Yeah. Shielding/absorb is worthless in PVP. You can't shield force or tech attacks. You can't shield crits. All you can shield are normal physical hits. Surpriseeeee.

I'm a huge Star Wars fanboy, but this game hardly has any of the good Star Wars EU lore, and they don't seem to have any interest in adding things they haven't made up themselves out of thin air. Makeb? Come on. I have emotional investment in any of their made up lore like I do for the established canon. Eternity Vault was just stupid. Having common enemies with the Empire just detracts from the animosity between the Reps and Imps. I might as well just read the books. They make more sense than what BioWare is doing.

The problem is that they aren't using much of the EU lore. There are dozens of planets in the EU they could have added to the game, and instead they made up their own. Can you imagine Yavin IV in this time period. The Massassi are a clear avenue of exploration (because they're not extinct), and I bet they haven't even thought of it. The Gree are just a minor footnote in EU lore and they pick them to focus on. Makeb doesn't even exist in the lore until they add it to this game. They could be adding the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine, Witches of Dathomir, any of the homeworlds of the Quaren/Mon Cal, Twi'leks, etc. The homeworlds of most of the playable races aren't even in the game. They're working nothing interesting into the game.

They raid, and they log off, because the game is stagnating. Hey BioWare. Enough with your made up lore that isn't very good. Start adding planets that already exist in the Star Wars universe. Makeb does not. I don't even care to see it at this point. The Gree? Come on. Who cares?

Personally I'm just sick and tired of made up lore that didn't exist before. I want existing Star Wars lore. Without it the game feels entirely too generic, no matter how many glowbats you throw into it.

I can assure you I scoured the mission log and there are no clues of any kind in the log except for the portions you get in the mail. The problem persists in the quest mechanics. When you are following the bounty hunter, who would possibly think that following someone means "look for little circles on the ground" instead of "where did that mob go?" I am following a mob, not a bouncing ball, at least make the points of interest footprints or paint scrapes on the wall or any kind of marking at all that a bipedal humanoid would make.

And there being 2000 of them around the planet does not scream, "Hey customs guys over here! A truck load of suspicious packages has appeared in town."? The existence of the smuggling crate portion is the worst part of the whole event, especially since you have to find about 20 to get the 6 quest items if the rng hates you. At the very minimum, a satisfactory introduction to the event indicating that one or more items may have been smuggled in pieceso onto the planet would have added some much needed context.

I saw zero indication of anything of the sort and I spent a couple of hours on it yesterday. Blindly stumbling across a smuggler crate is not my idea of a good clue either. Either way, bad implementation.

Yes. That's exactly what you're supposed to do.

I don't particularly care if it's a new operation or not. My problem with the event is that it is totally unimaginative, and the worst kind of base fetch quest you could possibly implement. A lot of the mechanics are poorly done, making several portions a frustrating experience that just force players to alt tab to find a walkthrough because it makes no sense without one. Instead of making a scavenger hunt for items that actually relate to each individual planet or area of a particular planet (the inhabitants of the region, or historical events of the area), thereby allowing you to work out logical steps to take to find the object, they make up random garbage that has nothing to do with anything in the game and sprinkle it blindly around Nar Shaddaa and the Capital without any clues as to how to find them without scouring those areas.

Use symbols instead of colours.

It's as if they don't bother putting that info in the game because they know there will be a walkthrough within an hour. Or making any effort to make certain event objectives make sense.

Yeah. So, making a scavenger hunt with random items that never existed until the event started, then forcing you to blindly run around planets trying to find them without any indication about where one would go about looking for such a thing, or what it looks like is ssssssuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppperrrr lame. Following the bounty hunter on Nar Shaddaa was also the dumbest implementation I could have thought of. Maybe if the quest indicated you were looking for "points of interest", the circles might actually be a clear representation of an objective instead of something so innocuous you run past it 10 times without noticing trying to find the mob you're chasing. When you make a scavenger hunt, you're supposed to use items everyone can identify, but may be difficult to locate because they're just obscure. It's literally the longest and most tedious fetch quest ever made. Don't even get me started on the smuggler crates. I think I had to find like 20 before I got the 6 quest items.

That would be difficult to say unless someone else has that CPU/GPU to tell you.

A Core i5 or i7 would run it better than an AMD. I'm not familiar with the AMD hierarchy, but I know for a fact that Intel CPUs are better for gaming unless you get the absolute top of the line AMD. Even the Core i3-2100 is marginally (5-10 fps) better than the FX-4100 in most cases too. That being said, unless you have a $200 vid card, you probably won't see that difference, which becomes apparent once the GPU stops being the bottleneck. The 7770 is the better GPU though, by a clear margin. Parts are all compatible, but change the hard disk. Get a 6.0 Gb/sec SATA instead of 3.0 Gb/sec. It'll reduce load times, and the motherboard supports it. Edited: Had to check benchmarks for GPU. Edited: Added more because once I start clicking links for computer parts I can't help but look at specs.