Welcome to Game Update 1.3: Allies

Group Finder suggestions:

1.) Using group finder and questing is not at all convenient. I love that it allows you to shuttle straight into a FP once it pops, kudos. But I hate that once it is over I don't have the option to go back where I was. Having to fly back out to said planet kills the motivation to keep questing.

2.) I don't see any estimated queue time. This would be easier to understand and read than hovering over map button and seeing how many are queued for each section. Remembering what you queued for reading how many are queued and assuming they are all dps doesn't give you any indication if you can take a quick bio or go mow the grass before it pops.

All-in-all I love that the group finder is still server specific and with a few minor tweaks will be great to use. I appreciate your guys/gals adding the feature, just wanted to give some feedback.

Because i have friends still on that server and they haven't moved yet, and looking at the servers any way there are a huge amount with light populations now, so a cross server pvp/lfg would improve servers with low populations, either that or merge some together

They could better have called this patch Game Update 1.3: Downtime.

As so far with daily 4 hour patches and an uptime of just 83% there's hacked a lot into that time to actually be playing with those allies.

Thanks for update 1.3! Game play is headed in the right direction.

To second what a few others have said, here are some suggestions for continued improvement.

1) Group Finder

a. While it’s great that I can “Take a shuttle” from anywhere to the instance. It would be nice to take a shuttle back to wherever I was before. I understand that many FlashPoints require a conversation outside of the instance in order to actually complete it, obtain rewards as well as earn the final few social points. We have to come up with a way for us to be able to port back to where we were before we ported to the FP Instance. I agree with others here, it does slow things down to have to take my ship back to the planet I was on, then work my way back to wherever I was before.

b. A hot key for the Group Finder would be nice (although not high on the priority list). I only hit the button once and then go about my business until my time in the queue comes up.

c. Group levels need to be reworked for those less than end-game. While the current grouping helps to get more people into FlashPoints faster, being eight levels +/- from another member in the group is killing the XP gain while leveling. Also, the available instances vs. current toon level spread is too great. As a level 31, I was thrown into Mandalorian Raiders which is a level 25 instance. An hour later I walked out with ten percent more XP than I started with. Had I just been questing solo, I would have picked up about thirty percent XP in that same time period. The same problem occurred when I was placed in Boarding Party (a much more level appropriate instance) but had two level 39 toons in the group. Only ten percent XP gain by the end of the run. My suggestion is to keep the group levels and the instance levels to within +/- 5.

d. A timer for approximate time in queue would be very useful. Either displayed when we open the Group Finder (a hot key would be needed if this choice is deployed) or in its own window that we could position somewhere on our GUI. If I am only going to have a 5 minute wait, I may just take care of some house cleaning, crew missions, etc. If I know I’ll have more than a 30 minute wait, I’ll embark on questing and actions that take more time to complete. It is a bit annoying to head out to a planet to quest and as soon as I get to the start of a quest area my queue pops.

Keep working on it BioWare. I love playing and can’t wait to see what comes down the road.

What the hell is the point of being able to buy so i can use my speeder at level 10, if im not allowed to mount up in the areas im in. Seriously, can they actualy do anything right. This is a complete joke.
And i dont get the affection it list. I says i gain 20 affection, and even though i didnt get a single option where i lost any, i still end up with getting 19. 1 might not sound like alot, but it does add up, and there is a principle. It should give what it says, instead of this BS. Then *********** make it gives 19 instead of that crap. Just another example of things they cant do right. I used to recommend this game to people i know, or talk about it, before it was released. But now, I cant do that, fail upon fail.

Few things about 1.3:

• Can we have back the auto requeue check box in WZ?
• Please ditch the new Alderaan VO. They are really looking like the guy is so bored of the action and it kills all the fun/hype you get from doing PvP.
• Plz add an option not to be matched against premades as solo queue, It just kind of sucks being steamrolled.
• Teleport back: when?
• Smuggler laugh plz?
• Project animation roll back?

With patch 1.3 is good with the gruope finder is a good thing that has happend to the game and i think it will get more people to play it then it used to have on the game coz one sever is VERY HEAVY and that is good sing for that sever i think.

1.3 isn't good enough to get more people to play the game, its just enough to prevent more people from leaving the game.

good job fellas! loving everything in 1.3!!

so when are we getting the Cathar?