Pistoleer Archive
Thread: randonb please read this
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jackson03431
Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:39 am
#1
hey i have a few questions for you. Could you ask the devs about these or maybe you alreayd know the answer.
1. Why cant we have double pistolrs? we have all seen jango in the movies i dont see why we shouldn't be able tohave 2. They could bring the stats down on pistols to let us have 2 so they dont own, its just realistic.
2. Why dosn't pistoleer get a dizzy and kd worth useing. We really need a KD and dizzy because i basically only get owned by TKAs and fencers useing kd. Plus in episode 2 jangos shoots a jedi off the side of the stadium wall, that is basically a known down.
Btw im using jango as a example because hes the only pistoleer we ever see in starwars.
3. are we going tobe one of the faster profs in the combat revamp? i hear rifleman are going to be slow.
Please answer.
BZebub
Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:08 am
#2
jackson03431 wrote:
hey i have a few questions for you. Could you ask the devs about these or maybe you alreayd know the answer.
1. Why cant we have double pistolrs? we have all seen jango in the movies i dont see why we shouldn't be able tohave 2. They could bring the stats down on pistols to let us have 2 so they dont own, its just realistic.
*grabs Thunderheart doll*
*pulls ripcord*
"Its coming after JTLS"
2. Why dosn't pistoleer get a dizzy and kd worth useing. We really need a KD and dizzy because i basically only get owned by TKAs and fencers useing kd. Plus in episode 2 jangos shoots a jedi off the side of the stadium wall, that is basically a known down.
Btw im using jango as a example because hes the only pistoleer we ever see in starwars.
*pulls ripcord*
"Its coming in the Combat Balance."
3. are we going tobe one of the faster profs in the combat revamp? i hear rifleman are going to be slow.
*pulls ripcord*
"Yes."
Please answer.
Randonb
Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:16 am
#3
We will have double pistols at some point after Jump to Lightspeed.
I would argue that our KD (the one that works) is definitely worth using for non-smuggler hybrids, though you are right, we don't have a dizzy. I haven't done much pushing for specific state effects because there is good a chance of what they currently do changing in the Combat Balance. What if I said "We want dizzy," we got it, and it turned out that dizzy wasn't so hot after all? I'd rather ask for status effects in general and suggest ones that make the most logical sense for the special, and let the chips fall where they may for the time being. I can always suggest tweaks in the Sandbox phase, when I will be on better footing for such things and actually know what the new system is.
And Jango wasn't the only Pistoleer in the movies. I'm pretty sure Han did a fair amount of Pistoleer dabbling, as did, oh, just about everybody that didn't have a lightsaber or an E-11. Luke, Leia, and Amidala looked kind of like they only had Pistols IV from Marksman though. 
Yes, we are going to be faster than Riflemen. We've pretty much known this for a long time even without a developer quote, but now we have it: At Fan Fest Keldarin specifically said "It isn't that Pistoleers need to be faster, it's that everyone else needs to slow down."
By they way, some odd months ago I made a post in Core Systems that led Riflemen to believe they wouldn't be slowed down.. they were taking 1 phrase completely out of context (indeed, they were ignoring the very next phrase in the same sentence) and running with it. I tried to explain it where I found the confusion,and I'm sorry if some people were misled through my being misquoted.
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