Memorize Posted October 30, 2015 Posted October 30, 2015 So, Me and my wife always play games together. Weather it be online or not but we cannot seem to even care about playing swtor anymore, and here is why... We spend our about a good 10 minutes or so creating our characters. Her more like 15 and me like 2 minutes and jump in the game. She wants to play a Operative and I a new Power Tech. Good though the intro, getting excited and carry on to the slew of mailbox items we both have. Sets, Crystals, Titles, Mounts. A little bit of house keeping, drop off some credits and away we go. Or so we thought... She does her story missions, I do mine and we quickly realize this streamed out leveling experience is just going to end up doing class missions and the story arcs or planets so we're not really playing with each other. I don't think we took part of any conversation together in Hutta. We cannot play together with class missions being the main source of xp because we don't wanna jump in each others stories. Just to turn around and do it again with another story. We didn't even finish Hutta before we thought this isn't playing together, this isn't anything. It is just us following each other. So this is what we did... We made new characters. This time since my wife REALLY wants to play the Agent story hearing so many good things about it we decided to BOTH make agents. One Operative, and one Sniper. Good to go. Riiiiight... I forgot. So I unchecked the ole tick in the box "Share class story missions" just to realize that nothing has changed still. We cannot be the only ones with this problem. We do NOT want to do each phase twice, we do NOT want this to be like leveling two different classes. Why... I don't get it. I really don't. This is painful. All I want to do is play a RPG, online, with my awesome nerdy wife and enjoy the night without cumbersome stupid phasing or functions. So why can we not just let the two classes play together in the same phase and when a decision is to be made in the class arc who ever wins the roll that's the outcome for both players. For example I decide to kill person A. My wife wants to save person A. I win the roll. person A is dead. Now sadly my wife is playing later on and we are not together, she advances in her story and the repercussions of killing said person is still in effect. Because it happened. In short I just want to play a story arc in a co-op kind of manner and not be penalized for it. Add a system where conflicting decisions stick. Also, look into turning off this extra xp and maybe a system where two different classes can work together. Without having to add voice acting or something. This applies to the new expansion. Kotfe. It is basicly solo. We can only do so little together. I get that whole what about decisions matters crap. I just think very little effort was put into this game with the idea of co-op leveling that wasn't a FP, OP or PvP... There are a lot more smarter and good idea fairies around here and in Bioware where a fix can be put into the works. In the mean time, my wife and I are going to be Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition. Best new thing that we can do until this never get fixed or looked at. -Memorize, Founder.
branmakmuffin Posted October 30, 2015 Posted October 30, 2015 We cannot play together with class missions being the main source of xp because we don't wanna jump in each others stories. That's the way it worked before. If you choose not to watch each other's class stories, your choice.
dipstik Posted October 30, 2015 Posted October 30, 2015 i would think doing the planet mission together, and each of you soloing your class instances would be okay. i can understand some of the longer instances wishing the other person was there, but in those cases, you do it twice, and hopefully choose different convo options to keep it a little fresh.
Memorize Posted November 1, 2015 Author Posted November 1, 2015 (edited) I understand the whole doing it twice, or solo our content and group up for the planets missions. I just trying to point out that this is an MMO. I understand the need for solo content. It's just that I think there is too much solo content in this game. EDIT: Forced solo content. Edited November 1, 2015 by Memorize
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