I always que solo, and yeah.. I dont' care at all . For me objective play has become very boring and my only focus is killing and dueling others . Yeah, I am a horrible person , but someone has to be like me . And yeah, I am ranked player as well . You know after you play a zillion games, and see what kind of parody unranked has become, you really start not caring anymore... A lot of people in unranked have no idea that resolve bar exists at all , and they are also unaware of a lot of game mechanics ,which results in them getting face walked by more experienced nerds that actually wanted to learn everything there is to PVP in this game . And please don't tell me that someone who is bad in Wow doesn't get deleted by veterans the same way as in Swtor . Everyone has the right to post their opinions but at the end of the day , face it .. it's PVP, you get walked over sometimes. Just get over it .

Give it a rest already. Lowbies and mids were already garbage ever since 5.0 popped up with the command system and even more so now with this gearing system . Basically there absolutely no point playing anything but endgame level PVP . And based on their decisions, Bioware doesn't want you to play too much low and mid pvp either .

Unranked on DM pops almost 24/7 . Yes, early morning is with low population but still , the game makes games for the sake of pops and not for the sake of quality of matches when it comes to arenas . Especially when the population is low in the mornings.

The hate comes from the fact that arena type of PVP is very darvinistic in nature. I mean if you don't know what to do, you are instantly deleted from the round and you are a huge drag for your team .. The complainers are usually bad players that cannot run around in arenas like they do in normal 8v8 and pretend they know what they are doing .. I know this because I was an avid arena hater myself. And yes, I sucked big time... Now, the biggest problem with unranked arenas is that they often pop as 3v4 , 2v4 games or one has healer and other does not . This is very annoying , but we all know that it happen for the sake of having a game . If they fixed this, arenas would pop very very rarely .

Well, unlike PVP, GSF actually has some kind of tutorial if I remember correctly. I know I played it years ago when I wanted to get into GSF . I have no experience with other MMO's so I don't know what's the situation there. WoW for example has more hardcore PVP community ? If so , why is that and why don't we have that in this game as well ? SWTOR seems to focus heavily on super casualism and the players that are good at PVP are the ones that spent time and dedicated themselves at becoming better by reading guides, dueling , parsing or whatever ... How to play arenas and how to play maps ? You can find information about how to approach maps in PVP guides written by other players.

As much as it pains me to say it, Solo Ranked is the most viable form of PVP this game has to offer at the moment . In these past months in dedicated all my game time to it and whenever I que unranked, I am shocked to see how garbage it has become over the years. It was much better in late 4.0 early 5.0 , but over the years due to dev lack of caring , it's a PVP parody . This game likes very much to put veteran premades vs teams that are composed of mostly new players and bads. I just don't understand the fun in that. I have nothing against premades, I consider them normal in an MMO, but man... running around with a team that has players that don't focus obj, don't guard, don't call, don't focus healers, is just a waste of anyone's time . Why would you want to participate ? Also , the new win only requirement makes it much much worse . So for this reason ranked is the only PVP form that is fast and it's totally random players with real competition . Not really sure what Bioware's intentions are with unranked, but it needs some kind of help . Also, it's not the players fault they have no clue about how they should PVP with their classes. This game offers them 0 help in that regard and 0 incentive to actually learn the classes.

They complain about arenas in regs because they are terrible at them... I don't think it's something new that most unranked players are horrible at arenas . Arenas pop rarely and these people have no chance to learn how to play them properly. Arena maps are a totally different game mode with different approach to obj pvp.

learn to deal with it... after all, this is what the pvp community made of 5 ppl on these forums have asked for . create incentives for go for wins and deal with quitters. all this non stop crying over unranked is just annoying . regs is garbage . what is so hard to understand ? It's full of random noobs who get teamed up vs veteran premades . There is nothing Bioware can do about these bads who end up at 75 , and don't even know what interrupt is . Bioware killed off lowbie PVP , there is no point doing it and made the game super easy . Your companion can do everything for you, while you are out walking your dog . This has results in players unaware of how to properly use their classes both offensively and especially defensively . Compared to 4.0 era when started out, this current unranked ist just a clown fiesta and I don't see this changing anytime soon. What needs to change asap is the removal of this WIN ONLY thing and the removal of lock out timers. Sorry Bioware, I just don't feel like playing your horrible hutball 4 times in a row. Nor do I want to play 3 voidstars ... Gives us option to pick maps or remove this nonsense .

He is talking about players that go straight to the top every year, the same people . Unlike you , they don't try anything. They just end up there instant , as natural as breathing or walking . While others really struggle with it and fail at some point along way . Ar they that good ? I don't know ... maybe . There are players that do everything right all the time, but they also have a few 10 thousand games in their pocket as well .

Where did I say that I farm mats ? I wasn't even talking about mat farmers. There are decent teams not for the mats, but they get stomped and they quit queing. The idea is to get an enemy that is close to your level , but that won't be always the case.

I meant your number of cases and deaths aren't any worse than in a state that had full lockdowns.

On Darth Malgus more people are clearly not queing team ranked anymore because there is little reason to do so. You get farmed by try hard elite teams that are in que 24/7 . If you dont' win, you get nothing... So if I make a decent team, I have to hope that there is mat farmers in que or some other team trying to have some games in order to have a chance at winning. Que dodging tryhards sometimes takes long and you wait 30 or more mins to get a decent game. Otherwise you just lose. This team ranked system is just garbage and just favors 1% of the quers that collected over 14 bil credits due to mats and have kept the price of new augments at 500 mil / piece. Is that normal to you ? I doubt devs intended this and if they haven't forseen it, it's just sad. Season 9-10 was perfect for team ranked because everyone got what they were after, but as usual, this wonderful community of 5 players from the forums demanded mats to be removed , becuz it's not competitive . Which lead to the instant death of team ranked. It's not like it's more alive today. But if you listen to 5 ppl on the forums that speak up for the entire community that's what you get.

All the best to your mother ... Heard you are doing pretty well in Florida, despite having no real restrictions like other states.

Well , they had that live stream last december ? Pretty long one and not a single mention about PVP, despite the forums being full of threads asking for some changes. And then you had ppl complaining about how certain guilds abuse conquest , especially on DM and guess what ? Got instant change in lest than one month. At that point I gave up . Just enjoy the game. It's a game after all. Nerf this, buff that ... this has been going for how many years and we are still nowhere . Some classes wreck others with , 3, 4 hits and others get nuked within seconds,they are so bad . Guess this will never change. It's a matter of " who's time is it to be FOTM "

You can thank this wonderful community... They've been complaining about leavers and how they should get que locked , also they complained that ppl aren't trying. Bioware listened and made the changes. Now they complain cause they don't like it. We are stuck in endless hutball and voidstar pops ... Best way is to not care about PVP more than necessary in a PVE game, because everyone knows devs focus in heavily directed in other areas of the game that have a lot more activity going on.

Good luck recovering from that disaster ...and thanks for the update. Been waiting for it for so long.

Yes , this is a pretty self destructive community... Giving Bioware feedback, Bioware making changes, ppl not happy about changes . On the other hand, Anthem wasn't one of their best moments by far. I was a huge fan of this company since their great rpg games from the mid 2000's but Anthem I think was their worst moment . It was bad even on initial in game footages and wasn't much better after release . I watched tons of reviews and opinions, also comments and rumours about what went behind scenes , and it wasn't good. I don't blame them. Maybe the initial idea was great, but for some reason they couldn't properly execute it... I never played it, because for me it's just ugly and repulsive. But I am sure there are people that do enjoy it. SWTOR is still here and in my opinion outlived their own expectations. They probably didn't expect it to last 10 years and to be this active. Because let's face it, despite this doomsayer " game is dead " community , the game is doing pretty well in terms of population. I would do even better, IF more attention and resources were put into it.

There are " conspiracy theories" about some players from this select club of ranked players you speak about having influences among devs ,and about the fact that they talk on discord about things.. etc. If you do a search about ranked on Steam forums, you will find threads about players complaining about the same things you mention and they posted screenshots to back up their claims. I am in no position to judge whether this is true or not, but I learned to not give a **** ck . I played late this season because I wanted the nice stuff and I put in the effort to earn them . Once I saw I have enough to buy what I want , I lost motivation and started playing like crap and I stopped. It's enough for me. This wintrading and cheater stuff is out of anyone's control and worrying about it isn't worth it. How do you know your friends didn't earn their bans ? You can't tell ... Even criminals state their are innocent in court. You said that even silver needs some work . Yes, it can happen.. Most players will think you are bad and that's about it. The truth is that the vast majority of players are rated between bronze and silver and a small minority makes it to gold and top spots. You should que ranked cause it's fun and thrilling... Let the traders and cheaters have their flairs if that's what they want.

Why do you care so much ? What difference does it make to you that some guy gets top 3 cheated or legit ? Just play and worry less about what others are doing...

I hope not.. It pops too much as it is .

If it was otherwise, you would be complaining about long que times are and how unfair it is that you are punished as a high rated player with not getting enough pops. The fix is simple. Just scrap this system and make another one that is not designed for 1v1 chess games . You are against that as well . So there is no satisfying you what so ever.

Hope they are all safe... I looked up some articles regarding the situation on TX, and while they are recovering , we might not get the patch any time soon, meaning until march. Let's hope we hear from them soon.

Apart from the mysterious showing up of bads , a lot of meme ranked players have qued in these 2 weeks , which could have impacted your experience . I mean if out of 10 players in que, 8 are top and you are one of the remaining 2 average players , the chances of you getting into losses are quite high because of the simple fact that all the others are simply better/more experience than you are . I gave this example as an explanation of my own failings . I was doing reasonably well up until they put up the rewards, and the only possible explanation I had for my drop in wins is the fact that I am average and with the come back of more skilled players , I got outplayed by them on multiple occasions most likely .

Man, I love your obsession with statistics and numbers , people that are curious about details are always worth of appreciation, but YOU of all people know how hard it is to prove that player x is using player y to boost his rating. Also, let's not forget that even you at some point, not so long ago, did what they are doing. It's always the same people on the top spots of these boards. Last week I was fortunate enough to play with and against one of the top sins on DM . At the time I didn't know that he is a top player on the board, but he was really nothing special at all, yet he is top and others are not and will most likely never be . How ? I don't know, nor do I care and I will never understand why so many of you obsess about these players.

People don't hate PVP... SWTOR is a heavily PVE focused game that allows you to play PVP as wel.. but it's more like a mini game . The vast majority of income is generated from cartel market and casual subs who enjoy their stories and missions . Getting good at PVP requires some work and it is something that the vast majority are unwilling to do and the game does nothing at all to encourage them towards PVP or make them learn anything about class mechanics and game mechanics. Devs focus is appropriate as well. Years of non stop threads about PVP problems on this forum without any action or developer reply, but one month of crying over how other guilds own conquest results in an instant change and fix in the next patch. I hope its not unclear what this game is focused on from now on. But simply answer your question: You have to fight vs other players, which means you might get owned . And most players don't want that. It's a fragile ego thing.