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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    "I see your schwartz is as big as mine"

    Wasnt there a gun in dark forces that was just like a shotgun? I think it may have been some sort of modified mining lazer....

    like, the original dark forces? Yeah, it had the plasma cutter thing. The repeater also had a triple-shot secondary fire.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    TK-42-1 wrote: »
    they have flechette launchers and shit in the guide to weapons and weaponry

    They also have a pistol that fires capsules full of acid.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    So they now have an official write up of the Sith Inquisitor on the official site. The story they appear to be building seems similar to the path Revan followed.

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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
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    Lightsabers evolved from Proto-sabers which were described as using "Frozen-Blaster" technology.

    But honestly, if you go to making a "projectile" lightsaber weapon you've pretty much just made the blaster again and a Jedi will be able to deflect it.

    And as far as practicality goes, these are the ones that make the most sense:

    Standard Sabers
    Dual-Phase
    Double-bladed
    Short Sabers

    After those four they start getting a little wiggy.

    http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Force_Wars-TEA.jpg

    Speaking of pre-lightsaber, Jedi weapons. I can't tell if this is really silly or really cool.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    So uh, I just wanted to make sure everyone was clear on double-bladed lightsabers being for queers. We're clear on that right?

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  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Nope, they're pretty awesome.

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  • Koopa_ParatroopaKoopa_Paratroopa Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Henroid is for queers, double bladed lightsabers are neat, but force users who use only one saber are the most bad ass.

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  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Henroid is for queers, double bladed lightsabers are neat, but force users who use only one saber are the most bad ass.

    This. Seriously, when did laser freakin' swords become too blasé for people?

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    1977

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  • Shifty_CalhounShifty_Calhoun Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    not much has been seen on variable length lightsabers....

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  • UnluckyUnlucky That's not meant to happen Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Henroid wrote: »
    So uh, I just wanted to make sure everyone was clear on double-bladed lightsabers being for queers. We're clear on that right?
    Darth Maul was queer?

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  • Saint JusticeSaint Justice Mercenary Mah-vel Baybee!!!Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Unlucky wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    So uh, I just wanted to make sure everyone was clear on double-bladed lightsabers being for queers. We're clear on that right?
    Darth Maul was queer?

    Yes, he got cut in half by a damn padawan. Talk about careless.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm so red and spiky and have absolutely no character, fanboys will LOVE me

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Unlucky wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    So uh, I just wanted to make sure everyone was clear on double-bladed lightsabers being for queers. We're clear on that right?
    Darth Maul was queer?

    Did you see how tatoo'd he was? Probably just another San Francisco faggot!

    But really, while Darth Maul and his saber were cool, the moment that happened it kinda took Star Wars to a new level of nerdery because people were better able to combine martial arts styles with Star Wars. And I'm not opposed to either, nor opposed to their combination, but - and I know this is stupid of me - the sheer amount of people who have boners for double-bladed lightsabers makes me turn away from them. Both the boners and the sabers.

    I'll stick to wielding a single blade, thank you very much. I have nothing to compensate for, and all the canon badass Jedi needed only the traditional weapon to be badass.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm probably not going to play Jedi Knight as my main, but when I get around to the character, I will likely go with using two lightsabers. The single player games made that the strongest combo if you had maxed out the two weapons skill vs. the dueling skill.

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  • Shifty_CalhounShifty_Calhoun Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    a jedi will not be my main either. The other classes look too interesting.

    Im a bit annoyed that droid isnt a class. I would love to have a character like ig88 or 4lom.

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  • InvisibleInvisible Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Jedi Consular is definitely going to be my main. They just look cool.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I just want Dooku's saber and proper lightsaber fencing animations. Screw all y'alls multi-saber antics.

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    maul dying like that really pissed me off. yes, this guy can fight two jedi at the same time, but cant move to block when some kid leaps up from 5yds down a shaft, over his head, and then slashes.

    but on that note, how come all ancient jedi were asian?

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  • Shifty_CalhounShifty_Calhoun Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    market appeal?

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  • GungHoGungHo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Weaboo appeal

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    a jedi will not be my main either. The other classes look too interesting.

    Im a bit annoyed that droid isnt a class. I would love to have a character like ig88 or 4lom.

    So has anyone heard an assurances from Bioware has given that this game won't be horribly unbalanced? I'm sure, we all want to play [our favorite class] but all you need is one exploitable thing and before you know it every MMO asshole will be like, "what? you play Jedi!? OOMGWTFBBQ NOOB! GTFO of my party, goddamn noob." And you have a billion Inquisitors running around using their "Sith Fart" ability to win PVP fights.

    ...And then the inevitable nerf which will result in every MMO asshole saying "what? you play Inquisitor!? OOMGWTFBBQ NOOB! GTFO of my party, goddamn noob."

    'course, maybe I'm just being naive, since MW2 has it's problems with knife attacks...

    I'd really like to play a bounty hunter, and yet I'm so reluctant to face the ridicule I received in countless other MMOs when I played the class I wanted to play instead of the class everyone else thought I should play.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I think Bioware is making the game in a way that you can play it single player style. Personally, I'm gonna probably play through all the classes since they all seem to have unique storylines.

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  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    a jedi will not be my main either. The other classes look too interesting.

    Im a bit annoyed that droid isnt a class. I would love to have a character like ig88 or 4lom.

    So has anyone heard an assurances from Bioware has given that this game won't be horribly unbalanced? I'm sure, we all want to play [our favorite class] but all you need is one exploitable thing and before you know it every MMO asshole will be like, "what? you play Jedi!? OOMGWTFBBQ NOOB! GTFO of my party, goddamn noob." And you have a billion Inquisitors running around using their "Sith Fart" ability to win PVP fights.

    ...And then the inevitable nerf which will result in every MMO asshole saying "what? you play Inquisitor!? OOMGWTFBBQ NOOB! GTFO of my party, goddamn noob."

    'course, maybe I'm just being naive, since MW2 has it's problems with knife attacks...

    I'd really like to play a bounty hunter, and yet I'm so reluctant to face the ridicule I received in countless other MMOs when I played the class I wanted to play instead of the class everyone else thought I should play.

    There's really nothing Bioware (or any other MMO company for that matter) can do about imbalances but to roll out patches to fix them. Obviously they're not just gonna sit there and let one class dominate all others. Well, I mean, they might, but that would be a sign of some truly horrific incompetence.

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  • NeliNeli Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    This (gif) is the only thing I can think of when I remember the "new" Star Wars movies sabre fights



    Men standing in front of eachother trying to dazzle their opponent with oversized rave sticks

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  • Catastrophe_XXVICatastrophe_XXVI Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I haven't spent too much time trying to find the new info out on the classes but are there really only the low res 30 second clips of some so so animations?

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  • WolveSightWolveSight Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    some of the videos show a couple fights (I think), but for the most part they're keeping everything pretty close to the vest so far. The interviews have stated that they've had a working engine and basic game for a while now, so I'm guessing they're refining everything. Hell, one reported said that the attack animations looked good, if not a little rough but it was still in the alpha stage at that point. But yeah, check out the playthrough video where they're on the sith cruiser, might help a bit.

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    The chick from Kotaku reviewed a short demo and said it was pretty far from polished. She also said all the female characters seemed to have gigantic boobs.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    devCharles wrote: »
    She also said all the female characters seemed to have gigantic boobs.


    Day 1 buy!

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    mm, boobs. good for the eyes, good for your health. http://www.themedguru.com/20091206/newsfeature/stare-boobs-longer-life-study-86131320.html

    just one more reason to play a female character.

    leave it to the germans to figure this out

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    also why don't male reviewers ever complain that all the male avatars are really muscular and good looking

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I watched the PAX demonstration, and colour me very impressed. Now I need to try and talk my fiancee into letting me play an MMO.

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  • Operative21Operative21 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    So has anyone heard an assurances from Bioware has given that this game won't be horribly unbalanced? I'm sure, we all want to play [our favorite class] but all you need is one exploitable thing and before you know it every MMO asshole will be like, "what? you play Jedi!? OOMGWTFBBQ NOOB! GTFO of my party, goddamn noob." And you have a billion Inquisitors running around using their "Sith Fart" ability to win PVP fights.

    Nope, and if Bioware is smart they will never EVER make such assurances. Trying to assure an MMO playerbase that a launch MMO will be well balanced, is an act comparable to bobbing for apples in a tub filled with ravenous pirrahnas.

    The idea of a perfectly balanced MMO is nice in theory, but in reality it just doesn't exist. Particularly, because in order to achieve a perfectly "balanced" MMO everybody playing it has to be happy with the state of the game - and let's face it, the odds of that happening are so unlikely that it might as well be impossible. You simply can't please everybody, at best all they can hope to do is please as large a portion of their playerbase as they can.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Wren wrote: »
    mm, boobs. good for the eyes, good for your health. http://www.themedguru.com/20091206/newsfeature/stare-boobs-longer-life-study-86131320.html

    just one more reason to play a female character.

    leave it to the germans to figure this out

    I am now distributing this link everywhere possible, and already catching flak for it. :D

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    its a good'un

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Neli wrote: »
    This (gif) is the only thing I can think of when I remember the "new" Star Wars movies sabre fights



    Men standing in front of eachother trying to dazzle their opponent with oversized rave sticks

    THEY SPINNIN' THEY SPINNIN'

    they dont stop

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  • ProsperoProspero Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Is Bioware ever going to release a list of actual playable races, or do we just guess until release?

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm sure they're going to release most of the stuff over the next few months as we'll learn about most of what's going on in the beta anyway. This game is likely coming out this next year, so it's likely we're just going to get a continuing trickle of info every couple weeks or so.

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  • Catastrophe_XXVICatastrophe_XXVI Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    You predict a release date in 2010? A bold move, my friend

    Have they started BETA testing yet?

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  • devCharlesdevCharles Gainesville, FLRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm a bold kind of guy.

    I remember reading in a kotaku review that they're moving through alpha. I'm betting closed beta around April. Open around August. Released during the holiday season.

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