Well it's been free for a couple months now. I just started playing it this week. I'm having a lot of fun. Anyone else on here play?
Printable View
Well it's been free for a couple months now. I just started playing it this week. I'm having a lot of fun. Anyone else on here play?
I have an account but have not played much lately. I've been spending my time playing COH and DCUO now that they are free.
IIRC Audiblesilence plays.
there aren't enough hours in the day to play 1 mmorpg, let alone multiples. and i'm still trying to watch the series. :)
alan you should add me to coh @nodoze
Played it and haven't gotten far. I'm now spoiled with voice acting/dialogue in SWTOR that text questing in MMOs seems too retro for me now.
i'm sorry, but swtor is the ghey. :p
May be right. So far I'm having fun with the different story lines for my toons. However, it is a huge time sink which is interfering with work on my cars. Plus, I understand end game content is lacking, gear grinding is stupid since non-warzone PVP is not skill based, and no world PVP sucks. I'll be quiting soon enough.
The main reason I do not play STO more is travel time. It can take forever to get where you need to be. Need to go 3-4 area away from where you are? Enter area , aim ship, wait wait wait repeat 3 times. with confirmation at each area change. It just takes too flipping long. They need to make that faster. Game play is fine once you enter a system. Combat in ships and off ship is fun when you finally get to your destination.
My wife and I just got done with the week trial of SWTOR, and both of us enjoyed it quite a bit. It's very solo friendly with and npc pets you get and we both very much enjoyed the fact that we could see the mission scenes combined instead of each of us having to get them separate.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
It was also fun when we had a kill stealer tagging along and we went into my instanced mission and watched the guy run into the door. :D
I'm going to take some time away from MMO's. I've played CoH for the better part of a decade now, have multiple lvl 50's on both sides, and have really done everything the game has to offer. Time to kill some of my Steam backlog and enjoy other games for a little while. I STILL haven't beat Darksiders and started playing it last year. Same for Mirror's Edge, Chaos Rising, Prey, Metro 2033, Serious Sam 3, DNF, Titan Quest, SWKOR, Trine, Hitman (all of them), AvP... Yeah, I really need to focus on actually finishing these games.
EDIT: And also read the dozen or so books I have on the shelf waiting, and do everything I'm supposed to do for housekeeping... I need to win the lotto so I have more time to do cool things!.
this is true. STO is definitely the windwaker of mmorpg's; extremely great fun & well put together, but with god-awful travel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT
well i'm up to O-6 now. funny how much more responsive my ship feels inside a system--rather than traveling between them. it's also strange that the commander-class escort seems to be better overall than the captain-class escort. bizarre.
nobody else playing? oh, and alan, borg engines make traveling a LOT faster. normal limit is ~warp 9. borg engines on my ship and i'm at warp 17.78.
With the death of COH and some personal stresses to work off, I've been playing again. Levelling seems a ton faster. I've run into some cool missions. In a week(less than 10 hours I'd guess) I got from 23 to 29 and should hit 30(captain) tonight if I get time to play.
i haven't had a chance to play in several weeks. i want to pick it back up hopefully in the coming days. i've just gotten back from my deployment, so hopefully i'll have a bit more time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT
RIP CoH :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT
Been playing SWTOR again. The F2P is gimped more than I could ever imagined. Good going EA - block even mission reward choices unless you pay up, 25% XP reduction. We paid for a 2 month sub to give it a spin and see how the overall game was. It's World of Star Warcraft, but it's not bad. Doubt I'll pay for another sub when mine is up, but it's cheap fun while waiting for the Steam winter sale to give me more single player goodness.
My experience as well. I play every now and again, and I essentially have to "pay up" to run some high level raiding/instancing once every few weeks or so. Definitely not that exciting. Although I've never been a really hardcore MMO player anyway, I'm too busy with tabletop Warhammer, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy C
you really should try STO. you don't have to pay for anything. ever.
Eh, my gaming time is limited enough....lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
I really enjoyed Single Player SWTOR though. Would have enjoyed it more on my couch though.
Finished the mission arc and got captain.
I now have my own Defiant class Tactical Escort.
Get a wireless keyboard and mouse :)Quote:
Originally Posted by whitedragon
are you tactical? my main toon is engineer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT
Yes, Tactical. I have a secondary thats an engineer but I have not played him much and he's still on his 1st ship.
Lol, or just play any other of the amazing Bioware games on console? I'm still playing Mass Effect 3!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT
C'mon man you know it's not that simple though. I'm not going to build a separate computer to sit next to my TV for when I want to game, or lug my computer from room to room for when I want "couch gaming" or "studying". SWTOR was/is still a cool game though, but I don't play frequently enough to warrant a subscription.
I may get more mileage out of STO if I actually were to start, but eh.
@whitedragon, laptop?
I think my favourite thing about STO is the mix of ship combat and standard MMO missions. Either would get boring fast. Most of the missions I am getting now are a nice mix. Do ship based things, beam down to ship/planed/station do stuff, go back to ship and do stuff, repeat.
The thing that's keeping me playing swtor right now is it's story arcs. I will say that if they had released this game as a single player RPG with multiplayer co-op, I would have considered it one of the best RPG's every created. The story lines are extremely well done, second to none voice acting (Tara Strong for crying out loud!), and enough differences between characters to make you want to level each one up just to see their specific stories. The options you get in the dialog sequences truly make me feel like the character is mine. From the single player perspective, swtor is probably my favorite Star Wars game since KOTOR.
They just botched the MMO part... real bad.
I've considered tryont SW now that its f2p
It's really good for Single Player...especially if you liked KOTOR 1 and 2, or Mass Effect 1-3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT
Also, I started STO, lol. It's pretty sweet so far.
My new Defiant class ship. I think they are called Heavy Escorts.
they're doing a special-rewards replay right now. if you have the character level, you can get the ophidian cane and the shard of possibilities...both of which are VERY useful gear for ground missions.
I play STO, I am in OMEGA ARMADA guild, I currently have a Klingon I'm leveling up, he is still lv30 and a federation engineer LV50 with a Dominion heavy cruiser all decked out with Phased Polaron cannons phased dual polaron beams up front (phased goes right through shields) it's my pvp ship but I hear they are coming out with polarized phasers that sounds scary
Is a Klingon like a dingle berry?
Post via Tapatalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0Quote:
Originally Posted by FeaRpb
IPD, I just contributed to the fleet starbase projects. Not much, but every little bit right?
Also my Federation char is Lvl 31 and I just got my Galaxy Class Cruiser! I got 99 problems but the Enterprise-D aint one of 'em!
nice! what beam arrays are you using?Quote:
Originally Posted by whitedragon
I'm running all disrupters right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
Fore Weapons: 2x Single Disrupter Bank, 1x Dual Disrupter Bank, 1x Quantum Torpedo
Aft Weapons: 1x Disrupter Beam Bank, 1x Disruptor Turret, 1x Quantum Mines
I also have 2x +15% disrupter damage for my Tactical Consoles. I basically fly around in the middle of a scrum and just spam "Beam Fire at Will". I've been consistently getting 2nd and 3rd places and before I hit level 30 I got 1st places all the time in the PVE queue's like Starbase 24. I think I have a decent build, I just need to get MK VII and MK VIII gear for my level now.
i tend to recommend beam arrays for crusiers, since they give overlapping damage broadside. you tend to need a LOT of weapon power though.
Yea...I'm not sure if the turret is better than a beam array in back. It gives me a little more DPS up front at the expense of a little from behind. The mines are clutch though. I may swap my dual beam bank for another array.
Anyone still playing?
I just started a Romulan character and its the best story arc for starting a race.
I played the new sphere story line with Tuvok(tim russ) and it was well crafted and interactive.
If you play or were thinking about it, now is a perfect time. They are doing double XP until October 18th.
My favorite parts of the game are the ship battles. I just grinded double XP weekend Mirror Universe engagements til Lvl 50 lol. If anybody wants to do a scrum or whatever, I still have a lvl 50 Fed character, but I'm probably under specced or geared or whatever since I haven't played in a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT