Pikeman Archive

to mention pikeman...anyone who is suprised at yet another non-acknowledgement please speak now

I'm not shocked but...after reading his letter, I'm a bit more at peace. No, he did not specifically say "Hey Chirac, I know you have pike issues, so we are going to make it all rosy for you."

What he did say was they are working hard to make the game better. They have many things to fix and improve. Not to mention implementing cities, mounts, etc. In the grand scheme of things, I'll take a few HAM issues over getting more content. He also listed combat as something to be revamped, which means us. The few professions he did list are obviously the ones that either do not work as planned or have too little content to make them interesting enough to play for more than an hour.

Things that interested me were:

Combat should be tactically interesting.

There should be more moment-to-moment interdependence (group tactics, etc).

We will not be able to get to all of them with the next few pushes, but we want to take on a number of things that will make the game better, immediately.

I think this bodes well.

Lol the thing that gets me, is that Pikeman are never mentioned as needing love, and also that he said that they wouldn't get to everything within the next 'few' publishes.

That means that the list he gave us could take 4 months to be completed. And we're no-where in sight.

yea i mean i understand that Chefs and other professions needed attention but for a long time it was at least acknowledged that they were gimped, I didn't know until I went with polearms that pikeman was gimped. I also understand experiementing with 1 profession per class at a time IE Rifleman and TKA are the guinea pigs atm. My question is WHY tka, i mean fencer/swordsman/pikeman are all worse off than TKA, i understand them working on rifleman first, but a working class like TKA???? that confuses me.
Combat Devs conversation:

Lets take the best profession in a class and beef it up.

What about pikemen?

Pike Who?

The 4th class in brawler, sir.

There are 4 brawler lines, i thought we had Melee Support instead?

Sir, we do not support Melee at all why would add that.

Good point.

"Sir, we do not support Melee at all why would add that."

LOL! Classic!