Squad Leader Archive

With the holidays,there's hardly any dev movement happening at all at the moment so I can't really give a complete answer. The latest information that I have is basically in the Top 5 response: February. Solely from an historical point of view, I suspect that we'll see a big publish to Test Center sometime next week that should give usa good idea of the overall direction things are headed.

As has been mentioned, there's a short list of professions that are getting big revamps: Chef, Smuggler, Droid Engineer, and of course Squad Leader. I know some work has been done already, but I don't know if they are planning it for this month's patch or if it's getting held back until February to all get dumped at once. Based on the recent cryptical patch "theme" note, I might suspect that changes might be rolled out over a period of time rather than all at once. For example, in the very short term we might see changes to Squad Leader as they pertain to Combat with the "Combat" revamp, and perhaps later get a complete overhaul with a Patch Theme of the month of our own.

I really don't know, so please don't quote me on any of this. I'm just trying to be as forthright as I can with my personal ruminations. It is my hope that we'll see some pleasant surprises in this month's patch (/bootmorale fixed, for example), but I'm still holding hope that Februarywill be big for SL's.

I suggest that you keep a close watch on Test Center. Start a character there if you haven't already because that'll be the proving grounds for any changes...if you do or don't like them, feedback on changes as they hit Test Center is the most likely way to get things right before they go live.

i realize the holidays are here and the Devs wont get back into full swing until monday but this is soemwhat of an askance and future request.

Is there ANY idea at all when they are going to do a pass to our proff? As the new year approached i remembered the Space Expansion is SUPPOSED to be released THIS summer. Thats 6 months away now....6 months of game play have gone by

ive been Master SL for many months now and have had little use of my proffession ive wanted since Beta. My guild will be hitting the SE hard and doing a lot with it, i do not know what the Devs have planned for the SE so im nto sure if SL's, or anyone else, will get much of an added roel int he actual mechanics of the SE itself.

What im driving at is...its been 6 months, 6 months to go until SE. With usual Dev "haste" itll take them 2 months once they DO decide to give SL's a pass. That leaves 4 months before SE hits (again this is hypothetical). SO my thinking is ill get maybe 3 or 4 good months of play with a USEFUL SL character before i ditch the ground and take to space. 3 or 4 months out of what would be 12 months playing the stupid game as a SL.

so are they moving on thisor are theys till sitting on their duffs doing jack.