Rifleman Archive
Thread: **edit**? Rifleman is useless!
xPREDATORx
Sat Jul 03, 2004 3:54 am
#14
well i can get it to work with ma rifle. i just hit my hot key and blamo it works but not all the time.... but its not supposed too
Waste93
Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:52 am
#15
The abilities from the Ranged Support branch work with any ranged weapon. I think they even work with heavy weapons.
I'm on TC regrinding and have been using /Aim with no problem.
Pire
Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:54 am
#16
ok man.
i am alt-tabbed at this very time, on dathomir, doing enraged rancors.
i use regular T21 and warning shot. it works just fine. enragedrancors run away like crazy and these are like 125-150 lvl critters.
i dont know what you are talking about. perhaps you are trying to use it on humanoid or droid or non-animal targets or are otherwise confused like you were which ability it is under ?
aiming works too.
XaverriJade7
Sat Jul 03, 2004 7:01 am
#17
Ok, thanks for clearing that up Waste 
I hopethey work for Commandos and BHs too- they have to Master the whole darn Marksman profession 
Edited for grammar 
Message Edited by XaverriJade7 on 07-03-2004 04:02 PM
ChilastraBH
Sat Jul 03, 2004 7:51 am
#18
i found rifle xp hard to get as well. Get a decent dxr rifle & do rancor missions in a group. The xp flies.
Naktu
Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:16 am
#19
Ok, I must be bugged to hell then. I just tried using /warningshot and /threatenshot with a T21, laser rifle, and laser carbine, and got the "not with this weapon" message every time. /aim works no problem. I've never tried /suppression. And when I have used /threaten or /warning before (with a pistol), it's only marginally successful, creatures like Banthas or Squills retreat maybe half the time, and then only 20m or so before reaggroing (whether I /peace or continue /warn, /threaten). I assume that's because a pistol is less "threatening" than a rifle? In any case, they don't work properly for me...
kenkenken
Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:56 am
#20
i AM very calm dude
if you recall i was the one who replied to your other post
very calmly, and my first post was very calm and unflamed.
it just gets my goat when someone claims a lot of things
without actual proof.
and just by reading your title, it is enough to insult any
serious rifleman out there, as we hold our profession very dear.
how would you feel if someone was calling your livelihood
completely useless? and based on hearsay statements at that?
but all in all thats the purpose of this whole forum i
guess, it is to clarify any and all confusions/issues
about the rifleman profession.
P.s rifleman wouldn't have this badass reputation if it
were useless
if you recall i was the one who replied to your other post
very calmly, and my first post was very calm and unflamed.
it just gets my goat when someone claims a lot of things
without actual proof.
and just by reading your title, it is enough to insult any
serious rifleman out there, as we hold our profession very dear.
how would you feel if someone was calling your livelihood
completely useless? and based on hearsay statements at that?
but all in all thats the purpose of this whole forum i
guess, it is to clarify any and all confusions/issues
about the rifleman profession.
P.s rifleman wouldn't have this badass reputation if it
were useless
Ackehece
Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:37 am
#21
Naktu wrote:
Ok, I must be bugged to hell then. I just tried using /warningshot and /threatenshot with a T21, laser rifle, and laser carbine, and got the "not with this weapon" message every time. /aim works no problem. I've never tried /suppression. And when I have used /threaten or /warning before (with a pistol), it's only marginally successful, creatures like Banthas or Squills retreat maybe half the time, and then only 20m or so before reaggroing (whether I /peace or continue /warn, /threaten). I assume that's because a pistol is less "threatening" than a rifle? In any case, they don't work properly for me...
If this does not work for you with a rifle - you are correct - you are bugged. I would do a /bug in the game. I retried this today - these all work with any rifle i had. Anything in the ranged support line worked correctly. Also maybe this has been address in the marksmen forum - i would check that forum to see if anyone else has experience what you are experiencing.
as for warning and threaten shot... figure about 40% with threaten maybe 80% with warn for them to work... and drop that percentage the higher the level the creature.
if you have the room to do master marksmen do it... the speed increase really helps rifleman more then any other profession.
but you are doing ranger - so SEA's and speed and accuracy food can help you
Rifleman is all about Sex (Dancer buffs) Drugs (Foods/drinks/moun/Doc Buffs) and Rock and Roll(music buffs)
Only things we can't solo in game are several types of nightsisters who are totally immune to our damage types everything else falls eventually to us.
DECarbineer
Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:20 am
#22
Last time i mastered rifleman it took me 1 and a half day. Get 80% kinetic armor, get buffed, get mind food and then spam pointblankarea1 with a laser rifle on lairs
Litside
Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:01 pm
#23
<<use the warning shot i think, i forget what its called but it drives them
away for a lil while. >>
away for a lil while. >>
that's a pistol ability, and now with the weapon change delay, its useless.
He meant to say use /threatenshot this will drive your enemies away for a while before they charge back at you...if you get 0-1-0-0 rifleman and then /takecover you can just /concealshot your target to death.....so it's really easy to level that way if you feel you must...very slow but effective...also rifleman does not suck i think you need to figure that out really quick. Anyways good luck with your grind and don't drag us rifleman down with you if you're gonna say it's useless. We can let you think that
Litside
Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:03 pm
#24
oh ya one more thing...master brawlers can solo krayts/NS elderswith intimidate 2 so don't call people liars so quickly if you are uninformed
Litside - Tempest
Master Swordsman
Rifleman 4-1-2-4
Pire
Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:36 pm
#25
Naktu
you are very very new, young and are apparentlyin the stage of your life where you begin to learn about and how to use the bad words, andit plainlyshows. you shouldnt just start yelling at people, instead take some of teh critisism they are giving you and make it constructive instead.
BTW, warning shot is ranged support 4, the 4th tree in marksman, not pistols.
if you do a search on his board you will find out some real good tactics for leveling with rifle.
you really need to learn your specials and abilities and how they work and get an APPROPRIATE weapon for your skill level. i suggest a speed sliced laser or low HAM version T21 for starters and a jawa. use those until you are about 75-80% through the profession, then start geting the weapons you will be using for the longrun.
dont forget, some of us have have actually mastered the profession when most specials were broken, there were no doc or food or spice buffs in the game yet and we did it using DLT20a's cause tehre were no materials for anything better on our servers yet, and then remastered it 2-3 times since. so we do know what we are talking about.
and if you really dont like rifleman that bad, then simply drop and get a new professionit instead of throwing a tantrum like you are.
i am not interested in being a ranger, it sucked for me when i tried it, but if i was, i would go ranger /swordsman /medic, or ranger /tka / medic definetly not rifleman.
but thats just my personal choice, there are a lot of very happy ranger/riflemen on both of the profession boards.
P.S. i soloed Krayts, soloed NS elders, soloed force klicknicks, soloed half the corvette (except droids of course) and plenty other stuff. but i am also master fencer and i know how to play that profession very well as well and use the abilities of bothe to the absolute fullest that i can. in fact, i specifically stay away from headshots, mindshots and strafe 2 on many occasions. only time i use em is for missions or PvP it seems and thats mixed in within a full bag of otehr tricks.
Message Edited by Pire on 07-03-2004 12:42 AM
Naktu
Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:38 pm
#26
I'm not saying anyone's lyin, just that from what I've heard, Krayt's are MUCH more difficult with the new patch. And that I've never heard of a Rifleman soloing a Krayt without CM, which doesn't help me being a Ranger.