Yeah, pvp in Bioware is as fun as sharping cart racing with a messed up wheel.

I should post all the conversations I had with Georg Zoeller about pvp in this game during beta. They knew all about all the problems we're having now and they just don't care enough to fix them.

How does a game who's end game is supposed to be about rerolling alts for story... do so poorly when it comes to the leveling process? Would be nice if the guy in charge of Raiding wasn't also in charge of PVP. At least give PVP It's own dev who can get things done. Instead of Gabe Amatangelo who was basically the water boy in warhammer and really didn't have any responsibility.

My favorite one lately has been on my Trooper. Getting the interrupt to work is like trying to laser guide a rocket through a toilet paper tube. IF it's not being interrupted because of a defensive animation or other such sillyness... it still doesn't even interrupt until it's done it's animation. Which genius level programmer or systems designer thought that would be a good idea.

and according to georg this is 100% ok and doesn't need to be looked at. The wonderful combat design guy thinks pvp for the most part is working as intended.

How dare you question Mr. Metrics? The same guy that decided it was ok to gimp actual game play so you could have fancy animations. he knows everything cause he has the numbers. Doesn't actually play the game... but he has NUMBERS!

Riot Strike is supposed to be insta cast, but it doesn't actually interrupt till it's done it's animation. How does this make sense? There are a number of abilities like this, they don't actually work until the animation is complete, and this is completely seperate from the fact that sometimes you can't even use your abilities because you are in the middle of one animation or an other. I mean yeah when you're pve'ing it's pretty cool to see the animations SOMETIMES, but I am tried of hitting abilities in both pve and pvp and having to spam the key because it's not working due to some animation.

And bioware has gone and patched it in so that losing nets you almost nothing. So on top of the fact they haven't fixed the bracketing system, they have further punished low levels by removing the rewards unless you win.

Either you are lying, or Georg Zoeller is lying. Because he assured us that each instance on every planet would be able to handle hundreds of players before it splits. Of course I've never seen the population of a zone reach 200 before it split... but Georg assured us that the zones in fact can handle hundreds of people before they split.

Good thing they patched in rewards. So now you get rewarded based on what you've done... yet they still have you fighting 50s. Had time to fix the reward / effort, but still haven't separated the brackets so you can actually contribute instead of being farmed. Well I can't wait until after the 20th so they actually patch all these pvp changes in. Cause we all know they won't do it before people have to subscribe so they can retain those numbers.

the guy in charge of pvp is also in charge of raiding. That's why he's doing such an extremely poor job with pvp. Where do you think all his attention is?

How are smugglers doing this?

They are forming 50 premades and farming leveling players.

Yes that's exactly what I'm saying. You see Bioware is pulling a Trion and copying other games, and doing things like this "get out of safe zone or get kicked" because they are trying to pretend they know something about pvp. This is why other theme park games have vote to kick, instead of this ridiculous system.

Link your spec.

Is when you're outmatched and being dominated completely, you still have to throw yourself to the slaughter to get any credit because you can't sit in spawn till it's over. Well played Bioware. Well played.

Nothing other than Biochem is useful, so they are going to nerf the only useful tradeskill?

Why must I have my Companion Ability Bar Open to use the abilities? I can't use the hot keys if the companion bar isn't open, and I can't use my bottom bar if the companion bar is open. How does this make sense? Is this getting fixed?

All of you saying "Play Republic" that's kinda funny because my guild did re-roll to republic. I hit level 10 and queued for warzones... First one was Hutt Ball vs. Empire, 2nd was hutt ball vs. Republic... So yeah.

Yeah Bioware really dropped the ball on the UI. It's like they spent all their budget on story and let everything single other thing in the game slip.

If you are tired of huttball Reroll republic. There ya go.

no they didn't. They hired people associated with other games, and then put him in charge of raids as well as PVP. You obviously can't PVP if you think this its their A game. Did you see what they did with Ilum? Or the animation problem? If you can't see that PVP is being treated as something for pve'ers to do between raids then I got nothing for you. Sad thing is this was constantly discussed with the lead combat designer so I know they knew of all these problems before launch yet here we are.

careful... Your fail is showing.

Swtor is a pve game. This is another pve concept that affects PVP. Like the animation problem. The PVP was never properly tested, and is being left till after launch because Bioware thinks serious PVP is a tiny minority.

Because the Bioware developers don't actually PVP. So they needed this crutch.