Commando Archive

I think i'm gonna go a differant class, I doubt they'll ever make commando a master of damage that I believe he should be. I can havebetter PvP firepower specializing in one of the three lines and have plenty of points left to put in other things. I'm not going to wait till next year or longer for my commando to get his hands on a weapon that I can use.

WAAAAAAAAAA!!!

I'm working my way to Commando with some skills on the side from other professions. I know Commando isn't working right. So what? It's just a game. Lighten up. They didn't MAKE you become a Commando. They didn't MAKE you buy the game. And besides, if you knew the track records of all the other MMORPGs out there, why didn't you just wait?

I guess all of you quitters leaving the profession will just add to the mystique of the few who tough it out.

In my opionion, Commando will never be a good pvp choice as this guy above has stated. But lets look at it in the big picture. What is PvP? It is Player vs. Player. A guy standing up to throw a grenade is a prime target for a sniper with a rifle. So no, to match a commando against a rifle specialist would be unbalanced. What people need to understand is the essence of the class.

A commando is not meant to me a single target massive damage dealer as much as it is meant to be a SPECIAL target massive damage dealer. His/her role on the battlefield might be to do smaller AE damage to charging forces to wear them down alittle. I can see a grenade going off into a group of people causing bleed damage to several people a very beneficial role rather than blasting one target with a rocket. In short, commando is going to be more of a support class than a one-on-one, my gun is bigger than yours so you die, kind of class.

The game has just started. Think about the future. When they get around to adding the vehicles to the game and some guy is cruizing around doing rifle headshots at 80mph, who do you think is going to stop him? Your vibro lance thru his radiator? The commando is meant for bigger and better things than your one-on-one pvp city duels.

Personally I'm going with commando for the flavor of it. It's just cool to be able to say "I'm a commando". It'll fit well with any RP stuff I do in the game as well. I'm sure it'll be fixed eventually. I was looking at the stats for a proton grenade the other night that someone had made and I think they were off by an order of magnitude. Instead of 80-230 it should be 800-2300 I think. Hopefully this and other issues will be addressed in the coming months, but until then I can say "I'm a commando".

/bump

I'm almost master Combat Medic / Snipersince I posted this, starting from Commando/TKA.

Ok, to all the people who say a commando should not be good PVP 1 on 1. Examine what a commando is. they get more 1 on 1 combat training than any other form of soldier. they are the covert operatives. I posted this before, but in Iraq a group of green berets (yes commandos) were outnumbered and killed all the enemies with fixed bayonets, suffering no casualties. THEY DID NOT SHOOT THEM WITH ROCKET LAUNCHERS! hrrm. anyway, why learn unarmed, an essentially hand to hand 1 on 1 skill if we dont use it? Commandos do whatever is needed of them. but theya re the best 1 on 1 fighters in the military.

I am hopeful that the updates will help, But most likely with more people playing as pistoleers we will not see ourselves becoming more powerful than anyone else, despite ALL of our contributing lines being combat related and us taking more combat related skills than anyone else. its a pure combat class. but they are catering to a market and the mass of their players simply want to be the best, or at least not have anyone be better than them. and they want instant gratification, pistol is fast to learn. so we wont see ourselves really being a COMMANDO most likely.

I do however want to tough out the class a while longer, but I was hoping to play as a commando before I went to boot camp. obviously this is not going to happen now. hopefully If I get a chance to come back the class will be good.

There are fixes on the test server to make us what we should be.

Of course the test server messages are extremely vague so no one quite know just how much more power we are getting.

Shrug. I'm happy with a tough road to end with power.

Keeps out all the l33t n00bs who want to ownz