SW:TOR

I'm actually concerned about the lack of traditional roles for each player in GW2.  I mean, if it aint broke, dont fix it.  Everyone is just going to try and melt faces with no predetermined roles.

Originally posted by Marino Bioware has really sucked at releasing good updates to the SW:TOR community.Â

I agree 100% with you on that. I have been following TOR for 2 years and I must say I am still looking forward to it. And if you are like me and hate waiting www.leakerz.net and you will find alot on TOR. Its coming along very well according to the leaked gameplay.

I probably won't even get it at all now. EA is pulling a lot of really dick moves lately to try and promote their horrible ass digital game distribution system, Origin.

First they got Crysis 2 pulled from Steam for breaking contract by not letting Steam sell the DLCs, now they're making SW:TOR an Origin exclusive, can't get it from Steam or any other digital distribution system, you have to get Origin.

They can keep their game, they're not going to get my money pulling that kind of crap. I'll stick with GW2.

I bought it, the deluxe not the CE.

I bought it mainly because, well....I am in my 30's and a geek.  Star Wars is sewn into the fabric of the toys and lore I grew up on.  Nostalgia basically.  To be able to create and develop an avatar into a jedi or sith?  Yes.


Now, a few tidbits of info to pass to you all:

You need an EA or Origin account to get the game.  You need a SW:ToR account to redeem the pre-order code.  They claim that if you have one of each already that they will merge and work, that is false as of now.  I have 2 different logins (email and passcode) for each site.

I redeemed the code with no issue, but I can not change the email of either to be the same as this causes an error.  Of course I am confident that they will merge both like Blizzard did with wow game accounts and the battle.net accounts.


This may scare some as EA and Dragon Age games never played well between the damn websites either.  So I am hoping that they just make it so you can merge both and remember one log in.  I am also hoping that they offer authenticators to protect the accounts.  You can get a physical authenticator now with the CE package............but that is a ridiculous amount of cash to drop just to get that.

I could care less about a 15 inch figurine of darth malus or whatever his name is.


So Dragoon, I understand your ire, and it may all burn around us, but I am hoping this game works out as my last hurrah into mmos for a bit.

I am not sure why Bioware is always attached to EA?  I assume that EA owns bioware like activision owns blizzard?

Preordered the CE yesterday!  Cant wait to play in 2013...lol.  Seems like it will never get here.

Yup got my CE preordered and ready for it to drop. ;) Also can't wait to check out GW2.

for anyone that was in question if they could run this game

Minimum System Requirements
OS Windows XP, Vista/7

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ or better • Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.0GHz or better

Windows XP: 1.5GB RAM • Windows Vista and Windows 7: 2GB RAM •
PCs using a built-in graphical chipset, 2GB RAM recommended.

ATI X1800 or better* • nVidia 7800 or better* • Intel 4100 Integrated Graphics or better*

8x or better DVD-ROM

*Minimum of 256MB of on-board RAM and Shader 3.0 or better support.

Originally posted by Jawa So the ODE 3 should run TOR just fine then.

easily, im running 570's at 1920x1080 in sli and i typically get 70-100 fps with everything maxed out.   

Edited by RiceEatin2000GT - 28 Jul 2011 at 2:25am

maybe....

Originally posted by Jawa Rock on, man!   Wonder what the framerate will be like in a 20man operation with all the detail up.   Just curious--what is your CPU at?  DS torqued my 2600K up to 4.7Ghz.  So if yours is similar...70-100 beautiful fps here we come!   Can't wait for those September beta weekends. :D

im at 4.5ghz here. There hasn't been any formal testing but at the kind of speeds we have our cpu's at the game is more gpu bound than anything probaly.

nope my cards arent even overclocked =) GPU load hovers right around 30-50% and goes up to sometimes like 70% on each card. Its obvious the game hasnt been optimized to work with sli just yet. Performance should keep going up. Who knows though what kind of graphical changes will happen before the game comes out though.

Edited by RiceEatin2000GT - 28 Jul 2011 at 3:17pm

no problem jawa :D

I did not get the beta invite but look me up at launch!

Seems like they are opening up Beta to more and more people.  Getting close to an actual "Open" Beta perhaps? 

Originally posted by aCi11i3s I'm actually concerned about the lack of traditional roles for each player in GW2.  I mean, if it aint broke, dont fix it.  Everyone is just going to try and melt faces with no predetermined roles.

Lol I'm sorry aC, but this is totally off.  If it ain't broke don't fix it?  It is broke!  Most games are designed around a holy trinity mechanic, and then PvP is built after this.  PvE is illogical in the real world, because most mobs would not attack the beefiest guy while heavy hitters take his health away, and healers keep the meat shield up.  Those type of roles are horribly boring and fixated.  Also, PvP balance is thus stuck in a rock, paper, scissors rut..  "Not hating on those who like the holy trinity, but as a long time vet I am sick and tired of it"

I just got back from playing GW2 PvP this weekend, and all I can say is it blew my mind.  It is sooooo fast paced, and feels more like an fps than an mmo.  What you aren't getting is that people do assume roles in GW2, but it isn't fixated.  You can change your roles depending on the situation.  ArenaNet actually developed their own trinity, support, damage, control.  Each class can assume these roles, but they are linked to your weapon sets, or special mechanics for a couple classes.  However, there is no class that can sit there and keep the team alive, while everyone else just dishes out dmg.  In fact, that is more of a try to melt face situation with a whack a mole experience for the healer.

For example, I played a Guardian.  My build was Greatsword mainhand, and Mace Shield offhand.  My build idea was to constantly buff my team with swiftness through a dmg. aoe that also boosts run speed, to grant Vigor "Increases Health Amount" and Swiftness "Faster Run Speed", while dishing out some good dmg. with my Greatsword and granting some minor health regen. with a teleport ability that would be placed on nearby allies when telporting, and I would swap to my Mace Shield in combat and continue to do some good dmg. but also put out shields that protect my allies and do dmg. to enemies attacking.   This is just a rough summary of the build, but what I did was choose weapons and my utility skills "Your 5 Right Skills"  to make a front line pressure char that also grants some good support to allies in the fray. 

There is no "if" GW2 can accomplish these things, go read all the impressions of those who have gotten their hands on it.  I played the PvP and was awestruck on how fun and fast paced it was.  It literally has put me in a state to where I cannot touch any other MMO's out right now.  This game is going to be great, and they actually have great ambitions for it to go big in the E-Sport world. 

Saw some PAX info where they said more SW:TOR Beta invites are going out on September 2nd.  So if you're not already signed up to test, there's no time like the present.

Originally posted by Dragoonseal In a bout of razor sharp irony, I seem to have gotten into the beta. Guess I'll use the time to figure out if I actually want to buy it or not. Any other DSers aside from Rice in the beta? I could use some friends to group with.

I've been following this game for years, and no beta for me. Hopefully I'll get in later this week, but as I have a -100 luck stat, I think there's a distinct possibility I'll never see beta for this game. I'm so totally jelly. RAGE!!11one