Pistoleer Archive

• There are no stats listed on them.


• It is possible that the stats are invisible, but they could simply not be there.


• There are white, yellow, and possibly green-named barrels dropping.

I also asked about reimbursement or replacement for bugged barrels/pistols, but that is dependent on how this whole thing shakes out. I'm not terribly optimisic, but I'll do my best.

THE UPDATE: I just heard back from Thunderheart. He says he isn't sure what's going on with them either, but he passed it along to the team.

This week's Question:

Thunderheart is squeezed for time with the whole "E3-and-then-Fan-Fest" business going on, so he wants to do 19 quick, fun questions. He doesn't want to be rushed answering our "real" questions. I know it's a disappointment to wait even longer, but not half as disappointing as getting 19 lousy answers.I'll likely spit out a couple of them for him, and I'll be reviewing this thread for more suggestions.

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"...You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." biwan:
Former Pistoleer Correspondent (02/04/04 - 09/05/04)

here's the most fun question i can think of...

Pistoleers have recieved many new weapons, more than any other combat profession. We've garnered some resentment among other professions for this. Is this an intended design decision, as one of our perks?

Hmmm well I stated before in a post, this whole waiting on 19 answers because of E3 now Fan Fest, is crap. They knew about both of those events before announcing the 19 answers. He is still on the on the clock for these events, write it up while travelling, and post it later from the hotel. Geez.

Anyway, I thought we had our question all ready to go. Kind of late at this point, especially if he was going to be answering this week.

1. How about something along the lines of asking how we will fit into the combat rolls? For example, will we be heavy on damage but light on defences and light on state attacks. Will we be heavy on defences but light on damage, medium state effects? Things like that.

It seems that the melee prof got this layed out a bit better then the ranged did.The TK is averaged out between defences and damage. The fencer is high defences. The Swordsman is good damage, and medium defence, and the polearm is high damage, lower defences. The ranged combat prof need similar methods. If you look in marksman, it lays it out for us. The pistol line says "Short Range" Carbines says "medium range" and rifles says "long range". Are they planning on actually using that "template" so to speak? And no lame answers about wait for the CB. This can be a pretty simple easily asnwered question, unless they are soooo far behind on working on the CB. If they have been working on it, and it's going to go in on publish 10, or maybe 11(I forget) then it should be pretty far along in coding etc to answer that kind of question.

2. How about this for an option of a question? Are they planning on keeping the current HAM pool specializing with the ranged combat professions? For example pistoleer is health, rifleman is mind and carbineer is action. Will they keep it specialized per profession still but maybe swapping them around, or will they be getting away from that all together?

3. How will our dual wield work? Will it be that we have to have specially crafted blasters that are for dual wielding? Or will we just be able to equip any two blasters out of our inventory? Also, what kind of penalties are they looking at doing for dual wielding?

4. For our specials and the CB, are they planning on working on existing specials, and making them work as intended? Or are they going to be replacing some of them, and redoing parts of the profession based on the Pistoleers "Combat Roll"?

Message Edited by Squidwalker on 06-02-2004 10:22 AM

Message Edited by Squidwalker on 06-02-2004 10:27 AM

Last minute change, he had us give him the real questions after all.

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"...You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." biwan:
Former Pistoleer Correspondent (02/04/04 - 09/05/04)

yes - cha-CHING!

Something i've noticed about the devs...maybe its just me. They often THREATEN to nerf or disappoint (e.g. Crafting Revamp and Fanshot changes), then at the last moment do what they were supposed to do (oftentimes keep the status quo)...

Whether or not its on purpose, its a nice tactic to keep the masses in check.