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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]

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Doncamatic

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Checking out some of this PAX footage has increased my hype. It's looking really nice. I'm liking their take on the Blizzard, not afraid to use the whole colour pallete, art style. Even in the space segment the nice blues of the booster looked vivid.

Sent an app for the republic guild as a trooper, then I found out you can't have more than one guild atm, which is a shame. For what it's worth I'd probably be more up for PvP but if the concensus is PvE I can swing that way. Also apparently my swtor website handle is Plainswander.
 
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CzarTim

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reggieandTFE said:
I hope that person just sucks because watching that made me not want to be a smuggler anymore. The Jedis were flipping and killing shit, the trooper was blasting and the smuggler was daintily strafing around while occasionally point the pistol at something.
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Smuggler is a control class, but yeah, that guy didn't seem to know what he was doing.
 
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Doncamatic

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From what I gathered he was just playing a healing specced smuggler. So those small droids he summoned around him and then targetted at his party were how he targetted the healing. I think it looked boring from his perspective, but, it was just some random mobs not as if that is what boss fight healing is like. Given what some of the encounters in WoW are like, at this stage in its life-cycle, I don't envy the work that the Bioware encounter designers are going to have to do to hold a candle to some of the more in-depth encounters in WoW.
 
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Door2Dawn

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CcrooK said:
Is the Bounty Hunter class playable at PAX? I'd love to see some footage of the class in action.
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BW said that all 8 classes would be playable at PAX. Maybe tomorrow people will start posting more videos.
 
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Derwind

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Gaf help me out, I'm conflicted, I've just joined a guild with some pretty rad people but I want to join the GAF guild as well...

I can't wait to see the Consular Shadow gameplay footage. I mean more than the small snippets we've already seen. I want to expect how they'll handle...:p
 
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Emitan

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Derwind said:
Gaf help me out, I'm conflicted, I've just joined a guild with some pretty rad people but I want to join the GAF guild as well...

I can't wait to see the Consular Shadow gameplay footage. I mean more than the small snippets we've already seen. I want to expect how they'll handle...:p
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Once the game comes out you can be in more than one guild.
 
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Zeal

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the graphics look a hell of a lot better now, but the problem is the combat looks so incredibly boring and static.
 
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Zeal

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czartim said:
All MMOs look that way.
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try playing TERA or DC Online. the combat is realtime, fast and extremely fun. this is what all MMOs are going to. this just doesn't have it.

i don't like to walk up to a target and essentially stand there and auto-attack. that's not real gameplay.
 
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Speculator

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Zeal said:
try playing TERA or DC Online. the combat is realtime, fast and extremely fun. this is what all MMOs are going to. this just doesn't have it.

i don't like to walk up to a target and essentially stand there and auto-attack. that's not real gameplay.
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Theres no auto attack.
 
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kitzkozan

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Zeal said:
try playing TERA or DC Online. the combat is realtime, fast and extremely fun. this is what all MMOs are going to. this just doesn't have it.

i don't like to walk up to a target and essentially stand there and auto-attack. that's not real gameplay.
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Lol was gonna say there is no auto-attack. :p
 
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BattleMonkey

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Zeal said:
try playing TERA or DC Online. the combat is realtime, fast and extremely fun. this is what all MMOs are going to. this just doesn't have it.

i don't like to walk up to a target and essentially stand there and auto-attack. that's not real gameplay.
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So your claiming kotor and majority of rpgs ever are not real game play?
 
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Emitan

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czartim said:
I just watched a gameplay vid of GW2. Looks exactly the same as TOR.

And DCU combat is boring. There's no depth, it's just faster pace.
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No autoattcking, everything is a skill. Dodges and rolling are how you avoid attacks, you have to manually block with shields, positioning of abilities matters (make a firewall and have someone use a ranged attack through it to add fire damage).
 
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Door2Dawn

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Billychu said:
No autoattcking, everything is a skill. Dodges and rolling are how you avoid attacks, you have to manually block with shields, positioning of abilities matters (make a firewall and have someone use a ranged attack through it to add fire damage).
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Okay, then go play that..
 
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kitzkozan

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czartim said:
I just watched a gameplay vid of GW2. Looks exactly the same as TOR.

And DCU combat is boring. There's no depth, it's just faster pace.
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DCU is horrid imo,but Tera combat actually look awesome.It's a true action mmorpg so everything is real time and you actually have to manually dodge monster attacks.

The old republic combat is similar to WoW except with no auto attack.It's already faster paced,but it does look weird to see gun users who just stand in front of a jedi or monster instead of kiting (although it make sense gameplay wise to stop the game from being a perpetual kite fest).I think you can actually be a ranged tank.
 
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CzarTim

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Billychu said:
No autoattcking, everything is a skill. Dodges and rolling are how you avoid attacks, you have to manually block with shields, positioning of abilities matters (make a firewall and have someone use a ranged attack through it to add fire damage).
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My point was that they look the same when you are watching videos of other people playing them. You can never get a feel for MMO combat until you actually play it.
 
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Blackface

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I will have some footage from PAX East that will be going up in the next couple days. Of various games, but a good amount of SWTOR.
 
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Emitan

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czartim said:
My point was that they look the same when you are watching videos of other people playing them. You can never get a feel for MMO combat until you actually play it.
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Ah, OK. I do enjoy rambling on about GW2, though. I can't wait for both of these games at all.
 
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Zeal

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kitzkozan said:
DCU is horrid imo,but Tera combat actually look awesome.It's a true action mmorpg so everything is real time and you actually have to manually dodge monster attacks.
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in that case, i have been uninformed. if it is real time like that and you actually have to move and think, i'm gonna attempt to get in beta.

so far, TERA is the most fun i have had in ANY MMO to date. the combat is amazing.
 
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Door2Dawn

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Zeal said:
in that case, i have been uninformed. if it is real time like that and you actually have to move and think, i'm gonna attempt to get in beta.

so far, TERA is the most fun i have had in ANY MMO to date. the combat is amazing.
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Yeah TERA looks really good. Too bad the game looks like it will melt my computer if I try to play it :(
 
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Emitan

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Really not liking some of the UI elements. They need to stop using the large all caps "Star Wars" font on everything. The spoils box is horrific with big huge buttons just to contain the letters.
 
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BattleMonkey

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Billychu said:
Really not liking some of the UI elements. They need to stop using the large all caps "Star Wars" font on everything. The spoils box is horrific with big huge buttons just to contain the letters.
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Assume one can customize much of the ui hopefully like most mmos
 
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BattleMonkey

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So the gameplay demo at the show is of a single flashpoint right? Doesn't seem to be one on the list at the official site though they said there was more than what was previewed on the site.
 
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Trickster

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Zeal said:
absolutely not. i question if you've even played it.
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I haven't played it, but I've watched some videoes, a lot of it I think looks great, but I can't help but think back to my experience with aion when I found a video of an instance/dungeon in Tera that basically looked like a mazelike grey dungeon filled with 2 types of enemies that the party did nothing but aoe down.
 
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Vlodril

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So many news the last few day its great. I think an interview said they are still aiming for spring release but i am ok with delaying it until its ready. It's obvious that if you fail at launch , you cant recover easily or at all.

Game looks great, apart from space combat and i am resigned to it not changing until there is an expansion or something. Was hoping for some cantina and mini games news (there is a great thread on the forums about it) but i guess fluff isn't important enough.
 
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BattleMonkey

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Nice the walkthrough gives some good gameplay info and finally some confirmation that cover mechanics are in the game. Previews mentioned cover before but never actually showed it in any gameplay demo.
 
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Littleberu

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BattleMonkey said:
Nice the walkthrough gives some good gameplay info and finally some confirmation that cover mechanics are in the game. Previews mentioned cover before but never actually showed it in any gameplay demo.
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I'm pretty sure they did show it in the Smuggler walkthrough a while back
 
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BattleMonkey

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They have mentioned cover in several previews but don't remember them ever actually showing it used in combat or shown it used in the actual gameplay demos. They usually show everyone just running around out in the open.
 
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