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jpfit262
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4 years ago

5OR-T

There is a different game, which rules forbid talking about … but it is like this game in many ways. That game also released an OG character with much of the same reaction. Why release this character when there are so many other better and wanted characters? We never got an answer from the devs of the other game. We won’t get one from these devs either, but I’ll tell ya why. It’s because they can.

But this other character ended up being one of the best F2P characters in game to date. That release was well over a year ago and the same opinion remains.

Now you may ask why I draw this comparison outside of the reseasons I mentioned above:

The kit, it’s all about the kit. The kits fills a huge spot that MANY have been begging for, a LS droid leader. Now you say: Lobot is here! Jawa is here! JTR is here! Yes, yes, and yes. But… lobot sucks, Jawas are better as a full team rather breaking them off like Kit Kat bars, and JTR, well actually I having nothing bad to say.. this team actually works really well and I like it. But synergy!! JTR with droids is kind like a puzzle… if you don’t have the right strategy it won’t work. With 5O, no problemO.

Also, this kit frees up 2 droids that get kinda forgot about in their faction: chopper and t3. These droids were just “spare parts” if you will but now they have a home.

While it’s easy to get mad at CG and throw vegetables at them, I think they may have gotten this one right. Now it’s early, the character could break the game, or I could just be wrong about the whole thing in general. But I do agree it’s a super random and weird move.

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  • I will enjoy the character I know, just a matter of time until they are truly useful since i will not buy it out.

    I am glad to see the CG seems to have a rough "base" for characters coming to the game for their speed.

    The one thing i would like to greatly see, is the ability to take all characters to G12, with all non- G12+ gear pieces as well, without being 7 stars.
  • Quite frankly, the apparent “outcry” confuses me more so than anything, given that I don’t recall any sort of outcry when Geonosian Brood Alpha was released. In fact, I believe I recall nothing but positive reception to that character, and no complaints of “better” pre-established characters, unless those sorts were just far and few between, and I missed them as a result. So I’m just wondering what could possibly be the difference between this original character, and the one before it?

    Both 5OR-T and Geonosian Brood Alpha were made with the clear intent of elevating underutilized members of specific factions (i.e.: Geonosians with other separatists before the Brood Alpha, and Droids like T-3, who were often forgone for other droids or old republic characters, and ones like R2 and BB8 who’ve fallen out of favor over time, despite once being popular go to choices).
  • Exactly, no one said a word when Geo Brute Alpha was introduced. If they made new Tuskens to finish the faction I doubt people would have any issues.
  • "LordDirt;c-2360135" wrote:
    Exactly, no one said a word when Geo Brute Alpha was introduced. If they made new Tuskens to finish the faction I doubt people would have any issues.


    and we have 2 very obvious options given to us from the BoBf as well to finish up that squad truly. 3, if we could ever get a Tusken tagged Boba.
  • "PumaK;c-2360159" wrote:
    Maybe it's because the bottlenecks got expanded, specific on the massive kyrotech bottleneck????


    I can see how that would be a problem from a mechanical standpoint, but it doesn’t really explain why there’s outrage about the character herself, when there’s nothing wrong with her existing, and being added.

    From the looks of some comments, it seems like some people think that this character being released somehow means that other pre-established characters aren’t going to be added at some point, and while in some very minor cases, that could be true, (albeit, in those cases, the characters were probably never planned to be added to begin with, whether it be because they were too minor, and/or had nothing at all to really work with, like Porkins) some pre-existing character not being released has absolutely nothing to do with this characters release, and it certainly isn’t some “sign” that the company doesn’t care about what characters people want to see in the game.
  • "HKFactory;c-2360205" wrote:
    "PumaK;c-2360159" wrote:
    Maybe it's because the bottlenecks got expanded, specific on the massive kyrotech bottleneck????


    I can see how that would be a problem from a mechanical standpoint, but it doesn’t really explain why there’s outrage about the character herself, when there’s nothing wrong with her existing, and being added.

    From the looks of some comments, it seems like some people think that this character being released somehow means that other pre-established characters aren’t going to be added at some point, and while in some very minor cases, that could be true, (albeit, in those cases, the characters were probably never planned to be added to begin with, whether it be because they were too minor, and/or had nothing at all to really work with, like Porkins) some pre-existing character not being released has absolutely nothing to do with this characters release, and it certainly isn’t some “sign” that the company doesn’t care about what characters people want to see in the game.


    I respectfully disagree, simply because it takes time for CG to develop a character. I feel the time they used to develop this character would have been better used developing Hondo, Scout Trooper, or a Flame Trooper (just to give a few examples). CG has a finite number of resources and instead of drawing something up from scratch, they could have given us a character that has been asked for since the beginning of the game.

    I, and some others I have spoken with, would rather development time be used for characters we know instead of a character made-up just for this game.

    There is another game similar to this one that also introduced their own made-up character instead of using the deep pool of possible characters. This move led to me cutting way back on that game since it turned out to be an important character but I couldn't get myself to care about the character.

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