Yespa Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 (edited) As the title states, this update is absolutely, freaking hilariously, amazing! No sarcasm intended. @Eric Musco Reasoning: After being let down by KOTFE primarily due to the level sync being forced and the loss of the unique character of HK and Treek, it was a bit off setting. As well as getting stoked for the story - only to find its same story across all classes, coupled with an individual grind for bases which should be legacy wide (at least throughout the faction.). Regardless! With today's announcement, and all the hype building up to it, the amount of letdown is at an epic level of hilariousness. This is literally the only thing besides a full KOTFE revamp that would get me to subscribe over the next year. The epic random return of HK which was identified to be due to player feedback, just makes this all the more awesome and worthwhile. WIth all the complainers, trolls, and whiners and the like over the years, attempting to threaten/bully/sour the economy and community - Eric's reactions to these wannabe mental noobs has been nothing short of hilarious and comical to say the least, even refreshing. Times when Eric warned everyone to stop complaining and whining on the forums otherwise they were gonna remove this and that, just made my and many other players days. Now with the Revenge of the HK expansion, everyone whining about stuff theyve been getting all along (pvp, operations, etc) cant handle the fact that a story driven game has finally gotten a story update of some value, got trolled hardcore yet again. All the meanwhile the twitch was all glad and happy go lucky, especially with their intro about all the positive posts from the first day of KOTFE launch. People over the years forget about how story driven players have gladly sat by and appreciated the extent of raids and pvp updates happening while awaiting story updates (the only reason many even play or come to the game in the first place, it is star wars, not pvp wars or raidcraft). Good job Eric, and even moreso for finding pretty much the only way to get me to drop a sub for a year. To all the trolls, here is a LOL for you meatbags Edited December 2, 2015 by Yespa Grammar
Yespa Posted December 2, 2015 Author Posted December 2, 2015 In the case that someone from the dev team, maybe even Eric would see this post, here are a few suggestions: Actual subscriber rewards - establish a ground zero start date, and for each month consecutive and overall, players get to pick a cartel item ranging from your choice and expanding as the time slots increase that is awarded as BoP only. Over time, development could create some unique rewards, this is something that would actually be nice to have. KOTFE Fixes: Make Level Sync have an on/off switch. It makes no sense whatsoever that a player who has been max level for four years is now kicked off his mount on a lv22 planet for example and ganked by npcs. Over and over, sure we can kill them, but this takes precious moments of time that can be spent doing other things. If you have to wall stuff like the weekly heroic 2 to be only awarded if under level sync, thats fine too. But forcing level sync is/was a bad and annoying move. Has the team given any thought to having it toggable? Realistically speaking, it would make more sense as well. Make Faction Bases legacy wide amongst the same faction. Example would be all my republic characters that have access to the base from chapter 9 would have Dr. Oggrubb at lv20, instead of having to grind up for each character. it wouldnt make toooo much sense for legacy wide regardless of faction, but technically u could do that too. The random mount/pet option was pretty cool, but needs some tweaking. First take rocket boosts out of the mount options, and put in a toggle on the ability page for each. That way we can remove mounts/pets we would rather not end up seeing/driving. This would be excellent. Player Housing: Besides the obvious Lets have a Manaan Bond-esque base, can we get an auto decorate function. It would have two separate functions, hosue wide or room wide, if the engine is capable of it. This would reduce the pain many of us have with the current decorating process. I was and still am an avid star wars galaxies decorator, so in no way do I not enjoy it, but our model for decorating is a bit tedious without the sandbox. Idea for additional alliance contacts: Allow us to recruit the NPCs in our Piloting Hangar! Im sure there will be others that would like to see the same. This has alot of potential. Reconsider Influence. With the massive amount of companions accessible, getting each and everyone of them across multiple characters to 50 is just insane. That should be a reasonably achievable goal, yet it is likely only a few % of players may ever reach it on one character let alone many. Consider giving each companion unique abilities similar to how HK and Treek operated pre-kotfe. HK had assasinate, which after receiving a buff for killing 5 enemies, would allow him to single kill a silver or regular mob regardless of health. Treek was quite versatile and now limited to one function at a time. Also consider the ability to toggle role in combat. We already had this ability in the past. We were able to switch stances in pre-kotfe, there is no reason we shouldnt be able to now. Give us more reasons to go back to the planets upon which KOTFE takes place. There is very little 65 world pve content released outside the story. Companions consider being made influence wise, universal per server. So for example, if I get Lana to influence 35 on my Knight, she would also be 35 on my smuggler or inquisitor for example. (as long as theyve progressed to a certain point as well. Increase the green data crystal acquisition rate. As of right now, they are quite low and would make a variety of grinds less time consuming. Thank you for fixing the clip through of the capes in vehicles, ive literally been waiting since beta for this to be fixed.
Icebergy Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 Can't tell if serious or troll thread. It's pretty obviously sarcastic.
dscount Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 I'd like to see the REAL REWARDS posted by the end of the year please. This was a belated April Fools joke I think. Not going to keep many SUBS at this rate Bioware.
Theeko Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 Yeah we really need Teemo as a companion and for everyone too !
Yespa Posted December 2, 2015 Author Posted December 2, 2015 Yeah we really need Teemo as a companion and for everyone too ! lol too funny
SteveTheCynic Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 Make Level Sync have an on/off switch. It makes no sense whatsoever that a player who has been max level for four years is now kicked off his mount on a lv22 planet for example and ganked by npcs. You are getting actually ganked by level 22 NPCs? Or is this the new version of "ganked", meaning "shot at"? My 65 Gunnery Commando (my only not-insta-60 65) can burn down anything she meets on ... hmm, level 22? Nar Shaddaa, no ... Taris, with the possible exception of world bosses, which I've never actually met anywhere but Coruscant. Red-ring trash, silver, gold, champion, doesn't matter, it all falls before the epic glory of her shiny red HBG. And as for getting knocked off your mount... There's still a few that don't offer decent knock-off protection. Don't use them. (The Longspur STAP that you get with the Digital Upgrade pack springs to mind. If I use it, I can get knocked off it. If not, not.)
alltooeasyactual Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 Good job Eric, and even moreso for finding pretty much the only way to get me to drop a sub for a year. Yep that is the great irony, I was going to be subscribed but now I have to consider not subscribing in January out of spite for the free HK-51 , sorry HK-55, giveaway. This has to be the longest bait & switch in history. THREE YEARS ago they bait with HK-51, and now they switch with HK-55 and charge you to get him. Really?
Yespa Posted December 2, 2015 Author Posted December 2, 2015 You are getting actually ganked by level 22 NPCs? Or is this the new version of "ganked", meaning "shot at"? My 65 Gunnery Commando (my only not-insta-60 65) can burn down anything she meets on ... hmm, level 22? Nar Shaddaa, no ... Taris, with the possible exception of world bosses, which I've never actually met anywhere but Coruscant. Red-ring trash, silver, gold, champion, doesn't matter, it all falls before the epic glory of her shiny red HBG. And as for getting knocked off your mount... There's still a few that don't offer decent knock-off protection. Don't use them. (The Longspur STAP that you get with the Digital Upgrade pack springs to mind. If I use it, I can get knocked off it. If not, not.) Generalizations my friend, also i have about 98% of all the mounts ever released, plus the walkers with extra protection. Like i said, yes is easy to burn them down, rather its stupid that a max level character since launch has to batt an eye at these mobs.
Yespa Posted December 2, 2015 Author Posted December 2, 2015 Yep that is the great irony, I was going to be subscribed but now I have to consider not subscribing in January out of spite for the free HK-51 , sorry HK-55, giveaway. This has to be the longest bait & switch in history. THREE YEARS ago they bait with HK-51, and now they switch with HK-55 and charge you to get him. Really? This is a completely different situation. Three years ago we had little clue as to having a HK droid join us, and the unique character on that companion to boot. Now, we had a story, and as a mass response to the companion dying, bioware optionally decided to reward the player base with a companion that we had lost. It could had been anything, and has less of an effect on gameplay cause it is just a skin now, and not a unique game changing companion unlike hk51 who decimated for quite a while. If people will pay, especially a majority, then they are doing something right, not wrong.
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