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Game Mechanics

• Special Attacks
• Ranged Attacks
• Melee Attacks
• Healing
• Resistance Decay
• Flight Response
• Regeneration

Special Attacks

NPCs have the ability to use special attacks that are inherent to the weapon they have equipped at the time. An npc that has a pistol equipped can, for example, use any pistol based special. Force sensitive npcs such as force crystal hunters or nightsisters are exceptions. These npcs may use lightsaber and force power abilities with their equipped weapons.

Ranged Attacks

Ranged attacks can be issued by a creature anywhere up to 45 meters from a target. Only certain types of creatures have access to ranged attacks. Ranged attacks by creatures seem to use an Energy damage type.

Ranged Attack Routine Changes

With publish 8, soe changed the ranged attack mechanics of npc's:

1) NPC and some creature AI now appears to use some minor tactics. Specifically, if that creature/npc has a ranged attack and the target is physically attacking a group of them, the group will often scatter in multiple directions then begin engaging the target in ranged attacks again. How often they do this seems to vary, but many mobs will now switch back and forth between melee and ranged as the fight goes on, plus with the group scattering effects, it means that there is *always* a threat of ranged attacks from anything that has them.

Resistance Decay

When a creature or npc takes sufficient damage, their resistance properties will be reduced.

The way it works is that resists will drop up to 50% of what they had over the course of them taking 25% to 50% damage across all pools. Normally if you add all Ham bars up, the mob will have somewhere around 1050k total hitpits (H+A+M) for something like a NS Elder. Once that total reaches 75%, (i.e. H+A+M = 775k or so) their resists will start to drop at a rate that it takes them to get to (H+A+M = 525k) Once it reaches 50% of it's original HAM then it will be at 50% resist for the remainder of the time until it is dead.

Flight Response

When a creature or npc's reaches 10% on a ham pool stat, the creature/npc will initiate a flight response to escape the attacker. The flight response can be canceled if the target issues a taunt ability on the creature/npc. This will stop the creature/npc and will force it to continue fighting. Most likely if the npc/creature is left alone it will run out until combat between itself and the attacker stops and then will return back to its lair.

Regeneration

Player creature pet's have secondary stats which regenerate their HAM. It is only fitting that wild versions should probably have this as well. This would allow for creatures to regenerate naturally after being attacked.

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