Archive | September 2012

Free to Play Feature updates :3

So, I was going through the Dev Tracker and stumbled upon a response to this thread. As I upgraded from the Digital Deluxe to Collector’s Edition a while back, it seems I will be getting an extra 250 cartel coins! Yay!

02.07.2012 Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Collector’s Edition
12.16.2011 Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Digital Deluxe Edition

Besides that…the Fan Favorite Reward (and thus, the winner) is… THE PARTY JAWA! WOO!

For those wondering, it says “!!Utinni!!” in Aurebesh~

Final thoughts on Inquisitor/Warrior Storyline + Semi-final on Imperial Story as a whole

So after finishing the Inquisitor Storyline and seeing the full Warrior storyline as my boyfriend played next to me, some final thoughts… I shall start with the Warrior Storyline as my thoughts on that are a bit shorter.

One of my favorite things with it was the fact that the Knight and Warrior Storyline connected in the latter part of it. I thought that was pretty awesome. I would say the Warrior ends a bit more abrupt. After your final battle…that is it while the Sorcerer actually has a couple more scenes. One thing I noticed is that people fight you A LOT. There are several fights where you fight the person 2-3+ times before they finally admit defeat (or you have the option to kill them) which kind of reminded me of how much you get backstabbed in the Jedi Knight storyline.

Backstabbings happen quite a bit on the Imperial side though and if there’s one big thing with the Inquisitor and Warrior storylines…it is pretty obvious. I would say the only thing that came a bit surprising on the Imperial side was Quinn’s betrayal–especially if you romance him. I think a lot of people would’ve killed him though if getting rid of certain companions was still an option. (You know what would be a cool Legacy feature? Choosing the companions you want to have with you out of all the ones you get to 10K.) But yes, even if you may have thought Zash was being really nice, you were constantly being told how she’d betray you. A good twist would’ve been more if she didn’t…but she did and she ended up looking like a creepy zombie and got put into your DaShade.

Then Thanaton doesn’t even give you a chance, taking you to a tomb obviously feels like a trap, and it’s kind of obvious he wants to kill you. Ghosts turning on you, despite being nice to them, is also not too surprising. I would say the Jedi Consular storyline had a bit more shock value–with the first villain being someone you didn’t even know and the next, while I actually guessed it originally (“he always knows who has been hit! and he can get to each of them!”) it was Syo who was the ultimate bad, I was still a bit surprised when it turned out I was right.

Regardless, while the Consular’s ceremony at the end was nice, I thought the end sequences with the Inquisitor were really well done–especially when/if you help the ghosts find peace to go on to Heaven (or whatever you believe is after death!). It’s incredibly interesting and really feels like there is a lot more to come. Also, the Darth title being customized to your alignment is pretty cool too (Amidaia is Darth Imperius).

However, the Thanaton fight was pathetic. While having a zoo attack was awesome (if only I could’ve healed them T__T), Thanaton is a huge coward. He ran away. The fact that he wasn’t killed on sight at the Council… seriously. You challenge and you run? Are you kidding me?

Despite that, I did have fun and I really enjoyed the end.

Now, onto the Imperial Storyline itself. Obviously, I still have to finish up Corellia and Ilum (not to mention see the operation storylines), but I figured I’d at least mention some of my feelings. In general, there is a lot of “why can’t you choose to accept that offer”. There’s many things in that sense that pop up. Other ones are where the choice isn’t very clear–like with the Gormak–setting him free =/= letting him go with the Voss…but according to the choice, it does.

However, the really good thing about the storyline is how much it opens your eyes on just the full story of the game. I’d recommend playing an opposite faction character just for that. Voss is amazing on both sides as they have so much information. Even the stuff with the Colicoids is very interesting. Just lots of neat tidbits you really get to learn by seeing both story lines. Similarly, you see a lot of these connections between the different class storylines that also have a bunch of different things in them–not to mention even contain the answers to some holes.

…however, I will say, those connections still make me sad that the Kira thing was not connected with the Consular storyline somehow–but maybe one of the story lines will help explain exactly where it is that these take place anyway. Could be one just takes place later/after… kind of like how the Inquisitor end is obviously after the Warriors.

Anyway, in short, I enjoyed the Inquisitor storyline, despite how obvious some parts were. Warrior storyline was also pretty interesting. And my only issue with some of the Imperial Storyline stuff is still just some of the options you have 😛

Also, Khem’s ending is adorable. It’s nice how he slowly gains respect for you. Obviously, if you let Zash win (what happens if you help her), the end cutscene is different. I’m happy I let Khem win though. Not helping that backstabbing jerk. And I know Khem cares deep down <3 (And the ending cutscenes with him and his last conversation proved that enough!)

A possible Terror from Beyond drop?

Okay, so I was browsing around and had this pointed out to me:


(Screenshot credit to scifigamers)

That definitely looks like a Black-Cyan crystal to me. Since there are two color options available through EC (Black-Orange and Black-Purple), I wonder (if the Black-Cyan is true of course) if there will be another crystal and if so, what?

The crystals without a black core version are, besides the previously mentioned Cyan, Magenta and White. They are the only ones left without a black version. Heck, the White isn’t even out at all. Maybe, for all we know, it could be Black-Cyan and White. However, I believe White was mentioned to be gotten in a similar way as Magenta and still a far way off, so I’d probably put a Black-Magenta over Black-White/Normal White. It’d be neat though, wouldn’t it?

Besides that, the pink and gold armor that sentinel is wearing… I wish I knew what it was 🙁 If you recognize it, let me know please?

“You had to know I’d love this sort of thing.”

So, working on Corellia and doing Amidaia’s story and we get to this point where she needs an army to storm into Thanaton’s base. She pretty much says how she doesn’t want more people dying for her. She’s seen enough death of people she has cared about and/or who have helped her.

Thus, when I was given a choice to have a storm of ANIMALS go on through? OH YES. And I will heal my butt off to keep them alive. Best. Choice. Ever. My story has won. Thus, I am going to make sure I don’t miss any part of it. YAY.

Edit: They…they killed them. T__T AND I COULD DO NOTHING. NO MERCY NOW.

Edit 2: YAY! Almost done! And since Thanaton is on the Council during the Sith Warrior…Sith Warrior’s ending happens before the Inquisitor.

Edit 3: Emperor’s Voice is what killed us during the Sith Warrior end. It did 23K to me and 15K to my boyfriend…so warning, INTERRUPT IT.

Edit 4: STORYLINE DONE! YAY! I will record until I finish Khem’s story and then stop :3

Edit 5: Showed the choices for Khem. As usual, he hates pity/help 😛

Edit 6: ALL DONE! Yay! Now onto Ilum…of course, we’ll probably finish Corellia and many other things first. So, I have ended the recording 🙂 You can find it saved here.

Companion Progress

So, Amidaia’s companion progress has been going well. Everyone is 10K except Ashara. Unfortunately, since we still need to finish Corellia, I have yet to see the end of Khem’s story (which I’m guessing is separating him and Zash) 🙁 Shall look forward to that.

Unfortunately, Ashara will take a while. She’s at about 6.7K right now. Due to the fact that she just “likes” stuff, she only gets 44 per item so I need about 75 of the items she likes (Weapons, Military Gear, Republic Memorabilia, and Cultural Artifacts). …if you’re on Corellian Run and do not want any, let me know 😀

I probably spent more credits than I should to get to this point. Unfortunately, 2V-R8 is nowhere close (still at 0). I’d like to get him to 10K, but it really isn’t a super huge priority. Regardless, I’d need Cultural Artifacts, Technology, Imperial Memorabilia, and Luxury for him…at least he actually loves stuff though unlike Ashara 😐

But yeah, once I get 2V-R8 up, I will just focus on all the other characters. I just want one of each robot done once so 😛

Going back to companions being done, I shall do some stuff on storyness:

Talos – His is really cute and his ending shows how old-fashioned he can be. I just think the end was kind of sad, but at least you were able to cheer him up. I think it’d have been nicer if they could’ve reunited though.

Xalek – Kind of similar to Nadia’s (TRAIN ME MASTER. LOOK HOW GOOD I’VE GOTTEN) except he doesn’t really say more than one sentence. The end was cute though. I feel bad about his dad and family however 🙁

Ashara – I’m not sure if I’m done with her yet? Her conversations are mostly kind of annoying, but I do find some pretty nice. Just…stop blaming me for stuff I have no control of 😐 God.

Khem – Khem is kind of what you’d expect. It’s nice seeing him slowly respect you. Shall look forward to seeing the final cutscene (and will edit when I do)

Andronikos – He mostly just talks about the past. Kind of like with Zenith, his story doesn’t feel like it gets resolved much. Maybe it’s better if you romance him? Just the ending seemed a bit of a cop-out and I wish they did more with it.

Secret Agent Girl~

Slowly going through Cellina’s story. I really do like it a lot. It seems all your choices become apparent right away with how things shape out while with others, it’s either one thing that doesn’t get touched upon again or one thing much later.

Sanju is pretty cool. The date scene was adorable. All holding hands and stuff T~T if only my screenshots didn’t hate working in instances. It makes me sad he didn’t go with your character–even if he was just kind of on the ship doing nothing like all those people on the Consular’s ship. I really hope you get to see him again.

I was also excited to hear more about Gray Star. I was very surprised when I did see him as I expected him to look different. Also was sad not much was said about it. Nor any kind of cameo from Zenith at some point 🙁 However, with Zenith’s conversations, I do wonder if the “Gray Star” he spoke about was the actual one or actually Sanju.

Anyway, hopefully I’ll get to do more story soon…but I’ll probably have to do the Balmorra Bonus series first. Just…not enough experience to do only class quests, unfortunately. ._.

Speederisk is born

So, after some conversation with a friend of mine, I decided to begin work on Speederisk. Who is Speederisk, you ask? He is my temporary Jedi Knight to get through the story and all his companions to 10K. He hopefully won’t be around for long.

I’m…pretty bad at melee, to be honest. Although, the jumping is kind of fun, I wouldn’t say it is enjoyable to me. I made him a sentinel so I can kill things faster. But yes, we’re just going to try and get Speederisk to about level 35 (so he can do Quesh without dying every 5 steps) and then rush him through the story and then get all his companions up to 10K and he shall be done and I can delete him and make Speederisk II (II may or may not actually be included), my Sith Warrior and do the same.

I was going to do him last, but it gave me something to do while allergies kick both my mine and my boyfriend’s butts (which is leading to us, unfortunately, not being up at the same time as much) and thus, can not play together as much 🙁

Preparing for new gear

So, as we know, HM Terror from Beyond will have new gear. Apparently, according to this interview, the gear will be split between Hard Mode Terror from Beyond and Nightmare EC. I’m a bit nervous honestly. HM EC is evil enough so I’m scared about Nightmare (not that I can think of anytime I’ll ever end up getting to do it…) and I mean, HM Terror from Beyond is supposed to be pretty hard too so that scares me a bit as well. It’ll be interesting to see anyway–and at least the mount Kephess drops will be able to be gotten more then so yay.

Also looks like the January event is still going as expected.. I really need to work on my PVP then 🙁 but PVP just makes me so sad.

Hmm…

There have been rumors that the test server may go up today. I’m kind of thinking that may be true now that the maintenance has been pushed back 5 hours later at this point.

Just have to wait and see, I suppose. But this can’t just be a normal bug fix O-o

Edit: It would go up when I finished writing this!

You can read the patch notes here. Some highlights for me:

-Items
—General
—–The event outfits (the Rakghoul Containment outfit and Sand People Bloodguard outfit) now bind to Legacy instead of binding on pickup.
^Yay~

-Legacy
—Legacy names are no longer unique. New Legacies that are created are now able to use a name that is already in use on the server. All players will be able to rename their Legacies once, at no cost, in a future update.
^Okay… I can understand why they did this, but I can see a lot of people being annoyed about it. Not to mention people who may get confused over others with the same name. However, this also means that users who disliked their Legacy Name will officially have a chance to change it soon.

So, should I keep the Legacy name, Naberrie, or change it to the one I have on the test server–Royal?

-UI
—Made minor cosmetic changes to the Character Selection and Character Creation UI.
^Always nice to see things made clearer

…This still seems kind of small considering the delays though :/