We won't see a split in the story for one simple reason that overrides all plot points and deficulties, which is that it is just so much more cost effective to go for the one story fits all model that we have seen since makeb. When it gets right down to it the bottom line is what's important, and making two stories instead of one dosent make sense in that regard unfortunately

Lol you are right, if pub side is doing so badly as you are suggesting, why indeed should anyone go there? just so that they can have a frustrating time duing their hobby? If you Kwa want to have some E-bushido honor thing going thats up to you, but dont expect anyone else to care. Honestly even if what you are suggesting is true, that people in fact dont care about the sides look and feel, which by the way I dont think is the truth, then why should they deliberetly come to the side that according to you is duing horribly? to help them out? why should anyone even bother with that?

sure if they want to be as effective as a wet nudle compared to a dps tank, there is no point at all for a guardian or jugg tank to wear tank armor, if you manege your defensive cooldowns well enough and have just a semi decent healer on your team, then a dps geard tank is just as effective at tanking as a tank geard one, with the added benefit of being able to dish out some damege themselves.

They will never make matchmaking in this game, it has been stated by the devs over and over again, besides the population of the game likly cant sustain it, I mean they made all normal flashpoints tactical so that all the people who just want to do damege can do it without a healer or a tank. Clearly Bio is favoring que times above any other concern

Im not conviced we are getting Akaavi back the next one, so far they have shown the companion you are getting, at least the main story companion in the teaser trailer or the image on the 'next chapter' or whatever it is called area in the quest log, so far all we have seen is Torch and Torian, I think it is much more likly that they will be the companions that we get in the main story mission and that if Akaavi is included it will be in an alert mission.

I think we will get Jaesa as one of the side companions with an alertmission simply because she has two entierly different characters depending on if you made her light sided or dark sided, I think it would be too dificult to include her in the one story fits all style that they are going for with the main story in KOTFE, however as a recruitable side character that wont affect the story as a whole I can see them do that much easier. Unless of cause they simply pick a canon Jaesa and go with that one.

I think that is mostly a resoult of the pretty poor quality of the animation in the games cutscenes, I dont think they are able to accuratly depict someone using the different styles, to be honest most of the animations in the game tends to make the user come of as sort of an amature, with wild overswings that leaves the user compleatly open to even the dumbest idiot to take them down, and other mistakes that would leave you dead in a moment in a real sword fight. But that is just a limitation of the games animations, which makes it so that I dont think anything about forms can be guessed from looking at the animations of the characters

Im not sure what exactly you are saying, are you saying that the smuggler in this case actually is capable of using the force? If so then thats fine of cause for you, but the problem is that there is nothing in the story which suggests that he or her can, which makes it even stranger when for instance in chapter 12 Valkorion and Satele and Marr are like "yeah you can totally go use the force in some way because reasons"

I think for me the only thing that makes me even bother doing KOTFE with more then 2 toons, one dark side and one light side, is to see the interactions between the characters and their old companions, and the differences are so minor that even that pretty much isent worth doing the same cut and paste story over and over again

it is pretty controversial in this time periode

I think the problem with this story from the perspective of the SI is that you for some reason seem to have compleatly forgotten about force walking, which was the center of most of the SI's story. There is no reason that the SI should continue to walk around with good old Valky in his or her head unless they want to, and that should at the very least be acknowledged in dialogue, just like how there should be an option for non force users to tell Satele and Marr where they can shove their philosophy and magical blaster if you are a non force user.

Yeah you really should have had a choice to tell Satele and Marr where to shove all their mystical BS if your character is of that opinion, but no of cause you have to go along with it, because KOTFE was made for force users and if your character dosent use the force then too bad

Which is a symptom of a 'one story fits all' there is nothing suggestion a smuggler or a bounty hunter for that matter is in any way qualified to make the kind of choices that would be needed of a leader of that many people, or for that matter be interested in it.

I think it isent just about the visions chapter, I mean for an example how come a smugler is made the leader of the allience? someone who as far as we know has to make military desitions. Nothing we know about the smuggler suggests that they would be in any way able to do that, of cause people can have a story for their smugler that explains it, but as far as what we are told in game about the character it just dosent make sense.

I belive, especially with regards to chapter 12 that this new story is mainly aimed at the force users, and that the other classes are more an after thought. A way this to me at least is seen, is that you have no option to call any of the ******** force stuff that apperently still applies for you if you are a bounty hunter or a smuggler for instance. I think this is pretty lazy story writting on Bios side, as it makes it seem like they can only imagine someone with the force being able to truly affect how events turn out. And then you come to the part about apperently becoming ruler of the galaxy? I mean I can see my SI or SW attempting that, but basically no other characters, the whole idea is so compleatly stupid, now if it was just Valkorion who was in on it then fine, he is a fool, bat Sateel and Marr as well? that just takes it into the area of compleate unbelivability

for me, none of my characters except maybe my SW and SI would have even the slightest interest in ruling, nor for that matter would they have any of the qualifications for it, I mean it is stupid enough that my smugler is now for some reason the leader of a military force, but becoming the ruler of an entier empire? thats just plain dumb. As I see it, this story was very much written for the force user classes, and the others were just mashed in there, with no regards to if it fits what gets established about them in the rest of the story.

I think that whole chapter was pretty ********, meaning that it might have been interesting if I had been given a choice to not listen to any of their mumbo jumbo. So my SW did the chapter and got the damn saber, which I find pretty ugly but thats a side note, and thats fine, but my BH dosent give a **** about all the force bull crap, and she should have had a choice to stat that. Basically what they are saying with this is that only people with the force in some way can be important to the story, lazy writing did this and I deleted the gun as fast as I could, since I had to figure in my own head canon that is what she did instead of just logging around some piece of force junk that cant compare to her state of the art blaster.

No that's a terrible idea, then he might stop ranting and where would we get our entertaining conspiracy theories from?

One has to wander, if you have as you have said many times been there to see this development of premades, then why do you still think there is a way to avoid it. Yes people will try to form groups of good players with communication in a team based game, in other news people still need to breath in order to live:rolleyes: if you can't deal with this then there are plenty of single player games and games played 1v1. That way you will be safe from all the big bad premades that you think are just waiting out there to get you.

You do realise that the people you most want to read this, the ones that dose the worst as stelth classes, are also the least likly to read up on tactics on the forum. Not that it isent worth attempting of cause, but I dont think this will go anywhere

I leave games whenever Odessen pops, cause it is mindblowingly dull, usually I leave if it is a voidstar as well unless I have been in que for a long time. I leave arenas if there are too many healers (2+ on each team) because frankly I have better things to do with my time.

I think it is more likly that the newest planets just didnt get any yet. I dont see any reasons about the, frankly pretty dumb argument of 'carebaring' since anyone that dosent want to use the pvp instances are free not to, that being the whole point of the system. Likly they will get around to it

I would love this feature if it could be implemented, would save me from having to quite the maps that I find boring and uninteresting

I see no reason to play team ranked, and before all the preemade haters comes out of the bushes with their claim that it is just because I am a bad that wants to farm noobs. Yeah I am not that great of a player, but even if I was a top class player like everyone on the forum claim they are, I still wouldent want to play team ranked, cause it is all arenas and arenas are just deathmatches which I am not interested in what so ever, I usually leave arena matches when I get them because without objectives they arent interesting. I think it is more then likly that is more common then people here might think, that the premades they hate in regs arent just staying out of team ranked because they want to farm worse players, but are really there because they happen to enjoy objective gameplay

Damn look at all that salt, I swear mate are you sure you left anything when you got out of the dead sea this morning? But really come on, do you really expect people not to play premades? why? why shouldent I play with my friends? just cause you for some reason prefere to play without a group? thats the same as saying I should play pub side because of it. People play how they want to, and you are just salty because you keep losing to preemades