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Weren't other KotOR comics published already in Star Wars Tales? Yes, I'm confused.

I still don't see why you needed to get the help of another wizard to create your own spells, even after you became the head of some wizard house (clan? can't remember). Lame-O.

Potence comes in handy when dealing with enemies that soak, as you pointed out. Otherwise, the bonuses from attacking from concealment are enough. The bottom line is, that the damage potential per hit for a Nosferatu is huge, regardless of the enemy. But yes, they are underpowered. More proof that your vaunted Blood Shield is crap. That was a nice straw man. Nice, as in blatant and childish. You see, I added the sentence "being a FPS, it has to have some advantages". In a PnP/pure RPG environment, your skill is irrelevant, you depend on the rolls. But in a FPS, no matter how protected you are, if you can't dodge, you're going to die. Starting from the premise that BL is a FPS regardless of the ruleset, the game balance and the factors that affect it are adjusted accordingly (in this case, disciplines). This should be obvious, but what is it that they say...? "Common sense is the least common of all the senses"? Wait a second, I thought you had made it clear you are 1337! Let me get this straight. So now, a few melee opponents are a threat, but before, the same melee/ranged opponents in an unfavorable environment while having to pay attention to some crazy ass wizard is no trouble at all. Wow, that's what I call razor-sharp logic, buddy! Last time I checked, the heavy combat areas were full of opportunities to refill your blood pool. I didn't really buy any blood packs, seeing as I pissed off the guy who sold them, but I just held on to the ones I came across until I really needed them. The same for the elder vitae. Again, is there a need to go robbing enemies of their blood, when there are more effective ways of disposing of them? Anything is underpowered when compared to Brujah. Which leads to the conclusion that it's the Brujah that are outside game balance, not the rest of the game. Please, I don't know how much more of your "overwhelming logic" I can stand. Dementation is useful if you have it at least at level 3, at which they will not be killed by Vision of Death (made a mistake earlier), but they will take damage. And I think that the damage bonuses from attacking while Obfuscated apply regardless of the enemy being able to see you. Not sure on that one though. Does that mean he's not powerful? No. It just means that that guy was programmed in such a way that you could kill him somehow. He had the raw power to kill you easily, seeing as one of his blasts could seriously hurt, if not kill, you. Again, you're charging forward against points that simply nobody has made. Keep at it, statistics show that you will hit spot someday. What? You're a UBER HAXX0R too? Dude, ur so totally sweet and awesome! OMGOOMG LOLOLOL! Only a zombie can't kill you in a single hit if you turn your back on him. I simply took your reasoning to a point in which it's obvious that the reasoning is wrong. That's called reductio ad absurdum and it's a perfectly legitimate way to debunk fallacies such as this one. Let's see how in a classical Sesame Street-esque way, as it seems you have trouble keeping up. I say, "enemy A is powerful". (This is an undisputable fact, as was clarified above) You say "No, I use my uber l33t techniques to pwn him so and so" Then I infer from your previous statement, that since there is always a set way of dealing with every enemy, then this means that there are no powerful enemies, since you stated that the existance of a weak spot precludes the fact that an enemy is powerful.

I'd say that the best way to make sure that cloaking doesn't completely destroy game balance is to make it less than flawless. The Predator Cloak in AvP2 comes to mind. It didn't hide you from Aliens, and if you stepped into the light, moved too fast, or touched someone, humans would spot you (as in get an approximate notion of your position). And there was a coherent explanation as to why using certain weapons would deactivate your cloak. Not that it mattered much because a single charged plasma shot could take out almost anything, but you get my point. "

I found that one of the most lame things in DX2 (alongside the ten square meter military bases). As soon as you fired a shot, your cloak magically went off. It's probably one of the worst introduced game balance gimmicks in a game, ever. Talk about detracting from immersion. In Deus Ex it was perfectly balanced, because you could not have both Cloak and Radar Transparency simultaneously. But since they allowed that in IW, they had to introduce that cheap mechanism to prevent the game from becoming a cakewalk (even more). In exchange, Nossies get Potence. Potence + Obfuscation + Katana = InstaGIB. In those situations, any Clan (except for the horribly overpowered Brujah) will be in trouble. Apparently, the only Discipline that isn't crap for you is Celerity (and the laughably underpowered Thaumaturgy). The idea is to *not* get hit, so you don't have to rely on Blood Shield and Fortitude. Being a FPS, it has to have some advantages. As for blood, that's what blood packs, elder vitae and mortals are for. The Malks, underpowered? That's pretty rich. Bedlam lets you kill any enemy instantly, barring bosses, and it will deal huge damage to those. Yes, instant kills protected by invisibility is the exact definition of underpowered. Have you really played a Malk? Sure, Protean sucks, in the game at least. But in the game, so does Thaumaturgy. Right. I forgot you're uber 1337. My bad. But following your reasoning, there isn't a single powerful enemy in BL.

Why, the answer is obvious. Nostalgia fever!

Yeah, Vicissitude is the Tzimisce's trademark discipline. That's how he created the monsties and practiced er... plastic surgery... on himself. Yeah, that was a tough one. But DX had a lot of those. It wasn't always a matter of crawling through vents to avoid detection. I think it would be difficult to implement in any other game that didn't feature some kind of invisibility, and even in DX, your ability to remain undetected relied greatly in the severe sensory impairment of the enemy.

Demo?

No, Now THAT was cool. :cool:

Um? Nosferatu are awesome. Obfuscation lets you sneak OR kill your way past anything with little effort. And five points into firearms/pe or melee/st will make ANY clan somewhat dangerous. But the Tremere are underpowered in BL. Which is sad, because the Tremere Antitribu you meet is really powerful and shows what could be done with Thaumaturgy. <_<

You know... for some odd reason, I think that a game called "Knights of the Old Republic should take place in the Old Republic, not in some obscure comic geekfest whose actual relation to Star Wars is purely coincidental. )

But it's the truth. Changing the parameters doesn't change the effect.

Damn shame the netcode was absolute SH!T.

No. Tribunal doesn't add a continent. It adds just one city, and one in which "Flying" is misteriously disabled so you can't get past the city walls. And while there are potentially thousands of spells, there is only a handful of possible effects. The power of combinations.

I'd play IF: I had the money to actually get the game now. I had a Fastpath connection that allowed the game to run smoothly enough. Unfortunately, it's going to be at least two months before I meet those requirements...

Sounds like my kind of place. "

Actually, I have a rather nice joystick. Those games you mention, if not require it, are next to impossible to play without one. But I got used to flying with the keyboard after I realized that choppers in Desert Combat and the mouse were... incompatible. And I'm too lazy to plug the joystick in, and install all the crap it needs...

Joysticks are for pussies. REAL men fly with a keyboard and a hand tied to their back.

Not quite. It's not pussies running the industry. It's pussies lobbying against games that are slightly not PC. The people who run the industry are just in that to make money, and they don't want their games bombed because they included features that pussies consider unacceptable. On a side note, there is a mod to restore the "sex" minigame in VC. But from what I've seen, it was pretty lame. PS. Darque, quit hijacking every thread into a discussion about RE.

Wow, that pic is OLD.

Yes, I know. I should not remind you of such a painful experience. :"> It's just I can't get it off my head!!!!

Isn't that a DX2 joke?

You can probably get it off the ed2k network.

I guess it sucks to be you.