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Why not relaunch SWG pre-cu?
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Yeah, close to no-one here thinks that SWG didn't have it's good points, I think it had plenty of them.
But the engine was flawed, there was loads of bugs and issues, and worst of all, SOE denied many actual bugs.
A relaunch of the game just isn't a good idea, but if you could poach some of the creative devs, get a good modern engine and a good budget you could use the good features to make an awesome new game.
And if not that then at least steal the crafting and shop system because that was top notch.
I really miss SWG (and therefor waiting for The Repopulation). But any period preCU, CU and NGE had a silly amount of bugs. When I think back of what I would like to see of SWG, its a mix of things from all 3 periods. The concepts, and not the crappy execution.
The engine SOE used was too crappy to begin with. For example, think back how spawning worked. It was meant for walking speed. The moment they had mounts and vehicles, the planet spawn system could simply not keep up. You had to stop moving and wait for spawns to appear. Still funny though if a rancor spawned on top of your head, immediately destroying your speeder lol. And no matter what combat implementation, the engine always had bugs. Mobs shooting through walls or you having no line of sight because you stand in a ditch of 1 foot deep. Stuff like that.
Anyway, everything was awesome on paper, but executed so poorly. Especially for nowadays standards. Well, crafting worked quite well. But combat has always been a buggy mess. It is mainly the city system, crafting and resource gathering system that I miss. Combat was nice on paper untill NGE, but from start to end horribly bugged.
So We Go Ever Must Unite.........get it?
I gave up on that years ago. SWG vets want different things from SWG, which might explain why there is such a lack of focus in that project. Not to mention its built on a crappy foundation.
I rather see new developers create a new game from scratch that has no relation with those movies. Fortunately that is happening now. Just have to see if they can actually pull it off.
no license, no release.
the game went down the minute their license ended.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Yeah before they deleted all the so we go threads you had some including the OP gushing how amazing and epic the emu is. They claimed having a whopping 1000 players playing showed how much demand there is for swg. At the same time they claim mmos with 100,000 - 1,000,0000 players are failures . These people are the reason no new player today would give swg a redo. These desperate , bitter, angry vets who can't come to reality a video game closed give swg and the normal vets a horrible name.