new Flashpoints, Operations & Warzones / sneakpeek

[Zeli]

source: www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=75980

A sneak peek from James Ohlen | 12.23.2011 , 04:48 PM


James asked me to post this on his behalf; he's working hard on the content below! - Stephen

A lot of people have been asking for more information on our future plans. What are we going to provide for players in terms of features and content? While we've given some information on what features we're working on, we haven't given much detail about content. We've said that we'll be providing new Flashpoints, Operations and Warzones. Now we'd like to give some more details on what they are.

Next month we're going to be releasing a new Flashpoint and an expanded Operation. The new Flashpoint involves a plague that could have significant repercussions across the galaxy. It takes place on a brand new world and involves some pretty epic battles. I can't go into much detail, but be prepared for something different. The expanded Operation takes the existing Karagga's Palace scenario and more than triples it in size. It includes three new boss monsters and some pretty epic set pieces. You won’t believe the last boss, so we’ve provided an image as a tease.

[See the screenshot on the Community Blog.]

We plan to continue releasing Flashpoints, Operations, Warzones and new game systems on a regular cadence. This patch coming early next year is only a taste of what is to come. Stay tuned for more announcements!

Stephen Reid | Senior Online Community Manager

[Rer]

Bah, didn't realize they'd nuked Outlaw's Den and Ilum to have no resource nodes or chests anymore. Damn goldfarmers ruining a perfectly good thing.

Evidently there's a revamp in progress for both areas but still, bummer.

[Scarybooster]

How you find out they took out nodes? Maybe it is just till the normal population gets to 50 in 3 to 6 months and the economy is stable??

[pandalishus]

OK, all for stomping gold-farmers early on, but taking those out was not the way to go. Plenty of legit players hurt by that. Why do MMO devs not see this kind of stuff coming? "Hmmm, where might people exploit the game. Oh yeah, the PvP that no one will play in for 3 months." Just don't add it at all. le sigh.

[Rer]

Yea :\ only way to get Merc Commendations (which you then resell to get the upper level of medals) is through conversion of Warzone ones at a 3 to 1 ratio now.

Not gewd bronies, not gewd. Farm PvP at 50 while you can before the new 50s only bracket sets in and we get raped by Pax Imperium all day errday

[shabazkilla]

Jan 6, 2012 22:16:00 GMT -5 Rer said:

Yea :\ only way to get Merc Commendations (which you then resell to get the upper level of medals) is through conversion of Warzone ones at a 3 to 1 ratio now.

Not gewd bronies, not gewd. Farm PvP at 50 while you can before the new 50s only bracket sets in and we get raped by Pax Imperium all day errday

I hate those punks. PvP guild should be on a PvP server.

[Rer]

naaah, I respect Pax, good competition

[Pazzolupo]

I hate those punks. PvP guild should be on a PvP server.

This logic can further lead to PvP not existing on RP-PvE servers at all. Or some PvE content/stories not existing on PvP servers. How does that make sense?

Also, Pax is not a PvP exclusive guild in any way. They are just such a large entity that the PvP section of their guild is bound to be well put together. Their main guild Pax Imperius has the full 500 members. This is for actives only. Then there are RP Pax guilds, exploration/crafting Pax guilds, and so on. This also applies to Pax Dominus, the Republic side guild for Pax. My advice, is seek out the Pax members on Republic side and see if you can't engage in some jolly co-operation!