Rifleman Archive

After reviewing the art of war post by TH (and then stop laughing at how they basically told us we are beta testers...SWG is obsolete and he said it hah) I"m a bit confused could someone clear this up for me. They are gonna make it so that weapons become more effective at higher lvls (damage modifier or something) and other things to make mastering a prof worth it, even though you basically have to master rifleman. Well what I got confused about is how he worded a few things.

Are we going to get more weapon certificates and such to make the trip up the tree more interesting or are they just moving our current weapons around so I'll have to lvl up a bit to use my good 'ol laser? I take it as we are getting more weapons but it could have been said a bit better. Anyone else able to decipher it?

Come on Psychotic your a board vet.

You know no one will ever now what the hell he is talking about, we will be kept in the dark until the last second.

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Saw two parts that made me shudder.

First was that they are increasing HAM costs. Just what a riflemen needs.

Second was the whole "recharge" thing. Use a special and you have to fall back to "recharge". Trying to fall back from something that is charging you and staying out of melee range where our accuracy is lousy.

Of course until we see it we won't know for sure. I'm just not encouraged by what was said.

Yeah the idea of, let it be **edit**ed up for a month then we'll make it better, isn't really that great. But for HAM cost I was somewhat overjoyed. He said that regeneration will be much faster, so even with them being upped if we can regen quickly it won't matter for some shots. I mean with conceal as it is I get like at least 50 or more mind back before my next shot can be fired.

I just can't believe that the game was sold when it was though. I mean they are completely re-doing combat? Shouldn't that be like a beta 2 decision?

I don't understand the whole higher HAM cost and faster regeneration thing. Doesn't that just cancel itself out? If so why bother putting it in? It's like them saying the monthly fee is going up $5/month but they are going to give us a $5 credit a month. Net effect zero.

Also the way I read it it's not going to be screwed up for a month. It's going to be messed up for three. Each stage is a different publish so the first month you have increased MOB stats or changes or whatever they are doing. This will mess things up.

Second publish will then do the new weapon stuff. This will leave the situation still messed up. Just differently than before.

Third would be ne HAM system, costs, etc.

The fourth would be the specilization. At which point everything should be balanced. Though I suspect it would be the fifth one that work out the main balancing issues that all these changes will cause.

Shadowbane rushed release due to SWG and SWG rushed out due to Shadowbane and they both turned into people paying for beta. When will someone release a finished product.

Yeah, but I was hoping to get a response from a psychiatrist that can delve into TH's psyche to derive factual statements. Or a relative to Ari Fleischer that can wade through bs and get an answer.