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

[jmc]

Let's pick a server

Any idea on names of servers they added for the weekend?

[Zetanio]

Joining Iron Citadel PvP realm. I'll be the Imperial Agent :D

[Zetanio]

They have a list, they are all weekend servers. It's segregated.

[jmc]

Ok, i'll hop on that server too

[Zetanio]

I'm in Nerdvana right now with the intros and the crawl.

[jmc]

Toon is Mith......sith side

[Zetanio]

Found ya

[jmc]

Having laptop issues, but I added you to friends list

[Eanae]

3 words. Buggy as fuck. Can't even get into a game and it's not server issues.

[Man0warr]

Yes it is. The login/servers are getting slammed right now - Darth Malak has a 6000 person queue lol.

[Eanae]

When you select a server, it doesn't let you change them. It constantly brings you back to character creation on who knows what server, and when you go to make a character nothing happens period. No error messages, no time outs, it just stops working all together. Not impressed at all so far.

[Zetanio]

I got in very early and once you get out of the initial OMFGSTARTERZONE stuff it's VERY nice. 60fps, under 50ms latency.

[Man0warr]

Just FYI:

FIRST TIME YOU PLAY, HIT PLAY AND WALK AWAY FOR 20 MINUTES

When you select a server, it doesn't let you change them. It constantly brings you back to character creation on who knows what server, and when you go to make a character nothing happens period. No error messages, no time outs, it just stops working all together. Not impressed at all so far.

They purposely invited way more players than they could handle because this weekend is a Stress Test and they need to test their infrastructure - it even says so in the patcher. Not sure what you were expecting when 100k people are slamming it at 5pm when it went live.

[Eanae]

Finally got in and the game is just... ugh. In before fanboy rage:

Gameplay: 1/10
Jerky controls, shitty combat (no auto attack? No move to target? Really? They should ask FFXIV how that ended up. Awful), and movement just doesn't feel right at all.

Animations/Graphics: 1/10
Animations for female Jedi look retarded, and to be honest, the graphics are severely lacking for an MMO coming out in 2011.

UI: 1/10
Looks like I could have made it in paint in 10 minutes. Menus are awfuly laid out too.

Cutscenes: 7/10
Only good thing about the game at all. Probably just watch them all on youtube.

So yeah. No plans on spending even a buck on this game. Probably won't even bother playing after today. Officially ranks lower than Rift on my worst new MMO lists, but hey, with Mythic involved what can you expect.

[Guyverarmor]

I was in playing for about 1hr or so. Game crashed... now I hit play and stuck at the SW: TOR banner with the spinning cog

Did see that a dev. posted a message by this that if we are, we are just in queue to get on

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

I have 2 extra invites, PM me if you need one.

edit: gone

[Zetanio]

I'm on Iron Citadel, Sith side, Imperial Agent, Zetanio. I'm about to hit level 7, hit me up.

[Guyverarmor]

3k queue time on Iron Citadel man I'm on Sith Medatation Sphere

[Zetanio]

Booooooo

[Man0warr]

Auto attack serves no purpose except to let lazy dps go afk. The basic ability every class gets with no cooldown mimics auto attack anyways.