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

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LAUGHTREY said:
Why bother with a gaf guild? Play with your friends, that's what everyone else will do, and thats why a gaf guild wont stay together.

The remains of the GAF guild are just about the only reason I returned to FFXIV. There are GAF guilds that stay together.
 

Retrofluxed

Member
Found this over at Reddit:

Reddit said:
Bunch of things that weren't in the patchnotes at alterswtor

Mod Extraction!

Just found this and its huge. It means you can take any modded item, take out its mods you want and use them in any other matching item. Huge step towards controlling your own appearance it creates a new source of mods from all the crap you find on the road. It's also super cheap (20 credits right now).

Smuggler grenades now have knockback on them. Enemies go flying when you hit them. There's more changes on the early smuggler, just hit level 12 and the class just feels a lot more fluid and powerful. The new cover rocks when you get the hang of it.

New companion abilities, lots of changes from the last build and custom combat comments (although Corso doesn't fucking shut up when he should anymore.)

Mods are dropping again as treasure Yay!

Took a ride on a friends spaceship to tatooine. Tried to get to the PvP area, but its in the middle of the planet. Too dangerous for level 12. Kinda like running Un'Goro at level 20 in WoW. Every sandperserson sniper shoots you from a mile away.

Reviving players now has a 15 minute cooldown. Operatives have a skill that removes this cooldown, I assume all healers get it.

Looks like there is some type of group summon, although I didn't figure out how it worked. http://imgur.com/YDiTP (The group summon appears to be similar to the Warlock summon in WoW, although slightly different. One player puts down a "Transport Beacon." Another group member must be standing near that Transport Beacon. Then, the player who is far away uses their "Guide Signal" to transport to the Transport Beacon.)

Jukeboxes in cantinas! You can buy jukebox tokens from vendors then use them to change the cantina music.
 

Moaradin

Member
BattleMonkey said:
It's been much more polished looking feeling overall. Looking good. Just need to get that AA enabled damnit

Someone posted a way to add AA in the ini files here a few weeks ago. I played with it for a bit before getting kicked from beta. Makes game look great and polished.

Not at home though, so I can't dig up the ini settings :(
 

Gvaz

Banned
I tried enabling aa in the ini but it didn't seem to work.

Moaradin said:
Someone posted a way to add AA in the ini files here a few weeks ago. I played with it for a bit before getting kicked from beta. Makes game look great and polished.

Not at home though, so I can't dig up the ini settings :(
You got kicked?
 

MaddenNFL64

Member
Being able to take out placed mods (for a fee). I dunno about that. Makes life easier for us, but seemed like a real easy money sink for the economy. I guess it saves you from losing decent mods, and with so many fucking companions & gear needed for them, it'll save us a ton of work. Well, if the fees are big enough, I guess it's still a money sink, it just doesn't go to players. Until we need new mods anyway.

Probably a good idea.
 

Woorloog

Banned
Oh come on, The Sith Empire guild "NeoGAF Empire" offers cookiees for members!
Don't tell me Europeans don't like the Sith at all... Or do i need to make advertising campaign?
All other GAF guilds are ready.
...
Arguably this is late to form another guild...

Oh and Fonds, set my guild as adversary.
 

MaddenNFL64

Member
facebook image: "The Senate on Coruscant has played host to countless diplomats from every corner of Republic space."

fbiw11211d3fnj.jpg
 

Lord Phol

Member
Woorloog said:
Oh come on, The Sith Empire guild "NeoGAF Empire" offers cookiees for members!
Don't tell me Europeans don't like the Sith at all... Or do i need to make advertising campaign?
All other GAF guilds are ready.
...
Arguably this is late to form another guild...

Oh and Fonds, set my guild as adversary.

I've applied! Sith all the way baby!
 

LAUGHTREY

Modesty becomes a woman
BattleMonkey said:
Ferny said:
Hey that negativity isn't welcome here!

I'm lying...we'd love to have you on the Empire :D

I'm not trying to be a douche or something here, but I wouldn't want to be a new player thinking the GAF guild is gonna stick together for long enough to make it worth it when everyones going to eventually just splinter off to friends.
 

Jarmel

Banned
MaddenNFL64 said:
facebook image: "The Senate on Coruscant has played host to countless diplomats from every corner of Republic space."

[mg]http://www.abload.de/img/fbiw11211d3fnj.jpg[/img]

That place is way too goddamn large.
 

Thoraxes

Member
Alright, since I remembered to do my pre-order code, I also finally remembered to apply to our guild.

Edit: Thanks Tim!

Also, when/how does this deployment thing actually take place? I honestly did not know about this until tonight. How does it work? Is the green-light thing just signaling that we are eligible for it, but actual deployment has not taken place yet?
 

Cystm

Member
Here you go.

. said:
What is Phase 3: Deployment?

During this phase, guilds that meet certain criteria will be transferred into the game. Your guild’s mini-site and forums will remain available on the website. However, guild creation and administration features will be removed from the website and moved in-game.
Shortly before Early Game Access begins, we will be bringing an end to the Pre-Launch Guild Program as we prepare guilds for import into the game. All guilds will be notified via email a week before the Pre-Launch Guild Program comes to a close.

*We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that qualifying guilds are imported into a server that meets your specified preferences, but we cannot make any guarantees given the anticipated volume of guilds (among other factors). All server placements therefore remain in our sole discretion. We also cannot take responsibility for technical errors or glitches that prevent your guild from importing into the game as planned. See Terms of Service for more details.
 

Thoraxes

Member
Cystm said:
Here you go.
What's the difference between the pre-launch phase, early access, deployment, and shortly before early access, and pre-launch guild phase?

Basically I assume pre-launch is before the game launches, early access is a week-ish before the 20th, deployment slightly before that, notification of deployment a week before early access, and pre-launch guild phase is the time between now and before deployment which is only a week before shortly before early access that you manage guild site things such as invites and server selection through the browser-based system in which those qualified for deployment are then sent an e-mail about that, and that deployment (the act of) is just to making it so that when they create a character on the server for the first time they are auto-placed into the guild?

When they import the guild in, does it mean we just fill the template they register to our given server when we create characters there and we're auto-placed into our guild (this is the only thing I actually got from it.)? Do we start playing right when deployment happens? Is the only time we can play the game "live" once the early access phase happens?

I read it on the site, it's just they have like 4-5 different terms and phrases that mean the same exact thing from the general wording, but I know it's all very specific if they're wording it differently in different places. They aren't very clear behind some of what they've said on there.
 

Zinga

Banned
I got to play a Trooper in the beta weekend a few weeks ago, this game is amazing! seriously everything I wanted it to be, anyone who is a fan of MMOs will enjoy this at release.

This game is going to be HUGE.
 

Moaradin

Member
Gvaz said:
I tried enabling aa in the ini but it didn't seem to work.


You got kicked?

yup

Here, I found the ini settings to force AA.

C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\SWTOR\squadron157\settings

in client settings, add:

AntiAliasingLevel = 2
enableadvenvirolighting = true
DebugAdvEnviroLighting = true
 

Kem0sabe

Member
Anyone planning a neogaf european guild? would go a long way to making me change my mind about buying the game or not...

Last night i was trying the new build (very polished btw) and the general chat was filled with stupidity, it seems like they invited an entire WoW server into the beta.
 

Woorloog

Banned
Kem0sabe said:
Anyone planning a neogaf european guild? would go a long way to making me change my mind about buying the game or not...
There are two: Mine, the Empire guild: http://www.swtor.com/guilds/244595/neogaf-empire and our adversary, the Republic guild: http://www.swtor.com/guilds/102756/neogaf
Both are PVP. If you pre-order, join the Sith Empire, we offer cookiees.
And US players who are not happy with PVE guilds, could you consider playing European servers?
In your place, i wouldn't
 

Woorloog

Banned
Kem0sabe said:
Apparently... your guild is not... READY! :)
It is not ready because Europeans don't seem to be supporting the Empire!
It can still accept new members.
Besides, i formed it a couple of days ago, forgot it...
 

Kem0sabe

Member
Woorloog said:
It is not ready because Europeans don't seem to be supporting the Empire!
It can still accept new members.
Besides, i formed it a couple of days ago, forgot it...

I guess evil empires are not as attractive do Europeans, at least in this decade. :)
 

Kem0sabe

Member
Woorloog said:
The Empire offers cookies! What more do people need?

And we have cooler classes.

Sith Inquisitor is by far the coolest class in game, your right about that. But playing one in the beta right now. :)
 

Woorloog

Banned
Kem0sabe said:
Sith Inquisitor is by far the coolest class in game, your right about that. But playing one in the beta right now. :)
Then stop right away, switch to Republic and join the Empire and play a cool class at launch!

Oh wait, did i just recommend you play the Republic class?
 

Kem0sabe

Member
Moaradin said:
Imperial Agent is the coolest class. Has the best story also.

People keep saying that the Agent has an amazing story, guess ill to roll one tonight.

Also trying my hand with the trooper, the story is nice but the voice work in ord mantel is god awful, one of the worst i have heard so far in the game... also... got to love the blaster fire from the rifle, the sound effects are awesome.
 

Fonds

Member
Kem0sabe said:
People keep saying that the Agent has an amazing story, guess ill to roll one tonight.

Also trying my hand with the trooper, the story is nice but the voice work in ord mantel is god awful, one of the worst i have heard so far in the game... also... got to love the blaster fire from the rifle, the sound effects are awesome.

I'm having a tough time making a choice between trooper commando or jedi sentinal.

I've always played melee classes in MMO's. Not because I hate playing ranged but I've just sorta stuck with em for some reason.
Would you recommend either one? Either because you think the trooper is awesome and a nice take on ranged DPS, or the sentinal because it's awesome a nice variation from typical melee DPS in other MMO's.
 

Woorloog

Banned
Fonds, add NeoGAF Empire as an adversary for NeoGAF?

Anyone wanna bet if i get 3 pre-ordering people to joing NeoGAF Empire before the launch?

I doubt Sentinel is a "variation" of DPS dealer, seems like standard dual-wield rogue.
 

Measley

Junior Member
Woorloog said:
Fonds, add NeoGAF Empire as an adversary for NeoGAF?

Anyone wanna bet if i get 3 pre-ordering people to joing NeoGAF Empire before the launch?

I doubt Sentinel is a "variation" of DPS dealer, seems like standard dual-wield rogue.

If only you were in America Woorloog. :( I really like your enthusiasm man.

I'm going to sign up with The GAF Empire for my Bounty Hunter.
 

Woorloog

Banned
Measley said:
If only you were in America Woorloog. :( I really like your enthusiasm man.

I'm going to sign up with The GAF Empire for my Bounty Hunter.
It would be nice to have other EU GAFers to play with. My brother may play SWTOR but not this year, he is in the FDF at the moment and a friend may play as he is a SW fan but not the sort to play a lot, every now and then only. Other friends are not interested and i have mostly bad experiences with random people in WoW (and some extremly good). Besides, if NeoGAF Empire had people, we could arrange open world PVP battles with Fonds.

EDIT BH is probably the class i'll play at launch. Awesome looking class.
 

Kem0sabe

Member
Fonds said:
I'm having a tough time making a choice between trooper commando or jedi sentinal.

I've always played melee classes in MMO's. Not because I hate playing ranged but I've just sorta stuck with em for some reason.
Would you recommend either one? Either because you think the trooper is awesome and a nice take on ranged DPS, or the sentinal because it's awesome a nice variation from typical melee DPS in other MMO's.

Haven´t played a sentinel yet, tho i recommend the Jedi Shadow if you want a fun melee dps class with added utility and stealth, i had a lot of fun with it and was able to solo many heroic quests due to the stealth ability.
 

Fonds

Member
Woorloog said:
Fonds, add NeoGAF Empire as an adversary for NeoGAF?

Anyone wanna bet if i get 3 pre-ordering people to joing NeoGAF Empire before the launch?

I doubt Sentinel is a "variation" of DPS dealer, seems like standard dual-wield rogue.

You've been added as our adversary guild Woorloog. I'm looking forward to kicking your asses soon.
I bet you'll get more players soon btw. NeoGAF republic didn't take off that quickly either.

On another note: From the gameplay I've seen so far, it seems like the shadow is more of a rogue than the sentinal. I'm guessing sentinal is more like a dps warrior, because of the lack of stealth.
I'm really leaning towards trooper lately. Must be the amount of shooters I've played lately having it's influence.
 

Woorloog

Banned
Fonds said:
I'm really leaning towards trooper lately. Must be the amount of shooters I've played lately having it's influence.
I'm leaning towards a bounty hunter. Which spec you intend to go? I may got the powertech (ie tank) but not sure yet. Would be interesting to have a mirror duel.
 

Kem0sabe

Member
Woorloog said:
I'm leaning towards a bounty hunter. Which spec you intend to go? I may got the powertech (ie tank) but not sure yet. Would be interesting to have a mirror duel.

They should implement a dueling arena for 1 vs 1 Empire - Republic fights, preferably on a lava planet and with dismemberment...
 

Fonds

Member
Woorloog said:
I'm leaning towards a bounty hunter. Which spec you intend to go? I may got the powertech (ie tank) but not sure yet. Would be interesting to have a mirror duel.

Going commando all the way baby.
I'm not wearing underpants
 
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