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Ok, I read a post a while back about someone who wanted to make a macro that would take his helmet off, perform a special attack, then put the helmet back on. My first reaction was, boy is this retarted.

So last night, just for the heck of it, I took my macro that I use to take my armor off while i'm taking out a lair and put it to the same sort of use. I only use 3 pieces of armor so its not like i was putting a full suit on and off. I made a macro for each of 4 attacks i use often, dizzy2, spin2, blind2 and body hit 3.

The macro first removes my armor, does the attack, then puts the armor back on. The end result was that yes, I was able to use many more special attacks than if i left the armor on all the time. I did have to put a couple /pause 0.1;'s in there to avoid the "Slot Currently Occupied" errors, but that was nothing.

But isn't this just about the stupidest appraoch to fighting you have ever considered?

I suppose there is not really any way to balance this with the current fighting model and I do know that they put a new HAM cost program on Test Center back in December that I guess didn't work out for the Jan publish.

I guess my point is that when i went to boot camp a number of years ago, I don't recall the drill instructor telling me that I should take my helmet off, fire a shot, then put it back on.

Incidentally, I removed the macro after trying it out, I don't believe the developers intended for us to fight this way and I can't be bothered to "cheat". But I think if you've ever thught about it, you should try it just for kicks, the extra sound effect alone are enough to make you laugh out loud.

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They withdrew the new HAM system to do more internal testing. I believe the combat rebalance will take care of this.

I agree it is kind of silly, but I'll share a somewhat humorous fight that came out of this system.

I was dueling one of the Master Rifleman/TKM templates back when I was a Blademaster/0440 doctor. The fights generally lasted forever.

In one 30 second sequence he pulled out a T21 and I immediately put my helmet on (made sure to hotkey it). He then switched to a Jawa Ion, and I quickly took the helmet off. This happened about 4 more times and eventually he just goes "Lol" and gave up on switching weapons.

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I never wear armor either...I've been playing the game 6 months and have tried all the armor in the game and I really find it more of burden than an advantage...its just too dang hard on the mind pool especially when you need to use stims. I don't find I'many less likely to be killedbecause I don't wear armor.

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No, I agree with all of you and I have cut way back on armor and do go without at times but that's a different issue. I guess all i was pointing out is that one of the most fundamental game dynamics can be exploited pretty badly just by arming, disarming armor.

It would be different if it took, say, 1 second to put on a helmet and another second to take it off. Therefore making the process take more like 30 seconds to perform one attack if you're wearing a full suit. Well, maybe taking it off could be quicker, just watching ice hockey those gloves come off mighty fast

But I guess the main thing that I both agree and disagree with is the HAM cost of anything. I have said before that IRL I am a competition pistol shooter and at the end of a long day at the range I come out just fine. But if I went to the range in SWG, I would be dead after firing a dozen rounds, heck I might even blind and stun myself in the process and that will happen if i'm a novice marksman or a master pistoleer.

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I use an advanced padded chest with heat resist, it's only 33% in protection for most of what it covers, and all my specials cost me only around 3 points more per for the higher ones (cho mok, etc). It blocks two out of every three health hitsI take, and it tends to save me a lot of the time. I whip it off to heal, and I am fine.

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