Interfectum
Member
The texture of the planet (flying in) is one of the worst offenders. I can't believe they decided to leave it like that.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
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StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Yes and no. You do have to do the install but once it starts patching just quit out and copy your folder over all the files in their folder. Once you restart the patcher it'll check the new files and be up to date. If I remember right when it starts patching it has a bunch of temporary files, you can delete those, I'm not sure if the game will delete them or not.
BattleMonkey
Member
Its the same as every other themepark style MMO, where you are constantly moving from zone to zone. Course there is also lot of player interaction if you want there to be if you roll on a pvp server.... but I think thats not what you want.
Man I have everything jacked up to High and the game runs at 110 FPS almost constantly for me.
Give me the option for high-res textures you sons of bitches!
Maybe I should mess around with the .ini files to make the game look a bit better. Anyone have any info on what needs to be changed?
Give me the option for high-res textures you sons of bitches!
Maybe I should mess around with the .ini files to make the game look a bit better. Anyone have any info on what needs to be changed?
eudaemonic
Member
I'm not overly irritated... but for people who drop $500-$1000 dollars on a graphic card setup and you can't even enjoy it... yeah. I'd be way more grumpy in that case.
Right now I'd be happy if my graphics wouldn't take a shit in the middle of battle at least three times during a play session. *sigh*
Right now I'd be happy if my graphics wouldn't take a shit in the middle of battle at least three times during a play session. *sigh*
I love the game and imo this doesnt fall under graphics whore. Parts of this game look really really bad. This would be a complaint on consoles too. It ruins immersion and takes away from many of the games best points. The foundry is an excellent example. The final boss is ruined by crap textures imo.
That area is part of the bonus series for the Empire. You get there by teleporting to the Signal Monitoring area from the south of Belsavis.
So then you can't uncover the whole map.. Great. So stupid. :/ I hate seeing my maps like that.
cpp_is_king
Member
Just tried to log in and got a notice that patch 1.0.2d will be pushed tonight at 12A PST / 3A EST / 8A GMT.
No word yet of what is in the patch.
No word yet of what is in the patch.
maabus1999
Member
Anyone able to unlock the full Belsavis map yet? I can't get this part.
There is a tunnel to that area on both the north and south side. It is an Imperial level 50 daily quest area but anyone can reach it.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Does anyone else have this glitch when playing a Jedi Knight where during the cutscenes T7 is just a lump of black textures? It also happens with a few other background characters. I'm playing on a 2011 iMac is it the AMD graphics card in my pc or is it something that bioware needs to fix with a patch?
This was the patch that they tried to roll out last night but it failed, right?
Only glitch I've seen is the common one: Tiny Satele.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Stuff is more likely to get done if people are subbed. If everyone cancelled because they wanted stuff done then there would be staff to do that.
You end up with a situation like AoC where so many people left that they can't afford to keep a big staff and any and all changes take weeks to get done.
so? we don't owe them shit. it's their job to keep us wanting to play. not our job to prop them up on their failures in hopes and promises for return.
I had a funny cutscene glitch where my trooper kissed Elara, but was stuck repeating the moving in to kiss animation for the rest of the conversation.
Attention Gafers on Keller's Void:
Let's have a meet-up at the PVP area on Tatooine this Friday (the 13th) at 8PM EST.
That area is free-for-all, so it won't matter if more people show up from one side.
Here's where it is, for those who don't know:
Should be fun to hang out with everyone from both sides.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
It's the same general idea, but SWTOR takes it to an extreme. There is no MMORPG as single-player driven and linear as SWTOR.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Was running flashpoints with a friend last night and ran into a hilarious bug. He's playing an Assassin, and his Khem Val died and needed to be res'd - however, after being revived, his model stayed on the ground and scooted around the floor, still fighting and dealing damage but stuck in the "dead" position on the floor.
The best part was how the enemies all targeted him on the ground, so we ended up with tons of troopers shooting what appeared to be a dead Khem Val over and over.
The best part was how the enemies all targeted him on the ground, so we ended up with tons of troopers shooting what appeared to be a dead Khem Val over and over.
cpp_is_king
Member
This is why I'm still subbed and plan to as long as the game is enjoyable. This is a big deal though and it feels like it's just getting swept under the rug.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Ugh, just read about the textures. How incredibly dumb. Pathetic and completely unbelievable excuse for not having high-res assets available.
This game has some awesome art direction, but it's pretty sad that the game looks barely better than KOTOR running on my PC, when that game is ~8 years old.
This game has some awesome art direction, but it's pretty sad that the game looks barely better than KOTOR running on my PC, when that game is ~8 years old.
Tried on my main rig and didn't see much difference (triple buffered so 60fps cap but slow downs were similar to before)
Tried on my slow laptop and it made my server list become empty so I couldn't play. Turning off shadows is still the biggest performance gain I've had.
YMMV
edit: just a question for everyone, do you guys have high textures on the character select screen or is that screen also crap? It's crap for me
Attention Gafers on Keller's Void:
Let's have a meet-up at the PVP area on Tatooine this Friday (the 13th) at 8PM EST.
That area is free-for-all, so it won't matter if more people show up from one side.
Here's where it is, for those who don't know:
Should be fun to hang out with everyone from both sides.
So, um, what do we do when we get there?
Get killed repeatedly by fellow GAFers. FUN!
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Sure, but I was only commenting on his point that if you want changes you need to quit. If you don't like the game, then quit, if you like it but want changes then there are better way of expressing that than just quitting.
Personally I don't have any major problems with the game. The textures don't bother me. I'll welcome higher res textures when they come but I'm not going to quit because I don't have them.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
I agree they could have dealt with the situation better and that their explanation doesn't make total sense. It does seem like it will be addressed at some point, there is a lot of push back from the community to get it done.
Which class are you playing? My guy has hooked up with like 6 women at this point. I guess those don't really count as a 'romance', depending on your point of view.
BattleMonkey
Member
It's most single player friendly, but really is no different from any of the countless WoW clones I've played in the past 5 years. Instancing of zones is the only real negative there is but other than that, it's basically the same set up seen over and over again, even WoW pretty much went in the same direction with linear game zone design. RIFT was incredibly linear as well. The concept of social areas and social oriented MMO environments has not existed in a long time and only one that really still does it is EVE, which many players can't handle. Games with great social environments like UO and SWG are long gone in the world of theme park design.
MMO design nowadays is crap, its not about social environments outside of what you create out of it. I've made friends grouping online, play with my GF, local friends, and my guildies and we make it as social as any other game. Running around the game world and seeing ton of other players waiting to do the same quest is not a social environment. Games like SWG and EVE that promote player interaction and are basically player driven, those are social experiences
Sith Assassin. I banged my cult leader (yes, I have my own cult that worships me, suck it), but that was just a one time (well two time) fling, although she kept pestering me through email. I'm romancing a companion. Just lying straight to her face while buying her affection with gifts. Supposedly you can't turn her to the dark side, but dammit if I won't try.
i'm over levelled
if i go to aldaraan straight away and skip tatooine class quests, does the game force me back to tatooine to do those quests?
or does it progress the story?
and by skipping tatoinne am i liekly to break teh game?
i am well over the class level for alderaan even.
if i go to aldaraan straight away and skip tatooine class quests, does the game force me back to tatooine to do those quests?
or does it progress the story?
and by skipping tatoinne am i liekly to break teh game?
i am well over the class level for alderaan even.
but i have a class quest on alderaan i can do?
im at the point where i can choose to do tat or ald
No. You can just do your class quests for the planet and leave. Each planet has a class story quest, a planet story quest, and side quests. Can skip the latter 2.
If they're green, I still do them. I want to keep nearly overleveled throughout the game. Makes it so easy to get through planets.
There are points where the game gives you two class quests, but you have to complete both planets to continue.
Kill each other with glowy sticks and/or guns.
/clubdance
Group Picture and we make a video of us dancing naked.
Yes. The story won't advance until you complete both. Alderaan is much higher level though.
cpp_is_king
Member
Is there any way to uncovered the circled hexes on the Coruscant map? It looks like there should be a way for me to get to those places.
No. The 'dark' hexes don't get uncovered. Only the light ones. Once you get all the light ones, the dark ones disappear.
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Deleted member 17706
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Sure, but even in Rift you had some options as to where you went to level and do quests. In SWTOR, you have to follow the planets in a linear fashion which cannot be deviated from. This is one of the downsides of being a single player story-focused game.
There's really no good reason for this game to be an MMORPG.