Wildcat
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In SWG I PVP'ed in space a lot, and my favorite ship to fly was the A-Wing. In that game, the skill of the player that crafted it for you mattered, and I had one that had more mass points than any on my server (traded a player city for it in fact...).
In this abomination of a space fighter sim, the scout doesn't seem especially agile (or is that the awful controls), or fast, and if a heavier fighter breaks wind in your direction you are dead.
Given how awful this thing is designed, the only way to get anything out of it is to fly the most heavily armed thing you can get, since pilot skill is IRRELEVANT, and at least having heavier guns and armor helps make it matter if you manage to get something to blunder into your sights.
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I've played nearly every space flight sim that has ever been released, from Elite, to the Wing Commander games, to XWing/Tie Fighter, and of course JTL in SWG.
This has got to be the most pathetic effort at a space flight sim I've ever seen. The controls need 3 hands (at least) and mouse control will NEVER be any good for flight. If you aren't willing to invest $20 in a joystick, you have no business playing a flight anything sim. And any flight sim that doesn't support a joystick is garbage.
Congrats, Bioware, you managed to F- up the only part of Star Wars that Sony didn't manage to screw up in SWG, the space game!
If this is your idea of spacefighter combat, you might as well have kept it "on rails" with us at the mercy of "combat pilot Drunken Monkey" who flies our ships constantly into asteroids, allowing us only to wiggle it a little...
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Can we just change the name back to the Fatman.
It's real name is Bloodfin. Uh, Bugfin.
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We're sorry, in an attempt to make Star Wars into World of Failcraft #derp we had to take communication back to the stone ages. You're iPhones have now been deleted.
Well, it is a LONG LONG time ago in a galaxy FAR FAR away. I guess they invented spaceships, blasters and hyperdrive before they invented LTE phones?
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This is a very good idea.
Make the legacy names unique, make them have to be chosen at character creation on the server.
Cryptic, despite the failure of STO came up with what I thought was the best naming system ever in a MMO, your account NAME is unique, then you can have any character name you want. IE: my account there was wildcat84, therefore, every character I made was charactername@wildcat84. Of course, the game doesn't display the @wildcat84...
This way everyone can have the names they want.
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Well, I guess it's time to finally figure out how to get KOTOR to work on Win7...
That's not hard to do. Main thing is to get it to work at higher resolutions, there are graphics patches out there for that.
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Just reboot the damn thing already.
I've got an old Commodore 64 laying around somewhere. I'll donate it to Bioware so they can upgrade the server.
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No, it can't possibly be that. Remember the dev's made this game in such a fashion that it could support unlimited number of people in any way you could imagine. That's why you have 100 billion loading screens.
Oh wait, server still can't handle more then 6 people fighting in the same area? LOL 15 months past launch and still fail...
HERO ENGINE, GOOD CHOICE BIOWARE.
Bioware jumped the shark with Dragon Age 2, the first bad game they ever made. SWTOR, jury still out. But they are MMO rookies.
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No in client mail is really really dumb. Since this is a future/sci-fi game and we are carrying around comlinks and datapads...
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I'm having serious SOE/SWG/Bugfin flashbacks. They could never keep the server up on a weekend either.
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BioWare has just attained Screwup Level: SOE
p.s. this is a bad thing
All I can say is that SOMEONE better be getting FIRED over this.
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We should book the people responsible for PVP on a holiday at Crystal Lake.
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This Dev team: The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
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And Bioware put this in because EVERYONE knows that long, endless mindless grinds to get a piece of gear IS MAGICAL FUN!
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removing the war zone rewards for loosing side just made everyone quit the second they think they might loose. way to boggle the pvp.
Yep. This mechanism only works if you can bring in your OWN 8 man group. When being forced to group with random idiots people bail at the first sign things are going south.
Could Bioware hire someone who actually has experience with PVP in a MMO? Please? Or did they blow that budget on coke and ******s?
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The biggest problem is that Bioware lacks any sense of URGENCY.
They don't realize that it's time to bring in the cots and the caffeine, and work until this is fixed. No, they think we'll be patient enough to wait.
WRONG.
If they stick to THEIR schedule instead of our expectations they will be well on their way to seeing half the servers close, half of them unemployed, and this game on it's way to FTP.
A lot of us were around for the NGE. We warned SOE that they didn't have months to fix the monster they wrought. They had weeks. AT BEST. Same thing here, Bioware.
Every day this inadequate patch 1.2 is live the more subs you lose. PERMANENTLY.
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The omission of the entirety of the pvp system and the fact that I had 5 days left on my subsrcriotion made my decision to cancel my account for me. I'm in good shape to always pick it up if that part of the game at least gets the attention 1.2 was initially going to have for us. No hater post here, the game had it's fun points, it just ran out of them to warrant my continual monthly fee. Cheers to those that got what they wanted from 1.2, pretty sure not too many pvpers are in a happy place right now, but good luck to you if you are still having fun!
1.2 is a lousy patch. All it has is stuff that should have been in AT LAUNCH.
FYI, most of the crap for sale for "legacy", such as the mail terminal on your ship WERE TAKEN OFF THE SHIP in beta!
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You can complain all night long about things not being perfect but complaining about withdrawing rated warzones at last hour makes no sense anymore with a free month given to you.
Only if they are in the game within that month. And I doubt it. This debacle has lowered my respect for this Dev team nearly to the level of the people who designed the NGE and said "Brilliant!".
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I'd pay to be a fly on the wall at Bioware today. >_>
I'd imagine the people in accounting have been screaming at management today about as much as we have.
If there was a showstopper with ranked warzones it SHOULD HAVE CAUSED THE WHOLE PATCH to be delayed!
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Why make pvp gear so easy to get and screw those that spent time actually earning it? You can buy cheap "Recruit" armor that has more expertise than champion gear did. Thanks for the big middle finger there guys.
Exactly. Those of us who PVP log in today with LESS than we had yesterday.
And 1.2 is supposed to be the "miracle patch"?
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Great job on the update. Your "new" team just ended the game. What a joke and waste of potential...
1.2 was supposed to be the "miracle patch".
It falls FAR short of it.
The PVP game is going BACKWARDS. Bioware has no right to expect anyone who's endgame is PVP to stick around.
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http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20120412-1
BioWare to offer 30 days FREE for those with a level 50 character.
Free Pets to all Legacy subscribers... more info in link above.
I don't agree with their presentation of the ranked warzone absence at all. As a software developer, I know that it would have taken hours/days effort to REMOVE part of a planned package from a specific roll out.
None of this affected me personally, but as a serious PvP'r I can feel bad for those that resubbed specifically for 1.2's ranked warzones.
In closing, while this is a serious error in resource management and a public relations nightmare, I do appreciate the gesture of 1 month free playtime.
Thank you.
Know what this tells you?
A LOT of people unsubbed when we got ambushed with the "HA HA! No ranked warzones" bait and switch. And I use that term on purpose. They tried to pull a fast one.
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Just wanted to point out:
Bioware clearly know that this is a big fubar, adn have given us all 30 days sub for free.
Kind of suggests they're looking to get it in within the next 4 weeks, and they're looking to keep people around for that long. Also suggests that they want to keep the numbers up for as long as is possible.
Funny, but quite a good turn around if you ask me.
When did THAT happen?
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1.2 has shattered many people's hopes for this game. Unless they pull off a miracle (they won't even try) very VERY quickly and put the missing features back in this game will be merging servers before summer and be free to play by fall.
Pay 2 win crowd taking over
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