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Laziana - Jedi Instructor  |
cheers, just want to make a thread to keep track on that nifty stuff bioware threw out.
last friday I got a mail that I was selected for "a" beta weekend. additionally it said that they are partnering with external gaming sites for additional beta keys and that I shall not redeem a key from those sites - obviously those keys are for people not signed up in the testing program? Anyways, accourding to bioware this invite should have gone out to everyone who is registered for game testing, or will go out. I have gotten no further info on WHEN this big beta weekend will be, nor did I get any beta key so far. What do you guys know about the "big beta weekend" as I would like to call it? - Laz _______________ Proud owner of Buster Senatu's 200th & 300th, Muro's 370th, Maher's 2100th, Henkes' 1639th, Johauna's 400th, 666th and 900th, Sho Koon's 2000th and Kain Sol's 600th comment Download Laziana's lightsaber here! Glory to Arstozka! |
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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I've played the game a bit and it's as horrible as I expected. Saz covered most points, so I won't go there - I'd just like to add that this is, as I expected, a WoW reskin. Horrible gameplay, even worse presentation. The only strong point is the voiceacting and story focus, but that alone will not keep a game running for more than a year. Subscriptions are totally unjustified, as I thought they would be. Once the hype dies down, you will see a lot of people share my opinion on this. _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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SaZ - Student 
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ok leveled bounty hunter to level 11 (powertech now) and here are some random thoughts (most of them are bad things, but thats just because i notice things like those all the time):
-minimap isnt finished. in outdoors areas you cant always see the actual walls and such which results in some wasted time going from quest to quest -i liked the mapfade function -maybe i missed something about traveling between planets, but when i had to go from dromund kass back to hutta... i couldnt really find it easily. somehow i was supposed to realise that 'veikun something' is actually the main starport. i mean really?! -speaking of running around - its boring. takes atleast 50% of the whole gameplay. would be fine if we had some nice scenery to look at... well unfortunately thats not the game for sightseeing. -mob respawn. breaks immersion. mobs respawn way too fast, its annoying. 'oh thanks for rescuing me, i see you already cleared the guards so ill be able to go back by myself'. nope the guards already respawned dude. -voiceacting is great. the fact that you dont need to read as much is simply great. if swtor becomes atleast half succesful in the market... that might become a new standart -music is always important for me and swtor delivers here. kotor feel. music in cantinas is amazing lol -graphics are average, id say even worse than kotor 2. however... its optimization is seriously questionable. -char creation is poor. got some races that nobody cares (or even heard) about. very limited options. male cyborg bounty hunter head options were like 30 or so options, but in reality there were only 2 - a white guy and black guy. -quite pretty skill animations even tho some look rather ridiculous. jedi consular throw debris and bounty hunter's 'go up in the air and shoot rockets' for example. -combat is definitely not the thing that i would play this game for. it has some interesting mechanics from what ive seen so far, but nothing really interesting. -quests are ok even tho most of them are the usual kill this kill that -i liked the way they made instances -companion is just annoying. i told her to shut up, threatened to kill her. nothing worked. -companion AI. she walks faster than normal to catch up, then slows down... only to fall behind so that she may sprint again. feels like having some retarded dog on a leash. gets in camera view that way a lot as well. -mob AI. 'next gen mmo' my ass. the AI is at level of atleast 10 years old games -i liked the light/dark side choices. too bad that the game is for broad audience so they couldnt make it as brutal as they could. -i played on US server since EU servers were all occupied. didnt notice much game changing delays or whatever. thats pretty good. -you are forced to do sidequests. skipped all sidequests, went for class missions only to find myself underleveled to class tasks. thats both good and bad in a lot of ways. -bugs. considering how much time they got left till release that might be a problem... youd think devs would learn from the past mmos... and their failures. oh well the game is huge, so its... *sort of* ok. -star wars vibe... is a little weak. music is pretty much the only thing. -huuuuuge areas. that are empty. you pretty much have graveyards filled with npcs. so yeah... like jen said the story is the only real feature that is good. since its pretty much the biggest selling point of the game... that isnt much of a problem i guess. everything else? completely meh. _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana This comment was edited by SaZ on Nov 26 2011 02:26pm. |
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†Johauna Darkrider†- Student 
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Quote: Woah Jenny, sounds like you expected something completely different then.
Yeah... I didn't it expect to be cheap copy of WoW (which I despise) and simply expected more than that. <.<  Johauna _______________ Johauna's Bio | When I am GRANDMASTER...! | StarCraft II Protoss Learner | Wannabe GrandMaster Leaguer | How to NOT play StarCraft II Specialist |
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Laziana - Jedi Instructor 
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Woah Jenny, sounds like you expected something completely different then. _______________ Proud owner of Buster Senatu's 200th & 300th, Muro's 370th, Maher's 2100th, Henkes' 1639th, Johauna's 400th, 666th and 900th, Sho Koon's 2000th and Kain Sol's 600th comment Download Laziana's lightsaber here! Glory to Arstozka! |
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†Johauna Darkrider†- Student
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Well, after testing for couple of hours.. I'm not impressed at all. Although, I didn't expect much. The graphics are totally ruining any kind of Star Wars atmosphere for me, the gameplay is just waaaay too boring, the combat doesn't even look spectacular, let alone not even fun.
Sure, there is story-line, but all the factors above kill it for me. 
Johauna _______________ Johauna's Bio | When I am GRANDMASTER...! | StarCraft II Protoss Learner | Wannabe GrandMaster Leaguer | How to NOT play StarCraft II Specialist |
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Laziana - Jedi Instructor
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They SHOULD make the beta client patchable. Just imagine all them early access users if they would have to download the whole client all over again. _______________ Proud owner of Buster Senatu's 200th & 300th, Muro's 370th, Maher's 2100th, Henkes' 1639th, Johauna's 400th, 666th and 900th, Sho Koon's 2000th and Kain Sol's 600th comment Download Laziana's lightsaber here! Glory to Arstozka! |
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SaZ - Student 
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i wouldnt be surprised, the game is released in one month after all. _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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planK - Jedi Council 
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Quote: blah 27gb client.
i wonder why they didnt make it like lets say guildwars or world of warcraft right away - 1/10 size download, everything else being downloaded as you play :C lol. for three days of stuff that i might not even have time to do thats way too much of a placeholder in my not so big hdd. lol. Yeah it's pretty nuts. However, I believe they said there's a very good chance that you can use this client at launch, with a few patches. |
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SaZ - Student
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blah 27gb client.
i wonder why they didnt make it like lets say guildwars or world of warcraft right away - 1/10 size download, everything else being downloaded as you play :C lol. for three days of stuff that i might not even have time to do thats way too much of a placeholder in my not so big hdd. lol. _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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planK - Jedi Council
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Emails have went out telling people when they'll be able to play.
I'm in on Friday at 10AM CST, which is 4pm GMT I believe.  |
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Rinzler - Student 
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I'll be joining Prophecy of Five. But I'll leave IRC/Ventrilo on if you want to contact me during the beta weekend _______________ I fite for teh usars!1 |
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R2D2 - Staff 
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Perhaps we should keep an updated list of those that will be participating in the beta, so we can possibly coordinate joining the same server when the weekend servers are up? _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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Wolfwood - Student 
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Looking forward to it! _______________ ~ Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead ~ |
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planK - Jedi Council
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Quote: I'm thinking it will be Thanksgiving weekend, roughly 11/24 -11/27.
Already announced as 25th-28th. Don't panic about emails. You'll get one before the weekend. |
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Cuthalion - Padawan 
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I got that email too. Heard nothing. _______________ <MaherSenatu> guh... you are just... I'll keep sure that your kind of people will never be knights... <MaherSenatu> That's my mission... Master to Kain Sol |
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R2D2 - Staff
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I'm thinking it will be Thanksgiving weekend, roughly 11/24 -11/27. _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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Cloud Senatu - Student 
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Yeah, I'll probably just re-install it in the end just to be safe, and to make sure nothing gets destroyed.
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Alex Dkana - Staff 
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Plus they recommended you uninstall anway, something to do with certain things updating correctly. Either way it's a big download again though. _______________ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield | Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken | Rhaiko D'kana - SWTOR EU Guild Co-Founder | Is it what the teacher, teaches? Or what the student learns? A Dkana |
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Cloud Senatu - Student
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...ugh
Well, maybe I'll just wait and not do anything till I get my copy of the game, then! Since, the characters I'd be playing during the beta will more than likely be removed when the game is actually released. Oh well, who knows what I'll do 
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Tallepyon - Student 
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I hope I get another email ^^ That'll be awesome.
Also don't worry about it, it happens to all of us constantly 
I haven't uninstalled my client, so maybe I'll get lucky and not have to re-install it  Here's to hoping!
Cloud Senatu I can say with (almost!) certainty that you'll have to reinstall your client. There is a pretty big chance that you won't have to reinstall. Bioware has released a major update, and I did not have to reinstall the client. Though I did have to download like 15gb worth of stuff... |
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planK - Jedi Council 
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Quote: I hope I get another email ^^ That'll be awesome.
Also don't worry about it, it happens to all of us constantly
I haven't uninstalled my client, so maybe I'll get lucky and not have to re-install it Here's to hoping!
Cloud Senatu I can say with (almost!) certainty that you'll have to reinstall your client. |
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Cloud Senatu - Student 
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I hope I get another email ^^ That'll be awesome.
Also don't worry about it, it happens to all of us constantly
I haven't uninstalled my client, so maybe I'll get lucky and not have to re-install it Here's to hoping!
Cloud Senatu |
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planK - Jedi Council
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An FAQ on the upcoming beta weekend!
Quote: Will I need to re-download the game client after the upcoming Beta Testing Weekend, or can I use it during Early Game Access?
You may have to re-download the game client, but we are hopeful you will not have to. This will be confirmed after the upcoming Beta Testing Weekend. |
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planK - Jedi Council
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Are you absolutely positive it was for last weekend? You may yet get an email anyway.
Seeing as it had the date of last week posted in the email for start and end time, and I played it over this last weekend...I'm absolutely positive
Cloud Senatu Oh I completely misunderstood what you were saying, sorry!
Anyway, I looked into it for you - you'll get an email next week similar to the most recent one you received in regards to downloading the client, etc etc. |
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Cloud Senatu - Student
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Quote: Are you absolutely positive it was for last weekend? You may yet get an email anyway.
Seeing as it had the date of last week posted in the email for start and end time, and I played it over this last weekend...I'm absolutely positive
Cloud Senatu |
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