Little Peeves

[Ingmar]

I think maybe it should just be a clock-style cooldown sweep instead of just the single line wiping down. That would make it more visually evident when it gets close-but-not-quite-off-cooldown.

[Rendakor]

I like the new cooldown indicator much better than the previous iteration. Different strokes I guess.

[tmp]

I dunno if sage CC is just special, but it definitely puts a debuff on mobs that you can watch.

1 min CC seems to show up in general. The droid slice equivalent some other classes get or the shadow's mind maze also show on the target.

edit: the new indicator is a bitch to tell whether it's done on skills with CD longer than few seconds. The last few % become a total guess

[01101010]

I think maybe it should just be a clock-style cooldown sweep instead of just the single line wiping down. That would make it more visually evident when it gets close-but-not-quite-off-cooldown.

Yeah this is a bitch and a half. I constantly am spamming shit that LOOKS like it is off CD, but really has 2 seconds to go. 

[Ingmar]

A UI option to put actual countdown numbers on it would be perfect I think.

[Sky]

A UI option to put actual countdown numbers on it would be perfect I think.

A UI option to toggle that and also a drop-down of cooldown visual indicators (right now, current or original, possibly others later) would be great.

But I'm all about putting in everything and letting the players choose the one that works best for them.

[Sjofn]

Empire Taris is even worse than Republic Taris. I didn't think it was possible. They did Empire Taris early, didn't they. Didn't they. The quest flow is shitty shit shit.

[ajax34i]

I spam the button until the ability goes through, then I spam the next button for the next ability.  Because there's no indication of what's queued, and the damn ability delay issues make it impossible to know whether your abilities will work or not.  They should have:

- an indicator of what's queued next (green border around the icon for example).
- ability queue of up to 1.5 seconds.
- fixed UI so that if an ability is queued it fucking starts and it goes off - no more stuttered animations, dropped abilities, etc.

[Sky]

- an indicator of what's queued next (green border around the icon for example).
- ability queue of up to 1.5 seconds.
- fixed UI so that if an ability is queued it fucking starts and it goes off - no more stuttered animations, dropped abilities, etc.

The queue is one of those things I tend to focus on. I agree that the queue should go to 1.5s in the drop-down options, but there should also be a further 'full' option. I'd like it if I hit an ability and it's got 1.6 (or 2) seconds on CD, it should still go off.

And the border thing. Yeah.

EQ2, ffs. Few want to reference it because lolwow, but seriously, they got so much right, especially in the UI.

[Mrbloodworth]

I have a felling, the tint out was a temp removal. Having users report bugs based off a bugged metric item is, well, not helping.

[Bunk]

One little peeve: After the end of a fight, having to stand around for 4 - 8 seconds with my thumb up my ass while a little robot hovers around me doing 7 points of damage every two ticks. Can't even channel heal, becuase the silly little DoT interrupts it.

[Sky]

That's a good one!

[Sjofn]

Oh man, that IS annoying, yes.

[Mattemeo]

The ammount of functionally and physically identical gear (especially commendation Orange gear) that are differentiated only in name.
That is not 'choice', Bioware. That is 'shit itemisation'.


Also, items that somehow change my character's physical appearance when previewed - several torso pieces I've looked at shave my character's beard off. Wat.

[Reborne]

Overload - Sith Inquisitor area clearance ability - seems to be animated in a deceptive way.
You jump into the air and slam back down with a blast coming out from where you land.

The ability is instant, so you can use it while moving.

The ability seems to be based from where you hit the button, not where your character lands and does the burst...

[tmp]

Also, items that somehow change my character's physical appearance when previewed - several torso pieces I've looked at shave my character's beard off. Wat.

These are great to put on Tharan.

[Sjofn]

Yeah I sort of get NOT liking it, but Pornstache Tharan cracks me up too much to get too upset.    I ASSUME they do it to fight off clipping (my trooper's muttonchops would clip like a motherfucker in his motorcycle cop helmet, for example) but it's still kinda weird.

[apocrypha]

I would really like a way of sorting the character select screen.

When you've got a bucket'o'alts having their order change every single time you log in is very, very annoying.

[Nevermore]

It's arranged alphabetically by the characters' names, with the exception that it puts the most recently used character on top.

[apocrypha]

Yes, I know, and I find the most-recent-character on top bit very annoying. It means that every single character is actually in a different position each time I log one in.

It's only a little peeve, but hey, guess which thread this is? 

[Khaldun]

What's the Sith ability that makes you writhe on the ground like you've got bugs crawling in your mouth?

Whatever it is, it annoys the hell out of me that my cc-cancelling ability doesn't work on it.

[CmdrSlack]

What's the Sith ability that makes you writhe on the ground like you've got bugs crawling in your mouth?

Whatever it is, it annoys the hell out of me that my cc-cancelling ability doesn't work on it.

That sounds like one of the upgrades to overload. The knock back has an added cc effect but it doesn't always go off.

[Khaldun]

Yeah, that's it, I think, comes after a knockback, you lie flat on your back and your limbs flail around. It's a cc without a counter.

[March]

How about a bank vault that groups like things with other like things?... I'm not talking fancy shit like sorting... just merge all of Widget-A into one stack. 

It is singularly amazing that they created a unique system that doesn't do what their existing inventory does.  How exactly did that get built into the design spec?  "You know that stackey-shit we do with inventory?  How 'bout we not do it for the bank?" [APPROVED]

[Rendakor]

I think that's actually been fixed with the most recent patch; whenever I right click to add things to the bank it adds them to their existing stack instead of a new one.

[March]

I think that's actually been fixed with the most recent patch; whenever I right click to add things to the bank it adds them to their existing stack instead of a new one.

Did it?  I didn't notice it yesterday when I was re-organizing the bank, but then it was such a mess I may have missed it.  Yay if they did... but still, they went live with nonsense like that.

[Zetor]

- Sometimes (maybe if I'm stunned / KBd while in the air?) my character gets stuck in a 'flying' animation even while on the ground. This by itself isn't a big problem... however I can't cast any non-instant abilities when this happens (I get the "can't do that while moving ability even when standing still) and the only way to fix it is by dying. Happens in Huttball a lot.
- Selfcast and focus target modifier keys are STILL non-functional at times. My companion has died at least 10 times so far because a focus-targeted heal didn't actually hit her. Same thing was happening to me with the self-target modifier. And yes, I hit the modifier button before the spell's hotkey and hold it down while casting.
- Posted before, but: the focus targeting system is buggy as heck. If I have a focus target, the normal target's buffs/debuffs get mixed up with the focus', sometimes the focus target disappears entirely, I have to re-set focus every time I mount, and using a focus target will often disable the cast bar from the normal target.
- Roots going through white resolve. All they need to do is make roots add a small sliver of resolve and it'd be fixed.
- The main responsiveness issue is still not fixed. Try to mount and move just as the cast finishes, you'll still be dismounted... or try strafe-casting.  The "it looks like the ability is casting, but it isn't" / "the ability is casting but it doesn't show that on the UI" bugs are still there, too. They DID improve some of the responsiveness issues related to stupidlong animations though.

[Mattemeo]

When I press jump, I want to jump. I don't want to think about it for a bit, and then maybe jump, but also maybe stumble awkwardly or get stuck in some crazy dry humping scenario.

This, plus the handicap of yet another fucking game not allowing me to reallocate the ctrl and shift buttons (having huge hands, i've never been comfortable with WASD, I use the direction keys and the keys around them) so I can pinky-jump like I can in every FPS and City of Heroes is driving me insane.

[ajax34i]

Yeah, the Ctlr and Shift keys will probably function as modifiers in the majority of future games, too.  They're more of a PC thing.  Like, you'll never be able to jump or cast things with the Windows Key either.  You'll probably have to get used to another control scheme, or get a gamepad thing.  You could stretch your pinky a bit and use the / to jump, but that's uncomfortable.

I use aswe for movement, and dc for jump/crouch.  Luckily, most games allow me to modify wasd to aswe.

[Khaldun]

Yet another thing: holy fuck is it easy to get stuck in terrain in this game, compared with most other MMOs. I would say it happens about 2-3 times per two hours of play, particularly because going onto rough or broken terrain is almost essential for not getting dismounted constantly by aggroed mobs when going from a quest hub to the area where the quest target is.  Also important to PvP.  The central area in Ilum, for example, if you just stick to the the clean 'outer track', you're going to be much easier to gank and find and fight: you really want to weave in and out of the walkers and the rough terrain, but there are tons of places to get stuck if you do.

[Rasix]

That's odd, I've never gotten stuck on terrain.

[Khaldun]

I get stuck constantly on slopes, or sometimes between objects and slopes/walls.

[Mrbloodworth]

I haven't had that happen. With exception of someone on follow.

[Paelos]

I get stuck on rocks a lot because I'm constantly going off-road on my speeder.

[Rasix]

The only stuck I've encountered was getting stuck "In Combat" on Coruscant in the first mission area.  Had to /stuck out of that, because even an alt-f4 wouldn't clear it.