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Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Did the game patch today or yesterday? Because now my launcher isnt working again.

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Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

prefect posted:

I'm an expansion behind, but I'm still excited about getting into some more solo flashpoints to learn about this "Revan" character.

It looks like we can do those right now. I'm an expansion behind until tomorrow as well, but just did Korriban and about to do Tython.

Zarick
Dec 28, 2004

Is there a good way to duo level from 1 that won't make your eyes fall out from boredom? Seems like doing normal quests would get pretty dull with two characters + companions. Is doing the tactical dungeons worth it?

SolidSnakesBandana
Jul 1, 2007

Infinite ammo

Berke Negri posted:

Did the game patch today or yesterday? Because now my launcher isnt working again.

No, next patch on Tuesday.

Zarick posted:

Is there a good way to duo level from 1 that won't make your eyes fall out from boredom? Seems like doing normal quests would get pretty dull with two characters + companions. Is doing the tactical dungeons worth it?

They're basically super quests. If you aren't liking the gameplay it just isn't for you I guess? Personally I love walking around to all the questgivers and talking to them and basically picking "nice response or slightly snarky response"

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



If you're different classes you can tag along onto each other's story quests, I always thought that was cool

Jan
Feb 27, 2008

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

If you're different classes you can tag along onto each other's story quests, I always thought that was cool

You can tag along same class quests by enabling an option in the UI settings as well. It just won't share credit, IIRC, so you have to redo everything twice.

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS
Just a reminder to anyone who is insane enough to try to max influence, buy the legacy character perk for 90k that gives you 30% additional influence via gifts.

Also, if you have common crystals, 30 of them buy a legendary rank 6 gift which are selling for obscene amounts on the GTN right now.

B-Mac
Apr 21, 2003
I'll never catch "the gay"!

Medullah posted:

Just a reminder to anyone who is insane enough to try to max influence, buy the legacy character perk for 90k that gives you 30% additional influence via gifts.

Also, if you have common crystals, 30 of them buy a legendary rank 6 gift which are selling for obscene amounts on the GTN right now.

Where would one go to buy said gifts with said crystals?

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

B-Mac posted:

Where would one go to buy said gifts with said crystals?

Odessen market, smuggled goods vendor.

B-Mac
Apr 21, 2003
I'll never catch "the gay"!

Cythereal posted:

Odessen market, smuggled goods vendor.

Does that require the newest expansion or is it a place my lowbie butt can get to?

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

B-Mac posted:

Does that require the newest expansion or is it a place my lowbie butt can get to?

Requires the newest expansion.


I still enjoy trolling the official forums story/lore section. There's always people who just can't handle the idea of the non-Force classes being able to overcome the same foes and carry the same story role as the Force users.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

Cythereal posted:

Requires the newest expansion.


I still enjoy trolling the official forums story/lore section. There's always people who just can't handle the idea of the non-Force classes being able to overcome the same foes and carry the same story role as the Force users.

To be fair after finishing Chapter 9 on my JK I'm also struggling with this concept.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

SKY COQ posted:

To be fair after finishing Chapter 9 on my JK I'm also struggling with this concept.

Force users are chumps. They have magic and enchanted swords, but that doesn't make them walking gods. Chapter 2 even goes into detail about how and why non-Force classes are the Outlander and can carry the same story role - namely, they're among the very best in the galaxy, skilled enough to fight and kill even the greatest Jedi and Sith in a fair fight.

TOR goes with the narrative that yes, sufficiently skilled mundane people can take Force-users in a straight fight and win.

Also bear in mind the movies. The climax of A New Hope hinges on Han Solo taking Darth Vader by surprise and defeating him - and only not killing him because Solo was focused on other things. Luke gets shot down by a non-Force-user in ESB and almost eaten by a wampa in the same movie, then shot and injured in RotJ. To say nothing of Order 66.

Cythereal fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Oct 27, 2015

Degs
Mar 2, 2014

Cythereal posted:

The climax of A New Hope hinges on Han Solo taking Han Solo by surprise and defeating him -

I can see why that'd be difficult.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Degs posted:

I can see why that'd be difficult.

Erm. Whoops. Darth Vader by surprise.

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

Degs posted:

I can see why that'd be difficult.

It certainly settles the question of "who shot first."

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

A five-star manufacturer


Cythereal posted:

Force users are chumps. They have magic and enchanted swords, but that doesn't make them walking gods. Chapter 2 even goes into detail about how and why non-Force classes are the Outlander and can carry the same story role - namely, they're among the very best in the galaxy, skilled enough to fight and kill even the greatest Jedi and Sith in a fair fight.

TOR goes with the narrative that yes, sufficiently skilled mundane people can take Force-users in a straight fight and win.

Also bear in mind the movies. The climax of A New Hope hinges on Han Solo taking Darth Vader by surprise and defeating him - and only not killing him because Solo was focused on other things. Luke gets shot down by a non-Force-user in ESB and almost eaten by a wampa in the same movie, then shot and injured in RotJ. To say nothing of Order 66.

All the EU garbage has really pushed the idea that Jedi are unbeatable with their power to time travel or whatever, but even with that the best pilot in the galaxy is Wedge Antilles, just a Regular Dude.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Doesn't the Smuggler have a whole discipline based around "kicking Sith in the nuts and stabbing them while they're down"?

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
I'm guessing the release of KotFE doesn't give subs (or preferred, which is even more unlikely) a free server transfer or something, does it?

I don't really ahve a problem with leveling a new character since it's hilariously fast now but I have a lot of money and poo poo on older characters.

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

A five-star manufacturer


Bruceski posted:

Doesn't the Smuggler have a whole discipline based around "kicking Sith in the nuts and stabbing them while they're down"?

The thing that's consistent across all Smuggler disciplines is that they come with that Precise Shot feat from KotOR2 that makes blaster shots unreflectable. Whether you're kicking dicks, shooting flechettes at them or just putting blaster shots in their face it works.


Thumbtacks posted:

I'm guessing the release of KotFE doesn't give subs (or preferred, which is even more unlikely) a free server transfer or something, does it?

I don't really ahve a problem with leveling a new character since it's hilariously fast now but I have a lot of money and poo poo on older characters.

They're not free but they are like 90 cents each right now.

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



When I used a referral code from here to resubscribe, I got a free transfer. The transfers, which you can buy with cartel coins, were heavily discounted for a while too, I don't know if that's still active.

waffledoodle
Oct 1, 2005

I believe your boast sounds vaguely familiar.

Defiance Industries posted:

All the EU garbage has really pushed the idea that Jedi are unbeatable with their power to time travel or whatever, but even with that the best pilot in the galaxy is Wedge Antilles, just a Regular Dude.

Meanwhile, the Jedi canonically are brought to near extinction by clone troopers, which are copies of Jango Fett, which is also what Boba Fett is.

Q.E.D Bounty Hunter best class

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

A five-star manufacturer


Boba Fett gets clowned by a smuggler, so smugglers = number one for all of space

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

When I used a referral code from here to resubscribe, I got a free transfer. The transfers, which you can buy with cartel coins, were heavily discounted for a while too, I don't know if that's still active.

Referral code to resub? How's that work? Aren't those only for new accounts?

Fuzz
Jun 2, 2003

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Defiance Industries posted:

Boba Fett gets clowned by a smuggler, so smugglers = number one for all of space

But that Smuggler got his rear end beat by a Jugg. And a JK also decapitated the BH, BUT that JK got owned by a Sorc, and that Sorc happened to have trained an Assassin that chest stabbed a Consular but was then chopped in half by a JK, so...

Fuzz
Jun 2, 2003

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Thumbtacks posted:

Referral code to resub? How's that work? Aren't those only for new accounts?

No, anyone can use one every 90 days and get free poo poo.

http://www.swtor.com/r/TkMbdV

Clicky!

waffledoodle
Oct 1, 2005

I believe your boast sounds vaguely familiar.

Fuzz posted:

But that Smuggler got his rear end beat by a Jugg. And a JK also decapitated the BH, BUT that JK got owned by a Sorc, and that Sorc happened to have trained an Assassin that chest stabbed a Consular but was then chopped in half by a JK, so...

George Lucas: king of class balance

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

A five-star manufacturer


Fuzz posted:

But that Smuggler got his rear end beat by a Jugg. And a JK also decapitated the BH, BUT that JK got owned by a Sorc, and that Sorc happened to have trained an Assassin that chest stabbed a Consular but was then chopped in half by a JK, so...

The real takeaway here is that marauders/sentinels = bottom tier trash classes

Siegkrow
Oct 11, 2013

Arguing about Lore for 5 years and counting



Man I hope we get a Skytrooper skin for 51.
I'd have said 55 but :(

Nipponophile
Apr 8, 2009
Speaking of UI improvements... I guess it's not something that many people will run into, but a few nights ago when I went to grant a stronghold key to a guild member, I had to page through an unsorted list of guild members 10 at a time to find that specific character.

Why is it that I can search for a completely random person to send a key to my personal stronghold, but I can't search within my own guild?

Iron_Chef
Sep 19, 2003
Chef of Iron

prefect posted:

I'm an expansion behind, but I'm still excited about getting into some more solo flashpoints to learn about this "Revan" character.

I'm excited that my 55 will be able to resume exploring RotC without wasting XP! (No SoR). Guess that makes me two expansions behind.

thrakkorzog
Nov 16, 2007

Nipponophile posted:

Speaking of UI improvements... I guess it's not something that many people will run into, but a few nights ago when I went to grant a stronghold key to a guild member, I had to page through an unsorted list of guild members 10 at a time to find that specific character.

Why is it that I can search for a completely random person to send a key to my personal stronghold, but I can't search within my own guild?

Because the search functions in this game are horrible. I would kill to get an option to hit up a gear vendor and be able to filter by slot, like pants, belt, etc.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I ventured onto the general forums for a few minutes, and I'm here to report that MMO players remain colossal babies about everything.

That was my update thanks for reading.

Second Sun
Apr 6, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Fojar38 posted:

I ventured onto the general forums for a few minutes, and I'm here to report that MMO players remain colossal babies about everything.

That was my update thanks for reading.

Yep, never mind this has probably been the smoothest MMO expansion (pre)release ever.

cheesetriangles
Jan 5, 2011





I want to make a tank with my free 60. What is the best tank currently? I hear maybe power tech is?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



So I've not booted this up in ages, but everything I'm hearing about the expansion is that it's a ton of great single player content.

So... Have they given a particular reason for not just making a new single player game? I'm sure a hell of a lot more people would play it.

Emy
Apr 21, 2009
Welp, I think they shut down logins a little early. I didn't manage to get in early enough to change MY MARKET ORDERS :qq:

JazzPaws
Aug 10, 2014

- Ponzi Scheme Survivor -

cheesetriangles posted:

I want to make a tank with my free 60. What is the best tank currently? I hear maybe power tech is?

Jugg all the way, but that's my opinion.

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



Steve2911 posted:

So I've not booted this up in ages, but everything I'm hearing about the expansion is that it's a ton of great single player content.

So... Have they given a particular reason for not just making a new single player game? I'm sure a hell of a lot more people would play it.
A new single player game they can only sell you once, but this poo poo? This poo poo they can sell you in pieces forever! It's the long con, my friend. And they've already had all the groundwork spread out.

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Shirkelton
Apr 6, 2009

I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.
What are those Gold/Bronze/Silver armour boxes on the Cartel Store, exactly?

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