Are you sure you are remembering the right game? Perhaps you never adjusted the controls to suit you? Mouse control was IMO far superior to joystick in JTL, much more precise. Not to mention the simplest form of control, anything but "difficult to manage". If you had problems with the controls in JTL, then you must also find games like 'skyrim' hard to play. Now if you were a just plain 'bad pilot' and trying to fly say a Firespray, or better yet a B-wing, against a group of T5 droid fighters without the skill to make those ships work. Then, sure it could be tough. That had nothing to do with the controls though. There is nearly no difference in terms of mouse control between the rail shooter and the way JTL was, except that JTL's mouse control was fully customizable.

Of all the recovery abilities seeth is the one that drives me nuts. I also don't like the camera movements when using it, but in my opinion that is a minor issue. What really gets me is that it's the only one that actually moves your character. Use it to close to an edge and it'll drop you off etc. The real problem I have with it is that it fades out the map. This is prime time to check the map and look over objectives, etc. Yes, I know you can disable map fade when moving. I use it elsewhere, so it's not practical to disable it. Make the seeth animation, an in-place animation. Disconnect it from actual movement. I like the animation, I hate the fact that it is 'actual' character movement. Frankly, it shouldn't be.

WOOT! I get a kick out of the responses.... "My nerd ***** just lifted tipped my desk over and cracked my monitor" . "I AM A PC GAME made me **** so bad!" . "I may buy it just for their gosh darn awesome attitude" . "TAKE MY MONEY NOW PLEASE!" . "gosh darnit, now I have to clean my keyboard" . "**** YES! All my credits." Could you imagine EA/BW garnering this sort of reaction when/if their SSSP is ever implimented? (On a side note .. none of the quotes above include the term "gosh darn" this is the first time I've ever seen a forum actually change a term and not simply censor it out. I am offended by this.)

Heh... I was in the beta for it. Had potential but I didn't care so much for the instancing. Trading/crafting was ... weird. You spent a lot of time flying back and forth between stations waiting for the 'random generator' to come up with something you could use. Thing was, for whatever reason (don't recall if RL, or if I started playing something else) I stopped playing it for a week or two. Then *poof* The game basically dissapeared. The beta client no longer connected. Ok .. the game must have gone live. Can't find the forums any longer. Website was just 'gone'. Can't even find the game. Looking back this must have been the point where the original developers ran out of money. Never heard anything else about the game untill the announcment that it was closing. So, yeah .... I'd say absolutely terrible job of marketing. For a person who was a part of the beta even, it was as if the game had never existed.

Yeah I was imagining some sort of lightsaber/mop contraption.

Sure, it 'existed'. As a marketing tool. Not part of Star Wars any more than would be saying these are canon and justify energizer bunny cosmetic pets.

How well does FRAPS run for you? Been having issues with mine. If I want to record something specific, no problem. The problem is when I try to record gameplay in general when the video gets to the point that FRAPS cuts it and starts a new recording the game lags all to heck and is unplayable untill I close out FRAPS. I think I have it set at 2 GB then it starts a new recording.

Name tags are also in all caps. Definitely a post 1.4 screenie

Don't touch my beer! I made a head count before I last left my ship, they better all be there when I get back.

Indeed, target had run behind the wall there. Was a total spawn camp as the last few points ticked off the board so they were just running back and forth in their spawn like fish in a barrel. It's happened to my marauder as well, but never with the saber spinning. When my marauder gets this his sabers dissapear and he's just running around in that pose.

I just have to ask .... Regardless of what was displayed on the scoreboard, did you not notice enemy players carrying the ball acrost your goal line? I can't help but get the impression that you are one of 'those guys' off in a random corner somewhere dueling someone, paying no attention to the game.

My current set gives a nice 'high tech' look. Battlemaster main hand. X-201 searing sabotour off hand. http://imageshack.us/a/img694/8315/blastersr.jpg The X-201 is the same model minus the 'scope' on the BM main hand. I havn't found any off hand that matched the BM exactly, but I think it might actually be cooler having the scope on main hand only.

Wouldn't it be such a great 'quality of life' improvement if events like these would trigger the announcer ... "That's one dumb Frogdog!"

Well duh! He was our healer! ( ... even if you hand the keyboard to a 2 year old they're bound to accidently beat those numbers.)

I has proofez! An cause hem keelz meh but when mez guardin I is keelz all! Toaotaly OP!

Your queue pops for a lv 50 HM FP. You load in and meet your groupmates ... The lv 50 tank says "I havn't done this before, just bought the game at gamestop yesterday. Any tips?" ^ true story.

Two guns? The mercs off-hand gun is just for looks. If it ever does hit it does what 120 damage?

Would have to be "The Hedge Clipper" On a more serious note. How about a jet-pack ability. Sort of like a fixed destination force-run. When activated the bounty hunter uses his jet-pack to break movement imparing effects and rocket to a new position 30meters ahead. Make it a fixed point at 30 meters in the direction facing so it's a point and shoot. Give it a quick enough cooldown and it would be a pretty darn helpfull escape skill with some offensive uses. Minimal PvE impact. Would actually make the rocket-punch root worth using, and give mercs some breathing room. Granted there may be issues here and there with pathing/access that may need to be hammered out. Lets face it, that jet pack we lug around shouldn't just be for looks, right?

Yeah it depends on the situation. I'll only pop my self heal now and then unless I get that "we're in trouble" feeling. If the healers being beat on and the tank's slow to react I can usually pop a heal or two on the healer and peel the mobs off him, then chaff/flare when the tank gets around to taunting and hand the mobs over. If the tank's taking some abnormal spikes and it looks like a close call, I'll throw a quicky in there. For the most part if you're spec'd and geared as DPS then your biggest impact on the encounter is DPS. Just keep in mind that a small heal in the right spot is better than a rez. Also agro. Heals are great for generating agro. In this game as a DPS even though wearing heavy armor, you're not even an off-tank. However, I'd rather wayward mobs be beating on me instead of the healer. Maybe that's just to many years of playing a paladin off-tank in EQ .. with taunts + heals I could pull agro off anyone. Always one eye on the healer. Just keep in mind that your heals can be effective taunts, should the situation call for it. And then there are some healers who'll get the impression that you throwing a heal means you think they're doing a bad job. The proper way to handle this situation is to throw heals on them at random, whether they need it or not. (Our guild's main tank would complain all the time that hybrid classes were OP because we could heal, so naturally any time we 'hybrids' were in his presence we'd constantly throw heals on him) As others have said. PvE-awesome. PvP-just plain hurts being a DPS merc. Not gonna say "don't do it" just understand that it's going to be tough to be competative.

Sorry .. had to fix that for ya.

Congrats, you've just finished downloading game update 1.4! Enjoy!

That's because their posts are removed. In fact even posts explaining the logic of such people are also removed.

Same thing with CC. Same thing with missile blast. Target a group and they're hitting you before your opening attack has landed. I even had a group of mobs in BH aggro me at max range the other day because I clicked my shield while having them targeted. The biggest problem I have with it is in terms of CC, while I can see how interrupt can also be effected in a big way. For the most part I don't mind it so much, except that when you fire an ability the target mob reacts instantly. Though you have to wait for the round to reach target. I made a video of it a while back. Target an undisturbed mob. Fire off CC as your opening move and the mob instantly attacks you before CC even hits. In terms of interrupt ... that's just bad. They made the sorc/sage KB instant no-warmup, they should do the same for interrupt. I imagine the issue exists with other classes, but I really only notice it on my Bounty Hunter toons. No doubt because so many of our attacks are slow traveling darts/missiles/rockets.

I thought they fixed this. I remember reading a patch note or some such. You can't cap from the corners anymore or something like that. But yeah .. this was an actual exploit where the player could not be targeted etc. "invisable wall" style bug.

Never look at your mini-map. In fact you should just turn it off, it will only distract you. If you outnumber the enemy, you're just that good. All the rest of them are like waiting on respawn timers and stuff. When you see enemy healers with marks on them, don't worry about it. That means someone else is taking care of it already. If someones health keeps going up every time you try to damage them, you just have to try harder. When you try to activate an objective and someone interrupts you, just ignore them. Keep re-activating, soon they'll loose interest and go away.