Preguntas y respuestas 1.2 y mas

Forcejunkies.com escribió:
For the first week we got a fantastic amount of new information on what’s to come in the near future including Medium and Heavy Social Armor. Dual specs is in the works and coming soon and with update 1.2, we’ll see the old “match to chest” feature everyone loved in beta. There are many other updates on SWTOR future. Keep reading after the break for the full breadth of the Q&A.

Last week we asked for your questions and this week we have some answers! We had planned on answering 10 questions but in the end, got 15 answered by various members of the team. Please note in some cases we’ve combined multiple questions into one, and we have edited some questions for clarity.

We have now opened an official thread for next week’s Q&A, which will stay open until 2pm CST on February 14th (8pm GMT/9pm CET). We welcome your questions in that thread and hope you enjoy the answers below. If you want to discuss any of the answers given, please use this Forum thread!

(For those of you wondering where the Dev Tracker Summary blog is, we decided to move it out to Mondays going forward. Look for it then!)

Alkapwn: Could you elaborate about what specific benefits the Legacy will offer? I know that I am not alone in the fact of putting off making an alt (and hence losing out on gameplay) because I wish to know what kind of character creation options will be available. All we have to go on now is “The legacy system will unlock new character creation options, including new species.” Does this mean species that have been unavailable for that specific class, or that have been unavailable to play in the game as a whole?

Daniel Erickson: Game Update 1.2 will bring you the first big step in the Legacy System but it’s important to understand that the Legacy System will continue to grow, bringing new options to new characters (alts) and some fun options for elder game players as well. Legacy is definitely not just for new characters! The species that will be unlocked in Game Update 1.2 are species currently in the game that will become available to classes and factions where you haven’t seen them before. New species are in consideration for the future but we don’t have any details to share right now. Look for more specific details in the near future as we head toward Game Update 1.2.

Jeunedorsk: What will happen in the future for PvP (Ilum, new Warzones ?)

Daniel Erickson: We’ve been pleasantly surprised at how popular PvP is in The Old Republic and we’ve been doubling down on our efforts to bring exciting new content and systems to the PvP community. Right now there’s a new Warzone planned for Game Update 1.2 which we’re already testing internally and really enjoying. We can say it’s enabled for same faction vs. same faction play, so if you’ve been playing a lot of Huttball, expect some variety soon! Also coming in 1.2 is the pre-season of our Warzone ranking system, bringing better matchmaking which means better PvP. In the future expect a ton more PvP news as we expand and polish what has proven to be one of the most popular aspects of The Old Republic. We’ve got big plans.

AeonKwiz: Are you planning on adding Social Gear for Medium and Heavy Armor characters?

Daniel Erickson: Yes! Expect to see the first new gear coming in Game Update 1.2 and some dramatic changes to the social gear system just around the corner afterward.

MrGerbz: What kind of measures will you take to improve the community, population, and faction balance of each server?

Daniel Erickson: Faction balance is always a concern and something we watch carefully across all servers. It’s also something you can never fully account for programmatically as it is different on each server. We have many servers where the differences are small enough to be negligible and then others where either the Empire or the Republic has a huge numbers advantage. The Legacy System will take some first steps towards incentivizing players to look at what the other side has to offer and we will continue watching the most extreme servers to see if additional steps are needed.

Shotgun-clavy: When are character transfers going to become available? And are server transfers a real possibility?

Daniel Erickson: Character transfers between servers are definitely going to be available in the future and we’ll announce details as soon as we have firm dates.

DarthNhiilus: Are you going to implement housing and guild features (like guild banks, guild ships)?

Daniel Erickson: Guild banks are coming in Game Update 1.2 and like PvP, guild features are a priority for the development team with a strike team focused on nothing but top guild concerns and requests. Guild capital ships are a huge undertaking, though, so expect to see more quality of life style guild features roll out before you and your allies start building your destroyer….

Seltron: What is the preferred method for providing feedback to the development team, and why (e.g. In-game tickets, forums, support@swtor.com)?

Stephen Reid: Every method of feedback you mention will ultimately make its way to the development team; we get feedback from everywhere (including off-site sources such as Twitter, Facebook, fansites, podcasts and the like). In-game metrics are also always being gathered and analyzed, so that essentially ‘passive feedback’ is given by players every time they log in. With that said, the Forums are always a good starting place for feedback; everything is read (even if we don’t always immediately respond to threads) and the Community team regularly reports out player concerns and thoughts. As always, the more constructive your feedback is, the better for the development team.

Venomlash: I was excited as anyone about the Magenta Adegan crystals, but I’m not a huge fan of magenta. Will there be more rare items of this nature?

Daniel Erickson: Absolutely. In the near future expect to see not just rare items but limited availability items, more treasure hunts and some big surprises for the community to discover and work together to figure out.

Buddytonto: When you made the blog post about the balancing act of what to fix, what to balance, and when; got me thinking about how the items are prioritized, as it didn’t really explain that?

Daniel Erickson: How we prioritize bugs is a complicated question and one that can be maddening from a player point of view. The answer is as complicated as the question but I can give a high level view. First comes anything that blocks the critical path of a class story for any reason. If you can’t progress, your game comes to a screeching halt so that always takes precedence. Next is the question: how many people are being affected and what is the damage being done? Half the population being slightly irritated loses in priority to ten percent of the population having their game crippled, for example. The last consideration, and the most opaque to players, is how hard the bug is to fix. There are fixes that look complicated and are nothing more than a database entry that went rogue. There are fixes that look easy and take months of untangling code. What we can promise is that we never ignore bugs or decide something is good enough as-is.

Aurozia: Will there be a dual specialization system in the future? Will there be a possibility of changing advance classes as well?

Daniel Erickson: We have no plans for switching advanced classes – which we see as fundamentally different class designs- but dual spec is in the works and coming soon.

NommNomm: Are you still planning on giving us an option to make our chest item colors match the rest of our armor?

Daniel Erickson: The new and vastly improved ‘Hue to Chest’ system launches with Game Update 1.2 and there are more customization and quality of life improvements along those lines hot on its heels.

USLeatherneck: Will Bioware implement Target of Target (including a visible cast bar above the portraits) in the new UI?

Gabe Amatangelo: Yes. Target of Target on primary target and party frames will be part of Game Update 1.2. Primary target already has a visible casting bar on live right now. In Game Update 1.2 target of target frames will have visible casting bars as well. Additionally, there will be various customization features in all of those frames (e.g. repositioning).

Annexes: In the EU our keyboards are a little different than in the US, and I´m wondering if you guys are going to make the “bug report” shortcut key unbindable?

Daniel Erickson: Yes! This will be addressed in a weekly patch in the very near future.

Simoon: Will you be adding the option to choose what Warzone you enter a queue for?

Gabe Amatangelo: Not until we introduce cross server queuing. If we were to allow players to choose their Warzone before they could queue across servers, then it would negatively affect how often every player would see a Warzone – and for every player that loves a certain Warzone there is another player that hates it. The population would end up divided by their Warzone choice, negatively affecting the time it would take for a specific Warzone to become available for anyone. With cross server queuing we will still have a preference to match players of the same server, but those players who choose specific preferences such as these will likely end up in a match with players in the larger Wargroup.

Many people asked: How are you planning on expanding the endgame experience?

Gabe Amatangelo: We are going to continue to introduce new Flashpoints, Warzones, and Operations on a regular basis. The story line will continue with all of the above as well as in solo-able missions. We will continue to evolve Crew Skills and crafting. We’ll be introducing the Legacy System soon, as Daniel mentioned. Additionally, we have exciting PvP features planned, the first of which includes pre-season Ranked Warzones in Game Update 1.2.

Latok escribió:nuevas razas

Latok escribió: van a dejar en un futuro elegir la warzone pero solo cuando implementen las colas entre distintos servidores.

Latok escribió:En la 1.2 veremos el banco de hermandad.

Latok escribió:Pronto veremos implementado el dual spec.

Latok escribió:En la 1.2 habra un target to target

Latok escribió:y la personalización de interfaz

Outis escribió:Con lo de la dual spec ya tengo sentimientos encontrados, por un lado lo veo utilísimo y nos puede venir muy bien por ejemplo para las Ops, pero por otro lado me parece que le quita valor a las decisiones que tomas en el juego de personalización no-gráfica que tomas en el juego. En ese sentido me parece una buena noticia que no tengan pensado dejar cambiar la clase avanzada, eso ya sería un cachondeo en mi opinión.

Dorian Destine escribió:De ahi a hacer FPs en modo gogogo hay un paso.

slayer_serrot escribió:

Outis escribió:Con lo de la dual spec ya tengo sentimientos encontrados, por un lado lo veo utilísimo y nos puede venir muy bien por ejemplo para las Ops, pero por otro lado me parece que le quita valor a las decisiones que tomas en el juego de personalización no-gráfica que tomas en el juego. En ese sentido me parece una buena noticia que no tengan pensado dejar cambiar la clase avanzada, eso ya sería un cachondeo en mi opinión.

Entonces con la dual Spec lo que van a hacer es no tener que pagar por la reespecialización de talentos, por que si no van a cambiar la clase avanzada...
Y hablando de clases avanzadas, los Gunslingers y los Sentinels... van a "dualspecializarse" en una forma de DPS o en la otra...

En fins...
A cuidarse!!

slayer_serrot escribió:Entonces con la dual Spec lo que van a hacer es no tener que pagar por la reespecialización de talentos, por que si no van a cambiar la clase avanzada...
Y hablando de clases avanzadas, los Gunslingers y los Sentinels... van a "dualspecializarse" en una forma de DPS o en la otra...

Dorian Destine escribió:Las cosas que estan pero no usas, por ejemplo una duel spec, son indicativos de que el juego esta moviendose en una direccion diferente a tus gustos.

Que implementen la dual spec realmente a mi ni me va ni me viene, como mecanica, pero si que me importa y mucho porque representa en que direccion evoluciona el juego. Y ahora es la dual spec, luego es el buscador de mazmorras, despues el gear score, y cuando me quiero dar cuenta me han cambiado los arboles de talentos por una chapuza en la que te especializas desde lvl 10.

Los MMOs son juegos vivos y que evolucionan, y lo hacen en la direccion que marca su comunidad.
Podemos evitar los PUGs, y hacer caso omiso de la dual spec, claro... pero el juego seguirá evolucionando en la dirección que diga la mayoria.

Yo mantengo mi posicion.
La dual spec me parece una cagada. Punto 1.
El juego por ahora me parece divertido, y cuando deje de serlo dejare de jugar. Punto 2.

Para mi que pongan la doble spec es un pasito en la dirección equivocada (para mi gusto, claro).
Y que ya se pueda hacer no me dice nada. De hecho yo haria que fuera mas costoso, y no solo en creditos.

La dirección correcta para mi?
Menos dual spec y mas balanceo de talentos, que no sea necesario cambiar de talentos para hacer PvE y PvP para empezar. Simplemente haz que las habilidades hagan cosas diferentes si targetean a un jugador o a un NPC.
Y para los que tienen 2 funciones? Pues si quieres ser DPS eres DPS, punto, y cuando quieras ser healer eres healer una temporada, pero estar cambiando de healer a DPS cada 2 por 3 me parece una cagada y le quita todo el sentido al personaje. Eso son dos personajes diferentes.
Facilita la subida de los lters, y que esa persona tenga un DPS y un healer diferentes. Total, para poder hacer cualquiera de las 2 cosas bien necesitara equiparse, con lo cual no es ninguna chorrada el que sea otro personaje.

Dicho de otro modo, que cada uno juegue como quiera, no como le exige el juego (menos aun como le exigen los compañeros, pero eso esta fuera de discusion).

Latok escribió:Y por ultimo con respecto a tu ultima frase estoy empezando a cansarme de que se digan cosas como que exijimos algo a la gente, yo no he exijo nada a nadie, ni ahora ni nunca, estoy un poco harto de ese tono con el que se dicen las cosas como si yo fuera el gran ogro del pve y vengo a decirle a la gente "no entras porque no eres pro", porque no es asi, coño.

Latok escribió:
Estamos mezclando donde va el juego, porque ponga algo que ya existe pero en lugar de tener que irte a un npc hacerlo mas cómodamente sin tener que darte una pateada y configurar teclas y demás, eso no es el declive de un mmo, hay muchos mmos que lo tienen y no se volvieron mas "casuales", si quieres decirlo asi, por ello.

Y por ultimo con respecto a tu ultima frase estoy empezando a cansarme de que se digan cosas como que exijimos algo a la gente, yo no he exijo nada a nadie, ni ahora ni nunca, estoy un poco harto de ese tono con el que se dicen las cosas como si yo fuera el gran ogro del pve y vengo a decirle a la gente "no entras porque no eres pro", porque no es asi, coño.

RockmanX escribió:
"En el UE de StarWars la Dual Spec es algo existente y ademas posible gracias a los Implantes de memoria, los cuales puedes usar para almacenar estilos de combate e intercambiarlos"

Respecto al Balanceo Talentos PVP y PVE, no se tu, pero quienes intercambian los talentos lo hacen para obtener resultados distintos, no es lo mismo tener talentos que aumenten tu supervivencia a otros que metan un nuke bestial a algo, como es obvio tu vas a querer en PvP la supervivencia por encima del Nuke por tanto unos talentos que hagan X en PvE y otros en PvP nos daría como resultado un ejercito clon,

Ademas de que la mayoría de jugadores PvP, suelen ser Híbridos (mezclan 2 ramas) mientras para PvE quieren 1 rama Pura (el talento final suele ser mas q necesario) pues expande mas su utilidad.

si nos queremos a remitir a "es que mata el Rol" piensa en Revan, al borrarle los recuerdos le hicieron un Borrado de talentos por asi decirlo, es mas cuando vas a cambiar los talentos te encuentras con un tio que te dice "Hola , bienvenido al programa de reeducacion. con nuestro programa podrás borrar tus recuerdos ya inútiles y reeducarte en una nueva especialización mucho mas útil para tu vida"