On Welding

fenrir1179

<div class="IPBDescription">gnidleW nO</div>Soooo... why is it so hard to weld a comm chair?
I've just finished a game where a mac and 3 marines that were all welding and 1 lerk spiking the chair and the lerk was low on adrenaline.
and it wasn't bile bombed, the chair's health just slowly went down.
(took place in Warehouse)

Corpsey

I don't think structures are weldable when being attacked.. you need to kill the attacker first.

elodea

Apparently welding value scales and is affected by whether or not the building in question is under attack/taking damage.

quoting Psiwarp from the lerk bilebomb thread
<a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=117720&hl=" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...=117720&hl=</a>
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I agree, let's take a look at the statistics:

Welder
Structure Repair Rate, Min: 60 Health/Armor per second
Structure Repair Rate, Max: 350 Health/Armor per second

Bile Bomb
Damage per second: 80
Duration: 5

Build 200 change: Welders won't scale up their repair rates for structures which are under attack.

So a single Welder will only repair 20 health per second, which Bile Bomb can out damage due to base repair rate only.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

fenrir1179

<!--quoteo(post=1924951:date=Apr 13 2012, 01:48 AM:name=Corpsey)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Corpsey @ Apr 13 2012, 01:48 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1924951"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I don't think structures are weldable when being attacked.. you need to kill the attacker first.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

it kindda seems counterproductive...
:/

paradoxum

I remember a commander putting a robotics factory at the vent in crushing machine and had MACs on the other side repairing it so it was impossible to chew through because the MACs outhealed the damage

ogz

maybe gorges shouldn't be able to heal structures under attack too?

peregrinus

Gorge's healing abilities have been nerfed.

I suppose the idea is that preventing structures from being repaired while they're under attack will prevent stalemates.

MiniH0wie

This has been one thing that bothered me with the bile bomb and welder.

We had one lerk flying around bombing things and I tried keeping one IP alive but the welder was not able to out repair the bile bomb damage.

Now with a couple or even 3 lerks, you would need the entire team to weld everything contantly and even then I don't think you could save anything.