Commando Archive
Thread: The reason CU combat is tedious
The situation as I have seen it on TC-EP3 is thus:
You see a mob that /cons a certain level, subtract your level from that and apply a multiplication factor to the damage according to the difference. You now know how hard that mob hits you and how hard you can hit the mob.
Apply a small factor of missed shots to each,the level of both Health bars, and your own heal rate (accounting fo missed shots when you are self healing), apply the small mitigating factors. Thus you know the outcome of the fight.
Whats the point in fighting? - just walk round the galaxy and do the maths.
Can you think of a more boring combat system?
By the way, currently there is no variation in the damage of any shot/hit that connects, I presume (hope) this is a bug and some random factor will be applied.
I know the current system is flawed but it plays in a much more interesting way and many of its flaws would be fixed by applying many of the profession changes, weapon/armour changes, and changes to the HAM system that we can see in the CU.
Message Edited by Khog on 04-15-2005 04:16 AM
Message Edited by Khog on 04-15-2005 04:35 AM
acaru wrote:
Just got to say this since im sick of everyone over reacting. I have seen 3 devs in game playing on tc. I think its time everyone just cools out..... relaxes.....have a smoke and remember that this is testing. Screaming and blowing things out of proportion (calling names and other such childish behavior) wont get the system you dont like fixed. Just hang tough and keep /bugging away. If it goes live and ya hate it then just move on with your life. But i think its in everyones best interest to be constructive and purposefull in this testing. One bad day on tc (heaven forbid testing on tc) and everyone flys off the handle. I agree that the last 2-3 days worth of patching has been pretty bad and needs fixed but thats why im testing. I care about the game and enjoy playing it as much as anyone else. But lets try to keep things in proportion people.
Acaru
Excuse me - I didn't call anyone any names. I'm not flying off the handle. I gave a sound reasoning based on playing the TC since the CU was put on, my comments were measured and justified.
If we don't protest about the basic and fundamental failings now we will be stuck with those going live - now is the ONLY opportunity you will get to your say, so you can't afford to sit on the sidelines in the hope that it will all be for the best.
Tuscanspeed wrote:
ALOT of these changes are for reduced server load.
the math being recalculated eatch shot, all the range modifiers on eatch gun, etc,etc. required ALOT of server side math.
the first day TC5 went live (before it was ep3) i saw over 100 people in a small area fighting... with no lag.
ill take the no lag pls.
Lol, reduced server load, I remember a time when every server was loaded at heavy. Now every server is loaded at light or lower.
Khog wrote:
acaru wrote:
Just got to say this since im sick of everyone over reacting. I have seen 3 devs in game playing on tc. I think its time everyone just cools out..... relaxes.....have a smoke and remember that this is testing. Screaming and blowing things out of proportion (calling names and other such childish behavior) wont get the system you dont like fixed. Just hang tough and keep /bugging away. If it goes live and ya hate it then just move on with your life. But i think its in everyones best interest to be constructive and purposefull in this testing. One bad day on tc (heaven forbid testing on tc) and everyone flys off the handle. I agree that the last 2-3 days worth of patching has been pretty bad and needs fixed but thats why im testing. I care about the game and enjoy playing it as much as anyone else. But lets try to keep things in proportion people.
Acaru
Excuse me - I didn't call anyone any names. I'm not flying off the handle. I gave a sound reasoning based on playing the TC since the CU was put on, my comments were measured and justified.
If we don't protest about the basic and fundamental failings now we will be stuck with those going live - now is the ONLY opportunity you will get to your say, so you can't afford to sit on the sidelines in the hope that it will all be for the best.
I wasnt calling you out man. You were indeed construcive in your post. I just wanted to poin tout that i have seen 3 devs in game playing. One of which was working on the group bug last night. The rest of the post was not directed at you.
Acaru
Khog wrote:
acaru wrote:
Just got to say this since im sick of everyone over reacting. I have seen 3 devs in game playing on tc. I think its time everyone just cools out..... relaxes.....have a smoke and remember that this is testing. Screaming and blowing things out of proportion (calling names and other such childish behavior) wont get the system you dont like fixed. Just hang tough and keep /bugging away. If it goes live and ya hate it then just move on with your life. But i think its in everyones best interest to be constructive and purposefull in this testing. One bad day on tc (heaven forbid testing on tc) and everyone flys off the handle. I agree that the last 2-3 days worth of patching has been pretty bad and needs fixed but thats why im testing. I care about the game and enjoy playing it as much as anyone else. But lets try to keep things in proportion people.
Acaru
Excuse me - I didn't call anyone any names. I'm not flying off the handle. I gave a sound reasoning based on playing the TC since the CU was put on, my comments were measured and justified.
If we don't protest about the basic and fundamental failings now we will be stuck with those going live - now is the ONLY opportunity you will get to your say, so you can't afford to sit on the sidelines in the hope that it will all be for the best.
Agree, Khog. In fact, I'll go farther and say that even if we protest and /bug that this POS will go live anyway. I have lost all hope for this game and am just letting my subscriptions all run out. Nearly 4 out of 5 have told the devs over and over that it stinks, and they publish that more and more are happy with it. There is your indication of how much they listen.