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[Mgamerz]

The geth prime shield drone appears to attempt to buff nearby enemies, or once was planned to. It's cooldown is 3000 seconds so I never think it does. Does anyone know about this from the old days? inb4 GP is too OP.

[Teh_Ocelot]

Too bad it doesn't have a 3000 second cooldown on staggers

 

On topic, I have no idea.

[TMB903]

I'd much rather it had been able to buff enemies than give it that lolstaggerfest Incinerate. Bioware's answer to the playerbase complaining about Geth stunlock/stagger? Give them even more to troll everyone. Maybe Bryan Johnson can clarify?

[Learn To Love Yourself]

I wouldn't mind that mechanic.  It sounds very interesting, especially if the drone took on the appearance of a disco ball with lasers bouncing everywhere.  The nearby Geth would then need to dance in sync in order to receive the buff.

 

We know from ME2 that the Geth do dance, and quite well, at that.  It would also make Sabotage even more lethal, since you could have your Sabo'd Geth start doing some mosh pit action to throw off the choreography.  All the units thrown off the beat would then self-detonate, like all bad dancers do.

[Swan Killer]

They should give the Prime Drone a Harrier and a Venom.

[SethGecko]

They shoudl give the Prime Drone a Harrier and a Venom.

With tac cloak and cain mines. Now that would be a f*ckin party

[Mgamerz]

It was supposed to shoot rockets and buff enemies. The buff I've never seen but I know the rockets were just a bug.

[Learn To Love Yourself]

With tac cloak and cain mines. Now that would be a f*ckin party

I think also shield boost, but only when you are reloading.

[BurningBlood]

Too bad it doesn't have a 3000 second cooldown on staggers

 

 

Bahahahahaha you should try the mod where all drones (friendly and enemy alike) have zero cooldown.  Combat drones with shock + chain evo can lock down a whole spawn, but prime drones can also single-dronededly staggerlock all four players into oblivion.

[Darth Volus]

I would take the healing Drone over the mothereffin stagger drone that pops every 0.000000000000001 picoseconds after you kill it. 

 

On, second thought, it of course depends on how much and how fast it heals. Because if it heals fast, then we would have mothereffin Primes at 100% shields for days. 

[Excella Gionne]

Possibly a repair drone that repairs at BSing rate as the Cerbgineer. .

[Darth Volus]

Possibly a repair drone that repairs at BSing rate as the Cerbgineer. .

 

Holy ****, then NO! Nope, nope, nope. Eff that noise. 

[Xaijin]

Possibly a repair drone that repairs at BSing rate as the Cerbgineer. .

 

Nah it was supposed to be a accuracy and shield buffing drone to represent command and control, geth needed neither of those things as buffs.

[Excella Gionne]

Nah it was supposed to be a accuracy and shield buffing drone to represent command and control, geth needed neither of those things as buffs.

As if they weren't already broken enough. 

[Mgamerz]

So looking into the code I think the power is actually done.

 

Geth Prime has 2 listed powers - GethPrimeTurret and GethPrimeShieldDrone in it's AI properties.  

 

There are pcc files for both of these powers as they were split into files back then. Inside of GethPrimeShieldDrone, I can see some code related to finding allies to buff. Looking at the code I only see one power listed under PowerCustomActionClasses, a number that points to the nameindex of CombatDroneRocket. The file does not contain the ShieldDroneBuff powercustomaction code, but it does have the CombatDrone rocket info, which I think is imported. Still trying to figure out how multiple definitions of something works.

 

There's a pcc called SFXPower_ShieldDroneBuff.pcc that contains the nameindex named ShieldDroneBuff. This is the power that would be used I think if it listed its nameindex in the PowerCustomActionClasses. I am not sure if it would work though I'm not sure if that info has to be in the class or if it can reference outside powers. I tried doing some weapon swaps and just made some weird loading lag instead.

 

The power appears to restore 300 shields so it was pretty weak.

[bauzabauza]

interesting, always hear rumors about 3 pets in the geth prime maybe that was the number 3 a defensive dron

[Quarian Master Race]

Yes, because the most overpowered enemy in the game should be able to give scumbag hunters and rocket cheaters more chances to dish out even more BS with some extra shields. I totally needed another excuse to nuke all motherfucking Primes on site, anyway.

[Mgamerz]

No the Shield Drone *is* the combat drone. It just is missing a second power.

[Heldarion]

With tac cloak and cain mines. Now that would be a f*ckin party

 

Well, from what I can tell they already have Venom.

[The NightMan Cometh]

You mean to tell me that the geth turret that the Primes spawn..can regen shield for other units around it..???????,,like them sunz of beachez needed any more reasonz to be hated...

[Alfonsedode]

It was supposed to shoot rockets and buff enemies. The buff I've never seen but I know the rockets were just a bug.

So, have u tried to put this 3000s value to few sec ?

[Mgamerz]

Yeah but it doesn't list that power in its list. Looks like it was removed right before release. Might be possible to put it back in the same way I made banshee sync Killable.

We can test by just adding that power to our own list and casting it.