Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: TKA Range
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Moosemillion
Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:49 am
#1
I would like to know why the melee range is so high.
And if no one can give me a good answer I would like to begin a petition to limit it in the revamp.
30m=90ft ............. How is this remotely feasible. Even in space. Come on now, there is no WAY that anyone can lunge 30m, period.
I believe that the attack distance of any melee profession should be 5m, total. Anything else should be out of range. If that means ranged weapons in the hands of a PVPer who kites own, then GOOD, because that makes SENSE !
That being said, if I get into a tussle at point blank range with a TKM or Swordsmen, I should get owned. Oh thats right, that already happens when I get KD spammed and mind attacked so I cant throw poisons or use specials.
It really does not make sense to have the range so great. If anyone can muster a LOGICAL explanation for this, I will reverse my opinion. But Rifleman / CM are overpowered too, or get Synthsteak are not logical explanations.
Atama
Sun Aug 15, 2004 11:11 am
#2
"Come on now, there is no WAY that anyone can lunge 30m, period."
Neither can we. Lunges only extend 20m.
If you want an explanation, here are two explanations. One an explanation appealing to logic, another appealing to gameplay.
First off, logically, in SWG a meter is not a meter. That's pretty obvious. It seems that you take a step and you move a meter. A creature that seems to be right in front of you is actually 5m away according to your targeting window. So what SWG calls a meter is really about a foot.
So a lunge isn't really 20m, it's more like 20 feet. Granted, that's still a long distance, but not as extreme as 20m, and remember this is a game where a person wearing regular clothes can be shot many times with a laser weapon before falling unconcious. Don't worry too much about realism.
Now to appeal to gameplay... Without lunges there would need to be a counter to the ranged ability to run and gun. Kiting is neither realistic nor fair. In real life there's no way a guy can run away from something at full speed and shoot over his shoulder and expect to hit anything. And in the game if all a ranged person needed to do was stay at least 5m away from the enemy, there's no way melee could even compete. Lunge attacks exist so that ranged people don't get nerfed. If it bugs you that melee can do that, remember that it's in the best interest of a ranged person too.
Another reason why range can't be limited to under 5m at all times is lag. What seems like 5m on my screen may be 7m on your screen, and who knows what the server thinks the distance is. As TKAs, we already have issues with many of our attacks being 3m, it would suck if all of them were.
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