Combat Medic Archive
Thread: I have a MCM question...
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RankorCity
Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:17 am
#1
Particularly about range....
Was engaged in a little PvP action last night against a MCM and a few riflemen. Needless to say, our group got waxed as these guys were buffed to the hilt and were loaded with skill tapes...I never could get close enough with my gimp master commando to do any good. I fired at one of therifleman 15 times and hit once, all within 64 meters...He gets away and nails me from75 meters in three shots (all within about 5 seconds!). Someone else comes in and steals his kill (which drives me nuts for some reason...I think you should only be able to DB someone if you did the most damage to them...There is nothing more frustrating than getting taken out by an elite (which I can live with), and then getting DB'd by some novice dancer...LOL)
but I digress....
What I am curious about is the range of a MCM poisons...The MCM poisoned me from 105 meters! On the other side of a house (on more than one occasion)!! How is this possible? Skill Tapes??? Is it materials used??? Is this NORMAL? I am willing to conceded plus/minus 15 meters due to server lag, but still that is 90 METERS. WITH SOMETHING THAT YOU THROW. BEHIND A HOUSE. WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING OVER 105 METERS. This guy must have been Nolan Ryan in a previous life....
I just wanted theright information before I jump to conclusions and start yelling "exploit" or "bug". If it IS a bug, then the player using the bug to his/her advantage IS exploiting.
Khragon
Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:47 am
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Cm's are restricted by LOS(line of sight) just like any weapons profession. If he hit you behind a house its one of 3 things. One is a bug, 2 is lag(meaning he came out from behind the house and hit you then ran back, but due to lag it looked like he tossed it from behind the house) or third he used an AOE poison hitting someone else with it within LOS and you were near that person so you got hit too. As for range, range was supposed to be fixed in the last publish so they dont exceed 64m....they didnt fix it right but its on the menu for fixing. Yes a CM can poison for long distances right now depending on how they craft their poison. Hope that helps
Loonytic
Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:28 am
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I'm still able to craft 96m area poisons.. with an area effect of 30m, you could get a max range 111m.
RankorCity
Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:20 am
#4
Loonytic wrote:
I'm still able to craft 96m area poisons.. with an area effect of 30m, you could get a max range 111m.
Good Gawd Almighty...
Gnuut
Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:09 pm
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RankorCity wrote:
Particularly about range....
What I am curious about is the range of a MCM poisons...The MCM poisoned me from 105 meters! On the other side of a house (on more than one occasion)!! How is this possible? Skill Tapes??? Is it materials used??? Is this NORMAL? I am willing to conceded plus/minus 15 meters due to server lag, but still that is 90 METERS. WITH SOMETHING THAT YOU THROW. BEHIND A HOUSE. WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING OVER 105 METERS. This guy must have been Nolan Ryan in a previous life....
I just wanted theright information before I jump to conclusions and start yelling "exploit" or "bug". If it IS a bug, then the player using the bug to his/her advantage IS exploiting.
The poisons I craft have a base range of 40m (80m at Master) before experimentation and I can easily max it out at 48m base (96m at Master). What you recieve in range you lose in damage.
zaztekxeroz
Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:03 pm
#6
yeah, same here, best range i got on a poison was 48m, which is tossable at 96m from master. wtih the aoe, it hits about 110m.
i do agree this is very overpowered even though that exact poison will only tick for minimal damage.
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