Pistoleer Archive

"What gives is that they are also way overpowered. That's why I keep saying "don't compare yourselves to pistoleer" (or whatever). As I mentioned in the "Open Discussion On Balancing" thread in SWG Discussion, everyone feels they are underpowered because they are comparing themselves to pistoleers. But they're missing the point that pistoleers are way OVERpowered, and so is most everyone else. If we balance everyone off of pistoleer, the game will be WAY easier, you'll run out of content in a trice, you'll say there's no high end game, etc etc. And the core of the issue isn't that there's no tough mobs, is that players are way way overpowered.

Over time, the natural progression is for this to get WORSE. In three yearsat this rate, I'd expect a rank newbie to solo kimogilas, because that's what happens in online games--players get smarter, mobs don't.

-Raph Koster, Creative Director "

Hmm, maybe they'll make bodyshot 3 do 1/4th the damage of bodyshot 2?

Maybe they'll take away Point Blank Single/Area away from us? *shiver*

Maybe they'll nerf the whole stances and grip line some more? *gasp*

Or maybe they'll realize that the only thing not broken about pistoleers is knockdown and finally fix it for us as well as everyone else?

Somehow some way i think the devs are dumb enough to do the first 3 before they try the last one.

It is in their nature to nerf hard, then slowly, over weeks, balance things back. Problem is...it takes weeks, to months to get things squared away, and your stuck with a piece of **edit** character until they get around to squaring things away.

The Devs are in the "put out fires mode" right now. They dont have time for careful objective balancing. I have a bad feeling that the nerf that is coming is going to be a total body slam.

Fastgun

Lol, pistoleers are not overpowered.

The core design of the combat system was never tested.

So they are quickfixing everything by nerfing this and nerfing that.

The easy programing fix is to up HAM costs and they are sure doing that..

The correct fix would be to make defenses work, also install knockdown timers, take another pass at the combat systems.

Also, there is only 3 levels of mobs currently, Easy, medium and Reds. Reds have the most variation of mobs some reds are HUGELY easier than others but you get the same xp for reds roughly.

I think the con system is out of wack hugely..... but the designers dissagree even though the con system was WAY out of wack for most of beta and no one knew it because once again THE DEVS DONT PLAY THE GAME.

They just crunch numbers......

Which is truly the bottom line. They are plugging holes in the boat and damaging the boat by doing so.

Dashai.