Even tho i prefer sith and empire. and well the DS as a whole. i am so happy that all of these rebels and other characters that we needed (had) to farm for other events are being able to be used. Not to mention the amount of LS toons that are relevant or worth using are about 2 to 3 times more of them

There is no reason this had to be one way or the other. They could have arranged the table starting from each side moving towards a final battle in the middle, allowing you to play LS defending Hoth and DS advancing on Hoth. This seems ridiculously obvious, and I am a bit flummoxed that they didn't think of this. So much for "every toon matters." And I say this as a primarily light-side player who has most of the toons needed for specific missions. The way they set it up works just fine for me, but I'm not at all surprised that so many folks are irritated right now. This is the biggest game content addition since raids were introduced, and to effectively exclude an entire faction is just bizarre and tone-deaf.

Well Battlefront II you play as a team of imperial/FO soldiers so..... expect them in this game

"Swordd;c-1236656" wrote:There is no reason this had to be one way or the other. They could have arranged the table starting from each side moving towards a final battle in the middle, allowing you to play LS defending Hoth and DS advancing on Hoth. This seems ridiculously obvious, and I am a bit flummoxed that they didn't think of this. So much for "every toon matters." And I say this as a primarily light-side player who has most of the toons needed for specific missions. The way they set it up works just fine for me, but I'm not at all surprised that so many folks are irritated right now. This is the biggest game content addition since raids were introduced, and to effectively exclude an entire faction is just bizarre and tone-deaf. We are in the same boat, and I feel the same way. There has been too much light side/Rebel love. I like light side, and I'm sitting pretty well for this, and I understand that the nature of the movies means that there are more named Rebels.But the light side tilt is hard to defend.There are 16 (soon to be 19) more light side toons than dark. Even the B and C list light side factions (like Jawas, and Ewoks) have important uses, good synergy, and special events. While the dark side sports some of the worst factions in the game. (Nightsisters, Seperatists, Bounty Hunters, Tuskans, etc)And I had the same idea about starting a board from opposite sides, using both, and meeting in the middle. That would have been great. Not trying to steal your thunder with that idea, but as you said it's "ridiculously obvious."Not trying to be too critical of this game mode yet. It looks like a lot of fun. The rewards look great. I'm excited to get into it. I'm 90% positive looking at Territory Battles. But I hope that this marks the end of Rebel love for a bit, and the beginning of some major dark side reworks, character additions, and at some point a dark side focused Territory Battles map. And that's coming from someone who has been desperate to see Mace get a beastly rework for over a year.

"Swordd;c-1236656" wrote:There is no reason this had to be one way or the other.There's no reason anything has to be anything, sure. But there's plenty of reasons why you should do something, for example making this a light sode event this time.Light is popular. Like, way more popular. Way, way, way more popular. Star Wars is the story of the Light Side beating up the Dark Side and taking its lunch money. Sure, Dark Side is cool and edgey in a "Zach Snyder makes the best movies so dark and grin" kind of way. But it's the losing side and it's the evil side. Why wouldn't the first Battle be Light-oriented?

I don't know about everyone else... /sarcasm/ but my first free and unlocked characters were Light Side... the Dark Side characters came a little later.No need to fret, they will release a Dark Side TB in the future. And for the (I'm guessing/speculating this figure) 25% of the player base that focused on Dark Side, are the ones upset that first TB is LS. IF YOU were the developer, you would target the largest audience for success initially, i.e. the other 75% of the playerbase that has strong LS roster. Hence it's less impactful to upset 25% instead of the 75%.Once both LS and DS TB are in full effect this will be a non-issue. And the same for new players who won't have a bias that they expect the game to conform to their imposed character focus. Also, imagine the uproar from the 75% about how the required DS take much longer to farm than most of the LS. Everyone would suffer the less rewards and much longer ramp up time to be prepared for a DS TB.

Why Light Side is the perfect decision for TB.

Tree103
8 years ago
The darkside TB will require Vader, Tarkin, and Leia, and you'll blow up Alderaan for 45 stars.
JohnnySteelAlph
8 years ago
"leef;c-1257555" wrote:
"Moicaliss;c-1257435" wrote:
"FierceRevan;c-1255967" wrote:
Dark side users seem to be the biggest crybabies of any game I have been a part of. I am a sith user and hoping Revan comes in game. I have even farmed up sith trooper just in case. If you can't enjoy using light side characters, you're way too narrow minded to enjoy most things in life. I'm guessing it is mostly young children who haven't broadened their horizons in life and don't realize you can enjoy many things in life. Let go of the teenage angst.

Also more darkside KOTOR characters appreciated but hells bells I won't quit playing when the next charachter released is jedi-ish Rey

What a lame opinion. You know, i'm a december 2015 player, what i'd really love about this game was strategy, build your squad, try to figure what's create a good synergised team.

Now, no option. No theory crafting, build rebels, build luke and don't even try to think over the box ...because it will simply not work.

That includes: arena, tb, and mostly raid

What a boring era CG have create

what makes you say that you can't theory craft or think outside the box anymore?

This game, with the LS focus and the requirements does lead you down a linear path in that you are somewhat forced to focus limited resources in a certain direction. This isn't an open world game like a GTA or something like that - you don't create your own path really. The devs are forcing us down a pre-determined road.
emvedebe
8 years ago
"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1261582" wrote:
"leef;c-1257555" wrote:
"Moicaliss;c-1257435" wrote:
"FierceRevan;c-1255967" wrote:
Dark side users seem to be the biggest crybabies of any game I have been a part of. I am a sith user and hoping Revan comes in game. I have even farmed up sith trooper just in case. If you can't enjoy using light side characters, you're way too narrow minded to enjoy most things in life. I'm guessing it is mostly young children who haven't broadened their horizons in life and don't realize you can enjoy many things in life. Let go of the teenage angst.

Also more darkside KOTOR characters appreciated but hells bells I won't quit playing when the next charachter released is jedi-ish Rey

What a lame opinion. You know, i'm a december 2015 player, what i'd really love about this game was strategy, build your squad, try to figure what's create a good synergised team.

Now, no option. No theory crafting, build rebels, build luke and don't even try to think over the box ...because it will simply not work.

That includes: arena, tb, and mostly raid

What a boring era CG have create

what makes you say that you can't theory craft or think outside the box anymore?

This game, with the LS focus and the requirements does lead you down a linear path in that you are somewhat forced to focus limited resources in a certain direction. This isn't an open world game like a GTA or something like that - you don't create your own path really. The devs are forcing us down a pre-determined road.

How does this prevent theory crafting or thinking outside the box in a way that it didn't prevent it pre-TB?
Smokinjoe141414
8 years ago
So instead of sharing my opinionized-assumption based upon my own experiences within my own shard... I went to swgoh.gg meta report and looked at the Rank 1-100 data. (found here: https://swgoh.gg/meta-report/100/#all ) then I copied all of that data, brought it into Excel and got the sum totals of characters used and which faction LS or DS.

The findings based on 43,604 teams were:
Total characters in the meta report between rank 1-100 = 230,864 characters
Total characters that are DS = 72,183
Total characters that are LS = 158,501

This equates to 31% DS vs 69% LS.

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