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Re: SWTOR

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:13:53 EDT

ksharp25 posted : For me, I will be ok with F2P. If nothing else to go through all possible class combinations, content quests of all planets, Heroics, etc. If I want to exp Operations and FPs I can always get a game card and PUG now that servers combined.

Free is just enough incentive for me to play around for a bit, keep the characters in existence and wait and see if it ever improves content/game wise. And if it doesnt, and I fully quit, no harm no foul as I wasnt paying monthly imo.

Re: SWTOR

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:29:31 EDT

jofos posted :

said by ksharp25:

I am behind a lot of websense and firewalls so no game sites allowed from my primary internet connection source (work). When I can, I have checked BioWares AND the SWTOR site. Nothing new. Trying to confirm..

Is there a date yet on F2P? Will it be this month?

I don't think they have given a date as of yet, but I quit visiting their site when My sube ran out in July. The game isn't horrible its just not enough there to keep me interested for the long haul.

Re: SWTOR

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:55:32 EDT

ksharp25 posted : I am behind a lot of websense and firewalls so no game sites allowed from my primary internet connection source (work). When I can, I have checked BioWares AND the SWTOR site. Nothing new. Trying to confirm..

Is there a date yet on F2P? Will it be this month?

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:00:58 EDT

fatpipe posted : Yes, I'm still playing. I only get to play weekends.

Just got my first character to 50. :D

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:44:04 EDT

bTU posted : So I was on ebay today and since a lot of my searches involve computer stuff, games and even some SW toys, one of the recommended items it previewed for me is a collector's edition SWTOR, new in box for 29.99 and free shipping. All I could think about was the 140+ I spent on amazon with a pre-order CE and overnight shipping so I would have the game on launch day.
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Re: SWTOR

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:43:48 EDT

IamGimli posted :

said by Jobbie:

Downloaded the game to do the trial version but the launcher won't start.

Thanks but no thanks.

You're welcome but not really.

What was the point of the post again?

Re: SWTOR

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:13:18 EDT

Jobbie posted : Downloaded the game to do the trial version but the launcher won't start.

Thanks but no thanks.
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Re: SWTOR

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:57:19 EDT

Shatter posted :

said by Jackarino:

When might we see free play come along?

They said this fall so probably between Sept and Oct Im guessing

Re: SWTOR

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:48:42 EDT

Jackarino posted : Thx

Re: SWTOR

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:17:20 EDT

Mcrobrewer posted :

said by Jackarino:

When might we see free play come along?

I think late October, early November.... I think.
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Re: SWTOR

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:03:22 EDT

Jackarino posted : When might we see free play come along?

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:15:23 EDT

BigReds42 posted :

said by C0deZer0:

Shame about the heroics and group quests though... there were definitely a lot more for the trooper/smuggler classes than there were for the Jedi classes. :(

Heroics and groups are for ANY class...

Also... Heroics are MEANT to be grouped with other players (that is why they are REALLY tough with just your companion.

Also.. for your companion... if you want them early (level 9 or 10 is earliest I would say) do all your CLASS quests. and THEN back up to the planet quests.

Yes... the create is rather limited.

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:57:24 EDT

C0deZer0 posted : Well, for what it's worth, the 15 levels gets you potential for A LOT of abilities early on.

Shame about the heroics and group quests though... there were definitely a lot more for the trooper/smuggler classes than there were for the Jedi classes. :(

Even so, it isn't bad. As said before, the game aces the presentation and the dialogue. The disappointing part as far as companions go is that depending on class, you can end up getting some really late in your time on the starter world. Even with the companion though, those Heroics are REALLY tough :(

That said, I've kinda got my rhythm down with the Knight -> Sentinel, and my trooper character. Smuggler -> Gunslinger has so far been interesting.

One thing I am disappointed in for the create portion... I was initially trying to make Kiave there look as close as possible to Ellen Ripley. Yet the create options have no styles for curly hair, at all... much less anything closely resembling Weaver's style for that series of movies. :hmm:
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Re: SWTOR

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:31:48 EDT

Pryck posted : No one is forced to use a companion; if they believe the content is too easy then dismiss the companion and run around solo. I do agree folks are going to complain regardless not much going to change about that in the gaming realm.

Re: SWTOR

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:04:13 EDT

jofos posted :

said by BigReds42:

said by C0deZer0:

You might see it as a problem. What I see is grouping should be OPTIONAL... full stop.

Borderlands provided a very simple way of handling this problem. Bigger groups meant tougher enemies, but also better chance for quality gear, sooner. And it adjusted on the fly as people joined or left. Yet why can't an MMO do this?

The storytelling has been a high point of this game, because I have played to keep other people from screwing it up for me. How can being able to immerse yourself in what's going on be considered a bad thing? :uhh:

I don't see it as a problem myself, I was just pointing out that was the biggest complaint I have heard from people I played with. An MMO (to them) means that people group together... let's face it, if you NEVER had to group up, you are paying $15 a month for KOTOR 3... a sngle players RPG, not an MMO.

Also... grouping is optional... you don't have to run those FPs and Heroics, they are completely optional in the aspect of the game.

Grouping is pretty much optional in any mmo. The only time you group in wow for instances is when running a dungeon, swtor is no better or worse in that way. Things being to easy is a different story. In swtor you have a companion helping you do everything. I think I saw that a companion would be equal to about 2/3 what a player does (maybe 3 or 4 times some players) so basically you ave tw people doing everything which tends to make thigs pretty easy. Either way people will complain. Vanillia wow was to hard so they made it easy then it was to easy. Swtor started off to easy for some people.

Re: SWTOR

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:46:40 EDT

BigReds42 posted :

said by C0deZer0:

Re: SWTOR

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:38:59 EDT

C0deZer0 posted : The character I'm showing there is a Miraluka. They wear those 'glasses' $fontbg because they don't have eyeballs. $Fontbg
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Re: SWTOR

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:25:41 EDT

Koil posted : Not to thread crap or whatever, but I just can not even get close to being excited about this game. Maybe its lingering bad tastes from SW:G, and now looking at those pics kinda confirms it....this just doesn't look like real polished effort at all.

Not knocking your rig or the character design, but the sunglasses thing? I mean..ok, I guess, but then you go the homer walking around behind you with his sabers on, in the holster....cutting his droids arm off apparently.

I dunno...SW:G also felt like they were trying to do too much and it became a chore to do any one thing well....that UI setup reminds me of it. Glad to say I never got this, as it doesn't look like a proper SW mmo is possible....I don't know what it should be like, but that just doesn't seem to be it.
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Re: SWTOR

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:56:22 EDT

C0deZer0 posted : You might see it as a problem. What I see is grouping should be OPTIONAL... full stop.

Borderlands provided a very simple way of handling this problem. Bigger groups meant tougher enemies, but also better chance for quality gear, sooner. And it adjusted on the fly as people joined or left. Yet why can't an MMO do this?

The storytelling has been a high point of this game, because I have played to keep other people from screwing it up for me. How can being able to immerse yourself in what's going on be considered a bad thing? :uhh:
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Re: SWTOR

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:48:08 EDT

BigReds42 posted : The thing is EVERYTHING but the FPs and Heroics are soloable... that's part of the problem with the game.

Re: SWTOR

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:47:55 EDT

C0deZer0 posted : And a few more pics.

The Heroic ones tick me off, because it seems like they are trying to require me to get a bunch of people for them. Also wish I could just filter out the ones that practically say right away "GROUP REQUIRED". I get there's a social aspect to MMO games, but why not let me decide if/when I want to, or if I just don't?

Still, nearing my level limit for this character. Guess I should think about rolling another.
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Re: SWTOR

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:57:25 EDT

C0deZer0 posted : Got in now with the free-to-play option.

First character I started with was Jedi Knight... which I fully intend on running as a Sentinel (twin lightsabers, oh baby! :D ). And yes, the in-game RNG gave me that oh so suggestive name, so I had to stick with it. ;)

Easily, one of the things ToR aces is presentation. Helps being able to flat out turn off chat and auto-ignoring much of the stuff that would be a common nuisance in muhmorpugers... Admittedly still have the mindset that this should have been work put toward a proper KoTOR 3 to finish the various story arcs left behind by 1&2.

From beta, definitely seem to have noticed that some missions are much easier if you take on some others first... $fontbg The first Heroic one on Tython was a royal pain until I was able to keep T7 full time. $Fontbg Thus far, I only wished that I had a little more involvement in the crafting of my lightsaber when I got to that point... and now that I'm a sentinel, hoping I can hurry up and grab another. :D
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Re: SWTOR

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:11:39 EDT

Pryck posted : Did they make a change along with the LFG add in 1.3 that configures gear drops according to your group makeup? I took a month or so off from playing waiting on 1.3 to drop so I have been running FP's last week or so and in almost every run I have gotten a piece of gear, so I went from no tier pieces to full Columi and a Rakata chest in about a week or so and not running them everyday. Just curious or am I just REALLY lucky.....has anyone else had this experience with the new patch?

Re: SWTOR

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:17:10 EDT

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Re: SWTOR

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:21:14 EDT

anon posted : They have tried to address all these issues, you can now get a mount at lvl 10, you can get a bonus 30% to pvp, exploration, questing or space mission experience so you can level the way you want rather than having to do teadius quests over and over. Still having fun although nearly through all content with 2 chars so more content would be good(and is on its way). it had a rough start but i think a good game over all.

Re: SWTOR

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:52:50 EDT

Pryck posted : The only other MMO I have played to compare to is WoW and it was the same way for questing prior to dailies and the quest hubs they have now and walking around until level 40 was fun and hoping you could even have the gold to purchase it at level was even more fun. To each their own but it really didn't detract from my game play experience to make me detest playing entirely.

Re: SWTOR

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:05:44 EDT

Shatter posted : Travel time is the worst part of the game for me. Doing 1 quest you spend signifigantly more time traveling around then doing the quest and this is pretty much every quest. Ive leveled 4 characters to 50 now and dont think I can do another just due to this. They also need to hand out speeders at level 1 or 5 or something, not level 25 for your first.

Re: SWTOR

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:48:30 EDT

Phantasee posted :

said by footballdude:

Dropped it. After getting one character to 50 and being bored out of my mind waiting for FP groups to form, I couldn't stomache leveling another character. I tried but bailed around level 35. Some of the later planets you level on have so much wasted travel time between mission areas you feel like you're just sight seeing instead of playing.

That's why I quit. Effing traveling 1000 light years to do a mission.......

Re: SWTOR

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:36:35 EDT

jester121 posted :

said by C0deZer0:

Has the partial F2P kicked in yet? That's what I'm wondering about.

Just got an e-mail that it's F2P for the next week. I think I still have it installed at home, might be a nice diversion for a few days.

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:34:34 EDT

ksharp25 posted : Yeah I am a little disappointed with the LFG tool as well. The only other real MMORPG I have much experience with is World of Warcraft. At least their LFG tool lets me not only queue for a instance in a zone (think planet in this game), but I have check boxes to queue for a specific one. It should not have been too hard for Bioware to make the LFG tool in such a manner that if I am on Balmorra lets say, I can not only queue for a group, but use a check box to specifically pick the Heroic +4, Heroic +2, etc that I am looking for.

I can understand the locking out past a certain level thing. If I didnt go to Balmorra first on my chain of story and I get there at level 25 to start out, it wont be much fun for me to run a lvl 18 quest with a bunch of lvl 18s and here I am at lvl 28. The XP and other things would be affected drastically. (And let me say, as someone who knows a bit about coding and applications, its easy to say...well make it so it matches and groups based on level. But incredibly hard and complex to actually code that in).

Re: SWTOR

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:21:36 EDT

C0deZer0 posted : Has the partial F2P kicked in yet? That's what I'm wondering about.
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Re: SWTOR

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:13:19 EDT

Pryck posted : I tried the new LFG tool last night and the wait time wasn't too bad for dps; I think I waited 20 minutes or so. Group performed well and folks were helpful to those of us who hadn't been in very many HM's so the entire experience was fun. I do realize there will be bad experiences as well that always goes along with this sort of thing but it's a step in the right direction I think.

Re: SWTOR

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:44:01 EDT

BigReds42 posted :

said by jofos:

The biggest thing that would make group finder better is if more people would start using it.

The problem is you can't q up for anything BUT for what your level is...

I mean I have done every quest and bonus series and that tends to make you overleveled for a planet so you can't even q up for the planet.

Re: SWTOR

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:41:46 EDT

BigReds42 posted :

said by jofos:

said by BigReds42:

I know what's wrong with you, you clearly cannot read!

play nice people....

Anyway what bigred is talking about is the heroic +2s and +4s.

Exactly... I never said the words Hard Mode at all.

Re: SWTOR

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:55:48 EDT

jofos posted :

said by BigReds42:

I know what's wrong with you, you clearly cannot read!

play nice people....

Anyway what bigred is talking about is the heroic +2s and +4s. While this and issue to a point imagine if you qued for a specific heroic on balmora, I think there's about 8 of them, it would be worse. The way it is you que and quest on whatever planet and when you get a group if you don't have the quest for the one you got asked someone to share the quest.
LFG still has some issues but its a good start. There will be some level ranges that have longer wait times than others and dps will have longer waits than tanks and healers but it is a step in the right direction. The biggest thing that would make group finder better is if more people would start using it.

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:15:16 EDT

IamGimli posted : ...and what is it that I cannot read, pray tell?

Between your inability to use proper English and your confusion about the features of the game you're commenting on (there is no "heroics" in SWTOR) I do admit I had to make a good measure of interpretation but that's hardly my fault now is it?

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:58:15 EDT

BigReds42 posted : I know what's wrong with you, you clearly cannot read!

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:09:43 EDT

IamGimli posted :

said by BigReds42:

And you can't Q up for Heroics!!!!!! Just for "planet" Qs.

I don't know that's wrong with you but I can queue for hard modes. You have to be lvl 50 for hard modes and there might be a gear check involved as well.

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:01:51 EDT

BigReds42 posted : This is not a complaint this is fact... that LFG thing is HORRID.

You can only Q up for stuff that is in your level range (which is dumb if I want to run Black Talon (or some other FP which is NOT in my level range at the moment)).

And you can't Q up for Heroics!!!!!! Just for "planet" Qs.

Re: SWTOR

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:41:56 EDT

IamGimli posted :

said by Pryck:

They added LFG and combined servers to fix low populated server issues and people still complain; imagine that. Give them time to balance out the lag issue with the huge population surge on some servers.

They didn't have to go from 500 servers to 3 in one week (exaggeration, but barely) after making us wait 6 months.

Proper issue management would go a long way in reducing negative feedback.

But then again, it's EA we're talking about here. Ignoring the issue as long as they can then overreacting when it blows out of proportion is par for the course.

Re: SWTOR

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:50:55 EDT

Fettuccine_t posted : That happens in every mmo. Look at Wow. Paladins were the best for awhile, then they nerf them to death and then lets say Warlocks were the best. Then they nerf them too much and something else takes its place. Im sure if you keep playing at some point mercs/commandos will be the best.

To the new changes, I love them. I still think SWTOR has alot of upside and is still fun to play. I think if they can work out the rest of the kinks and add more end game content, alot of ppl will either come back or start playing.

Re: SWTOR

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:16:54 EDT

spartan002 posted : yes i used to be a supporter of this game, but they started messing around. they ruined merc/commandos.

Re: SWTOR

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:28:25 EDT

Pryck posted : They added LFG and combined servers to fix low populated server issues and people still complain; imagine that. Give them time to balance out the lag issue with the huge population surge on some servers.

Re: SWTOR

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:29:50 EDT

anon posted : Well, 1.3 has hit and things are looking up imo. Little bit of lag on Fleet, but it's something I can live with. LFG was a long time coming, can finally run HM FP's without standing in Fleet spamming all damn day/night. After 7 years of WoW, I have no intention of ever going back. The Panda expansion has dampened any potential desire I might have had to do so. I'll try to post the 1.3 Patch notes on here for anyone that might be interested in perusing them from work.

Re: SWTOR

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:07:34 EDT

Rawk posted : Quit and returned to WOW. Don't think I will ever return.

Re: SWTOR

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:15:30 EDT

Ghastlyone posted : I was talking to one of my buddies a couple nights ago over Mumble.

He said they ended up transfering servers and still raiding. The new server at any given moment will have 1000+ people on the fleet. He did say they are getting a bunch of lag.

Re: SWTOR

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:31:01 EDT

IamGimli posted : Now that 1.3 has hit it's not getting any better. Lag is at an all-time high and we're getting logon queues in the evening.

It's like EA WANTS people to get pissed off and quit the game.

Re: SWTOR

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:58:37 EDT

IamGimli posted : *sigh*

Looks like the more populated servers are actually making things worse because now we're facing really bad server-side lag while we're raiding.

Last couple of nights in Denova we got stuck on Kephess, a VERY mechanics-based fight, because we kept getting lag spikes which made it impossible to move to the correct locations throughout the fight.

This doesn't bode well...

Re: SWTOR

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:10:54 EDT

Slydermv posted :

said by Fettuccine_t:

Anyone know what a good imperial server would be? I logged on last night for the 1st time in at least a month and there was 1 other person on the fleet.

Fatman is good, but really any of the transfer too servers seem to have really good populations, both sides, now.

Re: SWTOR

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:36:24 EDT

gaforces posted : The Daragon Trail pvp server transferred to The Bastion.
I made around 3 million credits so far with a populated server.

A lot of people came back from D3 (said it was boring) and Tera (said the game is crap) for transfers.

I am still enjoying the game and leveling alts.
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