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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]
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MaddenNFL64
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The PVP is going to be pretty party based. I think lone wolf types will be sorely disappointed.
Well, from what it looks like now anyway, with the way tanking is implemented, and the fact you can't destroy someone in 2 hits.
Well, from what it looks like now anyway, with the way tanking is implemented, and the fact you can't destroy someone in 2 hits.
That's good. getting gangraped in pvp and not being able to do anything about it (why no group silencers for everyone that last long enough for a person to run away? just make it so you can only use it when 2 or more enemies are surrounded by you and put it on a 2.5 minute CD with a 15 second effect.MaddenNFL64 said:
ferr said:
The developers said that there is a lot of empty space on Tatooine as well as Hoth because that is what you expect from a desert and ice planet, an empty, desolate space since the habitat is so harsh.
As of right now, I like the choice since it actually makes sense. Those two planets should be like that, with little pockets of life where an oasis or hot springs are at. I might change my mind when i get there and just get bored roaming around the desert with nothing in sight.
Broadbandito
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I totally signed up on an old email from school that I can't check anymore XO. I changed my email. Hopefully they didn't send me an email about it already to the other one 
Gonaria said:
It's the same development choice as in KOTR, where you go out of the conclave and you have a massive desert map infront of you that takes a long time to walk across, with NPC's and mobs having a huge distance between each other.
With it being story driven, you know at least you shouldnt have to grind mobs between locations to get exp.
Sax Russel
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syoaran said:
Yeah, it's expansive, but it's not bad. And by the time you're doing Tatooine and Hoth you have mounts anyway.
ferr said:
I hope it does have a lot of empty space. Fucking deserts or tundras with some shit every five feet are awful. It doesn't need to be as expansive and empty as SWG, but enough to create a cool atmosphere and so you actually feel like you're in a desert.
The problem with SWG was that those areas were huge and they were REALLY empty. When you were there, you just thought, "OK, time to leave."Spire said:
Although, it was cool to see a random krayt skeleton.
I hope they have krayt dragons in TOR. Susceptible to KD/stun, of course
release this game already, damnit
HarryDemeanor
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ferr said:
There are world bosses in-game according to Daniel Erickson. I'd like a Krayt Dragon to be one of those.
I dont care if they have to zone off an area to be instanced for player Housing its something they need to end up adding. Galaxies and its player housing was great. I know early on they are cheating with the personalized starship stuff but player housing should happen even if it means restricted to like Coruscant and Dromund Kaas
HarryDemeanor
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I would welcome SWG style player housing with open arms in any game.
I agree its just I think Player Housing has a place thats been greatly diminished. I was the first person on my server to have a Large Naboo House. I worked my ass off with an architect friend. It was a huge accomplishment. Managed to find a spot right below the Emperor's Retreat that looked down the mountain etc.ferr said:
Player Housing has its drawbacks of course in a wide open map when suddenly half of Tatooine is houses.
antonz said:
I think having a starship as your house is much much better than just a regular freakin house. It would be cool if you could visit the planet's starport and see all of the ships that are docked there at the time, and then go around visiting them, knocking on doors to see who is home and pop in for a visit. (basically to check out how they customized their starship digs)
ferr said:
Can't say I ever played SWG since it just looked horrible, but I just looked up the housing system there, and I still think my idea is better. Mostly because I cant reconcile having and maintaining a house with Star Wars. A ship acting as your house is just a whole lot cooler
Dmax3901 said:
I can't get past that either
HarryDemeanor
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Dmax3901 said:
What are you using? I had to install Firefox to get it to work since it isn't compatible with Chrome.
Ignis Fatuus
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The personal ships serve as player housing.ferr said:
HixxSAFC said:
ooo, sweet. It actually finally worked for me. Finally worked with Firefox. I tried Firefox first, but that never worked, then went with IE, but that was just so slow and horrid that that never worked. Went back and tried Firefox again for the hell of it and it worked.
Now ill wait for the inevitable beta invite. Right? Right?
I was a fan of SWG's player housing right up until I played the game. I spent a good 10 minutes riding out to an objective only to find that some twat-bag built his house on top of it and there was jack shit I could do. Bullshit like that, the numerous ghost-towns and the amount of landscape that was uglied up by player houses turned me off of that system pretty quickly. It's a system that could work in the right game (TOR is not that game, it's not nearly open-ended enough) and with some restrictions but the SWG implementation was pretty flawed.
Thats why I think a system like having it only on places like Coruscant can work. Whole damn planet is buildings. So they can just design so many types of apartments that people can buy. Have varying prices from small lower levels slummy stuff upto Top of Skyscraper penthouses.
Ignis Fatuus
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Honestly, what would be the point when you already have ships? The ship is housing that follows you from world to world. It's actually a stroke of brilliance in that using it is a necessity and that it's always relatively close at hand.antonz said:
Ignis Fatuus said:
It's also home to your companions, which have the same amount of content and story as your NPC side kicks in other Bioware MMO games. So really its a natural evolution. I didnt get to see any space battles during my time playing the game, but I really hope that they will eventually patch in pvp and battle damage effecting your ship - making the bond between home and player stronger.
BattleMonkey
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Having houses and such while neat, was one of countless un-star wars like things in swg ( lol chef class in star wars) . Ship housing is so much more appropriate.
HarryDemeanor
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Hopefully TOR will feature the ever popular Star Wars Galaxies Ewok Love Festival.
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
I was finally able to sink some time into this game.
Lay all doubts to rest.
It. Is. Going. To. Be. Awesome.
Lay all doubts to rest.
It. Is. Going. To. Be. Awesome.
vitaminwateryum
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Why did invites have to go out the week before I update my PC
HarryDemeanor
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Derwind said:
makaveli13
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Dmax3901 said:
I've given up on the scanner. Tried IE 64 and firefox. Tried installing latest Java. Tried compat mode, running in ie7 mode, running as admin, uninstalling the scanner then letting browser re-installing it. Pretty frustrating.
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