I am highly skeptical that the ability delay and lag is better then it was before. I still have about six hours until I go home from work to try out my Jugg and see if its any better. I downloaded the patch as I was leaving for work expecting it to take quite a bit of time but it was done downloading and installing within 2 minutes. Seems pretty quick for a patch that seemed rather large...

OP if you think that pointing a gun at a child's head is a plus for this game then that is pretty sad. I have not seen a quest like that during my play sessions, but if i had i would have been disgusted with it. Some things just should not be put into games when it comes to children. If you had your own kid you would understand, otherwise i guess its a losing argument.

Why aren't these threads closed as fast as practically every other thread? I do not want to know you are leaving, because I do not know you nor do I care what you do with your game time or lack there of. All these posts are the same: I'm leaving blah blah blah Then in response you get about 20 people saying "bye!" "there's the door ------>", "can i havez your stuffz?" Is there any point to this besides people desperate for some attention?

I am only playing this until GW 2 comes out, then once that is released, that will be the one and only MMO i will be playing. It has everything I am looking for in an MMO and can't wait to play it. So until then, i'll soldier through what is the beta of Old Republic.

This will also be a problem for Imps as well, because if we still get stuck doing huttball all the time those that used this exploit will have the best gear and will make huttball even more of a pain then it is now.

If they fixed bugs and implemented fixes as fast as they closed forum threads and deleted posts this game would be in far better shape then it is now.

That's getting close to the amount of players during peak time...wasn't it supposedly like 350,000? It will soon be "350,000 lost subs due to Ilum PVP incompetence."

^^ Man i can't wait for that game...and you don't HAVE TO PAY FOR IT MONTHLY!

I play a sith warrior and inquisator and even i think this is completely unfair to the Republic. Ilum is seriously broke and should be shutdown and blocked off completely until it is fixed and balanced. I haven't done any PVPing on Ilum yet, but the dailies are a joke and just too much of a chore to do with all the elites and strongs it takes forever to do them. Dailies are meant to be quick, not hours long. Its really annoying when you have two strongs that constantly heal each other and you can't fricking kill em half the time. Ya this planet right now is a joke and i avoid it like the plaque reborn.

I saw CASHFORGOLD and CheddarBob...ya pretty bad

^ This. And "medium" that is actually high still stinks performance wise even on monstrous rigs.

Despite all the bugs and the lack of high res textures we were promised to have back once they were removed in beta, i'll give the game currently a 7.5/10 only because I do have fun and have made a lot of friends in this game compared to any other MMO.

How could they not have even added it to begin with? I mean a customizable UI is just pretty much standard in MMOs these days, same with Macros. If they wanted to follow the WOW formula like they ADMITTED they were doing, this was just pretty much a requirement. Why do we the customers have to rage and scream to get them to add it? Between this, the high res textures, and FPS problems, its like we had to head over enmasse to Bioware's Austin HQ with torches and pitchforks banging down their doors to get them to add this stuff that should have been there on release.

The gear was probably made with high res textures and were removed when they removed said high res textures from the game before release. Or, the missing gear can be just a "bug".

The way it is setup to get from planet to planet is done poorly. The OP is right, thee are just far too many steps just to get a planet. They should make it so that you land in a docking bay ON THE PLANET, then you can instance it off, then walk out to planet's first area. To go from your ship to a corridor, to a corridor to a space hub, to the hub to the planet, is just aggravating, especially if you are trying to help out a friend or guildie with quests on a different planet, it takes too long to get there. Add in the loading screens and its even worse. Definately needs to be changed.

Allow only level 50 players on Ilum, problem solved. There should be no reason at all why any lower level character should be on Ilum, none. The planet should be "unlocked" as soon as hit level 50 just like hard mode FP.

Actually, these are NOT private forums. They ARE public, because you can google them and the threads will pop up. You can click on the links and view them right there. if this was truly a "private" forum everything would be blocked off from public view, requiring you to create an account just to be even able to VIEW the threads. Something similar would be how myspace allows users to make their profile private, so that only their "friends" can see what is on their profile.

Unfortunately its the truth, and the truth will hurt Bioware if people who are thinking about buying the game come across threads that speak about the mess this game has been. Between Customer Service being horrendous, the huge amount of bugs, the ability delay, the lack of high res graphics that were advertised, etc. it may curb people from buying. Forum threads are quickly crawled and indexed by Google, usually within just a couple hours, deleting them immediately is their damage control.

Perhaps when I downloaded the game it didn't download the supposed "high res cutscene textures" I don't know, all i know is that it seems the textures are just as bad as when playing in game. When I click on the holo terminal and see those sharp and detailed textures, then go into a cutscene where my char is talking to an NPC through the holo terminal, the textures sure as heck do NOT look like that in those cutscenes so it seems that for me, they do not convert over. It also seems that for SOME cutscenes the textures will look crisp and sharp, but in others, they look washed out and muddy. So not sure what that is all about, but its what I noticed since early access.

I think what a lot of people neglect to mention or know about is that Bioware Austin and Bioware Montreal are almost completely different despite them being the same company in name just different locations. Bioware Montreal is the original Bioware that gave us all those great RPG games and does DA series, Mass Effect, etc. Bioware was restructured in 2007 when EA acquired them, and this is right around when Bioware Austin was formed through EA's restructuring of Bioware with pretty much the sole intent on Austin to create and manage The Old Republic. Bioware Austin is much more EA in a sense then the core of Bioware which is located in Montreal. If this game was made by Bioware Montreal, I really doubt this game would be so buggy and having as many problems as it has since release.

The cut scene analogy is ambiguous at best, because I still have lower rez textures in those as well, I can tell because the armor and clothing for NPCS and characters are blurry and washed out just like in game. I believe this whole cutscene thing is more nonesense, because even though i have the game completely maxed out with a custom ini file, the cutscenes still show crap textures like the rest of the game. Only time the textures show in high rez is when clicking on the holo terminal for that brief second.

EA Is bad enough as it, but throw in Lucas on top of it, and ya that is just double big corporate BS. There is an underlining reason why they pulled those textures, and why people are having so many FPS problems and why Bioware isn't telling us the truth about it. I am giving them until next month, if they don't improve things with this game then i'm pulling my sub. I managed to be patient through all the bugs, but my patients can only last for so long.

On the hard mode FP everyone is running BT only pretty much because of the over tuned and or bugginess of some of the other FP. Boarding Party is one of them, where the three end bosses are way over tuned and if you don't kill them in a certain order the chest doesn't unlock and u can't get loot. I know in Foundry the last boss one shots people with a lightning attack before his enrage timer is set off. BT is pretty balanced and is a quick and easy run for people who want to grind for gear and dailies, these other FP , at least in HM still need a lot of work done to them.

Good post, however after looking at the world image and seeing the lego like shadows off to the right, still reminds me of how sloppy the graphics still are in this game even with all these tweaks. They are so bad i keep them turned off just so i don't have to look at em.

then i wish I can have your mentality, because that way I would not feel so cheated and ripped off that the game i saw in previews, screenshots, etc with high res textures were deliberately taken out because they "assumed" what was best for my computer and then going on further to lie and say the medium setting was removed do to a "bug". if you happen to like companies messing around with you and your hard earned money thats your thing, I am not the type to sit and take it.