Yes this was unclear. It sounded like armormechs could re "nearly any" outfit, but no such statement was included in the synthweaving section.. Whats the verdict on this?

Dear Sir, Could you please provide me the instructions on how to remove C2's vocal motivator? Honestly, if I can't shut him up, his lack of combat protocols are going to become a very big problem for him. Just the other day, C2 politely called a Trandoshan friend of mine "fat". If he makes such a mistake with my somewhat moody padawan, I cannot guarantee passion will not win out the day. Further your droid model goes on and on (and on) about needles details over and over (and over) again ... seat cushions and air sents. My crew and I couldn't care less about these things, and frankly got the message the first 150 times we heard them. "A good steward droid is an un-noticed steward droid", I always say. I mean ... my crew and I ... we're busy with weighty issues (I don't mean to brag, but we're literally saving the galaxy here), and to have these moments constantly interrupted with mindless chatter about seat cushions EVERY SINGLE TIME we walk past the unit ... is .. well it tries a Jedi's patience, frankly. If I wanted to know what he's been up to while I was away, I'd interact with him explicitly. I therefore, with great - but taxed - patience, request a modification to the product line to allow for less frequent and repetitive status reports. Yours in The Force, Master Ryce Ashlar of The Jedi Order.

Do you have two sabers, one for the each of me?

And more specifically, they advertise GAMEPLAY (non-cutscene) FOOTAGE using high-res textures which consumers cannot achieve during gameplay (non-cutscene). They've published GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE using high-res textures even after all of this hit the fan on the forums and they publicly admitted hi-res textures were unavailable to players during normal gameplay. shameful from an honesty perspective, and embarrassing from a quality of work perspective.

Not by the consumer who purchased the product based on those ads they can't.

I hear you. I'd asked in one of the previous 500 pages of posts on this "If Bioware were to release a new video tomorrow with gameplay footage, do you think they would use the textures they now claim are the high res versions for gameplay use ... or the versions they now claim are only used for cut scenes?" We have our answer. The previous responses are blatantly false. Those high res textures are NOT meant solely for cut scenes. Those high res textures ARE meant for game play. Bioware uses those high res textures in their gameplay footage they use to sell the game.

This is just getting worse and worse. Now, even after all of this has hit the fan. BioWare releases yet another a trailer which includes gameplay footage ... which uses the hi res textures for gameplay. http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/12/rakghouls-and-raging-hutts-with-swtors-gabe-amatangelo/ This after BioWare tried to sell the "oh no those textures aren't meant to be used for gameplay its just for the cut scenes" nonsense. They demonstrably recognize that their gameplay graphics are so bad, they dare not use them in material presented to prospective new players. They don't use them themselves - they are that bad. But tell us this level of quality (which they have deemed unacceptable for their own uses), is the intended level of quality for their product all along. It's all "as intended" and the expectation for something better (like that which they are willing to use in marketing) is just a big misunderstanding on our part. This is infuriating.

Don't assume I've done so. I read your whole post. It was simply that particular piece of nonsense I wanted to debunk. The Forums DO represent the larger player community. Non-forum going players should not be assumed to be satisfied just because they are non-forum going players.

This is a very common and completely incorrect assumption. just because a player (or number of players) is not a "forum-going player", does not mean they are not as upset by and as interested in a solution for the problems discussed by the forum-going players. It simply means they don't use forums. Silence is not acceptance. Some gamers lurk but do not post - confident that the multitude of posters have already voiced their concerns Some gamers don't visit forums because they dislike the medium ... but that doesn't mean they aren't (like i was) spending 15-45 minutes every night trying to figure out what is wrong with their video card settings. Some gamers don't visit forums because they don't acknowledge a larger community around their game/experience ... that doesn't mean they won't stop playing a game if their game experience is plagued by unresolved issues (which likely are being discussed on forums they don't visit). Some gamers don't visit forums because they only have so many hours they can spend on game time and would prefer to use those hours gaming .. that doesn't mean they appreciate getting a game which CANNOT look like the GAMEPLAY walkthroughs that Bioware used to sell them said game. A silent player is NOT NECESSARILY a happy player. They are simply silent. Bioware can and will lose both silent and forum-going players if they fail to respond to the forum-going players ... after all they are the only player sourced method to represent the larger community, and they probably do that at a pretty reasonably representative distribution of concern/apathy.

well I'll give it another try, but I've tried this before and saw no difference in rendering anything. Others have since confirmed the ini file cannot force this change. /shrug

I'm told this no longer works. There's no way to force the issue via the ini files. ATI card owners have a way to force the issue with the card itself, but I cannot find such a setting in my NVIDIA control panel.

Honestly, how they can sell that 'normal' picture (the one without using the trick) as the 'intended' level of quality for their "AAA" MMO product is beyond me. They should see that and be so embarrassed that they drop everything else and get developers on it around the clock until its fixed. Instead we hear that this 'is working as intended'. Clearly not the AAA studio we thought we were dealing with. A real shame.

wow. (Anyone know how to force this level of detail on NVIDIA cards?)

That's what is driving me crazy. It really should embarrass them that a AAA title would look the way the screenshots in these threads have shown. It really should deeply embarrass them ... and the response they give is "working as intended - but we'll see what we can do". This is what they intended? No it's not. None of their gameplay videos online have anything but high res textures. These low res textures embarrass them enough they wouldn't dare use them in gameplay videos used to market the game. I'd prefer an honest and disagreeable answer to flat out nonsense. I mean I just can't even believe it's a discussion outside of "wow, you guys are right, this is not the quality we want to champion in our product. We will fix this immediately." I've waited YEARS for this game. I'm considering canceling my subscription pending resolution of this. (I Haven't decided yet, but the fact that I've gone to the trouble to find out how I would do that ... is shocking. I've waited YEARS for this game. That's how big a deal this is.)

Actually I work in IT as well, and I dont get called a liar. As for proof, I've provided it (actually Bioware provided it). I've quoted it below. There is nothing conspiracy-theory-esk about this. The game play graphics used to have high res and now we're being told that no, nothing was removed and those textures are only used for cinematics. Thats not true.