you don't mod gear to look like something, you mod gear you like the looks of to have stats you want. You can socket/unsocket mods by ctrl+right clicking a moddable item. The only FULLY moddable items are orange ones, those are what you want.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
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you don't mod gear to look like something, you mod gear you like the looks of to have stats you want. You can socket/unsocket mods by ctrl+right clicking a moddable item. The only FULLY moddable items are orange ones, those are what you want.
Printscreen. The pics end up in My Documents.
Thanks guys. I was hoping there was some easier way than spamming chat. Seems like I've been hearing about some new cool way that WoW does it, and I feel like Warhammer did it in interesting ways as well.
Oh well.
I was playing this religiously for over a week, but once I got my Legacy surname at level 30 I completely lost interest, and I haven't logged in for two days.
The storyline did grip me, but it's not enough to contend with the lack of variety. The whole experience just feels hollow. Every quest is a kill quest (with bonus quests to kill more mobs!), and every planet is experiencing a near-identical civil war.
However great Taris seemed because of the continuation of the Rakghoul thread from the original KOTOR, the environments across planets are for the most part ugly and bland. Special mention goes to Nar Shaddaa, for being a tedious, orange-hued corridor run from quest giver to quest giver. By the time I hit this world I was already bored stiff of the side quests, and focused on the storyline quest to get Chewie as quickly as possible (I play a Smuggler).
I have to give special dispensation to Tatooine. As someone mentioned earlier, they nailed this one. It's also the first 'open' planet (or at least, there's a wider expanse in which to manoeuvre) and you reacher speeder riding level around this point, so I'm sure that's part of the novelty. However, this zone felt outstanding in terms of the unique assets and overall atmosphere. It's not just nostalgia speaking either. This *is* Star Wars.
Off to Alderaan afterwards. Major disappointment. BORING stretches of long road and generic snowy alpine countryside. Seemed even longer distances to travel than Tatooine.
And the next planet - Balmorra? - I stepped off the shuttle, took one look at the hideously barren landscape, and used my emergency fleet shuttle pass to go back to the Republic Fleet, from whence I haven't moved except to queue up for a few warzones.
The warzones are fun enough as a Smuggler Scoundrel, but there's only three of them, plus they nerfed the experience in the recent patch. It's as though they don't want us to have fun.
I have burned out badly and it's a complete shock to me. I had every intention of rolling multiple classes, but the thought of killing the same mobs and doing the same horrible quests again puts me off even bothering.
I only play World of Warcraft at the beginning of expansion packs these days, but this horrible mess of a game is making me appreciate the genius of Blizzard. It's a rare game where I can't even be bothered to reach the level cap on one character.
The storyline did grip me, but it's not enough to contend with the lack of variety. The whole experience just feels hollow. Every quest is a kill quest (with bonus quests to kill more mobs!), and every planet is experiencing a near-identical civil war.
However great Taris seemed because of the continuation of the Rakghoul thread from the original KOTOR, the environments across planets are for the most part ugly and bland. Special mention goes to Nar Shaddaa, for being a tedious, orange-hued corridor run from quest giver to quest giver. By the time I hit this world I was already bored stiff of the side quests, and focused on the storyline quest to get Chewie as quickly as possible (I play a Smuggler).
I have to give special dispensation to Tatooine. As someone mentioned earlier, they nailed this one. It's also the first 'open' planet (or at least, there's a wider expanse in which to manoeuvre) and you reacher speeder riding level around this point, so I'm sure that's part of the novelty. However, this zone felt outstanding in terms of the unique assets and overall atmosphere. It's not just nostalgia speaking either. This *is* Star Wars.
Off to Alderaan afterwards. Major disappointment. BORING stretches of long road and generic snowy alpine countryside. Seemed even longer distances to travel than Tatooine.
And the next planet - Balmorra? - I stepped off the shuttle, took one look at the hideously barren landscape, and used my emergency fleet shuttle pass to go back to the Republic Fleet, from whence I haven't moved except to queue up for a few warzones.
The warzones are fun enough as a Smuggler Scoundrel, but there's only three of them, plus they nerfed the experience in the recent patch. It's as though they don't want us to have fun.
I have burned out badly and it's a complete shock to me. I had every intention of rolling multiple classes, but the thought of killing the same mobs and doing the same horrible quests again puts me off even bothering.
I only play World of Warcraft at the beginning of expansion packs these days, but this horrible mess of a game is making me appreciate the genius of Blizzard. It's a rare game where I can't even be bothered to reach the level cap on one character.
I tried it and it worked to get me to the launcher, however when I login and hit play, nothing happens.
tycoonheart
Member
I'm kind of surprised to see people saying the world feel barren. For me, every quest I do, there is at least 5-6 other people in the vicinity completing the same quest. People are always talking in general chat no matter what zone I'm in.
Sounds like this is for the later areas. First two planets have had decent enough population.
I really don't like instancing though. I know my logic is flawed, but it just makes me feel like I'm being ripped off. As far as the way it's handling everything is remind me of Guild Wars, which was designed that way to avoid a monthly fee. I read a few post mentioning these instances would be expanded after the launch window... I really hope this is true.
RoninChaos
Member
5 or 6 people in an mmo is kind of barren, man.
Interfectum
Member
Whether it's instanced or not there are still tens of thousands of players hitting Bioware's servers at any given time. Instancing the worlds doesn't save Bioware money.
Interfectum
Member
I see a shitload of people at different choke points in the game. The imperial fleet always has people running around everywhere.
It's not like any given area in WoW is full of people either. They are all in Stormwind queuing for dungeons and raids.
NemesisPrime
Banned
It is a WoW-troll comment TBH. There I said it!
For me it has been perfect... I don't like MMOs where there are 5 players every square meter. LOTRO has sweeping big landscapes as well. Feels so much more like a real world. Besides there are always people hanging out in the quest hubs and towns and not so many in the "wilderness". AS IT SHOULD BE!
ThingontheFloor
Member
I don’t really have an issue with the sparsely populated areas, but that’s probably because I’m a singleplayer guy first. Which is totally how I’m playing the game anyway, outside of Flashpoints and a couple Heroic quests here and there. And when I’m in a hugely populated area, like the Imperial Fleet, my framerate seems to take a shit anyway. General chat totally sucks. I think as long as you have a few good guild mates or friends that play the game, the lack of a giant group of people everywhere you go shouldn’t be that big of an issue.
Yes, I know that is defeating the point of an MMO, but I would've been fine with a KOTOR3 and this seems to be the closest we'll ever get to that.
Yes, I know that is defeating the point of an MMO, but I would've been fine with a KOTOR3 and this seems to be the closest we'll ever get to that.
Yeah, when I'm out questing I like seeing the odd person about just to remind me this is a huge world with other people playing the same one, and then nice bustling cities. But not loads of people out in the barrens.
Yeah I think WoW is pretty damn empty too most of the time in the questing areas. You don't stay in one specific area very long after all, like 10-20 mins to grind some mobs and items most of the time. I do think that there are more people in WoW's major cities then I've seen in the Imperial Fleet.
People are still leveling. Once people hit 50 I suspect the fleet will be packed.
I've found general chat on planets to be quite useful and not a mess compared to wow. Probably because most people are levelling and not as many bored idiots on yet.
All the heroics and flashpoints I've done have been through someone asking on general chat or some guy just wandering around the same area as me. Don't have much issues with the player community here.
All the heroics and flashpoints I've done have been through someone asking on general chat or some guy just wandering around the same area as me. Don't have much issues with the player community here.
nothing.... I heard it's a remnant of the beta system and just weren't removed from the game
someone correct me if I'm wrong
Yeah, I asked the same question ages back. I spent hours looking for a modding station on Taris!
Seems like it'd be worth having a few around if they negated or reduced the credit cost of retrieving old components.
I still haven't come across one single Republic person out in the wild. Shouldn't have joined a PVP server, no point.
First Republic person I saw was a GAF member on Tatooine
RoninChaos
Member
It's not a troll comment, don't be an idiot. It's natural for people to compare this game to wow since it's copied so much from WoW. And this game does seem quite a bit more barren that wow does because of the instancing. This isn't really something that's arguable and it isn't trolling.
We try to add them when people say who they are, but not going to force anyone to do it.
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It really does depend on how many instances there are for the area you're in I think. I mean questing through Voss yesterday, there was only one instance, and you could tell. I bumped into a tonne of other players, some of which caused us to wait for quest objectives. Not only that, I also bumped into quite a few pvp enabled republic players.
5-6 ppl? LOL, this is supposed to be MASSIVE
I just made a Jedi Knight and got my companion (T7), but I chose the wrong color customization (definitely not the one I thought I chose). Is there a way to buy those color customizations somewhere else?
I saw the security key vendor has one, but that's almost a complete remodel of the unit, I was just looking for the red coloring on the default model.
Note he said the same quest. I would be miserable having to fight any more than that for the same exact quest mobs.
I saw the security key vendor has one, but that's almost a complete remodel of the unit, I was just looking for the red coloring on the default model.
Note he said the same quest. I would be miserable having to fight any more than that for the same exact quest mobs.
Interfectum
Member
5-6 people in the same vicinity completing the same quest isn't enough for you in am MMO? How many people do you want to see on your same quest? 100?
Go level in WoW and see how many people are doing the same quest as you.
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ZombieFred
Unconfirmed Member
Amusingly me and my friend was doing a quest which had about 10 people having waiting in the area and doing the same thing. This has only happened once so far (currently level 21) but it wasn't that much of a hassle as we all did the item fetch in turns in a nice orderly fashion. I wouldn't of got that in WOW in the past. Curious though, Interfectum, what have been your thoughts with Biowares treatment on the old republic and as an RPG to you?
Interfectum
Member
I think it's a pretty good attempt at an MMO with a story. You can tell the Austin team has quite a bit of talent in this area. I'm not really getting all the "barren MMO" complaints. I see enough people out in the world and too many more would make it annoying to quest. Maybe it's the fact that some stages are so huge that they almost have hollow, empty feel to it. Oversized doorways, extremely wide roads / paths, etc. Not sure why they designed it like that.
BattleMonkey
Member
He said 5 to 6 doing the same quest as him. Theres always more than that on the planets which are large.
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ZombieFred
Unconfirmed Member
I think the artists and designers have crafted a believable scale when you reflect to the character and the environment around him/her, and definitely did a good job on making the planets feel alive and unique to each other. I've not got any of the barren complaints either because usually I can hear battles happening in the distance somewhere in the area - the audio in the game is fantastic and probably the best in the MMO space.
This post nails my feelings on the questing in this game. Gonna stick it out though.
BattleMonkey
Member
Fleet for Empire on my server is packed all the time, and its the place that runs the worst for me of all the places in game. My FPS just drops to crap in the fleet with all the people in it and companions.
Ironically on the Rep side on the same server, the fleet is EMPTY
Azzurri
Member
Imperial Fleet on my server is ALWAYS full, around 200 people no matter what time.
kyo_daikun
Member
Not sure if its the same for rebels but the only planet I have found the customisations for sale (including all the original choices) for imperials is Taris, might want to try and head there later when you have a ship.
Edit: Lol rebels, republic or whatever you scum call yourself etc
Don't regret your choice:
I saved her, and amusingly I saved her, saw a -249 rep with Dorne (!!!) and escaped out, unsummoned Dorne, and restarted the conversation. She's very thankful, but then after the mission is extremely shaken knowing all of those deaths were to save her, says she needs time and some therapy, etc. Then a day later sends you an in game mail with no punctuation about how her life is awful and she wishes it never happened and its her fault that everyone died...etc etc. And you get some shitty like level 35 barrel or something. i REALLY hope they write her back in if you saved her, at some point. If not....what a waste.
On another trooper related note, I just hit level 50 finally.
Havoc Squad Assemble!
Wish I'd been to ilum to get Forex his customization before that
Both of his look amazing.It's Balmorra for pubbies. Taris and Balmorra swap their place in the order depending on faction.
Awesome, thanks for this.
kyo_daikun
Member
Yanger above said its Balmorra so I was off, apologies, haven't touched republic yet as im evil at heart.
If any GAF Empire officers want to add a note next to me my character in the guild is Azura.
Well, if you want to add mine, I'm Corlis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fc79BNC-zI
Any operative getting this? Bugged Kolto Injection.
This is the worst bug for me. Gets me killed all the time. I don't even know how it's possible to raid with this bug if my heals start to fail.
Any operative getting this? Bugged Kolto Injection.
This is the worst bug for me. Gets me killed all the time. I don't even know how it's possible to raid with this bug if my heals start to fail.
kyo_daikun
Member
Dirty, doesn't happen with any of the sith sorceror heals as far as im aware, bug report it and hope it gets attention fast.
Yeah, the choices are bugged for that quest. I did not receive the correct item twice now. (Originally went the Sentinel route then decided to do Guardian.)
I submitted a ticket the first time and they said I could request a replacement item. (Though it would count towards 1 of my 3 replacement item requests.) The second time I submitted the ticket, they said they would look into it, but never heard anything past that.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Anyone else having texture issues with the game. Like it reverting to low textures and back to high rapidly?
the_prime_mover
Member
Hmm - I think this may have happened to me a few times, but not in consecutive attempts like that. I know I have experienced something similar when in group quests but at the time I just thought I had moved my character at the last moment... I will have to keep an eye out for this.