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So, as someone who hasn't played since before Eternal Throne, is the game still playable? I've burnt out on WoW for the time being and am looking for some [more or less] single player RPG goodness again. Thinking I might play one of my old characters through Eternal Throne if it's not too big of a slog, or just make a brand new character. And since the TOR website has proven frustrating trying to find any details about the free to play mode, what are the restrictions like if I used to have a sub but don't necessarily want to sub now?
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Cythereal posted:So, as someone who hasn't played since before Eternal Throne, is the game still playable? I've burnt out on WoW for the time being and am looking for some [more or less] single player RPG goodness again. Thinking I might play one of my old characters through Eternal Throne if it's not too big of a slog, or just make a brand new character. I kind of did the same recently. Basically if you want to do any of the Eternal Throne stuff, you'll have to sub for a month to unlock it. But I'm pretty sure a month's sub unlocks all current content, and anything that comes out before your sub ends.
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Oct 6, 2018 02:55
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Hunter Noventa posted:I kind of did the same recently. Basically if you want to do any of the Eternal Throne stuff, you'll have to sub for a month to unlock it. But I'm pretty sure a month's sub unlocks all current content, and anything that comes out before your sub ends. Fair enough. Discovering this evening that the game is as slow to download/install as ever.
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Oct 10, 2018 22:18
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Does the patcher still thrash your install drive to 100% disc usage?
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Oct 10, 2018 22:39
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Aphrodite posted:Does the patcher still thrash your install drive to 100% disc usage? Nah, it's not giving me any issues like that. It's just being slow as hell. I last played two years ago, according to my account record. I guess it was too much to hope for that they'd fixed the game's terrible optimization issues during that time.
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Oct 10, 2018 23:31
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swcantina2018 Code for free flair from the stream. Good till end of the year. Yay?
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Oct 11, 2018 23:05
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Made a new bounty hunter, made it to Dromund Kaas, zoned in to people discussing what jawas look like naked and how sex with jawas works for other species. It's like I never left.  Preferred mode is surprisingly generous. I can't play Eternal Throne, but I have fourteen active character slots and none of the restrictions seem too onerous - went ahead and bought the account-wide hide helmet unlock since there's sweet gently caress all to spend cartel coins on besides a hilarious variety of garbage looking cosmetic armor and weapons. And the xp gain is insane. My bounty hunter is level 19 when fresh to Dromund Kaas.
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Oct 12, 2018 18:11
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Cythereal posted:Made a new bounty hunter, made it to Dromund Kaas, zoned in to people discussing what jawas look like naked and how sex with jawas works for other species. It's like I never left. Well, as far as XP goes, there's a double XP event going right now - but it's still pretty quick to level up.
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Oct 12, 2018 18:22
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I had nothing better to do today and realized it's been several years since I saw the Bounty Hunter story, so I rolled one up. After years of following these threads I can't use Tracer Missile or Fusion Missile without giggling.
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Oct 14, 2018 02:45
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Cythereal posted:hilarious variety of garbage looking cosmetic armor and weapons. There are quite a few armors that could be improved by removing some extra bits - spikes on a lot of Sith armor, the big shoulder pad on Sith Recluse, lowering hoods, etc. The ability to dye glowy bits of armor would help too. Also going back and redoing some of the low-res older armors.
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Oct 15, 2018 05:47
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They just released terminals in the Cartel Market that let you "disguise" yourself, complete with ability bars. You can become a Hutt.  And possibly enough to bring Oedzi back to the game, you can become a Twilek Dancer. 
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Oct 15, 2018 14:32
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Medullah posted:They just released terminals in the Cartel Market that let you "disguise" yourself, complete with ability bars. 
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Oct 15, 2018 18:07
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Medullah posted:They just released terminals in the Cartel Market that let you "disguise" yourself, complete with ability bars.
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Oct 15, 2018 19:26
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I want to able to combine the two into a Hutt dancer, but oh well.
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Oct 15, 2018 19:32
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Sombrerotron posted:All I want to know is whether you can keep the disguise in combat and/or during cutscenes. Sadly no, it's strongholds only
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Oct 15, 2018 19:51
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Why is this world so cruel
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Oct 15, 2018 20:00
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They finally made a hutt decoration, which I've wanted forever, but I'm pretty disappointed at the execution. Should have been an "arrangement" with the hutt reclining on a big lounger with a monkey lizard and one or two minions.
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Oct 15, 2018 21:20
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SPOILER: MAAAAAALLLLGUUUUUUUSSS Edit: fixed? Siegkrow fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Oct 16, 2018 |
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Oct 16, 2018 00:06
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Siegkrow posted:SPOILER:MAAAAAALLLLGUUUUUUUSSS bad spoiler etiquette
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Oct 16, 2018 01:18
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So I just finished a character through Knights of the Fallen Empire while I'm in free to play mode. Those who have Eternal Throne, would I likely enjoy subbing for that expansion if I thought Fallen Empire's story was so goddamn bad? I'm honestly not sure what's worse - a rotating cast of tedious and boring villains who only win or lose by plot fiat of who has more mojo in a given cutscene (Arcann, Valkorion, Vaylin), the PC having no choice or agency at any point in the plot, the hilariously overwrought bullshit about how Arcann and the Eternal Fleet are some epic threat unlike any ever before (and please don't tell me the story is going to force me to take over the Eternal Throne), or Zakuul itself being so incredibly uninteresting. I don't even hate Zakuul, I just want the story to decide that okay there really was nothing compelling or interesting about this place and let's just never mention it again. Oh, and can't forget the one female love interest available to a female PC suddenly being cold and dark-sidey when in Shadow of Revan she was remarkably relaxed and fun to be around. I thought Shadow of Revan was generally a step down from the launch story (with exceptions, you can only go up from the Knight, Inquisitor, and Smuggler stories), but the quality of writing and quest design drops off a loving cliff in Fallen Empire. And seriously, "Visions in the Dark" rivals the last five minutes of Mass Effect 3 for some of the most pretentious video game writing I've ever seen while failing to plot its way out of a wet paper bag.
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Oct 17, 2018 03:37
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KOTET is written like mediocre fanfiction because that's what it is. It's not WoW level bad writing, but it's not as good as anything in the class stories. Doubtful anything else ever will be. Temper your expectations and it's fine.
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Oct 17, 2018 07:08
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It's likely you wouldn't find much to like about the storyline unless you can turn off the critical part of your brain while experiencing it (and that is probably true for most of Star Wars, and MMOs). The raid bosses on Iokath are actually quite complex and well designed, if I were inclined to spend much more time playing TOR I'd have enjoyed doing them.
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Oct 17, 2018 07:17
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So no, I shouldn't subscribe and pretend the game ends with Shadow of Revan, gotcha. I can work with that.
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Oct 17, 2018 14:36
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Cythereal posted:(and please don't tell me the story is going to force me to take over the Eternal Throne) Okay, I won't tell you this.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:06
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Oct 17, 2018 15:09
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Cythereal posted:So no, I shouldn't subscribe and pretend the game ends with Shadow of Revan, gotcha. I can work with that. The story is going back to Imperial vs republic in December, and as long as you're level 70 it will give you the option to completely skip KOTFE/KOTET to start that storyline.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:21
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Medullah posted:The story is going back to Imperial vs republic in December, and as long as you're level 70 it will give you the option to completely skip KOTFE/KOTET to start that storyline. Can't hit level 70 without owning KOTET.  I'll pay closer attention and see if the writing improves with this Ossus stuff, I suppose.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:22
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Cythereal posted:Can't hit level 70 without owning KOTET. You could buy a Masters Datacron from the CM.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:55
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is jedi consular still the best
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Oct 17, 2018 17:48
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Pryce posted:Okay, I won't tell you this. I didn’t play any of the post-kotet content but the good news is that you’d never know you were the emperor of the galaxy based on how little changes
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Oct 17, 2018 18:03
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They hosed up hard by not having you fly the Eternal Fleet into a star and use one of the random doomsday weapons floating around to blow up Iokath. They have a great plot line sitting in their laps about how decades of war have stripped the galaxy of resources and thrown trillions into abject poverty, but they decide to make Super Droid World the answer to that and that was as lazy as pivoting from Valkorion's bored civilization builder aesthetic at the beginning of FE.
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If anyone hasn't played in a while, you can use the code REVANSFATE to unlock the Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Shadow of Revan expansions, which will allow you to level to 60 and play what is generally considered the best stories in the game outside of the original class stories. This code is active until 11/1 - you will keep the content, but no longer be able to use the code after that. Also, SWCANTINA18 will give you a "flair" which is a set of symbols around your character. Go to code redemption to activate them. And of course, shameless plug that using my referral link will give you 7 days of subscriber benefits if you were a previous sub.
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Oct 19, 2018 20:46
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Quoting from Reddit because this poo poo is hilarious.Reddit thread posted:r/swtorOther
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Oct 22, 2018 05:47
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Siegkrow posted:Quoting from Reddit because this poo poo is hilarious. Congratulations, Reddit poster, you got The Point.
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Oct 22, 2018 12:35
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Siegkrow posted:Quoting from Reddit because this poo poo is hilarious. idk if he understands the purpose of a 401k
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Oct 23, 2018 01:07
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So I've got the strange urge to play SWTOR, again. Instead of doing the sensible thing and sitting down in a darkened room until that urge passes I've started redownloading the game. Which classes are actually fun to play these days and where if anywhere do goons hang out? For reference back in the day (Rise of the Hutt Cartel) I put a good few hours into whatever the tank spec was for the Jedi Guardian and the sniper spec for Imperial Agents so I'm kinda interested in picking those classes up again.
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Oct 24, 2018 21:02
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Ferrosol posted:So I've got the strange urge to play SWTOR, again. Instead of doing the sensible thing and sitting down in a darkened room until that urge passes I've started redownloading the game. Which classes are actually fun to play these days and where if anywhere do goons hang out? For reference back in the day (Rise of the Hutt Cartel) I put a good few hours into whatever the tank spec was for the Jedi Guardian and the sniper spec for Imperial Agents so I'm kinda interested in picking those classes up again. Most goons don't play anymore. There's a few of us, I've referred a few people to other guilds on Star Forge. We have a goon guild but there's rarely more than 1-2 people on anymore. All the classes are still good, so whatever you enjoy playing you can play.  Sniper is really good in PvP if that's your thing.
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One of the major changes since Hutt Cartel is that companions can freely switch between specs and are much more powerful so it's easy to play whatever class/spec you like when soloing.
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Oct 24, 2018 21:14
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Though unfortunately you still can't refuse companions. My bounty hunter campaign has been grinding to a halt between Belsavis being terrible in general and Skadge just being the worst.
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You can kill skadge during KotFE, if you want.
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