SWTOR

[Evildrider]

The lowest queue I found was at 650 the highest I saw was 6k.  lol

[Evildrider]

Is there still an NDA?

The NDA is probably going to drop with the next beta weekend.  I assume this because they gave everyone signed up for testing an invite.

[Amaron]

Voice acting + vent is kind of annoying actually.

[Evildrider]

Yeah it is lol.  Especially since most guilds have "that guy", you know the one that doesn't shut up.

[ezrast]

And so it begins.

[Rokal]

All the PvE realms seem to have 1k+ (multi-hour) queues, so I guess I'm rolling on a pvp server :-\

[Lantyssa]

I was thinking of playing a bit this weekend, but maybe DCUO will be nice and quiet...

[Minvaren]

It is.  

(edit: No, I'm not sitting through 3+ hour queues to beta test.)

[Viin]

All the PvE realms seem to have 1k+ (multi-hour) queues, so I guess I'm rolling on a pvp server :-\

As it should be. I can already see getting bored doing quests, pvp adds spice!

[Surlyboi]

Thankfully, I've got MW3, Skyrim and Saint's Row the Third to keep me occupied next weekend...

[Sky]

I checked BC's guild website, but still can't figure out which server we are on....? 

The pre-launch guild page is for retail, not beta.

And I'm just a stupid jedi consular, god help me if I play a class I actually WANT to play.

That is exactly my review. Exactly!

[Teleku]

Anything wrong with Jedi Consular?  That was the class I was looking at playing.  Started up an Imperial Agent to mess around with in Beta since I wont be playing horde in retail.

Which I guess means I wont be in BC.  Forgot you guys had decided to go team evil...

[Rokal]

I've gotten to ~30 in queue twice now only to have the screen convert to 'spinning SWTOR wheel of death' that never goes anywhere. One more try and I'm probably done for the night.

[Fordel]

Anything wrong with Jedi Consular?  That was the class I was looking at playing.  Started up an Imperial Agent to mess around with in Beta since I wont be playing horde in retail.

Which I guess means I wont be in BC.  Forgot you guys had decided to go team evil...

Nah, Sjofn just has a enormous boner for the Smuggler.

[Nevermore]

Anything wrong with Jedi Consular?  That was the class I was looking at playing.  Started up an Imperial Agent to mess around with in Beta since I wont be playing horde in retail.

Which I guess means I wont be in BC.  Forgot you guys had decided to go team evil...

Nah, Sjofn just has a enormous boner for the Smuggler.

Now I'm picturing Sam Bee from last Thursday's Daily Show...

[Furiously]

I hear the imperial agent is just like the smuggler! Only without the annoying wookie.

[Soln]

got on, made a char, got kicked out

seems like you create something without being a shard first

[Sky]

Consular, the class I was least interested in, and completely awesome. I did Shadow tank spec.

[Pezzle]

And I'm just a stupid jedi consular, god help me if I play a class I actually WANT to play.

I had the same plan.  No WAY I was going to play a terrible trooper so why not beta it.  

COMMANDO IS FUCKING AWESOME, THAT'S WHY.

Playing a stupid Consular now.

[murdoc]

Been playing on a lower pop PvP server and the biggest queue I had was 4.

My PC is showing it's age a bit, but it runs good and it's a LOT of fun - even playing the crappy classes I had no interest in.

[Sjofn]

Anything wrong with Jedi Consular?  That was the class I was looking at playing.  Started up an Imperial Agent to mess around with in Beta since I wont be playing horde in retail.

Which I guess means I wont be in BC.  Forgot you guys had decided to go team evil...

He (I made a RARE MALE TWILEK) is all of level 3 so I can hardly give a real review of it, but I was enjoying it.


EDIT: You can always play with Slap in the Force! WE'RE going Republic! 

[Rokal]

My initial impressions are mixed. Melee feels really clunky to me (was trying Sith Warrior), but Trooper functioned much smoother. It's possible that part of the discrepancy is server lag, since Trooper felt more responsive when I got to a less populated area, but the promo footage EA released for the game also made melee look a bit clunky. The story content is pretty hit or miss too. Sometimes the voice acting really adds to a quest, and the quest seems genuinely interesting. Sometimes it's just dialogue trees and 45 seconds of voice acting for a "kill 8 rats" quest.

[Sjofn]

Also something I feel like I should say because I doubt people even notice it half the time, but the music and sound is like. Perfect.

[Montague]

My initial impressions are mixed. Melee feels really clunky to me (was trying Sith Warrior), but Trooper functioned much smoother. It's possible that part of the discrepancy is server lag, since Trooper felt more responsive when I got to a less populated area, but the promo footage EA released for the game also made melee look a bit clunky. The story content is pretty hit or miss too. Sometimes the voice acting really adds to a quest, and the quest seems genuinely interesting. Sometimes it's just dialogue trees and 45 seconds of voice acting for a "kill 8 rats" quest.

I made a Jedi right at zero hour and it was borderline unplayable in melee because of all the stuttering. A few hours later when the starting area was much less crowded it got much better. As someone else said I'd put it just a touch below WoW's for responsiveness.

Also something I feel like I should say because I doubt people even notice it half the time, but the music and sound is like. Perfect.

+1

[Ingmar]

The Jedi Knight at 1:30 AM felt a lot better than the Jedi Knight at 5 PM for sure.

[Rokal]

I tried the sith warrior again based on what Montague said and yeah, it's totally fine without the server lag.

[luckton]

Played a little bit of Imperial Agent action last night (and by little I mean I finished, like 3 quests and hit lvl 2).  Initial sticker shock reaction is good.  Wish I wasn't working overtime today.  That said, today puts me at 52 hours of OT this pay period, which ends to day, so 

[Amaron]

I did Consular because I doubted I'd play it at release.    Unfortunately that ended up kind of bad because I really do dislike the class mechanics but the class story is just  .   I pretty much duoed the entire prologue with a friend who played Jedi Knight.   It worked out fairly well but I think I'll be soloing the prologues at release since it takes so much longer to duo.

[Reg]

Does it take longer even if you duo with someone in your own class?

[Amp]

I played wow a long time.  Among other mmos. 
I got into the test, was excited,  dl'd the insane dl, and logged in with virtually no problems.

Well that is till I realized that these games DO NOT CHANGE. 

Years and lots of time off of playing, and I came back to WoW in space.  Very pretty game, I would love to have explored it, except for the fact it freakin wow in space.

So I uninstalled it and installed Skyrim.

[Thrawn]

Very pretty game, I would love to have explored it, except for the fact it freakin wow in space.

This shouldn't be a shock though, that's been common knowledge for a while.  The only thing I'm unsure about is end game content which will really be the make or break for the game in my opinion.

[Merusk]

It sounds like WoW was his first MMO dance. 

[Montague]

Does it take longer even if you duo with someone in your own class?

I don't think so, but I'm guessing I can't go into detail because of 

It's one thing they should really fix, duoing with my wife last night was very annoying since she was a bit behind my quest progression.

[Murgos]

It sounds like WoW was his first MMO dance.  

Yeah, at this point DIKU is DIKU regardless of the skin to me.  So, I got exactly what I expected, which is good because I was expecting better WoW with a star wars skin.

I played a consular because, well, Jedi goddamnit.  I only got to level 4 in about 3 hours, 20 minutes of that waiting in a queue (which I expected, though I did have to log in several times to get a reasonable queue length, I eventually found one with a queue of 'only' 300).  This is a large test, there were 20 something servers and all of them were packed.

I loved the 'cinematic combat', run up and throw a rock or something at a Fleshraider, get mobbed by 4 or 5 of them, hit the PBAoE pushback and stun, run over and start serially killing them as they recover from stun.  It felt like something from Yojimbo because of all the different animations, the Jedi robe which looks like a kimono and that my toon had a samurai top knot with a shaved head.  Seriously, the amount of different animations that trigger depending on what's going on is great.  Spinning slashes, behind the back blocks, lunging stabs.  I've never seen that kind of combat animation detail in an MMO, or even most RPG's.

The fully voiced, acted cinematics were exactly right.  The male consular VO is great he's calm, rational but a little gruff when provoked and a just a little sarcastic.  The light side choices didn't even have me rolling my eyes too much.

The thing is, as muched as I loved that intro with the consular I already want to make alts to check out the other starts.  8 characters slots is going to be barely enough, I may need alternate servers.

[apocrypha]

I too have now been invited to a beta weekend at some unspecified date in the future. Gee, thanks! They could at least have said when.