**OFFICIAL** Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread

[Arsinek]

Old AV was awesome because it was a server only fight, could take days or weeks to get to the warmasters and kill them, usually requiring the gods. After BC it turned into cross server bs and zerging the end with 40 people going each way, usually never seeing each other. Once in awhile you would get a few people trying to play a little defense, and the occasional turtle at the bridge. Boy those were fun days shooting shadowbolts 1 shooting everything but tanks. Then they fixed or changed something, I dont remember what but it turned into a zerg and thats more or less how its been for the last 3 years.

You know what was also cool about it? LOOT DROPPED!!! Enemy players could drop gear. Im not sure what the best stuff was but I know you could get blues. So Im thinking if blues dropped there was probably purples, but Im not sure.

Also, all the little side stuff made it so cool. Remember the chopper thing you could get? I dont remember what all you had to do but after doing some tasks you got rewarded with one of those wood chopper things and you could control it.

And what about the wind riders you could rescue? Eventually they would take off, I think with turn-ins, and do bombing runs on the enemy team.

And then of course there were the wolf and ram riders. Turn in 20 hides and capture 20 ram/wolf and you could send off 20 mounted elites that would path all the way to the other sides general attacking everything they came across.

No MMO Ive played has had a battleground or whatever you want to call it to match AV.

 

[smackababy]

Even old AV wasn't as epic as it should be. UO factions were where it was at. Guarding a base for 24 real hours with 3 (not one) other faction trying to storm your base. Yeah... 30 on 30 on 30 on 60 (TB was always double the size because it was the easier to join). Now those were epic battles. If you died, not only did you lose your gear, but you also had to wait for 20 minutes to get your stats back.

 

[Nik]

What's all the stupid talk about other games? We're long off subject. Who gives a crap about nostalgia and "I remember way back when..."?

Back to TOR, pls

 

[AVP]

What's all the stupid talk about other games? We're long off subject. Who gives a crap about nostalgia and "I remember way back when..."?

Back to TOR, pls

It's bad.

 

[Nik]

It's bad.

In your opinion.

 

[cecco]

Been watching this thread and it took a turn for the worse a while back. Time to inject some love for the game! I'm excited about this as are my former WoW guild mates. We got our pre-orders in, classes picked for roll out and the in-game guild already setup. I'm ready!

 

[Demo24]

Not much to say about it now, just waiting on the new build. Did free up quite a bit of space on my HD uninstalling that

 

[Arsinek]

Even old AV wasn't as epic as it should be. UO factions were where it was at. Guarding a base for 24 real hours with 3 (not one) other faction trying to storm your base. Yeah... 30 on 30 on 30 on 60 (TB was always double the size because it was the easier to join). Now those were epic battles. If you died, not only did you lose your gear, but you also had to wait for 20 minutes to get your stats back.

Expect none of that in SWTOR. Thats my back on topic. :biggrin:

 

[ViviTheMage]

Anyone have any info on player housing? Is it just the ship? Can you customize/walk inside your ship? Or anything neato like that?

I read you can have 2 passengers? Or is that incorrect?

 

[Demo24]

Anyone have any info on player housing? Is it just the ship? Can you customize/walk inside your ship? Or anything neato like that?

I read you can have 2 passengers? Or is that incorrect?

No housing, except for your ship. You can enter it at will, it serves as a rest area and also some missions are carried out there(space combat, and communications). The ship is also how you transverse the galaxy, like in mass effect with the galaxy map.

 

[ViviTheMage]

So you cannot go inside, look at the bathroom/comm room/engine area/etc? Cause that would be fun/cool imo.

It's the Sim fan inside me ...

 

[Demo24]

So you cannot go inside, look at the bathroom/comm room/engine area/etc? Cause that would be fun/cool imo.

It's the Sim fan inside me ...

nono, you can walk around in there. It's pretty much required. Just like in ME, you talk to people in your ship, walk around, store stuff, etc. Mine wasn't very large however so there wasn't a lot to see.

 

[ViviTheMage]

cool, that's better then nothing..would love more ability to see stuff, but that's OK.. maybe i'll get in beta

 

[Arsinek]

I believe your ship is instanced. So everywhere you go there will be a little garage thing you click on then you enter your ship instance. So its not like youre going to see ships flying around everywhere. This was my guess from playing beta, never made it to my first ship.

 

[Nik]

There are plenty of plans spoken about which are intended for post-release that will enhance the experience. You'll be able to tour other people's ships and they're considering some sort of housing solution. It just won't be in the first release.

 

[Anomaly1964]

December 20th, 2011 - THE SITH SHALL RISE!!!!!!

 

[blackened23]

F YEAH !

Now I can be happier that D3 won't be released this year.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

What's the binding system? Can you bind anywhere, only in cities?

 

[brainhulk]

December 20th, 2011 - THE SITH SHALL RISE!!!!!!

mmmm yesssssss, finaaaalllllyyyy after 10,000 years

i just got the email too

 

[Nintendesert]

December 20th, 2011 - THE SITH SHALL RISE!!!!!!

Damn right they will, the Bounty Hunter has the best and most compelling story line. People will flock to them!

 

[Mem]

Damn right they will, the Bounty Hunter has the best and most compelling story line. People will flock to them!

More will go Jedi,prepare for all the WoW kiddies invasion ...I wonder how much it will cost me to hire BHs to get rid of them all :biggrin:

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

More will go Jedi,prepare for all the WoW kiddies invasion ...I wonder how much it will cost me to hire BHs to get rid of them all :biggrin:

They're bringing that from Galaxies?

 

[Mem]

They're bringing that from Galaxies?

Nope,you are getting Jedi Masters like me from Galaxies .

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Nope,you are getting Jedi Masters like me from Galaxies .

I meant the mechanic that allows you to hire Bounty Hunters to kill!

 

[Mem]

I meant the mechanic that allows you to hire Bounty Hunters to kill!

ToR is different type of game compared to SWG,you can kill in PvP however .