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    Star Wars: The Old Republic

    in Gaming Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Xoza Tyron

    I guess I'll throw my info & experience down as well

    1. Jedi Consular Shadow (14)
    2. Imperial Agent (8)

    • The story lines are great and all differs, it makes you want to replay the storyarc just to see what other things could happen, lots of options, even if you don't get to speak for the group, you still get points toward your choice. I would like to see a future option to replay storyarc's to at least get titles or just see how it goes
    • Classes are VERY balanced, as much as you like to kick off your more epic abilities, the other classes you group with are just as cool to watch, as they are to play, they all have great abilities as well
    • Combat is tab to target, do ability, type. They rarely have the same animation/reaction combinations and the mix and time them very well. Deflection and weapon to weapon fights happen, its not just, [Run up, flurry flurry flurry, dead, next]. It's more, [engage, power, reaction, flurry, deflection, attack, power, save your friend, reaction, finishing move, deflection, engage next target].
    • Yes, you can throw people into the bottomless pits of Coruscant. No, you'll never know if they even had loot.
    • Drops were good, and always seemed to keep your character up to date as you progressed through your level's missions, or from your level mobs. Flashpoint drops pretty much upgraded the entire team with something of great interest. There was no fighting over who got what. Everyone would get something, and were happy by the end of it.
    • You could have your companion go sell your gray drops for you. Not a big fan of the random junk though, I think they could do without that and just up the amount of credits attained, but w/e
    • You can dismantle or reverse engineer just about anything, as long as someone in your group has the skills to do so.
    • Object / Boss Respawn time was a little long, had to steal some things from some people sometimes.
    • Crafting consists of sending your companion to gather materials for a few minutes, or gathering them in areas that would likely have them, then you use those materials to have them create items, the more you create, the more skilled they are, each companion has skill modifiers for certain skills, my companion had a +15 Archaeology, so often, that's what I'd have him do, there is a chance for failure, and you can send them off to do tasks even if they're not with you. There seem to be a few basic skills that autotrain as you continue, but if you want anything special you have to see a trainer. This allows individuals to continue improving their skill without having to run to a trainer every 30min. Since you can do all this stuff wherever you are, each task has a time tacked to it depending on difficulty. This is a lot better then finding or standing next to a crafting station for hours. Longest time I've seen was 6min, goes by fast when your in a flashpoint.
    • I didn't think healing options were that great, there never seemed to be enough of it. However, the game is difficult enough to be a challenge, yet simple enough to complete any challenge. Most fights alone I'd finish by 33% hp (without healing). So running with a group is obviously the fastest way, but running without is possible with a little extra rest.
    • The auto follow system is path smart, it doesn't just set you on a line to the person your following, but sets a path it follows. Following a friend that jumped down an elevator, though I would have likely done the same, I was semi-afk, and litterally sprinted the long way around to catch up. By this time they were out of sight, but I still ended up behind them in time. The 'catch-up' in follow was also pretty epic. If you're so far away from the person your following you would accelerate to catch up just behind them. Long routes or great distances gave a pretty epic boost in speed. I was helping Burr with some missions, I had sprint, and he had not yet, so for that extra speed he'd just follow me.
    • Mission and mob XP is better in a group, and grouping with other level differences don't change it much
    • Bulk of XP comes from mission completion, not grinding out mobs, every mission you do will have a few 'bonus' missions you can do. Collection, mob kills, often on the path to your primary mission anyway with little side tracking
    • Destination locations and group members are informative for you and your team, all of it tracked real time.
    • Rest animations are all different and unique
    • Environments are beautiful and quite detailed, I only found a few minor flaws but they seemed very particular on what's going on. Models are by FAR a lot better then most games. There's a good amount of options for characters, but I expect to see more in the future. In previous videos this was one of my concerns as some things looked excessively large and bulky, but they've fitted and cleaned it up quite a bit. Environment scale is well calculated, but like all games though vertical scale is a little higher.
    • Ambiance was epic, it really brought you into the environment. Music was also epic of course. Voice acting is great. Recognize a lot of them. Though I'm curious how far you'd be able to manipulate your own character's voice in the future.

    Blue Mars

    in Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    All the other Metaverse SL copycats are severely limiting, can't build or have to pay to, can pay to get money but cant get it back out, can't sell. SL's been called a 3D chat room, but all the others are more-so because that's all you can do in them.

    Post Your Desktop

    in Media

    Posted

    1. Press Windows Key
    2. Start typing the name of whatever you're looking for
    3. It'll register probably halfway through typing it
    4. Press enter

    As previously posted my desktop is spotless because this is exactly What I do, use a program enough, it only takes one letter, maybe two if the program has the same letter.

    Mesh Rigging

    in Media

    Posted

    I use Maya, I've watched and read a few tutorials but haven't had much luck with making it look clean, but, I'm no good at organic modeling and not pushed myself to go very far with it.

    Computer Builds: Specs, Consoles & Suggestions

    in Tech

    Posted

    Ah yeh, Black Friday's coming, as always, if you can hold it out a little longer, you'll happen to stumble upon something good. Do a good amount of research though, so you can be proud of what you get when you find out years later, you still use that piece of tech.

    Now I know some of you may want to hate. The next lists I prefer and avoid is only by experience and research, I realize others have better luck with some, and not with others. This has all worked for me for years. I still have direct HD data from my first PC, and have only had to wipe once. My current PC is in a sense a continued upgrade from my first.

    My preferred companies...

    • Corsair
    • BFG
    • Western Digital
    • AMD
    • MSI
    • GeForce

    Avoid

    • ASUS - (Board Died killing CPU, Friends new Lappy died, Fathers board died. All under warranty and again after warranty, nothing 'special' about them.)
    • ATI - (New card killed my board and HDD, yes I installed it correctly, ran fine for 15min)
    • Pentium - (Never really had a problem with em, I think they have a lot of hype for nothing, also think they push their stuff out too quickly sometimes, my father also prefers AMD after having years of Pentiums, unsure exactly what his reasons are but he doesn't do anything for no reason, was a project manager in a major computer corporation so reasons could be from there. He also does a LOT of research before purchasing stuff.)

    Midwest Furfest. Coming?

    in Offline

    Posted · Edited by Xoza Tyron

    in Chicago...? I'd hardly call that Midwest..

    Yeah, I imagined it in Kansas or Oklahoma or something.

    Illinois is basically the center of the Midwest. :actually:

    | West | Mid West | Central | Mid East | East | ... Logical?

    | Far West | West | Mid West | Central | Mid East | East | Far East | ... Kinda?

    My father informed me that area was called the Midwest because +100yrs ago it kinda was. Time for a new generation dammit

    I mean.. our time-zones are split pretty well already.. | West | Mid West | Mid East | East | (Indiana and Arizona are special)

    To the OP though, you gave my hopes up :( 'midwest' but not your fault, I thought it would be something closer and though I'm not a furry I would have liked to go just to meet, but it's nowhere near.

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