The-Kaitou-Kid Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 As the title says, the gift droids are broken now. Since snowballs can only be used on players, the gift droids serve no purpose since they can't be hit with snowballs. This includes the overheated gift droids, as far as I can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimmidice Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 This really needs a fix ASAP. I want to get my brother (who just started playing) some life tree decos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Wulff Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 I was just logging in to make this post The snow balls are not working on the overheated droids. If you have last years snowball cannon it will work and you can collect parcels and holo trees with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerileth Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 So last year people were throwing their snowballs at their companions and turning off the buff. Instead of thinking it through, BW blanket nerfed all npcs including the droids. God forbid people get 999 decos of holo trees. I mean giving all the bugs still in the game ( some since launch) this was high on the list after the Lifeday event was over. Well, I doubt we'll get a new patch by EOY. And some are saying the cannon is not available. Is this confirmed? I thought I saw it there today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IshtarScorpio Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 People can use last years equipment, but apparently, you need to get infected with the plague, take the antidote, when it wares off do it all over again. Nice going bioware. LOL if it wasn't so sad it would be funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaspie Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Same issue. With CXP, I suspect they can't make it possible to target too many NPCs, although you'd think they could put a flag on gift droids that allows them to be targeted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RameiArashi Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 People in in game chat say the snowball cannon works on droid. The bomb doesn't. Most people dont have the cannon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lashalla Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Yes, I am watching those with the snowball cannon successfully target the droids... Very disappointed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirose Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 I'm having this problem too....not sure how to get a snowball cannon. I looked in the vendor and didn't see it. They need to fix this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IshtarScorpio Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 I'm having this problem too....not sure how to get a snowball cannon. I looked in the vendor and didn't see it. They need to fix this. It was an item from last year's event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_mike Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 It was an item from last year's event. It may still be listed on the GTN. I know I had 5 stashed and they went real quick this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrra_T Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 It may still be listed on the GTN. I know I had 5 stashed and they went real quick this morning. And it is unlockable IF you have it so you can pull for new characters. However that doesn't help anyone who didn't buy it last year or wasn't playing last year. I have the cannon not a problem for me personally but the snowballs need to be fixed asap for new players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IshtarScorpio Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 And it is unlockable IF you have it so you can pull for new characters. However that doesn't help anyone who didn't buy it last year or wasn't playing last year. I have the cannon not a problem for me personally but the snowballs need to be fixed asap for new players. One of my characters has it but I didn't see it as an unlock with the vendor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neshira Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 This is very frustrating. My server is dead so being unable to target NPCs basically means not being able to participate. I hardly ever see another living soul to throw snowballs at unless I were to spend hours on fleet or something instead of playing as I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrra_T Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 One of my characters has it but I didn't see it as an unlock with the vendor. Look in collections, then under Events, then Holidays, you should find the Cannon there to unlock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirose Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 It was an item from last year's event. Thanks. Just looked it up and the price is way too high ranging from 29 million to 100 million credits. I'll have to wait until they fix the overheated droids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falmark Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 (edited) Is it a bug or have they made it that way ? Cause if they only made it so that people who got the cannon last year can get gift from droids, its a very effective to stop people from doing the event. Edited December 14, 2016 by Falmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooty Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Is it a bug or have they made it that way ? Cause if they only made it so that people who got the cannon last year can get gift from droids, its a very effective to stop people from doing the event. I have not seen any response from BW yet. If the snowball bomb is "working as intended", they didn't think it through very well. All they have done is enable people who salted away cannons last year to make a killing on the GTN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Post EricMusco Posted December 14, 2016 Dev Post Share Posted December 14, 2016 As the title says, the gift droids are broken now. Since snowballs can only be used on players, the gift droids serve no purpose since they can't be hit with snowballs. This includes the overheated gift droids, as far as I can tell. Thank you for the report, the team is aware and looking at addressing this soon. I will pass on updates as I have them. -eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirUrza Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 (edited) I find it amusing that the attempt to stop players from farming their companions has resulted in everyone that didn't buy a rocket launcher last year not being able to participate in the event this year. Edited December 14, 2016 by SirUrza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adric_the_Red Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 People can use last years equipment, but apparently, you need to get infected with the plague, take the antidote, when it wares off do it all over again.Um, no. The snowball thing has absolutely no connection with the Rakghoul plague. Used my snowball cannon many times to get parcels by targeting players, companions, NPCs.... all without ever getting, never mind removing, the Rakghoul plague. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elssha Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 They should add the cannon to the lifeday vendor for like 50 boxes or 250k problem solved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiVaN_ Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 It seems like this should have been the FIRST thing a good quality assurance team would have checked or possibly a good question for a developer to have asked themselves when deciding to make this change. If I take away the ability to throw snowballs at NPC's how will players be able to throw snowballs at the gift droids? The SWTOR devs make a lot of mistakes that indicate that they tend to get tunnel vision when working on projects and changes. If I made the kind of mistakes these guys make I would have lost my job a long time ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VerotikaJanaki Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 This makes me sad as a returning player. I live for these events but sadly I have noticed sooooooo many bugs since I came back. I thought the one where it zoomed in on people breast during the end scenes of the chapters was bad, but the droid one kind of made me say.. really?? Like I get no target NPC even though it's been going on for like 3 years but is it really hard to QC work now a days or is it really hurry up and rush to put it out and fix later. Hopefully they fix soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDaMoZ Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 As a new player who subbed and started playing a few weeks ago i have found out that this event, in its current state, is hardly any fun. It took me 5 hours of snowballing players standing in one spot, clicking players and pressing a button every 15 seconds, just to get the first 100 parcels and i'd need about 400 more to get everything once. Yet I see so many old players boasting their 80-100 parcels an hour in chat because they still have the cannon and it really feels like a punch in the gut, especially when the math says i need to snowball players for about 20 more hours. 20! What madness is this?!? I would've liked to see a serious increase in the parcel chance for snowballs (while lowering the cp gain per parcel of course), lower the snowball cooldown by at least 10 seconds, make the snowball an AoE radial like a grenade and tag everyone inside or simply lower the initial price on items. Sure, these suggestions might not fit a profitable business model but you know, sometimes you just gotta have some fun and not think about all those pockets with their pennies just sitting there. Besides all those pennies are much more likely to roll your way when all those happy and cheerful people, who didn't have to grind their sanity away during this event, want to reward themselves or spread the cheer and do some holiday shopping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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