Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

I began playing yesterday with my new Jedi Sentinel. Took a bit of getting used to, but I'm starting to feel increasingly comfortable. Combat is fun, abilities and upgrades make a noticeable difference.

Environment of the Jedi starting area is lush and pleasant to explore, and best of all it's not a 'themepark MMO', the kind that features pitched static battles between NPCs, and huge, clustered fast-respawning groups of enemies everywhere. I can explore at my own pace and the world feels quite natural and organic, which is great.

Voiced NPCs are obviously very welcome, I don't feel rushed, the story doesn't feel rushed either. It's all small scale local issues. I'm not the 'chosen one', I'm just a Padawan going about her business. Hope this doesn't change.

Not saturated with overpowered loot either, which is another bonus. It's given out pretty sparingly, and so each upgrade feels meaningful and important.

This morning I did something called a 'heroic area', featuring a bunch of droids in a cavern, the object of which was to recover parts from Sentinels in order to get an ancient computer working. Wasn't sure if I could handle it when I saw the name 'heroic area', and wondered if it was similar to a World of Warcraft instance, designed for groups, but it turned out to be something diiferent. It was pleasantly challenging, and I managed it alone with only one death due to carelessness.

In fact my only complaints so far is I wish there was some way of zooming in the main map, and, as in most MMOs I find the 'leapers' (other players who constantly jump and leap around the place like deranged idiots) distracting. No idea why but it always annoys me, guess I'm getting old.

So after leaving the Jedi starting planet I found myself in a spaceport and there was a mission for a Flashpoint. The Flashpoint had a story mode, so I thought 'fair enough', and launched it.

Everything went smoothly, ridiculously easy. I was accompanied by my Astromech droid T7 and another temporary droing, and it was impossible to die.

I got to the section where I was supposed to board an imperial ship, the Essless, or something like that..... fought my way through and the Big Bad Sith captain spoke to me on a holoscreen telling me his troops were arriving and there were a few surprises for me.

No kidding!

As soon as I passed that point my temp droid companion was gone, and the next group of Imperial soldiers I ran into kicked my ass so hard I was pretty much one shot killed, I could make no further progress as it was impossble to fight them.

So, clearly there's some kind of 'cut off point' for story mode flashpoints. They allow you to progress to a point in the story, and then the solo mode ends and you're in full-on non-soloable group mode.

Would be nice if they'd given me some kind of indication of this so I didn't waste all that time.

It's a glitch. There are two spots on the Imperial ship (tunnels to enter commands room) where your companion and the temp droids might stop following you and you end-up facing multiple enemies all alone with nobody to heal you.

Usually, I just enter a bit and dismiss/resummon my companion (set to healing).

I have the weirdest relationship with this game. I won't touch it for a couple years then I will play it almost obsessively for 2 months straight but always starting over from scratch and while trying to play all the class stories which means I have 8 characters I alternate between then I eventually burnout and repeat the same process a couple of years later when I get Star Wars hungry but never getting anywhere.

I thought I was the only one who had this issue.  I also keep re-rolling the same characters.

Maybe this is just me because I am normally not an mmo player, but does anyone else get annoyed by other players that feel the need to jump into another players fights? There are plenty of mobs go find your own. They are almost as bad as the dudes that will steal a quest objective when you are dealing with the mob that was surrounding the objective and because of these selfish jackasses you have to wait for the objective to reset. Most of the time these guys are marauders (or sentinels) that think they have a force given right to rampage through everyone else's game because they are dual wielding lightsabers.

My personal favorite are the players who hang back, let me aggro the mob, and then rush in to loot the quest objective.

You understand that is a dick move right?

I shall continue to play like Ned Stark. Things worked out great for that guy.

You shouldn't need a rule to tell you not to be an inconsiderate dick. If someone is dealing with a mob to get to a quest objective you should let them finish up before moving in. You are rampaging through their game experience and negatively impacting their game.

THEY WERE THERE FIRST!! Do you you just cut to the front of the line at the grocery store, or grab someone else's food after they ordered it? The shit you pull would get your ass kicked in real life. Not to mention it hurts immersion when having to wait for a quest objective to reset because sone douchebag swooped in on the rancor (or whatever other ridiculous mount they picked, people should pick to a proper speeder or at least an appropriate animal), while I fought the mob guarding the objective. And no clicking on it before fighting the mob doesn't work because that hurts immersion.