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Star Wars: The Old Republic - Everybody Here Is Going To Be A Jedi

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    widowsonwidowson Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Fallout wrote: »
    devoir wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtZTXrZ4JQ

    Space experience; details to be confirmed at a later stage.

    HK-47; he's baaaaack.

    PVP, Crafting, AH, guilds, parties, raids, end-game content; confirmed.

    I'd recommend actually watching it on youtube rather than just the inline player, as it's widescreen and the inline player is a tad small.

    HK-47 standing behind a random sith dude? Huh. Guess he'll be a companion character :)


    No, HK-47 doesn't need backup. Althrough I can see him using random sith as meatbag shields since he is ranged attack and...

    Oh...wait...you meant HK-47 was the companion character?

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    FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    that's what i assume, seeing as he's a popular character placed behind a sith dude in the backdrop thereq

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    Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2009
    Hk-47 better not be a companion character, too many people will not pay him enough respect by letting him make all party decisions.

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    devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    widowson wrote: »
    Fallout wrote: »
    HK-47 standing behind a random sith dude? Huh. Guess he'll be a companion character :)

    No, HK-47 doesn't need backup. Althrough I can see him using random sith as meatbag shields since he is ranged attack and...

    Oh...wait...you meant HK-47 was the companion character?

    Hehehe. :P

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    MifioMifio MrrlendRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Ahhh. HK, every line of his is gold.

    Although it might not be HK-47 himself, because this takes place. What, 3 centuries after Malaks death? Doesn't that seem a LITTLE extreme?

    It might be like... HK-147 or something.

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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    Nope, droids don't die of old age.

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    Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2009
    Nope, droids don't die of old age.
    But they do die of loneliness.

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    Zetetic ElenchZetetic Elench Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    If anyone can survive three centuries of constant battering and close calls, it's HK.

    Or T3. I miss that li'l fella.

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    MifioMifio MrrlendRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Nope, droids don't die of old age.

    Yea, but new models come out, and old ones stop working.

    300 years is a long time for a droid to be still working, I can say that maybe one can go for... A hundred before it is scrapped, but 3? Nah, but then again, it is their game.

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    FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    why is there even any conjecture as to whether or not HK-47 is alive

    the dude says in that very interview that HK is in the game

    i'm going to assume it's not as a pile of rusted scrap, either

    evidence: he's alive and well in the backdrop in that video

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    ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    It's not like droids can't be rebuilt, all the way up to just putting their memories into a new chassis. C-3PO and R2-D2 had to be at least 50 by RotJ (maybe more in R2's case) and they looked good as new.

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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    Mifio wrote: »
    Nope, droids don't die of old age.

    Yea, but new models come out, and old ones stop working.

    300 years is a long time for a droid to be still working, I can say that maybe one can go for... A hundred before it is scrapped, but 3? Nah, but then again, it is their game.

    And who pray tell would have the ability to send HK to the recyclers?
    Scooter wrote: »
    It's not like droids can't be rebuilt, all the way up to just putting their memories into a new chassis. C-3PO and R2-D2 had to be at least 50 by RotJ (maybe more in R2's case) and they looked good as new.

    Good as they ever did at any rate. R2 was looking a little dinged up even on Amadala's blockade run.

    And in the EU they stayed around for a long long long time.

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    Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Scooter wrote: »
    It's not like droids can't be rebuilt, all the way up to just putting their memories into a new chassis. C-3PO and R2-D2 had to be at least 50 by RotJ (maybe more in R2's case) and they looked good as new.

    Watching the OT after the new movies really puts a new, funny spin on how R2 acts. I picture him telling 3PO "no, you don't understand, this is how it is..." the entire time, and 3PO (and luke) either don't understand, or think he's crazy.

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    Zetetic ElenchZetetic Elench Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Mifio wrote: »
    Nope, droids don't die of old age.

    Yea, but new models come out, and old ones stop working.

    300 years is a long time for a droid to be still working, I can say that maybe one can go for... A hundred before it is scrapped, but 3? Nah, but then again, it is their game.

    And who pray tell would have the ability to send HK to the recyclers?

    Good god! So you're saying that Revan manipulated the True Sith Empire into attacking the Republic... to decommission HK?

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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    You heard it here first.

    [tiny]and hopefully last.[/tiny]

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    Zetetic ElenchZetetic Elench Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Dyscord wrote: »
    Scooter wrote: »
    It's not like droids can't be rebuilt, all the way up to just putting their memories into a new chassis. C-3PO and R2-D2 had to be at least 50 by RotJ (maybe more in R2's case) and they looked good as new.

    Watching the OT after the new movies really puts a new, funny spin on how R2 acts. I picture him telling 3PO "no, you don't understand, this is how it is..." the entire time, and 3PO (and luke) either don't understand, or think he's crazy.

    Honestly this is the way T3 was played in KOTOR 2, and I loved it.

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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    Dyscord wrote: »
    Scooter wrote: »
    It's not like droids can't be rebuilt, all the way up to just putting their memories into a new chassis. C-3PO and R2-D2 had to be at least 50 by RotJ (maybe more in R2's case) and they looked good as new.

    Watching the OT after the new movies really puts a new, funny spin on how R2 acts. I picture him telling 3PO "no, you don't understand, this is how it is..." the entire time, and 3PO (and luke) either don't understand, or think he's crazy.

    Honestly this is the way T3 was played in KOTOR 2, and I loved it.

    The popular fiction states that R2 hacked every computer he used so as to store a copy of his memory; in the event he was ever wiped he would get it right back the first time he went to do some common task.

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    AxenAxen My avatar is Excalibur. Yes, the sword.Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Obviously the Republic will get a cryogenically frozen Carth Onasi as a companion.

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    delrolanddelroland Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Axen wrote: »
    Obviously the Republic will get a cyro-genetically frozen Carth Onasi as a companion.

    He'll be only partially thawed, though, and only able to communicate by flashing the light on the front of his life support unit wheelchair thing.

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    TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    delroland wrote: »
    Axen wrote: »
    Obviously the Republic will get a cyro-genetically frozen Carth Onasi as a companion.

    He'll be only partially thawed, though, and only able to communicate by flashing the light on the front of his life support unit wheelchair thing.

    so basically carth from kotor. gotcha.

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    MifioMifio MrrlendRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    delroland wrote: »
    Axen wrote: »
    Obviously the Republic will get a cyro-genetically frozen Carth Onasi as a companion.

    He'll be only partially thawed, though, and only able to communicate by flashing the light on the front of his life support unit wheelchair thing.

    *Mechanical Voice* He-Llo. My-Name-Is-Steph-en... Wait.-Carth-On-asi!

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    TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    delroland wrote: »
    Axen wrote: »
    Obviously the Republic will get a cyro-genetically frozen Carth Onasi as a companion.

    He'll be only partially thawed, though, and only able to communicate by flashing the light on the front of his life support unit wheelchair thing.

    But will he still be angry at your character for things beyond anyone's control?

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    Zetetic ElenchZetetic Elench Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Terrendos wrote: »
    delroland wrote: »
    Axen wrote: »
    Obviously the Republic will get a cyro-genetically frozen Carth Onasi as a companion.

    He'll be only partially thawed, though, and only able to communicate by flashing the light on the front of his life support unit wheelchair thing.

    But will he still be angry at your character for things beyond anyone's control?
    HK wrote:
    Mockery: Oh Master, I do not trust you! I cannot trust you, or anyone else ever again!

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    delrolanddelroland Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I want to see HK-47 get into an argument with an Elcor.

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    ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Hell, for all we know R2 is T3.

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    WolveSightWolveSight Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Dyscord wrote: »
    Scooter wrote: »
    It's not like droids can't be rebuilt, all the way up to just putting their memories into a new chassis. C-3PO and R2-D2 had to be at least 50 by RotJ (maybe more in R2's case) and they looked good as new.

    Watching the OT after the new movies really puts a new, funny spin on how R2 acts. I picture him telling 3PO "no, you don't understand, this is how it is..." the entire time, and 3PO (and luke) either don't understand, or think he's crazy.

    Honestly this is the way T3 was played in KOTOR 2, and I loved it.

    The popular fiction states that R2 hacked every computer he used so as to store a copy of his memory; in the event he was ever wiped he would get it right back the first time he went to do some common task.

    Actually, I believe one of the more recent books had R2's memory and personality being hard-coded. There was a long side-story about finding a way to access that information (mostly about Luke's parents, R2's origin, etc.). In the end they didn't peruse the full "hack" that had been created because of the risk to R2 itself. I hadn't read anything about him backing up onto other remote sites (though I wouldn''t doubt it could happen). I can't remember if the books said Obi-wan put the memory lock on R2 to prevent any leakage of information about his/their past, or if R2 himself did it. However, it has been stated many times that R2 has never actually been wiped, and it's questionable that it would work since with the hard-coded explanation; though he has been given several "upgrades" along the way to adapt to newer technologies (to fit in the Stealth-X's in the NJO series for example).

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    Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2009
    Are any of the Star Wars books not shit? Because from what I have heard so far they are full of ridiculous crap.

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    SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
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    And Dinner Squadron. Yub yub, Commander.

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    TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    Are any of the Star Wars books not shit? Because from what I have heard so far they are full of ridiculous crap.

    I thought the Heir to the Empire trilogy was pretty good. It kept pretty faithful to the spirit of the first trilogy, and didn't introduce anything completely absurd. Well, some of the animals, I suppose, but they were an inevitability for the villain to pose a serious threat.

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    ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    It's been a long time since I've read any of the books, but I'm liking the Legacy comic, and the KotoR comic was ok for the first 20-25 issues.

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Someone handle making the new thread, I've got my hands full with the indie game thread over in G&T proper.

    Edit - And managing the WoW mage thread here.

    Edit - And I'm not hawking out for every single detail about SW: TOR anyhow.

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    Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    Are any of the Star Wars books not shit? Because from what I have heard so far they are full of ridiculous crap.

    The Thrawn books are not-horrible. I mean it's pulp sci-fi but the writing is decent and they aren't so far removed from the movies that everything is unrecognizable. Also the han solo adventures/origin story books are pretty good.

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    CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I recommend the Rogue Squadron books and I, Jedi if you like them. *shrug*

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    MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Take I, Jedi with a grain of salt.

    It's a good book, but the bit about lightsabers has gone against some other established higher level canon.

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    Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    haha what does it say about lightsabers

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    CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I don't know, but it's either about how a lightsaber is created or the material that shorts them out.

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    Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2009
    Oh god, this thread is so horrible.

    http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=41503

    How can people post stuff like that?

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    MifioMifio MrrlendRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    Oh god, this thread is so horrible.

    http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=41503

    How can people post stuff like that?

    I have no clue, it is completely awful.

    So... Uh... Whats everyone gonna name their characters? And their ships?

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    devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    My character will be called Jed I.

    He will be a Jedi, the most powerful Jedi in a million billion years. He will have more midichlorians than if Yoda had kids with Anakin!

    He will also be the best fighter pilot, freighter pilot and Sabacc player the galaxy has ever seen.

    He will have a ship called the New Millenium Hawk, and a Wookiee co-pilot called Nombacca.

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    WolveSightWolveSight Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    Are any of the Star Wars books not shit? Because from what I have heard so far they are full of ridiculous crap.

    eh, "most" aren't that bad if you're just looking to just follow an entertaining story while suspending the reflex of trying to impose reality upon said story. If you want to analyze every fact, action, and human quality... well, then I'd avoid them. That being said, a few of the authors and story-lines are a bit out there (about half the NJO, ugh) and they condense the books to where, literally, every 6 months there is some new government/civilization/galaxy-ending threat, but it's not any mechanic that any long-running book or fictional media series doesn't also use. They're not trying to write the next-great American Novel.

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