Teras Kasi Archive

I have recently become a Master TK. I was exicted to finally be able to do some PvP with my PA. A battle broke out in cornet and i happily jumped in. I know that ther was a danger of being kited but **edit**? First try see a pistoleer sitting there pumping rounds into someones pet. As i take off towards him he sees me and starts to run and shoot at the same time. Takes awhile but he drops me. Round 2. I see a team of a rifleman and a swords man attacking some friends. I am able to land a KD/Dizzy on the fencer. The rifle man sees this and starts running. I kill the fencer and give chase. Run through the city for awhile and stay at exactly the same range we started. after awhile, clone #2. Round 3 I exit the clone center and see the same pistoleer that killed me eariler now with a flamethrower. I really want to redeem my self and take off to the recruiter to try and get back at him. He follows me we start at 32 meters away and again i finsh at 32 meters away.

Now i realize that this was my first experince and i will get better with time but man. I also realize that there is a flaw about calling somthing in an online RPG unrealistic but in my reallife i have had the pleasure of being a martial artist, an army rifleman, an army heavy weapons opperator and now a cop. Therefore i can tell you with the utmost certainity that i am faster with nothing in my hand, then i am while holding my45. I am MUCH faster with nothing in my hands then I am with a M16 and i am barely able to run at all when carrying an m60 or other heavy weapon. Anyone else feel this way or am i just bitter from getting my ass handed to me three times in a row?

check my thread, i blew some steam on the Melee classes of SWG, add more if you can please, its interesting

when you're pvping in a city and dont want ppl kiting you... dont run after them, hide behind buildings and make them come close to you. running after someone with a gun is pointless. it's not like they're gonna put themselves in range of the best pvp melee when they can just shoot you while running at a safe distance from your fists.

kiting stinks, but it happens all the time. everyone plays to win so a ranged profession player is going to use range as much as possible.

i have put a special /dismount macro in my combat toolbar because of kiting. i don't PvP very much, but when running more difficult missions, Rebel Medics will kite as quickly as any Player Character will, so i stay OUT of the range long enough to target the Medic, FLY in on my Swoop and hit the /dismount macro i created when i am within 5-10m

the macro includes kite-killers like KD, Dizzy, and Warcry

it would me MUCH more difficult to use this tactic in a city with the difficulty of steering a Swoop in town, combined with lag, but perhaps some sort of burst run macro that has a delay at the begining of 7-10 seconds that allows you to catch up to your opponent, then starts the kite-killers. this would allow you to concentrate SOULY on steering your character to catch up with the kiting offender. i don't know, it it just a suggestion

kite is a four letter word

I am not saying that i shouldnt be Kited but rather that it should be harder and approached differently. First, weapons should impact speed and movement should have a much greater impact on accuracy. I realize that complaining about lack of realisim in a starwars game is severely flawed but i can also tell you that even the best army and SWAT marksman that i know would be extremely hard pressed to hit a moving target behind them while they were on the run in point blank range with a pistol and would almost never make a hit with a rifle at point blank in the same circumstance or with any weapon at medium or long range. Clearly if I am faced with an opponet in real life that i feel had a severe advantage in hand to hand that was trying to close distance then i would attempt to create range. I realize in a reallife situation that i would only be attempting to land a few shots,ldealy two to the body and one to the head but i also know that if a party armed with a sword or a martial arts master closed the distance then it would be game over if i didnt get those shots off perfect. This is all really just a rant but it seems reasonable and realistic to have weapon choice and mabye armor impact speed even if just to a small degree.

So as a cop are you often unarmed and give chase after bad guys with guns?

When you studied martial arts did they tell you if you see someone half a football field away from you, you should go running after them to put some Martial Artist moves on him?

My suggestion is you take some of this training you have and apply it to the game. As any martial artist will tell you. You own close quarters. But you lack wonder woman's bullet defelecting bracers so I suggest you do everything in close quarters and pick up some skills that allow you to close the distance.

For example you know lunge works from 20+ meters.