Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

It was mentioned in the Spoils of War stream chat a few week ago: changes to F2P/Preferred are coming (in 5.10.4).

They are increasing the credit cap to 1m for both. More +1 hotbars (preferred = 5, F2P = 3, subs stays at 6) and the subscriber only medical probe/quick travel perks are being made universal.

Way too many different types of currency.

No they aren't all the same, if you think that after what I wrote you have a very poor grasp of the stories in the game.

Only the Smuggler and Inquisitor have story presented in a comedic fashion all the way through:
- some antagonists presented in a comedic way (ex: Diego on Tatooine for the Smuggler and Lord Paladius on Nar Shadda for the Inquisitor),
- comedic cutscenes (Smuggler sometimes tries to hard to be Buster Keaton)
- they have the most "funny" dialogue choices of all the classes (not the same humor though, like total opposite actually).

That doesn't mean other classes don't have a bit of comedy or funny replies, but their stories aren't presented as comedies. JK, Trooper, SW and BH are action-drama. Imperial Agent is a spy thriller. JC start as a thriller, but shift to a more political drama tone by chapter 2.

They are the only two classes who aren't told they are the best in their intro (i.e. starting in rags):
- both Jedi are told the moment they land on Tython that they are the best (in martial art for JK and the force for JC)
- Sith Warrior is considered an elite and favored the moment they land on Korriban
- BH is said to be "best shot in the galaxy" in their intro
- Imperial Agent is told they finished at the top of their class
vs
- Smuggler is a small time smuggler at the start
- Sith Inquisitor are constantly reminded that they are slaves (and aliens if you play a none-human) and undeserving of being Sith.

They finish with riches. Literal for the Smuggler as they end up with a criminal empire of their own. The SI ends up on the Dark Council, the highest political body in the Empire. The other classes don't upgrade their standing as much as these two. JC topped early chapter 2 (and might get a council seat if light side, but the Jedi Council doesn't have the political power of the Dark Council), JK achieve Jedi master rank by the end of the story. IA/Trooper just raise in ranks. BH is still just a freelancer. Sith Warrior are enforcers from start to finish.

They succeed only because of "luck". The other classes fail if faced by something they can't deal with yet (if they even encounter something like that), not such things for the Smuggler and Sith Inquisitor. Smuggler survive way too many thermal detonators and bombs through out of the story in cutscenes for example (it's part of the comedic tone). The SI story is a just a string of crazy stuff after crazy stuff.

People said that? I’d have thought the DLCs were written with force users in mind if anything.

6.0 Marauder Spoils of War changes and plain Sith Warrior sets propositions.


edit:

OK, chapter 12 of KOTFE (that's the one where you forge a new weapon) with a Smuggler is terrible. But now that I played through it twice (previously on SW), it's just a very poorly written chapter that exist to telegraph you ruling the galaxy later in the story without a say in the matter. It didn't appear as that much bullshit on the SW because Sith wants power, but on the Smuggler it was very "WTF, that makes no sense!".

Also, doing Imperial Taris planet story with a Cathar player character is weird...

The writers probably put something like that in for every class. Ego-stroking the player after all.

KotET clearly was written for Smugglers, particularly light side ones.

Of course, I'm also one of the ones who thinks there's nothing particularly "anti-Tech" about the KotFEET plots anyway, unless you ignored the plots of 1.0 on up, too, or something.

On another note, the Smuggler/Inquisitor comparison is also interesting to me, since those were the two who I considered my "mains".

Me too, although both were meh compared to other content.

PTS with the changes BioWare explained in the last few weeks might go up next week.