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Hulk Smash!
Jul 14, 2004

Medullah posted:

Don't listen to these guys, if you hit max level before you finish the story your character is automatically deleted! BEWARE!

It's true. I have 21 characters all sitting at level 64, too afraid to log on in case there's some kind of XP boost going on.

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bagrada
Aug 4, 2007

The Demogorgon is tired of your silly human bickering!

One difference if you are doing heroic missions alongside the story is that from 1-60 they reward you a box with two blue items, and from 61-65 they give you new items instead that you can't do anything with until you complete a chunk of the most recent expansion. Assuming you are a subscriber, if not I don't think you get the boxes.

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

bagrada posted:

One difference if you are doing heroic missions alongside the story is that from 1-60 they reward you a box with two blue items, and from 61-65 they give you new items instead that you can't do anything with until you complete a chunk of the most recent expansion. Assuming you are a subscriber, if not I don't think you get the boxes.

Preferred/F2P can't even get those boxes.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Aphrodite posted:

He's boring and by the book.

Carth. theyre always loving Carth.

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

KittyEmpress posted:

He's also a whiny bitch who expects everything to fall in his lap afterwards. Yeah you got demoted because guess what, you hosed up. Oh so now you're going to take it out on the imperial defector? Nah I'm promoting her instead of you, every time.



It's even worse because he's the fem!trooper romance option, and is just insufferable in it.

Not that any of the fem character romances aren't insufferable.

Did he actually though? It's really more like the brass needed to have someone take the fall, and since it sure as hell wasn't gonna be me, it left him holding the bag.

Givin
Jan 24, 2008
Givin of the Internet Hates You

Mercurius posted:

Looks like the returning companion for Chapter XI will be Aric Jorgan. Teaser trailer thing's up on their site: http://www.swtor.com/fallen-empire/chapters?intcmp=sor_bwa-mkt-t-us-lp-040

I hope against hope that they are giving everyone the most terrible companions from each class and they all die at the end in one mass grave.

Also the monthly rewards better just not be a collection of HK armor. I'm kinda tired of HK-55 already. He was cool, then kinda just there and now he gets as much use as Skadge or Broodmark.

DrunkenGarbageCan
Nov 4, 2009

Givin posted:

I hope against hope that they are giving everyone the most terrible companions from each class and they all die at the end in one mass grave.

The Kill Skadge (Hopefully Very Slowly) mission is their secret weapon for when subs hit an all-time low.

JonathonSpectre
Jul 23, 2003

I replaced the Shermatar and text with this because I don't wanna see racial slurs every time you post what the fuck

Soiled Meat
Free Khem Val.

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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JonathonSpectre posted:

Free Khem Val.

That's a funny way to spell "Guss Tuno"

mastajake
Oct 3, 2005

My blade is unBENDING!

Why do people not like Skadge? I vastly prefer him to Kaliyo or Doc. Possibly others. Also, geez, I wish every week's conquest was like this. I'll probably end up hitting it on 4 characters instead of my previous record of 0.

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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mastajake posted:

Why do people not like Skadge? I vastly prefer him to Kaliyo or Doc. Possibly others. Also, geez, I wish every week's conquest was like this. I'll probably end up hitting it on 4 characters instead of my previous record of 0.

You are, and I say this with complete sincerity, literally the first person I have ever seen whose least favorite companion isn't Skadge.

pinkk
Sep 6, 2004

hi
My least favorite is Torian.

Agraya
Dec 15, 2009
My least favorite is Kaliyo, followed by Quinn.

I don't have a huge problem with Skadge. He's a dick, but he's a loyal dick. Kaliyo tries to backstab you in every single one of her companion quests, then gives you attitude for daring to not allow yourself to be killed or sold into slavery. Quinn tells me he hates me and hopes Baras kills me. Skadge insults my crew but I'm still his boss and he says as much.

My favorite is Ashara because she constantly calls both jedi and sith out on their bullshit. Jaesa eats up everything you tell her which I find boring but Ashara will fight you on everything and it's amazing. She's pretty much the only grey jedi or whatever. Second place is Kira because Laura Bailey.

Agraya fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Feb 19, 2016

JonathonSpectre
Jul 23, 2003

I replaced the Shermatar and text with this because I don't wanna see racial slurs every time you post what the fuck

Soiled Meat

Fojar38 posted:

That's a funny way to spell "Guss Tuno"

Monstrous Force-beast > creepy fish man

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





I don't have a Skadge companion, what class is that and where in the story?

My worst companion is probably Quinn, but at least I can enjoy tormenting him. I flirted like mad with him until he finally broke down and made his move, at which point I said "too late, not interested anymore". Then I declined to approve his promotion. I'm sure he hates me and will try to get me later.

I have Broon, and as he's brand new, he's sort of at the end of the line for gifts and such, so he's only at level 5 and not getting much use. Jaesa is my regular murder-spree companion and I've got her up to level 25 now I think, with Vette at 23, but she's not a big fan of murdering everyone as the solution to every problem, so she mostly stays on the ship these days. I expected to move Treek into the day-to-day companion role until Jaesa came along. When Jaesa went dark-side, she went all in.

Givin
Jan 24, 2008
Givin of the Internet Hates You
I want to write words about Skadge, but I don't want to complain about bad writing in a BioWare game for fear of getting the thread gassed. I just don't see him as a real part of the whole Bounty Hunter story, even a dark side one. I realize he isn't around very long and doesn't have the time to develop like say Mako but being the only real true dark side companion I think he should have got a little more fleshing out.

Every class has companions like these tho so I guess it's not a Skadge specific problem.

Also his head looks like a huge poop. :nexus:

I would like to read why people like him tho.

I really feel hate for Kaliyo as well. My hate for her goes deep because Agent was my first play through at launch and I had to level healing Operative just to keep her alive, which was the real end game. All the while just waiting for her to gently caress me over at every turn while I played space James Bond.

Baron Porkface
Jan 22, 2007


Givin posted:



I would like to read why people like him tho.



He has more willpower than the player character.

the paradigm shift
Jan 18, 2006

Stupid question but with the patch this morning I only got one more balmorra heroic done. Do the weekly ones reset on saturday morning or Sunday? Hopefully I don't have to spend all morning grinding through the rest of them.
Edit: seems like it's at 12gmt Tuesday so all cool.

the paradigm shift fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Feb 19, 2016

Ineptitude
Mar 2, 2010

Heed my words and become a master of the Heart (of Thorns).

The Locator posted:

I don't have a Skadge companion, what class is that and where in the story?


Late'ish in the Mercenary vanilla game (at the end of the prison planet)

Im jumping on the hate Skadge bandwagon. A genuinely uninteresting and unpleasant companion. He is not "ironically unpleasant but tolerable", like the first Sith Sorcerer companion, but simply intolerable.
I don't even do his companion quests. I guess i should just to make him do missions faster.

Dark Juno
Mar 10, 2013

by zen death robot
Man I'd really like to come back to this game but BIoware still won't sell the original Tracer Missile animation on the CM, which was the single best thing about this game.

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug
I'm looking forward to recruiting Skadge on my SW, actually. They both like getting angry and smashing poo poo up so it should work out quite well!

3 Action Economist
May 22, 2002

Educate. Agitate. Liberate.
I still like Quinn as a character, even with the "surprise twist!"

The part I hate is that I am forced to take a soft reaction to that twist, despite having murdered people for far less.

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Colonial Air Force posted:

I still like Quinn as a character, even with the "surprise twist!"

The part I hate is that I am forced to take a soft reaction to that twist, despite having murdered people for far less.

Quinn introduces you to Moff Cranky Old Lunatic, who is awesome and needs to be able to join your team.

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug
I was going to turn him into a cyborg when I get him back assuming he'll try and sell me out to Arcann and I won't be allowed to snap his neck.

3 Action Economist
May 22, 2002

Educate. Agitate. Liberate.

prefect posted:

Quinn introduces you to Moff Cranky Old Lunatic, who is awesome and needs to be able to join your team.

You know, that would have been a better way to handle the complaints from Beta. Re-work the quest timing and then give the option to either kill Quinn and keep Moff Crankypants, or vice versa. Then make the Moff the healer.

DrunkenGarbageCan
Nov 4, 2009

Dark Juno posted:

Man I'd really like to come back to this game but BIoware still won't sell the original Tracer Missile animation on the CM, which was the single best thing about this game.

Yeah I miss making lewd emotes in WZ's to bent over Mercs Tracering their little hearts out.

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

DrunkenGarbageCan posted:

Yeah I miss making lewd emotes in WZ's to bent over Mercs Tracering their little hearts out.

What was "the old tracer missile animation", anyway? Did it involve bending over to use that stupid Boba Fett rocket on their back?

Hulk Smash!
Jul 14, 2004

prefect posted:

What was "the old tracer missile animation", anyway? Did it involve bending over to use that stupid Boba Fett rocket on their back?

Yup. It looked dumb considering the amount of times you used it.

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Hulk Smash! posted:

Yup. It looked dumb considering the amount of times you used it.

Just more evidence that Boba Fett is a stupid loser chump. :smuggo:

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

prefect posted:

What was "the old tracer missile animation", anyway? Did it involve bending over to use that stupid Boba Fett rocket on their back?

Yep, they swapped the animations between it and Fusion missile. I think it makes better sense now than it was before.

kirtar
Sep 11, 2011

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

prefect posted:

Just more evidence that Boba Fett is a stupid loser chump. :smuggo:

Kids these days can't even hunt bounties properly.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Geniasis posted:

Did he actually though? It's really more like the brass needed to have someone take the fall, and since it sure as hell wasn't gonna be me, it left him holding the bag.

It is. Garza says someone's head needs to roll for the defection, and Jorgan is both convenient and doesn't have friends in high places to protect him from it.

And yes, Aric is a dick to the Trooper at first. He changes his tone once he's satisfied that you know which end of a blaster points which direction, and he's the only romance for a female PC that I've genuinely liked.

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS
Ugh just realized my stack of 120 Major Valor Boosts that was in my legacy vault is gone, I'm assuming victim of the "sort" bug, though I don't remember sorting the vaults.

Coldforge
Oct 29, 2002

I knew it would be bad.
I didn't know it would be so stupid.
Cartel coin emails have started going here, and they include a free Kotfe chapter 1 code. If anyone is curious and wants to try it out, here you go:

7A6F-NVET-3NGR-9VN4

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

Coldforge posted:

Cartel coin emails have started going here, and they include a free Kotfe chapter 1 code. If anyone is curious and wants to try it out, here you go:


I think they're individual to you bud, might not want to give your code out.

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy

Medullah posted:

I think they're individual to you bud, might not want to give your code out.

The text before the code is literally: "
Something for your friend…A Free* Trial of Chapter One: The Hunt -"

Anyhow, here's mine for anyone who wants to use it:

5YQT-7NXT-Z5ZG-5NES

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





Coldforge posted:

Cartel coin emails have started going here...

Glad you posted this. I had no idea the free coins would be via an emailed code, and I had trashed that email. :v:

Dalris Othaine
Oct 14, 2013

I think, therefore I am inevitable.

Givin posted:

I realize he isn't around very long and doesn't have the time to develop like say Mako but being the only real true dark side companion I think he should have got a little more fleshing out.

look if there's one thing skadge doesn't need it's more flesh :v:

Mgant
Nov 26, 2005

Best in the West

The Locator posted:

Glad you posted this. I had no idea the free coins would be via an emailed code, and I had trashed that email. :v:

Same here. CHECK YOUR EMAILS! OMG SPACE BUCKS!

On another note, good lord some of the Goons strongholds are completely and utterly awesome. I visited two last night, one on Yavin and the other was in NEOTOKYO. I am not much for that whole stronghold stuff, but those two were loving awesome and I am superjealous of the skills involved. Go check em out!

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Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug
Yeah, it's hidden towards the bottom of the 'Chapter 10 and Firebrand are here - Play Now!' email - came the same time as my monthly cartel grant so I missed it at first.

The nice thing about all these gamble boxes is it makes space barbie much cheaper. Got the Skotia set, some cyborg legs and the new anarchist mask together along with some new threads for Pierce:


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