TRE has always been standard/heavy 12 months ago, dropped to standard last year and now light. Paints a picture. It was only 2 years ago, PvP/ops were thriving as people got their dailies at the terminals. How times have changed.

My sub runs out in a couple of days now and thanks to this episode,it won't be renewed. I've never come across a developer so devoid of communication.

Then stop jumping into threads the speak the truth. I know fanboys don't like seeing the truth on here. Get used to it

For the first time since Summer 2012 just after the game bombed and before the server mergers, The Red Eclipse is now 'light' at 2.30pm UK time. Congrats! Well done on ignoring your community and the endless threads about the server lag spikes and bad latency most of the EU servers are experiencing. The reason? We don't know, because you have been ignoring the issue since Tuesday( a full 7 days). Even if it has nothing to do with you and is beyond your control, no harm in letting people know. Instead, players are just not logging in. Welldone!

Clearly the devs are now ignoring the issue. No server reboot. Even if it is other sources creating the problem, it doesn't take much to tell us FTI - its now 2.30pm in the UK and TRE is light - that there is the first time since the great TORtitanic back in Summer 2012 just before server mergers. Congrats Bioware. Good job!

Yes and no doubt they will be on the front page of the Cartel market too $

Echo this. Bioware are doing zero to attract new players to the game and their outdated F2P's appeal has worn off. The entire game needs a radical overhaul, as does the people behind it.

No in a nutshell. Why? After Bruces post 2 weeks ago about the broken bolster in 30-59 bracket has taken him 5 months to realise its broken, despite being told prior to 3.0 and daily after 3,0 hit. All they do is stare at data and metrics but that never paints the whole picture.

EU servers have been like this since Tuesday.

They are on mute mode because the EU servers are experiencing lag spikes since Tuesday. People should really be used to the sheer lack of communication. Each year they promise to improve and each year they follow the same root of being silent. 2015 has been an awful year for the game with so many key issues since 3.0, I guess the only thing they can do is stay silent as they don't have answers. I have never seen such a lazy community team in MMO gaming.

No developer releases a huge skill tree change without testing it fully for some kind of balance. Bioware haven't. Therefore in pvp you have a massive skill game in the 30-59 bracket and not just down to broken bolster. When you ding 30, you have to wait until 32 to get a new ability. They never have managed to get the classes balance but the changes in 3.0 were supposed to make changes faster - 4 months on, players are still waiting. It just seems daft to change a class one at a time, then base your balancing on the fact that if a class wins 50% of their battles, its balanced (as with Mara/Sents) posted by king spoon himself Musco.

Rift has many features SWTOR doesnt. One is the ability to record in game and upload to youtube. And, it also lets players CHOOSE how to do their Warfronts, which also have mounts and are much fun

Good luck in getting the devs to post more than twice in a week. Not a single word from them yesterday. The EU servers have been experiencing huge lag spikes since the patch Tuesday and they still remain mute. Worse Community & Dev team in the history of MMO gaming.

Its been introduced to help against kiting. But just another stun to the endless collection

the server populations are light longer for a reason

6 months ago they were actually adding stuff on a regular basis and fixing stuff. Fast forward to today and....

yeah pings high from my standard 20 its sitting from 60-100+ My ISP is fine, other games are fine - what a shock - its SWTOR AGAIN! Just switch the game off and put us all out of our misery.

It is?

You really need to wonder what the so called community team do all day because they hardly engage with the community at all. But its been like that for a long time. EA don't understand community so things won't improve there. It was the worst thing LucasArts did - handing over total control of this game to EA. The lack of care and attention is all around. From the lazy new skill trees that have zero balance, to yet another broken bolster(5 months and counting), to the game breaking SoR end battle(2 months to fix) and then Low Slash. But really, people should stop complaining and just vote by cancelling their sub. Hundreds have already and mine thankfully runs out in 11 days. The fact EA doesnt even mention this game now when it comes to its financials tells you just how far up their list of 'we dont give a ****' SWTOR is - its at the top. And if fools continue to pay, thats your own fault.

It's a skill but not automatic. If their detection level says 10 - its meters. It increases every second. If they level cover, it resets. 30 meters is the max, so if it says 30 and you are 25 meters, they will detect you, HOWEVER....I have noticed that they must be looking in that direction to notice you. Not their face or body, but if the player rotates his camera in any direction and you are there - he will see you. If they are facing front and you come from behind, they won't.

It may not always work if you come up against Snipers/Gunslingers. If you see one, before you get close - click on them to see what number their stealth detection is. Each tick = 1 meter of detection roughly with a max of 30 meters. You can use blackout and charge in but you need to be quick as you've only a few seconds before they detect you.

they dont test or play their own game. Do what hundreds of others have done and unsub

Its not the point. Players pay a sub to pay for REGULAR updates. The players shouldn't be punished because Bioware are pure lazy.

LMAO fell off my chair reading that. It really is hard to find anything positive about PvP right now. Bioware have sucked the life out of it. People are complaining because they WANT to pvp, they like to pvp, they like SWTOR but Bioware find it difficult to accept that PvP SHOULD be in their game. Its NOT The Sims but turning in to it with each update.

As others have mentioned, get yourself to 2018 expertise and go from there. Depending on your class you will need to look at ways of grabbing medals. Remember 8 is the limit for achieving max coms/xp/valour/rewards so that should always be your target. Just be mindful you will get farmed and killed quickly. If you are a stealth class and you are guarding - NEVER enter in to combat immediately if you SEE an enemy approaching. ALWAYS call, then cc with the stun dart/mind zap if you are Agent/Sin spec. Wait for help to arrive then engage in combat. However, if its another stealth player, do the same if you can - zap and call and wait for help. If no help actually arrives ( and this is increasing), then do the best you can and again, use your class strengths in combat.