A New Player in the Force (SW/Lite Gamer)

[Ranan]

Just got to the facing the council chapter, and I wanted to ask. How does Cam lose fights? Like with his skills as high level as they are it makes no sense, the majority of other people in the galaxy have no way of reaching his level of skill in even one area let alone as many areas as cam, yet, he still manages to turn what should be total domination into hard fought victories where he barely scrapes by. Disregarding the totally valid comments Ive seen about how useless the interface is, Im more concerned about how unreliable his skill levels are, if he is so skilled in lightsaber combat he should be easily securing victory even in extremely unfavorable conditions, moreover his forcepowers should make that dominance even more thorough. Do his skill levels mean nothing at all??

 

[D3mented]

Just read through this whole thing over the last few days. There is a lot I enjoyed about it, especially Cam and his character development over the course of the story. I love his gradual decent into the dark side and I cannot wait to see him actually step into the field as a third player in the war.

I did not read the comment section while rolling through the chapters, but I can imagine there was a lot of discourse over the rather strange implementation of the gamer system in this story.

It definitely feels like there is a love hate relationship with the things presence in the story. He's got all these levels and skills, but the plot and narrative seem hell bent on undermining it all at every turn. To the point where having the system was a nearly lethal handicap by the time he went to Naboo.

This aggressiveness against the system seems to have calmed down with this "natural evolution" update, but I'm not entirely sure what is even left of the original system at this point? He's got an extra dimensional space and some nebulous stats... kinda? I'm hoping that the fic stops fighting to nerf the system so much and let Cam breathe more.