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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]
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there is no click heal or macro functions in the ui and bioware has no plans to allow any kind of user mods.
Last Hearth
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It's over 11:59 pm CST on the 28th.
BrLvgThrChmstry
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So pleased, I got in Friday as well.I was slightly worried they wouldn't give me much of a chance to actually try out the game.
Woooohooo! ...Saturday :\
Not bad by any means but I'd love to start playing Friday. Oh well, more Skyrim and SR3 time!
Every flashpoint I did was easier and shorter than that god awful quest. It's hard, repetitive, long, and boring. It's the fucking definition of a filler quest and easily my most hated quest in the entire game.
I'll give a background on the quest for people who don't know. It's a Heroic 4 on Taris. It involves you fighting through atleast a hundred Mandalorians for the first part of the quest. I know this because the first two parts of the bonus missions for that area are something like 40 Mandalorians and then 75 Mandalorians and you finish that way before you get to the next part. The area where this quest is located is essentially a big square and for part of it you have to fight to a corner and then fight back out of the corner due to enemy respawns. Next part is a bitch to find where to go if you don't know. You then have to fight up three to four more floors of Mandalorians and droids which are significantly harder than the first batch. One enemy in particular wiped out our group multiple times due to his insane HP and attack damage. After which you arrive at the top and have to kill a bunch more Mandalorians hitsquads. Oh and if you don't move fast enough at any point, enemy squads are likely to respawn on top of you. Not to mention the level design and enemy placement means it's hard as fuck to avoid alot of enemy confrontations. After you kill the boss, you then have to decide whether to commit suicide and respawn at the nearest health center or waste two hours fighting out. Of course the bonus boss is at the bottom of the building and out of the way. So you have to respawn at the nearest health center and then fight all the way to the bonus boss. Before the enemy buffs it took a solid hour and a half and now it's atleast a two hour playthrough assuming you can finish it.
The people who designed this quest should be fired.
razgriz417
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My beta invite starts on 11/26.
Is there anyway i can download the 20 GB client before tomorrow? My internet at home is so much worse than my parents, and i'm just wanting to see if i can download early
It says there is currently no active subscription on my account.
swtor.com/tester You can go and start downloading the client now. You don't have to wait until the day of the beta. I've had mine loaded up since Monday
GasProblem
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I'm expecting the servers to crash and burn on Friday.
razgriz417
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Yup me too
Good thing that's the point.
Though I feel bad for people who are getting in thinking that they'll actually have a hassle-free experience on the most massive stress-test weekend yet.
They are adding more servers which is good since the one I am on has a high population.
I just hope weekend testers don't join this one due to the high population.
LowParry
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Oh yeah. Which means time in the character creation page for a good hour. That is, if we'll be able to log in. lol
LowParry
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15th in some people's case.
If the staggering for this beta is any indication... I should be getting in 5 days early.
Yeah I should be in early but the 20th is when EVERYONE can enjoy this game!
LowParry
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I don't see this game going F2P any time soon. Or ever for that matter.
Yeh I don't think EA/Bioware is the kind of company to change their subscription model in the near future.
going F2P is not fail, it's a bliss.
But they could make more money from subscription... I guess.
throwawayname
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Friday say whaaaaaaaaaat.
That will be easy. Swtor will have 2,5-3,5Mio First Weeks Sales, if only 40% subscribes we already have the one million subscribers
LowParry
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You'll be fine. You'll just have to adjust to the idea that there is no auto attacking. The rest experience on your own and enjoy it.
Yeah, I've read that mentioned. I'm sure I'll figure it out after the first few deaths!
Really hope I like this, love the Star Wars universe so much. On the flipside, I also subscibed to the WoW Annual Pass (damn you Diablo 3!).
EDIT: Actually, do we know if this is Mac bound?
Really hope I like this, love the Star Wars universe so much. On the flipside, I also subscibed to the WoW Annual Pass (damn you Diablo 3!).
EDIT: Actually, do we know if this is Mac bound?
They had an extended maintenance window yesterday (as i just started on taris i was curious about this hard as nails quest everyone is talking about), so i guess the servers will be up for the added weekend testers.
On another note, i really hope they rebalance mob difficulty before release, this is getting ridiculous.
On another note, i really hope they rebalance mob difficulty before release, this is getting ridiculous.
Vigilant Walrus
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annoyed at people saying the pve is to hard on the tester forums: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=639273
If anything this is what this genre needs. some danger, some thinking. In reality what makes MMOs feel like a grind if often because they are so straightforward and requires no thinking. I say good riddance if the solo game is so challanging that you will have difficulties if you choose to play alone.
That's the sort of challange that makes a game worth completing! I hope they won't nerf it. Just give more room for to use the companions for skill.
If anything this is what this genre needs. some danger, some thinking. In reality what makes MMOs feel like a grind if often because they are so straightforward and requires no thinking. I say good riddance if the solo game is so challanging that you will have difficulties if you choose to play alone.
That's the sort of challange that makes a game worth completing! I hope they won't nerf it. Just give more room for to use the companions for skill.
They already nerfed some of the difficulty. RR was damn near broken as it is. Solo content should be easily solo-able. You shouldn't need a group for class quests. Part of the 'feeling' of the story is that you the character are heroic. You shouldn't be wiping out in solo content unless you're severly underleveled.
disagree strongly
replacing challenge with grinding is one of the worst things about RPGs and MMOS in general, which is why I generally don't do it.
Who says you should be grinding? I didn't grind damn near at all and I was level 25 on Taris and left with unfinished quests. Challenge and grinding are two separate issues.
kyo_daikun
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Im in for friday, wont get much time to play on sunday tho as im on a night shift I think.
AZRandom_guy
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Agree with you Jarmel on the grinding aspect. I never grinded on anything past level 9 (grinded out level 9-10 on starter planets) - there's just no need. As long as people do all the quests and some of the heroics, there's no need for grinding.
And for the record, fuck that Ravaged Reconstruction quest, and even several heroic quests on Hoth and Balmorra this last patch. Some of them have so many mobs to wade through with such a fast respawn rate that it makes it not even worth the trouble. I left a bunch of planets with heroic quests just because of the overtuned mobs.
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