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

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Yasae

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czartim said:
I just want an Ewok pet.
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Bring him closer...

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Ickman3400

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Yasae said:
How about traitorous wretch...

Oh wait, wrong carapace-head.
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they do kinda look the same :eek:

Anyway, application is submitted. I broke the balance, now there's 5 sith warriors and 4 of everything else. Kind of a dick move on my part, but hey we're sith.
 
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Derwind

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AtomHeart said:
Get a grip, there are 39 weeks left in this year and you missed out on one measly update which probably would have been a developer blog post anyway.
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This was the first thing I've posted here that sounded somewhat like a complaint.

I don't like that a perfectly good update was wasted on something as juvenile as "April Fools".

I didn't say it was "THE END OF THE WORLD" or that I was outraged.

I just commented on my preference. Otherwise, I can live not having a proper update this week.
 
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BattleMonkey

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Well the bounty hunters you play as are apparently story wise working for the Empire, the SW universe tends to portray most bounty hunters as bad guys for the most part. I'm sure the storyline for the BH will have you simply working for the Empire but not really a part of it.

czartim said:
Smugs too :(
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In the fluff the smugglers formed an alliance on the side of the Republic, there was a holorecord about it too. Seems they took out of the page of the older novels where a smuggler alliance was set up in support of the New Republic.
 
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bjaelke

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BattleMonkey said:
Well the bounty hunters you play as are apparently story wise working for the Empire, the SW universe tends to portray most bounty hunters as bad guys for the most part. I'm sure the storyline for the BH will have you simply working for the Empire but not really a part of it.



In the fluff the smugglers formed an alliance on the side of the Republic, there was a holorecord about it too. Seems they took out of the page of the older novels where a smuggler alliance was set up in support of the New Republic.
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There was a longer article on why they didn't create a third faction for Bounty Hunters and Smugglers and it came down to game design. BW and Smugglers are not known for working together although you could also make that case with their current factions. Some of the BWs story line will not directly involve the Empire story. Not sure if it's the same for the Smuggler. Will try to find the article/interview later, because it was really explaining the reasons behind BioWare's decisions.

Also the republic side is for fat hairy soccer moms and the Dutch.
 
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CzarTim

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Yeah, I know their reasoning. Still sucks though (but by no means a deal breaker.)

I likely would have gone dark side, but only the BH class interests me over there.
 
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antonz

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Yesterdays April Fools update did actually give some new details.

We got to see some of the facial animation and emotes in work,Confirmed blacked out Sex scenes in the game lol
 
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Trouble

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Blackface said:
I added it to the front page a couple days ago.
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Maybe put it near the top of the OP? That's a shit ton of scrolling to get to the bottom of that post. GAF are lazy, after all.
 
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Dr. Chaos

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None of the republic classes really interest me except for maybe trooper (always loved the storm trooper style armor) so it seems like I'll be with the empire for the long run.

Can't really see myself being a Jedi outside of trying it down the line for the class specific storyline, it sounds like you can be a lightside character no matter your class so I'd rather just be a Sith and live free.

The Jedi code can kiss my ass. I'm getting that droid for half the credits.

*mind rapes merchants into lowering prices*
 
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The_Inquisitor

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Hey now. WAY too many empire signups today. How about some love for the light side?

Other than troopers, we are quite balanced so far. 35 members already is awesome!
 
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bjaelke

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The_Inquisitor said:
Other than troopers, we are quite balanced so far. 35 members already is awesome!
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I think that there'll always be some classes that are underrepresented no matter what mmo you look at. For those playing that class it just means more loot and for the rest it means, that they might have to choose an advance class to cover for the missing class - be it tank or healer. Maybe (hopefully) the open beta will convert some people to the lesser represented classes although I can understand why so many people wants to play the force/lightsaber classes.
 
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Emitan

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It's all about advanced classes anyway. Just because there's 7 Smugglers (I think) doesn't mean all of us are going Gunslinger. I'm going to be a Scoundrel and maybe focus on healing. But that might make soloing too hard, so I don't know.
 
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hermit7

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I find it stupid you can't sign up for multiple guilds on the same account. Or at least limit it to 1 republic and 1 empire.

Tried to sign up for the GAF Rep guild but I am already a member of the Gaf Empire.
 
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Ferny

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hermit7 said:
I find it stupid you can't sign up for multiple guilds on the same account. Or at least limit it to 1 republic and 1 empire.

Tried to sign up for the GAF Rep guild but I am already a member of the Gaf Empire.
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You can once the game actually rolls out they said. As of now website accounts are limited to just one faction.
 
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Dr. Chaos

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Been playing the hell out of KOTOR for the first time lately. I expected it to be good but it's even better than I was expecting.

HK-47 is great. His casual insults of Sand People culture while translating their history are hilarious. Perfect C-3PO for a new generation.

Hopefully The Old Republic can live up to the experience.
 
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Creamwolf

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Dr. Chaos said:
Been playing the hell out of KOTOR for the first time lately. I expected it to be good but it's even better than I was expecting.

HK-47 is great. His casual insults of Sand People culture while translating their history are hilarious. Perfect C-3PO for a new generation.

Hopefully The Old Republic can live up to the experience.
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Literally, I just rofl'd thinking about HK's one liners. He's a god. I'm going to have to buy kotor for pc or bust out the old xbox.
 
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The_Inquisitor

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hermit7 said:
I find it stupid you can't sign up for multiple guilds on the same account. Or at least limit it to 1 republic and 1 empire.

Tried to sign up for the GAF Rep guild but I am already a member of the Gaf Empire.
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That is pretty dumb. Moral of the story? Sign up for Republic now and Empire later. :p
 
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reggieandTFE

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Billychu said:
It's all about advanced classes anyway. Just because there's 7 Smugglers (I think) doesn't mean all of us are going Gunslinger. I'm going to be a Scoundrel and maybe focus on healing. But that might make soloing too hard, so I don't know.
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Yeah, I really hope they reveal more information about the advanced classes soon. I'm leaning towards playing as a Scoundrel as well and in a perfect world I'd be able to balance healing duties with stealth, dirty-fighting support. I'm worried that by specializing in neither I'll end up sucking in both.
 
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Derwind

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The_Inquisitor said:
That is pretty dumb. Moral of the story? Sign up for Republic now and Empire later. :p
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I'd be pretty disappointed in the GAF guild if everyone took to their faction and never tried playing out the other sides.

To be honest, there are only really 4 classes that I want to play immediately.

#1 Jedi Consular - Shadow AC - probably going to focus on DPS & CC skill's, add some Buffs & Debuffs, and maybe some very minor healing in the shared skill tree of Consulars.

#2 Bounty Hunter - Very Likely Mercenary AC - Pure Uncensored Explosive In your face DPS!!! I will shoot every single type of missile at your direction until all thats left is a ugly fat crater.

#3 Smuggler - Probably Scoundrel - Undecided Skills

#4 Sith Warrior - Probably Marauder maybe Juggernaut - Undecided Skills


Two republic & Two imperial classes. Nice and even. :D


The maybe classes I'll play are Imperial Agent or Jedi Knight......

I find SI's and Troopers are really not what I'm looking for. :/
 
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bjaelke

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The Community team structure as a whole isn't changing, it's just expanding. We're getting BioWare employees 'on the ground' in Europe to work directly with community members, and in their timezone.

Server details will be revealed at a later date.
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Looks like they will keep the whole community together (US and EU), so maybe there's a chance they won't localize client versions either. There was some talk earlier of the power of EA and what that might entail in terms of servers. When this is clarified I might join/setup a guild...
Derwind said:
#1 Jedi Consular - Shadow AC - probably going to focus on DPS & CC skill's, add some Buffs & Debuffs, and maybe some very minor healing in the shared skill tree of Consulars.

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I find SI's and Troopers are really not what I'm looking for. :/
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The Sith Inquisitor (sorcerer) is very similar to what you just explained there. It is also one of the reasons it's very high up on my "characters to test in the beta" list.
 
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Derwind

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bjaelke said:
The Sith Inquisitor (sorcerer) is very similar to what you just explained there. It is also one of the reasons it's very high up on my "characters to test in the beta" list.
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I think you mean Sith Inquisitor Assassin, they're apparently supposed to be the most like Jedi Consular Shadows. The mechanics are near identical.

But the reason why my main is going to be Shadow is mostly due to the EU story behind them, I really like the idea of being like an agent for the Jedi. It just blows my mind.

Not to mention, I'm very comfortable with the shaman-like hybrid class like Shadow is from my previous MMO experience.

And well, I want to play the light side/republic storyline to start out with. :shrug
 
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bjaelke

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Derwind said:
I think you mean Sith Inquisitor Assassin, they're apparently supposed to be the most like Jedi Consular Shadows. The mechanics are near identical.
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I was actually referring the sorcerer and the many CC abilities at his disposal + heal and (ranged) dps. Obviously it's closer to a druid and not a shaman as you're looking for.
 
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Derwind

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bjaelke said:
I was actually referring the sorcerer and the many CC abilities at his disposal + heal and (ranged) dps. Obviously it's closer to a druid and not a shaman as you're looking for.
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Ahh, will the Assassin will have a pretty sizable amount of melee CC's and melee DPS(though to be specific, these like the Consular Shadow are mostly reserved fore when in stealth).

Ranged DPS is not for me. :(
 
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