CUEmu - Thread Posts

PopeTom

Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:37 pm

I have seen some discussion on these boards about the Rangers Wayfaring skill enhancement to crawling speed being not very useful. Well I'd like to suggest a couple of ideas that might make it more useful in the eyes of most. This suggestions would not only effect the Ranger class but would have impact on the other fighting classes as well.

1) I've seen it posted on a few boards, if you are laying prone you should be immune to knockdown attacks. I think it's obvious to most people why. Being able to crawl faster would potentially allow a Ranger to keep out of Melee range where standing up or kneeling is a good idea and thus keep him from being knocked on his ass by knockdown attacks. This effects other classes as well since no one laying prone should be able to be knocked down.

2) Maskscent/cameo and travel speed. Basically there should be a bonus/penalty to your camo skill depending on how you are currently traveling. Burst Running huge penalty, normal running penalty, walking no bonus/penalty, crawling bonus, crawling slow (shift key down) huge bonus. These bonuses and penalties could effect other players as well as I could see them possibly modifying the agro ranges of MOBs as well.

Comments?

-PopeTom

DShanKaen

Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:52 pm

#2

Hmm...I like your idea for #2 regarding bonuses/penalties forthe camo skillbased on movement type.

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D'Shan Kaen

drezbizkit

Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:01 pm

#3

Well, I haven't spent that much time on my belly, but I would have thought, that those 2 "features" would/should be in the game already.

I do remember reading that walking, or crawling would make you harder to detect, as far as maskscent is concerned (I'm pretty sure, if you are on your belly and attack, they will take longer to find you, than if you are standing up)

I would have hoped, that if you are on your belly, that knockdown would automatically fail. Don't know if that is true or false, but at the very least, I would hope that it would be in the future.

I'll tell you this one thing, one huge advantage that would making crawling faster worth while. If you could use StimPacks while on your belly. If that were true, I'd spend a whoooole lot more time, on my gut.

Lurker1222

Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:22 pm

#4

Yeah all that is fine and dandy... But.... I CAN'T FIGHT ON MY BELLY IM A PISTOLEER!! Hencse its useless....

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Deoka

Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:27 pm

#5

Um, yeah you can.

I'm a pistoleer too, and I always go prone when attacking grouped aggro npcs that use ranged attacks. You can take out a whole group of yellow con npcs that way.

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