Rifleman Archive

Dear Developers and Designers,

Last night my wookiee rifleman lost over a thousand faction points defending his city agaist 3 people. I'd like to add that there were over 16 defenders all of which could not stand against three people which did not have pets.

I have to ask you why a cabineer using advanced strafe shot can one hit kill every single time. Even with a PSG having 47% special protection from energy that attack was hitting from 800 dmg to 1700 dmg, and could fire this special off every second. Which means against an unsheilded wookiee that attack would of beentaken from 1500-2300 damage.

My compatriates that could wear adv compisite and PSG's were being hit from around 500-900 points per second.

Yet a rifleman with a T21 and headshot3 or other specials, can barely hit back with 87 to maybe 350 damage every 3 seconds.

By using unlimted amounts of nutron pixie and muon gold, these attackers could totaly ignore mine feilds, regened thierHAM within seconds, and could shrug off every special attack including knockdowns, bleeds and even flames. With how much spice they were using when it wore off they should have fallen over dead, yet they always had enough HAM left to evacuate, use spice again, then return.

Worsethe cabineer was somehow incapactitating at upward of 80 to 100m ranges, through buildings, and then was able to death blow from a distance like a rifleman does without switching to a rifle.

So don't sit there and tell me the game can't handle weapon ranges over 64m, that a wookiee's few points of extra HAM means they don't need armor, or that your combat system is anywhere close to balanced.

Don't sit there and tell me that rifleman have not been weakened beyound the point of usefullness.

Don't sit there and tell me that wookiee's as a race don't suffer because everyone else can wear 90-90% resistive armor plus a PSG, and wookiees at best get just the weak PSG's.

Don't sit there and tell me that rifles have correct damage, whenI can go to any vendor and by a pistol or rifle that can deal more damage then a T21, a bowcaster, or a laser rifle. I know, I have a FGW5 siting in my bank that can do over 200 points more damage then any rifle.

Not one of you dev's have ever even bothered to post on the rifleman threads, yet see you're posts in every other class forum out there.

I'm calling you to the carpet. You said you would consider fixingriflemen almost 4 months ago. And you have not done one thing.

Simply put you lied.

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McGavin wrote:

I have to ask you why a cabineer using advanced strafe shot can one hit kill every single time.

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hmm...

i agree with seflyn -

your whole post sounds like you're describing a rifleman - not a carbineer. perhaps he was only wearing a carbineer tag.?

i'd have to see screenshots of those dmg's to believe it...

The weapon being used could be a loot drop, I've seen some truly evil carbines and a very nasty tusken, if someone found a T21 that has the same % boost those weapons did it could easily be in the 900-1500 damage range, add in a strafe2 and that would account for the damage.

"Worsethe cabineer was somehow incapactitating at upward of 80 to 100m ranges, through buildings, and then was able to death blow from a distance like a rifleman does without switching to a rifle."

After reading the advanced strafe thing this sounds like youhave mistaken a rifleman for a carbineer.

There is up to a 12m difference between the client and server, it's how TKAs can hit you from 30m. (and no it's not my ping.)

"By using unlimted amounts of nutron pixie and muon gold, these attackers could totaly ignore mine feilds, regened thierHAM within seconds, and could shrug off every special attack including knockdowns, bleeds and even flames. With how much spice they were using when it wore off they should have fallen over dead, yet they always had enough HAM left to evacuate, use spice again, then return."

Sounds like doctor buffs and dancer/musician buffs to me. Maybe spice on top of those. You'd be surprised what a difference doctor buffs make, it can seem like godmode at times.

As for rifles being weakened, well if you think that I suggest you try pistoleer, as rifle has gotten very strong indeed thanks to the last two patches.