summoned vulture droids having a " only a chance" to assist, vs the normal vulture droid always assisting.
There is also no way to make any distinction between "summoned" vulture droids or called vulture droid on the battle field, either the enemies or your own, short of keeping track yourself.
Sometimes vulture droids never assist even if the opponent has a buzz droid debuff showing. There is a bug with plo kloons cleanse that "removes" buzzdroids, but fails to remove them visually, creating confusion in battlefield decision making as to whether the unit actually has the buzz droid on them.
I fail to accept that this bug is working as intended, when there are so many other bugs that CG fails to fix or address. Saying it is "WAI" seems like a lazy "we wont fix it" response, when there is nothing in the games descriptions to describe such mechanics to the players.
The summoned vulture droids have nearly always assisted since Malevolence was introduced. Only after cg "fixed" the bug of vulture droids not always assisting, did vulture droids have a significant and noticable decrease in assists. The point was to fix it, not make it worse.
You can read the summoned Vulture Droid's unique during a battle, it states a 70% chance.
They have already confirmed the "main" Vulture Droid doesn't seem to be assist all the time though and are looking into it, so they are unlikely to respond again here.
@russdpipes To add to what EnigmaPotatoes said, any summoned Vulture Droid has the word "Summon" on their picture when you press them.
Furthermore, the "main" player Vulture Droid has blue stripes on the wingtips, which summoned one's don't.
I would also add that this is something that has recently started happening because it didn’t used to be this obvious that the assist were not happening. And it happens to the vulture droid that is my Vulture droid and also To the summoned ones as well. But again this is a recent occurrence since one of the recent update occurred before that it was not an issue
Sorry, but this answer seems completely off.
I've been using Malevolence for about a year for several daily battles.
Until the latest update, I've never seen my vulture droids fail to assist.
Honestly I wasn't even aware of the supposed 70% chance which have been highlighted here.
If you release a content update with the text "UNIT - Fixed an issue where summoned Vulture Droids would sometimes not assist against enemies with Buzz Droids."I would not in any way read that as you've reduced the assist chance from 100% to 70% to make it WAI.
If this is the actual change implemented, then write that, please.
I would still say that it's wrong to change something which have been working in a set way for more than a year, without any notice or flag beforehand. I haven't seen Vulture droid "too high" assist chance ever highlighted as a bug.
I would also hardly call the amount of assisting that I have seen to be 70% seems a lot more like 50% or less
Summoned units does not level up, summoned Vultures have lvl 1 abilities (therefore no buff.immune, 70% assist chance, less basic dmg), but their stats are leveling by the summoner GG, which compensates the damage (but not the ability additions).
So this is working as is should now, even though it's not for the likes of many.
The 70% assis chance is there from the beggining btw: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/210675/kit-reveal-vulture-droid
