Bounty Hunter Archive

I would continue my testing Blix, but with TC-Prime mothballed I'm out for the rest of this publish cycle. I would love to give you more feedback, but you can see why it's not possible.

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Blixtev wrote:

Removing the feature is how the "white mark" problem was solved. "H" and I were unable to replicate the "white mark" issue in our internal testing. I am hoping if it crops back up we can find out why they do not set their TEF vs the BH correctly, instead of yanking the feature. If anyone sees this behaviour on Test please shoot up the flare gun and we will try to jump on it, information like where mission was taken, what planet you went to,how long it took you to get to themark etc, would be very useful if this is seen.

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Nice to know you are aware of the possible problem. I only hope that if it resurfaces that our feedback is not ignored this time around as were our countless bug reports from the past.

Still not a fan of phasing out player bounties for "phat lewt," however.

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Blixtev wrote:

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Valtor wrote:

This was the way I remember it being fixed previously. With all of the other annoyances brought to the PVP section of BHing I will not play anymore if this bug emerges again. I am not a power player and it took most of the first year this game was out for me to master BH due to the endless hours I had to spend sitting in a campsite to get Master scout. I didnt even have the fish option. With the Kashyyyk exploit still left open for the Jedi just trying to get a PvP mission is a waste of the limited time I have to play. Please SOE make sure the PvE bug isnt reintroduced, I cant handle NPC missions being borked again!!!!!!

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Removing the feature is how the "white mark" problem was solved. "H" and I were unable to replicate the "white mark" issue in our internal testing. I am hoping if it crops back up we can find out why they do not set their TEF vs the BH correctly, instead of yanking the feature. If anyone sees this behaviour on Test please shoot up the flare gun and we will try to jump on it, information like where mission was taken, what planet you went to,how long it took you to get to themark etc, would be very useful if this is seen.

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Since we're going to be looking at the "white mark" again how about the "bizzaro mark" they live inside trees, in between walls, and under the ground.

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FaceInTheCrowd wrote:
I would continue my testing Blix, but with TC-Prime mothballed I'm out for the rest of this publish cycle. I would love to give you more feedback, but you can see why it's not possible.

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Well, keep in mind that the drop rates on TC are going to be much higher than Live. They want people to test the content, afterall... so they up the drop rates so people can actually do that.

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Blixtev wrote:

I just would like to know from the players who have been testing these if they are able to win vs the Boss level Marks.

Message Edited by Blixtev on 07-27-200506:19 PM

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I'd been playing on my BH/pistoler on TC-P to see how it faired against any of the marks. Without any healing stims or food, this was very very tough going, more often than not I had to call on aid from nearby creatures which got caught in aoe fire from the marks.

I'd admit BH/Pistoler is not a template I'm all to familiar with, it was the last experimentation template I was left with. Anyhow anything that had a silver or gold tag, these fights I would lose quite drastically. i.e. the mark wasn't even taken below 75%. Bear in mind I am using an scatter pistol with 310 unmodified DPS. around 520 modified, with 6k armor. Even if I had stims and food, I doubt I would be winning much against these marks, even if I knew the inside out of the pistoler profession

Anyhow fortunately for me I still had a token respec to go back to a template I could heal with. BAck to BH/CM for me. Now the scales turned quite a bit. Silver marks were no longer posing the same difficulty as before, these were engaging and envolving fights, however none of these fights posed a real threat to the BH/CM template as it did to the BH/Pistoler.

Gold Elite Marks. Now here is a bit level of discrepancy in the marks, some are super tough and some are super weak. The super tough ones are even fights all the way and would very much depend a little bit on luck especially if they're 30k health types that hit for about 300-500 a pop. These often had to be taken down with some assistance from the wildlife around me or a pet. Even then they're touch and go.

HOwever there are for some strange reason the occasional elite gold mark with 30k plus health that only hit me for about 15 damage per shot. These are just as easy as the normal marks if not easier, just takes a lot longer to kill due to the large health pool.

Either way some work needs to be done on the desrepancy between gold elite marks, cause some are very tough (which is fine) but others are insanely weak (which is not fine)

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Touaket wrote:

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FaceInTheCrowd wrote:
I would continue my testing Blix, but with TC-Prime mothballed I'm out for the rest of this publish cycle. I would love to give you more feedback, but you can see why it's not possible.

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I'm in the same boat... Although we've pounded out missions since the publish went live I am unable to continue since TCP is mothballed.

Cormac

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A big third voice on this one. I was hoping to use Drashka, my MBH/MCH, to test out more missions and the new pet system.

Message Edited by mindspat on 07-27-2005 09:16 PM

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Blixtev wrote:

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AZFisher wrote:

This is way too cool.My altcan get a BH mission and kill it with my Jedi. Any idea what quality those crystals were?

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Many old time BH's will remember the old method of Bounty Hunting where you and only you could damage the Mark. We just got done hooking this back up. To everyone else but the BH the mark will appear white. The intent of these missions was to follow a very cannon style experience of the solo Boba Fett Bounty Hunter vs the target. The loot quality and drop rates are too favorable to let these missions be farmed en masse by large groups. I just would like to know from the players who have been testing these if they are able to win vs the Boss level Marks.

These missions are intended to be challenging with the Mark always a few levels higher than the difficulty of the mission.

Message Edited by Blixtev on 07-27-200506:19 PM

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STIM-D is the answer for non healing templates. 1100 heal every 30 seconds if you take ruby bliel.

I do not see how they could be that difficult for a mbh pistoleer, mbh rifle, mbh carbine. Maybe its just me though, because so far, most people have said they are a challenge. I dont consider myself an expert of my profession or anyone elses though, just thinking outloud.. Oh well.

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Blixtev wrote:

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Valtor wrote:

This was the way I remember it being fixed previously. With all of the other annoyances brought to the PVP section of BHing I will not play anymore if this bug emerges again. I am not a power player and it took most of the first year this game was out for me to master BH due to the endless hours I had to spend sitting in a campsite to get Master scout. I didnt even have the fish option. With the Kashyyyk exploit still left open for the Jedi just trying to get a PvP mission is a waste of the limited time I have to play. Please SOE make sure the PvE bug isnt reintroduced, I cant handle NPC missions being borked again!!!!!!

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Removing the feature is how the "white mark" problem was solved. "H" and I were unable to replicate the "white mark" issue in our internal testing. I am hoping if it crops back up we can find out why they do not set their TEF vs the BH correctly, instead of yanking the feature. If anyone sees this behaviour on Test please shoot up the flare gun and we will try to jump on it, information like where mission was taken, what planet you went to, how long it took you to get to the mark etc, would be very useful if this is seen.

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Wait wait wait, so you can't have a bounty hunting associate? Did I get this right? You can't, say, make a group of two bounty hunters who work together and take out NPC mission marks in cooperation? Like, for example, Zuckuss and 4-LOM?