Commando Archive

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Ryubushi wrote:

The thing I wonder when I read this is, what is their definition of "few"?

I've seen people define few minutes as about 3 hours. How do we know a few weeks won't be 6 months?

Garvin, is there anyway that they can give a slightly more specific time frame, such as saying "within the next 4 to 8 weeks" maybe?

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Unfortunately that's the only time frame I've heard...I'm hoping to hear something more concrete soon, but when it comes to timelines, even the Correspondents are left out of that loop..

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garvin wrote:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=in_live&message.id=47370#M47370

In that letter he states (in regards to various SOE Teams):

Combat Upgrade - This team is working on upgrading our entire combat system to enhance the experience of combat within Star Wars Galaxies. Their mission is to make combat more fun, interactive, and Star War-sy. We have been taking extensive design feedback from the correspondents and alpha testers and are driving towards an alpha test which will open in a few weeks. Over the next six weeks we will be releasing more information to all players on the exciting things the Combat Upgrade will bring to SWG.

Justed wanted to make sure everyone saw the update...

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Let me say I'm first amazed to actually see an update but here it is.Still a few eeks befor ALPHA ain't it grand. Anybody still want to take me up onmy guess that it won't start this month lol.Well maybe we'll get a little more info here soon. So I'm curious what do you guys think... CU will be released same day Episode 3 ... cpl days before or cpl days after?

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RankorCity wrote:

Its good that Tyrant posted a timeframe for the CU...The 6 weeks thing is the magic number, I think. To me, it reads in approx 2-3 weeks we will have alpha testing up and running, and approx 3-4 weeks after that, CU will be expanded. I could be wrong.

Its nice to see an acknowledgement thou.

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uh... don't get your hopes up that the alpha will only be 2-3 weeks and then open beta for 3-4 weeks. Until it opens we will have no idea how much needs fixing/revamping/recoding etc so your 2-3 weeks could be 2-3 months (of course that would be worst case but possible)

Hmm...

Well isn't that grand.

I thought the CU might come before June, but I don't think that's the case. Bet it's coming June to match up with Episode III be realeased. I'm glad for the new changes, but this kind of ticks me off. I really think it is wrong for them to keep pushing this back. This is taking way too long. Looks like were not getting anything fixed with us for a long long time. I honestly feel we are being used. This GCW thing is very nice, but t seems more like glitter to cover up all the dirt.

This GCW update does not fix he fact that we still suck in PvP nor help others in our position. I almost feel I'm being excluded from parts of the game because I'm a Commando. PvE is fun, but I'm tired of being stuck as or thought of as PvE profession. So much for CU being number one priority.

Why are they adding more to a borked system? Seems like an excuse for my time, so things can be balanced. Sorry but this is a really harsh blow. I can only hope that all this time will result in a near perfect system by Alpha and then it will just be a quick process of eliminating bugs.

The sad thing is unless testing goes by really fast this will probably go very close to TH's prediction of a year.

That's pretty lame in my opinion just for the fact of fixing combat and adding a few things.

I probably would have quite if not for the GCW thing which is keeping me for now. Why do they keep adding things while we wait for the CU, instead of fully concentrating on the CU!

Message Edited by StarNick on 02-03-2005 05:59 PM