*****Official Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread*****

Gazanimal said:
I've ordered from Cool Shop before & they were fine.

Admittedly it wasn't for a game that was on pre-order, but I've pre-ordered SW:TOR from them & being £13+ cheaper than digital or other places (albeit without early access code) I don't mind.
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Plus with the grace period, even if they are slow it doesn't matter :)
 
flibby said:
Anyone know how fluid the animations and controls are in fighting? Wondering if it's more of a Warcraft feel which is very fluid and extremely well done / easy to control, or whether its' more like Lord of the Rings Online where movement is a bit sluggish, animations are played where you have no control over them (you can't break them mid animation and they root you to the floor).
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I found the animations and controls to ve very, very fluid. Everything was responsive. You can break the animations, although everything happens pretty quickly.
 
flibby said:
That's good to know :) I was concerned with the combat since I can't try it out until either retail or I get on the beta. You played STO actually if you don't mind answering another question... I remember when doing ground missions you'd enter a place and the rooms would be huge like they were way oversized, the "bad guys" in the area were just standing around guarding and objective but totally lifeless doing nothing and it killed immersion. I've seen some SWTOR stuff that looks similar where it's a big open area with no people apart from a clump around objectives, this happen often or kinda rare and it's not totally lifeless?
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Depends on which rooms you are in - temples for example are huge, but ships and normal places are much smaller. In most cases the "bad guys" aren't doing much - just meditating or "busying themselves" (i.e. playing with consoles). It is quite possible that when you fight some reinforcements will appear (e.g. smugglers will climb down on a rope into view).

SkScotchegg said:
Some of you are saying that when you tried the closed beta there was a lot of problems that still needed fixing and that you dont think they should have released this game this year because of that and people will be dissapointed as a result - but I think we could be surprised by how much they will have fixed those problems, theres thousands of people working on the game and tickets are been submitted all the time by themselves who play the game and also beta testers and am sure they're fixing loads of things everyday, going through a whole checklist of things.
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Many of the comments here are based on the most recent playtest (not a beta as such). A lot will be added and fixed, I have no doubt of this - but I have grown tired of the beta excuse. I guess we will just see at release.

SkScotchegg said:
I can't wait to do a mission like this!

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Really looking forward to doing some space missions shooting ships or whatever, I've seen some trailers, looks awesome, even if they're classed as mini-games, sometimes mini-games can be fun, like in KOTOR.[/QUOTE]

Don't get too excited about these -
A) You are on "rails"
B) They need a load of balancing as they are nearly impossible currently
C) There is little need to do them
D) I don't think I found a single person who enjoyed the space combat.

It has a fair amount of potential, and graphically looks pretty darn good, it just needs A LOT (and I mean A LOT!) of work.
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Elevon said:
I hope they fix the lag because most days it was bad with around 65 players in my areas,I hate to see what will happen with 10000s of players....I guess only time will tell,we all hate lag death .
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Apparently we were on a VERY small, low powered server. I know what you mean though, it could get pretty laggy at times.
 
Elevon said:
Some players got to 50 within a month,personally I played 3 different classes and did not rush through the game, got to 22 on two of my classes,I did not play everyday unlike some players.

One thing I never do is rush through a game or any MMORPG,taking my time and exploring all areas I'm in is more fun then rushing through.
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Within a month and after A LOT of playtime. I could believe the 200 hours thing if you listen to all of the voiceovers, but I reckon a lot of that time comes from the annoyingly large distances between locations (I understand that there are people that like this, but there was a huge amount of running around, even with the transport system).

I'll be taking my time with this one, I reckon it could keep me busy for a while.
 
Piree said:
CaptainRAVE or Elevon, any of you played sith inquisitor? (assassin maybe?)
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I went Sith Warrior and specialised into a Marauder (think that is right).

I also had a Sith Inquisitor, although didn't level this one too far and also a Jedi Consular.

I found the Sith much more fun to play - they actually get stuff done :) (although at times I did feel guilty about some of the darker decisions I made).

I did find that by playing the Jedi, you find out a lot more about their history and the creation of the order.
 
I did enjoy STO for a good amount of time (as people here probably remember). TOR, however, is in a completely different league. Yes there are flaws, but it is still looking pretty good right now.
 
Betacake have been very selective with their shots, I suspect a lot more have been sent to them.

I didn't post much as I didn't want to push it too much - but i am using a different account for release and can't be bothered with anymore beta stuff anyway.
 
SkScotchegg said:
Cheers, I understand now, I got seriously worried then for a second after reading that article, lol.

Panic over!:D

EDIT: Ya know, I really cant decide what I want to do this time around, I was mostly DPS in wow, althought I did tank and heal in raids aswell, I'm thinking either tank or dps but then sometimes I think actually I used to enjoy healing aswell...really cant decide...I dont know why its been so hard for me this time around.
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I think I will be going Sith Juggernaut, with my focus split between tanking and DPS.
 
Apem said:
Sent a annoyed email to TOR today as I might miss out on the early access as its first come first served and my preorder vansished from my account getting very annoyed now about the whole thing.
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I suspect they are massively bogged down at the moment - I would hate to need a decent response from them right now.
 
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