Bounty Hunter Archive

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Tanks wrote:

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SamousNemo wrote:

...I haven't been doing enough testing or with enough weapons to confirm or deny this... but if a Rifleman can still do sizeable damage even at melee range, what's the point in picking pistols?

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This is still being debated. Originally there were supposed to be minimum ranges eg. 0-35 Pistol 10-50 Carbine, 35-64 Rifle. So, once someone came too close you would have had to change weapons. Only the upper ranges have been changed and whether to increase everyone to max range or institute minimum ranges still or add heavy accuracy penalties at melee range is being considered.

As it is, Rifle + Root FTW.

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Tanks,let us know when min ranges are confirmed by the devs and will be workin as such in live. Thks in advance.

Message Edited by Tango88 on 04-22-2005 06:03 PM

I haven't had a chance to get on the test yet. Hopefully this weekend I will.

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SantosL wrote:
I mainly have been testing MBH with Master Pistoleer.

Pro's -
Stopping shot -> Confusion Shot -> Underhand is a nice combo - root then KD them. Make's kiting extremely easy. How well does this work against Jedi?

Disarming shot another good special that integrates well with BH. Do the Jedi drop there sabers?
Crowd control from Pistoleer takes away the main negative of a vanilla MBH.
Good DPS pistols from Master Pistoleer, from what I saw they were better then the High Cap Scatter.
Lots of pistol speed mods, allows for a lot of damage very rapidly (critical shot and scatter shot were great).
In PvE, fanshot is fairly effective.

Con's -
Lack of range, unless you're constantly trying to root, you're an easy target for a melee (jedi). What is the range of a Jedi's saber?
Defenses are decent, but not exceptional. Still, a good couple of melee hits and you're down.
PvP versus multiple targets makes you an easy target to pick off (weakness of BH and Pistoleer is seen here).

I also started testing with MBH/MCarbs. I haven't messed around too much, but I am liking it a bit more now. The supression fire is excellent (area root), which makes fighting against multiple targets much more feasable. Crippling shot is a very useful special to use as well.

So I'm thinking of going MBH/MPistoleer, and pick up a few skills in Carbs to round out my lack of area/CC elements.

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I can't say much for hunting vs. Jedi - Gorath was the first/second server up with the character conversions. Jedi specials and sabers were extremely bugged (MLS would one-shot pretty much anyone). Range on their saber throw looked like it was roughly 30-35m, and force specials around the same. Disarming shot seemed to work, it is just a combat delay from what it appears.

But the first combo I mentioned did help against jedi that I dueled. If they were MLS, I could kite somewhat effectively, though they would spam their saberthrow (which was bugged and still doing a KD) and would cause problems that way. On powers, it wasn't as effective, as they have a better root then stopping shot (yet the jedi are crying nerf for stopping shot already, when they have a better root ), and their added range made it difficult to kite.

I'm thinking MBH/Pistols is going to be a good setup for Saber-focused jedi, but MBH/Carbineer will be better vs. Force-focused jedi.

Hi guys, i'm coming back after few months break (i think 4 or 5), and i'm doing what i wanted to do since beta : BH (i didn't have the chance before, and at release BHs were really bad ).

I'm going MBH, Mpistoleer, and smuggler pistols 3 (or 4) and slicing terms.

I forgot to tell what i like or not ^^ well it's not final now so i can't tell much bout it but, i love pistols, i mastered every other weapon so far but pistols are by far what i like the most, and it's quite powerful and responsive, with a nice combat range.

Adding the smuggler moves to the BH gives good boosts and a bigger variety of attacks (and i think last ditch will be the most powerful in the CU), Mastering BH gives good defenses in the CU i think thoses added to MP defenses will be enough.
Another point is that specializing in one weapon is good to hunt jedis, u can take a group of few BHs each specialized in a different weapon, so u can all attack the jedi at full power with the right moves and DB him like he deserves it.

Message Edited by Kweane on 04-22-2005 09:55 AM

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DannonKerr wrote:

Tanks a question: Is there any plans to speed up BH's ability to swap weapons in combat? Allowing us to switch from pist to carb to rif quickly? If there isn't any plan to do this, does there need to be?

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From what I've seen on test, there is no more delay with switching armors/weapons. I was switching from different pistols and carbs on the fly with no noticable delay.

Well i tested MBH/Mpistoleer/0440 carbineer for a while and liked it (except for the lacking range)

Now ive changed to a "mess around" temp which is MBH/Msmuggler/0004 pistoleer. Its fun but you can see the difference between the two temps i tested.

Still havent found a temp im really enjoying, anyone have a suggestion?