Pikeman Archive

General_D: I wonder if block is supposed to allow damage
General_D: where dodge and ca dont
TH: It depends on how the block and the attack stack up
TH: Pikeman and Carbineer issues are going to be mostly covered in the Combat Revamp
TH: the work was done, the reports are slow in coming, but the correspondents and I are wrapping it up now
General_D: heh TH yea but unfortuntly the issues mentioned in the post were 'pikeman moves' our HAM costs and accuracy where the problems we have so its read all long
General_D: wrong*
TH: I know and with the combat revamp, Im working with Gunman21 to get the best ideas in
General_D: thanks for answering some of my questions in the chat, this is Psykeman420-HS on the boards, I have a couple small ones if you have time. One is when do you plan on gaming with the profession correspondents and team of 10? another is you ever try pikeman beyond the brawler line?
TH: my goal is january and yes
General_D:good deal, ill be there even though my TC pikeman is kind of low level heh, on scylla I made a Pikeman hut for all of us pikemen, in a creative sense besides the block thing, the HAM and Accuracy are weapon side, im looking forward to the combat revamp hopefully itll do more than the last couple and just keep the balance the same but add new things to each melee
TH::it will all be better after the combat balance
General_D: k thanks again...
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anyway to sum it up the next 2 months look like they could be good, lets hope, Thanks TH for your time outside of the chat since I was not able to get my questions answered in chat.

I also asked if i could post this and he said as long as i didnt put words in his mouth, i just copied it from mIRC so its word for word, with the exception of when i asked if ti was ok to post it.



Durik Lakmor,
Master Pikeman

was interesting talking to him though outside of the boards and such

Thats kinda cool, but you should have been tougher on him, it was almost a softball interview...still neat though.

So how long will this be, for the fix on the combat is thier any estimate of when this will be?

wow surprised he answered, even though the rules of the chat say "do not message the ops directly" i bet everyone was spamming them...

oh and nice job on the questioning

Great job Psykeman!

It was good of you to ask in a nice, roundabout way. Heated, pointed questions usually make people want to give up. Well, unless you are in a court of law.

yea, i prefer to be nice about questioning, at the time he couldn't get into the main chat and was talking to everybody in the starwars chat, after that i msgd him privatly and continued.

it seems like january or february for the fixes, I could be wrong.

Well done, thank you for representing us and getting some information. Something to look forward to...

/rant on

Now why in the world can't a dev post that HERE.

My only gripe with the devs is they don't tell us things.

There is so much stuff they have going on behind the scenes that would resolve a TON of rant/petition/whine/begging threads.

They have the problems fixed, they have the problems resolved and yet every single post begging for information goes ignored only to pop up over and over and over again.

How long have we been complaining about HAM and accuracy? Yet here they are working on that and despite the fact that we ask them CONSTANTLY "Are you aware how bad our accuracy is" we are ignored.

If they would simply say "yes we are aware of how bad pikeman accuracy and HAM costs areand we are working on it but please understand it will be a few months" it would do so much to alleviate so much of the grief on these forums.

That's the problem. We hear nothing and the little bit we do here we don't get a resolution on for ever. There were so many "we'll look into it" responses when they should just be honest and say "we'll look into this but please understand this will take time".

Is that so hard?

Am I missing something?

Perfect example:

Eyeshot is the most hated move in PvP. It was ranted on every day for months. Trolls were born on the BH boards by the hour because of this one move. All it took to shut everybody up about eyeshot was a single line by a dev:

"Eyeshot. Some are concerned it's too powerful. We are considering a change. I like the idea of moving it to master"

Boom problem solved. Eyeshot is still at BH pisol II, it's still spammed in PvP but people don't complain about it anymore because a dev has mentioned that they are aware of the complaints about eyeshot and people are, for the most part, content to wait until something is done about it.

/rant off

Good news. Glad you were able to talk to him

Well, I am encouraged by this. At the same time I am very skeptical. I'd love to see all development members really and I mean really play some of these messed up professions. I would like TH as a pikeman (anonymously) to duel a TKA and he will understand our plight. It would go something like this....miss, miss, miss, your are dizzied, you are knocked down, spammed by mind hit, incapped. Hell, I'd like to see him at master duel a novice TKA...it would be the same results. I would love to see his jaw drop when he's getting hit by a TKAs fist and with his 6' LVA still out of range. I hope this is not another pacifying ploy and the real thing. Because if he actually does what he says...my whole outlook on the development team would change. As of now I believe they are overworked, understaffed, and managed by people who only care about one thing....profit. Oh and one last thing, I gave up on ruining my character to join the other mindless drones being forced to destroy their characters at a chance for a FSCS. I am and will always be a Pikeman.

Jonah

wee fixes.. let keep our fingers crossed

i dunno, hopefully we can get something to make as unique other than our inabilities