UPDATE:
We acquired phrase from BioWare about their discussion board’s answer addressing the matter, and supplying specifics about the crisis patch that’s slated to get area tomorrow. See under for specifics.
Howdy everybody I wanted to update you on the issues we’ve been viewing right now on the dwell servers, specifically within the Open Globe PvP area on Ilum. We’re conscious that on some servers, both Republic or Empire groups have been capturing the Ilum control points, getting into the enemy’s base and ‘camping’ the medcenters, protecting against the opposite faction from leaving their base to recapture manage details. This is not a truthful or balanced gameplay expertise and can also severely affect client performance, so we’re using methods to handle this.
Our supposed design for Ilum Open Planet PvP is that gamers are quickly killed when entering the enemy’s base secure area, just like in Warzones, and that the defending faction can get taxis to other factors inside of the zone. As of Gameplay Update 1.1, this is not operating as supposed. We have found the concern protecting against this from happening underneath server load and will be publishing an Crisis Patch to address the matter. We’re aiming to have this patch printed early tomorrow early morning (January 19th, 5 AM US CST).
In addition to these changes, we’ll be lowering the population cap on Ilum. This really should assist improve efficiency by necessitating your consumer to render less characters on-display at when.
With regards to Valor gains, with the one.one update, people now receive a base reward of 20 Valor for each unique enemy participant defeated in a small time, and this base reward is modified by the number of targets that the player’s faction owns. The gains are rate minimal per player killed, encouraging players to attack special players, not to pursue vendettas. The Valor gains players can see over time will vary drastically based on the exercise amount in the zone. This is expected.
To dispel a couple of rumors that have been seen today – there is no Valor gain from destroying turrets inside of enemy bases, and none from killing NPCs.
We stimulate gamers to avoid Ilum right up until our patch is deployed. As a short term evaluate we will be disabling taxi providers which would typically take players into the Open up World PvP region. However, players will nevertheless be in a position to taxi out of the region.
We will carry on to keep an eye on Ilum across all servers and will make even more adjustments to gameplay if essential. We welcome your feedback below on the Forums, but please guarantee your suggestions is constructive and precise. Suggestions dependent on rumor does not aid us isolate possible problems.
Gabe Amatangelo
Principal Lead PvP, Flashpoints and Procedures Designer
Update: Be sure to see Associate Neighborhood Manager Joveth Gonzalez’s update under:
Formerly Posted by JovethGonzalez
Hello every person,
I just needed to be obvious and permit you all know that we’re definitely mindful of men and women who took intense advantage of this condition and we will be carefully evaluating and getting action as essential.
Eek! Patches are undoubtedly a tough issue. They can correct ten things but also break a couple of items in the process. Right after reading through the current one hundred page thread on the SWTOR discussion board, a great deal of folks are agreeing that the PVP on the level fifty world Ilum is damaged. If you’re seeking for one thing to do on a day when Wikipedia and Reddit or down, I advise you set your reading through eyeglasses on. The 1.1 update extra valor to every single PVP destroy. Valor allows you to obtain new PVP things. Naturally the increased the valor, the better the PVP gear. That’s all properly and very good but when the potential to camp a spawn position and not allow the opposing group to combat back again enters the equation, individuals are really going to be pissed. Men and women are gathering valor factors at an alarmingly substantial charge. What was as soon as a chore to max out your valor is only taking a handful of hours. It also would seem like the Republic facet is having a good deal of problems as they are staying outnumbered on a lot of instances. Since they are outnumbered and can’t even spawn, a whole lot of folks are reporting being stuck on Ilum. Presently there is a Livestream going on displaying the matter.
Content material updates alwayss have a handful of problems, that’s just the naturel of the beast, but this beast appears to be a entire good deal a lot more.