You Won't Believe This...

[@SWCentral]

I tested out the new content and here is the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opPLanaZhNSll80si=FUo60Kt8o2q7YDyy Also, for those who it is not clear to, the *huge news* refers to the intro segment about Eric. And not the new content discussed later. Dynamic Encounters is not huge news. Atleast not to me.

[@Voreghul]

They're missing a HUGE oportunity to add a Krayt Dragon boss in Tatooine. Imagine a Krayt dtagon that needs 40 persons to defeat him and he rewards all sorts of bone ornamented armor sets, a keayt dragonling mount, some fossile decos and even some new companion customizations.

[@SWCentral]

That would be AWESOME!

[@Valkyraw]

If it doesnt make them any money, they dont care trust me. They could do that, but they wont. Its easier to sell these things on the Cartelmarket for them. They get money for less effort. Who cares about the players.

[@Voreghul]

@@Valkyraw Well, then they don't know how to make money because by not coming up with actual new stuff they're killing their own business. Hell, i love the game but 80% of my time in game is spent by re-doing chapters 1,2 and 3 picking different options each time and 20% is me doing pvp which haven't received much love lately aswell.

[@regidon6816]

bro thts creative thinking righ there something disney/broadsword lack

[@regidon6816]

@@Valkyraw u nailed it right on the head

[@blackacnologia1263]

Unique is not in Broadsword's vocabulary because then we would not have Malgus and his 'This is only the beginning' speech every patch since 7.0

[@TothBalesz]

Guildwars 2 was built around an always active openworld. Swtor is not that, but it seems to me that these will be closer to world quests from WoW where you get random events spawning for small groups to break up the monotony of leveling/questing. If the activities are a bit more varied than kill 10 mobs and an elite then it has a chance to be a longterm W for the game.

[@TheTimsx]

Exactly

[@Achuidian179]

I said it before, Broadsword had huge potential, but the squashed it harder than Luke’s landing on Dagobah.

[@SWCentral]

Listen man I understand we all get mad sometimes. But there is no need to be so harsh about Luke’s landing… it was graceful in comparison! 😂

[@Achuidian179]

@@SWCentral then would it be better to compare it to the usual landings of Anakin Skywalker?

[@SWCentral]

@@Achuidian179 😏

[@davidroot1996]

@@SWCentral At least Luke got his ship out.

[@brucechmiel7964]

@@SWCentralDid you ever wonder if Luke didn’t actually land but it was Yoda that forced him down as to avoid spending the time searching the swamp for him?

[@BaithNa]

This new activity is far closer to the Final Fantasy XIV FATE system than anything from Guild Wars 2 but most MMOs have some kind of feature like this nowadays

[@SWCentral]

I’m unfamiliar with FF online! Yeah open world features are common in games. I still think it’s fair to point out GW2 has mastered that style and if SWTOR is going to borrow that idea they need to make something epic. That is my point :)

[@JohnAtDawn]

I was literally like “that’s just FATEs” and I’ve been playing this game for two weeks.

[@MegumiMoo]

@@JohnAtDawn I was thinking the same thing...

[@aaron6112]

These events don't seem like GW2s meta events (the big ones) they seem more like a random world event in GW2, still good but what makes those good is that there are lots of them everywhere, happening all the time and they have small bits of lore or flavour moments.

[@lakkakka]

guild wars 2 does it so much better in my opinion. In gw 2 I never have been annoyed by other players running around and getting in my way. Not a fan of the constant synching needed in ffxiv

[@jeffputman8242]

SWTOR [2] ... A new Beginning, is what's needed. A total revamp from scratch, new writers, new graphics, new stories....No Disney involvement.

[@anthonysanchez9204]

It coming to console also

[@rairairai666]

disney will ruin star wars eu

[@trixgaming0079]

and less money spending

[@alejandropicazo7000]

THIS

[@poopikins]

Throw it on console too and you've get a big hit I'm surprised more MMOs aren't trying to get their game on console

[@Killraven.]

"Some other republic players join in with you." Good luck with that. This sort of thing has been around for ages now; Public Quests were a prominent feature in WAR and Champions Online. These dynamic events would have been a great addition to the game like 7 years ago, but now it just seems like wasted effort on their part and wasted time for anyone bothering with it in-game.

[@storm7586]

exactly !

[@raphaelcancellaro1807]

I bet next season theres gonna be a 12 point weekly objective "Join and finish X events on Y planets". Just to torture us with frame drops

[@Esteban-qp2cf]

All they have to do is rotate the cooking adventure thing to Hotspot planets whenever emergent events start to occur.

[@jizamkizam9611]

Over a decade late to the party I'm afraid. Also, last time I played you'd be lucky to see at least 5 people on a planet using the search function. If it isn't the starter planets, or the capital worlds many of these planets are dead zones.

[@SWCentral]

Kinda true.

[@wh00t14]

The only good thing about this game is the story mode and even now they fucked it up, as i saw on the last story update when they cut the main characters voice. If i had control of the game i would simply focus on the story mode and that's it.

[@deciax]

At least they didn't take the voice from chapter 1-3 but still, doesn't make it any better. Had so much potential and they threw it away

[@olafgurke4699]

@@deciax I thought they moved away from the non-voiced throwbacks to kotor after the first Zakuul storyline. Have they done it again?

[@Only1199]

It would be good if they're unique encounters, not necessarily have to be combat oriented but funny encounters.

[@poopikins]

Elder Scrolls Online has that. Sometimes you just watch an event unfold or get to pick a side of two parties arguing over something.

[@xAngoryx]

The crafting in this game always hurt my feelings, always felt so out of wack. I don't know what it's like now a days but I haven't heard of anything changing in years.

[@antonybadia]

nothing changed in crafting yet after 6.0

[@xAngoryx]

@@antonybadia :(

[@MisterLobb]

It was more interesting early days when you could reverse engineer most equipment drops, and a wider variety of stats but then it became less important when they simplified to attributes just be “mastery”. Don’t know why they killed the ability to get mats from drops and removed the ability to auction so many of the armor/weapons… sigh.

[@Demirocky78]

I think it’s even worse now. You can’t really craft anything that sells for good money now. Before you could make augs that sell for 40-50m now it’s like 2m lol

[@xAngoryx]

The reverse engineering thing added some interesting methods to the crafting system. When they took it out and did whatever they did during that revamp, I remember feeling so sad for the whole thing and it looks like it's still in the same state... or worse lol

[@schmelzwah]

Dynamic events is older than guild wars 2. I think the big one that started it was an MMO called "Rift" which was titled as such because of its "new feature" the Rift system where planar "rifts" would open up on the open world and players nearby would be able to help each other out to "seal" the rift and get rewards from the rift. Most MMO's have something like this now with Guild wars, and FF XIV being examples. SWTOR is now just catching up to these games with these mechanics.

[@SWCentral]

Indeed. It’s not unusual for them to be late to the party.

[@Briansgate]

Warhammer Online called them Public Quests. 3 years before RIFT. man, i really liked Rift.

[@BlueDebut]

One reason I haven't fully completed the storyline is due to the storyline not having much life to it anymore. Granted the eternal Empire storylines could be a bit too grandiose and unbelievable but they were still cool and engaging. I play SWTOR for the story not necessarily the gameplay but if a game can do both well I'd probably be more likely to do PVP and other things like that. I hope the game turns a lot of this stuff around.

[@youknowho4439]

Rebuilt Temple on Coruscant.

[@SWCentral]

Oh yes I would love that!

[@MisterLobb]

The dynamic event encounters worked really well in City of Heroes. It was an alien invasion as ships would descend in a zone. The mobs were much more powerful than the normal mobs in that zone. The event would pop up in a zone and regular mobs would head for a building. It was exciting. Players would drop what they were doing and form pockets of resistance as others would trickle in from other zones. (There would be a city wide alert broadcast telling which zone was being invaded.) That was long before Guild Wars 2 was written.

[@SWCentral]

I understand a few people here enjoy pointing out “GW2 didn’t create the thing” however keep in mind, my exact words were that they are the ones who *mastered* it. I never said they created it. GW2 is probably the best example of open world events anyone could use.

[@MisterLobb]

@@SWCentralI’m not criticizing, I wrote the comment before you mentioned GW2, then edited for grammar and embellished on the city of heroes nostalgia I was caught up in.

[@SWCentral]

@@MisterLobb Forgive me, my intention was just to add some more context around that popular comment!

[@PWReviews]

I am very happy about the dynamic encounters. I've wanted something like this in SWTOR for ages. Saying this you brought up a good point about how the game can slow up when many players are around for an event. Will see what happens, but I think the dynamic encounters are a good start, more similar to fates in FF online I think. I would still love to see events such as a dark side force taking over a town and you and other light side players having to stop them or dark side players being alerted to a jedi camp or republic presence growing on a planet and you have to kill the leader or team or something like that and vice versa. Just to make the galaxy feel more alive and active. Can get cool ingame rewards or cosmetic gears after a certain amount of achievements. Or new armour and weapons in general.

[@SWCentral]

Love what you added as ideas! We need that sort of creativity on top of these features for them to be unique! I do hope they are good.

[@Aveniz]

SWTOR engine isn't good for big fights, just look on 16m operations, that's still 30 fps or less experience. They have so many things they could implement, but sadly they have probably very tiny budget for new content

[@Aveniz]

It's just sad...i was playing nonstop while i was on high school, seeking this slowly dying...It just painful to watch.

[@DarthCuddlefluff]

I would like to thank Eric Musco for pushing players towards GW2, the far superior MMO.

[@strykrpinoy]

Utter trash of an MMO that once and for all proved that you need the holy trinity (tank, healer CC not this bullshit claim that its dps its always been crowd control).

[@DarthCuddlefluff]

@@strykrpinoy It's actually got the most helpful and positive community I have ever met, has a fair transaction system, allows you to totally earn things you would have to pay for in any other MMO and has no Sub Cost. It's literally the best one. I have no idea what you are going on about.

[@hailburngw2824]

@@strykrpinoy gw2 its a top 5 mmo for a reason bucko

[@superJ1047]

@@strykrpinoy gw2 proved the exact opposite you do not need to be a wow clone to make a good mmo

[@pezz-m5i]

Gw2 is trash. Be honest, when was the last time you heard it referenced anywhere outside it's community? Utter trash. ​@@hailburngw2824

[@vXCozmoz]

*Players:* Make big continued story progress (end be done with mandalores and also Malgus, he's been around since Illum) and add more dedicated and passionated new good stuff. *Devs:* Here, have a small story update...ohh and also some random events, aka daily missions, because Swtor don't have enough of those already (planet heroics/sm ops). *Devs:* Hey, we are skelly crew now, even tho we make huge profits from cartel market alone we still don't have time and money to make things more/better. Accept that. *Players:* /Facepalm.

[@haku7335]

The reason i baught the sub once was to get the chancw to see the kotet snd kotfe stuff. Leading my own fraction and going to war... And now im just back at my fraction and have to live w mandaloriand anf malgus. I swear to god please let me destroy malgus and let me fuk the mandalorians up until they are capable of not being dicks... Man i judt want to go back to the jedi and sith stories and leading the allience.

[@galexplor]

Not being funny but the game is seriously coming to it's endgame. Where is Shae and Malgus, what's is going on other than hidden chain bits and bobs.

[@TheRoyalRancor]

I'm excited to fight the Hidden Chain! That said, WE NEED A KRAYT DRAGON BOSS!!!!

[@xkillrocknroll1]

So glad you gave props to GW2, they've been doing this since the beginning. 10 years ago.

[@gnarlin4964]

Well, I read somewhere that they were working on a DX12 renderer. That should make the game run much smoother and thus enable larger mobs and more effects with far smoother framerate. I think this is good idea. The world feels INCREDIBLY static. Like running around a 3D photograph. Hopefully this will breathe at least a little life into the worlds. Even if this initial implementation isn't great, as long as it's just decent the developers can iterate on it and improve it over time.

[@Ninosai]

As a mainly guild wars 2 player, seeing this dynamic events situation was very funny. It's definitely not enough to bring me back to playing regularly, but it does interest me if it is possible to improve the leveling experience through those.

[@rock2k14]

No, Its straight out of Warhammer Online Age of Reckonings Public Quest system, that did it years before GW2 even. (Edit) Oh and just a reminder, W.A.R. was also a Mythic Games product, of whom a lot of are now at Broadsword, including their Co Founder, so no, they arent "Stealing" anything, because they did it first.

[@SWCentral]

Someone said I was reaching, then I read your comment. Imagine giving the SWTOR devs credit for something another studio did… none of the broadsword team have been confimed to be working on SWTOR. They took their own team. I mean, I already said “this is a good idea” and that copying does happen. Don’t get hung up on wordplay.

[@JasonWickham-k2z]

It's not just a Guild Wars thing. City of Heroes has Zombie invasion events, Prison Breakouts, Giant monster rampages, etc. that pop up in different zones periodically. So, it's not a new idea, no. No idea if it will come off well, or not. We'll have to see. The game itself, is quite old of course, so I agree it would breathe a lot of life into the game if they could add something completely new to the game (new planet, new races/classes, more class-based story arcs, etc.).

[@Solomonlike]

GW2 is my favorite MMO for a good reason and I feel like it’s missing only a few things to make it a true juggernaut capable of competing with and overtaking FF 14 and WoW. Hopefully GW3 will do it.

[@InnateNobility]

I remember something like this in RIFT, an old MMO that was good at one time. Enemy hordes would invade player outposts and cities at times, and it would be up to the players to defeat and liberate these places. If players didn't, the outposts would remain conquered for several day/nightrotations, which was a long time before despawning.

[@SWCentral]

That sounds really cool actually. I never played rift.

[@DavidGray-i4s]

The first improvement they need to make is to drop the physical zone barriers and make the world actually feel like a world. SW Galaxies was able to do it years before this game got released so they are more than capable. Mounts that actually fly would help. Returning to class specific storyline would also help. The immersion is broken for me when I have a scoundrel doing the eternal empire and I have to out "force" valkorian. Lastly, and this is a pipe dream I know, maybe a third faction? A Hutt cartel faction that gets smugglers and BHs out of their current factions and back into their own. The War/knight for the huttcartel can get a beast master and the Cons/Inq is the slicer. The bh replacement is an Imperial Guard, and the smug replacement is a Rep Ambassador (giving a shout out to Leia)

[@Ethan-fz6tp]

It COULD BE an INCREDIBLE feature. Straight up. It just needs to be done well.

[@julianwalker1827]

He isnt forgetting his title.. It goes to show how much pride and interest the people working on the game have. If you can't proudly take the mantel what does that say? I'm in between jobs right now and I wish with all that i am, I could be the director for it I wish i could spend my time playing with the community....Not just fake engagements Coming up with new ideas and listening to what they have to say...and letting them know when we simply cant.

[@travisclark3073]

This game just needs to become a single player RPG, I can't believe it's still alive.

[@thegreatnoldini]

I know it's not exactly a new feature in MMOs, but I'm actually looking forward to SWTOR's take on dynamic events, and hope they do a good job with it

[@matthewgoralczyk924]

The fix is simple. They need to add an option to turn off the visual effects for yourself and other players. The main culprits are sorcs with all the lightning. It takes a toll on my pc

[@SWCentral]

I have reason to believe it has something to do with loading peoples outfits and or their entire cartel market collection. Yet to be confirmed, but I heard some veterans played with the theory of fresh accounts playing more smoothly vs an account with hundreds of unlocks.

[@MarineCARMINE]

Taking the good open world events and putting a swtor twist will be great for the game imo. I hope they do this well. I'm a huge GW2 fan so I don't mind them doing this.

[@r2-d259]

I was really thinking those new hidden chain events would be like the star fortresses, which you can solo. At least something to hold me over and feel like im playing the story while there is 0 story updates.

[@Disjoint_CRC]

Perhaps with him becoming Game Director, the game will go back on track and become the amazing game it used to be again

[@LostRoaming]

I think they need to do fresh servers so we can start from scratch from the beginning but with QOL things added and maybe things like this dynamic system to spice it up a bit. Then unlock content on an accelerated schedule. I played at release for a few months but now there's almost too much new to absorb without it seeming like work and missing out on content as it was introduced.

[@Vandalore]

This idea sounds pretty much out of Star Wars Galaxies.

[@luthoskendar5255]

I enjoyed this game many moons ago, and have followed it's progression from time to time to see if it was worth getting back into it. From what I can gather the game is now on life-support..

[@cheapwine3365]

Oh hey they're taking a page out of GW2's core gameplay loop, very smart, this should be fun

[@Wintermist-SWE]

That's actually cool, it worked really well in Guild Wars 2, keeps the world a bit alive

[@SWCentral]

I loved this event style in GW2. Such a great game.

[@Shizuka965]

but having that system of dynamic encounter is cool, so its going to be fine too

[@swedishguy83]

It’s probably a combination of limitations in how the game is made and budget. The idea of open world large scale battles was either an after though or poorly taken into consideration when they game was being developed. Fixing it now would require more time and budget that anyone is willing to put in.

[@killermouse01]

More than likely, it's more that corporate isn't willing to invest if we're being honest! I can't help but wonder if the times we see bullcrap from the devs, is it really just them being burned out from not having enough resources from corporate to actually do anything the right way. I mean really, we see what corporations are doing to gaming nowadays.

[@Jhaded]

This is more like Rifts, uhh rifts, a bunch of small mobs with waves and a mini boss after, I mean it 'could' evolve to a GW2 type thing but it looks closer to rift

[@HolyLordGeovanni]

This game needsa full graphic overhaul seriously.

[@BoomyNation]

Wait...I missed this!! D4 has similar world events like Helltides

[@BasiliskOne]

Warhammer Online did it first with Public Quests. Rift and Guild Wars 2 straight up lifted this idea from that game which definitely isn't a bad thing.

[@Schokelmei]

I just walked on and GW2 became my only mmorpg. I had a lot of fun in SWTOR over the years (on and off) but in the end it was GW2 that kept me hooked.

[@dantekiodan1900]

It has a potential BUT unless the fights with the bosses are somehow more intresting by adding a big difficulty to them

[@verenov77]

Warhammer Online actually had public quests before Guild Wars 2 had dynamic quests. Not exactly the same thing, but very similar. However, NONE of this matters. Public Quests, Dynamic Quests, Dynamic Events, etc... is a GREAT addition to the game.

[@olafgurke4699]

Depending on how they go with it, they could organise open world PVP fights with this, if these dynamic encounters spawn for the other side as well. I remember back in the day when I played a lot, the few large scale base raids I participated in where a highlight. Going with the shown example, there's an imperial raid on a republic outpost, and rep players get notified to help defend the outpost. Simultaneously, imps get notified to reinforce the assault. Anyone following the call gets to brawl. Would be kinda tight, I think. But then again, I haven't played in ages, so no idea how the current state of the game would support that.

[@BA3YDADDY]

Console release would be amazing and bring new life in to the game, I really hope they do it 🙏🏻

[@starbog1]

It's not exactly like Guild Wars 2, because that game was designed from the roots to be around it in Open World. It's much closer to Final Fantasy XIV FATE system. It isn't supposed to be a huge deal, but it adds a bit more fun and new things to old worlds, which you barely visit nowadays. Personally, I'm glad they adding it Edit: someone mentioned it ealier in the comments, so sorry for being part of the spam xP A lair boss and these events is something that wil bring me back to the game since another daily area and a story patch isn't as exciting anymore (Honestly I wish they'd add a Lair boss or some kind of mini-raid content every couple patches)

[@SWCentral]

Don’t sweat it! I’ll be sure to take a more in depth look when it becomes available. So stay tuned! The lair boss seems interesting. I’ll probably stream that one when it goes to the live server.

[@Succi17]

I feel like this feature is going to live or die based on if the rewards make them worth doing.

[@SWCentral]

That will be a huge thing for players, rewards.

[@norsevapour2478]

I used to love this game, but as of the later years.. It's just not the same anymore

[@Dread_Master_Cyberblade]

I didn't notice that part regarding the developer. That's interesting, it could be a simple "slip of the tongue" or it shows us, the players, that swtor's staff are disorganized, which could point to the fact that this new i guess gameplay feature looks like a copy and paste. I don't mind if a game does that. but if it's that horrible or simplistic, then it really begs the question of "why are y'all doing it?" Granted it's in the early stages but it should be better, I mean, the videos they make, about game updates, it's their advertisement, whether they see it as such or not. I'm very curious how this turns out.

[@noahkaplan91]

My annual plea for Swtor classic - for those of us who long for the game that was, and for whom the curent version just dont evoke even close to the same feel.

[@mjtan6787]

This feature was a great idea from Guild Wars 2. When guild wars 2 came out, this feature was so unique, it was something that WoW didn't even think of!

[@gowankommando]

City of Heroes did it before GW2

[@chrisleonard2908]

Nearly every MMO had these public events since Everquest. I'm amazed it has taken this long for SWtoR to do this.

[@quantum_ogre]

A decent edition , but they're about 8 years late to the party adding this in. Some games from the 00s had them. I think for a new player it'll add a little life to the planets that were a bit 'stiff' before, but it's nothing earthshattering.

[@hackintosh3899]

Needs DX 11 at the very least, DX 12 ideally to work well. There is a post about DX 12 on the forums but it was dead for a long time, recently updated. DX 9 simply can't use more than one CPU core and even with best single core performance in the world the engine simply breaks if there are say 16 sorcs in a warzone all casting lightning. Adding additional particle effect to weapons recently couldn't have helped.

[@natureguy0_1ca41]

would love to see them add lots of Commendations points to completing one of these events and maybe give away a box set of cool looking armor for your class and make them look good so your excited to go do more of these events and collect all new armor sets and maybe add some deco's and speeders or gear upgrades , make it so people want to get to these events and participate over and over

[@quinnmartensbobbitt3704]

My question is why they aren't revolutionizing or making overhauls to the space battles/space missions that you can complete? They're missing out on huge opportunities for large-scale galactic battles, like those in Battlefront. Have us fight against new and dynamic enemy fleets- not just Empire and Republic, but the Hutts, the Eternal Empire's remnants, the droids and AI ships we fought during the last major storyline, hell even pit us against some of Star Wars' major space beasts like the the summa-verminoth, the scree or ridadi! There could be really cool invasion missions, where new and unique factions, from pirates to lesser Imperial allies, would appear over planets and fight for control of them. We see lots of the base game's fighting happen during story missions, but when you're venturing out, you don't see a lot of diversity anymore. If they want the game to stay alive at all, or to bring in new players, they need to make changes to the systems that no longer work or carry interest.

[@maciv33]

Performance wasn't bad at launch during open world pvp. The reason people stopped playing at launch was due to bugs (in and out of raids) and raids being broken/over tuned in general. I personally quit after they gave all of the in game CE stuff to all players, but my sister played off and on for a few years after it went f2p.

[@Pheribe]

Guild Wars 2 is an amazing game, that makes other MMOs learn something valuable about it’s systems. I was expecting different news, but still it’s something. :)

[@OracleOfDarkness1666]

World of Warcraft has had world events since the first expansion in 2007

[@Lead1121]

Dynamic events is kind of cool tbh. Most MMO's have this

[@Ceivous]

They probably copied it yes but it's not impossible for devs to have this idea independently from each other because every MMO should have something like it, something akin to this should have been there forever already to keep all planets more relevant and populated.

[@MattSinz]

I mean that's only one reason people quit playing at launch, and it wasn't even the main one. The main reason was lack of a endgame content.

[@bishoponline]

If the game is not stable, I will not start the game again. Having huge frame drops and dont know how to get rid of them. Already turned down all the settings to low

[@SWCentral]

I’ve been getting that too… Nvidia?

[@bishoponline]

@@SWCentral Yes. RTX 4070, i9-14900, 32GB-RAM. But I think its due to the CPU. I heared the game cannot handle fast CPUs. I saw some Videos in which players suggest to install certain programs and disable every 2nd core of your CPU. But I am not willing to fix the developers problems. If they want a happy, paying customer. They have to fix it. And I am more than happy to give them my money if I have a smooth gaming experience ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@SWCentral]

@@bishoponline Amen to that friend 😂

[@TevyaSmolka]

So I am guessing the story with Malgus isn’t going to get finished sadly.

[@storm7586]

more thank likely ... you are correct

[@TevyaSmolka]

@@storm7586 which that’s a shame because Malgus story was starting going somewhere finally.

[@Firesaur-ut9hy]

I personally want New Game +. Keep all your gear and companion levels and alignment. I would LOVE to be able to run through the Sith Warrior story with my main again

[@dragonriderabens9761]

when I heard about it, my first thought was actually FFXIV's FATE system, not what GW2 does it's just a world event that spawns. anyone can join. and there are a variety of them. some will have you defend a location. some will just have you kill a bunch of mobs in an area (most will, actually). sometimes that leads to a boss, sometimes not. sometimes it's about gathering stuff and delivering it to an NPC none of it has any real effect on the wider world the way they do in GW2, but they are an ok source of EXP if nothing else. especially if you cannot run dungeons yet or are waiting in the DPS queue

[@SWCentral]

Good point

[@mephistofeles4798]

I hope Disney doesn't touch it

[@r0bmir-c7z]

it's remind me of DCUO they have like this open world bosses too it was introduced in 2019 or something

[@stevenade8104]

hey guys, we made this new kind of sandwich, one piece of bread has...wait for it...peanut butter on it. the other piece of bread has....JELLY! I know, amazing right?

[@deathdealerhype7819]

lets hope it all gets worked on and fixed

[@jimigrill]

Only took them 13 years to add dynamic events.

[@friendlyskyguy]

Games before GW2 had this type of content. I remember it in rift but I think the first time I saw events like this would be Warhammer online.

[@lazycapybara-j1s]

"major holiday" just small boring quests in existing planets

[@saviourself687]

GW2 was released in 2012, open world dynamic quests were first big in Warhammer Online: AOR released in 2008... =)

[@SWCentral]

You’re like the 8th person to say that haha. Do keep in mind I said they *mastered* this event type, I did not say create. GW2 is the best example for this type of event :)

[@80sgamer76]

This is just an opinion of an OG gamer, I remember when Star Wars Galaxies had open world conflicts like this, its not really a new thing and its defiantly not something Guild Wars 2 originated in their game. I remember grouping up with a bunch of people to take out a Krayt Dragon on Tatooine and get the the chance of a pristine Krayt pearl dropping. If SWTOR is going to do this they need to go big to breath life back into the game I used to play SWTOR all the time back when it launched in 2011 then after they went free to play and added all the cash shop items things went down hill I want to love the game but in its current state I cannot.

[@rexta3901]

Now that I understand what this new system is I have my doubts as to how successful it will be. Currently we have 2 events running side by side Galactic Seasons 7 and The Feast of Prosperity! Now on Wednesday I spent the better part of my day doing nothing while trying to locate a group for two GS7 objectives because the majority of the player base was a doing Feast of Prosperity missions or b sleeping (because I am in an opposite timezone to that of the USA) Note Weekly Quest Reset for me is 8pm Tuesday night! While the current player base is spread so thin I would guess once the novelty wears off most solo players will end up ignoring them especially when you need many players. Hopefully I am wrong

[@ChrisRedheart]

This is a DIRECT take from SWG where you had Darth Vader land with a bunch of clones in random cities. Rebels were given the chance to attack and take back that city.

[@SWCentral]

It's not quite as intricate as that. So far it's just "Mob spawns in front of town, you kill mobs, then kill a walker, then you're done and nothing else changes at all and they all respawn about 30 minutes later.

[@JebroUnity]

Guild Wars 2 also didnt create open world events ^^ Warhammer online public quests, which went onto RIFTs in Rift, then GW2. Honestly happens in WoW too. I dont mind so much as its new content ^^

[@bestintheworld568]

I’ll take it. It’s better than constant date nights updates, and hopefully, as it develops, it’ll get better.

[@kirvu9677]

WoW also "stole" Mythic plus, which is/was the Fractals of the mists system in Guild Wars 2.

[@rytlocknroll]

Don’t let the developers step outta line with certain "ideas" that destroyed other IP'a.

[@jacobruiter592]

I've been saying this for YEARS, Arena net and Guild Wars 2 have been actually evolving and improving the MMO genre in clever ways. WoW and Blizzard taking one idea was proof enough for me.

[@CyberneticArgumentCreator]

I'm having trouble naming an MMO that's still active as of right now without open-world dynamic group quest event things. WoW, GW2, FF14, Throne and Liberty... about the only one now that doesn't have it is BDO and that's because it's a sandbox not a theme park style.

[@loremasterxp3635]

Appreciate the update. These timed events they're bringing in sound marginally interesting but ultimately very repetitive.

[@SkylerStarkweather]

This is such a small feature for a game with so much more potential than that. It just shows that the developers dont have any imagination for new things for the game. Just cheap copies of other games ideas.

[@TehLexinator]

Warhammer Online came out with the Public Quest system. This is what that sounds like. GW2 took it to the next level, but these guys just did the bare minimum... Like usual.

[@Skuuskuu87]

I wish they would bring this to consoles.

[@trav37z0r]

I do agree with almost everything you've stated, but I don't think any pressure will be worth the effort. Tbh from my point of view all hope was already lost about 7-8 years ago, if not earlier. I guess they never fixed the performance problems engraved deeply into the engine because they simply don't know how to. All they know is to do basic maintenance stuff and create some fluff for CM, the rest of the content that drips onto us over the course of an "addon" has been so bare bones or broken that it might as well have been done by trainees that got canned afterwards. 🤕

[@MegumiMoo]

I'm with you on the "fix yourselves before you add open world features" bus. I've been playing since 2012 (off and on) and I love (most of) the stories. That's always been the draw for me. I can handle the general slow downs and over population for events because the story is good, but imagine the way the servers are rn and picture it 100 fold when the game is blossomed out. It'll be original ffxiv all over again, where square had to scrap *Everything*, fix their infrastructure, and try again with ARR.

[@BrendaDVC]

I wish they will put in weather and stuff like that in the game long with night and day as well.

[@SWCentral]

That would be cool :) That being said, they’ve added new zones to some planets. ord Mantell had a new zone and it’s night time there :) as opposed to day time in the starter area. Would be cool to have them cycle though!

The best thing they can do to this game is to copy the monetization strategy and progression (horizontal) of Guild Wars 2/ESO. Star Wars should be a *coop* story driven MMORPG, the story should be able to be done with a party of 5 and everyone should progress it at the same time.

A subscription system is just plain greedy when they have shop monetization. They should release expansions and stories and you could use in game store to buy those expansions and story, as GW2 is doing.

[@SWCentral]

I would love this so much.