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Game Mechanics

• Special Attacks
• Posture Changes
• Ranged Attacks
• Healing
• Resistance Decay
• Flight Response
• Regeneration
• Battle Fatigue
• Equippable Weapons

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.

Posture Changes

NPCs have the ability to change posture such as going prone, kneeling, standing while using ranged attacks so as to improve their accuracy or defensive bonuses depending on the situation.

Ranged Attacks

Ranged Attack Routine Changes

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

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 or it gets a certain distance from the attacker and then will return back to its lair.

Equippable Weapons

NPC's are spawned with access to various weapon groups. These weapon groups are comprised of various weapon types of which are randomly selected for that particular npc. Stats on these weapons are also enhanced based on the difficulty level of the npc. The higher difficulty npcs have very high stat weapons. Most weapons that are available to players (except heavy weapons) are also made available to npc's within these weapon groupings. Npc's can switch between weapons such as ranged npcs going into melee combat or melee npcs going into ranged combat.

Note: By default npcs do not have their weapons equipped. Only when the npc engages in combat do they equip their weapons. Once equipped, the weapon will remain equipped until the npc is despawned or is killed.

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