Star Wars The Old Republic Roll Call

[Syt]

Finished chapter 1 for my smuggler.  OK-ish story line, but chapter 2 has me yawning so far, though it's interesting to see Balmorra from the other side (previously only visited as imp).

What is an Imperial smuggler doing in Morrowind?

Balmorra, with two "r". Not Balmora.

[Solmyr]

KOTOR 1 and 2 are 75% off on Steam for a couple of days more, incidentally. Got them just to see what the background to SWTOR was.

[Syt]

KOTOR 1 and 2 are 75% off on Steam for a couple of days more, incidentally. Got them just to see what the background to SWTOR was.

Make sure to get the restoration mods for KotOR2 (links are in this forum somewhere).

[Syt]

Or look here:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/03/the-fixer-how-to-restore-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii/

[Solmyr]

Yeah, saw that.

[chipwich]

I'm back ingame on jedi covenant.

[Sophie Scholl]

Randomly decided to resub.  We'll see how long I last.  I needed a change of pace from WoW for a bit.

[katmai]

Randomly decided to resub.  We'll see how long I last.  I needed a change of pace from WoW for a bit.

Have you seen the trailer for the upcoming Space battle 12v12 pvp?

[Syt]

I've been in serious Star Wars geek mode the last week or so - finished watching the 5th season of Clone Wars, played SWTOR again (the Sith Inquisitor story *does* become kind of hilarious later on) and read lots of Star Wars comics.

Seen the trailer for the 12 vs 12 battles. I'm not much into PvP stuff, but it made me think: wouldn't a F2P game like War Thunder in the Star Wars universe be a gold mine? It should be easy to port the mechanics for leveling etc. to the Star Wars setting, and the games and expanded universe have provided lots and lots of fighters to play with, from the Naboo N-1 or Droid fighters to the TIE-Defender and E-Wing there's dozens of ships in there.

[Sophie Scholl]

I've been splitting my interests between Warhammer Fantasy and Star Wars of late.  I'm all set to rock a rebel pilot costume for Halloween, the research into which got me into Star Wars mode.  I never bothered to finish any of the storylines the first time I played ToR, so it will all be fairly new to me once I leave the capital cities.  I agree that a FTP Star Wars ship combat game would be amazing.  Y-Wings!

[Syt]

I'm sorta itching to try a Clone Wars mode for Empire at War. I'm surprised that there was never an official expansion to cover that era, because it seems amazingly obvious.

Republic At War seems the current go-to for that, though there appears to be a Clone Wars mod in the making that will take a lot of inspiration from the series (heroes, units, locations ...), plus NPC planets (e.g. Mandalore is neutral during the war).

I'm still holding out hope that with the new ownership of Lucasfilm their old games catalogue will make it over to GOG eventually (X-Wing and TIE-Fighter games, the old adventures, Rebellion ...).

[katmai]

Randomly decided to resub.  We'll see how long I last.  I needed a change of pace from WoW for a bit.

Yeah i did same, lvling up on Jedi Covenant server.

[Sophie Scholl]

I just can't will myself to go through Coruscant again.  Ugh.  I hate having to go through the same zone for every single class, every single time.

[Syt]

I just can't will myself to go through Coruscant again.  Ugh.  I hate having to go through the same zone for every single class, every single time.

Dromund Kaas is indeed much more fun. The Republic start really blows:

- Coruscant (though the Gree droids are amusing - they talk like bmolson) which is mostly indoors
- Republic Taris - which is a ruined mess
- Nar Shaddaa - which is all indoors again

Compared to the Empire:

- Dromund Kaas (twisted but fun place)
- Balmorra (wide open landscapes)
- Nar Shaddaa


Either site becomes annoying once you reach Belsavis, I think, because that's when the mob placement becomes highly grinderiffic.

[katmai]

Someone is now in beta for the expansion.