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garvin wrote:

As for our issues, I suggest you take a look at our various Top 5 threads as well as some of the other "issues" discussions that have been going on...I personally take all of these types of threads and make sure the Devs take notice...I've already revealed (with TH's blessing) that 3 out of 5 of our Top 5 issues are FIXED via the Combat Revamp...and it's possible we may get, at the very least, one more of those issues in there as well...I know 3 out of 5 doesn't seem like a lot, but the 3 I am thinking of will make such a difference that the other two we'd probably be willing to wait for...I'd love to tell you which 3 out of 5 but unfortunately I don't yet have TH's blessing to do so...

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Ok. The top five as of 4/7/04 from the Useful Posts link are:

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1) Revamp the Heavy Acid Rifle. Remove ranged restriction, increase to AP3 (only Acid weapon currently in game without Armor Peircing), and combine with Flame Thrower Tree (see Launcher Pistol request for more details). HAR is weaker then FT, has no DoT, no AP, and suffers same restrictions as the FT yet costs more XP to grind the Acid Tree.

2) Revert Consumable Heavy Weapons back to using generic Heavy Weapon Speed and Heavy Weapon Accuracy skill mods. Consumable Heavy Weapons also need to be altered to AP3 (or at the very least AP2). Reversion will cause Bugged Heavy Weapon Skill Mod Attachments to once again work in game. Heavy Consumable weapons should be either increased to average of 60 or more shots, be reloadable (so we only have to slice them one time) or have higher Accuracy & Speed mods to compensate for price and rarity.

3) Grenades need to be altered and adjusted. Range needs to be increased to compare with Combat Medic (same principle), state effects added and HAM costs need to be lowered drastically (often incapps the user). Accuracy is extremely low when compared to damage done and range and should be raised to compensate. State effects can include Knockdown, stun, delay, blind, dizzy, and other. Higher level grenades should have some level of AP. Grenades also need to be increased to average 25 to 30 instead of current 5 per pack.

4) Melee Defenses need to be increased. Other elite professions, like Pistoleer, have higher Melee Defenses (Melee Defense and Def Vs) then Commando yet Commando is the only Ranged profession with all Specials have a Melee range restriction. Due to skill point cost and Melee Range restriction, Commando should have same or more Melee Defenses then any other Ranged Profession.

5) Launcher Pistol needs to be made a Heavy Weapon and not a Pistol. It needs Commando specials instead of using Pistol specials as well as LP speed and accuracy granted in a Commando tree of it's own (possibly replacing the HAR tree as mentioned above). AP needs to be added. The LP needs to be adjusted to apply the proper amount of damage when compared to it's accuracy, the amount of skill pts required to aquire the cert as well as it's speed. Currently this weapon is extermely low on balance.

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Now all the disclaimer type stuff: When I say we "know" something is in there, it's not based on anything other than inference drawn from multiple posts over the past month (now called the "Revamp Document Dark Times"). Garvin has certainly NOT said anything is in or out of the CR.

/speculation ON

If I'm not mistaken, we already "know": that #1 (new tree and Dev's know HAR is busted big) and #2 (we will have skill tapes) are in the revamp. That leaves a third item that will tide us over. That has to be #4, since not dying would be very nice. The extra item that COULD be included would be #3, since the devs acknowledge Grenades are bigly broken, but need a LOT of work (/sarcasm on: work=SOE not sure it will do it. /sarcasm off). Launcher Pistol #5 would be relatively easy for the devs to do, but nothing makes me believe they are doing anything on this topic, since it just hasn't come up in the last month.

/speculation off

That's my reading of tea leaves. People wanted a topic to discuss to make the Commando forums burn again, so give this a shot: What do you think? Which 3 of 5 would you guess? Because guessing is all we have. Well....guessing and the Flamethrower.

Rien - Master Commando
Corbantis

Message Edited by Latenighter on 10-01-2004 02:46 AM