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Thread: garvin, have they ever gave reasoning behind this?
Message Edited by garvin on 06-21-2004 04:01 PM
garvin wrote:There given excuse (which I don't accept) before the Combat Balance was put in motion:"Because Commandos are balanced as intended."Everytime I've brought up AP on any of our weapons, I've been told that our power more then makes AP not a requirement...I have worked to show them the error of that thought process (as well as try and get something done with the LP) but for now we'll keep hitting the wall of "Wait for the Combat Rebalance" excuse...I honestly believe they Devs and Programmers are afraid to change ANYTHING regarding us prior to the CB...I get the feeling that they are afraid if they change something, it may effect all their carefully laid plans for the CB...so they are putting off any suggestions or requests until after the CB goes live when it comes to us Commandos...They want us to try the changes and then decide on what we still need post CB...So for now, I'm waiting to see what happens to ALL of our weapons with the Balance...once it's down and we can start doing some clean up, if still needed (and we still have the LP) AP will again become a VERY big issue...
When can we expect the CB. I Mastered Commando 3 months ago and still find little use for everything but the Flamethrower. I would like to know how much longer we will all have to wait to have another usefull weapon?
bigdawgnak wrote:
When can we expect the CB. I Mastered Commando 3 months ago and still find little use for everything but the Flamethrower. I would like to know how much longer we will all have to wait to have another usefull weapon?
This is mostly speculation built from various tidbits that the Devs have said, but with that being said, expect to see the Combat Balance discussion really kick into gear sometime after Publish 9 goes live...TH has said we should start really hearing some of the guarded CB secrets around then, including how and who get's to play on the Combat Test Server.
Then, sometime between Publish 9 and 10, the Combat Test Server is suppose to go live to allow some of us to test the upcoming changes...There has been much speculation that the Combat Balance has been pushed back to going live with Publish 11 to give us plenty of time to test ALL aspects and work out any bugs...Remember, Publish 10 is still slated as the 2nd half of the Jedi Revamp publish and all of the current Dev Attention is pointed there...That's why most of us strongly believe the CB won't go live until Publish 11...
This doesn't mean that Commandos won't see anything live prior to Publish 11...I'm still working to get us some bits and pieces proir to then within the various "mini-publishes"...
Publish 9 should go live this week hopefully...then hopefully a couple of weeks after that (if all goes well) we'll starting getting a really good taste for what's coming and how Commandos are impacted via the new Combat Test Server (often called the Sandbox)...