Man, I hope whatever Bioware's saving for Monday when it comes to Ziost isn't just a five-minute ending cutscene or worse, one that you need to go through an Operation for.
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If there's not at least as much content released Monday as there was on Tuesday...I dunno, I might let my sub lapse for another few months, 12x XP or not.
Yep. It's meant to let subscribers level via the class-story missions only and they plan to release an item for those that'd rather skip it that'll cancel the boost.
Hopefully they're actually increasing the cash rewards as well
Sometimes on their bonus weeks they'd only increase the xp, which meant that pretty soon I was leveling so fast I couldn't even afford to train all of my new skills, to say nothing of keeping my gear leveled.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Hopefully they're actually increasing the cash rewards as well
Sometimes on their bonus weeks they'd only increase the xp, which meant that pretty soon I was leveling so fast I couldn't even afford to train all of my new skills, to say nothing of keeping my gear leveled.
Yeah, they're increasing XP by 12x, and they're also increasing the commendation rewards for story quests so you won't fall behind the gear curve.
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
If I've never MMO'd before and am vaguely curious on how KotOR finished up and I want to give this a go.
1) Do I need to play with people?
2) Are people still playing from PA, where do they hide?
3) Can I play with a gamepad?
4) How much time do I need to sink into this to get the story out?
If I've never MMO'd before and am vaguely curious on how KotOR finished up and I want to give this a go.
1) Do I need to play with people?
2) Are people still playing from PA, where do they hide?
3) Can I play with a gamepad?
4) How much time do I need to sink into this to get the story out?
1) Nope. Grouping up is pretty easy, though, and you'll be able to view each other's story content (which can be fun).
2) I'm not in the PA guild, but you can find them in the MMO subforum of G&T.
3) I don't believe there's native gamepad support, so you'd have to do some tricky stuff with xpadder or whatever your preferred gamepad-to-keyboard mapper of choice is. SWTOR suffers from ability bloat, though, so you might find it difficult to fit all your abilities on a single gamepad.
4) I've never mainlined the story, so my times are pretty inflated (due to all the sidequests). I'd guess it'd be around 10 hours or so? Roughly equivalent to doing a story-quest-only run of a single-player Bioware RPG.
And for anyone who wants to dip their feet into SWTOR, here's my impressions of the stories for the classes I've played so far.
Jedi Knight = The most Star-Wars-ass Star Wars story. Battle Sith and destroy planet-killing super-weapons.
Jedi Consular = Starts out pretty interesting. Someone's killing Jedi Masters by using the Force like a slow-acting poison, and you have to stop them. However, it quickly descends into fairly boring fetch-quests. Also, not nearly as much diplomacy as you'd expect from a class that's literally called a consular. Fun to play, though.
Sith Warrior = Your master wants to get into the dark council, and you're going to help him by living out everyone's dark side power fantasy. Lots of adventure, murder, betrayal, and satisfying revenge in this one. My second-favorite storyline so far.
Sith Inquistor = I haven't gotten too far into this, but I'm enjoying it so far. The tutorial has you proving yourself to a master who clearly prefers a different student (by, you know, murdering both him and the student). Then you get a new master who seems to like you but is also clearly up to something; oh, and you soon discover (by talking to the ghost of your dead ancestor) that you have an important destiny to play. Seems on par with Jedi Knight so far.
Imperial Agent = Star Wars meets Mission Impossible, basically. You're the one who gets important shit done behind the scenes, in a dangerous environment where everyone is hiding something from you. Easily the best writing of all the storyline's I've played, and it has a pretty fantastic ending.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Yeah see, my main "gaming" computer is an HTPC and mouse and keyboarding it is just mega mega awkward.
I have a logtech wireless keyboard but it's range is already pretty limited, and wouldn't be gaming reliable.
Here's some info on the races and classes if you can get around your input-problems, Blake. It's from the OP of the SWTOR thread we have/had here in SE that added in info I provided later in the thread.
F2P and Preferred are limited to three races; Humans, Cyborgs (humans with metal parts on their face) and Zabrak which come in Darth Maul red if you're playing on the Empire side and regular skin-tone if you're playing on the Republic side. If you want to unlock more races to use right there in the Character Creator or later in-game with the cash shop, it'll cost 600 Cartel Coins (six bucks real-cash). These races are (in locked order on the screen above) Mirialans (green-skinned race that's normally Republic-only), Twi'leks (aliens with head-tails, one of which you may have seen dancing in the third movie for Jabba), Miralukas (aliens with blindfolds on due to having no eyes, also normally Republic-only), Chiss (blue-skinned, red-eyed aliens that got popular due to a Star Wars novel-character named Thrawn, normally Empire-only), Rattatakis (grey/white-skinned and always bald aliens, normally Empire-only) and Sith-Pureblood (red aliens tied to the Sith origins, normally Empire-only). A race not seen there and added with the 2.1 patch for 600 CC (even to subscribers) are the Cathar AKA cat-people.
Classes:
Each side has four classes, with each set of classes basically identical to each other though the non-Force classes have a few differences in gear and resource management to set them apart. If you want a quick look at what they are, take a look (and ignore the charts on the right as this was made in 2011 apparently).
The pair of classes in orange are the Advanced Classes for each main class, which you pick at Lv10. Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, they help focus your role as well as grant you extra abilities tied into that AC. As you can see, the Trooper/Hunter and Consular/Inquisitor are the two classes in which their AC options offer both the opportunity to be a tank or a healer depending on which you choose.
Each class comes with it's own story, with your main missions consisting of continuing this story on different planets while you also handle side-jobs and any general storyline connected to the planet accessible to all classes. I'm not going to spoil them but I will divulge the opening hook for each class' story which tends to change once you leave your starter planet
Jedi Knight: Come to the Academy to learn how to beat people with a glowrod, stay to find out who's riling up the local population of starter mooks.
Jedi Consular: Learn the history of the Academy's planet and earn points with a lizard god without trying.
Trooper: Help the best squad of Republic soldiers as their newest recruit before all your base are belong to the local resistance.
Smuggler: Land on a war-torn planet, deliver guns and le-...wait, why is my ship flying off without me?
Sith Warrior: You are Draco Malfoy, trying to prove you're better then Harry Potter in the eyes of the Sith.
Sith Inquisitor: You are Harry Potter, trying to prove you're better then Draco Malfoy in the eyes of the Sith.
Bounty Hunter: Earn a spot in the biggest bounty-hunting contest in the galaxy at the swamps of the Hutts before the banjos begin to play.
Imperial Agent: Fool The Living Daylights out of a Hutt as a rookie Empire spy with a License To Kill. Goldfinger.
If what I described isn't enough to help you decide which class you want to try out, check out these videos below which were made by Bioware to show off the classes and their ACs.
I showed my friend all of the Auralnauts Star Wars stuff last night and now we're out bar hopping and I just keep suggesting that we could make last call at Applebee's
I showed my friend all of the Auralnauts Star Wars stuff last night and now we're out bar hopping and I just keep suggesting that we could make last call at Applebee's
I showed my friend all of the Auralnauts Star Wars stuff last night and now we're out bar hopping and I just keep suggesting that we could make last call at Applebee's
YOLO bitches
We outran the space cops, and made em eat baaasssss.
You actually have to actively prevent the destruction of Tatooine. Just. What? Fuck this sandy shitbox. Oh no the Sith want to blow it up? GOOD. FUCKING DO IT.
I forgot the single most frustrating part of an MMO
coming back after 2 years and not knowing where to go or how to play
This is my first mmo ever.
I struggling why left click isn't attack.
Why isn't left click attack guys?
Well it can be if you really want
Might do more harm than good though
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I've really enjoyed the Bounty Hunter storyline, I'd love to finish it if I could ever convince myself to pay the subscription fee again.
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You can play it for free, but I'd really rather not. When I did tried it was super frustrating, and even if it's better now than it was I'd prefer to play with all the options on.
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Yeah, I just redownloaded and have preferred status. Its a bit lame.
Best way to deal with F2P is buy a two-month subscription card. You should be able to get at least one character up to max-level by that time and with the payoffs of max-level dalies and junk-vending, you should be able to buy all the (Account)-type unlocks off the Auction House to use when the subscription lapses. That's what I did.
I just started playing KOTOR2 for the first time and I recall somebody mentioning something about a patch to make the game make more sense or something? What is this patch and is it all right to install after I've already been playing for some hours?
WAAAAAAAAAY more than ending stuff gets put back in, it basically restores the fucking mountain of content that was cut for the game to make its ship date
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Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Am I reading this right
TWELVE times XP starting Monday
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Sometimes on their bonus weeks they'd only increase the xp, which meant that pretty soon I was leveling so fast I couldn't even afford to train all of my new skills, to say nothing of keeping my gear leveled.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Yeah, they're increasing XP by 12x, and they're also increasing the commendation rewards for story quests so you won't fall behind the gear curve.
http://www.swtor.com/may-the-fourth?intcmp=sor_bwa-mkt-t-us-hp-183
1) Do I need to play with people?
2) Are people still playing from PA, where do they hide?
3) Can I play with a gamepad?
4) How much time do I need to sink into this to get the story out?
Satans..... hints.....
1) Nope. Grouping up is pretty easy, though, and you'll be able to view each other's story content (which can be fun).
2) I'm not in the PA guild, but you can find them in the MMO subforum of G&T.
3) I don't believe there's native gamepad support, so you'd have to do some tricky stuff with xpadder or whatever your preferred gamepad-to-keyboard mapper of choice is. SWTOR suffers from ability bloat, though, so you might find it difficult to fit all your abilities on a single gamepad.
4) I've never mainlined the story, so my times are pretty inflated (due to all the sidequests). I'd guess it'd be around 10 hours or so? Roughly equivalent to doing a story-quest-only run of a single-player Bioware RPG.
I only finished smuggler and it was awwwwwesome.
Jedi Knight = The most Star-Wars-ass Star Wars story. Battle Sith and destroy planet-killing super-weapons.
Jedi Consular = Starts out pretty interesting. Someone's killing Jedi Masters by using the Force like a slow-acting poison, and you have to stop them. However, it quickly descends into fairly boring fetch-quests. Also, not nearly as much diplomacy as you'd expect from a class that's literally called a consular. Fun to play, though.
Sith Warrior = Your master wants to get into the dark council, and you're going to help him by living out everyone's dark side power fantasy. Lots of adventure, murder, betrayal, and satisfying revenge in this one. My second-favorite storyline so far.
Sith Inquistor = I haven't gotten too far into this, but I'm enjoying it so far. The tutorial has you proving yourself to a master who clearly prefers a different student (by, you know, murdering both him and the student). Then you get a new master who seems to like you but is also clearly up to something; oh, and you soon discover (by talking to the ghost of your dead ancestor) that you have an important destiny to play. Seems on par with Jedi Knight so far.
Imperial Agent = Star Wars meets Mission Impossible, basically. You're the one who gets important shit done behind the scenes, in a dangerous environment where everyone is hiding something from you. Easily the best writing of all the storyline's I've played, and it has a pretty fantastic ending.
I have a logtech wireless keyboard but it's range is already pretty limited, and wouldn't be gaming reliable.
Satans..... hints.....
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
there's an entertaining twist with one of your companions but much like the consular there isn't enough politics
you're too much Boring Darth Maul/Indiana Jones instead of Exciting Darth Maul/Indiana Jones
YOLO bitches
We outran the space cops, and made em eat baaasssss.
WoW
Dear Satan.....
About that.
Shitty Tumblr:lighthouse1138.tumblr.com
I've installed it.
I'm running around, without a lightsabre.
Why don't I have one.
If you want to friend me my user name is BlakeAMT and my jedi knight is called funsticks.
Satans..... hints.....
"funsticks".
I like that.
coming back after 2 years and not knowing where to go or how to play
This is my first mmo ever.
I struggling why left click isn't attack.
Why isn't left click attack guys?
Satans..... hints.....
Maybe the developers all wore out their mouseseses playing Diablo 2?
Well it can be if you really want
Might do more harm than good though
Well it can be if you really want
Might do more harm than good though
Yeah, okay, that sounds like the thing to get me to sub and play again. So I can actually experience the damn story!
I'll do that later this month.
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Its not free?
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I don't know the details though
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-sith-lords-restored-content-mod-tslrcm/downloads
WAAAAAAAAAY more than ending stuff gets put back in, it basically restores the fucking mountain of content that was cut for the game to make its ship date
if you want an idea of what you'd be missing without just, you know, playing it, you can read the fantastic LP: http://lparchive.org/Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-II/
I don't think you're going to be screwed if you've started the game already but who knows