Obviously they felt KOTOR with a chat box was their best option

I notice people seem to be very shy in this game and you usually have to break the ice in general chat with something silly like "My farts smell like death tonite" Of course that usually attracts the one uptight nononsense gamer who need to announce he just put me on ignore. But for the most part if you try to initiate some form of chat in general people will then "wake up" and join in.

SWTOR will be free to play by September. To many great MMO's on the horizon for anyone to stick with this dud.

May 1st Tera.... I think all the WOW refugee's who are looking for that same sense of wonderment and exploration will finally have a new game to play. SWTOR is far from it that for sure.

1. Linear world/travel poorly designed planets 2. No LFD 3. The insanity of traveling from planet to planet which is a VERY COOL idea but the insanity kicks in with the , Travel to ship-travel to planet- travel to orbital station-travel to docking bay -travel to starter zone.... I mean really Bioware couldn't you have condensed this just a bit What the *&^&% is up with all this unnecessary traveling?

Letdown!

I'm using a 6850 and its working fine, Makes the game look amazing as a matter of fact.

The only thing I have to say is this

I have been pretty critical of this game since it released my biggest issue being the linearity followed by the graphics but i must say with yesterdays patch and the ability to turn Anti Aliasing on the game looks AWESOME. In my opinion alot of the day 1 backlash concerning graphics really could have been avoided had you been to work out the bugs which prevented this option from being turned on/available. Anyway good job Bioware, Game looks great and finally like a MMO Released in 2011/2012. On a side note my FPS has actually seemed to increase with AA on ( Imperial fleet).

I was going to start a thread about this earlier, Its strange how i get a steady 60 fps in all zones but once i hit the imperial fleet its a slideshow, Pvp is about 15-20 fps as well. Is there a issue with multiple instances running for your character ? Often i will click my speeder/mount and the progress bar will cast 2 sometimes 3 times before the actual mount appears, Could this be the cause of the fps loss on the fleet ?

^This

Dev 3 is angry lol which planet did you fail at designing ?

I think some of you guys misunderstood my post. I'm not talking about the visuals of Nar Shadda because they are quite impressive, I'm talking about the DESIGN of the zones. The linearity and rat in a maze , 1 way to your destination/quest route of travel. Yes Tatoonie is dull and devoid of life but it is OPEN, Unlike Narshadda which is more designed for a Kotor game than a SWTOR MMO.

From what I have read on these forums I think the heavy instancing has to do with the lousy "hero engine" they are using for this game, Looks this is something that willnot/can not be changed for this game. As far as Chat bubbles go, I have no freackin idea how or why this would not be included in a 2011/2012 MMO. Maybe they were too preoccupied with the social point system.....

How about a Civilization themed MMO. Screw time periods and authenticity. You could have the American Indians-Mayans-Germans-G.W. era Americans-Ancient Rome the Egyptians-Shocka Zula africans ect ect.... Every faction starts in their country of origin , A faction wide voting system determines which country you are allies with and which you go to war with. Think Civilization politics in a MMO setting. Obviously a pvp based game.

This ^ I'v been playing MMO's for years but this is the first game i decided to roll healer. I am lvl 40 and so far really enjoying playing the role of healer in raids. With that said I have yet to encounter a raid where dispells are something i really need to worry about in boss fights. I could understand how "veteran MMO healers" have a sort of L2PLAY noob attitude in this thread, But at the same time I think they need to understand that some of us are new to the class. I do worry that when I hit 50, dispells will become a life or death sitution and considering the raids i have run so far have given me no practice,I could be left with a class i invested all this time into learning with a new mechanic I am not very familiar or good at. For me I am not so much in favor of a mod but I do wish Bioware would at least add a LARGER debuff icon on the players health bar that could make it easier to identify.

Hopefully the Devs read these forums and understand majority of the fanbase does not enjoy the linearity of planets/zones like nar-shadda. Please consider making expansion planets more open to exploration like hoth & tatoonie.

A Pvp star wars battlefront type game mode would be the best bet. Basically it would be like queing for hutball or a warzone. I'm going to guess we won't be using our own ships. Something like 8 vs 8 republic in x wings and empire in tie fighters or whatever ships were used in the swtor time frame.

I just want a patch that lets me explore the EWOK planet and commit mass genocide on their chubby furry little bodys.

I can't say wow looks better graphically then swtor but I will say this. WOW makes better use of what they have to work with than SWTOR does. Long story short WOW pushes what their engine can do to the very limits with creative design and good use of colors while SWTOR seems to just scrape by with the bare minimum of what their engine can do with poor and lazy design along with limited use of color.

I bet a dungeon finder is in the works, they just need to finalize and insert the Voice acting /cut scene for it ....

why would anyone want to copy and polish a turd ?

I'm using a 6850, with a outdated quad core 2.4 ghz. I have everything on max and get about 40-60 fps on all planets, 60 fps in flashpoints, terrible on the imperial fleet though, I'm lucky to manage above 15 as the game slows to a crawl. I can run Witcher 2 on highest settings minus that one ridiculous graphic option that noone can use and get 40+fps. Overall the 6850 is really a great card and very low power consumption.

This game is definitly headed for F2P but 3 months ? No way in hell. I'm thinking a year from now. The only way Bioware can save this game & subs from F2P death would be to start releasing new content/planets at rifts pace which won't happen with all the resources and time they invested into VO.

Please explain why i spent 30 failed minutes last night as a sith HEALER looking for a foundry group?