[Cover Mechanic - a possible new implementation?]

Personally I've thought for a while that every class should have the ability to use cover. Not that every class should gain a significant advantage but they should all have a chance to take advantage of the cover's damage reduction.

 

For example a jedi sees a battle droid start a big attack whilst he's still too far away to retalliate so he does the sensible thing, dives behind a rock so he doesn't have to headbutt the incoming fire like a chump. Whilst in cover he can't really do anything except maybe use a medkit, stim or personal buff (eg: turn on saber ward) because he's not a cover based fighter. This could apply to every character, melee characters could duck into cover to reduce damage before moving up, non-cover ranged characters (and maybe consular/inquisitor) can do their standard ranged attack and cover based fighters could still retain their uniqueness by having all the special cover based abilities.

 

Also I love the idea of the heavy weapon trooper becoming a cover based fighter though I'd might require a new advanced class, specifically heavy weapon tank/dps or something. scouting out the battlefield, dropping into cover & setting up his heavy weapon to lay serious supporting & suppression fire on the enemy

[Login Screen Friend Counters]

Would it be possible to add a small counter for each character on the initial selection screen showing how many people from their respective friends lists are online? EG:

 

Bob

Gunslinger

Level 15 Coruscant

3 Friends Online

 

Barry

Commando

Level 25 Taris

11 Friends Online

 

Dave

Sith Warrior

Level 50 Dromund Kaas

0 Friends Online Because You Smell Funny And Noone Likes You

 

That sort of addition might help make the decision on which character to select easier. If you're in the mood for heroics/flashpoints etc then it'd be better to pick the character with the most number of online friends.

 

Would anyone else be interested in this sort of thing?

[Character Transfers Now Available for Asia Pacific Territories]

Add me to the list of greyed out dropboxers. Was wanting to transfer the character Suni (as well as the others I have) from Master Zhar Lestin to Dalborra

[Taxi Interrupts]

How long does it take to enter & exit a warzone including loading times? Sounds like that'd take longer than just going to the wrong destination & then turning right around again

[Taxi Interrupts]

Am I the only one wishing for a 'oops I picked the wrong destination, let me off at the next stop' button for taxi speeders?

 

It might be my brain being a bit wonky but when I pick the wrong destination I notice it almost instantly & then sit watching myself drive to the wrong spot. Would it be possible to add some kind of interrupt or reroute option?

[Change to Corso Riggs is class breaking]

Seems like the simplest & most satisfying solution is to not give corso the ability at all until the smuggler gets the advanced class. Picking scoundrel gives corso harpoon shot and picking gunslinger gives him the jetpack

[In Queue Entertainment]

Having just been placed in a server login queue, it occured to me how dull they are. All it does is say you're in a queue & tells you how long it has to go.

 

Would it be possible to have some manner of information relayed during this wait? Perhaps a 'did you know' list that tells you some of the new features of whatever the latest patch is (for example I didn't know the number overlay on enemy hitpoints was now in interface custmisation) or at least a reminder that our call is important to you...

[New Expansion Idea: Classes: Republic Spy]

I was thinking an SIS agent would be cool just to see how the other side works but I have a feeling that gameplay wise it might be too close to the imperial agent. What did make me think though was the tatooine bonus series quest giver who seemed to be a cross between SIS agent & jedi, now that character type would have some interestingly unique abilities & still have the good guy espionage feel

[Instance Entrance Icons]

I was wandering aimlessly around Hoth the other day when I spotted a red instance in the distance that I'd not noticed before. I tried to identify who the mission was for but, as happens on occasion, the mouseover popup didn't work even when I walked all the way over to the entrance.

 

This gave me an idea, why not have icons on the instance entrances? It could work for both class specific and faction general missions. For example a Bounty Hunter specific mission could have the Bounty Hunter logo overlayed on the instance entrance polygon and the faction general instances could feature the Republic or Empire logo overlayed. It seems to me that this would let you see at a glance (and from range) if the mission is or will be relevant to you and also make the occasional failure of the mouseover less of an issue.

 

What do you fine folk think of the idea?

[C2-N2 and his comments]

Maybe they need to make one of the inexplicable droid apathy units (seriously, who makes something like that?) an installable component, then they could change his lines to "Meh", "Blagh", "Ugh", "Whatever" & "You couldn't pay me enough to care"

[Comparing companion quest reward equipment]

At the moment when you get a quest reward where you get a selection of companion specific equipment (say corso riggs' pants of blueness +1, bowdaars pants of brownness +1 etc), the mouseover comparison popup only compares against your gear and your present companion's gear. The side effect of this is when you have such a quest reward when you have 6 companions, you have to individually summon each of them to compare the gear one by one. This seems rather inefficient to me and is downright impossible if you get such a quest reward on your ship (smugglers get a few like that, not sure how the other classes fare there).

 

In this situation where the "pants of <colour> +n" are locked to a single companion, wouldn't it be better for the system to do a quick lookup of the gear that companion (wherever he/she/it may be) is currently using and display that in the comparison rather than whatever your current companion is using?

 

I can't be the only person thinking that summoning my cannon fodder minions in sequence just to check their gear is a trifle clunky, can I? What say you fellow forumites, good idea or bad idea?

[Steam Overlay - Working on win7]

I have gotten the steam overlay to work on my computer.

And on mine, I bloody love you mate! No more tabbing out for me (apart from this time when I tabbed out to write this)

[Where is the search bar]

Apparently they've taken it offline to fix it up, should be back up sometime soon

[Giving a grace period for STAR WARS: The Old Republic]

Probably not long enough to completely avoid disruption (what with delivery to australia and all) but its greatly appreciated nonetheless, cheers guys

[Your "first" Squee]

I just had my first out of game squee, amazon charged me for my SWTOR order so it MIGHT get here before christmas

[Commendation Exchange]

You mean to, for example, use starting world commendations to buy capital world commendations? I THINK I saw that with one of the commendation vendors on coruscant during my first beta but it was a while ago so I'm not sure if my memory is accurate or not

[Can't seem to figure out why I cant cover.]

I still think everyone should be able to use cover to reduce damage but only smugglers & imperial agents should actually gain offensive benefits from it

[The ''GAMERS ARE NOT FAT'' OFFICIAL Thread - Let us know you more]

For what purpose did Puberty grace us if not to bestow upon a man his true source of power?

 

THE BEARD.

It can be stroked in a contemplative manner and if you shave off the sides you become the evil you from a parallel universe. As a tip, this does not apply equally to pubic hair

[The ''GAMERS ARE NOT FAT'' OFFICIAL Thread - Let us know you more]

Err by this time next year I'll not be fat if I keep up my current average weight loss

[Steam Community interface?]

Doesn't that technically go against the EULA because you are mofifying the game.

 

No, you're just using steam to launch the game shortcut and that usually runs the overlay, its really no different than making your own shortcut to the launcher. You can add anything to steam, a friend of mine has photoshop in her games list so she can use the overlay to chat

 

I suspect the problem is that the launcher is a different program to the game itself and the overlay doesn't transfer to the game

[Im unable to view all of my posts]

I'm pretty sure that the post viewing you're trying to do is a pre-made search and they've taken the search function down for maintenance. Should be back to normal when the search comes back online

[Well, someone had to make a thread like this:)]

i did the exact same thing. i had to pry myself off my smuggler and make a new character because i didn't want to spoil most of the story.

I wish I could have done that. I played a smuggler all through my first beta & finished ord mantell & coruscant whilst exploring pretty much everything, then when the huge beta came around I decided to coop with a friend from the start but she picked the trooper so I was left with the smuggler again. As a consequence I have to do ord mantell for a third time when I actually play a smuggler that I can keep

[What the....]

No! This is the start of "Occupy SteveRB"!

[Kotor]

killing the time with playing GTA IV oO ... thought about playing KotOR I or II but I basically played it too often ........

 

Have you played 2 with the Restored Content Mod? Makes it even more awesome than its already awesome level and actually kills a few of the nastier bugs!