Squad Leader Archive
Thread: State of the Profession 01 JUN 2005
What I take from this:
The post-CU combat role and special abilities of the Squad Leader are currently under review and we may expect updates on those topics, irrespective of any future revamp activity, that while indeed under consideration, any actual timeline for which the development team is not yet prepared to commit or discuss.
So, in plain English:
- We are still relevant.
- They know some of our stuff is busted.
- They are working on sometweaks - like the one we see with /formup in PvP.
- They are considering sweeping changes for a possible "revamp."
- Change takes time.
- They won't discuss dates -so quit asking
- Some of their answers are lame.
- When I can discuss anything that I do know, I will.
- This profession will be deleted over my cold, dead body.
I will keep you posted. I promise.
Message Edited by Darth_Sushi on 06-06-2005 08:13 PM
This is sad. SquadLeaders should be involved in the GCW.
WHat i took from your Dev chat. " We don't really care, we know things don't work, don't bug us for a fix or revamp, and oh.. You can't be any use in PvP."
No, no, no.
You see, leading a squad of soldiers, to fight a Tyranical Government , in some sort of Inter-stellar Civil-war ; Is the opposite of what Starwars is about.
/sarcasm
i don't understand all this "we're useless, i don't have a role in the gcw" b.s. yeah we need more advantages to mastering the prof, but saying we are obselite is a bit out of porportion isn't it? i play a huge role for my group everynight. there are benifits to squadleader (and master at that -0404 is the only worthy template? hmmmm. /disagree) no ones going to take you seriously if you exaggerate. for the three questions that got an opportunity to be answered by the devs i've always thought those were pretty lame (except for question three which is relevent and pretty unarguable)
when said in a luke skywalker voice these questions sound really funny
"but uncle owyn...why don't we get a revamp?"
captiansarcasmo wrote:
"but uncle owyn...why don't we get a revamp?"
Hehe, nice one captainsarcasmo.
Main subject is nice though, good to see the folks at SOE still attempting to comunicate with a corospondant. Something to keep an eye on.
As such, maybe it's time to actually start "playing". You know, actually "play" the character, do some in character stuff.
Going along with the state of our profession, maybe along the way I'll see more stuff that we truly *need* rather than what we just "want"; I want a nuke that only SLs can use along with tanks and subs along with god powers, with the ability to defeat god. That only we can use. We've managed to come this far without getting the profession nerfed, maybe even stop looking at the game and start looking at other games and see about campagins that are military orieented. In as such, I feel that we should have for a bonus for adding either party members or adding npcs or even though this has been discussed in great lenght and a lot of people don't like the idea, bonus to the number of faction pets. Heck, I'm CL80 and my droids are all cl18 by themselves. Oooo big threat there. Another couple of things that may be used has all been discussed, ground formations, directing targeting,
Well, before this message times out again, thank goodness for copy and paste! I'll end it for now. There's my *real* 2 cents worth. I'll add more when I get a chance.