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12/15/2011 10:29:16 PM

so i'm supposed to get my access today but

https://account.swtor.com/user/account the redeem a product code link never illuminated however if i click on the code redemption page then it says in my code history that i've preordered and have early access. What gives?

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12/16/2011 8:17:23 AM

you don't need that code for the early access. i don't have that either. i'm hoping that when the game officially launches they charge me the rest of my pre-order and send me a code.

12/16/2011 8:28:42 AM

queues queues everywhere

12/16/2011 8:33:59 AM

Whatevs. I already entered the code and it says its been used but that box isn't checked off either way ill get access today so whatevs

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12/16/2011 8:34:45 AM

Soooooooo

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12/18/2011 7:04:39 AM

Level 19 powertech BH...skipping most of the dialogue. People say its a story driven game, but in reality most of your choices really dont matter. The only thing that really matters is your light/dark choices.

And it seems my server, again, is a low pop server as theres hardly anyone in the cities/zones. Either that or they really spread the number of planet instances so theres not many in each one. Feels more like a single player game most of the time than some epic MMO.

12/18/2011 11:16:30 AM

Who has 2 thumbs and sucks at group missions? This guy.

12/18/2011 8:32:57 PM

this game runs horrendously slow on my computer. apparently there are issues with ATI cards

12/18/2011 8:56:06 PM

not a fan of the reloading coming from an alt-tab

12/19/2011 8:58:36 AM

^
set it to fullscreen-window

12/19/2011 9:04:13 AM

Yeah that shit is annoying as fuck, also i noticed after i tab back in textures start to take forever to load.

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12/19/2011 9:04:23 AM

^^ i'll look into that

^ yeah, thats made me miss a warzone waiting on loading

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 9:23 AM. Reason : ]

12/19/2011 9:23:30 AM

So far, I am a big fan. They did a lot of things right in this game.

Did my first flash point last night, and the group conversation is pretty fucking awesome. Felt really engaging, even though I am not that into star wars lore.

12/19/2011 9:34:37 AM

I too am very impressed with this game.

for the first time in an MMO I could actually sit down and tell you my characters story, who they've met and interacted with (even what some of the weirdo quest givers look like) and what his objective in the galaxy is.

Combat is tight and responsive...I'm playing a BH Merceneary (Arsenal) and my array of moves is so diverse and responsive that it feels almost like I am playing an action game of some sort.

Very few bugs....only a few relating to quest objectives but overall its just visual anomalies

only think i DONT like is that Mako (my companion) is a bit too light side. She always condemns me if I make dark side choices and makes me feel like I am playing my character wrong. I think the issue here is BioWare has already designed how they want their characters to be....i.e. bounty hunter isn't cruel or darksided, he just does what he needs to do to make credits without causing chaos.

What if I wanna be an asshole bounty hunter that kills everybody? Mako does not approve lol

12/19/2011 10:03:58 AM

i got my dude to level 12 and still haven't received a quest to choose my advanced class, which someone told me you're supposed to get at level 10. i've been to the trainer and still nothing. anyone know what i'm doing wrong?

12/19/2011 11:16:30 AM

You have to leave your starting world. Empire side gets it at the giant space station. I'm sure Republic has something similar.

12/19/2011 11:36:44 AM

i've been to the giant space station and the second planet you go to

maybe my shit's glitched or something

12/19/2011 11:56:19 AM

Quote :

"only think i DONT like is that Mako (my companion) is a bit too light side. She always condemns me if I make dark side choices and makes me feel like I am playing my character wrong. I think the issue here is BioWare has already designed how they want their characters to be....i.e. bounty hunter isn't cruel or darksided, he just does what he needs to do to make credits without causing chaos."

yeah darkside people tend to hate mako. but you'll get a bunch of companions throughout your story so im sure you'll find someone you like more.

12/19/2011 11:57:39 AM

i felt that she stuck to the code of being a bounty hunter for me and always going about the way to get the most money.

but she is very light side

12/19/2011 12:42:31 PM

^^^There were two mission starts where I first got to the main level of the space station. One directed me to advanced class trainer, the other directed me to crew skills area.

12/19/2011 1:23:36 PM

Quote :

"i felt that she stuck to the code of being a bounty hunter for me and always going about the way to get the most money. but she is very light side"

yea you are right. I guess my impression was (from the Star Wars movies) that bounty hunters were basically evil and motivated by credits and killing. In this game BH seems to be created as a very neutral class that fulfills the contract but doesn't do anything unnecessarilly mean. I guess its my mistake for assuming since I was playing Empire that everything would be 100% darkside.....gg bioware

12/19/2011 1:41:58 PM

well, i think most of the time the people are willing to cough up more money to be spared, and they'll fake their death so that the original person who placed the bounty will pay for their death. so i've settled on the fact that i'll probably be a good bounty hunter. (finally started seeing that the relics seem based on light or dark levels)

mako seems all about the money. i noticed most of the rep ups came with choosing the dialogue that ignored the chatter and only asked if the job paid.

12/19/2011 2:37:27 PM

also, has anyone gotten high enough to know if cybertech is worth it as a crafting skill? or is it pretty much the engineering equivalent? ok in pvp worthless everywhere else

12/19/2011 3:08:05 PM

I'm considering dumping the gathering profession for slicing. I keep hearing that people are making a killing off it. Is it too late to join the train on Slicing?

12/19/2011 4:48:01 PM

I have cybertech, salvaging, and underworld trading and so far I like it. I already have a few buyers I am keeping supplied with blue metals. and making enough money so that I already had enough for my speeder (45000 i think) at level 18 (22 now). Missions are starting to get expensive now though, 500+ for 1 mission.

Schematics seem to sell really well also.

As far as Mako goes, she made me laugh yesterday. I am full darkside, and choose to kill a guy instead of saving him as usual. So I get +50 darkside points and -30 affection from mako. Then in the dialogue Mako goes: "Well, he had it coming." WTF?

12/19/2011 5:16:04 PM

what the fuck am i supposed to do until midnight

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12/19/2011 8:49:18 PM

i did not know there was scheduled maintenance tonight. lame.

12/19/2011 8:55:27 PM

when i was on this morning people were saying it was going to be down for 6 hours but i thought they were trollin. NOW I FIND OUT THEY WERE TRUTHIN

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12/19/2011 9:04:26 PM

dammit i wanted to play

never thought i'd ever say that about a post-WoW MMO

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 9:40 PM. Reason : i guess i can now actually unbox my CE and enter my real product code ]

12/19/2011 9:39:11 PM

I hate when gamesites (forums) go down at the same time as the servers, at least let us bitch on the forums about the servers being down!

12/19/2011 9:42:13 PM

slicing owns owns owns. replace your mission skill with it and send out your companions on non-stop lockbox missions (no modulators) while you pvp. you'll get up to level with your other skills plenty fast and you'll make a ton of money.

then when they nerf it you can go re-grab your mission skill if you want

12/19/2011 9:48:08 PM

Bounty Hunters, we don't need their scum...

Paired with an assassin and we get things done!

12/20/2011 4:14:13 PM

yeah, between assassins and operatives i prefer throwing guard up on them.

12/21/2011 9:29:56 AM

damn slicing is pretty sweet. leveling it on an alt.

my BH main is armormech/scavenging/underworld trading, but i'm half tempted to drop underworld trading or scavenging to pick up slicing and just have my guys farm the hell out of that for awhile.

my scavenging is up to like 210 and underworld trading is like 170 though. i assume if i drop one i'll have to start back at 1 if i retake it later. mako does get a nice boost to slicing though if i do it. right now i'm constantly broke on that character from doing scavenging and underworld trading missions all the time while leveling my armormech.

12/21/2011 9:53:02 AM

hmm, everyones all about slicing, might go and send both companions on slicing instead of underworld trading for awhile then.

12/21/2011 10:47:29 AM

yeah i got rid of investigation on my sniper and just run both companions to lockbox missions all the time. its a retarded amount of money and every now and then you get cool mission rewards that always sell or sometimes som sweet ship schematics.

my brother got some bad ass purple missile bay schematic. too bad no one i know is cybertech heh

i imagine they'll nerf it later on so just smash that button over and over and get ur money now

12/21/2011 10:52:29 AM

i run cybertech but probably different server, i'll hit up slicing though to get the money for speeder training while pvping tonight

12/21/2011 10:57:56 AM

So, what would you say to a person who is thinking about buying this but on the fence?

12/21/2011 1:48:08 PM

if you liked kotor, its more of that plus you can play with ur friends to do bitchin group quests.

if you dont like mmos or star wars then probably dont bother

12/21/2011 1:50:28 PM

also if you're more pvp inclined:

you have gametypes similar to:
arathi basin - capture 3 points instead of 5
strand of the ancients (i think it was) - assault through 5 waves of points to a core
football (since i dont think wow had anything like it) - a ball that slows you down as you hold it that you can pass to teammates, 25minutes long or first team to 6.

for the most part teams still just run around killing people over and over and don't care about objectives.

also you don't queue for specific gametypes, you just queue for pvp and take what you get

[Edited on December 21, 2011 at 2:33 PM. Reason : queueing]

12/21/2011 2:33:17 PM

huttball is similar to bombing run in ut2k3.

ball spawns in the center and you want to grab it and carry over the opposing teams line. you can pass the ball (but dont kick the ball) to other teammates.

hutt ball owns when your team is good

12/21/2011 2:39:21 PM

Playing a Vanguard and it owns. Up to level 30 and having a great time with it.

I'm having no problems in PvE, mowing down the solo content with ease.

Tanking had been easy until I hit Tatooine, where some of the Heroic 4mans got messy. But I picked up a couple of new tanking skills at 29 and 30 which should fix the issues of controlling AoE aggro.

PVP 1v1 has been pretty easy too, only died twice to stealthy ganks.

Right now I'm on Alderaan and it's all . Seriously, one of the best designed zones I've ever played in an MMO. It's a shame the Empire blows it up later.

12/21/2011 3:02:01 PM

I just got my Mercenary to 14 and got the healing with rapid shot canister. That is going to be oh so nice.

12/21/2011 3:10:18 PM

Rolled Sentinel. Interesting class, but seems somewhat gimped at the moment. I'm still enjoying my time though!

12/21/2011 3:39:29 PM

I don't care if everyone and their mother is a Jedi. This class is fun as shit.

I'm on Infinity Gate, if anyone else is there.

12/21/2011 3:44:20 PM

Going to be looking for a republic server to roll on soon. Anyone have a guild? I definitely want to try out the other side. Just about to hit 18 dps sorcerer.

12/21/2011 8:42:35 PM

dropped underworld trading for slicing last night. with 2 companions going almost full time got it to about 190-200ish. mixed in with questing from 24 to 26 and the slicing made enough for speeder training, 2nd bag slot, and money to spare. i'd guess making about 100k alone

12/22/2011 9:22:00 AM

what the fuck. why can't i play or log into the site?

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12/22/2011 11:15:22 AM

oh der we go

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12/22/2011 11:23:32 AM