Commando Archive

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TK-132 wrote:

Ya know I don't think I've ever been so ticked off by the Devs. Too damn lazy to even put a little fix in for us. I seriously doubt if they will fix things so great in the blessed CU. If it ever comes...

There has been no Alpha yet or any other information on the CU. How hard is it to get it done I mean c'mon. This is just lame. All they care about is marketing. They are saving everything for when the movie comes out using the movie to help sell the game better and beat the other MMORPGs.

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StarNick wrote:

Good evening folks, one issue Im going to try and push before the Devs is a compilation of quick fixes to help out commando -now- plus give us something that is beneficial to pass the time until the CURB is (finally) released onto Live. For the most part this includes doable and small fixes that would benefit our profession. Ill be submitting this list to the Developers in hopes that we may get a bone thrown to us prior to the CURB...

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My proposal as followed:

Commando Requests for Pre-CURB "Quick Fixes"

The following are fixes that the commando community would like to see in order to help our profession now. These "fixes" would be temporary of course until the CURB is released, but would be a GREAT benefit to our profession until then. The community also feels that these could be fixes that may be easily implented into our profession (such as when we recieved +25 Melee/Range defenses in our Master Skill Box). This list consists of specific requests that could be taken to help improve our condition in the game, is as followed:

Concerns Highlighted in Red are those that we feel are needed to the upmost degree until the CURB hits, and if we could only get these, the situation of the Commando Profession would be improved drastically.

Concerns highlighted in yellow and light blue are wishlist items we would like to see added, but are not piority. Yellow are secondary.

Skill Mods

• +15 to +30FT Speed


• +15 to +30 HAR Speed


• +35 to flamethrower accuracy


• +35 HAR Accuracy


• Get Thrown Weapon Accuracy Working


• Reasonable addition of Speed/Accuracy to all of our Disposables (Beam Weapons & RL)


• Grenade Speed Needs to be fixed (currently Capped at 9 secs regardless)
  
• Add in a reasonable amount of Pistol Speed/Accuracy (Maybe +75 Pistol accuracy, +35 speed?)

"We are the guys skilled with all ranged weapons. They should let us act like it"

Defenses

• +25 melee defense (Scattered about in the Profession)


• +25 ranged defence (Ditto)


• Add Melee Mitigation 1 to Commando (much like Smugglers)


• Add Special Defenses just about equal to Pistoleer, as we operate mostly in their range of pistols and closer!


• +40 Def vs Stun


• +40 Def vs Blind


• +40 Def vs Dizzy


• +20 to +40 Def vs Posture Change


• +50 Def vs Knockdown


• Active defense - counterattack seems the most commandoish plus it might give more reason for a carb/Commando combo. Block would be good even though its only a 50% reduction.

Weapons

• Powerups for our weapons


• AP 3 on the HAR


• Increase Hvy Weapon xp gainage to that of other elites


• Give us looting rights for our Fire DoT


• Consumables to go in the combat queue instead of bypasssing it. Currently you can have a number of specials of any description queued up, but if you hit a toolbarred grenade/HPBC etc you throw/fire it as your next combat action, and with no way to clear queued consumables.

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Anything you would add, change, remove, etc?

Message Edited by StarNick on 02-22-2005 04:05 PM

Message Edited by StarNick on 02-22-2005 06:48 PM

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StarNick wrote:
Update: Basically...was shot down, and crashed....looks like y'all will have to wait for the CU folks

Message Edited by StarNick on 02-22-200509:11 PM

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That didn't take them long. Not even by the definition of "soon."

So we get told "no, you can't be useful in the new PvP TEF/GCW system until the CURB." And we have heard NOTHING about when the CURB will be and there are only 4.25 days left in FEBRUARY for the Alpha testing that was SOETyrant HIMSELF said was supposed to start in JANUARY. The communication channel is right back to were it was months ago. One way. And any tidbit that flows back to the community at large, turns out to be propaganda.

They could have delivered a BABY in the time that they have been stringing us along. I know Novock, "it's all marketing/PR." Another term for it is Kaadu Manure. I'm now doubting that a May target date is even possible given this track record.

Very disappointing. Poor showing, SOE.

Message Edited by Latenighter on 02-23-2005 06:33 PM

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StarNick wrote:

As the devs put it...little or no combat additions will be taking place (direct that is....GCW apparently is a bit indirect) prior to the CU. Hence the shooting down of the list....it was worth a shot at least.

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Uping Grenade / consumable stack sizes is a crafting addition, not a combat addition.

Grenade Speed and Thrown Weapon Accuracy are bugs, not combat additions.

Looting rights from the Fire DoT only affect LOOT and is a bug, not a combat addition. Have the Dev's give you a reason why CM Disease / Poison tick SHOULD count for loot rights and a DoT from at FT should not. That should be enlightening.

Please push these issues back on the Dev's as a shorter list and see if they might actually think about it long enough to form an opinion before saying "no."

This might be worth more of a "shot." Even though with our accuracy, you can get good odds that we'll miss.

Thanks Stern.

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StarNick wrote:

Yeah it sucks I know...btw guys, I found out the hard way that the Devs officially dislike "CURB" and rather for us (at least correspondents) to refer to it as the CU...

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Why should they get upset. They'll have to make up a new name for it in a few days so they can say it's not "late."

Well ya it's all about marketing. They don't care about Star Wars. All they care about is keeping people just enough so they don't hit that cancel button.

Do you really think the Devs really care that our day might suck cause we choose heavy weapons yet just about anyone or anything we face can mop the floor with us. I wouldn't say. I can actually see them just removing it. I mean there ain't that many of us. I mean who cares if a few players lose their profession. As long as most people are "ok" why bother fixing this profession called Commando.

I can just see them saying "Oh Commando is to hard to fix. Hmm lets just remove it despite the fact we've been working on this for about a year."

I mean look at smugglers.

The delays need to stop. No pretty GCW update is gonna make the game better. Cause at the end of the day Commando is still one of the most gimped professions. Commando shouldn't equal PvE profession. It should be a choice on how you like to play.

This is taking too long. I also remember them saying they had seperate teams. Is it that impossible to do two things at once like test the GCW and CU. And it would only be Alpha anyway. Something tells me the Devs plan to take their sweet time with this. However they seem to be very incapable of making good decisions themselves. So I really doubt letting them work on it more by themselves is better.

There are things that we have to test ourselves that would be better then let them dream up stuff. Look at what they did on TC. They jacked up all the costs of FP now making everything even harder to obtain if it goes live, which won't help the GCW anyway cause people will just say forget this. Imperial Bases are no where near as well defended as Rebel ones. When they tried to add bases they exceeded the FP cap.

I have lost all faith in their abilities. They have left us for weeks with just this tiny bit of information. And why do they always have to wait til friday? Why does it have to be part of this weekly special garbage?!

I' have never been more angry about this game ever! This isn't even taking account of the lag either. I'm givin them three weeks to start alpha. Enough of this little how long can we play them game. I haven't seen enough information at all to warrent the time they've taken to fix combat.

Honestly how would giving the HAR even medium armor piercing upset the game? Like all of a sudden it would become the ultimate PvP weapon. Pfft yeah right. And it wouldn't be that much better in PvE just actually useful. I only use the HAR when something big has low heat resists.
I'm tired of being nothing but a Dot supporter. Would Commandos even be used with out our flame Dots? The only thing I can think of is maybe a base take down template.

They still haven't fixed ranged mods in the village either which is something they should do right now, not wait forever and ever til the CU, instead of leaving ranged professions gimped now when they plan to fix them up.

This is just frustrating. I'd wonder how they would feel say if they played us for a day after having played say something like a Rifleman or TKM.

Message Edited by RankorCity on 02-23-2005 06:02 PM

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StarNick wrote:

As for the name, TH feels its disrespectful to the developers slaving away at it (blood, tears, sweat, all that stuff)....even tho I used the acronym affectionately (it sounds more wholesome than just CU)...I will respect that....plus, who knows? It may help in pushing for our issues...

As for -another- acronym....remember that old weird one Garvin used to say way back when? Now...I think the CURB acronym was better than that...almost sounded as if one was cursing in Mandalorian

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