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Apologies if this is considered off-topic, but I figure this is the best place to ask... Does anyone have that picture of Darth Malgus(?) with a bunch of rambling, grammatically-unstable text calling him "DARTH VUDOR" and calling out the aesthetic similarities between TOR and the movies? I've tried Googling in various ways, but the main result tends to be a post from our very own PYF Official Request Images thread. Beef Hardcheese fucked around with this message at 02:57 on May 16, 2013 |
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Fuzz posted:Do most of you guys sub or are you F2P with tokens and crap? I spent about ten dollars for cartel coins, just so I could use them to unlock the speeder early on and get the Sprint ability. I think of it as an investment in making the game more playable, and being able to get around faster so that I don't waste as much time holding down 'W' between mobs. Edit: Fuzz posted:I have that poo poo already since I preordered and had CE. No need to actually drop cash otherwise so far? For me, not really. There are a good number of times when the game tells you that you should be subscribing, which can be a little annoying. Like it'll say "You are gaining xp at a reduced rate. Subscribe to gain at the full rate!" or sometimes there are quest rewards you're locked out of that it'll say "Subscribers get more quest reward options! Click to subscribe!" And there are some relatively minor things that I'm probably going to pay for eventually. Mainly expanded bag slots and the ability to hide my head equipment. I picked up my first headpiece last night, and it's basically a Vader-like facial piece that distorts my character's voice in the cutscenes. hobbesmaster posted:Protip: autorun is mouse 4. Bind it somewhere else if you don't have one. I'll rebind autorun to numlock when I get home. I'm stuck with a crappy two-button mouse right now.  Beef Hardcheese fucked around with this message at 22:02 on May 17, 2013 |
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May 17, 2013 21:53
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Mr. Peepers posted:I decided to try out the game because hey, F2P and I have no self respect so why not? I make an Imperial agent and start rolling through the newbie zones, and eventually get tired of spamming the key for my basic attack so I ask in chat if there's a way to turn on autofire for the ability. So this happens (my name is Drickson): I asked in general chat "Are speeders like mounts from WoW?" in the "a thing that makes you go places faster" sense. In about thirty seconds everyone started complaining about Pandaren, Diablo's RMAH, Starcraft 2, and on and on and on and on. It was really weird.
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May 19, 2013 06:43
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I got mine around level 10 or so, around the time I left Korriban. I'm not a sub, and just hit Legacy Level 2 at character level 26. Edit: Though I was Preferred by then, since I had bought the speeder unlock. Beef Hardcheese fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 25, 2013 |
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May 25, 2013 20:33
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WarLocke posted:I think my favorite example of really stupid Imperial questgivers was the guy on Balmorra who kept losing troops to Colicoids. His plan? Give you the chopped-up remains of his troops, which had been laced with poison, so you can dump the pieces in Colicoid feasting mounds and as they died from eating poisoned people meat they would learn to avoid people. That quest could have gone much darker. From what he was saying, I was expecting him to say something like "We have some prisoners who we've injected with this poison. Escort them to the Colicoid mounds and make sure they don't get eaten by the ones above ground. We want you to shove them into the tunnels so that they'll be eaten by the queens and larvae. Make sure they're still alive when you do this, their screaming will attract attention faster."
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May 26, 2013 21:56
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I'm Preferred status right now, and am thinking of subscribing for a month or two just to help in leveling and selling stuff on the auction house. Is there anywhere that specifically details the exact benefits of subscribing? For example, the official Subscriber/Preferred/Free page says with subscriber you can expand your cargo hold by paying in-game credits, but doesn't say just how much.
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May 29, 2013 01:18
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Rascyc posted:You don't really need to understand orange gear though for most of the normal content. The quests shower a lot of decent greens/blues. You get lots of commendations that you can spend at the supply vendors (perhaps this part is poorly explained) where you can buy up to date gear. Instances drop fully loaded out Oranges you can wear as well. I think the item mod stuff came a little early to really sink in effectively, and I don't think the planetary commendation vendors were explained any further than "Oh hey you can use these things to buy cool stuff". I didn't realize that those could be used for augments until I got about 80 commendations and the "You're about to hit the cap, go spend some" warning popped up. At least for people who are newer to the game (like me), taking the time to properly upgrade and maintain orange gear doesn't always feel worth it. For me, the biggest thing is that I can't bring up the augment screen for an item while browsing a vendor, so I spend more time opening, closing, and re-opening menus than anything else. Plus having to correlate augment "level" ("Might Hilt 14", "Guardian Plating 10") versus my actual character level and what I have equipped in any one of the dozen or so slots that I might have if I'm completely decked out in oranges... A lot of times it's just flat-out easier to run with quest drops and auction house buys. I figure that by the time you're working on levelling alts that it'll be second-nature enough to be quick and easy, though.
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Jun 1, 2013 23:20
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Differo Cathedra posted:I'm playing through the imperial agent's story, just finished Hoth, and have enjoyed it immensely so far...but I am more than a little tired of grinding out levels (pvp or the generic planetary quests) so bosses don't crush me. The game would be so much better if it was not made to soak up a gargantuan amount of time on pointless nonsense which was most certainly done to "encourage" player retention. I'm trying to treat this as mostly a single-player game, but I've hit the same roadblock. I managed to cheese my way through to Hoth on my Sith Warrior, and now I'm looking at a solid wall of red quests. I'm wondering if I should go back and quest, or try grinding warzones or flashpoints, or what. I just want to find out what happens next.
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Jun 3, 2013 03:46
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Red Crown posted:God, Alderaan is just nonsensical as a Sith Warrior. I mean, you make good on your alliance with the General, then you declare your intention to visit her home compound. Does she phone ahead? Nope, and you have to slice your way through the guards just to get to the point where you can resolve the conflict peacefully. I mean...don't they have Space doorbells? Or something? This is one reason I like to take light-side dialogue choices a lot of times.  You'll never take me alive, Sith! I just wanted to talk. But you murdered a million people on your way in. They attacked me first. I was just defending myself. What is this I don't even
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KittyEmpress posted:That whole questline is stupid. The guard is stupid for falling asleep, the refugees are stupid for stealing supplies, the army is a bunch of assholes, the refugees are a bunch of useless twits, and everything is terrible. I kept thinking of that one 'Firefly' episode during that quest (where they steal medical supplies from a capital world hospital to resell out in the boonies, with the justification being, "When the hospital discovers the theft, they'll just make a phone call and be resupplied within an hour") , and was hoping I'd get the chance to tell the Republic questgiver, "Well, you'll just have to wait a few days for the next supply convoy. Until then, I'll let you deal with the consequences of falling asleep on guard duty, which is actually pretty light since you could have had your throat slit." Edit: And maybe I'm misunderstanding the quest itself, but I also assumed that the supplies stolen were from just one small sub-camp or medical station? Because I can't imagine a single person stealing all the medicine being used for the number of Republic troops there... But from the way it unfolds, the thief did steal a base's worth of blood plasma, vaccines, bandages, syringes, etc.?? VVVV Edit 2: Oh, right. Teach me to post after two hours of sleep.  VVVV
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Jun 7, 2013 14:57
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Medullah posted:Presence is useful til about lvl 35, I'd say. Never buy gear with it, because you're sacrificing another stat, but the bonus you get from human and finishing companion quests makes your early companions hilariously overpowered. I think my new characters start with about 550 presence now, which leads to companions at lvl 10 with 3500 HP or so. Does the bonus from level 50 humans stack? Like, if you have three level 50 humans, all companions get +300?
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Jun 8, 2013 22:43
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Don't forget when the Welsh Guard played the Imperial March for a Saudi King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG23bVpw65o I'm slowly leveling a Counsular alt, and I'm running through some of the political-themed quests you guys are talking about (at least I think I am, I'm trying to avoid spoilers). Last night I had the quest where you're tasked with stealing documents that are being sent to a Senator who wants to ally with the Sith; then you're caught in the act, and faced with two options: Light Side is letting the documents continue on to the Senator, Dark Side is stealing them and giving them to the group trying to expose the Senator. Because I guess stealing is a bigger crime than treason? Edit: Though you could argue that it's Dark Side because you're Jedi getting involved in politics... If the Senate Page had brought that fact up it would have made more sense, but it wasn't really framed that way. Beef Hardcheese fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jun 9, 2013 |
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Jun 9, 2013 01:30
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Technogeek posted:I still say it's DS because of the methodology used rather than the end result. As I said earlier, "the ends justify the means" is a common theme of Republic DS choices, and the means here are pretty much Watergate. I guess that makes sense... From a certain point of view.
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Jun 9, 2013 02:07
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WarLocke posted:^^^: I think it was that since they're basically just lasers, there's no weight/inertia other than the hilt and it becomes hard to keep your situational awareness as to just exactly where that big old laser is. One slip up and you chop off one of your own limbs. Jedi apparently use the Force as some sixth sense to keep this from happening I guess. That's how I've heard it explained over the years. And the 'sixth sense to counter lack of inertia' thing fits in just fine with 'also uses lightsaber to parry laser beams and bullets' thing in terms of low-level psychic precognitive abilities that fall under a loose "Force sensitive" umbrella. Regardless, "non-Jedi literally cannot use lightsabers" is BS since Han uses Luke's lightsaber to cut open the Tauntaun in ESB. I hear all these stories about people on RP servers freaking out on people who aren't always in character, it almost makes me want to make another alt on an RP server just to troll them.
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Jun 9, 2013 04:29
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Posting for an invite for my Consular, Suex. (It's pronounced "Sue".) (Like from "A Boy Named Sue".) (And constantly mispronounced "Sucks".) (Which is why he's mad as hell and evil as gently caress.  )
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Jun 12, 2013 03:23
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Red Crown posted:Do we know what the timeline for this game is? For example, all the Republic storylines happen after the Imperial storylines (Judging by how Balmorra is set up), but are there specifics? A related question, how exactly does the game handle planets where the Imperial and Republic have different level quests? I went through Taris on my Sith in the mid-30s, but also just went through the Jedi quests in the teens. In each case the mobs were appropriate level, but there were also opposite-faction characters running around doing their own thing, not plowing through grey mobs or getting wrecked by reds. Am I missing something, or misremembering something?
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Don't forget you can use Shift+keyboard keys, too. My setup involves most of the non-pinky left hand keys (wsxedcrfvtgb) plus shift versions, with a handful kept on default (c for character, b for inventory, etc), and keeping Q for interrupts, Shift-F for snare-breaking, Shift-D for my "Oh poo poo" panic button, etc. This helps you get away with using a mouse that has 4-5 buttons, or even less.
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Jun 18, 2013 15:02
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I just got an email saying I've been given a free name change. Is this a thing that they do, or somehow related to character transfers?
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Hulk Smash! posted:It's like the No. 1 rule of F2P to make money: "sexy" outfits, furries and vanity pets. But, yeah, I agree. I try to keep whatever class I'm playing looking like it should and I appreciate when the pug I'm with does too It seems they also do a little gentle nudging in the other direction, too: Pay money not to look loving stupid. I only bought cartel coins for the sprint boost and bump to preferred, but the first thing I actually PURCHASED was the "Hide Head slot" option because the very first headpiece I got looked like 1950's orthodontic headgear with plastic bits from the new Star Trek movie bolted on. Just dumb as hell, unless you're playing a cybertech slicer or something. I've managed to keep my female Sith Warrior in fairly non-revealing (orange) robes, and flip flop on whether or not I want her Malgus-like respirator headpiece visible. I've also got a smuggler alt gaining rest xp in a cantina on Ord Mantell, I'm going to see if I can get her looking like Zoe from Firefly.
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FaintlyQuaint posted:If you're still preferred status your smuggler is not gaining rest experience, as preferred status players do not gain rested XP. I did purchase a 60-day sub that I'm in the middle of... Will the rest xp go away when that expires?
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Psyker posted:A game full of Quesh-sized planets or areas would have made me happier, but you wouldn't be able to jam Hoth or Alderaan or Tatooine into a Quesh-sized environ. I wonder if they couldn't have done these larger planets with multiple large areas with separate level ranges, and multiple spaceports? Like you do some stuff on Tatooine at level 24-26 in the Anchorhead / Mos Ila areas, then at level 44-48 come back to visit Mos [Whatever] / Mos [Wherever]. Since SWTOR loves loading screens you can even keep them completely separate, just add a shuttle between the two that's only accessible once you've reached a certain part of the 44-48 questlines. (Or not, since this game also loves forcing you to run through orbital docking stations. Over and over and over again.  )
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Crindee posted:Yeah, I'm on JC and I'd be happy to have a reason to turn guild chat back on (without having to read discussions about who would win in a fight, Chuck Norris or bacon). Clearly the winner would be Hodor.  (If this gets going, please let me in.  )
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Posting for an invite for my Jedi Shadow, Suex.
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bonds0097 posted:Why do people hate Quinn? I'm in the "Quinn can go to hell" camp. I was okay with his mannerisms and VA and all (and I loved having a pocket healer), but I could see how someone would find him really annoying. And then not only does the little poo poo betray me to Darth Baras, he then turns around and tries to romance me right after. I shut him right down on that, and if they had kept the thing from beta where you could permanently kill companions, I would have chucked him out the airlock and learned to let Pierce tank for me. "I hope we can still be friends after this."
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I've got a male Jedi Shadow about level 23 or 24 right now. With everyone talking about how much better the female VA is, and my newfound fondness for healing (I have an Operative at 25 that I've levelled almost exclusively via Warfronts and Flashpoints), I'm thinking about rerolling a female and going Sage. It would be repetitive, at least at first, but it would be a case of cutting my losses and having a more enjoyable experience overall; Has anyone done something like this before, would you recommend it?
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At this rate it might be a good idea to list comparisons of the two VAs for each class in the OP, assuming that one is clearly better than the other, or the tones/attitudes are markedly different. (Please?  )Edit: Thanks! Beef Hardcheese fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Fathis Munk posted:
It probably took less than ten minutes of work for some intern to add the title in, and they're getting hundreds (if not thousands) of people picking it up because it's so cheap, nudging their balance just a little bit closer to their personal "Welp, time to top up!" threshold. I am so buying it as soon as I get home. Edit: Do the RPers who get angry at things like Sith Troopers get similarly worked up over titles? Beef Hardcheese fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Jul 15, 2013 |
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hobbesmaster posted:As a tank in PvP you need a pocket healer. With a healer and a guard on that healer you are basically invincible and can cause stalemates at nodes. I was in a thoroughly unfun round of Alderaan Civil War yesterday, when it seems at least half of the opposing team were Sith Inquisitors spamming the Force Wave equivalent (Overload?). Enough so that someone always had it on cooldown and could bounce us off the turrets whenever we tried to take them. They barely even bothered trying to kill any of us after capping two nodes, just sat and bounced us away. 
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Kill them before trying to cap. Unless there's no one near the point or the other team is really dumb, there's no point ever trying to cap and it's up to 8 seconds of damage/healing you're wasting. Exceptions are stealthers and if you've drawn the fight away from the cap (see: idiots) Don't get me wrong, we (well, some of us at least) were trying to take them down. But with the Overload spam and the opposing team constantly healing it was rough, and as soon as we'd get the cap point clear, two more would run up or unstealth and double-bounce us all the way off the platform. I'm just glad that the Warzone daily is for matches played, not won.
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Alter Ego posted:I don't buy it. Your early missions pretty much give you EXCLUSIVELY gear for your class. If this guy wasn't looking at those pieces and going "Why do they keep giving me +str gear?" then he's retarded. And relying on a single flashpoint run to get you gear that you should have had 10-15 levels ago is REAL retarded. I healed a Hammer Station a week or so back where the tank was wearing nothing but Cartel-bought oranges that were completely devoid of any armors, barrels, mods, or enhancements. (Lucky for us the group also had an overgeared DPS several levels higher than everyone else who knew what he was doing and took over.)
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