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I think what's happened with this game is that Bioware has created an RPG that happens to have more traditional MMO elements included and to the veteran MMO people who're perhaps more interested in power-levelling and end game raids and so on, the story/RP element is just needless fluff. For me, it's the only reason I'm playing the game.
The game has quite a few flaws tbh, but it wouldn't be Star Wars if it didn't
The story, for me as a Star Wars fanboy is fun. It's not Pulitzer Prize stuff by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a fun look into the Star Wars universe and doesn't really have to worry about upsetting anything in the films.
I think the level design, whilst impressive looking in places (I think Corruscant and Nar Shadda for example look fantastic) is a little bit too open and you spend more way time than you need to wandering from A to B and back again via C. I've got my STAP bike working now (currently a lvl 26 Jedi Guardian), so that certainly helps. Whilst there's a lot going on with the environment, you're only really looking at the middle of the screen so a lot of it simply gets lost in the periphery and won't ever really be appreciated. I guess Bioware saw us all taking some time to appreciate the environments whilst we're on that long walk across the map
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Have to disagree, the issues with this game are not minor. And with a game in developement for over two years, with that sort of budget, should have allocated some resources into R&D to identify where other MMO's failed, and why WoW has suceeded.
From the plathora of issues, bugs and nuisances that swtor holds, I'll simply identify the character responsiveness as my biggest gripe.
For those who dont know what this is, this is the time it takes from you to press an action, and your character to respond to that action.
WoW nailed this from day one, and when you go play other MMO's, the slower response times actually is pretty annoying.
SWTOR has a SERIOUS delay time in making an action happen,
Cancelling a cast to action another ability
Performing abilities within PVP ( takes an eternity)
Performing clutch moves in flashpoints and operations
And more.
This has been widely reported on the bioware forums and as has been rightly indicated numerous times, this should be top of their list to resolve or this game wont get passed the summer.
I've said before and I'll say it again. This game had two years developement and a moneyless budget. It was going into a market where there is FULL availability of research on failed competitors that attempted before.
There is one of the BIGGEST gaming IP's as your main competitor.
If you can't identify the basics that make an MMO function correctly, keep people enthralled then it simply won't last.
I'm definitly not in the minority either. While the endless dialogue was a nice touch, I find myself listening to the class dialogue and the world bonus', while pressing spacebar + 1 for all the rest. If there was an option to turn off cinematics for "grab and go" quests, I would. It slows down the gameplay for me and breaks up what I want to be doing, levelling and smashing stuff.
There is definitly flavour of the month syndrome appearing in this thread. " O its a new MMO give it a chance". It will have a chance, and it needs to quickly identify the issues with itself and fix them accordingly.
This was never going to be a WoW beater out of the box. But many would assume that it would have been a perfect alternative and then longterm perhaps eclipse. ( that was the best case scenario).
At the moment I'd say there will be a MASSIVE drop off after the 30 day period. And remember that the US outnumber Europe by nearly 3:1 in terms of active subscriptions. And with the realm maintenance being done on US time ( even though the servers are in Dublin ) these little nuisances all build up in a volatile MMO market.
Fingers crossed it fixes stuff and keeps going. I want to have two MMO's to play, but at this point I can only see myself playing one by the start of summer 2012 : /
Excellent points DoC, and i wouldn't call the character responses minor issues. You have brought forward many issues which would warrant discussion.
Apologies to all for my first initial post in this topic, it was OTT and uncalled for and not me.. Only reason i erupted was because i tired of people complaining about nothing really.. And discouraging people from trying out what could be to them, a fun game.
However in response to your character responses issue, i think it just appears slow etc since they eradicated the need for a cast bar in this game. But you're right it does seem pretty crappy when fighting moving targets. Infact the fighting resembles AoC alot in that the fight animations do need to be more sudden so that the targets arent 10feet away when the animation is done and the blow lands. The problem was in wow too but they done a good job in making it seem less lame. Lag is also a huge factor which i bet this game is having alot of issues with being new
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Lag is also a huge factor which i bet this game is having alot of issues with being new
I've got a top spec machine and running between 9-20 ms to the server.
Any issues with lag are serverside : /
Another gripe I have is the hardware drain in certain areas, ltierally taking AGEs to load up.
Seemingly has been pointed out that its caused by the "grass" of all things, and will hopefully be hotfixed.0 -
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Has anyone noticed that after about an hour online, your guild tab completely fecks up and stops showing people online even though they are....and you are chatting to them?
An odd one that.
Yeah, Ctrl+U and then Ctrl+U again reloads the UI and fixes it. Or at least I think it reloads the UI, works regardless.0 -
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Might be just bad luck, but when I do a serach through bioware forums I see others with the same issues I experience.
Its hard to pinpoint with so many variables, but its just frustrating when the time you invest essentially is wasted on nothing.
Have to say since I stopped doing heroics, flahpoints and pvp and just pure quest grinded, I've enjoyed the experience a little more, being putting together BIS lists etc.
Fix the annoying time wasting bugs and I'd probably be alot happier.
Also tried putting the cast timer thing to 1 second and it was a nightmare, dont know how it works but essentially missed every single interupt, put it back to 0.0 and it was much better then 1.0 for reaction casts
Whatever works.
The default for everyone is 0.5 seconds by the way. 0 -
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The only thing upsetting me is that I got a purple drop in a pretty major boss fight within the commando storyline, lag kicked in and when I got reconnected I had died, when I revived the corpse had disappeared
i dont understand why the game is so laggy, its not peoples internet connection or bad rigs, because people with 2000 dollar gaming rigs and the best fibre optic broadband have also complained about terrible lag and latency..
for a game with wow graphics,i shouldnt have to turn off all shadows and bloom and put settings to low-medium in order to try reduce latency.. my rig is good enough to handle any new release,they really need to sort out their engine coz this alone will lose them subs over the coming months when people try to raid and have these issues0 -
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I was killing a boss at 43 last night and couldn't kill him because i was forced to have a stupid non healing companion on my Powertech so i killed his droid minnnions like 10 times b4 i managed it and one of them on like the 7th try dropped a purple high end chestpiece yay 0
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