The fabrication bot got more health and cost less than the fabrication vehicle. What should be the redeeming factor for the vehicle fabber?
Well. It is beta. Time for those kinds of things to shape up. Not sure where to report this. It isn't a bug but is almost an objective oversight/imbalance.
vehicle fabber leads to Levelers... I still build them for that reason. But yeah, it's a bit odd. Bot should be faster but weaker imo.
I agree. Those buggers are efficient builders, being fragile might be a tradeoff. Vehicle being endurance would make it useful. Beside starting leveler, when do you ever build more than one veh fabber. I let a few t2 fab bots actually build it, veh fabber just starts blueprints.
Yes we have, courtesy of the excellent PA unit database. Both have a maxspeed of 12 while the bot accelerates and turns twice as fast. (It also has 150 hp compared to 100 for the vehicle and costs only 180 metal compared to 225 for the vehicle again. Every other stat is the same) So yeah... Not much point in the vehicle at all currently.
The bot costs less metal because the bot factory has a lower metal output. So the bot fabber and the veh fabber might have the same production time.
doesn't the vehicle build faster? I thought that was its redeeming quality? In my head I ordered these in terms of build speed, someone correct me here... air fabbers < bot fabbers < vehicle fabbers =? boat fabbers
Yes so they are made just as fast as each other, but the Bot Fabers have less effect on your econ when being built in your factory. A rather nice bonus when its early and you need every piece of metal you can get