Commando Archive

Not long ago I was a master commando master teras kasi. I loved it, had too much fun playing it. But, like every other commando at the time I grew tired of getting my arse kicked with the 2.5x melee damage when we had our flamethrower out. Then came the patch that took that away and gave us a +30 flamethrower accuracy in the master box for mastering commando. All was good in my eyes. I read posts about what type of specials we as commandoes would like to see put in for the launcher pistol. At this point, I was almost in heaven. The HAR was still totally busted, accuracy mods didn't stack and it was slow, with no ap, and its specials took forever to recycle. All the talk of the big nerf coming for the flamethrower pushed me to the point where I finally used my holocron and started my path towards the force.
Now my first holo told me pikeman, this was to be my last. This class is so broken, I honestly don't know how people play it. It must be so disapointing to master this skill and really honestly, recieve nothing. The skill isn't just underpowered, but poorly designed. You miss half the time you swing. And on and on and on... I won't bore you any further.
Needless to say, this experience has lead me to post this rant. I don't normally post, as I feel that most of my fellow commandos say what I would. But, this time, this time is different.
Commando is a really fun class, that is about 75% awesome. With the exception being the badly broken HAR, which ALL of you commandos will attest to. And with the launcher pistol not being all that powerful either, we are left with grenades, heavy weapons and the flamethrower. We all know how kick arse the ft is, and we also all know how SLOW it is. Concerning grenades, you can nearly kill yourself using the things, and they miss A LOT. Heavy weapons are great fun, but on my server, Bria, they are very expensive.
If this "fire extinguisher" idea takes shape and comes into effect, the devs will have made it so that the commando class will have to rely on a weakened FT, an already weak LP, and a horribly underpowered HAR. Of course, this mostly pertains to pvp, which I realize not a lot of other commandos do.
This to me, my fellow commandos, isn't balance. I wonder how many times the player I do manage to finally stick a burn on will laugh before he puts out the fire.

five star for mentioning pikemen!

well it seems that how it works

o there a commando what they have a working weapon of let break jsut to piss them off

thats what it feels like

Lets face it, we are the red headed step child.

People cry nerf on us the devs do it. So many of us love the profession that we stick with it even when it is still badly broken and really know nothing about it is as powerful as others claim it to be, we just have fun. More cries for nerf flare up, the devs see that theres some of us still here even though they tryed to "F" us as hard as they can, so they assume it must be overpowered if we're not going anywhere. So...they turn us over and "F" us from the other side.

/sigh

ive wanted to be a commando for a while now, and it was a stroke of luck that my holo said master commando.well, ive had novice for about 2 weeks, and i have been loving it. im halfway through flame 3 (slow grinder, get off my back), and i still love it. but it seems that the devs have it out for us. that makes me very not happy. im still gonna master, thats been my goal for too long to give up. but once i do, ill just continue my holo quest. the devs hate commandos way to much for me to have the fun i thought i would

Ah screw the dev's. Long as they don't change the flamethrower I'll stay master commando and be patient about the other fixes. It might be our only weapon but its a **edit** good weapon.