Commando Archive

Basically wondering just what you personally and the dev team as a whole see as the problems with the commando right now? And what kind of solutions they are proposing to deal with these issues?

Seen lots of posts asking for our input but we are getting very little feedback. In fact we have had no 'official' word for quite some time. I have read your previous posts regarding outstanding issues and I have seen your post outlining your 'off the record' conversation with the dev responsible for this but I have seen nothing firm, it's mostly been supposition and second hand gossip.

Please can we have stated a list of the problems the devs (not us players) have been made aware of and any ideas they have towards fixing them. Also some kind of timescale would be nice, quoting a dev as saying 'it wont be soon' or similar is basically unaceptable. I am sure SOE would be more than a little upset if I said I would pay my subscription 'sometime soon'.

This is not a criticism of you Mastersynn, you are doing a tough job but many of us are becoming rather frustrated by the long silence regarding our problems as a profession.

I've talked with MasterSynn on the phone. Great guy.

He's also really busy with real life, job, 6 kids (I think that's how many he's got), etc.

There really isn't anything to report and here is why...

The problem lies not with MasterSynn but with the Combat Dev and SOE in general doing whatever they feel like doing and not listening to their correspondents first.

Sadly a lot of what Mastersynn does is in the Correspondant only forum to which none of us has access to post to, much less even read.

There are improvements on test to all the combat classes upping their accuracies and some more defenses.

The sad part is that the Commando is still in last place for accuracy (not counting the poor Smuggler who gets diddly).

The worst part is we could have +100 melee defense and it doesn't stop the 2x damage while wielding the flamethrower.

Nor does it fix our HAR.

Nor does it put some decent amount of charges on our consumables.

Nor does it let them work indoors (inside bases & caves & dungeons)

So, the status is commando is going to be a wounded one trick pony for many months to come.

Whats sad is that the corrospondents know just as much as we do. SOE dosen't tell them anything. MasterSynn was just as surprised about the last patch as the rest of us. It's not MasterSynns fault, its SOE's for implementing a poorly designed corrospondent system.

Like I said in my post, I am not criticising our correspondent he's doing his best.

WhatI find rediculous is things like the HAR range modifier not getting fixed quickly, surely they just need to edit the database record and fix the range modifiers? It's not an issue open to discussion it's clearly broken, a rifle that's ideal range is 0m? it doesn't need testing, it doesn't need proving it just needs fixing! and it should be a simple fix that takes little effort.