Star Wars: The Old Republic General Discussion

Draupnir · 08-12-2011 2:58pm

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Client is rejecting my log-in too mate, I think it's just down to the fact the site is down for maintenance. If you're able to log into your EA master account with the same info everything is fine.

https://www.ea.com/profile/login

It's not the client unfortunately, it's swtor.com itself. I've had an email from them saying to phone to get it unlocked. Will try it on Saturday and fingers crossed they have people working.

Ravage1616 · 08-12-2011 3:41pm

Kiith wrote: »

Nice FAQ here...which i pretty much just read in it's entirety :P

http://liberi-fatali.net/the-old-republic/star-wars-the-old-republic-guide-and-faq/

Thanks for that!!

Raphael · 08-12-2011 3:59pm

I had that happen, and it unlocked itself after a while - though that was during beta madness

koneko · 08-12-2011 6:42pm

swtor.com is back up

koneko · 08-12-2011 6:49pm

Re: Early Access
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=724314

"Hello everyone,

We're happy to finally announce today that Early Game Access begins December 13th, 2011. This means that everyone who has pre-ordered Star Wars: The Old Republic and redeemed their pre-order code will have up to seven days to play the game early.

As before, when your Early Game Access begins will be determined based on when you redeemed your pre-order code. You will be emailed on the day you are being admitted to Early Game Access to confirm you can now access the game.

Early Game Access was extended to seven days to allow us to gradually ramp up the number of people in the game over a longer period. This allows us to ensure maximum stability and a good population across servers. It also allows us to have more flexibility on exactly how many people we admit per day.

With that said, we're still planning on allowing a large number of people into Early Game Access on a daily basis. In our final Beta Testing Weekends, we had hundreds of thousands of players on the game servers - and we have additional server capacity for launch. However, we still need to remain flexible during Early Game Access, and this led to the decision to notify people on the day that their Early Game Access begins.

We know many of you expected and wanted advance notice on Early Game Access, but we made this decision to ensure that we could remain flexible and react to unforseen issues during launch. Our number one priority has always been a smooth launch, so this decision was a necessity.

The good news is that effectively everyone is being given two 'extra bonus' days as the EGA program is now up to seven days long. The bad news is unfortunately we cannot let people know on an individual basis when they will gain access until we are ready.

We do understand that you are concerned about when you will receive the email. To save your F5 keys, as well as being notified by email, you will also be able to check the Launcher for Star Wars: The Old Republic. When you have been granted Early Game Access, your Play button will be enabled. (You will need to restart the Launcher on occasion if you're still grey.) Finally, you will be able to login to your account page here on SWTOR.com and check your status.

We absolutely understand (and appreciate!) everyone's eagerness to play, but this plan will ensure that we don't fall at the final hurdle - bringing people into the game at launch. We hope you'll bear with us as we gradually grant Early Game Access to everyone who pre-ordered.
Stephen Reid | Senior Online Community Manager
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ZeitgeistGlee · 08-12-2011 7:18pm

Figured as much, but it's still good news for everyone who preordered.

Headshot · 08-12-2011 7:21pm

What happens if you preordered the game from gamestop?

ZeitgeistGlee · 08-12-2011 7:35pm

What do you mean specifically mate? When you get access is dependent on when you attached your preorder code to your account, the earlier the more. Who you bought it from doesn't matter.

Headshot · 08-12-2011 7:36pm

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

What do you mean specifically mate? When you get access is dependent on when you attached your preorder code to your account, the earlier the more. Who you bought it from doesn't matter.

I preordered mine from gamestop 1 or 2 months back and never got a preorder code

aN.Droid · 08-12-2011 7:42pm

Headshot wrote: »

I preordered mine from gamestop 1 or 2 months back and never got a preorder code

Then you are SOL in getting in a good few days early, i would ring gamestop and let them know you didn't get a code. If you add a code real fast you should still get a few days in game

ZeitgeistGlee · 08-12-2011 7:43pm

Ah, well that's a screw-up on their part mate. You should've either got a game case containing your preorder code or it should've been printed on the receipt when you paid the €5/€20 deposit depending on whether you bought a regular edition or a collectors edition. You did have to pay a deposit right?

red_ice · 08-12-2011 8:39pm

Congratulations!
You have successfully redeemed the following code: YEHRIGHTLOLZ

You are now registered for the following items:
STAR WARS(TM): The Old Republic(TM) Digital Standard Edition Pre-Order

Seriously excited. So glad that I stopped playing WOW 8 or so months ago and completely ignored anything to do with swtor. I didnt even know this game existed tbh! If I'd have known I'd be waiting a loooooong time raging at the time I've spent waiting. :pac:

Dcully · 08-12-2011 8:40pm

red_ice wrote: »

Seriously excited. So glad that I stopped playing WOW 8 or so months ago and completely ignored anything to do with swtor. I didnt even know this game existed tbh! If I'd have known I'd be waiting a loooooong time raging at the time I've spent waiting. :pac:

But that time spent waiting makes it even more exciting

Kiith · 08-12-2011 9:31pm

Dcully wrote: »

But that time spent waiting makes it even more exciting

And makes the crushing disappointment all the more worse when it fails to match out expectations :pac:

Lone Stone · 09-12-2011 12:06am

Kiith wrote: »

And makes the crushing disappointment all the more worse when it fails to match out expectations :pac:

But will it be crushingly disappointing ? does it have that "bleh" feeling ?

Raphael · 09-12-2011 12:30am

Beta lived up to my expectations, so I'm not holding out for crushing. =p

ZeitgeistGlee · 09-12-2011 12:58am

It didn't live up to 100% of my expectations but frankly unless it had a five-hundred million dollar budget, Luceno and Stover supervising the writing team and BioWare and Mythic's best doing beyond their best possible work for the entire five years then it probably never was.

What we did get was a fantastically polished end product which makes excellent use of the IP to create a very enjoyable game which most players will fall straight into without issues. There are some aspects of class balance which need work but I very much doubt anyone is up for "crushing disappointment".

Kiith · 09-12-2011 2:14pm

Now for the most important question in this entire thread...

What is your Legacy name going to be? :P

Ravage1616 · 09-12-2011 2:43pm

Kiith wrote: »

Now for the most important question in this entire thread...

What is your Legacy name going to be? :P

I've been thinking of that and still not 100% sure!! Decisions, decisions!

CyberJuice · 09-12-2011 4:19pm

wtf is a legacy name

Kiith · 09-12-2011 4:23pm

At level10, you need to choose a surname basically. That name will be used for all future alts on the same server. I think you can get Legacy xp as well, with certain benefits to your characters. As suggested on another forum, if i was in on day 1, i'd definitely have a Smuggler names Malcom, and then select the Legacy name or Reynolds.

With the Captain title :P

James Kirk would also work...

TheDoc · 09-12-2011 4:48pm

Well got my email, I'm in on early access from the 13th.

Game client already downloaded.

Let the grind begin!

**I'll be streaming my play over @ www.twitch.tv/furyio

jeawan · 09-12-2011 4:58pm

TheDoc wrote: »

Well got my email, I'm in on early access from the 13th.

Game client already downloaded.

Let the grind begin!

**I'll be streaming my play over @ www.twitch.tv/furyio

You Jammie git, What did you add your pre-order code be interested to know

Dcully · 09-12-2011 5:04pm

TheDoc wrote: »

Well got my email, I'm in on early access from the 13th.

Game client already downloaded.

Let the grind begin!

**I'll be streaming my play over @ www.twitch.tv/furyio

I thought they said they will email WHEN you can play and not before?

Blowfish · 09-12-2011 5:07pm

Indeed. Here's the text of the mail:

Early Game Access* will begin on December 13th at 7:00AM EST, 2011 and ends on December 19th, 2011 at 10:01PM EST. During this time, we will be emailing invitations to join Early Game Access based on the order in which you redeemed your Pre-Order Code. Pre-load the game client now, so you're ready to play when your Early Game Access invitation arrives. Note that download time can vary and may take awhile.

Headshot · 09-12-2011 5:11pm

I got a code from gamestop

What is the next step? Im not even sure is it the right one so it'd be nice to see does it work

Blowfish · 09-12-2011 5:13pm

Headshot wrote: »

I got a code from gamestop

What is the next step? Im not even sure is it the right one so it'd be nice to see does it work

Log in, then go here and on the right go to 'Pre-Order' and stick the code in.

[edit] It may be under the 'code redemption' rather than 'pre order' can't remember.

Headshot · 09-12-2011 5:27pm

Get in

The codes works. Thanks Blowfish

aN.Droid · 09-12-2011 5:37pm

Dcully wrote: »

I thought they said they will email WHEN you can play and not before?

They did, he probably thought his email was his entry time. the 13th is when the early access starts if you read the email you will see that does not mean you are guaranteed in on the 13th.

Raphael · 09-12-2011 7:09pm

Kiith wrote: »

At level10, you need to choose a surname basically. That name will be used for all future alts on the same server. I think you can get Legacy xp as well, with certain benefits to your characters. As suggested on another forum, if i was in on day 1, i'd definitely have a Smuggler names Malcom, and then select the Legacy name or Reynolds.

With the Captain title :P

James Kirk would also work...

It's not level 10, it's at the end of Act 1, so when you finish your class quests on Tatooine and Alderaan. (which will be the 5th and 6th planets respectively) Should be at about level 30.

I'll be going with "Kanet", as it's surname for Main character (Lol, I r RPfag)

ZeitgeistGlee · 09-12-2011 8:08pm

I'm torn on the legacy surname to be honest. On the one side 3 of my 4 Republic characters all have the same surname and therefore it's very handy to be able to grab it if I can. On the other hand I wish you'd just been able to give a unique surname to each character, being able to reuse ones you've already chosen before.

Headshot · 09-12-2011 10:29pm

Some lot of downloading

How many GB's over all is it?

ZeitgeistGlee · 09-12-2011 11:42pm

Folder ends up being about 18.5 gigs.

Gummy Panda · 10-12-2011 12:15am

I don't know what I'm going to play. So many fun choices and not damage meters to determine the be all spec (I kinda like this).

I was thinking something ranged since I always play melee and am a little bored of it. BH Merc looks good. Tried Imp Agent Sniper in beta but wasn't sure on cover system.

I'm not sure of the claims that all dps specs are pave viable. Concealment spec stands out as one that wouldn't be viable though there is only pvp footage on YouTube. Infact swtor class forums is all pvp talk. I didn't realise pvp is so popular now

Raphael · 10-12-2011 4:48am

Each Advanmced class has at least 2 DPS Specs, I think one is generally more PvP oriented.

Gummy Panda · 10-12-2011 11:38am

Raphael wrote: »

Each Advanmced class has at least 2 DPS Specs, I think one is generally more PvP oriented.

Maybe I'll just go melee to be safe. I know how to tank and dps. Could go juggernaut, maurader or assassin.

Assassin seems cool as it looks like a feral Druid broke down into separate bear/kitty trees. Also I loved stealth when playing a rogue in wow

red_ice · 10-12-2011 11:54am

Sweet, my beta client seems to be a 15mb file away from playable

So whats up with duel specs?

How will ATT function in the first few days of this? When I log in for the first time I wanna know what server I should be on etc - I REALLY dont want to have to start again on another server

<edit>Download complete, robot noises made so I'm ready to log in :]</edit>

ZeitgeistGlee · 10-12-2011 12:22pm

Dual-specs are expected to make an appearance after launch but won't be there right away, same as the system to replace chest matching.

Gummy Panda · 10-12-2011 2:09pm

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Dual-specs are expected to make an appearance after launch but won't be there right away, same as the system to replace chest matching.

Chest matching?

jeawan · 10-12-2011 2:23pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Chest matching?

It was a System to match the colour to you chest plate armour you wore so th at all bit would match instead of the wow clown look

Gummy Panda · 10-12-2011 2:27pm

jeawan wrote: »

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Chest matching?

It was a System to match the colour to you chest plate armour you wore so th at all bit would match instead of the wow clown look

That's a great idea

Gummy Panda · 10-12-2011 2:31pm

By the way, does anyone know a good site like mom-champ for tor?

Bioware wiped there forums and I wanted to read what people thought of some imperial classes at lv50 doing pve e.g. Specs & ease of rotations

Dcully · 10-12-2011 3:45pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

By the way, does anyone know a good site like mom-champ for tor?

Bioware wiped there forums and I wanted to read what people thought of some imperial classes at lv50 doing pve e.g. Specs & ease of rotations

Im using these

http://www.torhead.com/
http://www.wikiswtor.com/SWTOR_Wiki
http://liberi-fatali.net/the-old-republic/star-wars-the-old-republic-guide-and-faq/
http://db.darthhater.com/

ZeitgeistGlee · 10-12-2011 4:30pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

That's a great idea

Indeed it was, but apparently BioWare felt it took away from the enjoyment of watching your gear progress if you didn't gush over the fact these new boots looked slightly different to your old ones so they removed it. Never mind that more than 95% of beta testers told them not to, and when it got to the regular forums 95% of the posters there agreed with the beta testers, apparently BioWare knows what we want better than we do. (I'd make a comment about epeening WoW kiddies but meh)

Now we get to run around looking like hobos with our mismatched suits at launch because there's no chest-matching, dye system or alternate appearance tab to help unify a character's look. As I said, there is a system coming to replace it but as usual BioWare say they can't give out even a rough estimate of when that might be because they don't like deadlines. :rolleyes:

There is the mod system I suppose but that's really not anywhere near a proper customisation system and does if I recall correctly require you to either be or have access to a high level armor crafter.

Raphael · 10-12-2011 5:32pm

It doesn't really - once you find a nice moddable set, you can just pop the mods out of anything (other than purples) that you find and put them into it - it's what I'll be doing.

Blowfish · 10-12-2011 5:35pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

By the way, does anyone know a good site like mom-champ for tor?

Bioware wiped there forums and I wanted to read what people thought of some imperial classes at lv50 doing pve e.g. Specs & ease of rotations

www.darthhater.com is probably the 'main' fansite. They've actually just put up an interview they did here with a guild that managed to clear the first raid in beta. I haven't watched it yet, but it's an hour long so should give you some idea of how end game stuff plays out.

ZeitgeistGlee · 10-12-2011 5:55pm

Raphael wrote: »

It doesn't really - once you find a nice moddable set, you can just pop the mods out of anything (other than purples) that you find and put them into it - it's what I'll be doing.

Is that just purples though or purples and above Raph? (Didn't play high enough to use beyond blues in mod gear) If it's the latter you're essentially forcing people to choose between the look they like vs better bonuses.

I don't know, for me, coming from WAR where there was both dyes and an alternate appearance feature back in 2010 it just seems unbelievable that TOR haven't managed to do the same and improve it yet again. And the one thing they did do which everyone liked was removed because BioWare effectively felt their work wasn't being appreciated outside of "Oh, higher stats". I really enjoyed the game when I was playing it, but the more critically I look at from a mechanical point of view there just seems to be a lot of standard features missing.

Gummy Panda · 10-12-2011 6:15pm

What was their official response on no combat log/damage meters and threat indicator?

Raphael · 11-12-2011 1:11am

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Is that just purples though or purples and above Raph? (Didn't play high enough to use beyond blues in mod gear) If it's the latter you're essentially forcing people to choose between the look they like vs better bonuses.

I don't know, for me, coming from WAR where there was both dyes and an alternate appearance feature back in 2010 it just seems unbelievable that TOR haven't managed to do the same and improve it yet again. And the one thing they did do which everyone liked was removed because BioWare effectively felt their work wasn't being appreciated outside of "Oh, higher stats". I really enjoyed the game when I was playing it, but the more critically I look at from a mechanical point of view there just seems to be a lot of standard features missing.

There's nothing above purples at the moment, and you can pop most of the mods out of purples - everything but the armouring/barrel/hilt. And you can get those mods crafted elsewhere.

ZeitgeistGlee · 11-12-2011 2:52pm

Ah good to know. Cheers for that.

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