Originally Posted by
Recom
This is a rant post, sorry to those who love the game.
A few days ago, I was bored and figured, why not give swtor an other try ? I played when it first came out, loved it, leveled to 50 in a few days, rushed flashpoints and operations and quit when content was exhausted. So, I was pretty thrilled to see that swtor was going well and that there was a lot of new things to do.
I start up the game, everything was still there, I play around with my commando's specs, I take some time to check new content (dungeon finder, strongholds, starship PVP...) and start looking at how to get the new expansion. By the way, it's pretty messy figuring out what you have to pay to get access to xpacs, I found the right info on reddit and nowhere else...
I decide to go for 1 month subscription since it comes with Rise of the Hutt.
All preped, I head to Makeb to start digging in the good stuff. First conversations, first enemies, everything's alright. I play for an hour or so and start having trouble killing enemies but nothing worrisome. Things get a little worse but I figure it must be my gear (Tionese/PVP seaon 1) until I realize that enemies are now 1 level above me. I check the quest level, says 51, I'm 51, mobs are 52... Weird but I keep going on thinking I like a little challenge.
But then things get even worse, I start hitting a brick wall when I hit lvl 52, why ? Because mobs are now lvl 54, say what now ? I ask around and people tell me I have to do daily quests, warzones and all kinds of non-Makeb content to get some xp. Not cool.
I move my sexy commando ass to Ilum, Black Hole, Secxtor X, Flashpoints and PVP. I hit 53, almost 54 and head back to fleet. I see that I now have access to new quests : Seeker Droid and the scanning Binoculars thing. Ok why not !
I head to the first planet, binoculars while not being very interesting work and are ok, but Seeker Droid ? What the actual fuck is that ? Not only is it pretty poor gameplay wise but to make it worse it starts bugging out after a few try (no scanning hologram, droid that randomly stop detecting things), logging out didn't fix anything, I actually had to go to an other planet to make it work again. That's when it got beyond horrible and made me rage alt -F4. Putting binoculars objective inside open PVP zone or behind a sith camp is pure BS.
My excitement and enjoyment went from 100 to 0 in a matter of hours running into issues after issues. Maybe there are things that I don't fully understand yet but I'm fairly used to MMOs and I rarely have that kind of issues. The worse being that there isn't enough quests in the xpacs to level up... Having to redo lvl 50 content is a terrible design.