pluffet Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Anyone know if bioware is making flashpoints easyer to find people for? It takes me an hour ussally to get a full group for a flashpoint I remeber in world of Warcraft getting a group for dungeons was so simple. you just clicked what your spec was then clicked which dungeon you wanted then the game found players for you to do the dungeon with you it would only take 10 to 30 minutes but you didn't have to wait or anything. So does anyone know if there doing something like that with swtor and if they are when are players going to be able to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalterien Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Please keep in mind that for WoW the LFG feature did not come out until Burning Crusade or later (it's been so long I don't really remember), that's not to deride from the fact that it would have been nice feature for BW to include in the initial release of SWTOR. I just remember having to look for over an hour just to find a group for anything 8 years ago and it seems the same is happening again. The other thing for a LFG tool it may be more practical to have a larger pool to draw from and that *may* require cross server implementation which I'm also not a huge fan of because you tend to find people who are less sportsmanlike/helpful when you know that the likelihood of you running into the same bunch of group mates to be astronomically low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellvaan Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 (edited) Greetings Pluffet! We have a few sources of information for you in regards to our Group Finder feature which is coming in Game Update 1.3! From our Community Q + A Blog for April 27th, 2012: Lovarboy: Will we get dual spec with Game Update 1.3? Daniel: Unfortunately, no. Game Update 1.3 is being kept a bit leaner to get the Group Finder and the next stage of Legacy in the game as fast as possible. After that we’ll be returning to some bigger updates and we’re hoping dual spec makes it for the next one. From our latest Star Wars: The Old Republic Official Podcast Episode I, you can find the following information: Eric: Speaking of systems that we are going to be able to iterate on, why don’t we talk a little about 1.3? 1.3 is our next content patch that is coming out, why don’t you guys talk a little bit about what players can expect to see in 1.3? Damion: 1.3 is, well, it is the group finder patch. That’s not the official name, but really that is our top priority. We have some other features that we are going to go and put inside of it but really this is us really getting a group finder to you guys as fast as humanly possible. Brooks: I am super excited about group finder because that is one of the biggest things that I have run into in lower game is finding groups and actually being able to run those flashpoints that I get. For players who have maybe never used a group finder before, and I know we have plenty of those, what is that actually going to look like in the game? Damion: It is fairly simple and basically what we want to do is to give you a really simple front end that you can use as well as those give you the ability to fine tune your choices a little more so the really simple approach is you open a group finder you choose what role - tank, heal or DPS - that you are willing to fulfill and you can choose multiple if your class can fill multiple and then you choose what kind of content that you want to do and that content is going to be flashpoints, heroic flashpoints, operations although story mode operations only for now and then world content, the planetary content where you basically say I want a quest on Belsavis. Then if you hit select from there, then it will try to find people who want to do that stuff. Now if there is a particular dungeon or particular planet that you want to do by default what it does it gets you to the level of appropriate flashpoints for you. If you really want to the quest in the Mandalorian Raiders flashpoint for example you can go and unselect everything else and just say, "Hey, I just want to sign up for that." And the group finder will try to find other people who are looking for that content as well so that is a great way for you to target certain quests that you want to accomplish. We felt that was important in our game because of where the game is right now where people are trying to clear out their quest logs and accomplish certain goals in certain places. We are going to go ahead and close this thread in the interest of consolidating discussion. If you would like to discuss the Group Finder feature, we ask that you do so in this thread: Patch 1.3 Dungeon Finder If you would like to discuss our latest podcast, you can do so in this thread: Star Wars: The Old Republic Official Podcast Episode I We hope this helps! Edited May 14, 2012 by Ellvaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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