Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: TKA, Vehicles and Mounts
I found this in part of Kosters interview.
UGO: Will players have direct control over vehicles and mounts or will it be rail-based travel (as in Dark Age of Camelot)?
RK: No, you'll have direct control. And there will be combat on the mounts. It'd be hard to do Teras Kasi [the unarmed combat profession of Galaxies]. Yeah, we're not doing DAOC style mounts. More like UO [Ultima Online] style mounts.
So not only do we get the nerf but we get completely removed from the game when society starts using mounts and vehicles to fight from?
I wasted so much time developing a character who has no place in this "Galaxy"
The new mounts scare me as well since our techniques will be almost completely uneffective when they arrive. However, I must say that you probably won't hear much complaining out of me when they arrive simply because it makes sense that a martial artist would be at a disadvantage against mounted units. This has always been true throughout history. Be reminded that this will simply give some of our melee brethren, who haven't been useful for much of anything so far, a decent place in thegalaxy. Mounted units have ALWAYS been at a disadvantage to pikeman. In fact a row of pikeman was the primary defense used by the romans to defend their archers from mounted troops. Sad that we'll be uneffective at yet another unit though. Sob sob sob for us.
Sweet Jebus you're allcorrect =(
Imagine folks kiting us not just on foor but from vehicles and mounts lol. The word "drive-by" springs to mind.
Sigh, just remove the melee classes and be done with it, SOE!
Thanks for admitting it scares you too Selwynn =) I really can't see the positive side of this one, cept for PVM. Will be a lot nicer doing PVM when we don't have to walk 2 kms each way!
Ill tell you one thing. There better be an EXTREME penalty for fighting on a mount or Vehicle.
If we think kiting is bad now, just wait. 
Oh oh! Chance for new skills! We should be the ULTIMATE car jackers as TK! Lol!
Hey, I saw a bright side! Lol...
I'm sad to say it, but every day I get a little closer to abandoning this profession. It's becoming more and more evident that the devs don't really care about the brawling classes, and don't feel that they are really needed.
There is nothing that brawlers can do that ranged classes can't do from a distance. Knockdown, dizzy, posture change, bleed... the list goes on. We're not needed to tank, couldn't tank even if we were needed, and as often as not, can't even engage our attackers for one reason or another.
I love RPing TKA, but the small streak of powergamer that I do have is demanding that I give it up for commando. We'll see.