For an added bit of humor, Queen Jenna is also voiced by Jennifer Hale. You know...the woman who also voiced Satele Shan. ETA: The Female Human is also voiced by the same voice actress who voices the Female Jedi Knight. So you could have a situation in GW2 where the female Jedi Knight is watching her boyfriend flirt with his mother. -- I haven't posted on these forums in a couple years. Haven't played SWOTR in quite some time. It's nice to see this thread is still around

I don't know why, but this particular thing you said made me think of Grand Moff Kilran and how cool he was as an NPC on the early game flashpoints. I still like running Black Talon/Esseles on my new Alts because of him. (I know he's in later ones, too, but I just made a new Alt so the first flashpoint just came to mind). It boils down to the fact that the story just isn't engaging. And worse yet, the story itself (the cut scenes and such) aren't repeatable. So as a player I felt really disconnected from the entire thing. It felt like it was a bad play performed by understudies rather than a smooth production that I'd want to see again. Edit: Probably because all the NPC's were doing the talking and doing the "cool stuff" instead of our PC. Our PC stood there dumbly for most of it.

The new flashpoints don't have Jesus Droid. Worse still, for the story part, you're forced to have a specific companion who may not have a very high rank. My IA was fine with Temple because Temple was my companion to begin with so she was returning at Rank 10. My JK, if I could stomach the thought of running through the awful story again, never met Temple and will never use Temple beyond that flashpoint, so Temple is Rank 1 and it would be a waste to give her companion gifts for the one thing she's mandatory for the one time I would be forced to do it to progress any further in the story.

And that's the problem. They're looking at JUST the stats from FE/ET and claiming, "Well nobody wants to repeat story." But they're just cherry picking their data and spinning it into the player's fault. How about they look at how many alts people are creating to play through the vanilla story then just deleting them to reroll another? I'll tell you why: because they don't want to admit that their new story kinda sucks and that not even the people who play this game primarily for story (like me) can't stomach the thought of playing even a THIRD character* through FE/ET because it's just not that good. I'd rather make another Agent. Or Jedi. And then pretend they all lived happily ever after in the nether world of deletion as I make room for another Jedi. Or Sith Warrior. Or Agent. They're purposely being blind, deaf, and dumb to all the facts, and the passive aggressive blaming of the players is also quite aggravating. I love how they're all like, "Well we WANTED to return the companions you all love in full chapters, but you guys all said that you didn't like that *fake long suffering sigh*" When in actuality we said, "Please stop shoehorning companions into your story in a ham fisted manner, it doesn't make sense." But, nope, it's ~our~ fault that we get crappy Alliance Alerts for the best companions *Edit: Come to think of it, I don't even have two characters completely caught up. My JK, who romanced Theron, hasn't finished the Copero flashpoint because of how asinine the story has become. I just couldn't bear to suffer through it yet again after I ran my Agent through. All my other Alts are littered through Fallen Empire, most of whom are at the "Go get sucky Kaliyo" chapter (so they just finished Chapter 9 and didn't go further).

There's another thing I noticed about our "new and improved companions." I decided to do one of those "on rails" space missions for the shiggles. And my IA was the only one talking on the comms because, you guessed it, none of the companions are on the ships anymore so none of their comm chatter was available. I don't get why THAT needed to change. If I have the flag that says I have XYZ companion then they should be talking on the comms. It was just...eerie...listening to my agent talk to herself, asking "Did you see that?" and "Is everyone okay?" It feels like this game is falling apart at the seams. NPC's with messed up zombie eyes, NPC quest givers whose mouths move but their lips don't (THAT was horrifying especially since she also had zombie eyes to boot), Karrels Jarvis (IA NPC on Hutta) eating his mustache whenever he talked, and watching characters glitch snap into their place during cut scenes. It's depressing. But, hey, gotta fix conquest and all (Conquest that THEY BROKE to begin with.)

Meanwhile, Master Ranos and Shae say their comabt barks over and over and over, the same three lines before and after every kill. It's so annoying that I don't use them anymore. At the very least, when it was Treek, she babbled away in non Basic, so it just became white noise. There seems to be no middle ground for Bioware

(This isn't at you, Porsa, just using your transcription). THEY DON'T GET IT. They're still doing the "the way it's intended to be played" not realizing that "the way it's intended to be played" is supposed to be exactly what the PLAYERS want to do, not what THEY think players should do. If the players want to craft, fine. If they want to do Heroics, fine. They're dictating how we should play the game instead of letting the players decide for themselves how THEY want to play the game. They are taking player agency away and that NEVER goes well. I don't even friggin' conquest on a regular basis, but now this drives me away completely.

Here's hoping that Rishi isn't some gigantic, out of place looking stronghold. Is it too much to ask for something of a smaller scale? Like Kaliyo's apartment? Even the DK and Coruscant SH's are too large. I just want a small, cozy place for a few nice, appropriate decos. They could even exclude them from the Conquest bonus list! I would actually pay CC for a 2-3 room apartment on Fleet or something!

The storytelling delivery, you quoted "Like Shadow of Revan/Preludes." Can I get a clarification? Is it going to be like "Shadow of Revan?" Or like the "Shadow of Revan Preludes" (the flashpoint series name escapes me ATM, something something Alliances)? There's...kind of a difference there. Shadow of Revan had a full story with Flashpoints leading up to AND they were included in the story. Or is it all going to be flashpoints forever and those flashpoints are the only way the story's going to be told going forward?

I think the thing I hate the most about the "gimmicky" activities is that it messes up my toolbars. I don't use the "Main" toolbar (call it OCD, but the fact that it's bigger and has the up down arrows irritates me). But all the gimmicks use the main bar. But then you can't add the skills needed and...it's just a mess. The Walker chapter I died a few times because I had to have my powers window open and scrolling through ALL the powers to find the walker ones...ugh. I wish they would make those skills on the new "activate" hotbars that pop up for special things; the ones that are along side the Heroic Moment special toolbar.

My original point being: Vector did return but his thread isn't nearly as active on a daily basis, however we talked about him and his return for the first week after his release.

Aaaaand where did I say anything about classy? Every time I go into those threads the most recent posts are, "Mmmm <fill in the blank>" and, "IKR? /5char" which just seems like a cheap trick to keep certain threads up at the top. So I go away from those threads and don't go back for a while. Rinse and repeat. Of course I'm generalizing and using hyperbole. But instead of getting offended you COULD just own up to your fangirlishness and be like, "Whateves, I love my woobie and I'll do what I want." I didn't say there was anything WRONG with it. No need to get defensive. (You should also note that I used the " " emoticon, which is kinda universal for "I'm teasing.") With that said, I'd far rather all the love threads be at the top rather than YET ANOTHER pissing and moaning thread about Conquest, PvP changes, and "Is the game dying? A friend of a friend of a brother's uncle thinks it is and I agree!"

As someone who regularly posts on the "Lovebug" thread I can say that you're also wrong about that. We discussed for almost a week about Vector and his return. Vector's thread just isn't filled with random "Mmm Vector, nothing else to say" posts that plague the other "Love" threads, so his thread falls to Page 2, 3 and beyond because of it. It seems we're more about quality posts rather than quantity posts As for Dulfy not posting about it, that's on them. It's been almost three weeks since his return and they STILL haven't added his video? It's very misleading and it makes people think he hasn't been returned, which is bad and, again, very misleading. (SWTOR on Facebook has also been doing this. Going on about Ashara and ignoring Vector's return even though he's in the SAME FREAKIN' PICTURE as her.)

I stand corrected, but it doesn't explain Temple's response on "Traitor among the Chiss" then which she says "I have my people looking for him."

Vector came back the same time as Ashara. They just didn't make as big of a deal out of it because Bioware forgets that girls play this game too.