Rifleman Archive

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deviousanarchy wrote:

You can't do **** in this game without armor+buffs. The devs will tell you it's supposed to help the economy. Like how a 4mil rifle will eventually be destroyed leaving you suckerless. This hella sucks screw SWG I'm joining the WoW side where the nerf bat doesn't touch everything in sight.

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I beg to differ.

I'm a wookie, and tonight I took off all my armor, and used only brandy. I went after a lot of things on Dathomir, and was easily able to take down everything I wanted to. I spent a good 2-3 hours hunting tonight, by myself - no buffs or armor. Even when I was agroed on, I got out of there without dying. heck, I wasn't even incaped at all during the course of my hunting.

Something that I've noticed about this game, that's actually quite annoying, is the fact people rely on buffs and armor for everything. What do I mean? Well, many many months ago i was going TKA. This was before it was popular, and still really buggy (the old teras kasi artists will know what I'm talking about). I hunting from novice tka to master tka on dathomir. I was (and still am) a wookie, had no armor, and this was before buffs became popular. I was forced to use strategy to keep myself alive. I had to lure one giant baz out at a time, kill it, then repeat. yes, this is a VERY long process, but it was able to be done.

What happens today? Someone gets buffed, puts on their 80+% kinetic resist composite armor, agroes about 2-5 redcon dathomir animals, and tanks them all. Their HAM doesn't reduce at all, and they win the battle fairly quickly. I know this from experience because my other character is a human. I put on my armor, get buffed, and can take on a nightsister elder. Is this right?

The point I'm trying to make is that this game can still be soloed as needed under reasonable circumstances and patience. I agree going up to a rancor lair, mask scent, cover, and spam conceal shot over and over isn't the fastest way to kill the enemy, but it can be done. What happens if I get agroed on? I throw a trap to slow them down, grab my bike and run. I come back after a bit and resume.

This game needs a lot more strategy. I don't think people should be able to solo extremely high level MOBS. I hope this combat rebalance heavily nerfs everyone, including me. The nerf should balance everyone out to the point where groups become popular again, and no I don't mean solo groups.

BTW I'm still working on rifleman on Dathomir. I'm currently a 0/1/0/2, soon to be 1/1/0/2 (when I can get trained). In other words, I'm a very weak and slow rifleman - but I have a lot of patience, even if it takes me a good 2-4 minutes to kill one quenker on my own. I'm doing it without buffs or armor (most times, I used armor at first until my HAM dropped too fast)

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Raruk wrote:

Qustion, how many rifleman are upset with the new delay added into the game?

I am very up set over this delay, I think it's extremely damageing to our profetion and our abiltiy to hunt. I know why the delay was put into place. to keep jedi from putting on armor, then using a macro to strip the armor off, spam out force powers and put the armor back on. but why did this "Fix" have to effect profetions that do not explot in that way.

I mean, im just a lonly rifleman, I dont get buffs unless im hunting extremely large animals, I dont wear composit armor, I just use foods to lower my mind costs using rifles, and ubese armor when i need it. Im not exacly high up in the tree for rifleman, so right now i tend to go prone, and use conseal shot on yellow, con animals with my T21, or jawa ion gun. Then when the animal, or pack notice me, i will kneel, put ubese on and use a closer range weapon in the hopes to finish it off. normaly i end up eating a ton of stims just to keep alive but it works and it's not fast, or easy exp it's still exp and gives me pleasure.

But with this new delay i find that when an animal notices me, im dead before i even change positosn, or get more then my ubese boots on. let alone the entire set, change to kneel, or stand and change weapon. this also effect how we heal or keep shooting.

The best way i can see to get around this is to join the club with all the 24hr comp wearing people that get buffs to hunt. I didn't think the Devs invitioned that a requirement to hunt was to wear armor, and get buffs. just to attack 1 con yellow animal.

I know the dev's can think of a better way that makes it so jedi can't wear armor, i know it's harder than adding a delay to the tool bar, but please guys/girls do it. for your punishing every combat profetion just so you can keep a few exploters from cheating..

sowi

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SexyJabbaTheHutt wrote:

Yes, let's all wait for the combat balance. Then cancel all our accounts. It's not everyone that has the chance to group up. I play weird hours and hardly ever pvp (bugged) so I'm on my own most of the times. My guildmates aren't on or most any friends aren't. I know it's not "star warsy" to solo a krayt but you know, I just can't dig a huge pit and cover it with leaves and tree branches for it to fall in.

The minute I can't loot alone is the minute I leave this game. And alot of ppl will be coming with me

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Just because you can't solo everything possibly in the combat rebalance doesn't mean you need to quit the game.

You were saying that you're on when your friends are not. Why not go to someplace like Dathomir, or Dantooine - and form a group? Heck, when I was on Dantooine once, I was trying to level to novice rifle. I formed a group of 4-5 lower-level people, which we hunted together for 3-4 hours. It was a lot of fun, something I liked doing.

Some of the most fun in the game was when many people took on something that was very hard to beat. I remember, in moenia, myself and 30 some odd people trying to kill a rogue fambaa. Only thing we had equipped was a CDEF weapon. It was fun, it's something I miss. What happens in cities now? People spamming so bad that it's likely one can crash. Cities like Moenia aren't even used any more.

It's sad, the game got so individualistic, I wish it was different.

I can see the weapon/armor equip delay as being more realistic than it was before mostly because I'd hit a macro to throw up my armor if I got into deep dookie. However, I don't think realism can be used as an excuse considering this is a game where people run up steep (like straight up and down) cliffs when they ought to be climbing, or where you sit in a chair and slide across the room while still in sitting position..... granted the second is a bug, but it's been there over a year now, and instead of fixing that they go and put a delay on how fast you can change your armor or switch your wepapon. Are there priority problems there? you betcha.