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xPREDATORx wrote:

hi can any one tell me whats this about darth vader landing???

can any one please explain the new gcw laws... like i undertand the combatant/spec forces situation but what if your a combatant who gets ur atst out can a combatant reb attack it and you unable to attack them back???

whats this about buffs and health/armour nerfs?

any other stuff i need to know all i know is a expansion is soon for a release and a combat revamp is coming...

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Vader and Leia are doing these motivational speeches around the galaxy. They land in acity and call their faction to arms. Kinda cool at first, but it's scripted so it gets repetetive. Plus a lot of immature aholes do stupid things like /slap and /spit. One cool thing though is that each has an armed escort. I was fighting Stormies in Bestine when Vader landed and I was assaulted by his Novatrooper entourage. It was so awesome. They didn't kill me though..

I guess buffs are being nerfed, but that remains to be seen. The CURB is bringing some MAJOR changes to comabt, play style, professions, you name it. Some of them could be disappointing, but we'll jsut have to wait and see.

Now as far as GCW goes, I believe when you are Combatant, you cannot attackor be attacked by a Special Forces player unless you wish it. For example, if you are a Combatant and you see a Special Forces player you want to attack, you have to wait five minutes before you can convert. If you stay Combatant, he can't touch you and you can't touch him, no matter how many faction NPCs you kill. I think your status transfers to your pets too.

Some of the other changes that seemed to upset players were the UI and snappier movement updates. There is so much more. I can't remember it all..

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xPREDATORx wrote:

hi can any one tell me whats this about darth vader landing???

can any one please explain the new gcw laws... like i undertand the combatant/spec forces situation but what if your a combatant who gets ur atst out can a combatant reb attack it and you unable to attack them back???

whats this about buffs and health/armour nerfs?

any other stuff i need to know all i know is a expansion is soon for a release and a combat revamp is coming...

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WIth the GCW changes, the devs added a chance for "story NPCs" (Vader and Leia) spawning in factionally controlled areas to give inspirational speeches.

Faction pets "inherit" your GCW status. So if you're a combatant, your pets will only be attackable by NPCs and can only attack NPCs. If you're a Special Forces, your pets are attackable by NPCs and PCs, and can attack NPCs and PCs.

The posts going on about buffs/health/armor nerfs are regarding the upcoming CU (Combat Upgrade). It's been upcoming for a while (you may remember such terms as "Combat Balance" and "Combat Revamp"), but apparently is going to be out no later than the live date of the new expansion (either May 5th or May 19th, depending on how you read the press releases).

They've recently updated the format of the "Update History" page, so it should be fairly straightforward to scan through the changes implemented since you were last here. Some notable new stuff:

• Veteran rewards (at 3, 6, and 12 months of total account activity, you get neat stuff).


• Inventory and housing item limits were increased.


• Master boxes no longer require apprentice xp


• New keymap styles


• Player event perks (NPCs in hotels allow you to purchase items/NPCs for in-game events)


• Looting changes (it's no longer just "whoever loots first" gets stuff).


• New loot added (recyclers, painting kits, datadisk fiction, skill stims, etc)


• New emotes


• And a bunch of other stuff laid out in the update history.

Message Edited by sciguyCO on 03-23-2005 03:02 PM