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koro
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Does it take longer even if you duo with someone in your own class?
Yeah, since only you can progress your storyline when you do your bit; you'd have to repeat it for the other person. |
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Amp
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It sounds like WoW was his first MMO dance.
Actually what it sounds like is the devolving of creative MMO's, or programmers. I want to swing a lightsaber, not watch some stupid timer. I've played MMO's since UO was released. Beta tested everything I could sign up for ...So yea, not my first one...one liner dude. It's not my fault the genre now sucks. |
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Fordel
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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.
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caladein
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I haven't been serious enough to notice if that's been the case in a lot of other games, but is it?
I think the default in Rift is release (I have it set that way at least) and the option wasn't even part of the WoW client proper until just recently.
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Fordel
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Ctrl+Shift+F will also display your FPS in the lower left corner if anyone is curious about that too.
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Thrawn
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Ctrl+Shift+F will also display your FPS in the lower left corner if anyone is curious about that too.
Supposedly it even displays if your bottleneck is CPU or GPU based on the color of the numbers. I forget which is which though. |
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Fordel
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Oh, I didn't know that, that's neat!
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Viin
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For the fanbois that have been following all this and it's "public" knowledge, what is the difference between PvP and non-PvP servers? Are there PvP zones on PvP servers? (That I assume would not be PvP zones on the non-PvP server?)
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Fordel
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PvP servers just auto flag you for PvP past like level 15-20 or so (similar to WoW if you are familiar with that). There aren't many spots where you actually run across the opposing faction for the first 30-35 levels though, so if you are just wanting to beat a Queue for the weekend, feel free, the noob planets themselves are total safe zones, the opposing faction can't even land on them.
There is also apparently a big RvR style planet and the standard battlegrounds on both pve/pvp servers.
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Surlyboi
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It sounds like WoW was his first MMO dance.
Actually what it sounds like is the devolving of creative MMO's, or programmers. I want to swing a lightsaber, not watch some stupid timer. I've played MMO's since UO was released. Beta tested everything I could sign up for ...So yea, not my first one...one liner dude. It's not my fault the genre now sucks. No offense, but if WoW wasn't your first DIKU you'd have been saying the same things when it came out, as the formula there was pretty much the same thing EQ did. So yeah. That said, this thing gets a lot right if it makes me want to play a DIKU again. |
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SnakeCharmer
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Ctrl+Shift+F will also display your FPS in the lower left corner if anyone is curious about that too.
Supposedly it even displays if your bottleneck is CPU or GPU based on the color of the numbers. I forget which is which though. Green = GPU, red = CPU. You could be getting 200FPS and the number might be red. It's just letting you know that your bottleneck at 200FPS is your CPU. It's kinda cool, actually. |
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Rokal
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It's not my fault the genre now sucks.
Welcome to the video game industry, where feature creep is common and successful ideas are repeated by sequels and other games. I think it's hilarious that you're complaining that SWTOR is too similar to it's predecessors, and instead say you'll be playing Skyrim: the 5th game in a series that has been mechanically identical since Morrowind (3rd). I'm looking forward to playing Skyrim, but it's hardly original. You know, sort of like SWTOR. A game doesn't need to be completely unique to be fun or worth playing. Hardly any are. |
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I'm not sure that's a fair point given that the Elder Scrolls series is pretty unique overall.
Sure, Skyrim is a sequel and not wholly original but it's not really part of a genre where every game is basically the same. And I think it's fair to say that "press the button every time your cooldown is up" is sort of a design rathole that doesn't seem like it should be fundamental to the MMO genre.
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Soln
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I dunno guys. Do things pick up at later levels like LotRO?
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Define, "pick up"
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Modern Angel
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I dunno guys. Do things pick up at later levels like LotRO?
I'd tell you but it would break the NDA, right? |
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Just got home from work. Position in queue: 2533  |
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If you're the OP, I must humbly disagree, for the reasons stated by Jesamyn. |
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Modern Angel
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Ahaha, yes. That Jessamyn cat who says we don't want a game like that OTHER game. Even the people most into it know that it's a knockoff of it.
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TripleDES
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Just got home from work. Position in queue: 2533 Like I'm going to download 21GB for a few hours over the weekend, for which I'm going to waste a majority at a waiting screen. I think I'll just skip all this and wait until spring '12, when they've ironed out all issues. |
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Rokal
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I'm not sure that's a fair point given that the Elder Scrolls series is pretty unique overall.
Sure, Skyrim is a sequel and not wholly original but it's not really part of a genre where every game is basically the same. And I think it's fair to say that "press the button every time your cooldown is up" is sort of a design rathole that doesn't seem like it should be fundamental to the MMO genre.
It's completely fair, especially when you consider that games in the same genre (open world action RPG) have been coming out at-least annually at this point between Fallout(s), Elder Scrolls games, and less popular series like Gothic, Risen, Two Worlds, etc. |
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I wonder how much of this weekend is testing bringing the servers down then back up to test how the forums and game handles it all :P
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Fordel
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Well they've actually said they intend to just reboot all the servers and kick everyone off a few times, just to see if the servers are up to task or not.
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Ingmar
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Yeah that was said up front in something I read.
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TripleDES
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Well they've actually said they intend to just reboot all the servers and kick everyone off a few times, just to see if the servers are up to task or not.
Like that's not possible to automate. |
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Canderous Ordo hasn't been hugely crowded, you guys just need to pick better servers. |
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murdoc
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Canderous Ordo hasn't been hugely crowded, you guys just need to pick better servers. Seriously. And like someone else said, just jump on a pvp server. There's next to no queues and it's not like you'll be anywhere near the level that it'll affect you. |
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Force Leap + the Jedi Knight AOE things is one of those things I think i could never get tired of.
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Well they've actually said they intend to just reboot all the servers and kick everyone off a few times, just to see if the servers are up to task or not.
Like that's not possible to automate. We spend millions on simulations. They never exactly represent reality. It's a test, now is when you do those things. |
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I still can't decide between BH and IA.
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I should be a 5 day head starter, I put my pre-order code in the morning they were available first day. With the stress testing they are doing and the pre-chosen guild-server launches I am debating on taking the first day or 2 off work to play. In past games playing day 1 often doesnt work out cause servers are down more then they are up but I'm thinking the combination of the stress testing and what they get out of that plus the guild server designations that maybe this will be a game that has little problems...what to do...
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Well they've actually said they intend to just reboot all the servers and kick everyone off a few times, just to see if the servers are up to task or not.
Like that's not possible to automate. We spend millions on simulations. They never exactly represent reality. It's a test, now is when you do those things. If you knew enough about reality to build the simulation, then you wouldn't need the simulation in the first place. This is probably zen. |
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