Blaster Classes..Again

Yeah, I know they’re in. But there’s still something missing… I think Repeaters should be nerfed a little. They’re not suposed to be accurate, yet I was ganked by two. In just 2 rounds. Sure could be skill, could be hr/dr. But They’re FAR too accurate. I’ve also heard things about holding an item while wielding said two-handed weapons..

That in itself is abuse, IMO. Two hands means two hands, right? I know alot of people are going to defend it, or be pissed if it’s fixed/modified. But I think the grounds should be even between RPers and PVPers.

Lots of things to take into consideration here. There’s a delicate balance right now between combatants w/ repeaters and hunters.

The thing is that there’s not an ounce of logic, EU fact, or even common sense that supports repeaters as being inaccurate. They’re not shotguns; they’re blaster rifles (in the EU sense, not the "OMG SNIPER" LotJ sense) with heavier barrels and a larger power source. This allows them to have fully automatic settings that typical blaster rifles can’t, out of fear of overheating and–you guessed it–exploding.
Outside of simple shoddy construction (e.g. AK’s short sight length, if you want to think of real-world equivalents), there is NOTHING preventing a repeater from being as accurate as the best blaster rifle (again, scopes don’t factor in; repeaters had them just as commonly as rifles in EU). Unlike our real life world, where the faster a gun cycles–up to a point where the weapon actually cycles faster than recoil can be transfered–the more inaccurate it is, repeaters can cycle as fast as they want, because they’re firing ENERGY. Energy has no momentum, and thus no recoil.

The Helpfile states they are supposed to be inaccurate. And that still doesn’t explain how you can hold something while wielding a two-handed weapon.

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Nowhere in there does it list that Repeaters were considered inaccurate. I don’t think there’s anything anywhere that even says that blasters have recoil. That means the most difficult part of using a repeater would be carrying it, which is reflected in the two-handed grip. They could always restrict repeaters to high str chars, but that’d pointlessly ruin cool character concepts like the Jawa combatant. What I’d like to see is some player-based restrictions on weapons like repeaters. They’re supposed to be military-only. Enforce it.

That being said, there’s a lot of room for cool customizations when it comes to blasters. You could have different classes of blasters (Plasma, Particle-beam) with different advantages and disadvantages:

Plasma – Higher overall damage, esp. vs. droids, uses more charge
Particle – Standard damage, low ammo usage

There’s also a world of attachments and accessories we could implement:

Oh man, I’m sorry RJ! I forgot to mention, I pretty much just ignore whatever you write on these boards because you’re always such a SMARMY ASS.

And for the record, there /is/ a Jawa combatant who does pretty well for himself, all on his own. I think he even had a lylek tentacle shop.

Yeah, he’s pretty awesome, and I don’t think he was set.

Anyhow, in the strictest sense, a &quot;Repeater&quot; could be anything that isn’t bolt-action. Lol at bolt-action blaster rifle (well, I suppose if you include BF2, with those awesome rifles the sandpeople had…) No, or very little, recoil. There’s a profusion of &quot;repeater pistols&quot; in various sources, so.. long story short: People need to stop assuming &quot;Squad Automatic Weapon&quot; when they see &quot;Repeater&quot;.

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Just because a weapon is fully automatic does not mean it cannot be accurate.

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An AK47 on full auto can be incredibly accurate. The only drawback is that it burns through ammo incredibly rapidly.

So .. that should really be the only drawback in game.

We’re talking about fighting at closer range, though, not sniping people from 20 rooms away. Seriously.

I think the ‘repeaters are big two handed inaccurate weapons’ comes from the Jedi Knight series

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That is the crappiest picture possible to show, but it is indeed a big bulky weapon and when you use it, it is definitely more of a ‘spray and pray’ weapon. I never imagined LotJ’s repeaters to be like E-WEBs or anything like that.

Exactly. Thank you. There should be a very good balance between them. I hate that everyone and their mother has a repeater, that’s why I try to avoid using one.