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Mr. Neutron posted:Is this game's engine an utter piece of garbage or what? HD7950 , i5k@4.0ghz, 8gig of RAM. No matter what I set graphics to, I get 20-30 FPS in 8man operations, and sub-60 in most flashpoints, too. Now the latter I can live with but operations are pretty much unplayable, what kind of voodoo PC do you have to have to run them at 60 FPS? Are you running from an HDD or SSD?
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Speaking of not pressing buttons, I recently switched my Jedi Sentinel to "combat" spec for the first time and was delighted to see that most of its unique abilities are straight replacers for base class abilities. That character's hotbars have never been so clean. I still don't enjoy it as much as I enjoy Vigilance Guardian, but I'm not super annoyed at it anymore. The rotation is pretty simple.NeurosisHead posted:Does this game still do the 12x exp for subscribers so you can level on just the story missions? That was a temporary promotional thing leading up to the new expansion. After that, the whole XP/leveling system in the game got a massive overhaul so that the BASE amount of XP is about 6x what it used to be. On top of that, the new level scaling system prevents most low-level content from "graying out" so you get optimal XP from whatever you decide to do. A good strategy is to stockpile some XP early on (like right after leaving the newbie planet) by doing heroics, flashpoints, side quests, space missions, PVP, or whatever seems fun, and then go back to doing the class story once you've overleveled it by a decent amount. You'll still get great XP because of the scaling, you won't need to worry about gear if you've picked stuff up from heroics (and you'll have a pile of data crystals to buy upgrades in a pinch) and you can cruise through the rest of the class story uninterrupted and really get your immersion on. I leveled quite a few alts during the 12x promotion, and now I feel like it was kind of a waste of time, because leveling up NOW is so much faster/easier/more fun. You can now play this game EXTREMELY casually and see all the content you want to see. The old MMO grind is history.
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Jan 10, 2016 21:21
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NeurosisHead posted:Does this game still do the 12x exp for subscribers so you can level on just the story missions?
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Jan 10, 2016 21:33
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Couple random questions: 1. If an auction fails to sell, do you get the full deposit back? 2. Which Sage spec is best for just questing/clearing out groups of enemies quick? Gonna make a Sage my next character once I clear KOTFE on Joriid.
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Jan 10, 2016 22:17
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The second part of Ziost is my favorite part of Star Wars and the best looking planet in the game.
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Jan 10, 2016 22:29
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Verranicus posted:Couple random questions: Not sure about the first, but Telekinesis is definitely the answer to the second.
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Jan 10, 2016 23:08
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Verranicus posted:Couple random questions: Yep. You get it back either way, but there is a percentage cut taken out when something does sell, and with big sales it can be a big cut. The only time you lose your deposit is if you cancel an auction when its time is still ticking, and that mechanic is mostly there to prevent people from constantly pulling and relisting their stuff to undercut each other, stressing the servers and making a mess of the economy. It could also make certain types of exploits more difficult. The deposit is not usually a lot of money, but you do want to make sure you list something right the first time so you don't flush it away.
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Jan 10, 2016 23:15
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Shadow is great for leveling because you can stealth past half of the bullshit mobs during quests and heroics.
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Jan 10, 2016 23:44
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Mr. Neutron posted:Is this game's engine an utter piece of garbage or what? HD7950 , i5k@4.0ghz, 8gig of RAM. No matter what I set graphics to, I get 20-30 FPS in 8man operations, and sub-60 in most flashpoints, too. Now the latter I can live with but operations are pretty much unplayable, what kind of voodoo PC do you have to have to run them at 60 FPS? It's an utter piece of garbage.
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Jan 10, 2016 23:50
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That post got me all nostalgic for my old Voodoo videocard. Thanks guy complaining about performance!
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Jan 11, 2016 00:24
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I can complain about performance too so you get nostalgic of your Pentium III, since my CPU inhibits most modern games from running well.
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Jan 11, 2016 00:35
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Givin posted:The second part of Ziost is my favorite part of Star Wars and the best looking planet in the game. drat. 
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Jan 11, 2016 00:48
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Until recently I was running this game on a 3GHz core duo (E8400) with 4GB of memory and an aging GTX460, chugging along at 30FPS in good areas, 10FPS in bad areas and 1FPS in ops boss fights with particle effect overload. I couldn't afford a new comp and was thinking of springing for a GTX960 in the hopes that would put some life back into it. Instead I lucked into a donation of a new mobo, an i5-4690K and 16GB, and even with the old graphics card the engine is pegged at 60FPS everywhere, at the highest graphics settings. I'm even seeing animations I never saw before because the old comp never rendered them (jumping down into the air ducts at the beginning of a Star Fortress, for example). The engine is incredibly CPU heavy.
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Jan 11, 2016 01:04
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So I'm just now coming back to this game after being gone from it for two and a half years. I gave the OP a once over, but just had a couple of questions. I'm a preferred player, my roommate playing with me will be a Free one. We used the referral link in the OP, and we do plan on playing through the old story content (honestly story is why we're playing). How far after character creation and start can characters meet up and start doing stuff together? I kinda think it'd be boring for us both to play the same class, but I don't want to have to go through a bunch of content solo before getting to meet up. Also, should I wait til Level 50 before buying the Hutt Cartel/Revan stuff? I want to go through it (especially Revan; I liked the KotOR games!) but don't want to shell out until I have to.
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Jan 11, 2016 01:56
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jivjov posted:So I'm just now coming back to this game after being gone from it for two and a half years. I gave the OP a once over, but just had a couple of questions. You'll be able to pretty much duo everything after the first planet at the latest (same planet if you're both force users or both tech users). You'll need to sub to get past 50 but once you do it you keep that content forever. You get XP bonus for subbing too. Along with QOL improvements so subbing now might not be a bad idea. Plus sub now you'll get early access to the next chapter of KOTFE in February.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:05
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Can someone explain flashpoints to me? The GF and I did the introductory one for Esseles on the republic side and now we're high enough to do Hammer Station. There was a droid on coruscant that gave us a breadcrumb to it that brought me to the dropship hangar in the republic fleet and I got a tactical quest for the station, but when I zoned in everything was lv65 and people in /1 were telling me that we need a full group. My question is how can we just two-man this flashpoint like the Esseles one? That was the perfect hour long duo quest and we want more like it.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:07
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As longas you start on the same planet, you can team up right away. The Force Users and Non-Force Users on either side are paired up in this way. The first planet goes pretty quickly, so you'll be able to meet up after that. Or as a preferred player use the fleet pass you get at level 10 to go join them, assuming you pick non-paired classes. Hutt Cartel and Reven both are unneeded though up to level 50, but you'll be unnable to select some quest rewards you don't really want anyway, since taking the data crystals are better and doing heroics will shower you in better gear anyway.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:10
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Medullah posted:You'll be able to pretty much duo everything after the first planet at the latest (same planet if you're both force users or both tech users). You'll need to sub to get past 50 but once you do it you keep that content forever. You get XP bonus for subbing too. Along with QOL improvements so subbing now might not be a bad idea. Plus sub now you'll get early access to the next chapter of KOTFE in February. I'm not too worried about the early access and whatnot. We'll probably only really get to play one or two nights a week, so faster progression is pretty meaningless. Is it, strictly speaking, viable to play free to 50/end of the class content, then sub for a month to get into the paid stuff?
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Jan 11, 2016 02:12
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Richard M Nixon posted:Can someone explain flashpoints to me? The GF and I did the introductory one for Esseles on the republic side and now we're high enough to do Hammer Station. There was a droid on coruscant that gave us a breadcrumb to it that brought me to the dropship hangar in the republic fleet and I got a tactical quest for the station, but when I zoned in everything was lv65 and people in /1 were telling me that we need a full group. Hammer station can be duo'd just fine. Some flashpoints require a little strategy on the bosses, and sometimes that requires moving companions out of the bad stuff, but otherwise you shouldn't have a problem.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:19
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Richard M Nixon posted:Can someone explain flashpoints to me? The GF and I did the introductory one for Esseles on the republic side and now we're high enough to do Hammer Station. There was a droid on coruscant that gave us a breadcrumb to it that brought me to the dropship hangar in the republic fleet and I got a tactical quest for the station, but when I zoned in everything was lv65 and people in /1 were telling me that we need a full group. Tactical flashpoints will bolster your stats up to level 65 so that you are always like-level with what's in there. They are more commonly done with a full group of four, but two players and two companions should be fine provided that at least one player or companion is full time healing and you're careful with crowd control for the tougher pulls. They aren't easy that way but they're perfectly doable (probably more so than a full group with no healers).
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Jan 11, 2016 02:20
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jivjov posted:I'm not too worried about the early access and whatnot. We'll probably only really get to play one or two nights a week, so faster progression is pretty meaningless. Is it, strictly speaking, viable to play free to 50/end of the class content, then sub for a month to get into the paid stuff? Yup. Perfectly viable. You might want to sub at 50 just so you don't "waste" xp, but that's not strictly necessary and you'll have a better idea of how you feel about that anyway when you reach that point. Your friend is going to have a rough time getting to 50 with only one hotbar and no cargo space, though.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:24
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Potsticker posted:Yup. Perfectly viable. You might want to sub at 50 just so you don't "waste" xp, but that's not strictly necessary and you'll have a better idea of how you feel about that anyway when you reach that point. Your friend is going to have a rough time getting to 50 with only one hotbar and no cargo space, though. I figure a $5 expenditure to get them to Preferred will hold us over...right?
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Jan 11, 2016 02:31
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Potsticker posted:Hammer station can be duo'd just fine. Some flashpoints require a little strategy on the bosses, and sometimes that requires moving companions out of the bad stuff, but otherwise you shouldn't have a problem. I wouldn't recommend this to players who are new/looking for a fun time.
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Nerd Of Prey posted:
My personal favorite ones I have made lately, glad you're enjoying them. I want to build some real world physical versions of those soon. Also, new stuff a'comin. Can't wait to show you guys.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:36
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jivjov posted:I figure a $5 expenditure to get them to Preferred will hold us over...right? Yup! Verranicus posted:I wouldn't recommend this to players who are new/looking for a fun time. No? We seemed to enjoy it well enough, though it is full of a lot of trash so it did take some time. My favorite flashpoint so far has been Cademimu, though the first boss took us like 8 or 9 attempts to figure out what was going on.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:37
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Potsticker posted:Yup! Slowly grinding through mobs that are meant to be fought by a group twice the size for little to no story doesn't sound like something someone looking for something like Esselles would enjoy.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:47
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nonentity posted:My personal favorite ones I have made lately, glad you're enjoying them. I want to build some real world physical versions of those soon. Please talk the rest of the dev crew into making a cosmetic slot for weapons. You made a bunch of really cool designs but it's prohibitively expensive to switch between models when you have to rip out the mods and re-augment them. It's especially bad on my merc who has like 80% of available blasters but only really uses 1 set for PVE and 1 for PVP.
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Jan 11, 2016 02:56
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Verranicus posted:Slowly grinding through mobs that are meant to be fought by a group twice the size for little to no story doesn't sound like something someone looking for something like Esselles would enjoy. Maybe I should try Esselles, then. Which flashpoints have the best/most story? And which have the most interesting bosses?
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Jan 11, 2016 03:02
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Potsticker posted:Maybe I should try Esselles, then. Which flashpoints have the best/most story? And which have the most interesting bosses? The story-relevant flashpoints are the ones with a solo mode. In particular, do Taral V/Maelstrom Prison or Boarding Party/The Foundry as appropriate for your faction.
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Jan 11, 2016 03:11
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nonentity posted:My personal favorite ones I have made lately, glad you're enjoying them. I want to build some real world physical versions of those soon.  . I also like how they have a similar aesthetic to Luke's saber in RoTJ which has always been one of my favourites.
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Jan 11, 2016 03:30
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Cythereal posted:The story-relevant flashpoints are the ones with a solo mode. In particular, do Taral V/Maelstrom Prison or Boarding Party/The Foundry as appropriate for your faction. I don't mean story relevant, I mean more like-- have story decisions I guess. Like Black Talon. FAKE EDIT: I have been informed that Esseles IS Black Talon for the Republic side. 
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Jan 11, 2016 03:42
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Potsticker posted:I don't mean story relevant, I mean more like-- have story decisions I guess. Like Black Talon. Then you're sadly out of luck. Most subsequent flashpoints have a LS/DS choice or two that will only change a few lines of dialogue. Nothing like the branches in Esseles and Black Talon.
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Jan 11, 2016 03:44
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Cythereal posted:Then you're sadly out of luck. Most subsequent flashpoints have a LS/DS choice or two that will only change a few lines of dialogue. Nothing like the branches in Esseles and Black Talon.
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Jan 11, 2016 03:48
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Belasavis...the prison planet is literally covered in frolicking fields of flowers....!?!?
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Promethium posted:Tactical flashpoints will bolster your stats up to level 65 so that you are always like-level with what's in there. They are more commonly done with a full group of four, but two players and two companions should be fine provided that at least one player or companion is full time healing and you're careful with crowd control for the tougher pulls. They aren't easy that way but they're perfectly doable (probably more so than a full group with no healers). Thanks. So are there more on-level duo flashpoints like the first one or are the rest going to scale me to 65 and try to push me towards a full group?
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Richard M Nixon posted:Thanks. So are there more on-level duo flashpoints like the first one or are the rest going to scale me to 65 and try to push me towards a full group? Most of the flashpoints that you get as a part of a larger questline will have on-level modes, the ones that just send you to a dropship won't. Specifically the tactical-only flashpoints are Hammer Station, Athiss, Mandalorian Raiders, Cademimu, Red Reaper, and Kuat Drive Yards. As you're leveling up the next full quest on-level flashpoints will be Taral V for Republic or Boarding Party for Empire. There's also Colicoid War Games which is not scaled but doesn't have a solo mode either, requiring a group for some puzzle sections unless you use geometry trickery.
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Promethium posted:Most of the flashpoints that you get as a part of a larger questline will have on-level modes, the ones that just send you to a dropship won't. Specifically the tactical-only flashpoints are Hammer Station, Athiss, Mandalorian Raiders, Cademimu, Red Reaper, and Kuat Drive Yards. As you're leveling up the next full quest on-level flashpoints will be Taral V for Republic or Boarding Party for Empire. There's also Colicoid War Games which is not scaled but doesn't have a solo mode either, requiring a group for some puzzle sections unless you use geometry trickery. Great info, I appreciate it.
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So I have an odd issue. I went through the Sith Inquisitor class quest on Taris and somehow never picked up Ashara. She's in the cut scenes but absent from my ship and crew skill list.
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WTF BEES posted:So I have an odd issue. I went through the Sith Inquisitor class quest on Taris and somehow never picked up Ashara. She's in the cut scenes but absent from my ship and crew skill list. You lucked out.
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So I've pretty much done everything there is to do in SWTOR at this point, or at least everything I'm interested in doing. Leveled every class, gone through KotFE a couple of times, played pretty-space-princess-dressup; now it's either grind heroics for alliance crates and wait until the next chapter drops. I've had a lot of fun playing TOR. It was the first MMO I really got into, after trying and failing with WoW back in 2011 or so (don't think I ever got past level 25 or so, it was just boring). I like the story stuff, making a character that not only looked unique but also kind of had a unique personality (to be fair there wasn't a whole lot of freedom in this area but a lot more than, say, WoW), and the MMO stuff is fun because I could do stuff with friends/goons/goon friends. I don't really have any desire to do the hardcore MMO stuff, though, so operations and whatnot don't really appeal to me. My question is: are there any other MMOs out there now that might scratch the same itch that TOR has? Ones with more emphasis on the RPG elements than the MMO elements. I tried Guild Wars 2 a couple of years ago but for some reason it never really grabbed me. Maybe because it seemed I was always underleveled for content. Probably I was playing it wrong.
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