Little Peeves

[Wolf]

Excessive fucking walk/sprinting everywhere.  I mean what the fuck.  Imperial Agent.  Watcher X.  He's way the back in a fucking friendly complex.  Could he be by the taxi?  Fuck no.  Every time you have to talk to him you have to run all the way the fuck back there. 

If watcher X annoyed you, be very, very, very calm at all times when you do alderaan.

[eldaec]

I once had a peeve about not being able to pull the camera back more than 10cm from your head.

Turns out the problem is a that the max camera distance defaults to 19%.

So instead my peeve is stupid defaults in the preferences.

[apocrypha]

Minor peeve with the quest giver icons above NPC heads - they're too small when you're zoomed out and the NPC name overlaps them, so they're impossible to see. All it needs is to be raised a little higher above the quest giver head to be much more visible.

Also the map. I loathe the map. Difficult to navigate, everything's the same colour, no z-axis indication of any sort, the zoom-window is far too small, the seperation of sub-zones isn't indicated on the world map and you can't easily zoom to sub-zones other than the one you're in, when you're moving the bottom edge of the map overlaps your quickslot bars making it impossible to see and the various icons are flakey at best.

IMO the entire map needs ditching and reworking from scratch, it's nearly as bad as EVE's map.

[Miasma]

Having a minor damage over time effect on me that constantly breaks and interrupts my after-battle-heal-up ability.

While using their terrible GTN interface it tried to log me off for inactivity even though I had been clicking, typing and searching through all that mess for the pervious twenty minutes.  It seems to only use movement to determine if you are there or not instead of any input.

These people that I now see driving around in the 1.5million credit vehicle.  Well not the people actually, the decision to put this huge vehicle in the game at all.  It's like a car by comparison to the speeders, at some point everyone will have one and you'll see nothing but overlapping car models pointing to the GTN terminals.  I'm sure most have seen it by now, it's like the size of a roadster and so big you actually have a roof and a second seat beside you.

[Khaldun]

One peeve that's not exactly about the design, but it's the consequence of having so much early access/beta participation: I'm pretty much just behind the leading edge of levelling, so there's a decent-sized cohort that I'm in company with (about 20-30 players on Republic side). When I form up for a flashpoint, I'll go in and half or more of the players have already done the flashpoint in late beta about six times and they're impatient with reviewing any strats with those of us who purposefully stayed clear of beta to keep the experience kind of fresh and shiny after live. Come on, it's a month old, let's not get into this dynamic already, guys.

[Nebu]

Why do we have to wait until 14 to get sprint and 20 to buy a speeder?  Why is the 50 speeder almost the same speed as the 20 speeder for 8x the cost?

Just thought I'd add those.

[MournelitheCalix]

I am really sick of the interface breaking every 30 minutes and seemingly when you need to click on the expanded bar in the worst way.  I also hate hutt ball, invariably every night I am having the same damn instance over and over again.  My final gripe is that planets like Ilum.  Actually see the sides cooperating with each other instead of killing each other in the PvP. Servers.

[Fordel]

Why do we have to wait until 14 to get sprint and 20 to buy a speeder?  Why is the 50 speeder almost the same speed as the 20 speeder for 8x the cost?

Just thought I'd add those.

The higher level speeders protect you from dismounting drastically better.

[Mrbloodworth]

Actually see the sides cooperating with each other instead of killing each other in the PvP. Servers.

This will happen in any game. More so, in a game type that has drilled into all its players for 7 years that leveling and loot is more important than competition and sport. You could cooperate in pong too, if they added loot and levels.

[MournelitheCalix]

Actually see the sides cooperating with each other instead of killing each other in the PvP. Servers.

This will happen in any game. More so, in a game type that has drilled into all its players for 7 years that leveling and loot is more important than competition and sport.

I am thinking it wouldn't happen so much if you made killing the other side more lucrative on Belsavris and Ilum

[Fabricated]

The stupid "gigantic green beams/glitchy fields of green light" graphic bug really gets on my nerves.

I thought HeroEngine was supposed to be one of the less shitty middlewares?

Edit: Ahahah, I looked at the HeroEngine website and looked at some of the other games. It looks like outside of the UI elements that they were forced to build, they did almost -nothing- to the default HeroEngine UI.

[Zetor]

The stupid "gigantic green beams/glitchy fields of green light" graphic bug really gets on my nerves.

I thought HeroEngine was supposed to be one of the less shitty middlewares?

Well, 'less shitty' is a relative term. 

But yeah, the skill responsiveness issue and glitchy/janky UI really gets on my nerves. I don't think the responsiveness problem is easily fixable without performing engine surgery, but here's hoping!

[MisterNoisy]

The stupid "gigantic green beams/glitchy fields of green light" graphic bug really gets on my nerves.

I thought HeroEngine was supposed to be one of the less shitty middlewares?

Edit: Ahahah, I looked at the HeroEngine website and looked at some of the other games. It looks like outside of the UI elements that they were forced to build, they did almost -nothing- to the default HeroEngine UI.

Is this specific to a particular video card or vendor?  I play the game on two different machines - one with a GTX560ti and another with a GTX570, and have never seen this.  My buddies (who are also using fairly recent nVidia cards) haven't seen it either.

[Fabricated]

Well, this explains a LOT.

http://www.heroengine.com/2011/11/heroengine-meets-starwars/

“I need this,” said Gordon.  “I am about to start a special project and these tools will let us build and prototype fast and get something running in a hurry.”  Gordon is not an excitable guy by nature but this had his adrenaline flowing.  “This is just what I need!  I want to license your engine.”

We had thought about offering our engine and tools to developers but we had expected that we would have to actually ship a game first, like Epic did with Unreal Tournament before they licensed the original Unreal Engine.

“It’s not productized yet,” we told Gordon.  “There are whole sections of code that is only roughed in and not optimized for performance or security.  And there are very few comments and very little documentation.”

He didn’t care.  “We are going to have tons of engineers.  We can finish it ourselves.  We’re going to want to modify your source code for our special project anyway.”

Best programming practices right here, up in this shit. I know this is bog-standard for the gaming industry in general with people using really shitty middleware or taking good middleware and making it shitty, but well, it explains a lot.

Is this specific to a particular video card or vendor?  I play the game on two different machines - one with a GTX560ti and another with a GTX570, and have never seen this.  My buddies (who are also using fairly recent nVidia cards) haven't seen it either.

Almost everyone in goon squad has been seeing it with both AMD and Nvidia cards. It's pretty pronounced on Taris, Tatooine, and Balmorra.

[Paelos]

Why in the hell would you admit to that in public on your own site?

[MisterNoisy]

Almost everyone in goon squad has been seeing it with both AMD and Nvidia cards. It's pretty pronounced on Taris, Tatooine, and Balmorra.

Weird that we're largely unaffected then.

To add to the list of tiny gripes:  Fucking elevators fucking everywhere, and not being to use my speeder indoors.  It feels like the worst sort of passive-aggressive MMO crap to add a couple of seconds or minutes to travel times between quests just because you can.  

Also, the weird little bugs with abilities not firing despite the CD being triggered annoy the ever-loving shit out of me, particularly in the warzones.

[Paroid]

No penalty for holding the huttball the entire game.

Actually, there is a penalty for holding the huttball too long.  You randomly explode and die.  I've had this happen twice in the same huttball match.  I think we were farming commendations and I was holding the ball in the middle for a minute.

[Mrbloodworth]

Edit: Ahahah, I looked at the HeroEngine website and looked at some of the other games. It looks like outside of the UI elements that they were forced to build, they did almost -nothing- to the default HeroEngine UI.

So?

[tmp]

Is this specific to a particular video card or vendor?  I play the game on two different machines - one with a GTX560ti and another with a GTX570, and have never seen this.  My buddies (who are also using fairly recent nVidia cards) haven't seen it either.

It's specific to certain game model -- a narrow tower with green vertical beam of light inside, these are fairly frequent around speeder pads. If you are near one, the bug sooner or later seems to show up (suspect it's messed up shader code for the animated beam part) I do see it with gtx 550 so don't think it's card-related.

[Mrbloodworth]

Sounds like a pathing node is showing, when it should not be rendered. I have never seen it personally.

[01101010]

Is this specific to a particular video card or vendor?  I play the game on two different machines - one with a GTX560ti and another with a GTX570, and have never seen this.  My buddies (who are also using fairly recent nVidia cards) haven't seen it either.

It's specific to certain game model -- a narrow tower with green vertical beam of light inside, these are fairly frequent around speeder pads. If you are near one, the bug sooner or later seems to show up. I do see it with gtx 550 so don't think it's card-related.

Ahh the good old wall of green. I first saw it on tatt and thought it was due to bloom still being on. Not so much... since it is still around. Running a 6850 and I get it.

[Mrbloodworth]

Screenshot?

[Rasix]

Nar Shaddaa, while fun, was some of the laziest quest design I've seen.   Report to listening post, do 3 quests, do follow up quest, report to next listening post.

[tmp]

Sounds like a pathing node is showing, when it should not be rendered. I have never seen it personally.

Nah, the effect is difficult to describe but it's like the shader gets all confused about the perspective and just keeps drawing/repeating the beam all over a plane in world space rather than screen space. Definitely nothing as simple as a drawn node. Will try to capture a screenshot next time i run into it.

edit: found one,

this is mild case. Eventually shader freaks out and draws that horizontal beam repeatedly, going infinitely up and up creating a plane of sorts.

[Fordel]

OH THAT thing. Yea I see that stupid beam/wall thing a lot. Doesn't really seem to hamper gameplay at all but its ugly and annoying and random.

[01101010]

I thought of something that is little and a peeve of mine. Space combat. Now I am hitting the upper levels and shit silly hard even with store bought grade 5 blues. But that is neither here nor there...

WHY is it that the default colors for blasters on the Republic side is red and Imperials get green when the ground game is completely opposite?

[Miasma]

I thought of something that is little and a peeve of mine. Space combat. Now I am hitting the upper levels and shit silly hard even with store bought grade 5 blues. But that is neither here nor there...

WHY is it that the default colors for blasters on the Republic side is red and Imperials get green when the ground game is completely opposite?

Same way in the movies isn't it?

[Minvaren]

I hate how far away you can still select your companion from and so every second time I loot Khem comes rushing up into select range and I end up talking to him instead of getting my loots.

This would save me SO much frustration.

Also, please let me turn off the bloody cantina music.

[Fordel]

I hate how far away you can still select your companion from and so every second time I loot Khem comes rushing up into select range and I end up talking to him instead of getting my loots.

This would save me SO much frustration.

Also, please let me turn off the bloody cantina music.

You can change the music at the jukebox!



The top level space missions REALLY need the special slot items, like the blaster/shield booster swapper thing and that immunity button. You'll just get destroyed otherwise.

[eldaec]

I thought of something that is little and a peeve of mine. Space combat. Now I am hitting the upper levels and shit silly hard even with store bought grade 5 blues. But that is neither here nor there...

WHY is it that the default colors for blasters on the Republic side is red and Imperials get green when the ground game is completely opposite?

Same way in the movies isn't it?

Yeah, this is canon.

[PalmTrees]

Another peeve, all those unmanned turrets. You're standing right next to the big gun, get on it and shoot. It's something that has plagued most planets but it's been really prominent on Corellia.

[Simond]

Why in the hell would you admit to that in public on your own site?

"They told me they fixed it! I trusted them to fix it! It's not my fault!"

[Khaldun]

The green thing happens to me quite a bit. Tatooine especially, yeah.

The companion/loots thing also affects nodes--they have a tendency to stand in the way *just* as I'm about to select the node, having not been there a second before.

[01101010]

The green thing happens to me quite a bit. Tatooine especially, yeah.

The companion/loots thing also affects nodes--they have a tendency to stand in the way *just* as I'm about to select the node, having not been there a second before.

They are chasing the cursor. 

[Minvaren]

Also, please let me turn off the bloody cantina music.

You can change the music at the jukebox!