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[SW:TOR] Sarlacc announced as latest playable race!

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    And the only time we see Jedi using double bladed sabers in KotoR games is constantly.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    As I recall, Bastila was the character in the KotoR games who used a double bladed lightsaber. Hers was yellow.

    Of course, I hated Bastila with a burning passion and wanted to flay her with the force at the cost of falling to the dark side (it would totally be worth it).

    And also, for anyone who played the Jedi Academy game, double bladed and dual wield were both viable options in that game.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    Consular's look interesting. For a class that was being described as a second line fighter using force powers. The whole Double Bladed lightsaber thing isn't really fitting.

    Am I the only one who thinks it would have made a hell of a lot more sense for the Sith Warrirors to be the ones who "favor" the Double Bladed saber? Seeing that the only time we see a double bladed saber in the movies it's a sith weapon?

    I think Bioware may have popped a gasket.

    It does. In both KOTOR games, and in pretty much every bit of Star Wars media to date, double bladed lightsabers have been made out to be the hyper-aggressive tool of a combat focused Jedi/Sith. It's both expressly stated by characters in each game and seen to be favored by warriors.

    Associating them with Consulars is weird as hell.

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  • farbekriegfarbekrieg Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    As I recall, Bastila was the character in the KotoR games who used a double bladed lightsaber. Hers was yellow.

    Of course, I hated Bastila with a burning passion and wanted to flay her with the force at the cost of falling to the dark side (it would totally be worth it).

    And also, for anyone who played the Jedi Academy game, double bladed and dual wield were both viable options in that game.

    I would do horrible horrible things to Bastilla :winky:, just not in the manner you had described.

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  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    korodullin wrote: »
    I really wish they'd reveal info on races already. Even only something like "We're going to have them." Like my girlfriend said yesterday: "I know I'm going to end up playing as a human, but I'd like it to be the option of playing as a human."

    Already been confirmed in several interviews.

    An example of which would be...?

    Also, all of this ado about companion characters in TOR is making my head hurt.

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  • VicVic Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    korodullin wrote: »
    korodullin wrote: »
    I really wish they'd reveal info on races already. Even only something like "We're going to have them." Like my girlfriend said yesterday: "I know I'm going to end up playing as a human, but I'd like it to be the option of playing as a human."

    Already been confirmed in several interviews.

    An example of which would be...?

    Also, all of this ado about companion characters in TOR is making my head hurt.

    Oh god...
    Why don’t you just make it a single player game?

    That guy is such an idiot.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    It's conjecture based on not knowing context. "What? Each player has companions? WHY MAKE IT ONLINE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE."

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  • farbekriegfarbekrieg Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Henroid wrote: »
    It's conjecture based on not knowing context. "What? Each player has companions? WHY MAKE IT ONLINE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE."

    life partners or companions? becausse RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE.

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  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Henroid wrote: »
    It's conjecture based on not knowing context. "What? Each player has companions? WHY MAKE IT ONLINE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE."

    Even knowing context it still doesn't matter to a lot of these old hardcore types. If it's not 120% forced grouping with 1500-man raids being the only way to level and you lose your account and your house and you get deported to Siberia when you die the game is just too damn dumbed-down.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    It would be awesome if the Trooper's companions were the rest of his fire-team.

    Having 3-4 trooper followers that you could customize their combat abilities and their equipment would be so cool. Have battle orders as some of your characters abilities where the entire squad could lay down suppressing fire as an AOE.

    And it would be equally awesome if as a Jedi you eventually got an NPC Padawan follower.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    It would be awesome if the Trooper's companions were the rest of his fire-team.

    Having 3-4 trooper followers that you could customize their combat abilities and their equipment would be so cool. Have battle orders as some of your characters abilities where the entire squad could lay down suppressing fire as an AOE.

    And it would be equally awesome if as a Jedi you eventually got an NPC Padawan follower.

    Build your own Republic Commando squad. I like it.

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  • delrolanddelroland Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    In one of the plethora of interviews floating around the internet, one of the developers said that you can acquire a stable of companion characters but can only use one at a time.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    And it would be equally awesome if as a Jedi you eventually got an NPC Padawan follower.

    Actually, I recall seeing an interview where that is the case. A Jedi might very well get an apprentice...or was it a Sith? I think it was the case though.

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    korodullin wrote: »
    korodullin wrote: »
    I really wish they'd reveal info on races already. Even only something like "We're going to have them." Like my girlfriend said yesterday: "I know I'm going to end up playing as a human, but I'd like it to be the option of playing as a human."

    Already been confirmed in several interviews.

    An example of which would be...?

    Okay, I know there's been one or two interviews where they've mentioned it, but I can't really fine them now.

    I did find this forum post by Sean Dahlberg which says, "You will be able to play other species, we just have not announced those other species yet."

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  • GungHoGungHo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    It does. In both KOTOR games, and in pretty much every bit of Star Wars media to date, double bladed lightsabers have been made out to be the hyper-aggressive tool of a combat focused Jedi/Sith. It's both expressly stated by characters in each game and seen to be favored by warriors.

    Associating them with Consulars is weird as hell.
    Yeah... I usually see them as single-blade, defensive fighters, with "buzzsaw builds" like Yoda being an outlier.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I bet twi'leks will be playable! who wants to put money down on this

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Well since my character is gonna be a dual wielding twi'lek female lesbian jedi, I sure hope twi'leks are in the game.

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  • Fig-DFig-D Tustin, CA, USRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm tempted to roll a Twi'lek male so people can constantly ask me what race I am.

    Well, people who played KOTOR will know because they were freaking everywhere and only had like one voice clip, but I imagine many others will have no idea that Twi'leks aren't a race of twin-tail headed green and blue lesbian babes.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I was a Bothan Ranger in SWG. I'm pretty sure I was the only one. Of either Bothan OR Ranger.

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  • Fig-DFig-D Tustin, CA, USRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I do wonder how crazy they'll go with the races. With the prequel series, KOTOR, and EU we've got something like 50 different flavors of humans and near-humans.

    I'm guessing they'll keep the number pretty low, but you never know.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    As long as I can make a Wookie Jedi!

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Fig-D wrote: »
    I do wonder how crazy they'll go with the races. With the prequel series, KOTOR, and EU we've got something like 50 different flavors of humans and near-humans.

    I'm guessing they'll keep the number pretty low, but you never know.

    50?

    You're kidding right?

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Kidding about what? 50 is hardly an exaggeration for the number of humanoid races that exist in the Star Wars Extended Universe.

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  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Zabrak's gonna be a player race just to appease all the people who want to make Darth Maul.

    Then they'll probably also have the Greedo race, whatever that is, to appease all the people who are stupid and suck.

    Also, everyone from group A also belongs to group B.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    The Greedo race is called Rodians, and yes, it is very likely that Rodians will be playable in SW TOR. They are one of the most featured races in SW EU, and they appeared in both of the KotOR games.

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Kidding about what? 50 is hardly an exaggeration for the number of humanoid races that exist in the Star Wars Extended Universe.

    It's nowhere near enough is what I'm getting at.

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I think everyone will have to make a Twilek chick in TOR. Like how you have to make a Night Elf chick in WoW, or a catgirl in City of Heroes. It's just expected.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I never made a catgirl in City of Heroes. Maybe that's why I got bored with it?

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I never made a catgirl in City of Heroes. Maybe that's why I got bored with it?

    There are two kinds of CoH players in the world: Those who have a catgirl character, and those who lie about not having one.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I tried to make a were-wolf character in CoH/CoV. I never actually made the character (as in, could login with it) because it looked like shit.

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  • E-RexE-Rex Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I was a Bothan Ranger in SWG. I'm pretty sure I was the only one. Of either Bothan OR Ranger.

    I was a bothan, did not realize how short they could be until I got in game and stood face to navel with a wookie.

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  • SnowblindvictimSnowblindvictim Flying casual Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Kel Dor is a confirmed race right?
    I remember seeing a screen somewhere...

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  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Fig-D wrote: »
    I'm tempted to roll a Twi'lek male so people can constantly ask me what race I am.

    Well, people who played KOTOR will know because they were freaking everywhere and only had like one voice clip, but I imagine many others will have no idea that Twi'leks aren't a race of twin-tail headed green and blue lesbian babes.

    I have pretty much the entire male Twi'lek version of their one single set of moonspeak essentially memorized from having heard it so many times.

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  • delrolanddelroland Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Kel Dor is a confirmed race right?
    I remember seeing a screen somewhere...

    The only "confirmed" race is human. None of the playable characters in any of the demos have been anything but. That being said, the developers have said there will be multiple races to choose from, but none are official as of yet.

    The races that have showed up in the demo vids:
    Togruta
    Kel Dor
    Chagrian
    Dashade (thought this was a Savrip at first)
    Trandoshan (apparently, I thought this was a Duros at first)
    Nikto

    Screenshots:
    Gran
    Mon Calamari
    Kaleesh
    Selkath

    The question remains: are these companion-only races, or will they be playable?

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  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    korodullin wrote: »
    Fig-D wrote: »
    I'm tempted to roll a Twi'lek male so people can constantly ask me what race I am.

    Well, people who played KOTOR will know because they were freaking everywhere and only had like one voice clip, but I imagine many others will have no idea that Twi'leks aren't a race of twin-tail headed green and blue lesbian babes.

    I have pretty much the entire male Twi'lek version of their one single set of moonspeak essentially memorized from having heard it so many times.

    For the love of the Force, I seriously hope either every race speaks Galactic Basic (or Sith equivalent) or they have more than 3 sound bytes for each gender/language combo.

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm personally hoping for these guys: http://prod.drupal.tentonhammer.com/image/view/61339/_original

    So cool.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm personally hoping for these guys: http://prod.drupal.tentonhammer.com/image/view/61339/_original

    So cool.

    aren't those just twi'leks with like.. bug eyes? like something from deviantart labeled "original idea dont steal!"

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Those are aquatic guys, there was one on the council in the prequels.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Kit Fisto.

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Kit Fisto is the name of a lesbian porn star not a Jedi.

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