Commando Archive
Thread: Draft of our Question for Week of 5/10/04 (and reason why it may be late in getting answered)
Eans wrote:
hey why is the smuggler prof gettin a revamp and commando is not?
It's just their time...JustG said awhile back that he wants to spend time on every profession, but since their are 30+ professions, he just has to schedule love for them when there is time...DE's just got some...Smugglers are Coming Up...Squad Leaders after that...Entertainers maybe around the same time and so on...Commandos just aren't on the Schedule yet, although TH and JustG both say that Commandos will get love when the Combat Balance goes into effect...
The start testing the CB with Publish 9 (the next Publish) and it is currently scheduled to go live with Publish 10...This is why I'm trying to get us specifics on just what this "Commando Love" includes so we know what to ask for and what is already upcoming...
I like the draft of the question garvin...hopefully they will be able to answer in full this time...I know TH is busy and such...but the last round of questions or the first round (forgetting) i believe he mentioned that there is so many Q's coming in, and not enough information to go out (or too much...) because of the CB...so many of the questions get a "generic" answer...i ask myself...why even go through the effort of doing this question and answers program if thats the case...
hopefully with that question, we can get a solid answer out of em and not subtle hints/generic answers...
...Anyways on the smuggler revamp and such...the CB is essentially our unofficial revamp....shows how truely we are messed up as a class, as they would not schedule a revamp for our proffession prior to this groundbreaking achievement (yet schedule for other Combat-orientated, and even hybrid classes)
I can answer that question for him in 5 words:
"Combat Balance, Can't Tell You."
If we ask this question, and we get that answer, I am going to be freaking pissed.Ifwe ask that question and he says "the HAR, grenades, and heavy weapons are going to be fixed," without giving any details, I am going to be pissed.
We know that TH won't talk about combat balance details, and we also know that when he tries it comes out as vague, incomprehensible gibberish.
What reason do we have to think this is any different? Why are we going to actually get an answer to this question, when he totally failed to answer a similar question 2 weeks ago, thereby making us wait yet another 2 weeks to take another shot at getting a REAL answer?
Eans wrote:
hey why is the smuggler prof gettin a revamp and commando is not?
smugglers are getting a profession revamp simply because the whole smuggler profession is pointless... nobody who is a smuggler... smuggles. agreed that commandos need a desperate revamp... but revamping the commandos profession will definitely unbalance everything else (hence throw it into combat rebalance, which according to the devs is akin to the second coming) besides, by revamping the smuggler allows for more "content" whereas revamping commando allows for destruction and mayhem.
Cuality wrote:
"....whereas revamping commando allows for destruction and mayhem."
