The combat upgrade is nothing but a ripoff from games such as worlds of warcraft, Ever Quest2, and Guild wars. On top of that, the devs rushed to push the revamp live and if you think the game had bugs and lag before, you are about to enter the Twilight Zone of lag and the hall of bugdom. The bugs are to numerous to list. Here are just a few: bright, seizure inducing flashes during transitions, waypoints and wp monitor broke, force heal broke, special attacks broke, and sometimes your character is just plain unable to move.
If you buy now your basically paying sony to beta test their product.
Personally, as a year long gamer of swg , I feel the old dev staff was either fired or brainwashed and wouldn't consult or check with the majority of the already dedicated client base it had. Instead, based their actions on what other firms were catering to. The short attention span of an average, blood thirsty, kill the other weaker player and cry foul if you lose, 14 year old.
The Devs even resorted to purging the negative posts on their forums to keep new or future players from being poisoned by such malcontent. If you previously played swg you will no longer recognize it or the people you used to play with. (if they were over 18 they quit) If you are already a jedi knight you will most likely adapt ok and enjoy the disco version of my lil pony graphics and game play. As a jedi you can now actually defend yourself easily against a bounty hunter. If you were a padawan you need to hunt in a group in order to kill something on your level to get xp, and if you hunt in a group you get visability and soon have 5 blood thirsty bounty hunters on you. which usually results in death and the loss of a days xp. By the way if you are not a Jedi knight you are forced to be a bounty Hunter if you want to survive the in this now PVP universe.
If you are, color Blind (which 1 in 5 men are including myself), just starting or were almost to the point of Jedi, you have a long, painful,and costly road ahead of you. The new game play has nerfed the armor, weapons, skills, and xp. Besides changing and nerfing the gameplay, skills, weapons, and xp, they have also changed all the icons and some of theses are live action and very annoying.The Ham bar is diferent shades of the same color , which makes it a sudden surprise death blow for color blind guys like myself. Combat consist of push the correct button and wait, push the button and wait, push the butt... Darn it! I'm dead. Did't notice the stupid Ham bar changing shades, because I can't!
You have to find an opponent that is the same combat level as you and get 3 friends to help you kill it or kill something weaker by yourself and get no xp.
Sony was headed in the right direction by adding content like jump to light speed and rage of the wookies, this is what fans were asking for. In one's search to fix the plumbing, one doesn't demolish the house. I admit they had a few common problems, but none that couldn't be fixed. It still could be a award winning game , but my suggestion is to buy or play something that is proven and beta tested and wait for sony to get it's head on straight, take care of their current clients, and decide to fix their problems instead of chasing after other peoples customers.