Commando Archive

I think commando is underpowered and should be the most powerful class in the game. This is my plan for fixing the broken commando class:

1. Keep the 2.5x melee dam penalty on the FT, but increase the range of the specials to 64m. Modern flamethrowers have an effective range 150m, so this is not out of line with reality. Gasoline flamethrowers in WWI had a range of 30m, so I would think the SWG flamethrowers should be at least on par with RL flamers.

2. Get rid of the HAR: not only is it redundant, but as it stands it is totally worthless. Seeing that commandos are kings of the heavy weapons, why not replace the HAR with an AR3tactical nuclear missile launcher? It can use the same graphics as the HAR, (to save time on coding), but it will fire small warhead MIRV's, (multiple Independent reentry vehicles), which will have a range of 256m and a blast radius of 64m. This weapon will also have a radiation DoT that causes vomitting that causes the effected to lose one round of combat and hair loss, which would have to be fixed by image designers.

3. Commandos should be good at sneaking around, acchieve their mission objectives and be able to sneak out. We should be given, instead of boring hand to hand moves, but a Rambo style survival knife that when equipped allows the commando to become nearly invisible by using camoflage, and allows him to sneak up on hostiles and perform a crippling sneak attack along with other special moves that prevent detection.

4. Commandos also should get a special move that prevents all damage for 30 secs but incaps him after it wears off so that we can have a heavy assault role and not be committing suicide at the same time.

Hmmm ..... I'm not sure this is enough to make commando a viable class. Maybe the damage on all weapons should be increased 2 fold and the delay be reduced by the same number. That just might make us powerful enough ..... for awhile.

/sarcasm off

Personally I don't believe the calls for fixes to commando class are based on wanting to be bigger damage dealers. I think it is because we only have 1 working tree to specialize in, Flame. The other lines are completely or partially broken / useless. Currently the only reason to get Master is the increased defense mods and increasing our effectiveness with our 1 working specialization.

So commando's shouting for fixes (post-patch) usually revolve around making the HAR useful, LP something worth using after the get good with flamer, making HW less expensive, or frags work better. Most of these are just issues with making the class fun, not trying to make them UBER.

I've been master commando for less than a week now and I'm personally loving every minute of it and am patiently waiting for the devs to continue working on commando and other professions as well. I'm not bitching about what works and what doesn't, I was master ch and master pistoleer before commando. As for pistols, dodge wasn't working properly, both disarm shots were useless, multitarget pistol shot didn't work either. The only specials I used were the ubiquitous fan shot, stopping shot, health shot one and two, and pistol whip two.
The key is taking the good with the bad. The good, we can destroy mobs of creatures faster than any other profession hands down. I don't care how much damage that teras kasi master does with his unarmed hit 3, I can do 2000+ to as many targets as get within 16 meters of my flame cone 2. I can drop back and fire salvo after salvo with my heavy weapons and watch the mobs drop while my guild mates tank for me.
The bad, yea, the heavy weapons are expensive so are grenades, and the HAR sucks, and we have no specials with the launcher pistol. But, these are, I believe, small grips that ALL professions have. If you don't like the way the commandos work, do something else and come back when its fixed so you have LESS to bitch about, cuz there will always be someone complaining about something not being the way THEY think it should be.