Rifleman Archive

I came into Coronet the other day with my T-21. I was overt. There were two rebels outside. I ran out and decided to fight them. I got in the doorway to the starport, took an aimed headshot3 with my T-21 at 40 some meters. *miss*

Ok... so i back into the door and wait a sec. Then I pop back out and take another aimed heashot3. *miss*

Ok.. now im swearing my ass off. These guys are TOTAL newbs. They are novice marksman with a tiny bit of pistol skill. Im taking almost NO damage from them but my mind pool is going down QUICK because of my T-21.

I decide to try one more time. I pop out, aimed headshot3. Yes! I hit. Hes down to 1/4 health. I switch to my DLT20a and do a HS3, no aim. *miss*

I try again.. hit. Ok, hes down and incapped.

I re-equip my T-21 and turn around to the other guy. Ive only lost 1/3 of my health and action, these guys really sucked. My mind bar is almost TOTALLY gone. I have enough mind for ONE more T-21 shot and one more DLT20a shot. I pop around the corner.. aim.. headshot3... *miss*

His next shot hits my mind pool and im out.

I have half the city of Coronet laughing at me.

I HATE MY PROFFESION

*** Please do not mispell profane words to get around the filter.

Message Edited by Jeassa on 08-24-2003 08:47 AM

Go Rebels! YAH!

Sounds like realy bad luck Tek, I couldn't seem to hit a thing tonight either.

Well from what i can tell the rifle really is useless for accuracy when it's inside the 40m mark, 20m is when things turn really bad. Perhaps you were just too close.

If missing 7/10 of my shots arent bad enough. Guess what else i had the privilage of witnessing?

I got my PA together to raid anchorhead. Over a dozen of us get together and we head out. We get to the top of anchorhead and BAM!! Someone knocks down EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US!!!

FIFTEEN GUYS ALL KNOCKED DOWN BY A SINGLE SHOT!!!

The Rebels come up and slaughter us while the master pistoleer spams us with disarm2.

I HATE MY PROFFESION

Tal, I was missing with my T-21 everywhere from 60m to 20m. All using aimed HS3's. I missed twice with my DLT20a at around 40m (realy close to idea range)

ALL OF THIS AND IM A FUKING RIFLEMAN WITH MASTER SNIPING ACCURACY

Mind costs on our specials need some love, priod. Its impossible to fight in a BATTLE. Its not really fun when you have to take care of your own pool to damage somebody else. They have to do something about this. this sucks bad.

And Aim, well i think you were REALLY REALLY unlucky...

Ask Hatch what it is like to fight a Master Rifleman, lmao.

Keep crying though Tek just shows you have no clue what the class is like at Master.

SilverLobo.. your such a fuking moron.

I have MASTER SNIPING ACCURACY!!!!

I dont give a flying **edit** if my charachter becomes a mini nuke launcher at master rifleman. 99.9% of rifleman are NOT master rifleman! 99.9% of rifleman SUCK because:

1. We kill ourselves quicker than we kill the enemy
2. We have the worst accuracy of any ranged proffesion (huh?)
3. Our HAM pools drain a stat that isnt healable.
4. We do about 1/5th the DPS of 50% of the combat people in the game: BH's (yes, 50% of combat people are BH's. Its sad but true)

Do you ever stop crying? I mean really do you cry about everything?

Tek you are nothing but a unskilled, whinny child that wants everything handed to him. If you arnt willing to put the work in to get Master Rifleman you dont deserve the power it grants plain and simple.

But hey dont let me stop you from doing what you do best, cry and if that doesnt work cry louder.

Try not to spam ur HS3 so much next time -_-, devs specifically said that special attacks aren't meant to be linked like that, if your firing off 3+ high HAM cost specials then your gonna be dead as they aren't MEANT to be used like that.

I used the old pre nerf T21. The higher damage, high delay, AP3, 0 at point blank range modifier. I have 3 variations of the T21 and I found this one to be my favorite. A friend asked me to kill him so that he could lose overt status. I ended up using headshots at around 50m out while prone and I missed every single one of them. So I said F this and just went in with my Vibro Knucklers.

Needless to say, my friend said "Arc, when you tell me that a gun sucks I will believe you now."

Fact is I missed every single one while prone.

A friend in my PA who is a Master Weaponsmith makes T21s, but rarely anymore. He says that the guns are worse than the Laser Rifles (Not in the AP department though). He also said that he can make 10 scout blasters with the resources it costs to make one and make tons more credits that way.

Playing a Master TKA and an aspiring Master Rifleman I feel I got the shaft by SoE. There is a great inbalance when playing a Rifleman. It really sucks at anything besides master and when you get to master it is great (I am told). I can't kill anyone without using my headshots and mind bleeds. Those take a lot of HAM now and it makes my PvP fighting almost impossible. I am easy prey after maybe killing someone. With my mind depleted a simple eye shot from the many bounty hunters out there.

I fought a bounty hunter who just knocked me down and spammed eye shot on me. I noticed they had over half mind when they were done with me. It's ludicrous that they expect us to put up with this use inbalance between the pistol and the rifle.

I can see how TekDragon is angry and I don't blame him for it. I know that there are a lot of professions in the game that need help and the Rifleman are one of them.

How can we strike an unhealable damage pool if we can't actually hit it?

We turn into gods at master, till then we suck. Yes,it's totally, totally f*cked up, but that's the way it (currently)is.

Hey guys, the poster is Tekdragon, who I've long since determined likes to lie through his teeth and bitch about knockdown any opportunity he gets; I doubt it went down anywhere near the way he described.