Is it just me...

Wait until you get to Corellia, you’ll be begging to go back to Voss

A lot of people dislike it for these and other reasons. It's also close to the end of the main game, so there's often a sense of burnout once you've been through it many times on other characters.

From a lore standpoint, it's an extremely critical planet, but you won't know that unless you play the classes that reveal that information.

Personally, I always found it misplaced in the story sequence. The premise is that the Empire and the Republic both have to play nice not just with the Voss, but with each other. It's all about the slow diplomatic grind and subterfuge.

But the issue is, this storyline takes place after the war has resumed. In most class stories, this takes place just prior to the big finale sequence with the main bad guy.

So, in terms of narrative momentum, you have this gradual build up of tensions, a shift into serious business with the war breaking out, sudden halt to a dead stop, only to shift back into high gear at the last moment.

What would make a lot more sense is if Voss was a lot earlier in the story, when the Treaty of Coruscant is still active. Which would explain all the subterfuge and diplomacy between the two factions, since during a war one of them could just blockade the whole planet to prevent the other side from coming in.

Ironically, Pub Balmorra makes no sense happening so early before war resumes, since it's a very blatant Republic involvement in the local conflict. Neither does Hoth, where both factions' forces are actively fighting each other. It'd almost seem so much more reasonable to switch up the order, putting Voss where Pub Balmora is, Pub Balmorra where Hoth is, and then Hoth where Voss is.

Ngl Voss is one of my favorite planets. I like how you uncover the lore about the voss, the gormaks, sel makor, etc. piece by piece.

But yea some missions are kinda boring (and they make you walk through that gormak field like 3 times with no port option) Also Voss IA questline gotta be the weirdest story in the whole game

I feel like a lot of the issues that you're having (which seem to be pretty common among the player base from what I've seen) would be fixed if 90% of Voss' lore wasn't locked behind random side missions and lore entries bc it's honestly a really interesting planet, but it's just super hard to be interested when the gameplay is like it is.

I love Voss! My 3rd fave after Tatooine and Alderaan

At least there is something to do. The most why bother planet in the game is Quesh.

Corellia is just as bad and my biggest gripe with both is just lack of actually decent fast travel points spend half the time driving around back and forth. Voss irritated me the most with the stupid back tracking, destroy this ship at the other end of the map come back oh well done now go back all the way there to deal with the guy that's having visions with no fast travel points to skip the 5-10 minute journey

No, I'm the opposite. I quite enjoyed the planet and its quest lines. None of what you described really bothered me compared to other planets.

Yes, Voss is my fourth least favourite planet in the game: 1. Hoth 2. Corellia 3. Tattooine 4. Voss

Some redeeming qualities of Voss are that it is mysterious and pretty and the Voss and Gormak look really cool. The questlines are not very interesting though, exceot the Imperial one because it lets you partake into the dirty Diplomacy tactics of the Empire.

I like voss for the music. And the class stories ( at least the imperial ones, don't remember the Republic ones that much) are very interesting, specifically IA and Inquisitor. By the time I get to voss tho I'm severely over leveled and I just want to get into the expansions

it's a planet where I like to skip everything apart from the class quest, and come back at a later time to bumble about. I actually really like the visuals (music sucks but hey) but at this level, I always just want to move on to Corellia.

My most disliked planet will always be Quesh.

That planet is so filler it may as well not exist.

What I hate the most about trace back around release, when rushing story quests would not be enough to reach the mandatory level to access the planet, you could not take the "Quesh Inoculation" quest before level 33.

I had rushed the story so much on one of my characters I had to grind over 18 levels just to be able to access it.

I only like the Voss on Consular and Agent. For all other classes they are absolutely insufferable.

You are correct, that is exactly what Bioware Austin did at the time. For a while, Voss was actually the last planet in everyone's quest lines since the main class stories hadn't been finished/released. So Bioware had to buy time to keep players occupied until they could polish up and release the end of story content.

Voss is a lot better now than it was at release, but they had no reason to go back and revise it, instead relying on the quick travel tools and ability to just go to speeder stations without walking there first.

When i still played the game it was my least favourite planet. The only thing voss has is its map, which is better than corellia

Voss is definitely a useless planet and stroyline.

LOL.

Look, just be grateful the speeder taxi points come pre unlocked now. If you think it takes ages fast travelling back and forth, imagine having to walk to each mission with fast travel on a 1-hour cooldown and only after you had walked to each point to unlock it first. That's how I finished Voss as a free to play player back in the day.

It's a really immersive way to play the game as a Sith, haha so much pain

Grumbles in Old Player

Voss is kind of the beginning of the unified class stories in the game. Pretty much from this point on every mission, planet, and chapter are either going to feel natural/good character specific. This is especially true tor classes from here on out. Things that will feel more natural for Force classes will feel off on non Force classes and vice versa more and more.

It was pretty interesting during the origin stories, especially seeing what is seen through all the various lenses of the different stories (particularly the Agent one). One of my favorite planets, to be honest. The expansions kinda flubbed it though.

Tell you what, though, you can nuke Voss if we can just blow up Spirit of Vengeance II and whatever ship Satele's on in EoO and skip that section entirely.

Corellia is the worst imo. Voss isn't that bad and at least it looks nice lol

It ranks up there with Tatooine for the most expansive use of dead space. It’s like a map of the first Baldur’s Gate game where you just walk and walk and walk to get to action areas. Plus the terrain population of creatures seems thrown together, as if they don’t attack each other by design.

I started to like Voss, especially heroics, easy quick, with tombs atmosphere that I like so much as my sith inquisitor

Or are the rodians kinda creepy?

I LOVE that the sith warrior can tell them mostly to just can it with their nonsense im fighting my way thru!

I think the color palette the world is made with is a factor too.

I'll take Voss over Quesh any day of the week. That said, that's like saying Id take a turd with nuts over a plain turd.

Voss may be big and tedious, but at least it's not Iokath

I 💕 Voss, and the quest line with it too.

Voss is usually a borefest, especially if you do too many side quests. At some point I was begging all the gods to extract me from this snoozefest. But the temple and some areas are cool looking.

Corellia on the other hand is awful to navigate but its story is ok.

The Revan mission is so boring compared to the main story

Nah, Voss is really boring

Voss and Corellia are absolutely among the worst in the base game. That said, my irritation with Corellia comes with just the sheer wasted and squandered potential.

Corellia is just as noteworthy to Star Wars lore as Coruscant or Alderaan, but when we finally get to go there, there is jack all to experience. The only emptier planets are Hoth and Tatooine, but both of those planets have gotten extra content to take you back there and do something with all that space. Corellia has gotten...the Rakghoul event. And that all happens below ground and still does nothing with all that empty urban sprawl. This is without even mentioning the fact that in a game that already has difficult to use maps, navigating Corellia is an absolute nightmare.

That aside: Corellia still matters to me because I am a Star Wars lore buff, and I would very much like to see more content added to redeem it. I cannot stress enough how much I just utterly despise Voss. Another difficult to navigate place that asks for a lot of mindless "kill Gormack for reasons" and not much else. The Voss themselves are a horrible species, and I really can't understand why either faction would expend so much time and so many resources to be in their good graces. Their force abilities may seem useful, but it just isn't worth what's being expended, and has frequently been shown to be thwarted without a great deal of effort anyways.

The writers also seem to go out of their way to continue to spit on the Gormak whenever they can, and they were the only thing I liked about the place. I actively look for ways to spend as little time as possible on that awful craphole planet.

No, it's not just you, I hate Voss, it just feels like a lot of nothing, I get that story wise it's critical, but still, It's been a while since I've done a story, on Voss, but as I recall, the Voss people themselves are either uninteresting, or irritating, the Expansion which had you running around Voss doing a bunch of side quests so that the Voss Leadership can repeat what Malgus already said really, really did not help.

I'll take Tatooine, Paris, Hoth, and Corellia over Voss any day.

Voss is my favorite planet in the game. The story there is just too good to me and when I make new characters just to replay story lines I'm always excited to get back to the planet. I'm still upset we don't have them as a species (race?) Now Quesh? Taris pub side? Balmorra pub side? Fuck those areas.

The agent one is particularly cruel.

I just hate the 2nd to last area where they send u from top to bottom to destroy cannon. Then you go all the way back up just to me told you need to go down again. You couldn't just send a Holo call?

Voss…Taris…Balmorra

I get this. I hate Voss. The idea is Interesting but it fails to build beyond "this is a neutral world don't break the peace" I wish by then end of each class story some stuff between empire and republic goes down openly. Voss is this weird low point in ever class story between the building action of act 3 and the finally on the last planet. Its sudden dip in action would feel more at home in act 1 then in act 3.

Well, I personally like the SW and SI Voss storylines, but the others are just mah. I don't hate them, but they're not really interesting either.

It's a lil' slow... but I like it

Voss can suck the back end of a Smelly Hutt. I hate it so much.

Voss and Tatooine is always my favorite planets during class stories.

I was rooting for Vaylin's forces to burn it to the ground...if not go full Death Star on it.

Aint played this game for 10 years but I remember liking Voss a great deal. The race itself is cool, so is the planet and I remember enjoying the story too, just can't remember a damn thing that happened there aside from the crazy world boss

Loved Voss. First played as a Jedi so the mystical stuff fit in.