Publish 9 Narrk's Report.

[skyhunter11]

I been having computer crashes for the past three weeks. This week it was worse than before, found out I had bad GPU card. I would have posted what I tested earlier this week. I played test center last Sunday and this morning. I am currently logged on test center, but wanted to post some things down before I try other stuff.

GCW PVP - Faction bases. The faction scanners are not attackable and still prevent players from entering a base with one of these installed. I was under the impression that this bug was fixed in pub 9, it still exists.

Corvette - I haven't completed any of the corvette missions. I got close on the Assassination mission but could not open the final door to kill the general. This may be due to the fact that I was following the old SOE guide that did not require group to get the operations disk 4 to get the bridge codes. I have not tried the rescue missions yet. I think it might be easier to test the basic mechanics of the corvette if the all the opposition forces were removed, so can grab all necessary items to gain access to the areas. This would be helpful for the destroy missions. The assassination missions might be a little tricky as you have to kill certain NPC. I have heard rumors that other testers during the week have completed the corvette. But can not confirm.

Bounty Hunter -

1. Bomb Droids Work!
2. Fast Blast hits all three pools. Its very good with pistol and carbine, hits harder but no one/two/three shot kills. However, it's way too powerful when used with LLC, even with an average LLC. I dropped a jedi in two hits consistently. Jedi constantly heal and could not do much else and until they died. Saberblock, fastblast is the only bounty hunter ability to reduce jedi saber block. Other abilities do not.
3. Lightning cannon single/cone/1/2 still makes the flamethrower sounds.
4. None of the other abilities seemed to be unchanged.

Jedi- work in progress. Will edit after more testing.

[davej30]

2. Fast Blast hits all three pools. Its very good with pistol and carbine, hits harder but no one/two/three shot kills. However, it's way too powerful when used with LLC, even with an average LLC. I dropped a jedi in two hits consistently. Jedi constantly heal and could not do much else and until they died. Saberblock, fastblast is the only bounty hunter ability to reduce jedi saber block. Other abilities do not.

I noticed an increase in saberblock vs FB actually and i tested it vs a few jedi,i think you need to check your logs narrk,as much as 10 hits in a row can be blocked.I doubt its 85% but its not the same as old levels (not a bad thing)
Ive not been able to continue testing until my eye straightens up again but hopefully i can get back to it in a couple of days.

[skyhunter11]

I didn't notice a change in saberblock with fastblast. I did note that other ranged specials, including other bounty hunter specials were getting blocked alot more often than fastblast shots.

Looks like FRS is activated but really cant test it yet til i find another player to test with. Can't take missions on my own jedi.

Narrk

[skyhunter11]

Update on the Aurilla Village on Dathomir.

I went to the village and its there! I talked to the elder and then choose to do the survival quests with Whip. Whip had me go out and rescue 5 villagers. I proceeded as directed by the waypoints he gave me. Killed the sith shadows and escorted the first two imprisoned villagers home. On the third attempt, during the battle, the mission fail stating I ran out of time. No one could be faster killing and walking the villagers back. So the timing needs to be lengthened. I talked to whip again and he gave me a new mission to find missing supplies outside the village and told me to check my quest journal for the beacon location. Nothing, no updates. I circle around the village at 1k hoping I could spawn something to complete this, but nothing.

Village bugged - Whip quests

1. Time is too short to rescue all five villagers
2. No beacon location information on missing supplies.

Narrk

Also one more thing I notice. Sith Shadows are dropping new Ore resources to build stuff. Dont remember if that was in old live version or not. Anyone can give info on this?

Update:

I did not understand the quest. The supplies are on endor, there is a waypoint in my datapad, i was looking for one on dathomir. This quest will allow you to learn vehicle control. The previous task that timed out on me was for survival. The village may have advanced a stage on me during that quest.

After I retrieved the supply crate and turned it in, have to do it 5 more times. I did not do this 5 more times, driving to depths of endor and dathomir was gonna be a test of time more than game mechanics.

[davej30]

Also one more thing I notice. Sith Shadows are dropping new Ore resources to build stuff. Dont remember if that was in old live version or not. Anyone can give info on this?

That will be to either erm if i recall to build the tracking device and as part of the phases you have to build defenses to help the village the ore is used for that as well if i recall.

Looks like FRS is activated but really cant test it yet til i find another player to test with. Can't take missions on my own jedi.

Anyone (including ursa) that is halfway through the knight trials gets reset to the beginning on TC atm,so i cant help there but we can check bh frs payouts later tonight hopefully.

[Dirge]

The village may have advanced a stage on me during that quest.

This is a very likely possibility since we adjusted several unlocking mechanisms for testing purposes. One of those adjustments was the frequency of village phase shifts has been turned up to a very non-Awakening setting. If I recall we set this to shift every 12hrs which may need to be dialed down if people are having trouble completing some of the quests.