SWTOR Has Several Critical Issues in PVP Mode
Hey guys I am going to be very honest and direct as possible… ok… A few days ago I reached level 50 or max level. Since I am such a PvPer, I obviously look for some pvp action, so… I found Ilum, the PvP planet in SWTOR. Unfortunately this place is a total mess, everything here feels like a massive screw up!
The place is so friggin flawed and full of problems, sometimes I wonder what exactly is Bioware doing…!!!!! I mean What were they thinking????
Here is a list of the problems in Ilum… At least some of them…
1. Population Imbalance… 3 vs 1…. For every 3 imps player, we only have 1 republic player around… Be creative and imagine what is going to happen… Republic peeps get facerolled and imp players are bored because there is almost no one to kill or little challenge…
2. Performance Problems… Even a good computer will lag the hell out of this in low graphics settings, just like Aion, crappy engine, poor optimizations, coding… etc….
3. PvP gear…. Battlemaster, Centurion or Champion stuff… thats it, if you are a pvper, chances are that you will have one of those 3 things if you dont want to suck… The problem is that you will look like all the other players, right now all i see is a bunch of cyan sabers or black and blue sabers… Same with the same armor… They are very similar, the game lacks a sense of personality…
4. Only 3 warzones and ilum, by the time you reach level 50, chances are that you are going to be bored of the 3 warzones so you are left with Ilum only, a place that have population problems…
5. BIOCHEM!!!! That is the only useful crafting profession right now, if you have artifice you are so F up… becuase artifice is not great because you get better gear for doing pvp…
SWTOR endgame is not the best nor good
In conclusion, SWTOR endgame is not the best nor good, right now I cant have fun in Ilum at all, the only thing you can do is get there and farm some valor, thats it!!! If you ask me, other games like Rift had better endgame for PvPers not to mention that other games offer a better experience when you reach max level…
BIOWare Sucks in Designing PVP
Only way for them to balance out the population is strictly putting a faction cap. NO not another channel when to many imps are on, i mean literally a faction cap. i highly doubt this would happened though, as for 1 although i love the idea of faction caps, to force the faction to be more balance, people will cry about not being able to play the game they wanted to, thus people will make post of, blablabla you fing kidding me, im paying for a game, and swtor doesn’t want me to play imp, threads like that lol. i do agree though it is borings as imps as well, mostly since all repubs do is turret camp, TURRET CAMP- means they hide behind friendly turrets and try to just draw imps in.
I think yall just need to give this game a chance! When any MMO first comes out, there’s gonna be bugs, there’s gonna be glitches, and they might not always be the next best thing right off the bat. But MMOs aren’t like FPS where you obsessively play for a week or so and then you stop playing the game altogether. Look at WOW, it took them about five years to reach the amount of subscribers they have, but look where they are now! I hear all this nonsense about people quitting this game already cuz they think its buggy or the PVP is bad or whatever. MMOs require PATIENCE. If you don’t have it, then maybe you shouldn’t be playing any MMOs at all.
its not so much of an issue with it being buggy from what my guildmates tell me. Some days Imps faceroll Republic without an trouble, then others its vice versa. I played from day one and pvp used to be rather balanced in the other warzones anyway. But It seems like there may have been a surge of people suddenly creating imperial characters and unbalancing entire servers. For instance, day one, huttball was usually imp vs pub, today that is incredibly rare. From my perspective, its a player issue because imps were usually better at pvp, and we know how people like to win. Oh..didnt mean to creat this much text.
Bioware has absolutely no idea how to design PvP for MMOs. I remember seeing the forums explode after patch 1.1, when Imperials were able to farm Valor through spawn camping and turret farming. So many got to Battlemaster rank within a couple hours, instead of those previously who took months. I love Star Wars but Bioware is seriously tearing the shit out of their own game.
