death from above! coolest one in the game o:

Underdeveloped idea: Different instance of the Grey Secant, or some other Gree ship. Plays into their whole "hey we want to watch you guys fight each other" story of the Gree recurring event.

lonely in here :[

Awesome job to all of those teams that turned out for ranked last night. I may not have been a part of it, but I'm glad that we are finally getting a bunch of good teams that queue up and enjoy 8v8 ranked while we still can. Keep up the good work all. You will only keep getting better by playing more together, and learning how to counter certain strats and tactics. Oh, and SHOUT OUTS to Buffdog, Medicus, and Nui for the pub side groups. I actually got to play a little scrapper scoundrel, felt good getting the old flying fists and noobtube warmed up.

This is akin to removing ranked 8v8, whereas it is trying to make pvp more accessible. I understand and do approve of this logic. More people playing pvp is a good thing. But do not remove rewards for actually winning. Do not remove incentives from an already almost fruitless facet of the game.

Possibly true, but people already join warzones and then do not contribute to the team effort of actually WINNING. So people won't leave, great. That does not mean they will try to compete.

This just in: you don't have to PVP to finish the PVP missions, just join a few matches and walk away.

Expect to see plenty of people queuing up and going afk, or deliberately getting killed, just to farm comms.... should be lots of fun to queue solo.

Did you not see the 30+ page thread of people who want to keep 8v8 ranked in the game? Yeah, those people like playing objective pvp....

I think BW is trying to make endgame pvp MORE accessible to players. Removing bolster would make it LESS accessible. Unless you want them to bring back recruit gear...

Perhaps I should have said "the story," implying the fact that it takes place in the Star Wars universe. Which is an integral part of the draw of the story. But there are other games out there people can play if they just want to swing a lightsaber around.

The main selling point to this game, since day one, has been story..

At first I thought that the role based matchmaking system would take care of this... then i re-read the blog post. It only mentions the role based matchmaking when solo queuing ranked... This is specifically talking about RANKED, not regular queue. So yeah, that is going to be possible... absolutely hilarious.

Just reiterating a few questions that I have not seen addressed:

you could roll a sent

8v8 is what made the pvp in this game interesting. It's what currently keeps pvp alive on pve servers. This is essentially killing it. They might as well remove the 8v8 warzones altogether. The number of people who leave warzones will be even higher now. As people looking for arenas will drop from 8v8, and people wanting 8v8 will drop from arenas. Why will I waste my time sitting through another ancient hypergate or novare coast if I am not getting anything other than a few regular wz comms for it? The fact that 8v8 ranked is broken is inarguable. But what attempts were made to fix it? And why implement a solo ranked queue for 4v4? Could that not have been done for 8v8? The problem is there is no good reason for your average pvper to do ranked. The amount of effort and coordination to perform well in ranked versus the rewards you get are laughable at best. However, if you adjust the options for players... if you have ranked 8v8 matches with separate solo and 8man team queues, then the reward is that you get to continue to play the objective based gametype and earn the same rewards that you can in arenas. Maybe the 8v8 ranked matches will be few a far between, but at least you can queue solo and get grouped with people of similar mindset, that enjoy the 8v8 gameplay. This would however bring the whole random grouping into play. And it was stated in the blog post that they weren't ready for matchmaking based on roles for 8v8. I give up lol

Pretty much what I was saying earlier in this thread... Has not been addressed by a Dev yet. It seems so obvious that people will do this, so I am hoping that they have some sort system to deter it.

If I am playing a hybrid Sawbones/Dirty Fighting scoundrel, what role am I filling? Do i still get to play? Just a hypothetical, I'm sure you guys thought about this, as there are other hybrids out there that float in between two roles.

Op/Scoundrel heals and Smash have been over played for how long in 8v8? Why should we believe that "appropriate action" will take place now? You are taking away the ability to respec when queuing to join a RANDOMLY composed team... Have you played on a team of 4 healers, 3 tanks, and 1 dps? it's not fun, and it already happens all the time... now we dont even have to option to fix it. Why did I spend my CC on field respec for all of my toons? The same thing that is happening with Ranked 8v8 will happen with Ranked 4v4. The optimal team comp will be the only thing people queue up with. And as for solo queuing 4v4 using a role based system.. How likely is it going to be to get teamed up with the same people over and over? I may not be the best player, but if I am getting teamed up with dps that can't put up more than 200dps, why am I going to keep playing? At least with 8v8, you can carry a few sub-par players. But 4v4 solo queue will be a nightmare.

How will you balance the rewards with this 4v4 system to a point that does not encourage trade killing? Seems like it will be WAY too easy to farm ranked comms by having 2 teams just trade wins back and forth... and with your matchmaking system.. their ratings will go up equally as well, only encouraging it more. The rewards for wins have to be really low, and the points for actual combat action medals need to be high. Otherwise people will just take the easy route. You will need to implement a HUGE number of medals that people can earn to give them something worth actually competing for.

I think you may be lost...

I want my name on PoT5 /cry

merrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... haven't talked to anyone in awhile, but if all of those folks are going, I guess I am too

http://i.imgur.com/cGAfVFy.jpg blah

I apologize for not being around to carry pubs recently.