SWTOR

[Shatter]

Highly doubt the NDA will drop until sometime in December.  Doing it right now wouldnt be favorable, they just implemented a new build in beta last week and are obviously still reworking aspects of the game more then just tweaks / fixes

[Sky]

I guess we need a few more pages, so it's back to the NDA complaints.

Because there are some decent spoiler sites that can answer literally any question you have that's covered by NDA. What you want is hands-on time, and I'm pretty sure they'll do enough events by late november/early december that you'll at least get to see if you're interested. Though I'm still puzzled how you don't know what you're getting here.

[eldaec]

The last time a post in this thread said anything about swtor, the star wars themed mmo, we were on page 311.

This thread is literally the internet edition of 'Just a minute'.

No pausing repetition or deviation till page 400!

[Paelos]

Here's the galaxy map!

http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/galaxy-map

[Miasma]

Here's the galaxy map!

http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/galaxy-map

wtf is the unity web player?

[K9]

Seriously, wtf?

[Chimpy]

Hutt space kinda looks like a running pilsbury dough boy. Also, why the fuck is there a North labeled on the map?

[Mrbloodworth]

Here's the galaxy map!

http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/galaxy-map

wtf is the unity web player?

Its the browser plugin for the unity game engine. As used in many recent titles.

[Sky]

Also, why the fuck is there a North labeled on the map?

North side, represent!

I think midichlorians are polarized, so like Jedi is south and Sith is north or something.

[Triforcer]

Time for an actual gameplay comment!

I've just caught up on my SWTOR reading after about a year or a year and a half of neglect.

How can it be that 3 out of the 4 classes on each side have access to stealth?  The Agent/Smuggler has perma out of combat stealth, the Sith Inquisitor/Jedi Consular (Assassin and Shadow classes, respectively) have stealth THEY CAN ATTACK OUT OF WITHOUT BREAKING STEALTH, and apparently the Sith/Jedi warrior classes have an in-combat stealth to escape.

That seems....bad for pvp.  I pity the fools stupid enough to pick a class that is occassionally visible.

Also, reading through the skill trees, somebody hasn't learned their lesson about CC in pvp.  But I guess every mmo has to go through a few months after launch with 10/30/60 second CC lockdowns and no diminishing returns (if diminishing returns exist, I haven't read it yet).  I fondly remember WoW release, with dual mage polymorph casting to perma-sheep someone for 15 minutes.  

[Rasix]

I don't think they care at this point. PVP isn't a focus for them (despite what any designer says) and surely isn't a focus at this point in development.  Enjoy your post release patches, GankbotXxX.

[eldaec]

why the fuck is there a North labeled on the map?

Saves time as that is exactly how players will refer to it.

[Triforcer]

I don't think they care at this point. PVP isn't a focus for them (despite what any designer says) and surely isn't a focus at this point in development.  Enjoy your post release patches, GankbotXxX.

I will, thank you.  The first couple months of an MMO are the most fun anyway, and it will take them at least that long to get in all the anti-CC pvp code.  Until then, ganking with the invisible flavor of the week sounds fun (although with so much stealth, it will be more like wandering around an empty pvp zone, hoping you back into someone invisible that you see before they see you). 

[murdoc]

Also, reading through the skill trees, somebody hasn't learned their lesson about CC in pvp.  But I guess every mmo has to go through a few months after launch with 10/30/60 second CC lockdowns and no diminishing returns (if diminishing returns exist, I haven't read it yet).  I fondly remember WoW release, with dual mage polymorph casting to perma-sheep someone for 15 minutes.  

There's no diminishing returns, but CC in PvP is shorter than PvE and each time you're under the effects of CC, you have a bar that fills. Once it fills, you're immune to all CC for 8 seconds.

[kildorn]

Also, reading through the skill trees, somebody hasn't learned their lesson about CC in pvp.  But I guess every mmo has to go through a few months after launch with 10/30/60 second CC lockdowns and no diminishing returns (if diminishing returns exist, I haven't read it yet).  I fondly remember WoW release, with dual mage polymorph casting to perma-sheep someone for 15 minutes.  

There's no diminishing returns, but CC in PvP is shorter than PvE and each time you're under the effects of CC, you have a bar that fills. Once it fills, you're immune to all CC for 8 seconds.

Please tell me it's called your Rage meter. Because it's totally filling with player rage.

[Velorath]

Also, reading through the skill trees, somebody hasn't learned their lesson about CC in pvp.  But I guess every mmo has to go through a few months after launch with 10/30/60 second CC lockdowns and no diminishing returns (if diminishing returns exist, I haven't read it yet).  I fondly remember WoW release, with dual mage polymorph casting to perma-sheep someone for 15 minutes.  

They announced that instead of diminishing returns, they have a CC immunity bar which fills up (I have no idea how quickly and I assume it's probably still being tweeked) as you get hit by CC effects.  Once it's full, you are immune to CC.  They said the reason they did it this way instead of diminishing returns is because this way somebody is either immune or not, which makes it easier to figure out if you should use a CC ability on them, rather than using one only for it to have little to no effect due to diminishing returns.

[Kirth]

:Waves hand: This is not the pvp game you are looking for.

[Mrbloodworth]

I was unaware it had PvP, TBH.

[fuser]

Another wave of weekend test invites went out so check your spam filters. Anything else is  

[Paelos]

Mmmmm class-based, button-mashing, cc-pvp. Delicious tears.

[luckton]

Another wave of weekend test invites went out so check your spam filters. Anything else is  

You and your lies...take them elsewhere!   

[Evildrider]

Another wave of weekend test invites went out so check your spam filters. Anything else is  

You and your lies...take them elsewhere!   

I can confirm that I got another weekend invite so 

[Rasix]

Another wave of weekend test invites went out so check your spam filters. Anything else is  

You and your lies...take them elsewhere!  

You Have Been Selected to Test STAR WARS: The Old Republic!

/point
/laugh

Probably won't even play.

[luckton]

 

[Ingmar]

 

[NiX]

Girlfriend works this weekend, so getting an invite works for me.

[Margalis]

Because there are some decent spoiler sites that can answer literally any question you have that's covered by NDA.

1. I am lazy.

2. I want impressions from people I know on some level, not totally random internet dudes.

I am looking less for specific information and more from impressions, and impressions from total strangers are mostly worthless.

[Kirth]

Thank Canadian thanksgiving!  . Is there anyway us testers can coordinate something, wouldn't mind trying this with people this time.

[snowwy]

Is it too late to say: Do not want with A REMOTE CONTROLLED EWOK TIL YOU SPERGLORDS ARE ALL LEVEL 50?  And then you'll re-roll and play the other side, right?

[Ingmar]

You edited and I still have no idea what you are saying.

[ajax34i]

Parsecs, heh.  That is an Earth-Sun-specific unit of measurement.  They should have used lightyears instead.  My immersion is gone.

[Kail]

Parsecs, heh.  That is an Earth-Sun-specific unit of measurement.  They should have used lightyears instead.  My immersion is gone.

A light year is also an earth specific measurement (the distance light travels in the time it takes the earth to make one orbit).

[snowwy]

Sorry, to many beers again. I'll promise to keep quiet

[Lantyssa]

Have you ever posted when you're not drunk?  (Not a judgement call, I'm just curious.)

[Crumbs]

I was unaware it had PvP, TBH.

Huttball brotha!  :rerundance: