Discordian_taco
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Problem is I think everyone did know. Everyone except BioWare.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
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Problem is I think everyone did know. Everyone except BioWare.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Are you insinuating they're not all hands on deck? What more do you want them to say outside we're looking at it? Minute-by-minute updates from the coders?
12:43:52 PM - "Checked out header file from Perforce server."
12:44:03 PM - "Opened file in Visual Studio."
12:45:16 PM - "Looks like a Build break, putting this fix on hold to help investigate."
When they have more info to post, they'll do it. As someone who's been on the dev side for an MMO, things take longer to investigate than you may realize.
That's easy to say, but even Blizzard messes this stuff up. Tol Barad. And that lasted for days with absolutely no punishment.
Should it have been caught? Of course. But things, even major things like this, slip through the cracks. They should have either hotfixed this or taken down the servers within an hour of the patch going live, not almost a full day later.
I rolled Imp simply because I learned my lesson the hard way after years of WoW.
There are some WoW servers out there that are Alliance dominated, but last time I looked at statistics, the vast majority were balanced toward Horde. I always ended up being in the fuckin minority on my alliance toons and it was not fun.
Seems like these type of games, the majority of people always want to be on the bad/evil side, so that's how I rolled this time.
There are some WoW servers out there that are Alliance dominated, but last time I looked at statistics, the vast majority were balanced toward Horde. I always ended up being in the fuckin minority on my alliance toons and it was not fun.
Seems like these type of games, the majority of people always want to be on the bad/evil side, so that's how I rolled this time.
Wasn't vanilla WoW the opposite? Or was I just on a weird server?
WoW, at launch, was definitely Alliance heavy.
Interfectum
Member
so people are reaching valor rank 100 within minutes? lol
epic fail bioware
epic fail bioware
Tallshortman
Member
I left right before WOTLK so this may have changed, but on my server and the few I had alts on Alliance always had more players.
Vanilla was definitely heavy Alliance. I think adding Elves to Horde changed that. Aren't the elves the most played race now? Or at least very close to Human.
Interfectum
Member
Yeah, Blizzard turned the tide by giving Horde Blood Elves and Alliance purple goatmen.
Notice how they aren't going to risk faction imbalance with MoP. They both get kung fu panda.
Notice how they aren't going to risk faction imbalance with MoP. They both get kung fu panda.
people like attractive toons....make all imps ugly as sin and population will rebalance guaranteed!
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
This sounds like a fairly typical patch disaster to me. The problem of course being this may be a lot of people's first major patch disaster, which makes for really stupid timing releasing at the end of the free month.
That would require they actually make characters look different from each other. And they clearly have a ton of missing features and bugs with higher priority.
Everyone looks exactly the same right now. I don't even know why races exist.
And they backed out of the dark side corruption thing by making it an option to display the changes.
Blech!
Azwethinkweiz
Member
You can't really say that this slipped through the cracks. There were apparently multiple threads on the PTR forums about this issue and they pushed it to live anyway. What's the point of PTR testing if you're not even going to listen to the testers?
I went back 11 pages on the PTR forum and only see one thread related to this problem of imbalance. Lots of warzone and biochem talk. No turret glitch talk.
Also, players would have to get to level 50 in one week, just for the sake of testing.
Even the GAF server struggles?
I forget the name of the one I'm on, but I haven't left Coruscant yet to see how it will fair out. Last night I just got my airship so I'm about there to see how it goes. Luckily for me I'm more concerned about the single player stuff until I hit 50. At 50 I'll dabble in whatever before I start my 2nd character I'm sure. My time isn't bountiful for the game, so playing it as a SP experience with some co-op with a buddy who got it as well is just suiting me fine.
Does this game use all servers for PvP? I'll be fine with that if it's the case. I'm on a PVP server with heavy population times when I log on at night, so hopefully it'll be one of the luckier ones.
GasProblem
Member
About Ilum on the official forums:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=1790513#post1790513
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=1790513#post1790513
chickdigger802
Banned
It's all about the hoods!
If JK could have hoodless robes, the sides will balance out!
I guess this is an excuse to check out STO tonight.
If JK could have hoodless robes, the sides will balance out!
I guess this is an excuse to check out STO tonight.
Jbird34
Member
An Up/Down option on Hoods would be awesome
So what's this game breaking bug you are all talking about with patch 1.1?
Also, what is the best companion for my JK Sentinel? T7, my lady pal, or C2 N2?
I just got C2 last night, but he has no equipment on, but saw he has healing. Not sure if I should just unequip T7's stuff and give it to C2...
Also, what is the best companion for my JK Sentinel? T7, my lady pal, or C2 N2?
I just got C2 last night, but he has no equipment on, but saw he has healing. Not sure if I should just unequip T7's stuff and give it to C2...
It sucks for empire too. I love pvp and this just makes breaking into lvl 50 pvp seem even more ridiculous. Im not quiting but i think i will just pve for a while and not pvp until this blows over.
Tallshortman
Member
GasProblem
Member
Hahaha.
Things like this are kind of why I love MMO's though. Patch effing things up, drama everywhere. I know I'm weird.
MadraptorMan
Member
I for one appreciate the speed at which Bioware attempted to roll out this patch...I always hated the long wait between the announcement of a patch and its implementation in WoW. But I'm no developer...perhaps it just can't be helped.
bahleted. what did it say
Azwethinkweiz
Member
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=161969
That was the thread alluded to on the official forums. I didn't check for myself, which is why I said apparently. And if you have new lvl 50 content on the PTRs, it is in your best interest to have pre-mades available for people to test with.
Another thing they should do is make a suggestion section on the board, because the PTR threads are basically whining and pleading for certain things to happen and people that are angry that X Problem hasn't been dealt with yet. There's almost no relevancy to thae actual PTR, not to mention the lack of premades severely hurts the 'testability' of the game on the PTR in the first place.
It was a thread that told Republic players how they could escape the Imperial spawn camping on Ilum.
How many servers is it happening on? Should I re-roll? lol.
Edit: Ah I see the articles
bloodforge
Member
I just played for a couple hours, whats the issues?
People are camping the turrets on Illum for free Valor.
chickdigger802
Banned
Quick question for GAF Empire folks.
I know on the rep side, it's near impossible to find groups for heroics from tatooine and later (lv25ish or so), and I don't even bother trying to get groups for bonus quests.
How is group hunting on emp side? Or is this server just dying out?
I know on the rep side, it's near impossible to find groups for heroics from tatooine and later (lv25ish or so), and I don't even bother trying to get groups for bonus quests.
How is group hunting on emp side? Or is this server just dying out?
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
No it is 100% correct. Concealment spec Operative is borderline useless in PvP until 36. They really dont even come into their own until Acid Blade at 40. The most DPS Operatives bring to Voidstar or Alderaan is Corrosive Dart which keeps people from capping nodes. In Huttball, they are nothing more than wounded gazelle killers or if the team is coordinated innzone scorers.
I'm 26 on the Emp side, and it's definitely much better than the Republic side. I'm not sure how long that lasts though.
This isn't going to be a common thing. The content they patched in today has been in development since before launch and they just didn't get it out in time. Similarly, Blizzard did the same thing with Maraudon after WoW launched.
the worst was when Blizzard broke orc shoulders :<