First impressions CU2....

Been playing the new upgrade this evening and converted my lowbie cl17 to a
cl17 Spy. Here are my initial impressions...
i. Lag, lag, lag.... Did I Say LAG? Yup, it is extremely laggy
especially if you ride a fast vehicle. I found that when I went to ride some
where, I would periodically end up further away(!). Once or twice it is
annoying, but when you pass the same piece of terrain more than 8 times you
start to get pissed...
ii. Combat. On the whole seems alright. It is very simplistic
and very quick. For solo missions (at least the ones I did) its a no no.
Before the patch I could heal myself in combat with bacta which meant that
if I were fighting two lvl 15 NPC's it would be hard work but almost always
doable. My poor spy char can no longer heal himself so vs 2 x lvl 15's =
instant incap. Two incaps within 2.5 mins and you die. Luckily this is shown
as a buff under the ham bars. If I can't solo missions, I'll be leaving
pretty soon....
iii. Ctrl-Up Arrow key no longer works in chat pane to recover
previous text. BIG pain if you decide to move furniture around as you are
going to have to manually type every command.
iv. Alt keys not working for me to release mouse. I end up
having to use the <escp> key.
v. Speed. You now default to running rather than walking. The
run is so fast that it looks very comical. Even those slow moving two legged
box like droids now pelt about at speed. Highly hilarious, but also highly
off putting... In fact it seems to me that some coder simply upped the
frequency of updates on all animations which is why everything looks like a
movie on fast forward - including subtle character movements. I'm guessing
this speed hack is the prime cause of the lag mentioned in i above.
vi. Where did my stats go? It seems respecced chars don't get
given stats.... (All mine are zero)

My overall impression is that the game has been dumbed down to the nth level
and has been coerced rather unsuccessfully into doing stuff it was never
designed to do. I haven't mentioned the fact that a lot of my equipment is
useless and will have to be sold. Or the fact that if you are not a crafter
the default items you can craft is food only... Overall, I don't like what I
see at all. I will stay with it for a month, but suspect I will be waving
goodbye to Star Wars for good....

RobP

Overall, I don't like what I
see at all. I will stay with it for a month, but suspect I will be
waving
goodbye to Star Wars for good....



yes my thoughts exactly.......all that time i spent getting my Jedi to
my template wasted. /cry