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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
- Thread starter Emitan
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tycoonheart
Member
I'd like to know this too.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Turn it on in options.
Okay thanks, will I try it as soon as I get past the noon queue. (lol)
This should be on by default...
WonkyPanda
Member
It's in the options under tooltip. It says something like "companion items" or something like that. Just check it off.
Sigh, I caved guys. I bought it. This game was just too much fun during the early access. bye-bye skyrim.
For all the class forum fear in beta, IA is clearly the least popular empire class. Shadow is far and away the most popular. Not sure how Republic side skews though...probably similarly.
Infinitemadness
Member
Man, what the fuck!? The game isn't letting me into any flashpoints. I've reset the phase and the quests themselves related to flashpoints. What gives? I did one fine yesterday. 
I rolled BH specifically because there was SO MANY inquisitors during beta and my buddy was rolling a IA
..now I see Merc's everywhere
Woke up this morning to find the no active subscription thing. Spent forever rummaging through my emails and finally found my newer product key after being a moron and trying to put in my pre release code in over and over. I was freakin out a little, had the phone ready to call customer support...
Sign up, excitedly press play... waiting in que D:
Sign up, excitedly press play... waiting in que D:
BattleMonkey
Member
Love that hall. The Republic side version is nowhere as nice.
I purposely didnt play BH in the beta to avoid going through it again at launch
Interfectum
Member
So far I'm enjoying PvP in this game (15 sith jug). Not sure about hutt ball though.
You can re-spec skills for a credit fee (cost increases each time you do so), but not your advanced class.
I have not had to wait more than 35-40min and I am on one of the heaviest servers there is (The Harbinger)
I often play between 6p-1a CST
I have never ever seen the 1-4hr queue some people complain about, longest ever I know of was my brother was stuck in a 2 1/2hr queue 2 days before EGA ended
Is there a way to check server pop before purchase? Hyper Cannon is the server I'll probably be on since I know a bunch of people there. Trying to see if I can fit this game into my week of crunch to polish off Skyward Sword and Arkham City.
Myself and Giolon play on Hyperspace Cannon, and it is one of the most populated servers. The longest queue I personally saw was like 40 minutes or something, but I haven't seen anything even half as long since then.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Anyone with ATI running AA, does it slow it down a lot?
I like huttball, but need to find a way to mute the commentator
On my 5850, using 4xMSAA (not adaptive, so no transparency AA) it's always 30-60 FPS at max in-game settings. All over the place in that range though; turning shadows from high to low probably puts the min FPS closer to 45 and the average around 55-60.
Adaptive AA will hurt a lot more because this game uses a huge amount of transparencies.
BattleMonkey
Member
The game scales your stats up to that of higher level players. It lets you compete with other players of higher level, but you are at disadvantage of having lack of abilities. Like everyone else has sprint but you won't till 14 so you are slower than everyone.
There are no brackets, everyone is scaled to the same level. This kind of works out alright, but the problem is the 50s have way more talents and skills
My advice to all PC gamers out there is to never install your games to the Program Files or Program Files (x86) directories. Windows Vista and Windows 7 apply read/write restrictions to these directories and some games and installers have issues working under this tighter security.
I always choose the Custom installation path option when installing games and install them to a Games directory on the root of one of my hard disks. All my games are on my second hard disk and the path for them is D:\Games\ so in the case of SWTOR my install path would read C:\Games\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars - The Old Republic\.
Try reinstalling SWTOR again and this time choose a Custom path and keep it out of those Program Files directories. This should eradicate a whole host of potential problems.
I get the daily quest.
I win a match
Get fuck all.
All through the match it was just 4 people ganging up on me, no clue where my teammates was.
PvP sucks.
I noticed, it fucking sucks.
I win a match
Get fuck all.
All through the match it was just 4 people ganging up on me, no clue where my teammates was.
PvP sucks.
I noticed, it fucking sucks.
RoninChaos
Member
Why wouldn't they put in options like AA? I don't get it. What am I missing?
BattleMonkey
Member
It's not fun at all early on because you lack any abilities. Never had trouble finding players, the respawn system also makes sure you generally spawn with other players at all times too so everyone is not lone wolfing it. Not having sprint at early levels makes it also suck early on since everyone outruns you and your always playing catch up. Really wouldn't touch PVP till your closer to 20 and have your actual AC doing what it's supposed to do. At 11 your AC really does not actually have the ability to play it's designed role.
You get Valor points for playing PVP, it's listed in the score board at end of the matches, if your team won the match you got points for sure, you can see your valor on your character sheet when you press C, next to your alignment.
BattleMonkey
Member
Yea with Rep on my server, I instant get into PVP. Same server with Empire I have to wait 15-30 minutes to get a match
Alex
Member
I was pretty sour on healing at first but once it kicks in on Agent it becomes quite fun. The pacing and resource model makes it a lot more engaging than the standard raidframe whack-a-mole without being frustrating (thus far).
On the other end, I made a post on it last night, Bounty Hunter tanking has been a blast for me as well, most I've taken to a tank since Paladin on years-ago FFXI, there's just something about it, it's very involved but not rigid at all. I'm finicky on tanks though, only ever liked Warrior on WoW and mostly just because of the toolbox. Warrior at Cata cap was rad and felt like a swiss army knife to the plastic spork of the Paladin
Agree, it is def the best one of the three I've spent a bit of time with. Sith Inquis wasn't for me, don't care about the whole classical Star Wars mantra, Bounty Hunter (my main char atm) is quite lively and interesting and Agent (wifes) I want a full blown game of.
On the other end, I made a post on it last night, Bounty Hunter tanking has been a blast for me as well, most I've taken to a tank since Paladin on years-ago FFXI, there's just something about it, it's very involved but not rigid at all. I'm finicky on tanks though, only ever liked Warrior on WoW and mostly just because of the toolbox. Warrior at Cata cap was rad and felt like a swiss army knife to the plastic spork of the Paladin
Agree, it is def the best one of the three I've spent a bit of time with. Sith Inquis wasn't for me, don't care about the whole classical Star Wars mantra, Bounty Hunter (my main char atm) is quite lively and interesting and Agent (wifes) I want a full blown game of.
Z
ZombieFred
Unconfirmed Member
I'm a fellow Imperial Agent here and I got to agree that it's got to be one of Bioware's best written stories for a primary character. Everything about it has just been sooo good.
I made my Agent an Operative because hey, healing but I'm regretting that decision now because if I want to do damage it feels very incoherent, I've got skills like snipe and probe that I have to drop into cover for and skills like backstab and shiv that require me to get up close and personal for.
I've made a few posts about healing in TOR; I really feel like the core problem is that healers don't get their skills early enough. You really don't heal with that many tools, and some of them you don't get until 30-40, so all of the time you spend healing earlier than that feels off. It's because you're just straight up missing certain abilities the healer was designed around. They need to draw down the level where healers fill up their toolboxes somehow. Much worse in PvP than PvE, as the bolster mechanic benefits damage more than it does healing, which magnifies the lack of healing functionality at lower levels.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Overload Shot is supposed to be your non-cooldown DPS ability as an Operative. You get 15% more damage with it and it's a non-cover ability. Throw in frag grenade and you can have a fairly high DPS rotation without needing Snipe or Probe at all.
Agree 1000%
A positive because of this (and broken raid frames), is even though I'm specced bodyguard, I probably dps 60% of the time and actually enjoy the diversity
Yeah, I played BH past chapter 1 and into the third planet of IA.
These guys should just take over the DragonAge and Mass Effect games.
Broken raid frames really suck, but I get around it most of the time in pvp by targeting the enemies wailing on the guy I want to heal, then hit target's target.
Alex
Member
Devs have a tendency to ... forget healers, sometimes. I remember when Wintergrasp came out in WoW and there was this huge buff called Tenacity for an outnumbered faction and it provided tons of health and damage... and no healing whatsoever :lol It got fixed before too long but it's usually the archetype to be neglected a little.