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Incoming changes to global cooldown UI Blog Discussion

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Incoming changes to global cooldown UI Blog Discussion
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Petril
02.10.2012 , 08:08 PM | #81
Yea thats really nice honestly, but seriously how about fixing the freaking chat tab issue I have ticketed more then ounce and have had the issue sense before launch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am tired of seeing everything spam in on chat window. And let me explain before the trolls start talking. I do have the normal chat window which above that normaly has a tab that says General.....well mine does not, above the chat window were tabs are suppose to be there is nothing, no tab to create new tab or even right click to change which chat shows up in it. You all think the ops spam was bad?? Think that 100% of the time rather your in ops or not...Yea 8(

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Elror
02.10.2012 , 08:08 PM | #82
Quote: Originally Posted by Saiba View Post
I think this is an area where you guys are trying to re-invent the wheel. Rather than trying to re-invent the wheel, why not just learn from other games in the same genre that have the same concept, and focus on real problems?

Yes these are some welcome changes for sure.

However, there is a laundry list of things that are more annoying and really could go a long way to improving the game-play experience. I realize that there are large items, like:
  1. Fixing Ilum to make it exciting rather than a place to get your Battlemaster gear daily done
  2. Consider making PvP servers different than PvE servers.. as in make the questing zones the same areas as the opposite faction so you actually see them while you're leveling and at 48+ there's a reason to go out there over farming Ilum for armaments or sitting in town queueing for Battlegrouns, oops I mean Warzones.
  3. Think about the drastically low force pool for Assassins when PvEing, and consider making them a real DPSr in PvE. I'd say we are fine in most cases for PvP with the exception that Operatives and Scoundrels still burst harder and can do it to multiple targets or heal unlike us.

Those will take time, I'm patient for that. What annoys me are the other little things that affect my game play more dramatically.

Few items off the top of my head.
  1. Get booted from group after joining warzone
  2. /who doesn't allow parameters
  3. Find a group is very simplistic and not customizable
  4. Respeccing cost is treated as a credit sink
  5. Make gear more easily customizable, I shouldn't have to look like every other Sith Assassin, I should be able to move mods to any gear I choose.
  6. Give me the option to group with players lower than 50 for warzones and fight others that want to do the same. I can no longer play with my kids who aren't 50 yet.
  7. Why do I have to add all my guild members to my friends list to invite them to group through the UI?
  8. Make it so guild members can actually pull up the guild tab and see the MOTD and Description. The WHOLE thing, not just the first 2 lines.
  9. Make mods on PvP gear available for purchase instead of having to buy multiples of the same gear just to take the mods out to put in another piece.
QQ more...

This ia about THE GCD change!! go complain on the right place.

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Thesseract
02.10.2012 , 08:10 PM | #83
Quote: Originally Posted by deags View Post
it wasn't always white no, but there was always a line, which was Style 3 dark cooldown with dark overlay...

so as i said, you can turn it back to how it was.
Looks as though you are right. My mistake. I'll edit my prior posts.

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babayako
02.10.2012 , 08:13 PM | #84
Quote: Originally Posted by Saiba View Post
Few items off the top of my head.
  1. Get booted from group after joining warzone
  2. /who doesn't allow parameters
    Like?
  3. Find a group is very simplistic and not customizable
    Easy on some server, hard on others where faction differences are big. Fine on my server so no big deal getting groups.
  4. Respeccing cost is treated as a credit sink
  5. Make gear more easily customizable, I shouldn't have to look like every other Sith Assassin, I should be able to move mods to any gear I choose.
    Its comming, think I read somewhere about it, that its comming in a soon to come patch
  6. Give me the option to group with players lower than 50 for warzones and fight others that want to do the same. I can no longer play with my kids who aren't 50 yet.
    Not going to happen simply due to the fact that you will have a massive gear advantage.
  7. Why do I have to add all my guild members to my friends list to invite them to group through the UI?
    Agree on that one.
  8. Make it so guild members can actually pull up the guild tab and see the MOTD and Description. The WHOLE thing, not just the first 2 lines.
  9. Make mods on PvP gear available for purchase instead of having to buy multiples of the same gear just to take the mods out to put in another piece.
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Valkyyri
02.10.2012 , 08:13 PM | #85
Quote: Originally Posted by Elror View Post
wow people are blind, watch the video , they added a TIMER on the spell in order to see when it will be ready!!

Quit qqing and read!!!
Yeah was kinda consumed by rage so missed cd part so my bad, tho its still kinda furious that it wasn't implimented right at lauch. Well better late than never, just few minor fixes left and this will look alot better.

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Atrix
02.10.2012 , 08:14 PM | #86
Quote: Originally Posted by startoy View Post
Really? This is what bioware is working on? Such a waist of time NO ONE CARES about how the GCD looks. How bout instead you give us a ui we can move.
You mean what they are putting in Patch 1.2?

Quote: Originally Posted by rahbosse View Post
No UI scalability?
Patch 1.2 will have it. Announced a couple weeks ago.
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Skooku
02.10.2012 , 08:15 PM | #87
I like the customisation this will offer... and with the video showing 'writen cooldowns' on some of the abilities in the video that should be nice... Its not as if you need to be staring at your bars, and with UI scalability in 1.2 I cant see how people can complain...

Cheers BioWare

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Gankstah
02.10.2012 , 08:15 PM | #88
Dear BioWare,

YES! Now you're getting it.

- G

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Ozymandous
02.10.2012 , 08:16 PM | #89
Quote: Originally Posted by Marqued View Post
Can you just give us a an actual timer with the actual time on it. 10 would countdown to 0 then get the flash when it's ready. That's more easily discernible than I feel the solutions you've tried to implement. I don't need to see a hourglass type effect and you don't need to darken the hotkey just give me a timer.
You mean like this part mentioned in the update blog itself:
Quote:
Show Cooldown Text: This option, when selected, will show the time remaining on a cooldown as an overlay on the ability icon.

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Elror
02.10.2012 , 08:17 PM | #90
Quote: Originally Posted by Valkyyri View Post
Yeah was kinda consumed by rage so missed cd part so my bad, tho its still kinda furious that it wasn't implimented right at lauch. Well better late than never, just few minor fixes left and this will look alot better.
Dude thts a MMO, it cant be perfect at launch, its always evolving. Thats why I like them(mmo), they are endless(kinda).