What's going right/wrong with launch...

[Ingmar]

edit: bitter taste has been acquired. I flashed a new ROM on my Android phone since my last one was spamming the shit outta me. Titanium can not restore the app and you have to reenter your info. Great, too bad you can not log onto their site to get said info unless you have the fucking security key. So in other words, guard yo security key shit and hope that never fails or else you are fuxxor'd.

That's kind of the point of multi-factor authentication. You'll have to call in for that most likely, same as for a lost or broken physical authenticator.

[caladein]

Yeah, just call it in.

And in the future, remove the authenticator from your account before you wipe the phone and then just add it back.  That's what I did with Rift.

[Thrawn]

If it's anything like Blizzard it's a quick and painless call.  I had to do the same thing when I had a smartphone with a Battle.net authenticator on it brick.

[sam, an eggplant]

I didn't use any companion gifts at all, except one that I got as a quest reward and gave to Gault. I just used Mako exclusively for those 30-odd levels. And escaped out of every conversation that gave -1 with her. I guess that'll do it.

[Simond]

Onyxia is deep breathing more this patch too.

They broke Feign Death (again) too!

Jboots are slower.

[El Gallo]

apparently if you type /getdown whatever's targeting you loses target and gets interrupted. Works on boss mobs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M

Not real.

You sure?
http://i.imgur.com/vclsr.jpg

[Ingmar]

MrB is confused; the only part that is "not real" is the alleged response from Bioware about "you can now only dance in special Dance Zones." He probably just misread what the correction in the Kotaku post was actually applying to.

[rattran]

Patch going in right now to make emotes not break combat. So, it's not real anymore 

[luckton]

I just got the new 1.0.2b patch a few minutes ago, and something bad happened.  Whole computer locked up while it was trying to patch, and now after restarting and running a repair, I'm having to redownload 11GB of data 

[Samprimary]

/getdown being an aggro dump should have been a feature.

[luckton]

 

[Khaldun]

So I actually reported a guy on the RP server that had a totally trolling-the-server name and who spent all of his play time on general trolling everyone with various profane, ugly, racist, Barrens-chat stuff. I almost never do it but this guy was asking for it and I suspect had been reported by half the server by the time I did it.

So when the ticket was closed, I was amused to see that the GM response cut-and-pasted the *CS instructions to GMs* into the response. Step #3, you'll all be glad to know, is "Remember to thank the customer."

[Mrbloodworth]

I loled.

[Ghambit]

So I actually reported a guy on the RP server that had a totally trolling-the-server name and who spent all of his play time on general trolling everyone with various profane, ugly, racist, Barrens-chat stuff. I almost never do it but this guy was asking for it and I suspect had been reported by half the server by the time I did it.

So when the ticket was closed, I was amused to see that the GM response cut-and-pasted the *CS instructions to GMs* into the response. Step #3, you'll all be glad to know, is "Remember to thank the customer."

So now the question remains, were you ever truly thanked?  Or have we devolved into anthropomorphizing cut-paste responses.

[kildorn]

So I actually reported a guy on the RP server that had a totally trolling-the-server name and who spent all of his play time on general trolling everyone with various profane, ugly, racist, Barrens-chat stuff. I almost never do it but this guy was asking for it and I suspect had been reported by half the server by the time I did it.

So when the ticket was closed, I was amused to see that the GM response cut-and-pasted the *CS instructions to GMs* into the response. Step #3, you'll all be glad to know, is "Remember to thank the customer."

So now the question remains, were you ever truly thanked?  Or have we devolved into anthropomorphizing cut-paste responses.

It was meta customer support. They were letting you know what they could have done.

[tmp]

/getdown being an aggro dump should have been a feature.

Can't help but wonder now if twi'lek racial special dance also does something unorthodox...

[tmp]

On the subject of bugs -- don't know if it's been mentioned but there seems to be a really annoying one, where on entering a new zone your character's stats don't take into account part of your equipment (meaning your character has few hundreds hp and armour less than they should, along with the attributes hit etc)

the work-around is to put on something else, then switch back to the original item, forcing the game to re-calculate your attributes.

It may be related to the equipment in question being social gear and thought one of the patches released so far was supposed to fix it, but it's still there today.

[Ghambit]

On the subject of bugs -- don't know if it's been mentioned but there seems to be a really annoying one, where on entering a new zone your character's stats don't take into account part of your equipment (meaning your character has few hundreds hp and armour less than they should, along with the attributes hit etc)

the work-around is to put on something else, then switch back to the original item, forcing the game to re-calculate your attributes.

It may be related to the equipment in question being social gear and thought one of the patches released so far was supposed to fix it, but it's still there today.

Does it apply to comps?  I've had Kal in stripper's headgear for a while now... /sigh

On a more positive note... I do believe they've fixed (or somewhat fixed) the issue with the UI not saving your settings.  At least, I've not lost my cover bar setting of late.  Could be zone specific though.  I cant tell you how many times I've had to scramble during a fight to turn it back off.

[Crumbs]

Briefly:

Right: 

--Star Warsyness. 
--Crew Missions
--Bonus missions, some of which are hidden in the landscape
--Character customization
--Moddable items
--Social points/rolls
--companions in general

Wrong:

--Galactic Trade Network
--Galactic Trade Network
--Galactic Trade Network
--Bugs Everywhere (ui, mission window, companions saying mission failed when it didn't, succeeded when it didn't, etc)
--Clunky gameplay, esp in warzones.  I will revisit this when my new computer arrives, but here is a thread talking about what I mean:  http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=133110
--Galactic Trade Network
--Galactic Trade Network

[Sjofn]

The GTN is seriously the biggest "what the fuck, who thought this was remotely acceptable" thing in the game for me, yes.

[kildorn]

The entire vendor/sorting system is what the fuck. "Show usable" just doesn't work at all, you can't sort by anything useful.. the sub 50 pvp weapons all get thrown on one vendor for example, and good luck figuring out if there's a weapon for you here or not!

[tmp]

Does it apply to comps?  I've had Kal in stripper's headgear for a while now... /sigh

Hmm no clue but it's easy to check -- take note of their health/attribute that your social gear affects, take that piece off or swap it with something then put it back and see if there's a change? I dont' have any social gear on mine so couldn't test myself.

[Crumbs]

Wanted to add a few positives I forgot:

Instances:  What a nice touch.  You can even see out of them while others can't see in.  It feels naughty.

Voice acting & animations:  While I was skeptical, and it takes away from my mmo zone-out playstyle, it's very well done.

[Ingmar]

Yeah the way this game does instancing is just really impressive technically.

[Lightstalker]

Things to hate:
Companions breaking cc.
Companions pulling entire instances when you cross pathing discontinuities.
Quests that don't advance / un-announced blocks and gates.
STR/DEF Medium armor exists.
Grouping with the same base class but different advanced class makes keeping quests in sync nearly impossible and decidedly un-fun.
Knowing WTF to do in space combat.
Ship to ground transitions - why do I need to walk through 6 transitions to get to where the fun starts?
Running around an empty world.
GTN.
Vendors.
Hard interrupt requirement fights before you've got your interrupt or when you've got Companions screwing shit up.
Low level space quests always show up as available.
Companions acquisition rate and usefulness varies dramatically from class to class.

Things to like:
The class stories.
Space Combat when you've already played that game before.
Using knockback to throw mobs/others/NPCs off buildings and to their deaths.
Forcequake and Mortar Barrage when levelling.
Mission based crafting.
The loot Pillar.
AoE Looting.
Character customization.

[Cadaverine]

My current gripe is the abysmal sorting options(or lack thereof) in the crafting recipes pane.

I'm also annoyed by not being able to preview weapons before equipping them.

[kildorn]

str/def armor exists for the same reason cunning/def armor exists: just because. And I was amusingly thinking about a set for exploitative pve antics.

[Ingmar]

Cunning/Def armor is used by a couple companions (Dr. Lokin would be an example I believe); I don't think str/def is, but I wouldn't be surprised if some prior iteration of one of them did and that's why it exists in the tables.

EDIT: I take that back, he's dps/heal, not tank/heal.

[tmp]

Using knockback to throw mobs/others/NPCs off buildings and to their deaths.

Love this one. Did it tons in Cademimu run, and then a turret operator did it to me in the end as clear payback

[Merusk]

Cunning/Def armor is used by a couple companions (Dr. Lokin would be an example I believe); I don't think str/def is, but I wouldn't be surprised if some prior iteration of one of them did and that's why it exists in the tables.

EDIT: I take that back, he's dps/heal, not tank/heal.

That would also explain the combat knife with aim someone linked in Nar Shadda a few nights ago.   

[Miasma]

Yeah the way this game does instancing is just really impressive technically.

I don't think so, it's more of a barbaric approach.  Instead of a nice phasing system which you don't even notice you have these in-your-face forcefields everywhere.  They are just rooms without doors that may or may not be locked since their tech can't handle two people in the same place but different instances.  A particularly bad example is the forge where lightsabres are made on the jedi starter planet.  Both knights and consulars use the same area for their final class quest but have to enter from separate force fields because the system is so badly done.
 
Empire side doesn't even have a useable cantina on Alderaan because the whole damn thing had to be locked down due to a bounty hunter mission in there, it's tacky because it's not actually phased.

[caladein]

I think the fact that it's obvious and in-your-face is to its credit.  Having it be not obvious that you are in a solo phase (red bar around your menu) or what have you would just lead to a lot of frustration.  It's not elegant in the slightest, but I think it's an acceptable loss to make it very clear considering how the rules around different kinds of phases are important for the game.

[tmp]

str/def armor exists for the same reason cunning/def armor exists: just because. And I was amusingly thinking about a set for exploitative pve antics.

Wouldn't it exist for the jedi knights who want their counter-not-on-gcd move trigger reasonably often? Or just the ones who pick some degree of avoidance over the straight hp bloat.

[Ingmar]

Jedi knight tanks wear heavy.

[Triax]

Empire side, the following armor combos are used:
Light Armor:
Will/Endurance is for Sith Inquisitor (both classes)

Medium Armor:
Cunning/Endurance is for Imperial Agents (both classes)
Strength/Endurance is for Sith Warrior/Marauder class

Heavy Armor:
Aim/Endurance is for Bounty Hunter (both classes)
Strength/Endurance is for Sith Warrior/Juggernaught class

Not sure what the combos are for the Republic side, haven't gotten around to playing them yet.