Commando Archive

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I asked Vass about this ealier this month but clearly a fix hasn't been made yet.

I'm going to concur with that last post. Again, look at the novice commando and you'll notice the Devs added a new cert that reads:

Cert rifle acid beam

Weird, huh? Never seen a beam rifle before but I have seen an acid rifle and there's a whole tree devoted to the latter. But, beam... wuh? I am a commando by the way. For a little proof, do check the commando boards.

Oh yeah, i meant the post before last on page one.... Anyway, the beam rifle is a commando weapon (supposed to be) because if it has 0 ideal range (as per the previous post's link), such is the mark of the old commando weapons. It's ideal range should be increased to around 15 or 16m now with the new bigpatch.

Why do 3 5k missions when you can do one 15k, 20k, or 25k mission?

-- A6

I just had my guild weaponsmith make me this rifle. I found out 2 things:

1. I get the error concerning the lack of a cert for the rilfe.

2. I can use rifle specials with the it, i.e. HS3 and MS2

Not sure if this is important, but I thought you couldnt use specials with weapons that they werent designed for.

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PlatypusLord wrote:
Don't worry about it, its one of the commandos CHARGED WEAPONS. That means it only has 30-35 shots before it runs out. That and I think it costs like 15,000 creds. Thats ruffly 500 creds a shot, not very cheap. That means they have to solo 3 5,000 credit missions to be able to buy one. Also remember that commandos unless also a smuggler with slicing only have missions to make money. That and there accuracy with these weapons at BEST is +80. The master riflemans ranged def including the bonus in the rifle in the marksman tree in +20. For every two points of ranged defense it subtracts one from their accuracy so a Master Rifleman(with no other skills) vs a Master Commando has a 70 accuracy to hit.

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You're thinking of the HPBC. The Beam Rifle is NOT a charged weapon.

i was actually hoping to get a decent gun for long range combat in the beam rifle, but now i am denied this. does anybody know if the cert will be fixed for the commando?

Not sure if it was mentioned in the TC patch notes, infact i dont think anything relevant to commando was.

This is a gun left over from beta, replaced by the HAR, no certification will be issued

But weaponsmiths can still make it, a bad joke on them.

Well, not that bad. I had one sliced to better effectiveness than my laser rifle--and any T21 I've seen (even sliced).

the beam rifle is a replica of the acid rifle BUT its accuracy modifiers are +0 +10 +0 ... and they fire heat damage cdef-looking laser blasts.

I fired one and it gives rifle xp (course doing only like 20pnt of damage haha).

They should put that rifle in the Novice Commando certification line.

Theyre pretty crappy anyways, at least all the ones I've seen.