I have friends that have been in the closed beta for ages and they say its pretty solid. (All of them are industry people FYI so no uneducated opinions.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Berae
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I have friends that have been in the closed beta for ages and they say its pretty solid. (All of them are industry people FYI so no uneducated opinions.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Berae
I will be playing this when it comes out also. Not sure what I am going to play yet.
Besides Hoss folks, I have a bunch of friends wanting to play this when it comes out. Hopefully I can gather everyone on one server.
Saw this on Youtube. A guy strung together all 3 of the cinematics for the game in time-line order. Although the words he has scrolling go by pretty fast, it gives a good full story of what time period you are in and the events that take place going into the game.
http://youtu.be/JNHLMWIN_rs
Hi folks! Remember me?
My friends and I are recycling an old guild of ours for this game and I wanted to see if any of you were a) interested in joining (not trying to steal anyone, just an open offer) or b) interested in listing a SWTOR Hoss presence as an ally/enemy (depending on faction) for the Pre-launch guild program — we can list friendly/enemy (but we're probably actually friends!) during Phase 2 of the program whenever that starts.
Looking forward to seeing you guys in some form or another :P (P.S. would you guys mind hooking me up with the new Vent/Meebo info? I miss hearing all of your handsome voices ;) hahaha)
Much love,
Zephy
Zeph!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zephyrae
We use Mumble now for voice chat in game. Download/setup instructions can be found here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zephyrae
Server info -
Server Address: mumble.hossguild.net
Port: 4055
Server Password: saadna
Tenelen! Firanja! I miss you both. Firanja's schmexy voice especially. You guys remember when he yelled at us when we (mostly me) were talking too much (off topic) during raid-ness? I was so turned on ^_^
love your hosslings and hoss-folk <3
zeph
I want to play this game, pending convincing the hubby to buy me a new computer that can actually play it. ;)
Nothing like that for a excuse to buy a new, shiny, super fast computer !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Phaera
Can always build one too!! Building VS. buying means you'll save about 40-50% on the cost (and it isn't very hard to build one). I am sure there are enough nerds just on the Hoss forums that can help you out if you need assistance. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkwood
Then again that is what she could mean. I will most likely be giving this game a try as well.
Very interesting way to handle loots in raids. If it goes live, I think it will be a good thing.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...s-for-All.html
Might be. However I hopes its not sign that means everyone will have the same shit in two weeks time.
Ya, that could be an issue.
I think BioWare is thinking about that as well and the chances of getting an item in the loot container will probably be a small percent chance so people will have to run things multiple times in order to get the loot they want/need.
I wonder how they will handle duplicates. Will these all be BoP or BoE? Hopefully, they will all be BoP so people don't ruin the game economy early (damn gold sellers!).
It will be interesting to see if it will work in raids. It does work reasonably well in WoW when leveling and getting your loot bag and seeing how they will make the loot you get specific to your class, it has potential. We'll just have to wait and see how they progress in implementing this.
I just hope there will be things even if not stated that will be specific to the boss that can not drop in a container. Though I think the badges gimp things I was indifferent mostly as those badges while making it easier to gear up etc still did not provide gear exactly equal to the BEST gear in the game. So far how I read it the tokens can be saved to buy the exact same boss gear that exists. So if you did not get the piece of gear in the container and get the token you will be able to use tokens to get the gear. With it being the same gear that is where I get iffy with this system. Since they state you will be able to start raiding in your "story" gear I almost see no reason for tokens to gear up quickly to make raiding more viable for you/guild. If anything I think it may trivialize things to quickly, though I truly am hoping not.
So far I am leaning toward being a Sith Inquisitor.
Woot! Got into the SWTOR beta! Come on downloader, go faster! About 30GB of stuff downloaded so far and it is still going....
Screen shots man!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeyla
I want the beta, but I won't have my computer back up and running until late Friday or early Saturday morning. Tell us how it is...and have fun!
Well, so far so good. Went with a Republic Trooper to start with. Oddly enough she looks and sounds very much like my female commander shepard character from Mass Effect. It must be the same voice actor, which is a good thing ;)
The quests seem to flow pretty well and from what I can tell, each class gets their own starting area/story arc. ALL quest info is spoken and there are a lot of dialogue choice by your character which effect the quest rewards and light/dark bonus you can earn. It looks like you can be an "evil" republic character or a "good" empire char if you so choose. I'm sure the light/dark rating has an effect on future quests and such (much like Mass Effect). The quests follow the story arc fairly well, and it doesn't seem like there are many filler quests. The standard WoW-esque "go kill 10 of those" is just rolled into a new area when you go, you get bonus xp for killing so many of a certain unit, which you pretty much do anyway as you are passing through.
Gear seems to follow the same quality/coloring conventions of WoW, which is fine. Vendors actually sell "green" and "blue" quality stuff, but you do get some dropped from mobs and from quest rewards. It is nice for standard vendors to have actual useful equipment.
Trooper class is pretty fun so far. I am still low level but they seem to be a tank or healer/tank hybrid, depending on what specialization you choose (at lvl 10 I believe). I plan on leveling up this char a bit before I try one of the others.
Graphics/gameplay seem pretty solid so far. Graphics are good and the game runs pretty well on my AMD 6850/Intel Core I7 system. It definitely requires more horsepower than WoW no doubt, although I bet it is playable at the lower settings if you have older hardware. No major bugs and the game runs well with little lag. A few things are missing from the game menus and there are a few minor graphical bugs, but overall it is pretty polished.
So far this is definitely a game I will want to play when it comes out. More info/observations to come later
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Wow, very minimalistic default HUD. Is the UI configurable with addons like WoW?
Thanks for the update Z!! I hope the overall gameplay you mentioned stays throughout your adventures and doesn't stop to go barren at lvl 20 like Conan did.
If they have a decent end game raiding system (currently 8?? raid operations) and PvP, it could be a game people will flock over to......can it withstand the test of time to keep people though? That has always been the question.
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Hey Z, it just might be a graphics issue, but why does your female toon have a package? lol