The Republic: Health Nerf -- The Star Wars: The Old Republic Show

Written by: Larry Everett (Twitter @Shaddoe - Google+) | April 24, 2012 7:30 am

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Our panel’s played with Update 1.2 for a couple of weeks now. And the Star Wars: The Old Republic development team is still tweaking a little thing here and there, but a few changes still do not sit right with our pros. In fact, Ed Park was a bit insulted by Lead Combat Designer Georg Zoeller‘s statement regarding why PvPers are seeing their characters health bars deplete faster. Zoeller stated that a player should be in full PvP gear to stay up longer. However, Ed was well aware of this and has been running in full Battlemaster gear for quite some time, yet he still sees a difference. Maybe it’s time for BioWare to hire Ed for the PvP design team.

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The Republic: Health Nerf -- The Star Wars: The Old Republic Show

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BattleRealm

Gary should drop the background screens by 4 or 5 inches.
Epilo

The past week I noticed that several SWTOR devs appeared on fansite podcasts. It would be great to get Georg or Gabe on to talk about some of the issues you’ve discussed. Do the devs not generally do live press interviews?
- H S
  
  It’s hard to lie for 45+ minutes straight. So I wouldn’t hold your breath for devs to talk freely about the game. My guess is they will stick to the scripted illusionary message system they developed way back when.
  - MMO_Doubter
    
    VERY well said.
http://twitter.com/Latinkuro Latinkuro

I’m no top pvp player or elitist, but……
The way the game works needs to be fixed, leaving an active warzone penalty, class balance and than make it so that winning is the key to good rewards in warzones not how many medals you got, this medal system is what makes people not cooperate and play as a team.
The current system is so pardon the word carebear, pvp players whining because the didn’t get rewarded for losing are you kidding me? why should you be rewarded for losing? you should be thankful for the little consolation prize you got for losing you “MAKEINU”
- Epilo
  
  I think the issue is how to incent people to play WZs to the end of a match. One way is to provide rewards to play to the end, even if the match is out of reach; another way is to punish you for leaving early. I personally like the positive incentives, otherwise you feel like a prisoner with no escape from a hopeless match.
- MMO_Doubter
  
  You bet. There should be NO REWARDS at all for losing in PvP. Anyone who wants to be bribed to play PvP isn’t fit to play it in the first place.
  
  Rewards for losing are like getting treasure from the boss when you wipe in a dungeon. Beyond pathetic.
  
  MMOFringe
  - http://www.facebook.com/chaz.rpg Chaz Davis
    
    Please dont work in the gaming industry
    - MMO_Doubter
      
      You want bigger rewards for winning? I am fine with that.
      
      You want PvP to be a way to coast to your upgrades? I am NOT fine with that. Play to win or GTFO.
http://www.facebook.com/people/You-Lilphucker/100003567602561 You Lilphucker

Wait till you get your hands on 50v50v50 objective based wolf pack pvp in TSW, you will forget all about swtor.
- MMO_Doubter
  
  And when it’s 12v4v50?
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/You-Lilphucker/100003567602561 You Lilphucker
    
    You are a 5 watt light bulb, not to bright. You best stick to your faceroll easy mmo and your Asian grinders. Leave the real games for the good players.
    
    Boy are you in for a surprise.
    - Judeau
      
      TSW is going to have 150 subscribers?
http://www.facebook.com/davidallmighty David Cohen

I would give my right pinky finger for a PVE focused MMO… other then WoW…
- http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
  
  PVP discussions start to ratchet up when PVE fails to deliver.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000979667979 Matthew Simonton
    
    swtor pve is better then wow pve.
    
    I have an active sub to both games.
    
    GG troll.
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1260066056 Steven Diaz
      
      On what planet? I HATE WoW and wanted to love SWTOR. Unfortunately, SWTOR’s individual storyline in no way matches the over all events going on in the world. WoW’s story matches what’s going on. Voice does not automatically make a story and SWTOR lacks any true fun and exciting PvE content. WoW is an MMORPG where as SWTOR is a multiplayer-RPG.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johnson/1353890372 Michael Johnson

Ed still plays this? I thought for sure he would jump ship with how you’ve handled PvP the past few months….
Keigh

They are making the black core crystals way to common IMO, I think they should be a rare thing to get. I myself own two, the SE Razer (Green/Black) and the Preorder (Yellow/Black), but just the other day I saw an Orange/Black on the AH with a few other colors. I was also disappointed when they were selling slightly different color version of my SE Razer crystal at the event vendor.
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Soholt/635835851 David Soholt

Wow, live spots for sponsors now. Gamebreaker hitting the big time.
http://www.facebook.com/davidallmighty David Cohen

Overtuned? The new Ops is harder cause it is spose to be harder! Friggen carebear hosts
- pc11
  
  Since game launch that it is obvious the pve content hosts are “casual” for lack of another term. The new Ops are fine and what the original ones should have been. Maybe the game wouldnt have lost so many raiders on the first 2 months if the Ops where not such a faceroll.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kyle-Bohannon/1429322817 Kyle Bohannon

am i the only one that is overly relieved that gary is back and schaffnit is gone?
Michael McGee

Jekk Jekk Tar is a healthy server where the republic and empire have their fair share in PvP and the population is very healthy
. PvP is balanced there and i have no idea where you guys are playing
. PVPRP servers don’t count justin! I’ve never caught an AFK player EVER in my experience playing SWTOR which has been basically every day that i can get some game time in
. I am seriously getting tired of all the talk about the “bad” stuff in the game
. There is so much hate for this game on this website while on legendary there apparently isn’t anything wrong with WoW and there is nothing bad to say about it
. Im sorry but i’m not a true gamebreaker fan anymore because of the bias and hate
.
- http://www.facebook.com/chaz.rpg Chaz Davis
  
  Michael, as I commented on other video, this is not a swtor fansite, so the Blizzard and GW2 zealots will often come and trash talk the game to feel a bit more secure about their game.
  
  It’s really sad actually, but half the comments are always trolls, also I was actually really interested in Guild Wars 2 and almost prepurchased, but if the best arguement those folk can make for their game is “swtor sucks” then I think I will hold on to my money for now
pc11

SWTOR has the worse pvp i have ever experienced in any MMO. The amount of stuns per class is ridiculous and then you have snares, knockbacks, etc under certain circumstances you loose control of your character during entire fights!
- MMO_Doubter
  
  BW really should have kept the former Mythic devs out of the PvP design. SIck amounts of CC ruined PvP in Warhammer Online. They also got incentives for open RvR wrong.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000522850458 Michael MyRick McGee
  
  Really I think it add’s more fun to the game. when i play WoW’s PVP i am always bored, 100% of the time. In SWTOR it requires you to think and actually play strategically. so stop the QQ and be smart, or stop playing SWTOR because we don’t need your whiney attitude.
  - pc11
    
    Your argument is so wrong that you are clearly a blind fanboy.
    Its ok if you like the game but dont say bullshit.
    SWTOR pvp is as strategic as WOW’s and except for huttball the battlegrounds are the same with a different skin
http://www.facebook.com/DarkLordArioch Alan Butland

Well, i’ve been watching the Republic show since episode 3 or 4 or something like that and i’m afraid i’m going to have to unsubscribe to the show. It just seems like its constant moaning all the time now. I’m still really enjoying playing SWTOR and the last thing i want is to watch a podcast constantly moaning about it. Its just bringing me down

Theres a few other podcasts out there i listen to which are enthusiastic about SWTOR and actually talk about the things i find enjoyable in the game.

Anyway, good luck with the show. i’ll probably check in once in a while just to see if its changed at all.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1260066056 Steven Diaz
  
  This isn’t meant to be a fanboy show, it’s meant to be an honest discussion about it. Currently, there’s enough negativity that it overshadows the positive.

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