Angry people go to forums and complain. Happy people stay logged in and play the game. That's all you need to explain the forum response.

Numbers. I've died in heroic Star Fortress when trying to solo it, got the where solo mode ends and just could not deal with the amount of mobs i had to kill in one go and lost my healing companion (would probably be easier with a tank or healer class). I've died in the "changing history" heroic in Makeb due to the traps (namely, the poison room). Also died a few times in story mode ops (mainly due to not paying attention).

I played it with my agent (inquisitor next), it was a decent fit for the most part, except the alliance part, my character would be more likely to prop up someone else as the head honcho (Lana maybe?), and operate from the shadows. But i think my inquisitor will fit right in. As for it being Star warsy? Hell yes. And as someone earlier pointed out, it's more Extended Universe than classic Star Wars (never before seen threat coming out of nowhere forcing empire/republic to work together? where have i seenthis before?), but still Star Wars.

The old companions are supposdly coming back in future chapters. But there being around 40 companions to go, it might take a year or more. If you choose to romance Lana or Theron, i think it's supposed ot have repercussions with your old companions if your character was in a relationship with them.

Only thing you need groups for is the heroic Starfort and dungeons/ops. And possibly Changing history heroic on Makeb (those traps are *********** stupid) if your Presence is not high enough. Everything else is soloable with little to no difficulty.

My Agent, the first character i played started out as when the game launched, and who has been my main since.

US has server updates usually done at midday as well?

Immune to knockback. Except when not. (some bosses, elite mobs, or just seemingly random abilities, ignore that) Damage reduction. not really, change for the attack to miss, which is not as good as flat damage reduction. Healing? Now, don't understand me, i like cover, but i do miss physical covers i could hide behind, and wish cover was more usefull. I actually preferred the old, AoE out of cover, single target from cover approach of our abilities.

The face, the synopsis, it pretty much points to Kaliyo. And i really hope it is. I miss Kaliyo.

spoilers ahead Valkorion: Companions: Alliance: Not sure how much i like this one, never saw my character as a "leader" type for large organizations. Smaller operation would fit just fine though (my sorcerer, will fit right in however). And i wish i could customize the alliance base to look different, but i guess i got my strongholds for that. Still, it has potential, so let's see how things develope from here.

Happily, my agent already was at rank 42, so no battlegrounds needed. But for my sorcerer, well.... Hope you like paperwork Pierce.

Noticed this as well. I guess they got bored catering to 1/8th of the classes in their level design and decided to just forget about the core mechanic of snipers/gunslingers. They could have given us stealth to compencate (and, really, they should anyway), but noo, just a boring cooldown remover you will never, ever, want to use (you may need to, but if you do, something has probably gone badly aready).

The mute main character is actually one of the weakest points of TSW storytelling. Not because he is "mute", but because how it is handled. The character is voiceless, choiceless, and near emmotionless puppet of whatever npc you are interacting with. But then TSW gives you no real choices in the game (well, there are 3, though we're not sure on how "meaningful" they end up being), you're a spectator, nothing more.

I get where you're coming from, and kinda even agree with it. They should have sold this as a cost cutting measure, and an attempt to reduce development time for new content first, a "classic" conversation system second.

I'm cool with this change. VA's cost, VA takes time, if this change means they will change more content faster than they used to, then i'm all for it. If anything, i'm surprised it took them this long to start doing something like this.