Star Wars: The Old Republic Random Question/Discussion thread - F2P

[vrumpt]

That was for cataclysm.

this is what i could find for vanilla wow

EDIT: these seem to be more likely what they were

Windows® System 2000/XP OS:

Intel Pentium® III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon 800 MHz
512 MB or more of RAM
32 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ 2 class card or above
DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers
6.0 GB available HD space
4x CD-ROM drive
A 56k or better Internet connection

Recommended Specifications

Windows® System 2000/XP OS:

Intel Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or AMD XP 1500+ MHz
1024 MB RAM
64 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 class card or above
Broadband Internet connection
Two-button scroll-wheel mouse

fun to see what games needed to run 7 years ago

[Natallon]

Outlaw's Den sounds amazing.
Will be interesting to see how the community works with it.

[Ohemgee]

I can run that shit on a virtual box

[Ezek]

Man I still remember lagging like crazy whenever I would fly into IF. My game would literally freeze for 30+ seconds before unfreezing with 512mb of RAM. Good times~

[Zerocool]

[Ohemgee]

I felt like I was watching Jump to lightspeed footage

[Daemonxel]

I can see alot of fun at outlaws den..some guild on guild action or even grudge matches

[vrumpt]

[Zerocool]

Outlaw's Den sounds like it will be a straight up griefing area, in a good way. Things like being able to kill vendors to prevent other people from buying stuff that those vendors only sell. And I can see people getting in groups and camping the entrance and just ganking everyone that tries to go in. People can set up guild vs guild matches, but I can see other guilds crashing the matches and going in just to kill everyone. Will be interesting to see how it turns out.

[Lordender]

Surprised how quiet this thread became since the NDA got removed.

[Zerocool]

All the info is out now. All that's left is the waiting game.

[vrumpt]

as soon as the high level character server comes online, we should hopefully get some footage of Ilum world PvP and the 2 operations that were made available. Those were all made fully functional or available this build.

Some of the other things this build that happened:
- Green/Blue color crystals can't be equipped with Dark I alignment or higher, same for Red crystals with Light I or higher
- The Esseles/Black Talon flashpoint has been nerfed to hell, balanced for 2 players but some classes allegedly can solo it.
- Bunch of flashpoints had hard modes added to them for level 50 play
- Two new flashpoints, Colicoid War Game and Cademimu, were added
- Two operations added were Eternity Vault and Karagga's Palace
- World Bosses buffed with new combat mechanics and loot tables updated
+ a crapton of general improvements everywhere else

Lightsaber crystal change is interesting, i'll support it since it gives more meaning to light/dark choices, which badly needs influence added to it.

[Guyverarmor]

I have mixed feelings about the Lightsaber crystals... but just because of Lore. Sith only came identified with Red because it's a synth crystal and majority of synth crystals are red color unless meditated on. Exar Kun was one of the most powerful Sith Lords and he used his Blue lightsaber still... but I know a lot of disgruntled players saying "SITH RED ONRY" but eh, I'll be fine with it.

I'm interested in the Eternity Vault though !

[Zerocool]

I don't really agree with the crystal color change. I feel it limits customization options. And it also goes against what they originally said about LS/DS points being more about RP and morality rather than having gear choices influence your decisions. I agree that there should be something unique for going either DS or LS, but I don't really think it should be gear.

[Vagrant]

Eh the main reason they made the change was because of a number of people on the forums whining about it when it comes to PVP. They said they had trouble telling Jedi apart from Sith due to lightsaber colors. Never mind the fact that any enemy characters have a red name above their toon.

[Crab_Cake]

Quick question - I vaguely remember reading that you can apparently solo a lot of stuff in this game (missions, etc; more than WoW solo) - True or no?

[Guyverarmor]

Depends on what it is and what is required for the mission. I was able to solo one or two of the group missions, but not from what
certain classes can solo in other MMOs.

[Zerocool]

Quick question - I vaguely remember reading that you can apparently solo a lot of stuff in this game (missions, etc; more than WoW solo) - True or no?

Well supposedly the latest build has made stuff a lot harder, so it probably won't be as easy as before. But you have your companion, so that does make stuff a bit easier. And it will probably also depend a lot on your class and companion's role.

[vrumpt]

Quick question - I vaguely remember reading that you can apparently solo a lot of stuff in this game (missions, etc; more than WoW solo) - True or no?

maybe in a build from a time long ago, but thats absolutely not the case now. I mean, regular missions you can play solo obviously, but heroic missions need around the recommended number of people to finish. Those are usually in entire areas with entire groups of mobs that are elite and strong strength. In addition, all story areas scale based on the number of people in your group that you bring in to it. So if you quest with a few friends, the encounters in there will scale to still be somewhat challenging to keep it fun.

In addition, in this latest build the overall difficulty of most mobs has been increased, so anything that people managed to solo before won't be as easy anymore. So to answer your question, no you can't really solo stuff you aren't meant to.

[Guyverarmor]

Ok good Vrumpt. Yeah, saw a sith inquisitor solo their whole heroic missions on Korriban... I was like "wtf" >.> glad they upped the difficulty.. I am a weekend tester only