I think I've read every where at some point that all of the planets suck, I enjoyed Taris. It's not that exotic looking, but I liked the quests as a BH.
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I think I've read every where at some point that all of the planets suck, I enjoyed Taris. It's not that exotic looking, but I liked the quests as a BH.
chickdigger802
Banned
You also pretty much need your map up a lot of the time due to how the world is designed. More often then not I end up on the wrong side of a wall to my objective.
The atmosphere by design is also pretty damn shitty, so it gets a bit hard to muster after a while =(
If you're on the Republic GAF guild ask Earkwayd, I'm fairly certain he's Seer spec, and he seems to play PVP quite a bit.
Azzurri
Member
Too many fucking ruins and walls blocking everything.
chickdigger802
Banned
that was cool, except every other quest is pretty much "HEY REMEMBER THIS IN KOTOR????"
Killing rakghouls as commando is fun though. pulse cannon those motherfuckers.
DangerousDave
Member
Nothing bad, but is a very long planet (not only big, there are a lot of questlines). So you will spend in there much more time than in any other planet (at least until 30's), and you can get bored.
This is completely random... But I'd love an app on my cell phone that would allow me to send my companions out to do crewskill stuff. or, if they ever put in gambling, let me gamble from my phone.
Sitting here bored at work, that would do a lot to help alleviate some of my boredom.
Sitting here bored at work, that would do a lot to help alleviate some of my boredom.
For Republic players, it goes on forever, and you basically only fight rakghouls. And more rakghouls. And a few more rakghouls. Then a couple rakghouls over there.
Also? The rakghouls in that facility? Kill those. Then the ones in the cave. Then a few more over here.
Did I mention killing rakghouls?
The punchline to all this is that if you're a lightside player,
there are two quests that point out how they're actually intelligent and you shouldn't be massacring them. You then head out on yet another mission to kill them all.
cpp_is_king
Member
Does anyone fully understand all the types of yields you can get during crew skills? I've seen:
Moderate
Abundant
Bountiful
Rich
Wealthy (Mission Discovery Skill Only)
Prosperous (Mission Discovery Skill Only)
The way I see it, there are three possible things that the yield can affect:
1) Number of different types of item
2) Quantity of each individual item
3) Quality (Blue/Purple) of attained items.
For example, I know that Rich is "better" than Moderate, but in what way? And is Rich "better" than Bountiful, or do they just do different things?
Moderate
Abundant
Bountiful
Rich
Wealthy (Mission Discovery Skill Only)
Prosperous (Mission Discovery Skill Only)
The way I see it, there are three possible things that the yield can affect:
1) Number of different types of item
2) Quantity of each individual item
3) Quality (Blue/Purple) of attained items.
For example, I know that Rich is "better" than Moderate, but in what way? And is Rich "better" than Bountiful, or do they just do different things?
Think about using teamviewer, I use it to craft from work using my work laptop. But it will work with an android phone too.
cpp_is_king
Member
I jsut run the game at work and alt-tab over when I need to send them off on new missions
Alex
Member
Would be nice if they don't go the Blizzard route and charge a monthly fee for an app in addition to the service =/ That is so damned lame.
Oh sweet. Just downloaded this on my phone. Now to download when I get home. Thanks.
Castor Krieg
Banned
Pretty much sumps up Taris. When you go to Tatooine replace Rakghouls with Sand people. Also, a few quests will make you furious - go to the end of the cave, pick up and object, go back to the entrance, take THE OTHER DIRECTION, walk 5m, complete quest. Oh, and kill 30 rakghouls that respawned in the meantime.
BattleMonkey
Member
I liked Taris as Republic... until I find out it didn't want to end.
As for Taris (republic), I hated it because there were so many walls that blocked your way that weren't immediately obvious or organized, the enemies were boring, and the story and characters were frustrating. I didn't play kotor if that matters.
I also wish I had this information. I hate making uninformed choices.
chickdigger802
Banned
it's really baffling that some 'dungeons' with quest objectives at the end are not instanced. And then the devs troll you by placing the quest npc right outside, so quick traveling back to town would be pointless.
Tattoine has the Czerka questline that I really liked, though. Really felt "KOTOR"y.
My new complaint: That the JK has to use the holoterminal at the beginning of every planet after you arrive. EVERY SINGLE TIME, I have disembarked and started running out of the starport only to notice my quest says "USE YOUR SHIP'S HOLOTERMINAL" Cue having to run all the way back, then having to skip through the animation of your ship taking off.
BattleMonkey
Member
Eh Tat had lot of variety in enemies. Jawas, Sand People, creatures, Republic, Exchange, Gamoreans, etc, etc. Huge improvement over Taris
I die a little inside each time I walk towards a quest cave and there's no green barrier at the entrance.
Interfectum
Member
lol same
BattleMonkey
Member
Reason why is lot of these have quests for other classes or general world side quests in them as well for players to do.
Every class has that.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
This is something im curious about. The stuff thats revealed in the IA story is huge stuff for the Star Wars Old Republic setting in general. i wonder if the other stories have mention of the main antagonists of the IA story.
RadicalRad
Member
Loved shadow even more due to this. I just stealthed and sap'd my way out of there.
I'm still waiting for my Power Supply to ship so I can get back to gaming =/
Been craving SWTOR and DOTA 2 so bad!
IA End of Act 1 Spoilers!
my computer just had to crash when I got to voss. I was nearing the end of my story..
Been craving SWTOR and DOTA 2 so bad!
IA End of Act 1 Spoilers!
yea, Darth Jadus is said to be the strongest force in the galaxy before the emperor. I wonder if hes referenced anywhere else. He is a great villain so far.
my computer just had to crash when I got to voss. I was nearing the end of my story..
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
That wasnt who i referring to. You might not have reached that part of the story yet.
IA Act 3 spoilers!
I'm currently in Act 3. Just found out about the whole conspiracy things, but I'm a little hazy on the details since my computers been dead for 3 weeks. I just got on Voss when computer crashed.
I don't think Trooper required you to use it after arriving. I seem to remember that you'd use it after you finished a place up, and the General would tell you to go to location X and talk to person Y.
I die knowing that the Bonus quest will undoubtedly be "KILL X number of Y" and yet someone else will already be in there, killing everything so I have to wait for respawns.
BattleMonkey
Member
But the world feels so empty!
Confused101
Member
So Update 1.1 is being delayed? Anyone else hear about this?
Hawk269
Member
I did not ask here, not sure why since I spend most of my internet time here, but on the official forum's I posted a thread asking if an SSD had any impact on loading times and pretty much 90% of the people said it makes no difference at all.
I had ordered a Samsung 256gb 830 series SSD and wiped the existing HDD's to do a complete re-intall, while I was waiting I figured I could load SWTOR on my laptop. I know some people have made reports that load times can be alot slower on other machines and sure enough it takes 2x as long to load an area on my laptop vs. my desktop...but when I got the responses from folks over that the official site stating SSD's dont make any difference I was suprised.
UPS guys pulls up, hands over my SSD and I begin the install process. Once I have Windows up and patched, got my virus protection loaded in and few other programs I am ready to install SWTOR onto the SSD. Once everything is done, I decide to check it out and WOW! I am getting 10-15sec load times and that is it. I even went to 4 different planets, fleet and any other area I can get a loading screen and the longest load time I had was 20sec. On my desktop prior to the SSD I would get 30 sec to 1min 30 sec load times.
Not sure if the folks replying to me on the official site had older SSD's are perhaps SSD's that were not optomized, but for me the speed difference is pretty amazing.
I had ordered a Samsung 256gb 830 series SSD and wiped the existing HDD's to do a complete re-intall, while I was waiting I figured I could load SWTOR on my laptop. I know some people have made reports that load times can be alot slower on other machines and sure enough it takes 2x as long to load an area on my laptop vs. my desktop...but when I got the responses from folks over that the official site stating SSD's dont make any difference I was suprised.
UPS guys pulls up, hands over my SSD and I begin the install process. Once I have Windows up and patched, got my virus protection loaded in and few other programs I am ready to install SWTOR onto the SSD. Once everything is done, I decide to check it out and WOW! I am getting 10-15sec load times and that is it. I even went to 4 different planets, fleet and any other area I can get a loading screen and the longest load time I had was 20sec. On my desktop prior to the SSD I would get 30 sec to 1min 30 sec load times.
Not sure if the folks replying to me on the official site had older SSD's are perhaps SSD's that were not optomized, but for me the speed difference is pretty amazing.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Definitely. im kind of amazed how incremental it is. Almost every step of the class story it updates.
About the SSDs.. finally i get an excuse to upgrade to SSD lol
The story summary loading screen usually disappears before I even have time to read it all...
I think I had a "Press Spacebar to continue" once on that screen, but haven't seen it since.
I didn't know people were getting 30s - 90s loading screens?
I don't have a SSD or whatever, and my loading screens are 20s at most.
I think I had a "Press Spacebar to continue" once on that screen, but haven't seen it since.
I didn't know people were getting 30s - 90s loading screens?
I don't have a SSD or whatever, and my loading screens are 20s at most.
Azwethinkweiz
Member
It's not that their SSDs weren't optimized, it was that your old HDD was severely slow. I was loading off my old HDD for a while and my loading times were taking 15-20 seconds so I switched it over to my SSD hoping for a sub 5 second load time, and I saw minimal differences. I think the main problem is a lot of stuff is downloaded or streamed when a planet is loaded, so the type of drive is irrelevant.
HarryDemeanor
Member
MMO-Champion said they're sticking with WoW news for their site. I'm guessing since Curse scooped up DH that they'll try to make it the MMO-Champion equivalent for SWTOR.
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'm finding the loading times get longer later into the game. Especially after Tattooine.
The Press Spacebar thing only appears when you have a cutscene immediately after arriving on a planet. It's so you don't go afk while it's loading and come back not realizing you've missed a cutscene.
Interfectum
Member
TheDancingWatermelon
Member
It's awesome unless you get
"Error Finding Codex: 0"
Or if you've already finished the story on one toon and have alts and it messes up. Nothing like logging over to my Agent and reading about Darth Baras or The Great Hunt. :lol
90s is probably average for me when loading planets. Fleet and ship load a little quicker.
Alderaan can take up to 5 minutes for me to load. I don't what it is about that damned planet, but it can take forever and even locked up on me once.
My general PC specs are AMD Phenom Quad Core (9xxx I think), 4 GB RAM, GTX 460 for reference.
The heroic (Imperial) you get where you have to destroy 3 generators then kill a boss, that area is a slide show for me. The rest of the planet runs well, that section kills me and I have no idea why.
Tatooine ran well for me except for the area right outside Mos Ila, where the speeders are.
I think the JK one is also broken, because it talks about heading immediately to Alderaan after Nar Shadda.