Tek shield

[TomHud™]

Takes 5 mins to enable forcefield and the max area is not that large even when setting max x10 radius.You can not place 2 shields near each other.
Tek building pieces have same damage as metal 10000 per piece wall 15000 per foundation - which should be higher for tek 50000
wild dinos cannot run in your forcefield :) - this is an excellant choice.

You cannot overlap forcefields so unsure how people are going to protect large bases.

There is a distance you have to place the shields apart from one another so i ran till i could place the other one and,well you can see from this pic ........

http://imgur.com/a/DWi8i

[MegaMan]

Does shield take element to maintain if yes how much? Build cost?

[TomHud™]

i spawned everything in so i just put 10 element in both shields for testign purposes.
You do need to learn the engrams in order to use tek building parts.
Obvioulsy i used the cheat mode once again.
The shield is currently running and im down to 9 element in say 20 mins

[Flambe]

I think the point is and anyone can chime in, that even with the large version of the shield its mainly in the game to protect extra valuble spots. Or the smaller base. I mean how stupid would it be if it just covered a massive base. I Havent the chance to play around with it yet, but Im getting the feeling from your picture that its inteded purpose was to protect small important sections of a base not the whole thing. As for the HP of the tek stuff this is probably an overseight and will get fixed like the Devs did for the tek armor being to low when it first came out as well. And I think the 5 min time to deploy isnt a bad thing. Basically if I understand it correctly is an online and offline raid protection. So nothing can get it, it should take a bit to fully cover. Imagine your about to be raided you hit the button and bam insta shield protecting your base till essentialy the person gives up or you run out of element.

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by Tomhud™:

Tek building pieces have same damage as metal 10000 per piece wall 15000 per foundation - which should be higher for tek 50000

HP amount shouldnt matter (wood and stone both have 10k/15k as well) as long as explosives and other stuff do less damage to it - can you test? Can alpha dinos break it?

[TomHud™]

not sure if it activates when i log off as im on singleplayer.
And tbh i think the shield should be larger,so i will have to wait on a mod which will fix this issue.
When u look at the pic - do not be fooled and think it looks huge as it doesnt.
It is a small area and as such it would proberly protect a taming pen etc
Remember this cost element to run so if someone can afford it why cant they protect their base ?

[TomHud™]

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

Originally posted by Tomhud™:

Tek building pieces have same damage as metal 10000 per piece wall 15000 per foundation - which should be higher for tek 50000

HP amount shouldnt matter (wood and stone both have 10k/15k as well) as long as explosives and other stuff do less damage to it - can you test? Can alpha dinos break it?

nothing can get in the shield they hit it and get pushed back.
I cant see no HP on the forcefield itself so unsure how it can be destroyed.
Going to have to check it out see if rockets etc can penetrate it.

KK left tribe

forcefield has 250,000 HP :)

[TomHud™]

10 rockets took the shield down to 244,610 HP

will do same for c4 now

New shield so full HP

10 c4 took the shield down to 242,912

U have to place the c4 on the floor as it does not attach to the sheild.

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by Tomhud™:

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

HP amount shouldnt matter (wood and stone both have 10k/15k as well) as long as explosives and other stuff do less damage to it - can you test? Can alpha dinos break it?

nothing can get in the shield they hit it and get pushed back.
I cant see no HP on the forcefield itself so unsure how it can be destroyed.
Going to have to check it out see if rockets etc can penetrate it.

KK left tribe

forcefield has 250,000 HP :)

I didnt mean force field, i meant tek structures themselves: walls, floor, ceilings etc.

[Kaprodonychus]

One part in my gut is telling me that they should be able to overlap. I don't know but that's what my mind is saying. I don't have a reason to back it up so by all means, feel free to support or tell my gut it's stupid

[TomHud™]

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

Originally posted by Tomhud™:

nothing can get in the shield they hit it and get pushed back.
I cant see no HP on the forcefield itself so unsure how it can be destroyed.
Going to have to check it out see if rockets etc can penetrate it.

KK left tribe

forcefield has 250,000 HP :)

I didnt mean force field, i meant tek structures themselves: walls, floor, ceilings etc.

will test now

10 c4 on tek floor whihc is 15000 hp leaves it at 7125
So 20 c4 will destroy it totally

tek wall at 10000 with 10 c4 took it down to 2912

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by Kaprodonychus:

One part in my gut is telling me that they should be able to overlap. I don't know but that's what my mind is saying. I don't have a reason to back it up so by all means, feel free to support or tell my gut it's stupid

I wish devs implemented force fields similar to Perimeter (an RTS game) with central node and relay points.

[NaecTwo]

Tek Tileset is taking around 6x the damage from Tek damage sources than Metal.

Seems to take 75% less damage from Explosives than Metal.

So I don't get this... Tek is strong to Explosives, vulnerable to Tek? This is a weird meta.

Shouldn't Tek be resistant to Tek? Why is it weaker to Tek?

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

Since it costs element to run i believe double it's current size at 1/4th the current cost would be best.
Also only 250k hp on the shield i really hope it takes reduced damage from dinos otherwise just have some lightning wyverns attack it for 2-5 mins and it's down.

Other then that it looks awesome.

So i'm curious what gives the blueprints for these?

My guess is tek structures go's to brood easy/medium/hard, forcefield to dragon medium/hard.

@naecabon it's weak to tek because tek weapons are final stage what hurts more some gunpowder exploding or being hit with plasma from a railgun.

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by Tomhud™:

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

I didnt mean force field, i meant tek structures themselves: walls, floor, ceilings etc.

will test now

10 c4 on floor whihc is 15000 hp leaves it at 7125
So 20 c4 will destroy it totally

wall at 10000 with 10 c4 took it down to 2912

And the metal after C4 buff?

[Harbinger]

Originally posted by Kaprodonychus:

One part in my gut is telling me that they should be able to overlap. I don't know but that's what my mind is saying. I don't have a reason to back it up so by all means, feel free to support or tell my gut it's stupid

If we follow Star Trek logic, the shields should overlap if a shield grid of sorts was made, or if the tek buildings themselves have some sort of shield emitters, or something. I wonder if these ideas are tangible for Ark though.