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> Overall, I don't like what I
> see at all. I will stay with it for a month, but suspect I will be
> waving
> goodbye to Star Wars for good....
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> yes my thoughts exactly.......all that time i spent getting my Jedi to
> my template wasted. /cry
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> Been playing the new upgrade this evening and converted my lowbie cl17 to
> a cl17 Spy. Here are my initial impressions...
> i. Lag, lag, lag.... Did I Say LAG? Yup, it is extremely laggy
> especially if you ride a fast vehicle. I found that when I went to ride
> some where, I would periodically end up further away(!). Once or twice it
> is annoying, but when you pass the same piece of terrain more than 8 times
> you start to get pissed...
> ii. Combat. On the whole seems alright. It is very simplistic
> and very quick. For solo missions (at least the ones I did) its a no no.
> Before the patch I could heal myself in combat with bacta which meant that
> if I were fighting two lvl 15 NPC's it would be hard work but almost
> always doable. My poor spy char can no longer heal himself so vs 2 x lvl
> 15's = instant incap. Two incaps within 2.5 mins and you die. Luckily this
> is shown as a buff under the ham bars. If I can't solo missions, I'll be
> leaving pretty soon....
> iii. Ctrl-Up Arrow key no longer works in chat pane to recover
> previous text. BIG pain if you decide to move furniture around as you are
> going to have to manually type every command.
> iv. Alt keys not working for me to release mouse. I end up
> having to use the <escp> key.
> v. Speed. You now default to running rather than walking. The
> run is so fast that it looks very comical. Even those slow moving two
> legged box like droids now pelt about at speed. Highly hilarious, but also
> highly off putting... In fact it seems to me that some coder simply upped
> the frequency of updates on all animations which is why everything looks
> like a movie on fast forward - including subtle character movements. I'm
> guessing this speed hack is the prime cause of the lag mentioned in i
> above.
> vi. Where did my stats go? It seems respecced chars don't get
> given stats.... (All mine are zero)
>
> My overall impression is that the game has been dumbed down to the nth
> level and has been coerced rather unsuccessfully into doing stuff it was
> never designed to do. I haven't mentioned the fact that a lot of my
> equipment is useless and will have to be sold. Or the fact that if you are
> not a crafter the default items you can craft is food only... Overall, I
> don't like what I see at all. I will stay with it for a month, but suspect
> I will be waving goodbye to Star Wars for good....