Star Wars The Old Republic

[Unreliable]

Seems to me to be very over hyped.

Going to try it out, see how it goes. I hope I am not as dissapointed as I was watching the livestreams. I am not a big story/lore person so to be honest I dont really care too much about a games story; which is mostly what all the hype about SWTOR is about.

Oh well, I will try it but will be playing good old DDO as well.

[Gratch]

I've always liked Bioware since Baldur's Gate brought back D&D to the PC though EA seems to have them kicking out products a little sooner than ready (Dragon Age 2 of the not enough textures/designs page). Then again... it seems there's nothing George Lucas wont due to diminish my memory of Star Wars since 1983... I can only guess he was replaced by a doppleganger... without creativity and a need to sign all marketing deals. Also this is Bioware Texas not Canada so a bit unproven of a track record.

Then again the development on the game has been going on for so many years hopefully it has a lot of strong backend, structure and content in place to make it live past the Another-Cryptic-3-months-of-MMO-and-then-everyone-leaves-MMO.

Anyways. Looks like the alpha-test is done. Game is beta released to the public. Think I'll try it in 2-3 months when it has fewer server-instance-crashes, zany load times, borked video drivers, client crashes etc. All recent complex games have these things... there just always seem to be a large glut of them in the first few months.

Ty for all the current posted impressions/reviews.

[Krelar]

I can only guess he was replaced by a doppleganger... without zero creativity and a need to sign all marketing deals.

I'm assuming a typo but I'll have fun with it anyway. His creativity is actually negative! It sucks the creativity out of all those around him!

[Gratch]

Yeah... typo. Though true... negative creativity in that he has shat upon that what was once good. e.g., "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"



I heard that the entrance queue times are exceeding 90 minutes now that it's released? Truth or rumors?

Given it's so instanced for most of the population... that's very sad. Rent extra servers for the first X months tightwad f'ing EA.

I understood the Planetside cap lock... I mean it was a single PvP instance with 100's from each of the 3 teams at once on the same no-boundaries ginormous map. That's a technical limitation.

World entrance to a fully instanced game is a pocketbook limitation. Bad EA. *Whacks with a stick*

[Bilger]

Yeah... typo. Though true... negative creativity in that he has shat upon that what was once good. e.g., "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"



I heard that the entrance queue times are exceeding 90 minutes now that it's released? Truth or rumors?

Given it's so instanced for most of the population... that's very sad. Rent extra servers for the first X months tightwad f'ing EA.

I understood the Planetside cap lock... I mean it was a single PvP instance with 100's from each of the 3 teams at once on the same no-boundaries ginormous map. That's a technical limitation.

World entrance to a fully instanced game is a pocketbook limitation. Bad EA. *Whacks with a stick*

Been playing SWTOR for a few days now got in on early access and yeah ques did get up there in time depending on where you wanted to play.

Some 5-10 minutes and even saw one for 2hours.

What's funny is there was plenty of servers not full just seems Bioware stuffed a lot of guilds on each server and forced people to play those if wanted to be in guild that joined on forums.

When the game started, actual everyone can play on 20th, they opened multiple new servers and are slowly expanding original ones to cut ques down.

It seems to be working as 10min ques seem to be norm now sometimes a lil more depending on when trying to log in.

Gameplay wise it is standard MMO type. It seems they tried to take the best of most mmos and put in 1 mmo.

The thing I like is there isn't the camping you see in other mmos or very lil of it. If there is a special name boss or something you have small instances so don't have to camp a named. There are times though when have to activate certain number of pillars or such and have to wait a couple minutes becase someone just did it. That's in non instanced areas.

Companions are great so far. My main is a healer and use my Dashade to tank for me and soloed even some of must group areas. Was a real challenge though. DDO can take a page or to from this for there hirelings and such these companions seem to do there job nicely.

Storyline and cut scenes are awesome makes the game alone worth playing. Makes you want to run each class just to see what they will do for them.

Races don't matter much accept in some story lines like Sith line if was a slave race they disrespect you throughout story as where a sith race it's a bit different on how treated.

Just got my ship and haven't done any space battles yet so can't comment there yet.

No LFM panel it's all done through general chat so if want to run a group quest have to shout out and get the a random invite. Not liking that to much.

On Dark Vulkar haven't joined a guild yet as waiting to see who gets a rep and not.

PVP is a blast IMO each has different objectives but killing and healing is main fun there. Haven't got far enough to run into any lightside players outside of where I am. LVL 22 atm 50 is cap.

Thats my OP and what have seen so far and I am enjoying it so far.

Don't know how long will keep me from DDO but needed a break from DDO. Burnt out and needed change after 5+ years here. I am sure the flame will reignite but SWTOR has me for now.

[Truga]

[LolWutRoflstomped]

I am enjoying the game greatly. I have uninstalled and unsubbed DDO.

[Musouka]

I am enjoying the game greatly. I have uninstalled and unsubbed DDO.

2nded...

Been playing this since the very first day of early access. I have a Light Side Bounty Hunter at 50, and Dark Side Jedi Consular at 50. Then several other characters at low to mid levels. My BH is an off-tank spec DPS. I love playing as a BH, because it is the first time a ranged DPS actually feels like DPS. My Consular is a healer spec, and am loving the Heal over Time abilities. I also enjoy that everyone has the same set number of resources. There is no stat that is directly tied to how much Force Points, Heat allowance, Ammo, etc. that you will have. Everyone is the same, and certain classes get a minor boost from spending skill points. Even that is capped. It's a start toward balancing PvP. As having limited resources, you almost always hit points where you do run out and have to just use basic attacks or certain abilities to replenish at the cost of HP or cooldown delay.

It's easy to find people to group with, even though they don't have a LFM panel or board, the chat suffices quite well. I do miss party voice chat from DDO, though. I don't have the patience to put together a group and make sure everyone has Ventrilo before jumping in, so there is a lot relying on reading the chat window. Eventually I will join a guild and get in with a good static group that I can just always play with.

It seems like Turbine is putting in a last ditch effort with their expansion they have on the schedule. If this doesn't grab them new players that will pay for the game, then I don't know what will. We all know Update 13 will release buggy as hell and break several things that they had finally fixed with U12 patch 3. Lag will be back again. Then a digital expansion update will just take the cake. I actually do hope it launches smoothly, because I really would like to have something to come back to later on.

[Arnhelm]

It's a start toward balancing PvP.

I was marginally interested up to that point.

[TEcarson]

I am enjoying the game greatly. I have uninstalled and unsubbed DDO.

Hmmm....maybe you should delete/stop using your forum account as well?

[GeneralDiomedes]

Back playing DDO after a month .. I found the game too repetitive to put any serious time into. Too bad it is a subscription based game, it would be fun to play every few weeks or so.

[LolWutRoflstomped]

Hmmm....maybe you should delete/stop using your forum account as well?

Maybe you should!