Star Wars - The Old Republic - Page 52

On November 14 2011 07:14 DreamScaR wrote:




This is what you see when you try to redem your key.

On November 14 2011 08:12 gullberg wrote:
rofl I signed up like 7 months ago and now I get invited? The hype died out a long time ago for me

On November 15 2011 00:17 deth2munkies wrote:
I had long since written off playing the game because of Origin and a subscription fee, and the beta caused that opinion to COMPLETELY stay exactly the same.

The game is good, great even, but it's hardly revolutionary. Everything it's done has been done before, although it does enough improving on the formula to make it better in some areas than competitors. The problems laid out in the most general sense I can to avoid NDA are as follows:

1) Dialogue - the game's most touted feature, as has been already revealed, is a mass-effect style conversation system that you have to use with every NPC that wants to give you a quest and about 5-6 times per flashpoint. The loading times before conversations make them somewhat of a pain when all you want to do is get a generic quest from an NPC, but these scenes do a lot to enhance flashpoints and storyline quests (mostly just the main quest for the area and 1-2 more). The voice acting on the whole is supurb with few exceptions, but given the sheer volume of voice-acted content, this is not surprising. They also allow for some quests to split into light/dark side (another announced mechanic), which brings me to my second problem:

2) The light/dark mechanic is poorly done. Without going into detail, there are some (especially in the Sith sections) especially odd light/dark side option choices that are not clear. Given that the bonuses are based on how high or low the stat is and receive no points for being in the middle (the fatal KotOR flaw), this makes the game frustrating and doesn't allow you to built characters, but caricatures.

3) The Cover system sucks. As has been shown, the cover system allows ranged classes to perform special abilities and get bonuses to defense against ranged combatants. The problem is that it's either extraordinarily contrived (chest high walls everywhere in a quest area) or difficult to use (no chest high walls) even with the touted "portable cover". So, in larger combat, you're stuck wasting an action to get into cover, then stuck in place rather than being mobile, which is supposedly one of the greatest strengths of ranged classes. This makes ranged classes feel stale and uninteresting.

Apart from that I can't get into the rest of my gripes without violating the NDA as they are much more specific. Let me reiterate when I say the game as a whole is quite excellent (7.5/10 IMO), and I think a lot of people will love it, but it does have it's flaws. I greatly enjoyed playing the Jedi Consular, and if the game ends up going independent and F2P (let's be honest, it will, this is no WoW-killer) I'll be there playing that class.

If you have access to the beta forums, I posted a more comprehensive one here: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=10800520

On November 16 2011 00:26 trainRiderJ wrote:
Uh Origin isn't required to download or play SWTOR. You'll never have to install it.

On November 16 2011 01:35 Fruscainte wrote:


EA announced that all their future games will be on Origin

...?

On November 16 2011 07:45 Dalguno wrote:
So it says I got into the beta, but I can't log into my account because it changed my password or something, for security. It said it would send an e-mail with the new PW, but I haven't gotten it. What I do?