Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

They're supposed to be giving us an Arcann romance.  Of course, they're supposed to give us back all of our original comps too.  Still waiting.

Any comp who can potentially be dead due to story we'll never hear from again.  It stinks.  At this point, Lana is the only one we'll ever hear speak anymore.

What I'm hoping for? Thinking on the promise of which companions they're "working on" bringing back, this might be setting my expectations awfully high, but what I'd like, and even think is a possibility, if a small one, is that 5.7/5.6.2 will feature the return of [insert romanced companion here].

Basically, with the knowledge that these are the characters that the players probably most want to see in their own stories, rather than simply shoehorning them where convenient (like with Temple going back to the Chiss), we'll see one short-but-sweet mission where the Commander reunites with their old love interest, detailed enough to be character-appropriate, but simple enough to not be bog down development completely with 12 completely unique missions. That would be pretty in-line with the previous reunions, really.

Why as soon as that? Well, for one, dataminers have already found content for these style of "special alerts" that are restricted by class, so it's clear the devs are working on something like this behind the scenes for a while already. And based on general update precedence, that will probably be released in mid-February, which means just in time for Valentine's Day...

So fingers crossed. I'm not counting on it, but it'd definitely be a nice surprise.

Star Forge Imp Fleet, specifically.

Yeah, I'll also throw in with TOR Episode 6: Return of the Waifus. Even though I probably still won't do KOTFE on any of my mains, more content with Kira et al is about the only thing that's still of interest that they could feasibly do.


Also new year, new poll maybe? Any ideas?

Roadmap 2018:

Gimmie HK-55/Bonus Story, dont give a shit about the other stuff like the jetpack ect. Dont lock actual character stuff behind the "oh you werent subbed at the time" wall. Cosmetics, fine but not actual characters.

More Story Expansions, butttttttt.....make it class specific for a more varied playthru.

Actual different maps for PVP.

I won't use the companion terminal on principle. They are gone in the story and it wouldn't make sense for me to be dragging them around with me everywhere when they're not really "there." It's my personal preference and I will continue to wait for them to return through story as promised for rp purposes.

I'm glad that Arcann is going to be an option. I find him pretty interesting and I'm curious to see how he shapes up.

Scourge/Kira not being included in the story for SoR and KotFE/ET was criminal. Such a missed opportunity on BioWares part.

Not all companion stories are created equal, neither was romances. There are 40 companions, a quarter of them returned as Alliance alert and they've brought back 7 out of 19 romanceable companions into the main story. There's already datamined dialogue branches of Vector's return and his romance and also Risha and Corso recruit missions which may or may not happen.

I've been around for years as well. What people seem to want with the companions is Citadel DLC and the story stop moving beyond class stories. After what happened in MEA, I don't really have much faith over whether they actually listen. They already extensively built a story around Scorpio's origins which took two expansions and a half to tell. As the way it is, I'm not really a fan of the existing 5 minutes companions appearances, now with a chance of fridging one over the other.

It really makes me wonder where the hell they're going with the game.  They can only draw this current story out for so long before they lose their last loyal subs, and they are really drawing it out.  I've been subbed since launch and am seriously considering going back to WoW for awhile because there is nothing in SWTOR to hold my interest right now.  Sure...I could replay the class stories, but I've already done that close to 50 times.  The current model of a fp as story is just as bad as the all story with no new pvp/fp/ops model was.  I guess I'll wait and see if they come out with a roadmap for late winter/spring. 

I sincerely hope this does not mean that they'll be returning LI comps to us as alerts.  I guess I'll sub for another couple weeks and see how this goes.

I bought both for like.. 20million each.. I'm more annoyed by their unlocks price though.

I am really glad Eric replied to some of the questions about the returning companions.

Nice to know they'll be cinematic and not the KOTOR-style. Still though, I think I may cancel my sub finally once I play through the new alerts. There is not going to be anything new for months - and no reason to keep a sub going during that time.

Yep.  Even if they do the returns justice (not holding my breath there), with what they've done with the ones we've gotten back so far, we've got very little to look forward to in regards to companion interaction/participation.  Most of them can be dead.  We'll never hear from them again.    :sob:

So it leads me right back to...where the heck are they going with this?? 

The only consular I've started the KOTFE with is sitting in the Mando chapter because I have had no motivation to complete anymore of it with her.  Corso coming back might make me want to start KOTFE finally with one of my smugglers.  So tired of it all though.  It's the same no matter what class and I've already seen it 8 or 9 times now.