I’ve been looking for inspiration for my first Light Side character, and I keep seeing so much potential- I’m partial to rogue-types, so I might pick a smuggler back up- then again, I might go for a trooper (who I’m unashamed to say will be female because she’s voiced by FemShep herself, Jennifer Hale).
I don’t know what Force class I’ll take first- Consular looks to have interesting companions, and I thought of it because of the conversations above- but I admit to having thoughts about Nadia’s romance arc. I mean, the whole falling-for-your-Padawan thing is kind of eeeeh for me already...
Play FemConsular, then. Athena Karkanis has, IMO, much better delivery than Nolan North (in this role, I gather it may have been a matter of the latter being directed very 'flat'), and while Theran is insufferable, Felix is a good man who could very much use at least one good break in his life (if you're not that fussed about the Code).
and yes, I absolutely went FemShepTrooper myself.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I've mentioned this before, but there are some new people in the thread so I'll restate it: On my vanguard character, named Commander, the entirety of my alliance companions are geared in the Remnant Trooper Dreadguard armor. I use the white and light gray dye on members of Havoc Squad (Jorgan, Dorne, and Yuun currently. M1-4X can't wear a uniform, sadly), Commander wears it with purple markings to signify her rank as Havoc Squad's leader. Most every other alliance member wears the generic Dreadguard armor, which is white with black markings. Theron and Lana get the special color of Dark blue and Dark gray to mark them as Alliance leadership. I also gave Shae Vizla the white and light gray dye because I figured she deserved something for being Mandalore. Honorary Havoc Squad member if you will. Seems appropriate to fill out the team since we "lost" *cough, cough* Tanno Vik.
Anyway, I'm spooling up one of the new chapters, and I got tickled at the idea of Commander having to argue with Force users about wearing the armor.
"Armor? You know we usually wear robes, right? I've saved the galaxy multiple times just wearing robes."
"In this woman's army we wear Republic spec plastoid battle armor and we like it, soldier."
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
It is done all class stories completed. Going to take a break from the game to pay other stuff so I can feel fresh for when this pass comes out.
Wow, how many is that and how long would that take?
also, bonus question. Recently started playing again as a preferred player, and I have around 3,000 cartel coins. Anything I should pick up as a newish player?
It is done all class stories completed. Going to take a break from the game to pay other stuff so I can feel fresh for when this pass comes out.
Wow, how many is that and how long would that take?
It's making eight different characters and doing their class stories all the way to the end of Corellia- the Lv. 50 endgame content of the main story of SWTOR, before any expansions were released. It takes one each of Sith Warrior, Sith Inquisitor, Imperial Agent and Bounty Hunter on the Dark Side, and Jedi Knight, Jedi Consular, Alliance Trooper, and Smuggler on Light Side. I've got... one done, so far, but this is just me levelling my crafting alts, so I imagine they'll be going faster than my main did.
New headcanon for my DS bounty hunter Katifa (inspired by Cad Bane and his inspiration, Lee Van Cleef's "Angel Eyes"): rather than a Mantis, she flies a K-52 Demolisher with just enough room for her, her droid, and - when her client insists on a live capture or a body - her latest bounty.
One thing it does share with the ship from the class story: she acquired it at a substantial discount. The previous owner had no further need of it.
New monthly calendar of events is up (or at least posted to Steam):
April 6th - April 13th - The All-Worlds Swoop Rally
Requirement: Level 20+
'In the growing shadow of war, swoop fans across the galaxy descend on Dantooine, Tatooine, and even Onderon for the sport’s biggest spectacle—The All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally! They’re packing the stands, eager to take their minds off their troubles and cheer their favorite swoop gangs. The bikers are here to take on dangerous challenge courses, show off their piloting skills, and flaunt their souped-up swoop bikes. The thunder of the engines, the deafening applause from the fans, the wind battering their helmets… there’s no bigger rush for these thrill seekers.
Despite their reputation as wild rebels whose makeshift courses disregard local districting restrictions, swoop gangs aren’t a serious threat to anyone--something all true swoop fans know! They just love adrenaline-pounding speed, sweet jumps, and big explosions, and the All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally combines all three in one crowd-pleasing package. The biggest gangs on the circuit — Horizon’s Razor, the Pit Screamers, and the Blatant Beks — are ready to show their fans a great time.'
April 20th - April 27th - Rakghoul Resurgence on Corellia
Requirement: Level 25+
'The Hyland Organization for Rakghoul Neutralization (T.H.O.R.N.) has issued an official level-2 emergency alert concerning an outbreak of the Rakghoul plague on Corellia. Quarantines have been put in place to restrict traffic of the plague off-world, but exceptions will be made for individuals with priority clearance.
T.H.O.R.N. is recruiting qualified volunteer emergency responders to travel to affected areas to combat the spread of the Rakghoul plague. More information about the outbreak can be found by checking the News Terminals on the Republic or Imperial Fleet!
T.H.O.R.N. wishes to remind you that plague symptoms can be treated if they are identified in the early stages of infection. Whether or not you have travel plans, please consult your nearest trusted medical supply droid and get vaccinated!'
Thank anything. I was hoping they'd give us rakghouls- that gives me the opening I need to finish up the last ally mission I have right now on my BH.
I've apparently had a continuously subscription to SWTOR for a while without really playing it (I stopped after KotET), so I now have a giant pile of Cartel Coins.
I just started playing against yesterday, out of quarantine boredom and because I wanted to see the post-KotET stuff, and I noticed companion affection boosts are on sale for CC: 30% off for a 3 pack of Commander's Compendiums. Is this a good deal? Is leveling companion affection still really annoying? If your answers are yes and yes, I am going to stock the fuck up.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I've apparently had a continuously subscription to SWTOR for a while without really playing it (I stopped after KotET), so I now have a giant pile of Cartel Coins.
I just started playing against yesterday, out of quarantine boredom and because I wanted to see the post-KotET stuff, and I noticed companion affection boosts are on sale for CC: 30% off for a 3 pack of Commander's Compendiums. Is this a good deal? Is leveling companion affection still really annoying? If your answers are yes and yes, I am going to stock the fuck up.
Is it a good deal: Buying a Commander's Compendium from the in-game vendor costs 4.25 mil plus three dark projects. If you don't have the desire or the necessary crafting alts to make your own dark project, you can buy one on the GTN for 1.4 million. Therefore, one compendium without cartel coins is about 8.5 million. 1,000 cartel coins ends up equally about 100mil in-game, so no this is a terrible deal. You're better off buying something from the market you can sell for a lot, buying the dark projects on the GTN, then buying the compendium from the in-game vendor.
As to what you can sell for a lot: cartel packs generally sell for a good amount and never go "out of fashion." Consumables sell pretty well too, particularly dyes. Outfits sell less well.
Is it still really annoying to level companion affection: oh fuck yes, unless you use the compendium.
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"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Therefore, one compendium without cartel coins is about 8.5 million. 1,000 cartel coins ends up equally about 100mil in-game, so no this is a terrible deal. You're better off buying something from the market you can sell for a lot, buying the dark projects on the GTN, then buying the compendium from the in-game vendor.
As to what you can sell for a lot: cartel packs generally sell for a good amount and never go "out of fashion." Consumables sell pretty well too, particularly dyes. Outfits sell less well.
Exactly what I wanted to know, thanks!
Next questions: I stopped playing my alts before KotFE, and between them, they have piles and piles of Devoted Allies legacy gear. Is that stuff worth keeping? Some of it looks pretty good, good enough that I might want to use it in the Outfit Designer one day, but... I'd also love to free up the cargo hold space. If I sold it all or reverse engineered it, is there some way I could get it back if I decided I needed it again for cosmetic reasons?
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Therefore, one compendium without cartel coins is about 8.5 million. 1,000 cartel coins ends up equally about 100mil in-game, so no this is a terrible deal. You're better off buying something from the market you can sell for a lot, buying the dark projects on the GTN, then buying the compendium from the in-game vendor.
As to what you can sell for a lot: cartel packs generally sell for a good amount and never go "out of fashion." Consumables sell pretty well too, particularly dyes. Outfits sell less well.
Exactly what I wanted to know, thanks!
Next questions: I stopped playing my alts before KotFE, and between them, they have piles and piles of Devoted Allies legacy gear. Is that stuff worth keeping? Some of it looks pretty good, good enough that I might want to use it in the Outfit Designer one day, but... I'd also love to free up the cargo hold space. If I sold it all or reverse engineered it, is there some way I could get it back if I decided I needed it again for cosmetic reasons?
No, there is no way to get this gear back once you sell it. If you need storage you could always create an alt and send it there, though?
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Or put it in your legacy bank. (Clear out all the crafting materials you probably had in there before and put them in the new legacy-wide crafting inventory, you'll have plenty of room.)
Update from my partner: she has finished 3 class stories now: Agent, inquisitor and Knight. Of those she likes Agent best, especially because of Vector as a love interest.
She took her agent through Hutt Cartel, reached level 60 and felt constrained by the f2p-limitations. So she took a subscription and continued with the next expac and picked up gathering. She is also in an active mega-guild and has given all her gathered items away to the guild. She is quite happy with the additional social interaction.
There is plenty she dislikes and finds stressful, mostly other players who are not patient.
1. She agreed to do 2+Heroics with a guildie, but they just made fun of her cheap mount and didn't wait for her to catch up and instead just rushed ahead from objective to objective. My partner just quit the game and I really had to calm her down and explain that sometimes people on the internet are fuckwads.
2. Getting better at the game: SWTOR fully relies on players telling other players how to git gud. There is no on ramp for newbies. Like, what is expected of an Agent in group content? The game won't tell her.
3. Pathfinding of her companion seems a lot worse in the expansions, she keeps having to resummon now. It doesn't help that she prefers downhill travel by way of yeeting herself off of cliffs. :biggrin:
One thing that might help her is that once her companions are up to influence level 20 or so (even 10 or 15 in a pinch), most characters are quite capable of "soloing" heroics. It's not as fast as pairing up with another live player (and their companion) or three, but you can do it at your own pace. If this appeals, I can supply a list of relatively short/quick heroics for both sides.
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ShadowenSnores in the morningLoserdomRegistered Userregular
edited April 2021
With the crates you get from the KOTFE/KOTET content, they give cosmetic gear that's the same model as the Devoted Allies gear, but a different color scheme. You could only keep the chestpieces--or keep the whole set until you have the full set from the crate and then only keep the chestpieces, so unify colors would still get you the old color scheme.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Yes SWTOR is TERRIBLE about any sort of explaining things to people.
When I'm in group content I have no problems explaining things to people, but I do tend to just rush forward to each objective unless a) someone asks me to slow down or b) I feel like someone in the group keeps stumbling into things that kill us and I'd prefer to guide them. The thing that really ticks me off is not the people who don't know the content, but the people who don't know the content and then ignore anything I say or do to help guide them. I had someone like that earlier today. I was doing the Nathema FP, I explained in the second boss fight "don't kill the probes" and "hide behind the probes when the boss spins." Then I started (I was tanking). First thing one of our group does is go around killing all the probes. After we wiped I asked the guy if he understood now why we don't kill the probes. He said yes and that he was new there. Then I asked him if he had read what I wrote before the fight and of course he said no. I actually started a group kick on the guy for that. Not knowing is fine, ignoring courteously-worded guidance and immediately taking the action that you were told not to take because you couldn't be bothered to read a couple of sentences is not fine.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Got gifted a bunch of cartel coins for an early birthday present, and well... if you have a mess of them, this is how I used them (and will use them in the future):
1) Backpack space. Increase your hangtime in the field and make it easier to salvage and bioanalyze things like monsters and droids by buying the extra backpack space for all your characters (use the option to buy for all characters). 24 slots won't get you very far.
2) Bank slots. If you're planning on making an alt, make one and skip through the story long enough to where you hit your fleet and gain access to both your Cargo Bay and your Legacy Bank. Buy up the options for all characters (the one that costs 1,050 CC), and past and future characters all gain an extra bank slot- it'll run you about 7500 CC total, but eight bank slots on every character is almost impossible to fill, unless you're doing a crapton of crafting... and your legacy bank is how you store things to transfer between characters (I stuff all the gifts I get into mine, as well as different random green and blue weapons I might be able to use on another alt, as well as odd stuff like boosts and the like that can be switched from character to character without much problem).
3) New options for the character creator- new hairstyles, emotes, etc.
I'm currently on Step 3: buying and opening as many different packages of new looks and emotes as I can for all my characters.
Reading chat only after a wipe is standard procedure in MMOs, though. I'd commend him for admitting they didn't read something, instead of kicking him out over it. I mean, they did learn their lesson, communicated with you and did not lie to your face. What did you gain by kicking him out?
Well, usually you hope people are paying attention to the chat and not just hamming it up with their friends or just fucking around- FPs and Ops aren't things you just bullshit your way on through.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Reading chat only after a wipe is standard procedure in MMOs, though. I'd commend him for admitting they didn't read something, instead of kicking him out over it. I mean, they did learn their lesson, communicated with you and did not lie to your face. What did you gain by kicking him out?
I got a replacement in the FP who was very good at following instructions. With that guy, we had the first group I've pugged in Nathema who beat the last two bosses in one shot. Normally it takes a pug minimum of two pulls each for both bosses because they're so difficult. The new guy we got had also never been there before, fyi. "Read the chat if you haven't been here before" is standard procedure for me in MMOs, because the new content is usually harder than the old stuff.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I didn't know that Nathema is high difficulty content that requires preparation, does the game explain this properly to new players? I know in FFXIV there's never any instructions in chat regardless of how difficult content is, maybe there's a macro being posted to display the positions, but everything else you need to look up beforehand. The only way you can understand that certain content is for pre-formed groups is that some of it requires a very high ilvl, so it stands to reason that the fights will be more complex.
Realize that you going "what a noob! /votekick" is someone else's "oh, guess this game isn't for me". I can't blame you personally, because it's an issue with MMOs in general.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I didn't know that Nathema is high difficulty content that requires preparation, does the game explain this properly to new players? I know in FFXIV there's never any instructions in chat regardless of how difficult content is, maybe there's a macro being posted to display the positions, but everything else you need to look up beforehand. The only way you can understand that certain content is for pre-formed groups is that some of it requires a very high ilvl, so it stands to reason that the fights will be more complex.
Realize that you going "what a noob! /votekick" is someone else's "oh, guess this game isn't for me". I can't blame you personally, because it's an issue with MMOs in general.
It's true they don't explain which FP is harder than others, that's a thing you have to find out by experiencing it. And it may not be clear from the names "veteran mode" and "master mode" which of those two groupfinder queues is the harder one. (I prefer the old style of "hard mode" and "nightmare mode", but I guess they got rid of that because "nightmare" makes it sound impossible and maybe some people won't even try a mode with that name?)
That said, I never kick someone just because they "are a newbie." I do kick someone if I explain "go to x" or "please stop killing x" over and over again in chat and they ignore it, though. "What a noob" is not a concept for me, if you don't know how to gear or how to play your class I'm OK even with giving you tips on that class. If I give you tips and then you're like like "lol nah" and we die over and over again, then fuck that, who wants to be in a game with someone like that? "They wouldn't accept me trolling them? Well this game is not for me, then!" is not exactly what I'd call a sad loss to the game.
I've actually willingly done pull after pull on hard FP bosses where the people improved slightly every time. Because it showed they were actually trying, and not being jackasses to me. Of course I'll have a different reaction to someone who's just a newbie as opposed to someone who thinks "reading chat is for dorks."
Edit: Also understand that when I wrote out how to handle the boss we were about to do, we had a long pause before we actually pulled it. I didn't just jump from trash straight into the boss, we stopped for a bit, even took a short bio break, then I said a couple of sentences. The guy in question had actually DC'd when I explained it the first time, so we waited at least a couple of minutes for him to get back online (thus the short break), and I repeated the things I said earlier just to be absolutely sure he saw it. The other two people in the FP with us, who also appeared to be new there though they didn't say anything about it, were able to read what I wrote and follow instructions, only this one guy refused. And when I initiated the vote kick, they voted in favor, too. I also explained to the other two after he was kicked, "to be clear, I have no problem with anyone not knowing the content, that's fine. What's not fine with is me explaining the content, them being aware that they don't know this content and then ignoring explanations anyway."
Edit: I should probably also add that after the "I didn't read the chat" comment he immediately DC'd again. If that hadn't happened I probably would have given him another shot, but after politely waiting for him the first time with the belief that he would offer politeness to us in return, I wasn't going to do that again, he had squandered our goodwill.
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"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Honestly I'm curious about the sort of person you've constructed here, who is both so world-weary of MMOs that they have an automatic rule of not reading the chat of people they're in the same group with, while also being so innocent and new to games that being kicked out of a group (for ignoring the people in it, no less!) is such a harsh action that you'd give up the game. This person is, to say the least, peculiar. I very much feel that if your standard of interaction with people is ignoring them, then you've forfeited the right to feel abused if they feel that it's not fun to play with you. I would say the personage you've constructed is a textbook narcissist, where anything you do to them is amplified to be the worst harm ever caused, while anything they do to you should be accepted and forgiven with the widest possible latitude.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Thank you for telling me more about that guy, you've made it clear that there was more going on and convinced me that you had sensible reasons to kick him. I didn't know that before you elaborated on it.
As to who these people are who don't read chat? In a game that starts you off with 40 hours of very simple solo content and only 100% optional simple group content it isn't exactly drilled into you to talk with other players. It doesn't take a world weary person to close windows that show no useful info. I hope new players who do reach hard content will quickly realize that they do need to talk and read more, but maybe it'll take a few wipes and a votekick to make them pay attention.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Thank you for telling me more about that guy, you've made it clear that there was more going on and convinced me that you had sensible reasons to kick him. I didn't know that before you elaborated on it.
As to who these people are who don't read chat? In a game that starts you off with 40 hours of very simple solo content and only 100% optional simple group content it isn't exactly drilled into you to talk with other players. It doesn't take a world weary person to close windows that show no useful info. I hope new players who do reach hard content will quickly realize that they do need to talk and read more, but maybe it'll take a few wipes and a votekick to make them pay attention.
I mean I still remember when I was a completely newbie, searching everywhere for someone to assist, and putting in chat "I'm new, what do I do in this dungeon?" only get get ignored by the experienced players. Ignoring people is not a newbie kind of thing to do, it's a "I've been playing games forever so while I"m doing this I'm also alt-tabbed watching Youtube, I set a macro on my guy so I don't actually have to pay attention." In other words it generally speaks of the most advanced players, not the new people who are there to enjoy themselves.
Edit: I am a person who plays the game as if it's basically single player, doing 90% of the content on my own, and set General chat to mute by default. However, when I choose to do group content even I pay attention to the other humans I'm playing with. I greet them and say hello back if they say hello, and I no longer even necessarily expect them to chat back at all, talking isn't necessary. But if someone in that group does say something in chat I at least pay attention to it and respond back if it's a question, that doesn't feel like "newbie vs veteran", that feels like "nice person vs asshole." That's about how you treat people, not about how good you are at the game. If the idea that this one time, in all the game, is when you pay attention to what other people say is so onerous that you can't bring yourself to do it... there's so much content in this game that doesn't require groups, just stick with that? I really still don't understand this fictional person who only looks at human conversation as "value" vs "no value", because they sound like someone I would never want to be in a group with, since I couldn't even so much as crack a joke with them due to it being a "no value" contribution.
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"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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ShadowenSnores in the morningLoserdomRegistered Userregular
Hello, SWTOR thread.
My brain is poisoned so I offer you the following cyanide pill of a take:
Darth Thanaton is basically Alexander Hamilton.
Born on the bottom rung of society, rose above their station due to talent and sponsorship by someone powerful, fought ably in wars, connived their way into power, turned into elitists who want to stop people like them from doing what they did (seriously look up the real Hamilton; dude was not just a literal bastard), died in duels with people who're probably more than a little megalomaniacal to judge by later activities.
I've just discovered the cybernetic armor sets and holy crap some of these are awesome and now I want to make a bounty hunter with a bunch of different cybernetic armors in different cosmetic slots and just switch them out on the fly for giggles
I've just discovered the cybernetic armor sets and holy crap some of these are awesome and now I want to make a bounty hunter with a bunch of different cybernetic armors in different cosmetic slots and just switch them out on the fly for giggles
Choose a cyborg as the character race and it’d fit completely (plus you’d fit right in with Mako if you just wanted to go anti-stupidity, pretty much).
I never really liked the Emperor as a big bad, even though a lot of TOR lore nerds love him. He wasn’t really a thing in KoTOR I and II and it still irritates me that the SWTOR writers chose to put a canon version of Revan and the General into the game–invalidating my KoTOR characters–in order to establish the Emperor as a villain.
That being said, Echoes of Oblivion was pretty good:
-Tenebrae’s character design was great.
-It didn’t convincingly explain the tonal shift between Tenebrae/Vitiate and Valkorian, but at least it tried.
-Who knew that Scourge is a size queen?
-The fact that the whole thing was a trap set by Satele was awesome. Satele is the true savior of the galaxy. Now she needs to finish Malgus off, so we can have some new content.
-Didn’t love the Zakuul Royal Family reunion parts of the story. It’d have been better if had just been the PC, Revan, Kira, Scourge, and maybe the General finishing him off.
-The final fight was mechanically derpy, and left too much of the ass-kicking to the NPCs. SWTOR would be a lot better if it showed the PC being a badass more often.
Bonus hot take (or, perhaps, unpopular opinion): Darth Marr was a (not completely) Light Side Sith all along.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I've just discovered the cybernetic armor sets and holy crap some of these are awesome and now I want to make a bounty hunter with a bunch of different cybernetic armors in different cosmetic slots and just switch them out on the fly for giggles
If you get all of the cybernetic sets, it's possible to make a 100% robot body, if you ever wanted to do a droid jedi.
I should make one of those these days.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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I don’t know what Force class I’ll take first- Consular looks to have interesting companions, and I thought of it because of the conversations above- but I admit to having thoughts about Nadia’s romance arc. I mean, the whole falling-for-your-Padawan thing is kind of eeeeh for me already...
I can has cheezburger, yes?
and yes, I absolutely went FemShepTrooper myself.
Anyway, I'm spooling up one of the new chapters, and I got tickled at the idea of Commander having to argue with Force users about wearing the armor.
"Armor? You know we usually wear robes, right? I've saved the galaxy multiple times just wearing robes."
"In this woman's army we wear Republic spec plastoid battle armor and we like it, soldier."
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Wow, how many is that and how long would that take?
also, bonus question. Recently started playing again as a preferred player, and I have around 3,000 cartel coins. Anything I should pick up as a newish player?
It's making eight different characters and doing their class stories all the way to the end of Corellia- the Lv. 50 endgame content of the main story of SWTOR, before any expansions were released. It takes one each of Sith Warrior, Sith Inquisitor, Imperial Agent and Bounty Hunter on the Dark Side, and Jedi Knight, Jedi Consular, Alliance Trooper, and Smuggler on Light Side. I've got... one done, so far, but this is just me levelling my crafting alts, so I imagine they'll be going faster than my main did.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
One thing it does share with the ship from the class story: she acquired it at a substantial discount. The previous owner had no further need of it.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
April 6th - April 13th - The All-Worlds Swoop Rally
Requirement: Level 20+
'In the growing shadow of war, swoop fans across the galaxy descend on Dantooine, Tatooine, and even Onderon for the sport’s biggest spectacle—The All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally! They’re packing the stands, eager to take their minds off their troubles and cheer their favorite swoop gangs. The bikers are here to take on dangerous challenge courses, show off their piloting skills, and flaunt their souped-up swoop bikes. The thunder of the engines, the deafening applause from the fans, the wind battering their helmets… there’s no bigger rush for these thrill seekers.
Despite their reputation as wild rebels whose makeshift courses disregard local districting restrictions, swoop gangs aren’t a serious threat to anyone--something all true swoop fans know! They just love adrenaline-pounding speed, sweet jumps, and big explosions, and the All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally combines all three in one crowd-pleasing package. The biggest gangs on the circuit — Horizon’s Razor, the Pit Screamers, and the Blatant Beks — are ready to show their fans a great time.'
April 20th - April 27th - Rakghoul Resurgence on Corellia
Requirement: Level 25+
'The Hyland Organization for Rakghoul Neutralization (T.H.O.R.N.) has issued an official level-2 emergency alert concerning an outbreak of the Rakghoul plague on Corellia. Quarantines have been put in place to restrict traffic of the plague off-world, but exceptions will be made for individuals with priority clearance.
T.H.O.R.N. is recruiting qualified volunteer emergency responders to travel to affected areas to combat the spread of the Rakghoul plague. More information about the outbreak can be found by checking the News Terminals on the Republic or Imperial Fleet!
T.H.O.R.N. wishes to remind you that plague symptoms can be treated if they are identified in the early stages of infection. Whether or not you have travel plans, please consult your nearest trusted medical supply droid and get vaccinated!'
Thank anything. I was hoping they'd give us rakghouls- that gives me the opening I need to finish up the last ally mission I have right now on my BH.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
I just started playing against yesterday, out of quarantine boredom and because I wanted to see the post-KotET stuff, and I noticed companion affection boosts are on sale for CC: 30% off for a 3 pack of Commander's Compendiums. Is this a good deal? Is leveling companion affection still really annoying? If your answers are yes and yes, I am going to stock the fuck up.
Is it a good deal: Buying a Commander's Compendium from the in-game vendor costs 4.25 mil plus three dark projects. If you don't have the desire or the necessary crafting alts to make your own dark project, you can buy one on the GTN for 1.4 million. Therefore, one compendium without cartel coins is about 8.5 million. 1,000 cartel coins ends up equally about 100mil in-game, so no this is a terrible deal. You're better off buying something from the market you can sell for a lot, buying the dark projects on the GTN, then buying the compendium from the in-game vendor.
As to what you can sell for a lot: cartel packs generally sell for a good amount and never go "out of fashion." Consumables sell pretty well too, particularly dyes. Outfits sell less well.
Is it still really annoying to level companion affection: oh fuck yes, unless you use the compendium.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Exactly what I wanted to know, thanks!
Next questions: I stopped playing my alts before KotFE, and between them, they have piles and piles of Devoted Allies legacy gear. Is that stuff worth keeping? Some of it looks pretty good, good enough that I might want to use it in the Outfit Designer one day, but... I'd also love to free up the cargo hold space. If I sold it all or reverse engineered it, is there some way I could get it back if I decided I needed it again for cosmetic reasons?
No, there is no way to get this gear back once you sell it. If you need storage you could always create an alt and send it there, though?
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
She took her agent through Hutt Cartel, reached level 60 and felt constrained by the f2p-limitations. So she took a subscription and continued with the next expac and picked up gathering. She is also in an active mega-guild and has given all her gathered items away to the guild. She is quite happy with the additional social interaction.
There is plenty she dislikes and finds stressful, mostly other players who are not patient.
1. She agreed to do 2+Heroics with a guildie, but they just made fun of her cheap mount and didn't wait for her to catch up and instead just rushed ahead from objective to objective. My partner just quit the game and I really had to calm her down and explain that sometimes people on the internet are fuckwads.
2. Getting better at the game: SWTOR fully relies on players telling other players how to git gud. There is no on ramp for newbies. Like, what is expected of an Agent in group content? The game won't tell her.
3. Pathfinding of her companion seems a lot worse in the expansions, she keeps having to resummon now. It doesn't help that she prefers downhill travel by way of yeeting herself off of cliffs. :biggrin:
When I'm in group content I have no problems explaining things to people, but I do tend to just rush forward to each objective unless a) someone asks me to slow down or b) I feel like someone in the group keeps stumbling into things that kill us and I'd prefer to guide them. The thing that really ticks me off is not the people who don't know the content, but the people who don't know the content and then ignore anything I say or do to help guide them. I had someone like that earlier today. I was doing the Nathema FP, I explained in the second boss fight "don't kill the probes" and "hide behind the probes when the boss spins." Then I started (I was tanking). First thing one of our group does is go around killing all the probes. After we wiped I asked the guy if he understood now why we don't kill the probes. He said yes and that he was new there. Then I asked him if he had read what I wrote before the fight and of course he said no. I actually started a group kick on the guy for that. Not knowing is fine, ignoring courteously-worded guidance and immediately taking the action that you were told not to take because you couldn't be bothered to read a couple of sentences is not fine.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
1) Backpack space. Increase your hangtime in the field and make it easier to salvage and bioanalyze things like monsters and droids by buying the extra backpack space for all your characters (use the option to buy for all characters). 24 slots won't get you very far.
2) Bank slots. If you're planning on making an alt, make one and skip through the story long enough to where you hit your fleet and gain access to both your Cargo Bay and your Legacy Bank. Buy up the options for all characters (the one that costs 1,050 CC), and past and future characters all gain an extra bank slot- it'll run you about 7500 CC total, but eight bank slots on every character is almost impossible to fill, unless you're doing a crapton of crafting... and your legacy bank is how you store things to transfer between characters (I stuff all the gifts I get into mine, as well as different random green and blue weapons I might be able to use on another alt, as well as odd stuff like boosts and the like that can be switched from character to character without much problem).
3) New options for the character creator- new hairstyles, emotes, etc.
I'm currently on Step 3: buying and opening as many different packages of new looks and emotes as I can for all my characters.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
I can has cheezburger, yes?
I got a replacement in the FP who was very good at following instructions. With that guy, we had the first group I've pugged in Nathema who beat the last two bosses in one shot. Normally it takes a pug minimum of two pulls each for both bosses because they're so difficult. The new guy we got had also never been there before, fyi. "Read the chat if you haven't been here before" is standard procedure for me in MMOs, because the new content is usually harder than the old stuff.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Realize that you going "what a noob! /votekick" is someone else's "oh, guess this game isn't for me". I can't blame you personally, because it's an issue with MMOs in general.
It's true they don't explain which FP is harder than others, that's a thing you have to find out by experiencing it. And it may not be clear from the names "veteran mode" and "master mode" which of those two groupfinder queues is the harder one. (I prefer the old style of "hard mode" and "nightmare mode", but I guess they got rid of that because "nightmare" makes it sound impossible and maybe some people won't even try a mode with that name?)
That said, I never kick someone just because they "are a newbie." I do kick someone if I explain "go to x" or "please stop killing x" over and over again in chat and they ignore it, though. "What a noob" is not a concept for me, if you don't know how to gear or how to play your class I'm OK even with giving you tips on that class. If I give you tips and then you're like like "lol nah" and we die over and over again, then fuck that, who wants to be in a game with someone like that? "They wouldn't accept me trolling them? Well this game is not for me, then!" is not exactly what I'd call a sad loss to the game.
I've actually willingly done pull after pull on hard FP bosses where the people improved slightly every time. Because it showed they were actually trying, and not being jackasses to me. Of course I'll have a different reaction to someone who's just a newbie as opposed to someone who thinks "reading chat is for dorks."
Edit: Also understand that when I wrote out how to handle the boss we were about to do, we had a long pause before we actually pulled it. I didn't just jump from trash straight into the boss, we stopped for a bit, even took a short bio break, then I said a couple of sentences. The guy in question had actually DC'd when I explained it the first time, so we waited at least a couple of minutes for him to get back online (thus the short break), and I repeated the things I said earlier just to be absolutely sure he saw it. The other two people in the FP with us, who also appeared to be new there though they didn't say anything about it, were able to read what I wrote and follow instructions, only this one guy refused. And when I initiated the vote kick, they voted in favor, too. I also explained to the other two after he was kicked, "to be clear, I have no problem with anyone not knowing the content, that's fine. What's not fine with is me explaining the content, them being aware that they don't know this content and then ignoring explanations anyway."
Edit: I should probably also add that after the "I didn't read the chat" comment he immediately DC'd again. If that hadn't happened I probably would have given him another shot, but after politely waiting for him the first time with the belief that he would offer politeness to us in return, I wasn't going to do that again, he had squandered our goodwill.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
As to who these people are who don't read chat? In a game that starts you off with 40 hours of very simple solo content and only 100% optional simple group content it isn't exactly drilled into you to talk with other players. It doesn't take a world weary person to close windows that show no useful info. I hope new players who do reach hard content will quickly realize that they do need to talk and read more, but maybe it'll take a few wipes and a votekick to make them pay attention.
I mean I still remember when I was a completely newbie, searching everywhere for someone to assist, and putting in chat "I'm new, what do I do in this dungeon?" only get get ignored by the experienced players. Ignoring people is not a newbie kind of thing to do, it's a "I've been playing games forever so while I"m doing this I'm also alt-tabbed watching Youtube, I set a macro on my guy so I don't actually have to pay attention." In other words it generally speaks of the most advanced players, not the new people who are there to enjoy themselves.
Edit: I am a person who plays the game as if it's basically single player, doing 90% of the content on my own, and set General chat to mute by default. However, when I choose to do group content even I pay attention to the other humans I'm playing with. I greet them and say hello back if they say hello, and I no longer even necessarily expect them to chat back at all, talking isn't necessary. But if someone in that group does say something in chat I at least pay attention to it and respond back if it's a question, that doesn't feel like "newbie vs veteran", that feels like "nice person vs asshole." That's about how you treat people, not about how good you are at the game. If the idea that this one time, in all the game, is when you pay attention to what other people say is so onerous that you can't bring yourself to do it... there's so much content in this game that doesn't require groups, just stick with that? I really still don't understand this fictional person who only looks at human conversation as "value" vs "no value", because they sound like someone I would never want to be in a group with, since I couldn't even so much as crack a joke with them due to it being a "no value" contribution.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
My brain is poisoned so I offer you the following cyanide pill of a take:
Darth Thanaton is basically Alexander Hamilton.
Born on the bottom rung of society, rose above their station due to talent and sponsorship by someone powerful, fought ably in wars, connived their way into power, turned into elitists who want to stop people like them from doing what they did (seriously look up the real Hamilton; dude was not just a literal bastard), died in duels with people who're probably more than a little megalomaniacal to judge by later activities.
Choose a cyborg as the character race and it’d fit completely (plus you’d fit right in with Mako if you just wanted to go anti-stupidity, pretty much).
I can has cheezburger, yes?
That being said, Echoes of Oblivion was pretty good:
-Tenebrae’s character design was great.
-It didn’t convincingly explain the tonal shift between Tenebrae/Vitiate and Valkorian, but at least it tried.
-Who knew that Scourge is a size queen?
-The fact that the whole thing was a trap set by Satele was awesome. Satele is the true savior of the galaxy. Now she needs to finish Malgus off, so we can have some new content.
-Didn’t love the Zakuul Royal Family reunion parts of the story. It’d have been better if had just been the PC, Revan, Kira, Scourge, and maybe the General finishing him off.
-The final fight was mechanically derpy, and left too much of the ass-kicking to the NPCs. SWTOR would be a lot better if it showed the PC being a badass more often.
Bonus hot take (or, perhaps, unpopular opinion): Darth Marr was a (not completely) Light Side Sith all along.
If you get all of the cybernetic sets, it's possible to make a 100% robot body, if you ever wanted to do a droid jedi.
I should make one of those these days.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"