Commando Archive

Folks, the wording from the patchnotes are not exactly up to snuff. Those were ripped directly from the original beta notes when we first learned of the new commando specials, Helios later confirmed this:

The New specials -only- modify the primary damage of our weapons. Meaning, a Plasma FT and Proton Rifle will be modified by the same special, against your target. The AoE splash damage of the Plasma FT will remain as if you were using ranged shot (or something similar). This of course doesn't apply to non-AoE weapons as they don't have AoE.

Once again, the specials only modify primary damage and do not touch AoE damage, but they all work with our weapons AoE or not. This has been brought up and answered all too many times already, both in Beta and on here.

At least we GOT specials!

At least we got specials? Allow me to put it this way, a person has been put in the middle of the busiest freeway during rush hour trafficand has been given special shoes. With these shoes this person now has the ability to run twice as fast as any vehicle. While standing in the middle of this frantic freeway our buddy notices a freight truck coming towards him at a rate of 65mph, he thinks to himself never fear these shoes I am wearing have made me twice as fast as any vehicle. So our friend tries to turn around start running but much to his dismay he cannot move, he is not even able to lift his foot to get out of the way.The last thing to run through our poor little friends mind was what good are the fastest shoes in the world if i cannot move while i'm wearing them. BBBBBBWWWWWOOOOO, and there goes the freight truck

I knew it, I knew it.

You can always count on the devs to either screw us over, or royally screw up anything meant to help us.

Tell me, really; how many of you were honestly surprised that the specials don't work quite as well as they should?

I actually agree with you nbd9k that it is more effective to have another elite profession to complement commando; however there is a movement with the gamer society that to have multilpule professions orto be a dabbler in mutliple perfessions is anti-social. If any one person tries to advance and better himself in battle in the swg world people cry foul. It is their incorrectbelief that noone should be better than anyone else in battle, no one should be the victor unless it is them obtaining victory, and noone should have an advantage over the other. What they fail to realize is to obtain this type of gaming environment would require to have only one profession, onespecies,one weapon, one armor type, no buffs, no foods, no healing supplies, no individualism, no ca's, no aa's, no weapon enhancements, no sliced weapons, no sliced armor, no weapons scopes, no weapons stocks, and ultimately no fighting since there cannot be a victor because we are not allowed to be better than another. This is unfortunately becoming more and more evident in reading the forums of each profession, and I will step out on a limb to say that it is not the dev's fault that this game has been in a downward spiral for some time now, but it is this group of players who believes noone should be able to "Stand On Its Own".

Message Edited by malachiV on 10-19-2005 07:12 PM

Message Edited by malachiV on 10-19-2005 07:13 PM

so how does AoE specials work again?

/burstrun

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Ryubushi wrote:

I knew it, I knew it.

You can always count on the devs to either screw us over, or royally screw up anything meant to help us.

Tell me, really; how many of you were honestly surprised that the specials don't work quite as well as they should?

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I half suspected they'd do this...

see i told starnick wouldn't quit, he end up insane.

Message Edited by sothh on 10-20-2005 06:10 AM

question is, do they do the damage as intended?

To use a phrase my dear ol' dad is fond of using:

The SWG developers could screw up a 2 car funeral.

Not to be mean, but it's true...

p.s. I use the phrase "SWG developers" because I play EQ2 a huge amount, and the EQ2 teamseems to have NONE of the same thought-pattern / half-assiness problems that the SWG team seems to have most of the time. They constantly and SIMULTANEOUSLYimplement bug fixes, expansions, AND mini-expansions, and get stuff done quickly and right 95% of the time. If it is not right, there are usually 5-10 developers posting multiple times a day to try to get there.