Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Wookiee armor
Masen
Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:37 pm
#196
Umm, Ewoks DID have armor...Bone armor, but they did have it (watch the films, the 'great ewok warrior' in the TV special Ewok Adventure wore a helm, and a chestplate made of bones.) Wookies have a honorable culture where battle prowess and life-debts are a major part of life. They create their own weapon, that while not great, can be made rather effective. Their not cave men, and I'd bet cash in Ep 3 you'll see armored wookies. Chewie didn't wear armor because he was a smuggler/starship engineer/droid engineer. He didn't need it 90% of the time, and the weight would have simply been a hindrance.
Han solo didn't wear armor either..and luke wore it once, to disguise himself as a stormtrooper. In the films, Imperials wore armor, and Bounty hunters. Got to give somewhere, and frankly..Ham bonus? omg..now THAT is just funny... a mediocre doctor buff or a quick snack and that's obsolete. In the meantime, humans and such got light armor, or even medium if you got that rumored Geonisian armor, resists, and HAM in the 1.5-3K range after buffs, spice, and food. That problem is EASILY settled, without nerfing the wookie's HAM. VERY easily. Just make the armor insanely heavy, and problem solved. Make it so the heaviest kind, max experimented, is equivalent to comp, but has HAM enc on par to comp, on a wookie scale (ie 1.5-2x as high)
as for trandoshan boots and gloves. umm..Why not? If they can fit a helm on a Twi'lek, why not fit gloves on Trandos? and they're not that huge a deal, I mean...I can see chestplate being an issue, or helms..But geez, boots and gloves? hehe.
Tonteth
Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:53 pm
#197
Are you kidding? Wookiee armor? So the standard race in the game will be wookiees? Nice move.
haun
Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:55 pm
#198
JohnP wrote:
This in not Star Wars grrr
neither is being a moron and mastering 30 professions to be a jedi
screw you pal
Lonacca
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:11 pm
#199
Great news!!
I was wondering what I should try as my 16th prof on my FSCS quest, might try armoursmith 
4thewookie
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:16 pm
#200
THank you TH, you will no longer have a thousand wookiees trying to rip your arms off. And to all you non-wookiee whiners on this thread, piss off. Can't someone get some love without the whiners steping in!
Kershakk
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:16 pm
#201
haun wrote:
JohnP wrote:
This in not Star Wars grrr
neither is being a moron and mastering 30 professions to be a jedi
screw you pal
*laugh* Funny how they think they know what IS Star Wars. This is a game; there has to be a degree of playability even at the expense of your 'Star Warsy'-ness, and that claim is weak at best, anyway. Basing your idea on flow on a single wookiee, Chewbacca, is such a fallacy I can't believe you can even say it with a straight face. I mean I never sawimperials try solo krayt dragons with ATSTs (legacy I know), I saw one person that could vaguely be called a creature handler, no one could fit 50 houses in their backpacks nor carry 50 guns, you ate food to stave off hunger and not become superman, healing was only even done in a bacta tank, I never even saw anything vaguely representing armour of any sort in mass use.
But oh no, wookiees get armour, that's so non-Star Wars!
Maybe you should say "anything non Star Warsy should never be allowed unless it benefits me in which case I'm all for it." Bring on the selfish folk! Besides what you think as the Star Wars universe is not the definitive, you ever considered that, or you too busy watching the universe revolve around you?
DarthCedric
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:17 pm
#202
kevinspruill wrote:Please make this wookiee armorsmith craftable only, just like the bowcaster!!
Im afraid if they do that, it will suck just like the bowcaster...
DarthCedric
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:23 pm
#203
Tonteth wrote:
Are you kidding? Wookiee armor? So the standard race in the game will be wookiees? Nice move.
But hey, keep em down and gimped, that's ok right? Screw you.
Judging from your sig you:
1) don't know much about game mechanics or how they should be
2) are just another tard in it for themselves, works for you then great, if not, nerf it
ravisher
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:26 pm
#204
i'm so happy, i think i'm gonna cry. 
please tell me you've asked GL about this. Cause you know the Wookiees in EP III wouldn't be able to kick Seperatist butt without armor. i think it'd be awesome to be able to run around in the same armor that they are gonna put into EP III before the movie comes out. please, just let us know what lucas arts has said about this.
Kershakk
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:26 pm
#205
And furthermore - details on what exactly the stats are are yet to be fleshed out so it's all hypothetical at this point.
I do find it funny though that with the prospect of wookiee armour coming in suddenly there is a lot of "concerned" people wanting balance. Seemed that when wookiees were at a big disadvantage the majority of people (not all I will agree) didn't give a hoot about balance - so to be blunt - if you never cared about the imbalance before, when it was not against you,any opinion you have about balance now is utterly invalid. Sorry. Can't abide double standards and hypocrisy.
cshauny
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:27 pm
#206
Thank you so much Thunderheart and the devs for listening to our pleas. When this goes through, the game will finally become a lot more fun for me
Now to the details...
Since this is going to be brand-new, never before seen craftable armour, I'm hoping that the armour has a natural look to it.
Other than that though, I have a few more questions and issues:
1) Will the armour be able to house Armour Attachments? I really hope this works out because SEAs are the big thing in this game right now. However, us Wookies have been left out of a large segment of the SEAs just because so many of them are Armour Attachments. Please do give us AA slots in our armour.
2) What kind of base stats will the armour have with relatively good resources? I know that you guys probably haven't begun developing the armour yet but it would be good to know what kind of plans you have in-store. Whatever you do, don't make it as weak as Mandalorian armour and don't make it as strong as the 90% resist composite. My view of Wookie armour should have a high resist to Kinetic and maybe a vulnerability to Acid.
3) Will it be only craftable by Wookie armoursmiths? IMO, I don't think you should do this. Let Wookie armour be craftable by any Armoursmith as it would encourage Wookies to have a certain interdependence with the whole armoursmith community. This is that kind of interdependence that you guys have been gearing this game towards so stick with it.
4) How do you deal with our extra HAM? The extra HAM has never done anything for us and it won't do anything now. However, if you really must fiddle with it, give this unique armour a little higher encumberance to compensate for it.
5) What all pieces will we have? Many will have their own ideas as to what pieces of armour we should have. Some will want us to have just a few pieces so that we don't look like 'tall humans in armour' and some of us will want every single piece there is for compete protection. I am somewhere in the middle. My view is that we should have the following pieces
- Helmet: This would be open-faced in front.
- Chest plate: This would have a slightly broader shoulder.
- Left & Right bracer: This would be inclusive of gloves and not make gloves a separate piece
- Armour waistwrap: Don't give us leggings but give us an armoured kind of waistwrap
In this setup, there would be no boots, no biceps, no gloves.
That covers all the major issues except for one. COMMUNICATION. As the development process on this goes along, please let us know how things are progressing and what the end product will be like so that we can give our feedback at that stage as well.
Now to the details...
Since this is going to be brand-new, never before seen craftable armour, I'm hoping that the armour has a natural look to it.
Other than that though, I have a few more questions and issues:
1) Will the armour be able to house Armour Attachments? I really hope this works out because SEAs are the big thing in this game right now. However, us Wookies have been left out of a large segment of the SEAs just because so many of them are Armour Attachments. Please do give us AA slots in our armour.
2) What kind of base stats will the armour have with relatively good resources? I know that you guys probably haven't begun developing the armour yet but it would be good to know what kind of plans you have in-store. Whatever you do, don't make it as weak as Mandalorian armour and don't make it as strong as the 90% resist composite. My view of Wookie armour should have a high resist to Kinetic and maybe a vulnerability to Acid.
3) Will it be only craftable by Wookie armoursmiths? IMO, I don't think you should do this. Let Wookie armour be craftable by any Armoursmith as it would encourage Wookies to have a certain interdependence with the whole armoursmith community. This is that kind of interdependence that you guys have been gearing this game towards so stick with it.
4) How do you deal with our extra HAM? The extra HAM has never done anything for us and it won't do anything now. However, if you really must fiddle with it, give this unique armour a little higher encumberance to compensate for it.
5) What all pieces will we have? Many will have their own ideas as to what pieces of armour we should have. Some will want us to have just a few pieces so that we don't look like 'tall humans in armour' and some of us will want every single piece there is for compete protection. I am somewhere in the middle. My view is that we should have the following pieces
- Helmet: This would be open-faced in front.
- Chest plate: This would have a slightly broader shoulder.
- Left & Right bracer: This would be inclusive of gloves and not make gloves a separate piece
- Armour waistwrap: Don't give us leggings but give us an armoured kind of waistwrap
In this setup, there would be no boots, no biceps, no gloves.
That covers all the major issues except for one. COMMUNICATION. As the development process on this goes along, please let us know how things are progressing and what the end product will be like so that we can give our feedback at that stage as well.
Zalbar9900
Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:32 pm
#207
just curious as to when we will get to see pictures of this armor and what the stats on the armor will be... hoping it wont be under 50% due to our stats. ANDDDD im hoping with will be a full suit.... i dont wanna be getting hit in my feetsies....