Last day

I have been hunting and accumulating my Force experience. Something in the back of my mind keep telling me, this will be my last day of hunting without the fear of Bounty Hunters... Very strange, why would Bounty Hunters after me, I'm no Jedi....yet. Is the Force trying to tell me something? Will I become a full fledged Jedi Padawan?


Anyway, since this will be my last day of live without being hunted, I'll have some with my Commando weapons.



Yes, I've had a lot fo fun.



Stopped by home, check out the maintenence and make sure everything is in good order. Here's the CU Commemorative Plaque, in it's place as I envisioned - door stop for the basement.



My beloved toy C3PO and X-Wing.



Put away all my weapons, I won't be needing them any more.

Lost one more Jedi

As I cruising down the river bank of Dantooin on my way home, I noticed some fight. As I got closer, it was fight between a group of Bounty Hunters and a Jedi Padawan. I quickly dismounted my swoop trying to help the Jedi, but I was a lil too late. As I drew out my gun, one the Bounty Hunter delivered his final blow, and killed the Padawan ... Another Jedi down...

Bad dream?

The Holonet is been pactched with publish 17, and I woke up in the crowded Mining Outpost without any clothing, armor and weapon... even my hair has been shaved and my horns sawn off ... Please, let me wake up, let this be just a nightmare ...

Rare beauty

Dathomir, always dark and gloomy. But, in some rare moments, when the dark cloud parted revealing the distant moons - it's a stunning beauty that will mesmerize you.

Dark Jedi vs Jedi

... in the Mining Outpost on Dantooin.

Combat action

I haven't been idling for the past few days/weeks. As a matter of fact, I've been doing hunting on a daily basis, and trying out varies professions. So, here're some action shots.


This one with me blasting away at a Bol using the Tenloss DXR-6 Disruptor Rifle. Rifles definitely do more damage.



Laser Carbine. Carbines in general not as high damage as rifle, but fast firing with decent range.



The Heavy Particle beam Cannon, usually favored by the novice Commando. It's has moderate damage and speed. It looks cool or what?



Next up in commando bean weapon is the Lightning Beam Cannon, higher damage output that hits multiple targets in it's firing path. Because of this characteristic, not very favorable in a messy fight.



Some Jedi power that I have no idea of...



Talking about the corruption of Empire. Some guy in my hunting group owns an AT-ST. Rumor has it, he's the nephew of some Moff in the Out Rim. I'll make sure he won't see his AT-ST again, there will be some ... accident ...



Finally, my Flame Thrower in action. BTW, whenever the squadleader issues orders, it always cracks me up...



Ok, don't panic, the Jedi isn't hiting me with Force Lighting, it's Force Healing actually. I was all battered after the fight.

Question # 3

I don't understand, my landspeeder has 2 seats, but why can't I carry a passenger?

Some good 'ol fun memory

Digging through my old memorabilis, I found an old log of some of the jobs I took a long time ago when I was still working as a delivery boy on Tatooine.


This is about the genealogy of the Skywalker family.



This a "hate letter" - as opposed to the "love letter". I did what the lady asked: sneer as I delivered it. But, the big Trandoshan guy didn't like it, bared his teeth and reaching for his blaster, I had to get away fast.

Question # 2

How the hell could medics heal damage and wound without any physical medicine? Instead they uses "mana"? Resurrection? Such unnatural abilities, sounds like Darkside powers, Darth Plagus anyone?

Question # 1

Why would the same animal have different difficulty levels? Sometimes level 10, yet other times 80?! - The Darkside clouds everything ...

Revenge of the Sith

Got up early this morning and went to watch the holodrama: Revenge of the Sith, a documentry based on the true life story of the Sith Lord Darth Vader, and how the Senetor Palpatine become Emperor Palpatine. It came as such a shock, Darth Vader, the Sith Lord, the merciless apprentice of the Darth Sidious used to be a such a good boy - Anakin Skywalker, a hero and a Jedi Knight that belived in the Republic and democracy. But, he succumbed to the Darkside because of his love for Padme, fear of losing her ... Padme said there's still good in Vader before she died, I hope she's right ...

Nada

The once busy Coronet spaceport, the central hub of the hyperspace lane for the surrounding systems, is still devoid of travellers ... It gives me a creepy feeling walking throught the building without anybody in sight. I don't know how long they can keep the business running?

So confused...

I've been trying to figure out what combination of professions will give me best defences(melee and ranged). After trying out a few and have had some ideas what I want, I suddenly discovered that the defence rating also have to do with the weapon equipped as well! WTF. I had melee defence of 203 with Heavy Particle Beam Cannon equipped, but when I unequipped, my defence suddenly became 258. Gee, great, what a cock up ...

Surprise!

Typical of the Empire, for screwing up the CU, trying to smooth out citizen's anger, they're giving everyone a plaque. It's actually made out of nice exotic imported wood, with a nice shinny finish. It feels heavy and solid in hand, and going to be very durable. It makes a perfect doot stop in my basement. A good door stop will cost me about 50 credits on the bazaar, what a saving!


Well, the surprise didn't stop there. When I arrived on Dantooin, I found out the Imperial has started a lockdown, all the public facilities are forced to shutdown. These poor entertainers are force to dance and play music outside the cantina. The weather is good now, but, you know the weather on Dantooin, it changes quickly, I just hope it won't rain. In addition, the job terminals are not working, the bazaar is also down - I can't get my new Advanced Laser Rifle I just bought when I was in Coronet. So, much for that, I was hoping to do some hunting ...

Empire never seases to disappoint me. Good to know at lease something remains the same.

Long live the Rebellion!

I was passing through Bestine to pick up some stuff I bought on Bazaar, I thought I'd annoying the Imperial by shouting "Long live the Rebellion" right in the town cener, look what happened ...


And he took some bonus for himslef ...


Naturally, I'm very upset, so I slapped him across the face and spitted on his face... and got another two fines ...


And naturally, he took more bonus for himself ...


What was he thinking?! Does he think he's really superior me?! I don't think so! I bonked on his head, and it resulted a hollow sound ... just what I thought ... Of course, that really pissed him off ... You're a dead man, Cirfo.

Aurilia Village - Post CU

I was in the village, hoping to kill some of these Sith Pirates and Sith Thugs to earn some more experience. The Sith Thugs used to be extremely tough to kill, it takes a group of 4-5 people around 5 minutes to kill one, due to that they have very high HAM(50K) and very high resistence. I thought it will be very good experience for we to fight those.

But I was wrong. They are now rated 77-78, and I'm 80, so I wasn't credited with alot of experiences. The Sith Pirates and Sith Shadows are even worse, 2xp, it's really laughable, but, it's hard for me to laugh... However, it's good for the people just recently discovered their force sensitivity. So lucky...

Pride is of the Dark Side

I must be cursed or something ... I was called to duty again by the Village to help some Jedi Knight to capture a Sith Commander. The Jedi Knight thinks she's so almighty and powerful. She thinks since she can solo hunt a Krayt Dragon, so she can take care of this quickly, all she needed was some directions and pointers. In the end she admitted that it's a lot harder than she thought. Because of her recklessness and pride, I'm the one ended up got killed so many times. After we captured the commander, her pride took over again. She ingored my advice of avoiding any spiders... in the end, guess what? The commander got poisoned and died on the way back to village. All my death became meaningless... Watch out Jedi lady, don't get seduced by the Dark Side ... I was wounded badly after so many death, although I was cloned, but they were unable to save my legs - so they fitted me with some cheap cybernetic legs... Wait, they look familiar, it looks just like the ones on the battle droids from the Clone War era ...



I'm not a fun of implants, so I want them removed. The medical centers are all empty, but I was lucky to find a cybernetic specialist on the first floor of the medical center in Coronet. I want them removed, and create new ones from my old clone sample. He did a pretty good job, except my new legs seem to be a little hairier than before. Hmmm, if I keep getting new legs, will they become hairier and hairier? Boy, I don't really want to become like Chewie... Anyway, I'm just glad I got my own legs back.

I, Master(?) Rifleman

The TKM is so useless now, so, I tried out Pikeman, Carbineer and Rifleman, and finally settled becoming a Master Rifleman(but, I'm still a nerf herder...), Chiv will be happy to know that I took up his profession. But, I'm not completely gave up on the art of Teräs Käsi, I still retain the meditation skills, it's really handy that for healling wounds, now that you can't find a Dcotor any more in a medical center.



Look how empty it is now in the Medical Center in Coronet - it used to teeming with doctors, nurses and patients.

Jedi sighting

Not exactly Jedi sighting, but hunting with Jedi. Look those light sabers ... I want one. Although the Empire is hunting them down, but we rebels protect them.

My new toys

Due to the recent rebel victories, these miniature model of X-Wing is very popular amongst the people synpathetic towards the Rebellion, not to mention help raise the fund need for the Rebellion, like weapons, base, repair etc.



Of course, how can we forget about the golden rod - Princess Leia's protocol droid C3PO.

Doing my best

Imperial lies, lies and lies. I've done my best at adopting the new rules and regulations, but I can not find myself agree with what's been said by them.

The combat is slow at best. Instead of use the your same best move over and over again, now I need to use 2 different moves, keep alternate between an uber and a less uber move. Combat is NOT fast paced and engaging. The people who used to feel heroic can no longer adventure solo, not that big of a deal ... Different professionals are supposed to be more distinctive, not so, regardless of member profession, a group can still take a job and kill animals quickly. Combat role, what combat role?! Now, we just gang on the animal one at a time, who needs the role?! Pfff... Pick your profession, whatever it is, as long as you can shoot or hit, you're all set. The way it's going, Bol will soon become extinction. May the Force bring us the balance.

I, Nerf Herder

After a few days of hard work, I finally became a Master Commando. And am finally able to equip and use my beloved Plasma Flame Thrower (was Flame Thrower) ...



However, I no longer found any joy using the flame thrower ... or wear my title proudly ... My BFG used to have massive of ~1k damage on the stats - and does ~10K damage in reality, now reduced to a pea shooter that does ~300 damage in reality. And I paid cold hard credits for 3 of these, what a waste! So much for the title of Master Commando ... slap my ass and call me Nerf Herder instead ...

I felt a great disturbance in the Force

As if millions of voices suddently cried out in terror and suddently silenced.

Weapons

This is a side by side comparison of the exact same Flame Thrower of pre and post CU. The stats on the left is pre CU, and post CU is on the right.
The speed has been improved, damage stayed about the same, "looks" like a better Flame Thrower. However, am I'm not sure about it, since my Vibro Knuckler has definitely been nerfed, and I have a dozen of them in my basement ... I've heard some master weaponsmith and tailed lost millions of credits due to the specification change...



Just by my luck, I found some new weapon on the blackmarket. This Massassi Knuckler is based on some design belongs to the long lost Massassi civilization on Yavin 4. It's comparable to the old Vibro Knuckler.



The Blaster Fist looks realy good! But than again, I haven't got a chance to try it out. And how it fares in a real combat situation is yet to be know.

Try I must...

Giving it another try...it's only a level 69 Graul Mauler, one level below me .. But who would thought that not only it incapacitated me, but it also killed me from distance that's too far away even for my Launcher Pistol. It must've used force or something... But the thing most infuriated me is that I barely scratched it... what the hell!?



The lack of hunter and adventurer on Dantooin has caused a wild life population explosion.



Wild animals multipled at an astonishing rate without the balance of hunting, at this rate, the animals will soon run out of food to eat, and starving to death. The carnivorous animal will turn on people more and more. Not only the wild animals are out of control, but also the natives like Janta and Mokk are now grow into small armies ...



The only population reduction is the number of hunters. The cantina owner is more than pessimistic about the business, and I can see why. There're more entertainers than customers. This is not even in the VIP room!

Second impression of CU

Back to Dantooin, got a job to hunt down some Quenkers. They're no match for me NOT! They used to be a push over for me ... somehow, they're dealy now ... I must've gotten really fat and slow, and an old fart now ... boy, how I reget visiting the cantina and drinking brandy too often and too much ... My level is 70 according to the combat analysis system, and the Quenker is 78! Yeah! I SUCK!


Well, how about try the Krayt Dragons?



I really don't get this!!! My brain must be soft and mushy... The combat analysis shows the Juvenile Canyon Krayt Dragon as level 60, and a Canyon Krayt Dragon as level 64! Hmmm, so I tried a few. Yeah! I ROCK!



Look what I got? A very nice pearl!


And some stupid dragon scales, tissues and this pile of strange Advanced Assault Core .. whatever it is ...



Must be my lucky day! One of the dragon destroyed my swoop ... try to prevent me from run away? They're getting smarter ... ?



This one got away, while I was taking a nap ... well, it killed me actually. But hell, I can solo a Canyon Krayt Dragon... but can't handle a Quenker?! WTF!!! And a Quenker is considered 8 levels higher than a Gaint Canyon Krayt Dragon!? This is a new f***ing brave galaxy alright ... And some bullshit legend that the dragon is the most fearsome animal in the galaxy, pffff, they got it so wrong ... I bet the Nuna is the most fearsome animal! Yeah, I'M SO CONFUSED! :-/

The summary:
1) The Acid Rifle is quite useless, it constantly splash back to blind me, what the heck?! And it doesn't really do much damage. So I used my TKM skills, my good 'ol VK sure killes faster than the Acid Rifle. Rephrase that, I couldn't kill a Dune Lizard with Acid Rifle, it nearly killed me, so I had to switch to VK.
2) However, I noticed even with the VK, I still don't do much damage. So I took off the VK to fight with my bare hand. BE HOLD! My bare hands can do more damage than the Vibro Knuckler! I never realized I'm capable of that! Very interesting indeed.
3) Anyways, the combat is actually slower now.
4) The control system is so colourful however also so meaningless. I had no idea what each icon represents, no idea the queue I had planned. It's disgusting ...
5) Not to mention the effects, what the hell with mount/dismount the swoop?!
6) What the hell with the skills like: root, snare, cloak, etc... dungeons and dragons?
7) Last, but not the least, what the hack with the targeting?! Not showing me which one's attacking me, how'd locate my target? And how do I figure out which one should I attack when there're multuple ones? This is ridiculous!

Finally, of the impressions of the Krayt hunters ... Rebel and Imperials alike, they're a bunch of kill stealing assholes!!! I run into a bunch of them, only one has some common decency. I'm SO dispointed of them. The CU brought out the worst in everyone!

Personally, so far, I don't have a very high opinion of the CU.

Need a weapon!

Tring to get myself a new Commando weapon, I had to go from planet to planet, asked(more of a begging actually) every contact I have. The Dantooin is practically empty of people, I had to go to Coreallia. This is Coronet, a ship just landed, nobody getting on and nobody egtting off... so quiet, I can hear a snail crawl on the wall.


Nothing on Coreallia, someone pointed me to Naboo. So, here I am in Theed, it's just feel so weird with nobody around. No passengers rushing around, no venders selling theirs wares, no locals sipping stimcaf in side street. Only good sign I see is that now it's under the controll of Rebellion.



My lead proved to be right, finally gotten my hands on a Heavy Acid Rifle. Here I go, some live target practice is needed ...