Omenoah Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 (edited) Hello fellow members of the SW:ToR community! I have decided to write this article concerning the various issues plaguing player verses player warzones and world PvP areas. With your help and constructive criticism I believe we can provide the development team with a list of common problems, bugs, and concern with PvP in this game. A little about myself! I am a seasoned online game player, I have been playing MMOs since Everquest, and have been looking forward to a new Star Wars MMO since the Combat Update hit Star Wars Galaxies. I play a level 50 Sith Juggernaut with 7 days and 13 hours played on him since early access, I have been PvPing relatively nonstop since I reached 50, I am valor rank 41 and have a full mixed set of champion / centurion gear. Overall my game experience has been a good one and I can see myself playing TOR for years to come -- if they put the same passion into improving the game as they obviously did to make it. Without further delay my list of problems I have experienced! 1. While leveling I ran the game at maxed settings, my amd catalyst control center forced 4x anti aliasing, I didn't turn off shadows, I didn't adjust the properties of the launcher, and I didn't edit the .ini file in any way. My game never once dropped below 60 FPS, even in taris before it was fixed and was still freezing people. The moment I reach level 50 I queue up for a Warzone without delay it pops and I get in excited for my first real battle since seeing that one republic fellow at level 35. I enter The Civil War am promptly told what I have to do, capture some cannons, and the fight is under way. After landing my speeder I notice a bit of chop in my visuals, paying it no mind. I proceed to middle to start a fight I charge in to the first enemy I see and am barraged with a wave of blaster fire. It's at this point that my FPS drops from 30+ to roughly 5. I'm sure most of you reading can guess what I do after the game! I tab out and begin searching for anything I can find regarding visual lag in warzones using google and the forums. I find various articles about disabling shadows, changing the compatibility settings to disable visual themes and disable desktop composition, disabling the Aero theme in the windows 7 display options. I even went as far as to turn everything in my AMD catalyst control to the lowest visual highest performance settings and ran the program at a lower resolution. Some of these tweaks yielded results, my frame rate is about 15-20 now. But no where near the blazing fast speed of the open world zones. I have noticed that this issue is most annoying on the civil war map and I suspect like many others on these forums that the cannons blasting away at the republic or imperial ships and the resulting explosions are the culprit, but who am I to know. I still do get visual lag on voidstar and Huttball just not as severe. 2. Missing textures, vanishing floors, and floating lightsabers. Occasionally after several hours of play when I enter a warzone some of the floor textures vanish from certain angles, not only do the floors go missing when this happens but everything standing on them boxes, players, special effects, health bars, everything besides the glowing blades of peoples lightsabers. This problem is simple to fix, a relog will do the trick, but when servers had a 400+ wait time relogging was something one would have to consider. I am not sure what causes this bug as I have not been able to repeat it on a whim, though it happens to me once every other day. From my experience this only happens in warzones and ilum. 3. Warzone wins not counting towards the daily / weekly win X warzone quests. Just yesterday it took me 7 wins for my win 3 warzones daily to actually complete. After going on to win 5 games I was still at 2/3, it took another 2 wins before the quest was finally completed. The wins that did not count towards the daily were both hutt ball and Void Star, they were rather quick so perhaps it has to do with the timing at which the game is over? Again I am unsure as to the cause of this bug as it is also seemingly at random. 4. This one is a doosy. The dreaded "You are not eligible for this conversation" bug, yet another one I am oblivious as too the cause, I clicked on my ships door one morning at 4am and some red text popped up on my screen informing me that I was not eligible for this conversation. Now first off, having a conversation with a door is something that could only happen in the future and is quite awesome in its own right. What was not awesome was that the ship that I had been flying for the past few weeks was not allowing me inside, I was a traveler stranded on the imperial fleet whilst my Robot sipped tea with my crew members and vette laughed as I was stuck outside of the unable to give her the required daily shocking. I relogged, I restarted, I logged out for 10 minutes, I rebooted my machine none of it worked. Not being able to converse with my primary mode of transportation for an hour I decided to queue for more warzones. It eventually fixed itself, but I don't think driving around the hanger in a circle 4 times is the solution to this bug. Please refrain from class and game balance discussion in this thread unless it's in reference to a bug or problem you have experienced. I would also like to make note that in addition to criticism for the development team I would be happy to hear any about this post as well. I would like it to be as neat as possible and rather easy on the eyes to read! This concludes my post for now as I have to return to work. I will be updating this post as often as I can, daily if the influx of new posts seems steady. I would like to reiterate what is written in the title, please do not post any hate or flames in this thread, just the problems you have experienced in your TOR game play preferably regarding PvP, but other bugs are welcome! I thank all of you readers for your time DOUBLE THANKS for any who post. -Insomnia Edited December 29, 2011 by Omenoah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTerrito Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Font totally turned me off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooraan Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Most of what you said had nothing to do with PvP........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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