Commando Archive

The thing that annoys me the most is the lack of continuity between the prequisite of Commando and the commando skills. Master unarmed, Carabine and Rifle specialist, seem like a dead weight, since Pistoleer seems the only logical choice for an Elite profession. Why not make the Acid Rifle,... a rifle ?! In the first tier why not have a couple of Unarmed combat moves and the certification for a combat knife,... ?

In most other professions the elite skills are an improvement and a continuation of the prequisite skills, in Commando 4 out of 5 of them are thrown out the window and we start working on Heavy Weapons and grenades from scratch.

Garibaldi -- I will respect your decision either way as far as leaving the Correspondent position and/or game. But I do beleive from what I have seen that you are in the best position to address these issues. I also have faith they will end up getting fixed. Knowing some Devs in other gaming apps, I refuse to believe these guys are not working hard at resolving the mess they had to deal with when the beta went live.

I frankly think they are being stretched too thin by Sony. Fix the game and get ready for the first episode? Unless they add Devs neither of these efforts will be very effective.

Waiting until Sept./Oct. is probably the most realistic. If it is not fixed by then or the Devs have not explained why by then, I agree that we need to revisit playing the profession/game.

Keep up the good work. Let's hope for a thoughtful reply from the Devs on the important issues you have been raising.

Check http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=commando&message.id=6038 for my ideas about commando. It may give you something to use in future letters. It would definately turn the commando into something other than just ANOTHER combat class.

Garibaldi,

I hope you don't resign your post as Commando Correspondant. You have been a great voice for the Commando community. I too am disheartened by the lack of response to your last letter, but I try to remember that the Devs have 31 other classes complaining that they are the most screwed up (well, 30, even Creature Handlers admit they rule).

I'm really interested to see what the big patch this week will bring. The fixes they list on the testing center could make the Commando profession a lot more viable, though I'll still have some fundamental and conceptual issues with the class.

ok im a non-comando here but.. i feel this needs to be said.. W.T.F. they increase the BH damage WTH is up with that? as it is right now a BH can kill just about ANYTHING in one hit.. and i do agree with you all.. why do you have to pay to "test" comando's.. it makes no sense.. SOE is the WORST in game making.. ok so EQ was ok for a bit.. but people only stuck around cause they have about 100 expansions.. SOE needs to recognize that they are ignoring one of the "most powerful classes" in the game.. well in my mind a comando should be more powerful than a stupid BH.. this game is almost 2 moths old now and has yet to have any "fixes" only nerfs.. just like SOE.. they are like childeren with bats hitting everything in site.. pathetic.. my wishes go with the Comando class..

"oh look pretty lights.. how much damage do you do with that pistol?"

"well its called a launcher pistol and it does near no damage, so it takes me an hour to kill a Durni with a broken leg =("

When I first started coming to the commando boards I had such high hopes for the class. I saw the reply from the devs and was like wow they are starting to pay attention and might actually listen to us and fix what needs to be fixed. But now I see that we are once ignored by the devs, as is everyone else. I remember seeing somewhere that they were busy with a couple things and would not be responding to the correspondents for a week or so, so hopefully they will be getting around to it soon. Unfortunately the longer you leave issues like this go with out responding the harder and harder it becomes to catch up.

I'm sticking out the tough times of the game. I know it's not perfect, but to me the community is generally better then any other game I have played in, except maybe EQ, but I'm more interested in the sci-fi genre then the fantasy, so I will stick with it for at least a year. If after that year changes aren't made, i'll be gone just like AO, and DAoC.

Unfortunately I always seem to gravitate to the "useless" classes when I play MMORPGS, at least in groups, and sometimes solo. But after a while all the bugs seem to get worked out and the classes become viable. Here I've chosen Commando/Squad Leader as my template, with a little bit of CH to give me a helping hand, just so I'm not totally Gimped, I will also most likely pick up pistoleer novice until something comes around to give us the boost we need.

Gir, I hate to see you leave. You have done a wonderful job representing us, and your clear and concise letters to the devs are most likely the reason why we were one of the few professions to get a response from the onset of this program. If you do leave hopefully someone with as much furvor and dedication will take up the mantle, but that will be hard to find. I would take up that mantle, but I know I do not have the patience and time available to dedicate myself to such as task now.

Kayyin Coterei~Starsider
Squad Leader of the Imperial Oasis Outpost, Tatooine,
Commando.
Tamer of Vitas, my faithful companion.

Just a word on Grenades. I will presonally never use them. There is absolutely no point. I got a couple off some dead rebel general and I tried them out. The damage and recovery time made them completely useless. Unlessthey do an enourmous ammout of Area of effect damage, whats the point of using them.

The point I wanted to get to was about knockdowns for commandos. How many times have you seen a movie where someone would throw a grenade into a group and multiple people would get knocked down. I have trouble seeing how an enemy is going to keep standing there after catching a grenade. Also... HOW DO YOU MISS WITH A GRENADE??? Unless you throw like Mr Burns from the simpsons..

Anyways, Either up the damage or think about adding an AOE knockdown for the commandos grenades. I sure as hell wont spend my combat xp on commandos grenade skills when I can atleast get a decent skill from pistoleer, like unarmed defense. BUT WAIT... I am supposedto be a commando, not a pistoleer.. so **edit**.

Hey folks, I was one of the first first Commando's on Lowca and I still do not have 1 hw weapon xp. I'll back any type of organized protest to the treatment weve recieved. Ive submited ticket's, /bugs and posted daily on commandos with absolutly no communication back. Maybe if we do something massive things might get some attention. I'll be game for whatever, including quiting.

what im trying to say garibaldi is that Im pretty much at the same placeyou're at and if it would mean anything to tack on my name (and others?) to your "respond/fix now or I quit" emails then Ill be more than happy to join your cause. I just feel organizing it might have more of an impact than everyone just slowly dissappearing/quiting.

one simple suggestion, if garibaldi leaves due tosoe ignoring us,if commandos don't get some sort of fix in next patch. Don't become their bitch (err commando correspondent), you are then subjecting yourself to paying to work for SOE. I mean seriously,you areasking to be theirbeta tester and to come to them with ideas, that they will promptly ignore.

For me its becoming harder and harder to log on to something that I can't get anywhere with, I don't want to even get commando exp for the simple reason im not sure where the commando line is going. Are they gonna be completely revamped or are they gonna try and fix what is broken. Because I don't want my exp to just disappear because they decided to completely revamp commandos, cause you know that's what will happen, and they'll say it with an apology. "We at S.O.E are happy to announce the new and improved commando class, with all new weapons and an all new skill tree!, And because of all the new changes those currently in the commando class will have to start over from scratch, we apologize for any inconvience this may cause to some, but as there were so few commandos in the 1st place, it really doesn't matter."

I'm like others, I'll play out the time that I've paid for, but if things don't happen soon with some direction, I'll just dwindle my play time, and delete into oblivion. For all its possibilities of greatness, so far they have failed miserably, I'm terribly disappointing in feeling like im beta testing an incomplete game, and I'm paying for it.

Sizzle

Corbantis

I think the developers are starting to realize people are very dissapointed in this game and numerous people are going to quit very soon unless major changes are made.

I agree with you all the way man.. I am sick and tired of posting these annoying and repetative posts about commando this commando that... they dont give a rats a@# about us. All they care about is the money they are making which im sure is a bundle. But eventually people will fade away from the game when they realize it's eaither just for the money or they don't care about the users at all.

ONE major thing that also really bothers me is that they are wokring hard on releasing updates/expansions to the game.. WHY THE HELL dont YOU JUST FIX THE DARN ISSUES AT HAND BEFORE ADDING TO THIS CAN OF WORMS! WE ALL KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF ISSUES TO BE FIXED, EVEN BESIDES THE COMMANDO CLASS. ADDING AN EXPANSION WILL JUST ADD MORE BUGS/EXPLOITS. FIX THE PRIMARY GAME FIRST THEN ADD EXPANSIONS!!!!!

Thank you (My 2-cents)

Attilius Deathwalker

HELLO ALL,

ONCE AGAIN WE FACE THE WALL WITH OUR HANDS UP! WE THE COMMANDOS ARE BEING DESTROYED BY THE WONDERFUL S.O.E DEVELOPMENT TEAM THAT DOES NOT SEEM TO CARE ABOUT US AS ALL AND IF THEY DID WE WOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO HELP US GAIN HEAVY WEAPON EXPERIENCE. *HINT*HINT* ROCKET PISTOL!!!!! A PISTOL THAT SHOOTS ROCKETS SHOULD BE HEAVEY WEAPON EXP LIKE WE ALL SAID AND AGREED ON ALREADY.

I SAY WE JUST ALL E-MAIL THEM DIRECTLY AND ANNOY THEY HELL OUTA THE DEV TEAM UNTIL THEY FIX US RATHER THEN IGNORE US ALL THE TIME AND NOT GIVE US ANY FEEDBACK.

DOES THIS MAKE SENSE... THEY WANT TO RELEASE AN EXPANSION PACK BUT YET THEY DONT FIX THE BUGS THAT ARE CURRENTLY EFFECTING ALOT OF US. CAN SOMEONE SAY "MONEY MONEY MONEY, GREED GREED GREED?" THAT IS ALL THIS IS ABOUT AND NOT WHAT THEY CLAIM TO BE A FUN ENVIORNEMT WHEN THINGS DONT WORK. PLEASE JUST FIX US AND MAKE US A HAPPY PROFESSION!!!

LIKE SOMEONE POSTED EARLIER WE ARE NOT BETA TESTERS FOR THE DARN COMMANDO PROFESSION WE PAY TO PLAY A WORKING GAME. SO FIX US ALREADY!!!! ITS ANNOYING WHEN YOU GET BEAT BY ALL THE PROFESSIONS OVER AND OVER WHEN YOU TRY TO USE YOUR COMMANDO SKILLS!

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DEFINE AND EXPLAIN THE MEANING OF THE WORD COMMANDO TO THESE DEV TEAM MEMBERS... THEY ARE THE ELITE COMBAT CLASS....

THANK YOU AND HAPPY HUNTING THOSE WONDERFUL NOOB MONSTERS WITH OUR HEAVY WEAPONS THAT SHOULD BE BLASTING HARD MOBS

ATTILIUS DEATHWALKER (Ahazi server)