Commando Archive
Thread: Blue considers kill/incap me with my flame thrower
SickOfRegisteringJustToRead wrote:
What am I doing wrong with this thrower? This happens if I use the special or not. My flame thrower is just about useless if i don't KILL on the first shot.
you are getting in melee range and not using your burstrun properly.
tactics...
you can't one hit kill everything, you know...
Whats the deal here. The icon is blue and I get killed/incaped if I don't have a pet out. My flame thrower sucks. I thought white was a 50/50 and green, light blue, blue is something i can easily take. Did the devs overlook the threat level of a creature while holding a flamer?
One other thig that is bothering me is when I have my flame thrower out, I can't even deselect a mob to heal myself.
What am I doing wrong with this thrower? This happens if I use the special or not. My flame thrower is just about useless if i don't KILL on the first shot.
[quote]you can't one hit kill everything, you know...[/quote]
Iguess friendly is not what you strive for, huh Chris?
That was not my point. My point was that I should be able to kill a blue with the weapon I have equiped. That is what the icon is suppose to represent, right? If I don't kill em on the first shot, I will lose half my health finishing him off. That should be a yellow not blue...
I sure sense alot of negativity in the Commando froum...
Depends on what you are fighting... The majority of people on these boards have confirmed that switching from FT to PL or unarmed negates the 2.5x modifier. However there are some that say they have tried and it never seems to work, they always have the 2.5x modifier. I have a bad feeling that there is a bug that is causing some people to get the 2.5x modifier when they shouldn't. If you have been reading the forums, you know that I have done numerous logs of fights where I demonstrate that the 2.5x modifier is avoidable, but maybe you are one of the unlucky.
As far as healing, you cannot heal during the special cooldown. So if you are a lower than around flame 3, you have a long time to wait until you are able to heal. If that is not your problem, try targeting yourself with either F1 or the mouse on your name, then hitting your stims. Periodically I have had this problem, but usually found that it was due to my still being targetted on a corpse or my pet or something.
I tried the fix you posted. I think it was yours. Anyways, it did not work for me. I can't do anything except run after using the special.
What I meant by healing was; I just wanted to be able to deselect my target so I can put a heal in the actions list. But It will just say something about the Target I selected. I don't mind waiting for the cool down but is what I do mind is; waiting just to deselect the target then curing myself. It would be nice if i could hit my stim macro and have it be the very first thing that happens after the cool down. i hope that made sense 
As of right now. I Can't harvest/loot for several seconds even if there if I have killed everything. And I can't deselect my target until the cool down is over. I can run, sit, open crafting tool, switch weapons, etc...
BTW - I have tried to get my name changed and the only I can do it is to buy another copy of SWG and create a new account. Sorry for the messed up tables. I know it only happens to some of you (not me) and I recognize it as a problem but I am powerless to do anything except not participate I hope you will understand.
I have thick skin and will not get my feelings hurt if somebody wants to bump all my posts to keep the pages clean.
After the recent patch, which is the second big patch, everything is part of the cooldown...it's not only the Flame Thrower you know.........
Healing sucks now too.....you pretty much have to clear the combat que and do yer heal after delay, then apply any desired commands after heal. This includes talking too you know......you can't talk directly after shooting.....you have to wait for the nexttime you can shootbefore whatever you wanted to say appear in spatial.
This also applies in non-combat situation, such as healing, ya know. For example, this bother me the most:I can no longer /healdamage and saytrick1 right after.....I have to wait a couple seconds after the heal to say trick1, or, /healdamage; trick1 to do both at the same time.
So basically, everything, including talking, is on a timer now. Every command takes place AFTER "reload" time of any commands that require a "Cooldown".
When solo against a melee mob after I use a flamethrower special I switch to my launcher pistol. When it starts firing again I know I can heal my self, then I just click on my macro for /healdamage <name>
I find I can solo a couple of blues this way.