Pistoleer Archive

For those whoare are not yet aware, although I'm relatively certain all of us are, in the 9/4 patch the Pistoleer titles went fom Gunslinger, Quickdraw Artist, Expert Gunfighter and Elite Guardsman to Gunslinger, Dead-Eye, Trickshot,and Quickdraw.

I, for one, very much dislike these changes, and I know I am not alone as evidenced by other negative talk on this forum.

We have gone from being a combat class to sounding like some carnival sideshow.

Gunslinger- stayed the same, no problem there.

Dead-Eye- Not nearly as cool as Quickdraw Artist. Isn't Dead-Eyethat projectI just investigated? I don't really want to walk around with "Dead" right above my head.

Trickshot- ... . ... . So we go from Expert Gunfighter, a pretty good title I must say, to...trickshot? Personally, this makes me thing of a prostitute how happens to be carrying a gun. That or some circus guy in a cape shooting things out of the air to entertain people rather than a deadly combatant.

Quickdraw- Very much akin to Quickdraw Artist, but still not as cool as that, nor as the title it replaced, Elite Guardsman. I think of all the titles, it sounds as those Elite Guardsman was the one many people favore, both for the sound of it and the role play value of it.

The changes are bad. Please give us our titles back.

I realize this issue isn't of the utmost importance, but if it is something we dislike, we can and should have it changed.

Please support this petition.

i like the changes better. what the hell is an elite guardsmen anyways

Not a very important issue imho, I'd rather see my skills bieng fixed and being able to Dual Wield.

Btw, since it is very easy to change, at least, get rid of "Trickshot" please.

I agree Jacen, Trickshot and Dead-Eye sound lame

/sigh

They were justtrying to make them have something to do with the skill lines they're associated with. Why would we be called a quickdraw artist for mastering a line that has no speed mods?

My petition would be to fix skills/mods/issues/bugs before titles...

PETITION:

Would everyone please stop worrying about titles, names, descriptions, graphics, animations, and other useless fluff until after they've actually fixed skills, abilities, defenses, weapons, certifications, balance, etc...?

There's no point in worrying about the icing on the cake issues when there are major issues that make many of us question whether there is any point in being a pistoleer, or even playing this game at all.

If they can take the time to lower the number of starting melons, they can fix titles.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe there are people working on major issues and others working on "icing on the cake" issues?

There is no chance in hell of all of the Devs work on the same exact thing.

Going in and changing a name would NOT be dificult.

I like the new titles personally.

JacenKeldroma

Actually I do understand such processes pretty well since I'm a software engineer. Not for Sony, and not even for the entertainment industry, but it still gives me quite a bit of insight.

You are correct that different people are doing different things, and that the actual code changes necessary to change titles are trivial.

While the guys working on the framework / client / engine stability wouldn't be affected by this, and it wouldn't interfere with the developers implementing quests, or the guys on the side working on player mounts, player cities, and vehicles, it would have to take man hours from somewhere, receive approval from someone, get tested by someone (*cough* well, from what we've seen so far, maybe not ).

Now, they've already indicated that different things are worked on by the same people, so most likely ALL pistoleer or ALL ranged combat issues are addressed by the same person - whether they're typos and name changes, or fixing actions and balancing defensive skills. And since it's also pretty trivial to call up the special actions and change a damage multiplier here, a delay modifier there... I think we'd all rather the guy spent his time on things like fixing BS3 than fixing names.

The new title changes reflects our current lesser abilities, they need one more change still though, master pistoleer should now be called BB gunfighter.

They changed them the first time. They can change them back.

By the way, you can be for something even if you don't think its a top priority.

Clearly the devs decide what is a priority and what isn't. All we can do is voice our desires.

So frankly, be for or against the idea, and don't turn this into a priorities thread.

I want to see it fixed back to how it was or at least be given better titles than these stupid, carnival non-titles, regardless of when that change can get made.