Star Wars: The Old Republic

J_Thang... Strongly considering a mission out to get the installz... what are your movements this weekend?

As far as I know, Jarrod is away this weekend.

I started a smuggler too on Red Eclipse last night and played for about 3 or 4 levels. Interesting game and nice looking artwork. What does bother me a lot about the combat (smuggler maybe specifically) is the fluidity. The cover system is very strange and I hope it gets more fluid as you level up.

Will see how it goes, so far I must be 100% honest, I am not blown away, but I am also not scared off and want to give it a shot :)

Sorry Stu, I'm away from this afternoon until Sunday afternoon. However, I am taking the day off on Monday if you want to pull through then (I recall you saying that you were on leave next week).

If you don't get the files before then, you're welcome to pop through.

@Phats - As I mentioned before, I'm not sure if this will be your game. As a WoW vet, you may find TOR to be too much of the same thing? Certainly it's not new age like GW2 was.

But... it is Star Wars, and it's well constructed.

I'm putting in leave Monday aswell. Will download it over the weekend

i haz it, got a few toons. not sure which server

yeah - at the moment I don't like the combat system either - feels like a terrible bolt on - but, story is very good, well everything else is very good.

Perhaps the thing with "pointless" cover system has to do with leveling up the char where cover attributes get higher, coz I agree it seems totally pointless at this stage, other than allowing certain abilities to be used or not.

I know nothing about cover systems? I guess, playing as a Jedi, one has no cover?

Certainly the melee combat works much as other MMOs. Use basic attacks to build up focus for more powerful actions, and of course role specific abilities. I haven't picked my secondary class yet (going to play Guardian (tank)), so haven't seen the aggro building skills yet. But afaik they are there.

Lee, I wonder if its just the smuggler (and starter) combination where we have to constantly use cover. I want to be stealthy roguey vanish appear kill vanish etc... Thats why because apparently the scoundrel (advanced class) is like that. Apparently ...

Lets see how things go on, if no improvement by like level 10 or so, I will go redeye jedi styles and use the force n shit.

You don't get your advanced class until level 10, so you may wait to run beyond there and see how it goes. Early leveling is just teaching you the basics anyway.

I have a lvl 21 knight dps J - you should have received a friend bonus
but there where some issues with my original email addy, I dont know if that affected anything, please let me know