LivingHellfire

According to Statesman in the original post of this thread it's Ranged Damage.

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Won't someone please think of the poor squishy Stalkers?!

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*prays for the Stalkers*

Hey, remember the sniper in "Saving Private Ryan"? The guy who recites scripture before he presses the trigger ...

If I did that while playing my blaster, does it count as "Sympathy for Stalkers"?

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No.

The difference is that Barry Pepper as that sniper could one shot the bad guys. Blasters can't.

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We already know what's up, it's really just a case of Dev procedure:

1. Ignore complaints about weak Blaster sets
2. Continuing ignoring
3. After enough PMs, make a post claiming to have plans to fix some of the problems.
4. Return to Step 1.

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Don't forget to weaken strong Blaster powersets while obliquely and/or unintentionally nerfing the AT as a whole.

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Specifically /NRG.

Won't someone please think of the poor squishy Stalkers?!

It was about this time last year that they said they were going to be looking into them.

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You are just upset that Statesman gets it and you don't, nyo.

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No... not really.

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Longbow are tough, but be glad mayhem missions don't have kitties in them, nyo.

We will not be stoped, nyo.

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K, what's the deal with this? You're like a Kevin Smith film reject.

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e.e

FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME!

It is just something catgirls say a lot, nyo.

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Really? You'd said it 999,999 times before just now? Was I really the millionth time? Do I win a prize?

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no?


Oh...

Alright, well, you still sound like you should be standing outside the Kwikstop talkin' about "THE MOTHER[censored] TIME, YO!"

*wanders off singing about blunts and weed and tea-bagging*

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Longbow are tough, but be glad mayhem missions don't have kitties in them, nyo.

We will not be stoped, nyo.

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K, what's the deal with this? You're like a Kevin Smith film reject.

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I PM'd Castle about a week or two ago.

He's pretty busy with Blasters.

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Howabout some other devs? Hope he's sharing the burden if he can at all.

Anyways, I hope he has some news soon. I'm pretty sure the devs are aware that there are imbalances with Blaster primaries and secondaries, I just hope they care enough to fix 'em in a timely fashion, and open-minded enough to think that they should at all!

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I PM'ed Geko maybe... 3 or 4 months ago asking him if he could post where they were at on looking at Blaster Secondaries (high/low priority, if anything was being done yet etc.) No reply... is it true he turned off PMs?

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Bwuh? When did the lizard start taking PM's? He hasnt taken them in years.

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Can't be bothered with the unwashed masses?

Bah, let us eat cake!

BYE!

We'll miss you!

"Shelved"
-Statesman

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You are never going to find any employee that actually gives a sh*t about you complaining, Living.

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Then just say that. It's all I'm saying. _Castle_ basically said it in this thread about one shotting Stalkers and the like with "None, as none was warranted" or something to that effect. Basically, "It's fine, we're not changing it, bugger off."

No equivocation. No excuses. No problem.

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But at what point does anger over poor service turn into harassment? I think EG changing her name to EvilGeko and continuing a vendetta on for 4+ issues does. I think you continue to post about how Castle is the "only good one" is.

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I find it difficult to believe that all they need to do is close their browser. I'm not seeking them out to torment them, showing up at their houses and calling them late at night. Lord knows I'm not impeding their work.

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Great for you, you have an opinion. I have one, too. But I don't reply to the devs like a 4 year old with mine.


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That's because your opinion is their opinion. Therefore, you reply to my opinions like a 4 year old.

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Yet you care enough about them personally to hate Statesman and label Castle the "good one."

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I never said I "hate" Statesman! What are you on? I don't liek the way he does his job, but I don't even know the man. What the hell is the matter with you?

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But, who cares. You've long since worn out your welcome on these boards. I welcome the nerf that finally pushes you over the edge to quitting.

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If you would take your head out of your butt for 10 seconds you'd realize it's not necessarly the nerfs themselves that bother me, but you're too busy rushing to the defense of those who need none to recognize that.

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Would you change your name to EvilStupidPickleCook


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Estimated time until EvilStupidPickleCook shows up on at least one server: 1 minute, 13.28 seconds.

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That was particularily funny, I must admit.

Yah... I know, that's what I'm saying.

This is a funny industry though. It's an industry where the client often comes second in considering the direction of the product. I'm nt saying that is or isn't the proper way to go, my major complaint is with the bull[censored].

That's a pathetic over simplification.

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But that doesn't mean we have free reign to be a raging douchehat, Living.


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How about having an opinion that is contrary to the the behaviour of this developement team? Are we allowed that? Clearly you don't feel so.

What about if I went in every day (assuming I wasn't pickling my kidneys) and every time I ordered someting I asked for no pickels and every time they put pickles on? At what point will you allow me to become fed up? That doesn't mean I don't like the burger, I'm just tired of having the cook pretend to give a sh*t when he clearly doesn't. Either give a sh*t like you say you do, or tell me you don't and I'll just take the pickles off myself.

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No other industry allows unsatisfied customers to attack and harass someone working for them.

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Neither does this one. They have control of the boards. I'm not calling them, or emailing them, I don't even PM them. Nobody's harassing anyone. Chill out.

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The conspiracy theories and personal vendettas against developers of this game are childish. Please grow up.

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Right... so, I'm assuming you think I'm wrong about the upcoming end drain "fix"? Is it still a "conspiracy theory" if you're right? It's certainly not a vendetta... I'd have to care about them personally speaking for that to occur.

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It's people like you who chased Geko, Mr. Loose Lips on the Numbers, off these boards.

Keep that in mind next time you bemoan the numbers being unpublished.

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The other thing I wanted to say about that, is that I don't buy when developers claim that us mean posters hurt their feeling and make them not want to talk with us. The developers have the control. Their input has much more force than any poster. I'm sorry but suck it up. This is the only service industry where client service is thought to be optional.

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Are you sure? Im' pretty sure the caveat is that you have to be at 100% of HP's for it to work.

I could be wrong, I guess.

Jack's the boss. The buck stops there.

I'd be wiling to make a bet that when this "fix" comes in that it won't actually fix the end drain ability of the powers back up to where it was.

Any takers?

EDIT-Hmmm... maybe I should amend this... there, that's better.

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Hmm.. what about DoT attacks? Like Say.. a Dark/Dark Stalker eats about 20+ Enrages and goes wild with Shadow Maul from Hidden Status on a defenseless controller. Could it one shot in that single attack, since that attack takes longer than a second to do full damage?

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I know... the good news is that there are very few attacks that one shot and do DoT.

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Another one for you, Castle:

If player A has 1000 hit points of damage normally, but has been plinked by a minor attack and is now at 999 hit points, and takes a 1001-damage attack, is he alive at 10 HP or dead?

What if he's at 995 points? 990? Where's the one-shot-protection cutoff?

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100% to 0% Period. If you have 99.999999% hitpoints you can still die by one attack.

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heh... right...

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And on that note...
Result!

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... where?

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First of all, first dev reply to me specifically. I dont' know why, but I had a sudden surge of "Fanboy".

I'm horribly ashamed.

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You should be. Do the right thing and learn to calm down a bit. There's nothing like seeing squeeky grease getting the wheel.

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heh... right...

First of all, first dev reply to me specifically. I dont' know why, but I had a sudden surge of "Fanboy".

I'm horribly ashamed.


Anyway, on with the show.

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It's not that we didn't listen, in regards to the End drain changes -- it's that I've not had time to implement fixes yet.

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Remember, you're the good guy. As far as us cynics are concerned you're the only member of this team with any real credibility. You I have faith in, Jack, not so much.

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I'm going to be making a first pass on it in the next day or two. My 'fix' is a huge amount of data changes, though, so please bear with me.

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Right... I don't mind waiting. It's not the time involved that concerns me. I'd rather have it right then quick.

Soooo.... does this mean that you'll be fixing the end drain so that it's back up to where it was? I'm still betting that the direction that you've recieved from "The Adults" is to "fix" it so that it's still basically a nerf.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but I do appreciate your reply.

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No, that's not what I'm insisting at all. Let's establish a difference here. Something worth re-evaluating? Yes. Something worth pulling out of the pipeline? No.


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Why? Are you saying that pissing off your client base is less significant than removing a portion of a small patch that is currently being tested on test? I'm glad you're not running the show.

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The issue isn't black and white.

They can care what we think. That means they ask for our opinions, and give us info, and then a place to respond to said info (like this thread for instance). They can even prioritize their development schedules based on what we say.

But, that doesn't mean they're bound to act upon our opinions. In the end, they are the one's who make the decisions, they are privy to information we aren't, and they're the one's whose work is on the line. That means that they're still free from reprisal, no matter how unpopular a decision, as long as they're meeting their contractual obligation. Their only contractual obligation is server access.


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I'm not saying any of this. I find it interesting that the immediate response from people who share your poitn of view is to assume that what we're saying is that the dev team should do as their told. Of course it sounds ludicrous when you put that level of spin on it.

Unfortunately, it doesn't change the fact that this dev team misleads it's client base on a regular basis, and I'm saying that this is yet another case of that. They increased mob end to reduce the end drain effectiveness, they will now "look into" fixing the end reducer power and will implement something that goes somewhere around half way. Hence... nerf.

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I leave that to the EULA you agree to every time you log into the servers.

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Please do.

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Or rather that it wasn't worth pulling it out of the pipeline. If it wasn't worthy of consideration of re-design, we probably wouldn't have seen point 1 (or was it 2?) to begin with.

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Clearly it was, hence the retraction and apology that you're so insistent we use as proof his Jack's good faith, regardless of the fact that this dev team is rapidly becoming famous for their bait and switch routines.

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The difference is very simple. Do you have access to the servers? Then these are acceptable oversights, because everything that you are paying for is being provided. And it's nice that you're able to dismiss all of my knowledge and background without even knowing what it is. I guess you are psychic!

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Little miscalculation there, Matey. If what you're saying is true then why does the dev team say they care so much about what we think and say? The two things are incongruous. So, either they don't care, in which case they should tell us that and do as they please, or they do care, in which case they're the sloppiest dev team I've ever met. Tell ya what, you can pick.

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I don't think I said you had to support them. But that doesn't give you the right to demand things not owed to you as though they were.

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If we're not allowed to say what is owed to us then you're not allowed to say what isn't.

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However, I think you'll agree that a certain issue can only go on for so long before the people involved become irritated, can't you?


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I'll dissagree with this, even though I have to say that in the forums, here, it's true enough for context because there is ALWAYS someone who will flame, insult, degrade, or just BMW consistantly.

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The two issues are mutually exclusive and exist independantly of each other.

That's not to say that you can't disagree, doing so is your option, of course.