Intergalactic Intel: First Thoughts 3a5w3r

Intergalactic Intel

Intergalactic Intel: First thoughts 6i6q3h

Intergalactic Intel: First thoughts

 

“I heard you got into the beta.”“You’ve heard correctly…”“So what’s it like?”“…” I smiled. “Nothing I had expected.”

Now with the press NDA lifted, we here at SWTOR strategies can begin next few weeks I’ll be giving you my experience from levels 1-16, (as much as the press NDA allows).

Let’s begin with one of the biggest things patching, but overall well worth the wait.

story telling from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

The plot twists to themselves.

Now the real issues that we care about. Questing and combat. Quests are similar to other MMO’s we’ve played in the past. Kill things, collect items. The only real difference between quests in The Old Republic and other games would have to be that you tend to pick quests up just by moving through the area and killing enemies. So as you kill your first enemy in an area, a counter pops up that shows how many more you need to kill. After you’ve killed that many enemies you get to fight the big bad guy with an actual name.

Combat is interesting. Instead of pitting you against one enemy at a time you’re usually taking 3-5 of them on at a time. Healers and tanks have a strong arsenal of abilities to help them deal damage, though they will not be as strong as someone who specializes in a DPS. I feel as though combat requires you to be more active than that of other MMO’s, but that could be due to the lack of interface mods.

Now let’s hit the ugly. The class and level they are seems so old I could hear my old dial up modem starting. The only way to whisper someone is to type /whisper “name”. You can reply by pressing “R”, but you can’t tab through previous whispers, so making a group is a pain.

There is no real looking for group system. It’s hidden in the /who command. Even then you simply state what you want to do, and is incredibly hard to form a group with, so players are left to using general chat to form groups.

Bioware is defiantly looking to have a powerhouse of an MMO coming out, but they first Old Republic. May the force be with you.