Danger, danger Soldat
Monday, January 2nd, 2012 12:09 pmI think I might actually have felt kind of bad for Corso when I did that class quest last night.
I might. I might actually have stopped hating Corso quite as much.
What is wrong with me. He is mechanically a nightmare. For those not in the know:
Smuggler, as a class, is very fragile. In writing terms, you haven't got the greatest constitution and while you're no wimp, it doesn't take much in the way of explosions, cuts and burns to knock you out for the count. I'm specifically a gunslinger, which means I hide behind cover and shoot things with two guns during battle, trying to evade taking any hits from my enemies because of that low constitution.
But this guy, this 'companion', his shtick is to pull the bad guys right up close to him.
And he stands right next to me.
Suddenly I am taking poison gas and gunfire to my face, instead of my shoulder. And well, that's just uncool. Suffering through this guy until I found Bowdaar the wookiee was horrible. HORRIBLE. Bowdaar is wonderful by comparison, because he keeps my enemies focused on his enormous hairy self, and I shoot them while he cuts them down with a sword. Perfect teamwork.
Despite all this, I actually am starting to feel kind of bad for Corso. He's really pathetically lonely and isolated; I'm all he's got. (Even if, apparently, staying on my ship drives him to drink. What does THAT even mean.)
Tangentially related to this, I am finally at Alderaan, which is kind of neat in a weird way. Last night I spent on Tattooine, which means I got to see the Sarlaac pit, and at one point Danny and I waited around with a bunch of other guys chatting in Say (Sith and Jedi alike! COEXISTING. It was fucking rad. One of the Sith was named Woe and absolutely hilarious) for a Jawa Balloon. Then we rode the balloon for EVER, and jumped off of it onto a mysterious wreck with mysterious secret treasure on it. Tattooine was fun to go to even though I never hit up Mos Eisley (if it's even there?) because it's actually from the movies, you know? So while there was some "oh god what if I fall in the Sarlaac pit? Will I be digested for a thousand years?!", there was also "Gosh, this is neat!"
Alderaan, by contrast, is exciting because I have absolutely no idea what to expect, given, well, the events of the movies.
Thus far: quite impressed! Also, sleepy.
I might. I might actually have stopped hating Corso quite as much.
What is wrong with me. He is mechanically a nightmare. For those not in the know:
Smuggler, as a class, is very fragile. In writing terms, you haven't got the greatest constitution and while you're no wimp, it doesn't take much in the way of explosions, cuts and burns to knock you out for the count. I'm specifically a gunslinger, which means I hide behind cover and shoot things with two guns during battle, trying to evade taking any hits from my enemies because of that low constitution.
But this guy, this 'companion', his shtick is to pull the bad guys right up close to him.
And he stands right next to me.
Suddenly I am taking poison gas and gunfire to my face, instead of my shoulder. And well, that's just uncool. Suffering through this guy until I found Bowdaar the wookiee was horrible. HORRIBLE. Bowdaar is wonderful by comparison, because he keeps my enemies focused on his enormous hairy self, and I shoot them while he cuts them down with a sword. Perfect teamwork.
Despite all this, I actually am starting to feel kind of bad for Corso. He's really pathetically lonely and isolated; I'm all he's got. (Even if, apparently, staying on my ship drives him to drink. What does THAT even mean.)
Tangentially related to this, I am finally at Alderaan, which is kind of neat in a weird way. Last night I spent on Tattooine, which means I got to see the Sarlaac pit, and at one point Danny and I waited around with a bunch of other guys chatting in Say (Sith and Jedi alike! COEXISTING. It was fucking rad. One of the Sith was named Woe and absolutely hilarious) for a Jawa Balloon. Then we rode the balloon for EVER, and jumped off of it onto a mysterious wreck with mysterious secret treasure on it. Tattooine was fun to go to even though I never hit up Mos Eisley (if it's even there?) because it's actually from the movies, you know? So while there was some "oh god what if I fall in the Sarlaac pit? Will I be digested for a thousand years?!", there was also "Gosh, this is neat!"
Alderaan, by contrast, is exciting because I have absolutely no idea what to expect, given, well, the events of the movies.
Thus far: quite impressed! Also, sleepy.
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