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JavaGuy - Student  |
Dual sabre and sabre staff should have been implemented completely differently. Here's how it should be: EVERY move, even the most basic attack, with those sabre choices should be a "special" that the player has to learn how to do. Remember when you were a noob learning how to do some of the trickier combos? They were frustrating at first but with practice became second-nature. The basic attacks, however--left upper, left side, left lower, and so on--were just a matter of pushing attack while moving in the appropriate direction. Well EVERYTHING you do with double sabres is special and unusually difficult, just like a single-sabre Special or combo. Moreover, there are far more than twice as many possible attacks. A left-upper attack with the lefthand sabre could be combined with a right-lower attack with the righthand, or a left-lower, and so on. Since there are eight different _basic_ attacks with single sabre, there should therefore be sixty-four basic attacks with dual sabre. Now anyone can do two different attacks with two sabres alone in a practice room, but it's an entirely different thing to coordinate such moves Anakin-style in actual combat. So I think that not only should dual sabre have sixty-four different basic attacks, I also think that each one should be like a Special, requiring the player to learn a funky combination of keystrokes and get the timing of them exactly right in order to do it. And all sixty-four should be completely different from one another. Sound harsh? Need to learn SIXTY-FOUR tricky moves just to do all the basic attacks with dual sabres? Well yeah, but it's DUAL SABRE! It should be mega-powerful (it currently isn't), _and_ it should be mega-difficult to do even the basic moves (it currently isn't). Dual sabre is _supposed_ to be astonishingly difficult. It should separate the men from the boys! As it is now, it really doesn't. If it were implemented as I suggest, any bozo could step out onto the challenge mat with dual sabres, but if he only knew a couple of moves it would become quickly apparent that he is unworthy to carry two sabres. A True Badass with dual sabre would swagger out onto the mat and effortlessly execute an unpredictable variety of attacks. On top of that there should be a whole bunch of specials/combos, and they should be abso-*#@%ing-lutely mind-blowingly difficult to learn and execute consistently. They should also be devastating, one-shot kills like RDFA, but counterable by a sharp player. Sabre staff is similar. It might not have sixty-four different basic attacks like dual sabre, but it does have a lot of basic moves that are radically different from single-sabre style that it would require a bunch of different basic attacks. There should be numerous types of spins and twirls--right, left, front, behind the back, over the head. Plus there are "one-two punch" attacks with first one end of the staff and then the other, like high-left-then-high-right, high-left-then-low-right, and so on. On second thought maybe there should be sixty-four basic attacks with it. And ditto on each and every one requiring a special keystroke sequence and perfect timing for sabre staff. This too should be very powerful but also very difficult, another separating-men-from-boys scenario. If you want to be Darth Maul, you need to earn it! _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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MINDofSIN - Student 
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Okay, I was just power dueling, and won 8 rounds in a row using the single saber. Problem: The powerful moves in dual/staff require force needed for actually using force powers. I now agree. The dual and staff should have more depth and be a bit more powerful. _______________ Jedi Academy Holocron http://jaholocron.ryanmh.com/ Why should our government send our soldiers to foreign soil to protect freedom of speech, when our freedom of speech is being taking away everyday by the same government. |
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SilkMonkey - Distributor of Cold Ones 
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Pfft...I think its terribly unbalanced right now, so.... *throws brick at Raven* PATCH THIS BIZZLE!!! _______________ |-HK-47 -SilkMonkey: You are receiving a warning for being_too_sexy. If you do not stop, action will be taken against you.|| (11:13:43) � Virtue dances for Silk ||Smiling owner of Smilykrazy's 6000th comment =) ||Odan Wei's Proud Big Brother|| Janus is my official TaruTaru Cuddly Animal Type Person. ||(@Virtue) Or you could just be a man and set fire to your genitals.....you won't fall asleep for days after that.......trust me.||Thomas Skywalker er for sexy for sitt eget beste!!!!| Not changing sig until the JA loosens up. (Started: Aug 31, 2005) |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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How so? A newb gets beaten like a rented mule by a more experienced player anyway. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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MINDofSIN - Student 
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Then the newbs would get beat down, and quit playing. _______________ Jedi Academy Holocron http://jaholocron.ryanmh.com/ Why should our government send our soldiers to foreign soil to protect freedom of speech, when our freedom of speech is being taking away everyday by the same government. |
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