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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]
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Trickster said:
What bothers me is there are no EU servers up and running yet and the clock is ticking, are they going to be ready in time fully stress tested and configured? The NA servers sure will be.
I don't really care for the beta as I have a fairly low download speed (I'm surrounded by the forests and farm fields in the middle of nowhere) but anyone who disagree's with the Europeans not getting equal opportunity is lying, or trolling, or both.
Mr. Luchador
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Aye.
EU Beta was suppose to start months ago. Then last weekend, and now its 'some point this week.'
As a customer this my first experience of how they might potentially handle the EU side of things. Its happened before with other MMOs (DCUO) so its not out of the question it can happen again.
Even then the EU invites are to NA servers...
EU Beta was suppose to start months ago. Then last weekend, and now its 'some point this week.'
As a customer this my first experience of how they might potentially handle the EU side of things. Its happened before with other MMOs (DCUO) so its not out of the question it can happen again.
Even then the EU invites are to NA servers...
Played it yesterday.
1. Combat feels good. It feels pretty much like WoW, but with no autoattack, so you end up spamming the basic attack at times, but this is fine. It keeps it from getting so boring when you are low on force/mana whatever. I like the way WoW combat feels so this is good.
2. Environments look really good (and I was trying on a friend's shitty PC) the graphics aren't super impressive, but the artwork is done well. This was the case with WoW, not top of the line graphics, but good design and artwork.
3. Space Combat was fun, not typical MMO gameplay but I enjoyed it. At first it is disappointing that it is on rails, but it is a nice distraction from the normal gameplay.
4. Feels like KOTOR mixed with WoW in many ways. I only did a few quests so can't say how interesting the story is. But real dialogue is a big factor in actually caring about quests instead of just skipping the quest text and looking at objectives.
5. Did run into several bugs (missing heads, floating objects, blank dialog choices) but hopefully these are sorted out before release. None of these really affected game-play much.
Overall the game felt good, and I thought the environments were cool. Disappointed that we don't have open planet exploration SWG style, but if the story and combat are solid enough it will be more like playing KOTOR with friends. Which sounds pretty good to me.
1. Combat feels good. It feels pretty much like WoW, but with no autoattack, so you end up spamming the basic attack at times, but this is fine. It keeps it from getting so boring when you are low on force/mana whatever. I like the way WoW combat feels so this is good.
2. Environments look really good (and I was trying on a friend's shitty PC) the graphics aren't super impressive, but the artwork is done well. This was the case with WoW, not top of the line graphics, but good design and artwork.
3. Space Combat was fun, not typical MMO gameplay but I enjoyed it. At first it is disappointing that it is on rails, but it is a nice distraction from the normal gameplay.
4. Feels like KOTOR mixed with WoW in many ways. I only did a few quests so can't say how interesting the story is. But real dialogue is a big factor in actually caring about quests instead of just skipping the quest text and looking at objectives.
5. Did run into several bugs (missing heads, floating objects, blank dialog choices) but hopefully these are sorted out before release. None of these really affected game-play much.
Overall the game felt good, and I thought the environments were cool. Disappointed that we don't have open planet exploration SWG style, but if the story and combat are solid enough it will be more like playing KOTOR with friends. Which sounds pretty good to me.
dorkimoe
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Just got an email from them that had the subject line "We want you to test Star Wars the old republic"
opened the email and it said "by pre ordering"
"RAGEEEEEEEEEE" I did pre order it
i just didnt enter the pre order code on the website until recently because i didnt know about it
opened the email and it said "by pre ordering"
"RAGEEEEEEEEEE" I did pre order it
i just didnt enter the pre order code on the website until recently because i didnt know about itdorkimoe said:Just got an email from them that had the subject line "We want you to test Star Wars the old republic"
opened the email and it said "by pre ordering"
"RAGEEEEEEEEEE" I did pre order it
Same here.. I pre-ordered in July but just entered the code after that e-mail. I didn't enter it in July because I was confused about how it worked (at the time the wording was weird -- sounded like I had to enter the code from amazon to pre-order the game from bioware or some weird shit). I don't really care though, so whatever
BattleMonkey
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Preorders are supposed to have nothing to do with getting into beta though heh
Mr. Luchador
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Dakota47 said:
huh
Dakota47
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Chriswok said:
That was posted last Friday, wasn't it? I read it, but the fact of the matter still is that the US beta has been running for months now. It is starting to sound a bit like the early years of WoW where EU updates would always lag behind US updates. With TOR being such a speech heavy game requiring tons of localisation I am a bit afraid that the old continent will get stuff later than the colonies after release.
krameriffic
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gatti-man said:
Yes, that's why I own a 120Hz LCD.
Mr. Luchador
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Dakota47 said:
It was originally posted on Friday, but since had an update explaining the reason why it was delayed. Fair enough they're FINALLY keeping us informed of what's actually happen with the EU Client, but I'm not confident.
Wouldn't have been bothered if I hadn't kept check tabs on the game, and had just picked it up on release.
kyo_daikun
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Dakota47 said:
Oh screw that, suffered enough with DC universe with these shenanigans.
Hawk269
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Giolon said:
Correct. Early Access is for those that did a pre-order and then entered the pre-order code on the official website. When they have a release date, they will begin the early access. Like Rift, early access for that game was 3-5 days before the "official" launch of the game.
The difference is that Bioware is going to determine who gets the earliest possible early access based on when you registered your pre-prder on their site. For example, I pre-ordered my copy on the 1st day pre-orders were available. I did this at 10:30am that day, came home and registered my pre-order by 11:00am. So in theory, if they have a 5 day early access, I will be able to play the game 5 days before the game is released because I was one of the first to registered.
Then if you are a player that registred the pre-order let's say a month later, you could be added to the early access, but instead of 5 days early, you will be able to play 3 days early.
BioWare is planning to stagger the early access based entirely on when you registered your pre-order. The earlier you pre-order the more early access time you have, the later you registered the less time you will have.
The unknown still is A) A Release date & B) How many days ahead of release day are they going to start early access.
BattleMonkey
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http://www.vg247.com/2011/09/07/battlefield-3-pre-orders-hit-1-25m-swtor-still-on-track-for-q4/
So the game might still slip into 2012 :O
So the game might still slip into 2012 :O
rukland
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I buddy and I have been talking about ToR for ages now. And frankly the lack of confidence EA is showing in the game is rather scary. At this point they have allowed a very negative view of the game to take hold among those not playing in the beta. For that matter even the so called gaming press seems to have nothing nice to say.
If they really had any faith in this game being as good as they claim at conventions I would expect more marketing speak being tossed around. But to this point getting information about the game even the basics is a chore in combing fan site, official forums and general gaming news. The official ToR site is a wasteland when it comes to real information. I mean look at it the September beta weekends started but I dare you to find that info on the site.
I am really quite excited for the game but at this time I fully expect to wake up one morning to read that they canceled the game or that Lucas got tired of waiting yanked the license and it's now the Mass Effect MMO.
If they really had any faith in this game being as good as they claim at conventions I would expect more marketing speak being tossed around. But to this point getting information about the game even the basics is a chore in combing fan site, official forums and general gaming news. The official ToR site is a wasteland when it comes to real information. I mean look at it the September beta weekends started but I dare you to find that info on the site.
I am really quite excited for the game but at this time I fully expect to wake up one morning to read that they canceled the game or that Lucas got tired of waiting yanked the license and it's now the Mass Effect MMO.
anybody know how much many variables there are when it comes to the rpg elements? So far as i know its the usual with mmo fare with items, professions, talent trees and some form of item costumization, but stats like strenght/dex/con/wis, do they exist and do you actually get to choose where to put them? What other elements are there when it comes to character advancement?
rukland
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Morn said:
Was never trying imply that at all. Really what I was getting at is there total lack of any work at reversing said view. I mean those not in which is still a huge number don't have much to go on but the negative. Really some is dropping the ball on trying to get a good PR / marketing campaign going.
rukland
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Morn said:
Oh Morn you are such a great troll in this thread. No that's not at all what I want to hear. But if I was in charge of the PR division I would be doing my best to try and correct this negative view.
Frankly myself I don't give a shit what I read I just want a release date even if it is next year.
Vigilant Walrus
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thorsilver
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antonz said:
So do most people I know, including myself, because the vast majority of them seem to play nearly exactly the same as WOW, and give off the same vibe of being Skinner boxes designed not to be interesting so much as addictive to keep subscriptions going.
I had high hopes for this game, as the concept of an MMO excites me, but it sounds like yet another WOW clone gameplay-wise
Are there any MMOs that don't fit into this mould? I might try Trek Online when it goes F2P, because at least the space combat looks cool.
So you like buying gimmicky shit?krameriffic said:
I'd rather hear complaints about a thing than good things about a game, as the more complaints you have about a thing the worse it becomes.Door2Dawn said:
How many complaints can you bring against Xenoblade that aren't extremely minor in the eyes of even a general RPG fan?
You can't because it's an overwhelmingly great game and the most overwhelming majority of users agree.
Yeah I want one, though that has a huge input lag from what I hear, like 30ms compared to say like 8ms. Or is it response time? One of those two.Vigilant Walrus said:
thorsilver said:So do most people I know, including myself, because the vast majority of them seem to play nearly exactly the same as WOW, and give off the same vibe of being Skinner boxes designed not to be interesting so much as addictive to keep subscriptions going.
I had high hopes for this game, as the concept of an MMO excites me, but it sounds like yet another WOW clone gameplay-wise
Are there any MMOs that don't fit into this mould? I might try Trek Online when it goes F2P, because at least the space combat looks cool.
STO is probably one of the least "WoW-like" MMOs out there. With the FPS controls, even the ground game is very different.
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