SWTOR

[Merusk]

There is some kind of authenticator planned yes. They have a field on the launcher for your authenticator code to go.

This has been known for a while as the Physical CE comes with an Authenticator.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B005B8DRVU.01.lg.jpg

[VainEldritch]

Soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SWTORost

Death Star elevator music?

[Morfiend]

In friday and I'll be at work.

Hey guys, maybe when they sent out all the emails saying you should update your shit, you shoulda updated your shit.  

Actually, I think the problem is their site was fucked, and telling people they needed to change their password. I waited an hour and tried again, and it let me log in with out changing my password.

[Mrbloodworth]

All sorted now. The website became unfucked.

[Montague]

"Bioware Tech Support, this is Peggy, what is problem, please?"

[VainEldritch]

I just received an E-mail from BW telling me I can begin testing SWOTOR on Friday at 10-00 AM CST - and I was like...    

Then I realised that I've been a general tester for several builds and know the stories to level 20 verbatim - and I was like...     

The lesson is: living for months with four hours sleep turns one's brain to 

Thank you Bioware.

[Sobelius]

I just received an E-mail from BW telling me I can begin testing SWOTOR on Friday at 10-00 AM CST - and I was like...    

Then I realised that I've been a general tester for several builds and know the stories to level 20 verbatim - and I was like...     

The lesson is: living for months with four hours sleep turns one's brain to 

Thank you Bioware.

You were the kind of kid who ate all their Hallowe'en candy before they got home, weren't you?

[Sobelius]

Soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SWTORost

Death Star elevator music?

No, that's this track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=522uGI-8dtE

[Thrawn]

Friday 10AM start here as well.

[Sobelius]

There is some kind of authenticator planned yes. They have a field on the launcher for your authenticator code to go.

This has been known for a while as the Physical CE comes with an Authenticator.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B005B8DRVU.01.lg.jpg

Was hoping they'd be testing their launcher authenticator this weekend via an app. (I've become a fan of the authenticator app idea thanks to RIFT.)

[UnSub]

Speaking of DDO's active combat, this is where I think SWTOR is really a missed opportunity. The combat is identical to WoW's, and it really feels off-putting for a Star Wars game in 2011. Playing a trooper during the last beta weekend I kept wondering "why am I tab-targeting and playing with action bars when I should just be aiming and shooting". Ranged combat in DDO is how SWTOR ranged combat should be play. Borderlands came out two years ago and it seemed so obvious that it's where MMOs were going. And yet here we are, with another MMO where you click on an enemy to target them, stand still, and then press 1-5 on your keyboard every couple seconds to attack them.

Once the story is done (or sidelined, because you haven't levelled up enough to advance the story), all you have are the mechanics. BioWare don't go good mechanics. Passable, functional ones sure, but hardly good, balanced ones.

I'm not really fussed if SWOR is found fun during the beta period. The key questions for SWOR are:

1) "Is it fun in three months time after launch?"

2) "Is it fun enough to justify a subscription cost when F2P titles are a valid alternative?"

[Nebu]

My only concern is that it's worth the box cost.  Everything beyond that is gravy to me.

[Nevermore]

I support no jumping

Didn't Guild Wars already cover that for you? 

[Lucas]

I'll begin on Friday too, 5pm my time. Four hours before my girlfriend will start ruining my plans for the weekend 

[Igglethorpe]

I don't post often, but in reading well over 100 pages of this stuff, I get the feeling that most of us are a wee bit too close to gaming in general.  I venture to say quite a few people will experience an MMO for the first time and will not have the experience or frames of reference that we have.  Most of us on F13 feel compelled to tear this game apart hoping to find some elusive "holy grail of game design" that just isn't there.  At some point we are going to have to accept what has been presented.  Either enjoy it or move on.  Course, we would never reach page 400 if everyone felt that way...

While its true that they may have fallen short on some levels for a number of our expectations, speaking for myself I'm really looking forward to this game, warts and all.  I think I can suspend belief in the thought that a "nirvana MMO" will release anytime soon.

Enjoy the game while it lasts.. or don't.

[Furiously]

I cant wait for the fallout when people that played two weekends ago find their characters are bugged and unable to log them in.

[Jherad]

My only concern is that it's worth the box cost.  Everything beyond that is gravy to me.

I'm counting on this being good enough as a SP/Coop game for the leveling experience with at least 2 months of fun. I think I'm too old/broken/bitter for endgame in any MMO now and have long since realised I'm no longer the target audience. I'd say that probably applies to a good many other people on this forum.  

[Nevermore]

You’ll be able to begin testing Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ very soon! Your test begins:

Friday, Nov. 25 at 10:00AM CST


Of course, I'll be at the in-law's eating turkey. 

You eat turkey for breakfast the day after?

[Jherad]

You’ll be able to begin testing Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ very soon! Your test begins:

Friday, Nov. 25 at 10:00AM CST


Of course, I'll be at the in-law's eating turkey. 

You eat turkey for breakfast the day after?

Knowing my mother-in-law, there will be turkey every meal until I go back home. 

[fuser]

Three days trying to fix my SWTOR password  . Now the 1-855 just says "sorry too busy"

[Mattemeo]

Looks like I'm in on Saturday morning, 10:00am CST.
Stupid security questions ANSWER!
Horrendous ammount of downloading BEGIN!

No idea what I'll play; I presume I'll get shunted to whichever server Slap is flopping about on. Maybe.

[kildorn]

I'm intrigued by the Scoundrel. But confused by his desire to carry around a goddamned shotgun and rarely use it.

[Furiously]

It's cause the agent carries a knife.

[Lantyssa]

No idea what I'll play; I presume I'll get shunted to whichever server Slap is flopping about on. Maybe.

You should play an Imperial.  (But I'll have my Trooper at the very least, so Fordel doesn't feel all alone.)

[Paelos]

I've informed my guild that I'm a Trooper. Whether it will be tanking or healing grenades is a tough call.

[Sjofn]

I have this suspicion three of my four Bat Country alts are going to be dudes. Lady inquisitor, man IA, man BH, beefalo twi'lek (pink, if you please) warrior. I just like the dude voices on that side better on the whole ... and beefalo twi'lek men are 100% pure love.

[Ingmar]

Looks like I'm in on Saturday morning, 10:00am CST.
Stupid security questions ANSWER!
Horrendous ammount of downloading BEGIN!

No idea what I'll play; I presume I'll get shunted to whichever server Slap is flopping about on. Maybe.

Not for the beta, that stuff is all for live. I think our dudes for the test are on Canderous Ordo assuming server names are the same etc.

[Riggswolfe]

I have a quick question. I've got a friend who is getting warnings when he tries to patch or whatever that his cpu is not a dual core so he can't play.  One, yes, I'm surprised he is on a single core as well and two, have you guys heard of anyone actually playing on a single core despite the warning?

[Rendakor]

I'm in at 10am CST on Friday as well, which is...1 hour before I have to work. Fml.

[Wolf]

where can I check out available races? Knowing me I'll waste an hour and a half making my character at the start if I don't put in some research :P

[Ingmar]

Races are purely cosmetic, if that helps.

[taolurker]

where can I check out available races? Knowing me I'll waste an hour and a half making my character at the start if I don't put in some research :P

During the Stress test weekend I spent too much time in character creation and kept getting a Network error trying to log into the game. I also watched the intro videos and had it happen right after the video too. D=

I will be in this Friday am, but sure hope I get further through playing the Character, but I also was crashing (possibly drivers) and was experiencing more Network, Patcher and Server Select testing than I was actually able to see of the game. Got to maybe mess around with a created character for about 10mins tops.

With the NDA down I'm surprised I'm not really seeing positive reviews for the game's stickyness, and although I wouldn't mind a box, it's something I can probably get in a year's time as a free trial or free to play. I don't see the population being all that large, and I expected to see more advertising to go with the video gaming site hype. I also am not totally sold on a Single Player game in Multi-player, with Cut-scenes and voice-overs too much either.

Am I missing something or is the run speed like really slow? Was this networking issues? Is there some kind of speed burst? Am I gonna be bugging people for SoWs?

Also why did my jump look like I was trying to be Spider-Man?

I did have additional stress with their email, security and associated BS along with doing "Stress Testing".

[Sobelius]

While its true that they may have fallen short on some levels for a number of our expectations, speaking for myself I'm really looking forward to this game, warts and all.  I think I can suspend belief in the thought that a "nirvana MMO" will release anytime soon.
Enjoy the game while it lasts.. or don't.

I think it's not too surprising that f13 folks can both enjoy a game and tear it apart. I loved the brief time I had in SWTOR last beta weekend despite its shortcomings. It hooked me when I felt bad about killing someone in cold blood as part of one moment in a story.  And grinned when an NPC chastised me for not being decisive enough in my treatment of a prisoner. Is this the stuff of ad nauseum grindfests that define the typical "long time play" experience? Probably not. I've kept my expectations low enough that I found BW delivered just above them last beta weekend. And ditto on the box cost being a baseline for value -- even original AOC met that for me for its "first 20 levels" story (no I didn't sub more than an extra month, but I felt I got my money's worth -- especially in the beefcake character creation department).

[Bungee]

I think there was solid point made regarding "there'll be a lot of first time MMORPG players playing" just given the universe this game is put in.

Just for reference: how did LOTRO do with those "first time because I'm a nerd" players quantity wise?

[VainEldritch]

Am I missing something or is the run speed like really slow? Was this networking issues? Is there some kind of speed burst? Am I gonna be bugging people for SoWs?

You get Sprint at level 15 (or 14 - I'm too addled by sleep depravation to be sure) and then thing zip along nicely.

Also why did my jump look like I was trying to be Spider-Man?

The craptastic jumping animation is one of the (few) paces I can fault them in this area. It does look bloody terrible and your character appears to do a bullettime slowdown (cue slow synth).