Pre-release thread discussion

[Fordel]

You get the higher level speeders not because they are much faster, but because they prevent you from getting knocked off them better. They also look cooler, actual speeder bikes, not speeder segways! 



The Credit curve in the game is sort of strange. You start off fine, then around 25-35 or so, you just seem to be god damned broke all the time due to training and upgrades or whatever, then once you hit 50 you are literally wiping your ass with credits because all that quest XP gets converted into credits. That million dollar VIP pass seems INSANE when you first see it. At level 50? I made like 1.5 million credits just from finishing my quest lines on Corellia, and I still had like 3 planets worth of bonus series quests to do.

That's not touching space combat quests and the actual lvl 50 repeatable content quests on Illum.



Money will not be a problem.

[Ingmar]

I'm sure I'll find a way to be broke.

[Fordel]

The life of a Jedi Manwhore isn't cheap.

[Paelos]

The life of a Jedi Manwhore isn't cheap.

It's hard out there for a pimp.

[Lantyssa]

I'm sure I'll find a way to be broke.

It'll be from buying new crystals for your gear every week.

[Ingmar]

 

That is like 75% of why I'm not playing WoW right now, the gems are too expensive in the post-patch flurry. Well, maybe 50%. (Skyrim)

[Fordel]

You can take your mods OUT of your gear!

[Lantyssa]

No, he can't!  He needs to save those creds to buy my crystals.

[Sky]

I say you both should just get off the meth.

[Mattemeo]

I'm wondering why the UK standard edition digital download costs $10 more than the US one.
The UK digital deluxe version is another $13 on top of the US price.
The collector's edition doesn't even have a price yet in the UK.

I can't get anyone at a physical UK games store to quote me a price for the game, and Amazon is keeping silent also.

[Ingmar]

Import tax on the Republic-side accents.

[Shatter]

I'm wondering why the UK standard edition digital download costs $10 more than the US one.

Fuck Britain tax?

[tmp]

"If Valve can use the 1 USD = 1 Euro pricing, so can we" tax.

[kildorn]

I'm wondering why the UK standard edition digital download costs $10 more than the US one.

Fuck Britain tax?

It's a tax on tea. Just fucking because. 

[Mattemeo]

It's just a little disappointing, overall. I mean, ok, I've made the decision to play the game. Perhaps we could forgoe bending me over a table and pulling my hair while whispering 'who's yer daddy' in my ear?
I know I'm not going to get any of the 5 day head-start early access time now so really I'd just like to not be ripped off for the straight-to-live experience.

[Lantyssa]

Fine.  We'll go with, "Who's your mum?"

[Shatter]

Fine.  We'll go with, "Who's your mum?"

Squeal like a pig might be more appropriate

[tmp]

Perhaps we could forgoe bending me over a table and pulling my hair while whispering 'who's yer daddy' in my ear?

Don't worry, your game companions will make it all better.

(nsfw so spoilered. not really a swtor spoiler)

[Evildrider]

I didn't know where to put this so here.

Glee redoes some of the Star Wars Christmas Special.

[Tannhauser]

I don't care about romances or the optimum companion, I'm playing a BH so I have a jawa for a friend! 

It'll be glorious, we'll steal droids and re-sell them to ignorant moisture farmers.  UTINNI!

[Furiously]

A jawa with a rocket launcher...

[Maledict]

Did anyone ever get to the bottom of the graphics settings? I heard lots of rumours that the texture settings were actually reversed, but on the final weekend it didn't seem to make a different which setting I chose - either low or high, some of the textures looked *terrible*. Also the AA button had completely gone from the interface - is this planning on making a return?

[Kageru]

I'm wondering why the UK standard edition digital download costs $10 more than the US one.

It's a "not American" tax. Though that's no more ridiculous than the normal? Certainly a better price than the one being offered in Australia.

Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ is not available in your region

To maintain a high quality of service, only certain regions worldwide will be able to pre-order Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

Maybe by the time it comes out the gloss will have faded and people will be over it. Can hope anyway. That's about as detailed as the web site is as well. Black text on white background and no information, how austere. I can't even find if they have a planned release date.

[Tyrnan]

Did anyone ever get to the bottom of the graphics settings? I heard lots of rumours that the texture settings were actually reversed, but on the final weekend it didn't seem to make a different which setting I chose - either low or high, some of the textures looked *terrible*. Also the AA button had completely gone from the interface - is this planning on making a return?

I didn't get the proper high-res textures to work for me in-game (didn't realise it could be done) but I saw a screenshot posted on the forums of what they looked like.


According to a later post by the same guy

Those are the maxed settings (with "High" textures, not the bugged "High" textures that most people had.) AA was not enabled at the time.

So hopefully the god-awful character textures will be gone next week

Edit: un-spoilered

[Merusk]

Oh wow.. that makes a huge difference, unlike the AA & bloom settings you see in the Tom's Hardware piece.

[Amaron]

   You should unspoiler that pic so nobody misses it.   I was actually ok with the textures but if that pic is for real I'm pretty damn happy.

Edit: I found another pic of evidence high res textures weren't in.  Spoilered since it's quite large.


I'm fairly sure it didn't look that good in game a few weeks ago.   That's from a scene on the third empire planet.   Amusingly one of those droids is voiced by C3-PO.

[Tyrnan]

  You should unspoiler that pic so nobody misses it.   I was actually ok with the textures but if that pic is for real I'm pretty damn happy.

Done. I just hope it's real and not some bizarre troll.

[Amaron]

For those of you worried about the anti-clown button not being in the "launch" build I found this tidbit by Stephen Reid:

Trying to take this one particular exchange and hold it up as evidence for some sort of general failure seems a little unfair, but that goes with the territory. So in case anyone else wants to quote me, let's get terminology straight:

A 'build' from our point of view is a major set of changes to the game, usually involving a decent size download for players.

Are you playing or downloading the launch build of the game right now? Yes, as we're not planning another major build before launch. That said, we're going to be pushing plenty of fixes and changes into the game before we actually hit launch day. With that in mind, our known issues aren't really our launch issues - they're just the ones we have today. On launch day, they'll be our launch day known issues, and we hope to have a lot less of them.

So apparently what got tested last weekend is 1.0 and there will probably be a 1.0.X on release day.

[Kageru]

That looks much better, the armor is worn, cloth isn't smooth and face has shadow and detail.

[Lantyssa]

I'm fairly sure it didn't look that good in game a few weeks ago.   That's from a scene on the third empire planet.   Amusingly one of those droids is voiced by C3-PO.

Anthony Daniels voices several NPC droids.

[kildorn]

Are those High textures going to be another 20G? 

[Mazakiel]

That's what'll get the client up to it's full 45 petabyte install. 

[tmp]

It's probably only for these who pre-ordered the CE anyway

[murdoc]

I played the last weekend beta and there was a LOT of the graphics options that had been outright removed from the UI. I really hope that those high textures will be ready to go in a couple weeks, now that I have a PC that can utilize them.

[Ghambit]

Is there any way to ramp up the texture-loading speed?  within the software that is?
Nothing more annoying than looking at a blurry mess and then "zing!" nicer textures. (especially in the cutscenes)