Speaking of, is there any balancing for Warzones, or does it just get whoever is available to join? In one match I joined my team was pretty stacked with level 17s+ and the other team was mostly lowly level 11s and 12s.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Early Access: December 13th] Thread 2
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Speaking of, is there any balancing for Warzones, or does it just get whoever is available to join? In one match I joined my team was pretty stacked with level 17s+ and the other team was mostly lowly level 11s and 12s.
Spiritreaver
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Agreed, I had a blast playing it when people actually knew what they were doing. It's like a very streamlined version of FFXI's main PVP, Ballista.
Quadrophenic
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I only played DCUO during beta, and I dont remember exactly how the equipment worked...but are you referring to MMOs having cosmetic appearances for gear? I think most MMOs do support this. I know LOTRO has a pretty robust version where you have multiple cosmetic tabs that you could switch to on the fly. I believe Age of Conan also has a cosmetic tab, and Fallen Earth added one in recently iirc. Guild Wars 2 has a way of transferring the stats of one set of gear onto the appearance of another set of gear using transmutation stones.
Spiritreaver
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Yeah pretty much, however in DCUO, whenever you acquire a piece of gear the cosmetic look of that piece is saved on your character and you can change into it at any time. Also the color scheme of your character's equipment was carried over through every piece, and you could even somewhat edit the colors of each piece of gear to your liking.
Nice to see it's in other games, it should really be a staple.
BattleMonkey
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DCUO saves the visual of any piece of gear you ever got, you don't need to keep the gear, just put it on once and it's saved to your collection. You then can transform any item you wear to look like any item you have previously collected or even lock the look of certain gear down, so no matter what you equip, you always will see what you have chosen. DCUO has the most flexible of visual style selection for characters of any mmo
why would they do this? Even wow finally capitulated on this.
Giolon
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General Beta testers are in.
First interesting observation: Anti-Aliasing option is just gone. Don't expect it in retail release.
Second interesting observation: Twi'lek skin colors are still limited by faction like they were last build...WTF Bioware.
Oh, and yay they fixed my companions
First interesting observation: Anti-Aliasing option is just gone. Don't expect it in retail release.
Second interesting observation: Twi'lek skin colors are still limited by faction like they were last build...WTF Bioware.
Oh, and yay they fixed my companions
Giolon
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Da'ru on Cosmic Turbine
Never have been able to get it to work on nVidia.
Stats are normalized in pvp. The only difference is higher level players have access to more abilities.
I didn't get a server list. Weird. I'll try making a new character to see if I can join you.
EDIT: Nope. The only server I can see is one called Public Test.
Yuck. Fuck.
krameriffic
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You an force AA with an ini command but it eats your framerate alive.
Alex
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Hahahaha, that's pathetic. I really wish everything going forward would have fxaa as an option.
Still should leave the option in regardless, don't make me go into inis to add shit I want.
Modern MMOs in general all scale like shit, it seems. Even in WoW most of the sliders don't do jack these days. Good ol 25 FPS in Stormwind during 4.3 launch, but hey at least I had 4x AA! (oddly even changing AA does nothing to my FPS in WoW, from 0 to 8x unless I go after transparencies in the Nvidia panel)
Personally I was fine with my 2x performance during beta in SWTOR, it wasn't great but 40 to 50 average in packed up zones isn't bad for an MMO. I just wished for better options in game and less pop in
I absolutely abhor aliasing in games, especially modern stuff with small details so this really bugs me. Aliasing makes even the prettiest looking console games seem ugly to me.
Still should leave the option in regardless, don't make me go into inis to add shit I want.
Modern MMOs in general all scale like shit, it seems. Even in WoW most of the sliders don't do jack these days. Good ol 25 FPS in Stormwind during 4.3 launch, but hey at least I had 4x AA! (oddly even changing AA does nothing to my FPS in WoW, from 0 to 8x unless I go after transparencies in the Nvidia panel)
Personally I was fine with my 2x performance during beta in SWTOR, it wasn't great but 40 to 50 average in packed up zones isn't bad for an MMO. I just wished for better options in game and less pop in
I absolutely abhor aliasing in games, especially modern stuff with small details so this really bugs me. Aliasing makes even the prettiest looking console games seem ugly to me.
cartoon_soldier
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Well it never worked at all! FRAPS has always worked though.
HarryDemeanor
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Do some of your screenshots still come out black?
http://imgur.com/a/E5LBu
Album of some screenshots I took. Mostly screenshots of my character's face so I could make sure it's the one I wanted for retail, but I guess some people will want to look at these.
Album of some screenshots I took. Mostly screenshots of my character's face so I could make sure it's the one I wanted for retail, but I guess some people will want to look at these.
I'm still at work and haven't been able to get on yet to see the patch for myself, but here's the big things being talked about on the tester forums:
- Character textures in-game, outside of cutscenes, are still low-resolution.
- Unify colors to chestpiece is still missing.
- No new character creation options in an already limited system (of the species / gender combos I looked at)
- Many graphical options removed, including AA and blob shadows.
- Darth title for my Inquisitor is still bugged.
- Missing most of my titles, particularly the ones from completing planetary storylines.
- Helmets and hoods can still no longer be worn in conjunction with one another.
- Many emotes are still missing animations (such as /sleep)
- The chairs in the ship cockpit remain the only "functional" chairs I could find.
- Human skintones haven't changed since the last build.
- Several complexion settings have been removed for some species.
- Still no Auction Houses on the planets, only on the Fleet.
I'm also hearing the following bugs with the patch:
- Auction House not displaying stats on items.
- Surnames/Legacy not working.
- Unable to sort by what is Useable.
Giolon
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Just to comment on those two things:
Character textures are reversed. High textures = low res garbage. Low textures = high res goodness. Example I posted on the Bug forums: http://www.radiantcg.com/temp/SWTORTextureSettingsBug.jpg
Surnames/Legacy are working (at least for some) on characters who finished Act 1 after they enabled the feature. Da'ru was on Act 2 at the time so no Legacy for her.
I figure that is an obvious fix for release.
They would not dare the game out and have that not get fix. I'm sure they already have a fix, its just not as necessary to fix as some of these other issues.
Ah good to know!
The only thing on that list i REALLY want for release is AH's on all planets that are shared.
Wow. so the only people who will get decent image quality are those who have super high end rigs running 2460x1600 resolution? Not good.
Edit: fuck me about the texture bug. Please fix that bioware, im a texture whore and that will really bother me.
I'm happy, but I wonder if it will cause issues. Should have a separate 2 minute cooldown to prevent abuse.
Last Hearth
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According to the patch notes the view credits function now works, so can somebody get us a list of all the voice actors?
Giolon
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I got an early access code w/in a couple days of ordering from them. You'd best contact customer service.
vitaminwateryum
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Are early access codes different from the pre-order codes?
They're the same.
Yes! Who is the female bounty hunter?
vitaminwateryum
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