Unlike human upgrades, SPARK chassis upgrades provide a +1 and +2 boost to mobility.Īs with offense, the SPARK seems a bit weak going by base stats alone. T2 upgrades give +2 health +1 armor, T3 give +4 health +2 armor. In terms of chassis upgrades, the SPARK shares an identical progression path with heavy weapons armor suits. The SPARK units does however come with 1 base armor pip. By colonel rank, the SPARK unit will only have 1 more base health than the ranger.

However, this does not increase as the SPARK levels up. The SPARK has an huge initial base health of 11, 6 more than other classes. The SPARKS defensive stat progression is unlike any other class. Well planned use of its abilities may be able to change this, but it's too early to say whether this will be the case. Overall, the SPARK unit seems to have a somewhat weak offensive presence, particularly in the late game where weapon attachments and PCS become very important. SPARK_NOVA_MULTITARGET_BASEDAMAGE= (Damage=6, Spread = 0, PlusOne = 0, Crit = 0, Pierce = 0, Shred=0, Tag = '', DamageType='Explosion') NB: Nova's damage type is explosion and it doesn't shred or penetrate armor, as far as I can tell it will not do extra damage to robotic units either. In order to deal decent damage to late game enemies, you will have to be close and be willing to take some damage. By the time you get access to it (colonel rank), that seems pretty poor. Nova deals 6 damage within a 3 tile radius around the SPARK. It gets only one charge and deals 3, 5, then 7 damage to a 3 tile radius as it upgrades. The units AOE abilities seem somewhat lack luster to me. It's a shame the strike ability has a 3 turn cool down however. By colonel rank, the melee will be 100% to hit on targets with no defense stat. Additionally, the strike ability has higher damage output that the even the hunter's axe (7 damage with the initial unit, rising to 9, then 11 at T2, T3) and gets a +20 AIM bonus on the SPARK's base aim.

The units abilities will have to make up for it's unimpressive base offensive stats.Ĭan the SPARK do this? Ability-wise, overdrive is potentially very powerful allowing the spark unit the possibility of firing three times in a turn.

On this basis, the SPARK's offensive output seems low. The only good news is that the SPARK will have a better chance to take advantage of high ground/proximity bonuses due to it not needing to take cover and ability to jump to high ground. While the SPARK's innate aim stat is slightly better (+5 aim over the grenadier at colonel rank) this is massively outweighed by its inability to equip PCS:AIM or Scope, which together add +31 aim at tier 3 (or +41 aim on a flanked target). In terms of damage and shredding, the spark's cannon is identical to that of a grenadier who has taken shredder. Here goes! Please let me know what your experiences of the SPARK have been so far. As with my previous posts, I will place the directories of all relevant. I thought I'd share what I found in this post in case anyone is interested. The new class is pretty neat and I've been delving through the DLC's config files to find out more details about the SPARK unit so I can work out the best way to build them into my squad.

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