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This game has serious Quality of Life Issues and it sucked my will play...My Top 10

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This game has serious Quality of Life Issues and it sucked my will play...My Top 10

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MrsMolle
02.07.2012 , 02:38 AM | #41
Quote: Originally Posted by Guntsu View Post
I wanted to love this game with all my heart and for a while I thought I did.

But the small things just killed my will to play, this game 1-49 was amazing and I brought over 3 of my friends to play it we all loved it.

But here is a short list of what I hope gets fixed because as of now I cant bring myself to play it.

1. Snap back camera for the love of god why cant it be an option, I feel like a horse

2. Auto zoom, why is it that my zoom settings reset every time? Its awesome I can zoom out but why zoom me back in, when I choose my setting that should be my default.

3. WINS NOT COUNTING..I was so excited to see the fix only to see my WZ win not count. Now I consider myself reasonable and im down to getting steam rolled as I get gear its part of the process but when my win does not count it knocks the wind out of me.

4. Bag loot system which is compounded with wins not counting. I just did a hell of grind open my bags and ta-dah! coms....

5. Ilum..nuff said

6. Ability Delay, the fix really did not help anything and looking at how WZ win bug was "fixed" I would bet nothing was really done here either.

7. Load screens and space stations, just let me get to my destination! or make my fleet pass something like 30 mins.

8. GTN, just a mess of a system having to go through a series of filters just to find and post what you need.

9. The game CHUGS, its like a very talented fat boy playing soccer he has the skills but wow is he slow. ( I have a very decent system in fact got this new rig specifically for swtor)

10. Targeting...its slow its not responsive its painful...it just plain sucks

These are the major annoyances I have with this game and I wanted to love it but the more I logged in the less I wanted to play it.
I've had some issues with zoom, but mine are more I cannot zoom out enough, ie. like I've seen in some of the PVP videos, might be missing the angle or something though.

Not sure what you mean by "snap back"?

Wins not counting is a very random thing and on a bad day with no winning streak really does add to the frustration! I've also seen where myself or a guild mate has gotten kicked to character select right before the game ends with no credit, of course.

I'd like to add that no side should be able to spam some key sequence to get more than 8 players into their warzone game, after 30 seconds, there should be some kind of number check for both too much or too little. There should be bigger penalties for purposely quitting out of warzones.

Not sure what's still wrong with Illum, not messing with it yet. Other open world PVP is really what you make it... discourage the 50 solo gankers by travelling with a buddy, 2 people and 2 companions over level 30 can give a hard time to a lvl 50. Our guild claimed Alderaan on our server last Saturday, and we went from surrounding a main base that brought a really decent/fun counter attack to splitting up into groups all over the planet and reporting in the kills on Teamspeak. Utilizing NPCs in your open world pvp fights is the only time you see financial consequence to PVP.

With the lag, might want to check your ISP; SWTOR is a bandwith hog.

Targeting is best done using hot keys for Target Nearest, Target target's target, and Target Next Target.

Sorcerers being OP is something you can counter with a good buddy/group system, and boosts to your armor defense. Make sure you never stop trying to move, eventually you often find a break in the stun, at least with 1 on you; 3 on you at once and yah, bye.

I think the classes are decently balanced, and with the randomness of what people are wielding, wearing and specializing in, makes it really hard to have a perfectly balanced world. I've died to every class, and killed every class one on one in warzones.

The missions are not too easy unless you keep outleveling them, even then my last chapter 1 quest killed me several times. I've heard the pvp armor outdoes the standard issue by quite a lot, so perhaps there could be a reduction in benefits using pvp armor against NPCs?

At any rate, good luck!

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Aleryan
02.07.2012 , 02:40 AM | #42
Quote: Originally Posted by ShaftyMcShaft View Post
Yeah I buy fleet passes like crazy just to avoid the loading screens.

How about this, BW? When you click on a shuttle door (especially at level 50), you get the option to port to your ship, or open the galaxy map and port to the planet you choose?
Every planet has areas where ther is a shuttle to the fleet, right? Well why not make it a 2 way system. Make it so you go to whatever planet you want, 1 loading screen gets you to where th shuttle is, no orbital station lameness, and you still can take your ship if you want, for space dailies, class stuff etc.

Do it, BW!

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Aleryan
02.07.2012 , 02:58 AM | #43
Quote: Originally Posted by ztee View Post
There are a lot of little things that just frustrate me ...

1. Why cant i right click on a guild member to invite to group (i know you have an option menu, guild officers set notes)
2. Camera snap annoys the hell out of me
3. Sell back features for items you may have purchased incorrectly
4. OPS loot issues. We currently cannot ML in NMM because it bugs and you dont get rakata, so we need to group loot. How do we sort out loot properly then? (especially when 2 of the same items drop)
5. This could go with the above, but why cant we trade BOP items with our party for a limited amount of time?
6. WZ wins, its been said
7. Illum, yep ...
8. Incentive for running HM FP's after you have full rakata - come on, you need as many people running these as possible, otherwise its going to get increasingly hard to find groups. Let me buy stims / agrenels / medpacs (blue) with tionese crystals!!
9. commendations, commendations ... and wait for it .... MORE COMMENDATIONS. i hate these things, honestly. Its funny how i had full columi before i could even purchase a comuli item.
10. WZ leavers (yes its a player / culture thing), this needs to be punished.
11. (i know, you said 10) Lastly, the progression rate of WZ medals for some classes / specs. healers get the big one here, as do dps that have no shields / heals.

Overall, i enjoy the game ... but i can see it going downhill really fast.
I hope theyre keeping track of all this because there are alot of nits that need to be fixed. I love the game, too, but it can be so much better. To add to the list:

1. Why do we havr to regroup after every wz if we're queuing as a group?
2. Clean up the travel system, the 2 way shuttle to fleet to shuttle system I mentioned earlier would be a big help
3. Loading screens...why does it take WoW no more than 30 seconds to load into and out of raids (usually 10 seconds) with tons of addons but this game takes 3 minutes to load into a planet?
4. Get a handle on the speed hacks and wz bugs...seriously
5. Dual spec. Nao.
6. Fix the GTN...add search feature, add extra layer of organization ie armor/hvy/helm
7. Enhance Who function, add search by guild name
8. Add more info to the guild last, ie last login sort by name whisper by right clicking name etc

I know theres alot more but do these things and quality of life goes way up.

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StormWulff
02.07.2012 , 03:01 AM | #44
Honestly, I've heard the complaints about "They're so set on the money they just throw it out there without a care!"...while that may be partially true, I think the biggest issue with this game(Not a positive or negative, just the reason behind a lot of errors) is that they care more about Story for this game than Mechanics. I personally have to say that this is the BEST story I've been a part of for purposes of an MMO...Heck, it's better than most Console Game stories.

Now, that said, they need time. I would give them about 6-8 months to fix the problems that are currently occurring, but there are also things that should be changed.

Some people like zipping through a game, but I personally think the xp really needs to be fixed...I've been leveling without trying and it's partially because there's so many ways to get xp, that it happens whether I intend to or not.

I think they also need something to keep the game exciting and for cripes sake...make Crafting something people -want- to do. Almost everyone I know says how crafting is pointless at 50.

There's a lot of small errors all through the game, they annoy, but they don't ruin the game. The game is made by virtue of the incredible storyline.

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Palenen
02.07.2012 , 03:07 AM | #45
Quote: Originally Posted by pursang View Post
Opinions are opinions?! NO WAY!
yes they are truth! The internet says it so!

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Decembrist
02.07.2012 , 03:19 AM | #46
Most of them all I have to agree with targeting, the auction interface, and warzone victories not counting. If we have to see the "servers shut down" screen during the prime time over and over, I'm sure we'd all like to at least see some improvements with those issues after those patches.
Wanted to play Darkness Assassin way before it was fotm

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Guntsu
02.07.2012 , 03:30 AM | #47
Quote: Originally Posted by Aleryan View Post
I hope theyre keeping track of all this because there are alot of nits that need to be fixed. I love the game, too, but it can be so much better. To add to the list:

1. Why do we havr to regroup after every wz if we're queuing as a group?
Totally forgot about that one, but yeh its stupid things like this that really bring this game down IMO

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fujeo-finel
02.07.2012 , 03:31 AM | #48
Jeez you guys sure do cry a lot over nothing.

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Evesore
02.07.2012 , 03:36 AM | #49
WHy do we have to go through between points (space stations) to get to our destination? Why in these pointless travel delays are we not able to mount? We are ALREADY going through a zone with no purpose to delay travel - why add insult to injury by not letting us mount.

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Dethrone
02.07.2012 , 03:40 AM | #50
Quote: Originally Posted by Guntsu View Post
I wanted to love this game with all my heart and for a while I thought I did.

But the small things just killed my will to play, this game 1-49 was amazing and I brought over 3 of my friends to play it we all loved it.

But here is a short list of what I hope gets fixed because as of now I cant bring myself to play it.

1. Snap back camera for the love of god why cant it be an option, I feel like a horse

2. Auto zoom, why is it that my zoom settings reset every time? Its awesome I can zoom out but why zoom me back in, when I choose my setting that should be my default.

3. WINS NOT COUNTING..I was so excited to see the fix only to see my WZ win not count. Now I consider myself reasonable and im down to getting steam rolled as I get gear its part of the process but when my win does not count it knocks the wind out of me.

4. Bag loot system which is compounded with wins not counting. I just did a hell of grind open my bags and ta-dah! coms....

5. Ilum..nuff said

6. Ability Delay, the fix really did not help anything and looking at how WZ win bug was "fixed" I would bet nothing was really done here either.

7. Load screens and space stations, just let me get to my destination! or make my fleet pass something like 30 mins.

8. GTN, just a mess of a system having to go through a series of filters just to find and post what you need.

9. The game CHUGS, its like a very talented fat boy playing soccer he has the skills but wow is he slow. ( I have a very decent system in fact got this new rig specifically for swtor)

10. Targeting...its slow its not responsive its painful...it just plain sucks

These are the major annoyances I have with this game and I wanted to love it but the more I logged in the less I wanted to play it.

7. Load screens and space stations, just let me get to my destination! or make my fleet pass something like 30 mins.

gotta agree with you here. my heart sinks when I need to travel. It's mind numbingly dull, with nothing of interest on the way..

to add a few of my own.

Lack of faction drops. If I'm killing Tusken's how about some Tusken loot? Every single NPC drops the same generic crap, even the animals.

Exploring results in wasting time... Where's all the tribes, quest chains, interesting drop and opportunities to be found off the beaten path? Every corner of every planet is visited via the main quest hubs... Where's the reward for exploration.? Where's the gear drops that aren't class or quest or story specific.. that something a bit different that someone in the Fleet whispers you "Where the hell did you get that!?"

Look different.. ah I forgot, every BH in the know universe look like a Mandalorian right...