Commando Archive

Updated 7/15/04 with red text info...

Here is what I know so far about CB Testing...Remember, ALL OF THIS could change when the CB actually goes live...nothing is ever set in stone in this game...but the below represents what I've heard, been told, seen posted, or speculated based on all of the above...

• The Combat Balance Test Server will be code-named "The Sandbox"
  
• TH and the other devs have said that Correspondents and Veterans will be able to test the Combat Balance on the Sandbox when it goes online. How the Veteran status will be decided on has not been revealed yet. I have been encouraging Commandos to train on TC just in case the devs make a copy of that server again for the Sandbox as they did with the Jedi Test Server (make sure you have extra resources, deeds, etc incase you need them...don't count on being able to buy what you need on the Sandbox...that has been a problem on the Jedi Test Server)...
  
• The Sandbox will go online somewhere around Publish 10 (possibly before, possibly after)
  
• The Combat Balance has been again delayed to not going live until after JTL does (which will happen some time near the end of October)...




• Because of this delay, TH has put more emphasis on Publish 10 for Vital Correspondent Fixes which should include some or all of our Top 5 issues being addressed. Publish 10 is tentatively scheduled to go live near the end of August.


• The CB will change the combat formulas for Damage Done, Accuracy, Speed & HAM Costs.
  
• Armor may (and probably will) be impacted by the CB regarding it's resists levels (the devs have hinted that they never planed on Composite having such high resists)...
  
• TH has stated that Commandos are impacted by the CB more then the other professions (this could be good or bad...but I'm betting on good, since we already live in the bad...lol)...
  
• TH, in a past 19 Answers post, told us that our Heavy Weapon mods will go back to using a general blanket Heavy Weapon Skill mod instead of seperate ones for each one. This could mean all our Heavy Weapons or just our Consumables (don't know for sure yet). He did state that our heavy weapon mods would be removed from their current tree and grouped together in another place (we won't be relying on just looted skill mods as some worried about according to a later reply from TH)...
  
• TH also reported that Heavy Weapon lootable skill mods are going to be working for us...this could mean that current ones will work, or that we'll have all new lootable Heavy Weapon skill mods dropping.
  
• In that same response from TH, we were told that we are possibly getting a New Tree added to Commando...but the Nature of that tree hasn't been finalized yet...they have a few ideas they are kicking around (and we've submitted lots to them)...
  
• TH once told me that many of our Top 5 issues are addressed in the CB..."Addressed" being the key word...this could mean "fixed" or this could mean "we took your issues into account when we did this"...

As soon as I hear anything more, I'll try and add it to this thread or start a new one...

If you hear any rumors or something that expands on ordisagrees with anything mentioned above, please post it here...

Message Edited by garvin on 07-15-2004 01:30 PM

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The_Great_Destroyer wrote:

Let me in the sandbox! I've got a super cool bulldozer and some race cars and stuff (I do really want to burn people in the Sandbox though)

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I'll bring the Magnifying Glass and Plastic Army Men!

Thanks for the update Garvin...I see you remember how frustrating it was hearing absoulely NOTHING. Very little is infinately more then nothing, and it gives us hope...Thanks for the hope.

Slainte'

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BravenIrish wrote:

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The_Great_Destroyer wrote:

Let me in the sandbox! I've got a super cool bulldozer and some race cars and stuff (I do really want to burn people in the Sandbox though)

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I'll bring the Magnifying Glass and Plastic Army Men!

Thanks for the update Garvin...I see you remember how frustrating it was hearing absoulely NOTHING. Very little is infinately more then nothing, and it gives us hope...Thanks for the hope.

Slainte'

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Should we be a little concerned with the Wrix still being in the sandbox? I think it left a present last night.

I bring some silver spoons and containers from my mom's kitchen. I don't she will mind.

Kalano