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Thread: The Han Solo/DL44 mystery

RandAiden
Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:45 pm
#1

Why is the iconic DL44 such a hunk of junk in this game? I mean a well travelled smuggler like Han Solo picks it to be his personal sidearm - so is he the galaxy's biggest idiot (followed closely by Luke Skywalker who also uses one in "Empire Stikes Back")?


To get any desent damage out of one you have to use that sissy "chrome plated" version...something no real adventurer would go near.


Help me solve the mystery here. I just don't get it.
bmf5000
Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:26 pm
#2

Actually to get decent stats you have to use that sissy XT version that sells really well on my vendors.


DL44-XT is probably the third best pistol there is, or damn near.





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RandAiden
Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:58 am
#3

So why doesn't Han (or Luke) have a chrome plated, pearl handled DL44 in the movies? Do they want to take it easy on theStormies and Bounty Hunters? "Hey Chewy, I could have amuch better pistol but I decided to go easy on all those people trying to kill me because I'm sogreat! Heh - I even talked the kid into picking one up, what a goof!"


I quess the real mystery is why SOE feels it has to have a different "Star Wars" experience than that portrayed in the movies.

Mythrindir
Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:20 am
#4






RandAiden wrote:

Why is the iconic DL44 such a hunk of junk in this game? I mean a well travelled smuggler like Han Solo picks it to be his personal sidearm - so is he the galaxy's biggest idiot (followed closely by Luke Skywalker who also uses one in "Empire Stikes Back")?


To get any desent damage out of one you have to use that sissy "chrome plated" version...something no real adventurer would go near.


Help me solve the mystery here. I just don't get it.





because devs have ruined the star wars experience in yet another way. Han Solo took the DL44 because it was the only pistol that had the power to pierce the storm trooper armour...however its clip only included 25 shots, while most pistols were weaker and had 100 shots. clip=battery or whatever you want to call it.



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zaren_vendu
Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:24 am
#5

Here is what I think:


Han is a smugler, a dirty no good scoundrel. To get the drop one people he probably took a dl44 and tricked it out, just like you can customize ships in the game. My money is on the fact that Han wants to use suprise to his advantage, it might look like a cheesy dl44 but who knows what he did to it.


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bmf5000
Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:04 am
#6






zaren_vendu wrote:

...took a dl44 and tricked it out, just like you can customize ships in the game.






If we are going to be all retorical, then yes, the answer is Han Solo is one of the best smugglers in the galaxy (perhaps even to a force sensitive skill level in his trade) and he can take a pistol that is as crappy as the standard DL44 and customize it so it is better than the XT version, perhaps the older grade version of the weapon allows more customization. Han took the Millenium Falcon and made it one of the fastest ships in the galaxy, ever try and fly one of those in game? So why not a crappy DL44?


And no, we cant make a standard DL44 as good as an XT. Why? Because we arent Han Solo, thats freakin why.



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RandAiden
Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:04 am
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zaren_vendu wrote:

Here is what I think:


Han is a smugler, a dirty no good scoundrel. To get the drop one people he probably took a dl44 and tricked it out, just like you can customize ships in the game. My money is on the fact that Han wants to use suprise to his advantage, it might look like a cheesy dl44 but who knows what he did to it.


zaren






All righty then....


How is it that the very people how should be able to "trick out"weapons like this - i.e. Weaponsmiths (and to a limited extent Smugglers) - can't?


Yet another "D'oh!" by SOE.


zaren_vendu
Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:24 am
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RandAiden wrote:





zaren_vendu wrote:

Here is what I think:


Han is a smugler, a dirty no good scoundrel. To get the drop one people he probably took a dl44 and tricked it out, just like you can customize ships in the game. My money is on the fact that Han wants to use suprise to his advantage, it might look like a cheesy dl44 but who knows what he did to it.


zaren






All righty then....


How is it that the very people how should be able to "trick out"weapons like this - i.e. Weaponsmiths (and to a limited extent Smugglers) - can't?


Yet another "D'oh!" by SOE.







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baxnzar
Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:40 pm
#9


Mythrindir wrote:


RandAiden wrote:
Why is the iconic DL44 such a hunk of junk in this game? I mean a well travelled smuggler like Han Solo picks it to be his personal sidearm - so is he the galaxy's biggest idiot (followed closely by Luke Skywalker who also uses one in "Empire Stikes Back")?
To get any desent damage out of one you have to use that sissy "chrome plated" version...something no real adventurer would go near.
Help me solve the mystery here. I just don't get it.



because devs have ruined the star wars experience in yet another way. Han Solo took the DL44 because it was the only pistol that had the power to pierce the storm trooper armour...however its clip only included 25 shots, while most pistols were weaker and had 100 shots. clip=battery or whatever you want to call it.




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Message Edited by baxnzar on 06-24-2005 01:41 PM

Faqual
Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:12 pm
#10

its actually kinda simple. it was a movie. like most movies with people shooting they use any gun. i mean would you rather be shot with a 357 then a 45? odds are both kill ya heh.


DL44 is a good gun for the combat level. i mean han solo wasnt exactly Rambo in these films heh.






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Cygnusaa
Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:56 pm
#11

i looted a dl44 (black in color) called "the black falcon"....the stats suck but the description says it was created to resemble "a famous smugglers pistol" or some crap like that.


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Milkent
Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:13 am
#12

Someone actually sells DL44 XTs? I've only sold a handful...I've sold mre Death Hammer pistols then DL44 XTs.



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meishac
Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:20 pm
#13

It's called that was a movie and this is a game. You cant take stuff straight from the movies and translate them directly into a game. In the movie people die from a single blaster bolt from any gun( unless of course they are the hero and then they just get wounded). All the guns in the movie and starwars universe generally kill with one hit. Leia one shotted a storntrooper with a cdef pistol. They placed the dl-44 lower on the damage sprectrum so that new players would have a chance to feel immersed in starw wars by nat having to wait till they finished their template to use an iconic weapon.


and fyi, in the Return of the Jedi posters Han Solo is shown weilding a chrome dl-44



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