Rifleman Archive
Thread: Bring back the pre-buff memories
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KardenTyrell
Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:24 am
#1
I love those memories, share yours! I remember the start of the european servers, everyone still a newbie...it was great. People were killing meatlumps and butterflies for experience. I remember I had an all powerfull CDEF rifle wich was crafted by a pretty high artisan...man it was the bomb. Then I noticed a Tusken rifle for 12k in one of the stores in Coronet. I just had to have it!! I spent all evening grinding out for the money so I could buy that beauty..and when I did, I went back to the meatlumps for revenge >=] .....headshot2 baby..yeeehawww..dropping them in one shot from prone position.......it was....awesome.
Any little gems you reme.........
*crick cricke swoosh BOOOM*
*runs downstairs to pick up his freshly deliverd JTL copy*
Any little gems you reme.........
*crick cricke swoosh BOOOM*
*runs downstairs to pick up his freshly deliverd JTL copy*
jalexu
Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:36 am
#2
Same here, but I was outside Moenia one-shot killing chubas (I think they're called) with my new tusken rifle 
Then I remember a diseased chuba (or something like that) came, red con, and man that wasa wild fight ...
Then I remember a diseased chuba (or something like that) came, red con, and man that wasa wild fight ...
Daturaze
Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:00 am
#3
Don't forget about wearing the Bone armor and thinking "Man, gotta get me that Maorbi <sp?> armor"
Or needing to group with a whack of other people to take down the dreaded and feared Humbaba!!!
And the best memory of all - Walking!!
XwingRogue3
Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:19 am
#4
I remember getting big groups to go against the narglatch cave near Moenia. Man that was fun. Those were the days when the melee professions would get the crap beat out of them and you sat back with your gun hoping the animal doesn't run after you next.
WayneInAustin
Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:25 am
#5
This is a story about the beauty of Warning Shot. I have told this story before, but I always love repeating it.
This took place back in the old days, meaning (1) No good armor, (2) No buffs, (3) No chef foods, and (4) the dreaded 2.5x Melee penalty for riflemen. I had Master Marksman and was working up the Rifleman tree. At the time I was using a nice DLT20A because the Mind costs for my T21 and Laser were too high (and remember: no chef foods to help me).
Now for those of you who have grown up as a rifleman in the era of buffs, armor, and chef foods, Warning Shot was probably never an attack you paid much attention to. I think you get it somewhere near the top of "Rifle Abilities" in the fourth Marksman Tree. Warning shot, if it stuck, would send the target running in the opposite direction for a while. It could be messy, because sometimes it wouldnt stick, or else the targetwould run about 128m or so and stop, so then you had to go track them down again.
While most people at the time were doing Baz Nitches on Dantooine for rifle xp, I preferred hunting Mountain Squill on Tatooine. They are very tough, but were worth about 4.5K. I was working on aMountain Squill lair on Tatooine one time and had carefully positioned myself prone, about 60m from one. Now with the 2.5x melee penalty, you REALLY didn't want these bad boys to get to you. So I fired off my first few shots and he finally woke up and began to charge me. I fired head shots until he was at about 30m, then I squeezed off a warning shot. It stuck, and he took off running the other direction. Now if he got outside of 64m, I would have to get up and chase him, but any other damage would turn him back around on me. So I fired off a head shot which hit him at about 60m. Sure enough he turned towards me again, full speed. A couple of head shots and he was 25m away, so I quickly fired off another warning shot. It stuck. He turned and ran again. At 60m, head shot, here he comes. At 20+m, a warning shot, there he went. I must have yo-yo'ed this poor Squill ten times in a row before he dropped. Every shot I needed to stick stuck at just the right time. Poor guy never had a chance. Now I figure the odds of all my shots sticking when they did were astronomical - I think I sat back in my chair after that one, took a deep sigh,and told myself "Wow! that was beautiful!". I doubt he realized that he died the perfect death (well, at least from MY point of view!)
dsaviri
Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:48 pm
#6
*looks about with wild eyes*
Crazed... durnies.... AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! FEAR THE DURNI!!!!!!!
Ahem. I remember when I first hit novice rifleman, before the T-21 was available on my server and you could run crazed durni missions for 3K a pop. I would go prone, target one of them and start using headshot2 with my laser rifle (which I spent 4 days running missions to buy). I would pray that my first 3 shots stuck, otherwise I would have one mean bunny running up on me and there was NO way I was going to hit that thing as it was moving. Well, usually I would jump up to kneeling and then pop off two headshots follow by a stim, and keep repeating that till the darned thing went down. One time though, I didn't quite make it and then, once I was incapped, the rest of the crazed durni's standing around the lair warped on top of me. Everytime I stood, one of the floppy eared buggers would incap me again. To this day I still feel ashamed that I had to call in a strike team of friends to help save me from wild bunny rabbits. 
Waste93
Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:29 pm
#7
Speaking of crazed durnis.
I was walking between Tyrenna and Coronet when I came across a wild spawn. I spent the next couple of hours hunting those things. Going prone and hitting MS1. Followed up with some head shots. Using my speed sliced DLT20a. They just kept spawning. Must have gotten about thirty or so.
Anyone else remember the 'Master Thief' spawns on Corellia? The model for those NPCs were the Nightsister/Singing Mountain Clan witches. I use to see them all the time on Corellia, now I never do.
KardenTyrell
Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:33 pm
#8
I do remember swooper gang leaders, when those hit the edges of coronet, everyone ran
DomMantell
Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:59 pm
#9
I remember my guild's first organized krayt hunt. Took about 2 hours to get everyone set up and ready, pretty much everyone died at least once on the long walk to the krayt graveyard thanks to the wild spawns of tuskens or cannibal dewbacks.
When we finally all made it to the graveyard and managed to track down a dragon I think I must have died about 4 times (our resident doc got good use from the rez kits that day). Going back through the combat logs after being incapped I realized why all my HAM bars were white every time I got too close to a krayt - thanks to the 2.5x melee damage multiplier I was taking 6000 damage per hit. With no buffs and no armor I didn't last too long if I got too close.
Never got any tissues from that hunt. One guild member snagged a krayt pearl though, except since jedi didn't exist at that point krayt pearls were nothing more than interesting decor.
Although pretty much everyone hated the revenge tef, I have some fond memories of PvP from back then. Everyone clone zerged, fights lasted ages. Almost everyone was some combination of pistoleer/bounty hunter/creature handler/commando. I managed to hold my own on some occasions, though I never liked being hit for 1500 damage in PvP from a flame thrower thanks to the melee damage multiplier and the miscategorization of commando weapons as melee weaponry.
When we finally all made it to the graveyard and managed to track down a dragon I think I must have died about 4 times (our resident doc got good use from the rez kits that day). Going back through the combat logs after being incapped I realized why all my HAM bars were white every time I got too close to a krayt - thanks to the 2.5x melee damage multiplier I was taking 6000 damage per hit. With no buffs and no armor I didn't last too long if I got too close.
Never got any tissues from that hunt. One guild member snagged a krayt pearl though, except since jedi didn't exist at that point krayt pearls were nothing more than interesting decor.
Although pretty much everyone hated the revenge tef, I have some fond memories of PvP from back then. Everyone clone zerged, fights lasted ages. Almost everyone was some combination of pistoleer/bounty hunter/creature handler/commando. I managed to hold my own on some occasions, though I never liked being hit for 1500 damage in PvP from a flame thrower thanks to the melee damage multiplier and the miscategorization of commando weapons as melee weaponry.
dhamian
Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:43 pm
#10
hey d'om cn u solo nightsisters and krayts at this point with like master pike/ master rifles? sounds good to me. just wonderin what u think. since u happen to be one. lol.
dimmu-borgir
Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:14 am
#11
so way back when i started, i chose doaba gurfel for my starting city, pretty empty at the time, probably 10 people tops at any given point, so, one day, i decided to walk to kor vella, well those of you who know corellian terrain, know that between kor vella and doaba, exists a happy little place called the agrilat swamp, a very unfriendly place, a 1000 marksman with a cdef rifle. so anyways, im wandering aimlessly, enjoying the sights, man, those crystal fountains were cool back then, so anyways... i hit a battlefield, not taht there was anyone on it (i think), but along the way, i get hit with a mind bleed, shrug it off, and keep walking, as i go, i end up getting incapped by said bleed, complain about it to myself while im out, keep going, one again, incapped, more complaining, stand up, walk, tripleincapdeth.
Waste93
Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:22 am
#12
That reminds me. A couple days after I started I was running around Tyrenna. Went NE to explore a bit and ran into a Dark Jedi. Needless to say he made very short work of me. It was one of the first sightings on my server.
A couple weeks later I joined a group that hunted one in the area. There were about 15 to us and the Jedi took out half of us. We were in awe of their toughness back then. And they didn't even have Force Powers.
They also had a lot of loot back then. We got a couple Bowcasters, and a half dozen other weapons from the one NPC.
Gh3ttoCru1s3r
Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:59 pm
#13
If anyone here played on starsider in the first few months...it was AWESOME!!! Everyone was running around with a laser rifle, Fwg5 or carbine. Especially in anchorhead--imp raids every other night, with the imp guild FATAL(they had an imperial base mad 500 m from anchorhead). It was like 30 vs 30 unbuffed pvp.Plus the best thing were the medics. They all used /dragincapacitatedplayer to keep them from being deathblowed
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