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GoGo Yubari

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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #75 on: 31 Oct 2011, 08:43 »
Yeah, I'll be there with my Sith kiddy homies pwning ur face.

Actually, don't the kids usually go for the regular side, ala Alliance? I think the truth isn't cleat cut at all and everybody labels "the other side" as more numerous and as kids to justify their own choice as "the underdog and more hardcore". It's all bullshit to me and I'll play what I like.

That said, I fully expect to go back to WoW once I've had a taste of SWTOR. I'll give it a chance in case it turns out to be particularly fun, but something to get me really excited should be different and innovative - and SWTOR is certainly not looking to be that.
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #76 on: 31 Oct 2011, 11:30 »
Quote from: GoGo Yubari on 31 Oct 2011, 08:43
Yeah, I'll be there with my Sith kiddy homies pwning ur face.

Work hard and earn it, otherwise your little prediction here will fail you, badly.

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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #77 on: 31 Oct 2011, 13:36 »
Quote from: Saikoyu on 31 Oct 2011, 08:00
And about the classes, from everything I have seem, the classes are mirrored, just not exactly.

Trooper and Bounty Hunter are about the same and both can be DPS or Tank, but in different ways.  Trooper gets the big scarry guns, while Bounty Hunter gets gizmos and special attacks (like flamethrowers, etc), but both can have armor.  It seems the same for other classes.  Smuggler get the quick draw and up close stuff or dual pistols, while Spy on the Empire side gets sniper rifles and poisons, but both use cover, and both can heal.  So not quite the same, but roughly similar. 

And the trinity I assume you mean is the damage, tank, confusion one?  It kinda works, but there are not many real clear lines.  Most classes seem to focus on tank or dps, with the confusion stuff sprinkled around for crowd control.

Class mechanics are mirrored exactly, but 'flavour' isn't. So just as sith shoot lightning and jedi throw objects with telekensis for the same result so a commando trooper uses an assault cannon and a bounty hunter merc dual's pistols to do the same thing.

Of the eight advanced classes per side only two have skills trees only for dps, three have healing trees and three have tanking trees. Fairly well spread out.
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #78 on: 10 Nov 2011, 12:43 »
Welp.  Got a weekend beta invite.

For this weekend.

Starting about the same time of day I should be finishing my installation of Skyrim after getting home from work.

Yeah, probably not going to spend more than a couple of hours playing.
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #79 on: 10 Nov 2011, 12:53 »
My wife is now buying this for me as an early Christmas gift. :D
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Hamish Grayson

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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #80 on: 10 Nov 2011, 13:34 »
Wife got a weekend beta invite so I will try it out.   
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« Reply #81 on: 11 Nov 2011, 21:59 »
Got a weekend beta invite too. Gameplay is definitely very WoW, no surprise there. Storyline for the smuggler stuff is decent so far, but all the quests/quest objectives have been pretty generic. With Skyrim installed on my PC now its pretty fuckin' hard to not just play that instead at this point.
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #82 on: 12 Nov 2011, 05:14 »
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From what I've seen...it doesn't have the economy I like...

I'll stick to my Spreadsheets Online, thank you!  :lol:

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Hamish Grayson

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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #83 on: 12 Nov 2011, 17:22 »
Yea, very Wow-ish.   Even some of the hot keys are the same.
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #84 on: 13 Nov 2011, 06:22 »
Quote from: Borza on 31 Oct 2011, 13:36
Class mechanics are mirrored exactly, but 'flavour' isn't. So just as sith shoot lightning and jedi throw objects with telekensis for the same result so a commando trooper uses an assault cannon and a bounty hunter merc dual's pistols to do the same thing.

Of the eight advanced classes per side only two have skills trees only for dps, three have healing trees and three have tanking trees. Fairly well spread out.

But people bring it down everytime to the simple "Class mechanics"
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #85 on: 13 Nov 2011, 07:58 »
Remember, I didn't warn you.

At all.  8)
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #86 on: 14 Nov 2011, 09:12 »
It's very nearly Warcraft with a Starwars skin.   I did like the more personal storyline vs WoW and had fun overall.   At least when my wife let me play.
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #87 on: 14 Nov 2011, 09:30 »
Quote from: Hamish Grayson on 12 Nov 2011, 17:22
Yea, very Wow-ish.   Even some of the hot keys are the same.
WoW had some of the same hotkeys as Baldur's Gate  ;)
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #88 on: 14 Nov 2011, 09:43 »
I wonder why this either comes as a surprise to someone this late in the development, or somehow seems worth mentioning. Yes, gameplay wise it's the WoW mechanics. This is for the most part a very -good- thing. There has yet to be an Avatar Driven MMO that worked better gameplay wise than WoW, so that sounds just fine for me.
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Re: SWTOR: Will/how will you play?
« Reply #89 on: 14 Nov 2011, 10:07 »
So, WoW in space is a good thing?
Really?  ;)
I know you're deeply, madly in love here but ...
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