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It would seem $OE Austin can't even get out of their desk chairs without tripping over their own 4 feet.

Tried the hoth instance.  I /eject-ed after about 5 minutes.  So many bugs it was unplayable.  6 months to develop this mess.

This is almost not even funny, anylonger.

I ran the hoth instance 4 times yesterday with no problems. Flying the snowspeeders was more fun than I thought it would be. This is by far the hardest thing to do in the game (from the rebel side). The voiceovers, all the new artwork, it is awesome to play.

Originally posted by Gutboy

I ran the hoth instance 4 times yesterday with no problems. Flying the snowspeeders was more fun than I thought it would be. This is by far the hardest thing to do in the game (from the rebel side). The voiceovers, all the new artwork, it is awesome to play.

Yep.  So great they have to tear down the servers today to "fix" what they broke yesterday.

Notice your here instead of there.  Oh, yeah, SWG is down for repairs.

Anyone want to bet that one of the things they bolted on to do the stuff on Hoth is what is killing the servers?

It's been 3 years and the morons STILL don't understand the need to make their test server as identical as possible to the live ones.

As I've said elsewhere, I'd rather be a Death Knight...

Originally posted by Gutboy

I ran the hoth instance 4 times yesterday with no problems. Flying the snowspeeders was more fun than I thought it would be. This is by far the hardest thing to do in the game (from the rebel side). The voiceovers, all the new artwork, it is awesome to play.

Interesting, seeing as the official boards are full of people complaining about the lag making it virtually unplayable.

I ran Hoth last night, had no problems.

Wow.  What are the odds that the two biggest fanboys are about the only ones not having any problems?  3720 to 1?

forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m  lol this made me laug. When they do find a group just to go look at it, the leave and try to get back in, only to find the 12 hour lockout. 

Originally posted by tillamook

forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m  lol this made me laug. When they do find a group just to go look at it, the leave and try to get back in, only to find a 12 hour lockout. 

You have to be in a group just to get in an instance?  Theres a que just to get in?  Good lord.  Any other mmo I've played I've been at least able to go into the instances on my own to take a look around. 

Originally posted by Ginaz

Originally posted by tillamook

forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m  lol this made me laug. When they do find a group just to go look at it, the leave and try to get back in, only to find a 12 hour lockout. 

 

You have to be in a group just to get in an instance?  Theres a que just to get in?  Good lord.  Any other mmo I've played I've been at least able to go into the instances on my own to take a look around. 

Yes, you have to be in a group to get in the instances. However, you can leave and come back at will UNTIL THE 2 1/2 HOUR TIME LIMIT IS UP. At which point, the lockout kicks in.

Originally posted by kobie173

Originally posted by Ginaz

Originally posted by tillamook

forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m  lol this made me laug. When they do find a group just to go look at it, the leave and try to get back in, only to find a 12 hour lockout. 

 

You have to be in a group just to get in an instance?  Theres a que just to get in?  Good lord.  Any other mmo I've played I've been at least able to go into the instances on my own to take a look around. 

 

Yes, you have to be in a group to get in the instances. However, you can leave and come back at will UNTIL THE 2 1/2 HOUR TIME LIMIT IS UP. At which point, the lockout kicks in.

Thats the stupidest design for an instance I've ever heard of.  You have to be in a group to get.  You only get a set amount of time in there.  You have to wait in a que to get in.  Dumb, dumb and dumber.  Its almost like being a sailor on a sub, where you only get to sleep in a bunk until its your turn to go back on duty, then some other guy (or guys) sleeps in the same bunk you did.  It might be ok for living on a sub but its stupid for mmo instances.  Another quality job by soe.

Originally posted by Ginaz

Originally posted by kobie173

Originally posted by Ginaz

Originally posted by tillamook

forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m  lol this made me laug. When they do find a group just to go look at it, the leave and try to get back in, only to find a 12 hour lockout. 

 

You have to be in a group just to get in an instance?  Theres a que just to get in?  Good lord.  Any other mmo I've played I've been at least able to go into the instances on my own to take a look around. 

 

Yes, you have to be in a group to get in the instances. However, you can leave and come back at will UNTIL THE 2 1/2 HOUR TIME LIMIT IS UP. At which point, the lockout kicks in.

 

Thats the stupidest design for an instance I've ever heard of.  You have to be in a group to get.  You only get a set amount of time in there.  You have to wait in a que to get in.  Dumb, dumb and dumber.  Its almost like being a sailor on a sub, where you only get to sleep in a bunk until its your turn to go back on duty, then some other guy (or guys) sleeps in the same bunk you did.  It might be ok for living on a sub but its stupid for mmo instances.  Another quality job by soe.

I dunno about the queue thing ... I got right in when I got home. As far as a limited time in there, I understand it ... prevents people from hiding in instances from BHs and whatnot.

The group mechanic (you only need 4 in your group) I believe is designed to prevent people from running around trying to solo it, since there are limited clones of the instance per server and soloers would clog them all up.

Once again, the SOE way is the cheap way. Bad, bad, bad. Man, they do suck so badly. It is astonishing.

Originally posted by efefia

Originally posted by Gutboy

I ran the hoth instance 4 times yesterday with no problems. Flying the snowspeeders was more fun than I thought it would be. This is by far the hardest thing to do in the game (from the rebel side). The voiceovers, all the new artwork, it is awesome to play.

 

Interesting, seeing as the official boards are full of people complaining about the lag making it virtually unplayable.

I don't know where these guys are getting into Hoth, but the lag for me is beyond terrible.  It makes Hoth unplayable as far as I'm concerned.

I haven't expreienced lag of that nature since we had a massive 50 on 50 PvP "final battle" on Ahazi just prior to the CU. 

Oh wait.  Yeah, when Pex left, he visited Ahazi twice last June, and the lag was that bad then as people grouped around to wish him well and get all the accolade badges.

Mind you, in the Hoth instance I was in last night there were only five actual players.  Everything else was NPCs and taun tauns.

Did see Darth Vader.  Level 300 and 2.5 million hit points.  Woooeee!

Reading around the SWG forums, seems not too many people are too impressed with Hoth, and some even claimed to have beaten the instance already. I expected today's downtime, it happens almost everytime with SWG since the beginning, TC & live servers are somewhat different, if you make something on TC and don't change anything with it then put it on live, it comes out different for some reason and this has been an issue for as long as I can remember.

Oh and another thing, there's no pvp for Hoth? Wasn't that the most requested thing about Hoth for the longest time (like 2+ years)?

I even said on the SWG forums a couple weeks ago replying to someone's statement "this will be done right" and I said that it will NOT be done right but that thread got deleted, I hate to go back to him and say "told you so". History continues to repeat itself with SOE.

Originally posted by sookster54

Reading around the SWG forums, seems not too many people are too impressed with Hoth, and some even claimed to have beaten the instance already. I expected today's downtime, it happens almost everytime with SWG since the beginning, TC & live servers are somewhat different, if you make something on TC and don't change anything with it then put it on live, it comes out different for some reason and this has been an issue for as long as I can remember.

Oh and another thing, there's no pvp for Hoth? Wasn't that the most requested thing about Hoth for the longest time (like 2+ years)?

I even said on the SWG forums a couple weeks ago replying to someone's statement "this will be done right" and I said that it will NOT be done right but that thread got deleted, I hate to go back to him and say "told you so". History continues to repeat itself with SOE.

Hoth PvP was suggested (unsurprisingly) from pre-beta onwards, 6 years is a decent enough guess. 6 years asking for Hoth as a PvP instance, they finally get round to it and add it as a pure PvE instance. "We now listen to the players" .... I lol'd

I played last night there was no lag get a decent PC the one you bought 5 years ago won't run the updated SWG you need some cpu power!

I still enjoy the game but yes I took a lot of time off from it till chapter 6 then I came back.

No its not the old game no they won't roll back so wait for the emu or may be even support it.

I thinks its a great addition to the game!

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 I agree , The Death Knights are more fun to play!

Originally posted by ajax7

 get a decent PC the one you bought 5 years ago won't run the updated SWG you need some cpu power!

 

lol, this defense cracks me up, especially considering I was able to play AoC on full settings with no lag.... just incase you can't figure that out...

VS

Now, please... hop back in your box.