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  • Seeing as how discussion of the game has been clogging up Things I Hate (granted, mostly by me), and I can't find one with search, I figured there should be a thread to discuss this brave new entry into the WoW dominated thresher that is the MMORPG market.

    This thread is about Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game may blow. I plan to play it anyways.

    Anybody else planning to?
  • I'll be joining you. I will probably be rolling Jedi Knight Sentinel.
  • Unless they make the Jedi/Sith class an unlockable class later on prepare to see a lightsaber orgy that will make all the screenshots look like a bad 90's rave party.
  • I made a guild a while back called Kung Fu Scientists, same name as the WoW guild. It's Sith and PvE.
  • I'll preorder it as soon as EA starts using a system that doesn't fucking blow.
  • Yeah, I didn't want to deal with Origin so I just preordered from Amazon.
  • Sith? come on, surely you want to join me in the fight for Truth, Justice, and The American Way.
  • As well as fighting for debt?
  • I fight for love.
  • I will always pick Sith just for the chance that a quest ending like this will happen. Jumping off a building really is a faster way of getting around.


  • Man, if they actually let you make people kill themselves as a means to resolve conflict, I might just have to play as a Sith. Although, I'm curious how they would implement something like that in the game. Persuade by itself would only be useful against NPCs in the single player portion. I suppose they could make it situational, and it caused a stun effect or something similar in PvE / PvP. That way any skill points allocated to it wouldn't be essentially wasted.

    I was planning to play a tanking bounty hunter, just for the flame throwers.
  • If we are playing Sith I may have to go Sharpshooter.
  • Can I be a Sith ewok?
  • I'm hoping it lets me be a Wookie Jedi. I will fuck you all up if it does.
  • Squirrel said:

    Can I be a Sith ewok?



    Man, are you crazy? They'd never let you play an ewok! Everyone knows that race is broken. +20 to traps in a wooded area? It's ridiculous. And you know the team mates of any ewok would just constantly have small trees equipped so the boost would always be in effect.
  • I want to be a sith ewok pilot. If I can't play that, then I'm out.
  • I'm planning to be a smuggler because I like cowboy hats and laser guns. I'll roll with people on whatever empire alt I end up making though
  • I hear smugglers get a Wookie companion. Not just a regular Wookie, but a Wookie gladiator
    http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bowdaar
  • That is ridiculously badass. How can any other class hope to compete with that?
    "Here Jedi Knight, have a droid. He can hack computers."
    'Can he literally tear my enemies apart with his bare hands?'
    "No, no he cannot."
    'Lame.'
  • I guess they are trying to give people incentive to play the none Jedi classes.


  • more that I like. I wonder what dark side points do if you are on the republic side.
  • all i want to know is when i can get in on some early access
  • kaazuwulf said:

    more that I like. I wonder what dark side points do if you are on the republic side.



    Everybody getting loot is definitely a good thing. As far as I can tell, you can play a light side Sith, or a dark side Jedi. Supposedly it can alter the abilities you have access to and maybe your appearance, but I don't think it will let a Jedi throw around lightning, since that's supposed to be a Sith thing.
  • I was thinking maybe it affected how you interacted with certain NPC or what armor/weapons you can use.
  • http://www.swtor.com/news/blog/20110408
    A look at the classes and the roles they fill. From what I see it looks like you get 3 out of 4 possible trees for your character, 1 general that all characters, 1 for your general class, and 1 for your advance class (such as Jedi guardians have one while Jedi sentinels have a different one). I kinda wish they instead of the general tree they gave all the advance classes a second tree, just to give them more diversity. If everyone is playing Sith I may role an assassin.
  • http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/15/thats-no-moon-its-the-old-republics-guild-testing-program/
    We need to get on this fucking ASAP!
    I assume this is the guild Getter started
    http://www.swtor.com/guilds/58617/kung-fu-scientists/roster
    We need no fewer then 10 people. Apply now, I don't believe you need to have pre-ordered the game.
  • Yes it is.
  • I just accepted someone's application, I don't know who it was.
  • It was probably mine. I read over the rules and at lest 4 people in the guild have to have preregistered the game. the rest of you just need to create an account on the site and apply.
  • Applied to the guild, and got the game pre-ordered.
  • somebody give me a link for dis shit, i'm too tired to go finding things myself tonight
  • We're up to 4 people, this shit is trucking along.
  • Make that 6.
  • Looks like a pretty balanced guild so far. At least one of each class. Also, I felt that the message of the day was classy. It was something we could all relate to, in a truly personal way.
  • Except I just filled it out to help you guys get your early crap. I have 0 interest in ever playing.
  • I'm going to do as Ex suggested I do and try to whore myself to get more people.
  • We're up to 7.
  • So the deal is sign up for the guild and you get 20 minutes alone with Getter, no questions asked? I'm down with this.
  • I make no promises about biting.
  • They call it seven minutes in heaven.

    But you're in the closet for twenty minutes. :(
  • We now have 8. Also, you need 20 minutes to get the full Getter experience. If you thought 7 minutes was heaven, prepare to be felt up by Jesus himself.
  • Fuck you Getter and your March 2010 join date beating my September 2010 join date.
  • Got to get on that shit early.
  • Milkshake said:

    Fuck you Getter and your March 2010 join date beating my September 2010 join date.


    So are you the guys that bring a tent and a generator to wait in line for shit months in advance? 'Cause I gotta warn you, I hate those guys.
  • Oh god no, I'm to busy with things like sleeping and napping.
  • And then, of course, there's your night job.
  • What's a job?