You are completly correct. This is a new problem. With the new Voss story content they messed with the textures. I've been playing for years and always found Voss to be beautiful. The grass swaying in the breeze, The way the textures made it look like the sun shined through the trees. It was so pretty. But now the trees look flat by comparison and the grass, when in motion, looks grainy. Lots of tiny little pixels out of place. This is a recent change and I really hate it. I rarely post, but I loath this change. Voss went from pretty, to flat with grainy-ness.

Well I called it. And to the "this is every mmo ever crowd" Yeah, but nah. Swtor takes the cake in every way. Nice try though.

Charismatic Mandalorian

You can mix 306 and 320 gear so long as you are paying attention. I am an Immortal Jugg. I saw a Jugg next to me in full 320 while I was 316. He had less survivability than me. And his absorb was appalling. The new Jugg gear is heavy on shield and subtracts on absorb. The 306 weapon is good enough I'd say. Basically you can go 320 (from the vendor in supplies) and replace ya Shield, Ear, Relics and Implants so long as you augment them with ya 286/300 augments. Armor is slightly different. You can replace the belt, bracers, trousers and gloves. However, the helm chest and boots will savage your absorb. Those 3 items are the ones to ignore. End result is my 316 rating tank is superior to a 320 rating tank by a large margin. My guess is you need to be full 324 before you are uniformally superior to 306. If you can't afford to swap augments then just dont bother. Poor C**** like me that solo are gonna be stuck on 326 anyways. You couldn't pay me NiM grind for gear. I might grind the legendary implants coz they have the tasty sets pieces on em..you know..the legendary **** they just wiped out. Gear grind is *****. Whole patch is *****. Ui makes ya eyes bleed. The story was..wait? There was a story? Oh yeah and every system in the game is broken in some way. Go read the first couples pages of the bug forum. The "known Issues" list dont cover half that ****.

Seriously?! The 10th Anniversary is gonna be delayed by 2 months? So for the first time in a decade there will be NO new content in December? The one time of the year we all expect it? You release broken ***** every year but THIS year nono **** all those guys that subbed for a month. Not like you could have told us this 2 weeks ago. Right? The 10th Anniversary and you fail this hard... All we wanted was a decent expansion. Did trying to change all the *********** classes at once prove too much? Changing everything every bloody version didn't teach you anything at all, did it?! You are underfunded, and yet you always want to remake the game every time. We just want an expansion that lasts longer than an afternoon. I really don't understand.

They are messing with so many systems that they don't fully understand. Be ready for the most bugs you have ever seen from an update. And I'm being realistic. This will be historic. I know some people will get sassy with me, but you wait till December and everything is broken for a month, and then it takes another 6+ months to fix all the classes they broke. What this game needs is a solid expac but what we will get it broken classes for half a year and a story that can be finished in an afternoon. I'm calling it.

No, no no no no no! Lana is THE most loyal follower you can get. Vote her out of the story by all means, but don't vote her dead. So many companions have been made worthless because a few people cried. And it is ALWAYS the few people crying on the forum that ruin's the game for everyone else. Just coz you shout the loudest and cry the snottiest doesn't mean you speak for the rest of us. You don't! PVE got neutered because pvp people cry. The KOFE and KOET story was drastically reduced because a few people were impatient. I'm sick of my game being ruined for a handful of loudmouthed brats. I like Lana. I want her to stay. Stop speaking for me you grumpy little twits.

While I'm playing I'm fine, but I have noticed that when I use the GTN sometimes I feel weird or my head hurts. Never occurred to me the FOV might be why. EDIT: Played for years so there are times I come here to forget feeling ill, and the game actually makes me feel worse. Never understood why. Maybe FOV is it. I usually just end up watching a film instead.

The new augments are oddly pointless. The full set only adds minor improvements. But the vast majority of the game is locked to lvl 70. So 75 gear its self is kinda overkill. But these new augments..so expensive to make and buying ONE is shocking. On Malgus server an augment is like 600 million most days. I get a credit sink, but this is just ridiculous.

So a few months ago the saga of "quick-play mode" started. I went away for 2 months and when I returned it had not been fixed. So since then I have deleted my bitraider folder before running the launcher every day. And that has worked, so I tolerated it. Since the patch on 15th of December even doing this no longer works. No work around works for me. I find this unacceptable. Not only did the developers NOT fix this issue, they have some how made it worse. And I know no fix is coming. They don't know how to fix it, or they would have already. I'm shocked at how much they break with every patch. But do they stop changing things until they have worked out what they broke? No. They will then implement changes no one asked for or wanted and break 10 more things, and then only fix 4 of them. Tell me Bioware. What exactly are you doing? Are you really this incompetent, or do you just not care all the while people keep paying? I am sick of it. What do I subscribe for? [Windows 8.1 for what it's worth]

I gave you a date. What the **** do you want?

For the holographic tuning you need to zoom right in on the weapon. Then it will have a holo-halo around the weapon the same colour as your crystal. I thought it wasn't working until I zoomed the window in. Same goes for those new melee swords. You dont see ***** unless you in real close.

We were supposed to get a small story update this summer. Now-ish I think. But then covid-19 happened and the voice actors couldn't record their lines. Apparently they are now recording again. So ima pull a date outta my backside and say September 22nd

So I just had a vision of a hutt in a bikini. If I have trouble sleeping tonight I am blaming you.

Patching the PTS first is a great idea and is actually kinda what a PTS is for. I'm guessing they do test things, but checking on half a dozen PCs just doesn't cut it. They have a brilliant resource in the PTS community. About time they made proper use of it instead of getting egg on their faces every time they patch the game. It's embarrassing now.