tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post8727491411165158825..comments2024-03-26T20:47:12.919+00:00Comments on Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog: My Feedback After Galactic Season 1Shintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-4830553777179949962021-08-04T17:30:29.309+01:002021-08-04T17:30:29.309+01:00My experience with Galactic Seasons has been, over...My experience with Galactic Seasons has been, overall a positive one.<br /><br />I started out a sceptic and as a preferred player couldn't see the point but kept the score ticking up as best I could on two servers to see how it went. When Total Galactic War came up my guild was trying to win a planet so with a bunch of cartel coins "banked" I subbed to help the invasion and buy a cartel armour I wanted.<br /><br />Since GSF provides good conquest points and is a weekly goal for GS I learned to play it after avoiding it for years. The queue times were really quick and there are enough average players to make it fun at times. I'm now hooked and force it as a weekly objective using the login on a level 10 trick.<br /><br />The objectives need tweaking and flashpoints need some love. Not being able to double up by having a daily flashpoint objective is annoying and also the selected flashpoints are mostly the longer ones.<br /><br />To conclude so far I've played more, learned to like GSF and subbed for a month to claim and spend earned cartel coins on cool armour. Once I hit a 100 I'll sub again to claim the rest of the coins and spend a month testing PTS. Basically GS has got me playing regularly and Bioware will have gotten 2 months worth of sub out of me that they otherwise wouldn't have. I'd call that a win win. Forztrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04273404405220230198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-4415815666992348242021-07-21T06:54:30.180+01:002021-07-21T06:54:30.180+01:00For just Master Ranos? It's hard to say, becau...For just Master Ranos? It's hard to say, because I haven't had much time to use her as a companion yet. But along the way I've found out I like warzones, gotten 306 gear, earned thousands of cartel coins, and learned to play 2-3 characters well. That last one is really important, because it's allowed me to finish up the Star Fortress and Eternal Championship achievements I thought were out of my reach, and I'm working on getting the Orgus Din Memorial. Last week I found out I can solo the Gree heroic now, which lets me get to the Grey Helix weapons without figuring out how pugging in chat works. <br /><br />I guess it would've been better to say Master Ranos was what I was looking forward to most at the *beginning* of the season. I had enough tokens to unlock her weeks ago, I was just waiting for her to pop up on the vendor, and yet I've still been working on Seasons because it's enjoyable for me.<br /><br />But for Master Ranos alone... well, I prefer investing in my existing characters over rolling up new ones, so I'm relieved I earned her with this grind instead of DvL. But I think I was happier when I realized I was only three warzones/flashpoints away from Hexid than today, which was mildly underwhelming. Irishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06795509340837955150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-2944472402633621082021-07-20T23:58:49.986+01:002021-07-20T23:58:49.986+01:00@ Iris
You bought Master Ranos today and you were...@ Iris<br /><br />You bought Master Ranos today and you were looking forward to this. Was it worth it? The "grind" to get the tokens? Or do you say, you had to do too much to get her?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-36101234218560718392021-07-20T21:22:23.721+01:002021-07-20T21:22:23.721+01:00I'm ambivalent about syncing Conquest events a...I'm ambivalent about syncing Conquest events and Seasons weeks. It would be convenient, sure, but at the same time that might be a step too far towards making it a no-brainer what to do in those weeks.<br /><br />I hadn't realised that about Taris! That probably contributed to me re-rolling the heroic objective a couple of times during Seat of the Empire weeks...<br /><br />I can understand that they separated out the starter planets because those basically serve as objectives for the weakest possible players: someone who's new and only has a single character who's just hit level 12. They don't exactly have a lot of options.<br /><br />And I too found myself wishing I could get my mob kills in flashpoints... but if they just add <i>something</i> for flashpoints next Season, I'll be happy.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-64487246370868731732021-07-20T20:20:17.061+01:002021-07-20T20:20:17.061+01:00I think all of your suggestions are really good.
...I think all of your suggestions are really good.<br /><br />I'm not done with the track yet, but so far Seasons has been a success for me by any metric--I've tried out new types of content, I'm playing every day when I wasn't before, and I decided to subscribe to complete the track a little faster (instead of just subscribing at the end to grab the rewards). I have 306 gear on my main and can now complete solo content I struggled with before. I bought Master Ranos today, the reward I was looking forward to the most. There was a bit in the middle where it felt more like an obligation than a hobby, but then I subscribed and started to have fun again. <br /><br />There are still a lot of things I would change. I really dislike the fact that, unlike Conquest, Seasons doesn't sync up with events. I barely did any swoop racing because it just doesn't like up with any objectives. I think that the geographic region-theming works better in theory than in practice; the fact that Taris is the only option for heroics in its week means that you have to be careful only to do the instanced ones. The fact that Coruscant isn't a Coreward world and Dromund Kaas isn't in the Seat of the Empire tripped me up a couple times. It's... strange that running flashpoints in the region doesn't count as mob kills, even though I understand why. <br /><br />I'm highly interested in what they'll change for season 2.Irishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06795509340837955150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-58993814213957205912021-07-20T13:26:30.014+01:002021-07-20T13:26:30.014+01:00@The Nickster: I'm sorry that the addition of ...@The Nickster: I'm sorry that the addition of Seasons made your experience worse. I'd lie if I said that I've never fallen into the trap of doing something I didn't really enjoy just for the reward. But then, that's a risk with offering any kind of incentives for anything in a game.<br /><br />I have to agree with the above Anonymous though that I don't think making Seasons exactly like Conquest would really add anything to the game. It would just be another layer of rewards on top of everything else you already get for doing whatever you feel like doing.<br /><br />Plus, if you're already having fun playing the class story, is getting an armour set for doing so really going to make you want to play more class story in a way you weren't going to do anyway? These incentives are meant to gently nudge you towards doing more content, because otherwise what's the point? There <i>is</i> the risk of having that backfire like it did in your case, but that's always going to be the case when such incentives exist.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-11606837464742474302021-07-20T11:56:48.610+01:002021-07-20T11:56:48.610+01:00You would still have to "play" to get th...You would still have to "play" to get the rewards. It would not feel like a grind because you could do things you would like to do. If you don't log in and do something, no shiny rewards!<br /><br />If you have more control over the "something", seasons would actually drive more engagement with SWTOR. Right now seasons will drive short term engagement, then long term subscriber loss as people burn out.The Nicksternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-77022045257032380372021-07-19T20:20:48.947+01:002021-07-19T20:20:48.947+01:00Edit: what i mean is... they can't adopt a &qu...Edit: what i mean is... they can't adopt a "play your way" approach to everything. That just means, handing out free awards and the playerbase is still sitting there and "what should i do? there is nothing to do.".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-22596210748125051282021-07-19T20:18:47.795+01:002021-07-19T20:18:47.795+01:00I see this "play your way" comment in co...I see this "play your way" comment in connection with Galactic Seasons a lot. But Bioware never said that. The "play your way" approach was for Conquest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-34183611669839461822021-07-19T18:50:31.818+01:002021-07-19T18:50:31.818+01:00Before the season started I was leveling alts thro...Before the season started I was leveling alts through class stories and having fun. The season stopped all that. As a "filthy casual", PvP is the only option to get weekly's done. You're not doing an Op if you're in a dead guild. I felt weeklies are important because you want to get ahead of the curve in case some emergency comes up and you need to skip time.<br /><br /><br />Here's the thing, I'm not into PvP. I'm ok at it. I do great single target DPS as a melee class and I'm contributing. Real PvP'ers would consider me a filthy casual because I haven't made the "right" spec, tactical and gear set choices. Despite all that I schlepped my way through PvP weeklies to get ahead in the season. <br /><br />So after schlepping my way through GSF and Warzones, I would immediately distance myself from SWTOR. If I wanted to have fun, I'd play something else. Maybe once I'm done this season, SWTOR could go back to being something you could play for fun.<br /><br />Here's the problem though, there's a new season coming, and I don't want it. Not unless we get more control over our objectives. If seasons adopted a true "play your way" approach, it would be a neat way to score extra cosmetics and Cartel Coins for doing things you LIKE to do. <br /><br />Right now it's just an odious chore you want to get rid of, and it's painting SWTOR as an odious chore you want to get rid of.The Nicksternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-33709178633957181662021-07-19T13:59:52.422+01:002021-07-19T13:59:52.422+01:00I could absolutely get behind a more solo-friendly...I could absolutely get behind a more solo-friendly weekly objective. (Despite the fact that you don't actually have to use groupfinder to tick the flashpoint PO, and can therefore just solo a couple flashpoints on the list and call it a day... I wouldn't actually call that *solo-friendly,* lol).<br /><br />Also +1 for the GSI objectives! I'd actually never bothered with them before, despite running the full shroud & seeker mission lines on my main toon, but the ones on Makeb were super easy and relaxing, and I've been exploring the other planets as a result. I will say that so far Makeb's GSI dailies are the fastest. Alderaan wasn't bad, but Tatooine's are fairly spread out, and I haven't found the most efficient pathing for them yet. I expect Hoth will be similar.Delfae @ Star Forgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-58845942890607097992021-07-19T08:51:06.847+01:002021-07-19T08:51:06.847+01:00I've been to Nar Shaddaa to use up some of the...I've been to Nar Shaddaa to use up some of the free chips I got from ops. Won a mount and a pet from the Emperor's Grace machine so far. I'd quite like to get those new shades; I could actually see myself using those, but we'll see whether I end up sticking with it. Even just playing the slots for a relatively short amount of time already reminded me of the annoyance I felt about them <a href="https://swtorcommando.blogspot.com/2020/08/nightlife-grind-update.html" rel="nofollow">last year</a>.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-7431961506876737182021-07-19T08:29:49.602+01:002021-07-19T08:29:49.602+01:00Did you do the casino event this year?Did you do the casino event this year?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com