ljmadruga Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 (edited) Answer the simple survey below https://strawpoll.com/55zpzzk8 Edited February 20, 2018 by ljmadruga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2old4gamez Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 None of the above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 12 minutes ago, 2old4gamez said: None of the above. Answer as if you had to choose one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyCharm Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Not sure how this poll helps.. but i use sentinals currently. But i'd use my cat if i had univac bigger than the lil 3m one we have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)RPColten Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 This poll doesn't really indicate whether or not Universal Vacuum is a deciding factor in companion usage. It just says that ____ is most picked. It doesn't say for what reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 10 minutes ago, LuckyCharm said: Not sure how this poll helps.. but i use sentinals currently. But i'd use my cat if i had univac bigger than the lil 3m one we have I’m trying to show that if Vacuum were applicable to all companions, sentinels would not be as preferred as they are now. Just now, (Xbox One)RPColten said: This poll doesn't really indicate whether or not Universal Vacuum is a deciding factor in companion usage. It just says that ____ is most picked. It doesn't say for what reason. I’m taking the abilities out of the question by generalizing. The one thing sentinels have over other companions is Vacuum. Sentinels have other advantages to use them, sure. However, Vacuum is a major deciding factor. As of right now, out of 50 votes, Sentinels have 39 (78%), Kavats have 10 (20%), and Kubrows have 1 (2%). I intend to keep checking on this and keep giving results as the come. Right now it’s a very small pool. I’d prefer to see more people answer this for a more accurate answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 Out of 76 total votes: Sentinels have 55 (72.37%) Kavats have 16 (21.05%) Kubrows have 5 (6.58%) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)RPColten Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 ...but this is just a hasty assumption. There is no indication as to why people are voting for sentinels over pets, only that the spread is roughly 70% versus 30%. You're assuming that vacuum is the reason for choosing sentinel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, (Xbox One)RPColten said: ...but this is just a hasty assumption. There is no indication as to why people are voting for sentinels over pets, only that the spread is roughly 70% versus 30%. You're assuming that vacuum is the reason for choosing sentinel. If you can name another reason as to why players would choose a sentinel over another companion aside from Vacuum I’d love to hear it. Off the top of my head other reasons could include being able to revive the player, but that only works perfectly every now and then. Their multiple ways of restoring health and shields are also a big plus, but they’re not as big of a factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)RPColten Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Ability to revive users, far greater damage potential, low to zero maintenance, cloaking, near instant accessibility. (Taxon was created literally to be "Baby's First Sentinel"), Crowd electricity stunning, shield-recharge/over-shield gain, ammo mutation, all the unique precept mods such as Helios and its sonar-scanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 1 minute ago, (Xbox One)RPColten said: Ability to revive users, far greater damage potential, low to zero maintenance, cloaking, near instant accessibility. (Taxon was created literally to be "Baby's First Sentinel"), Crowd electricity stunning, shield-recharge/over-shield gain, ammo mutation, all the unique precept mods such as Helios and its sonar-scanner. I agree with you on all points except damage potential. Kubrows have all companions beat on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KochDerFrettchen Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 DE has the data on how many people are using these things, if that information was the deciding factor in putting out universal vacuum it would be decided already :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, KochDerFrettchen said: DE has the data on how many people are using these things, if that information was the deciding factor in putting out universal vacuum it would be decided already :p If they had the data they would have shown it by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasoDuck Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, ljmadruga said: If they had the data they would have shown it by now. Uh... no? DE is not easy to comprehend. I'm not saying I disagree with the desire for univac and how stupid it is that we don't have it, but... y'know... just because something makes sense, doesn't mean that's what DE thinks-- usually the opposite, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oreades Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 1 hour ago, (Xbox One)RPColten said: Ability to revive users, far greater damage potential, low to zero maintenance, cloaking, near instant accessibility. (Taxon was created literally to be "Baby's First Sentinel"), Crowd electricity stunning, shield-recharge/over-shield gain, ammo mutation, all the unique precept mods such as Helios and its sonar-scanner. Starting since Sacrifice was added to the game.... I can probably count the number of times it has successfully worked on one hand...... That aside, yeah sentinels are generally better Swiss Army Kives, tho I'm not sure about their damage potential being higher as I haven't been able to fit an attack precept in my builds for quite some time now. I will definitely give you that the maintenance on the Companions is pretty much the reason I rarely drag my Kavat out of storage. It isn't even the universal Vacuum that bothers me as much as the whole Degradation mechanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Tucker D Dawg Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I use sentinals the majority of the time because The mechanic to switch pets is time consuming and exceptionally annoying. (I don't care about the credits to rush recovery) The kubrow loyalty mechanic blows and is inconsistent After getting spoiled by vacuum picking up reactant, its annoying to go back to pets and picking them up manually. Health and energy orbs are not marked on the map and are frequently blocked from view - vacuum just takes care of that. I generally would prefer to run adarza, smeeta, and huras (in that order) over any sentinal and definitely would if they at least vacuumed Orbs and reactants and I could switch to them quickly. I generally don't care about resources (don't need), life support (easy to see and have special map icons), or mods (easy to see). So for me, the biggest by far obstacle is the mechanics of switching. Vacuum of Orbs/reactant is a fairly distant second, and vacuum of resources etc is not an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterc3 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 28 minutes ago, ljmadruga said: If they had the data they would have shown it by now. Based on what? They have all the data on the game. There has been no change to the the game besides a 3m vacuum. Why would they release the data if 100 people would find 1000 things that justified their reading being the right way and DE obviously doing something wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xzorn Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Where's the option for Carrier Prime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 5 minutes ago, Xzorn said: Where's the option for Carrier Prime? Just put that you use sentinels Last check before i go to bed Out of 89 total votes Sentinels have 66 (74.16%) Kavats have 17 (19.1%) Kubrows have 6 (6.14%) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xzorn Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, ljmadruga said: Just put that you use sentinels Last check before i go to bed Out of 89 total votes Sentinels have 66 (74.16%) Kavats have 17 (19.1%) Kubrows have 6 (6.14%) I'd bet plat 70%+ is Carrier specifically. That's the joke of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 Morning check Out of 109 total votes Sentinels have 85 (77.98%) Kavats have 18 (16.51%) Kubrows have 6 (5.5%) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)Croewe Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 To those saying that vacuum is not the sole reason people use sentinels don't forget the fact that carrier was used over 80% of the other sentinels when they showed us the stats before adding vaccum to all sentinels and I people have since given up on the qol that vacuum provides since then. I personally use sentinels for the survivability mods though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimimoto Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 11 hours ago, (Xbox One)RPColten said: There is no indication as to why people are voting for sentinels over pets, only that the spread is roughly 70% versus 30%. Instead this should be a poll on which Sentinel you primarily use to see if the Vacuum Within did what it was supposed to and increase Sentinel diversity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaylar Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 This goes along with my idea that kavats/kubrows need behavior mods to make them more useful. BTW, I use sentinels solely for vacuum. Primarily Carrier for whatever it's ammo mod is that converts ammo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljmadruga Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 Morning check Out of 122 total votes Sentinels have 95 (77.87%) Kavats have 20 (16.39%) Kubrows have 7 (5.74%) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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