FP's can be soloed now on tactical mode, but to meet the DvsL criteria, you have to do them on hardmode, which is still group content. I'm a day one player and have yet to do all of the operations, too much of a hassle and can't commit the time.
Bump, I haven't been playing this much since work and coaching are taking a lot of my time.
But I finally logged back on and played the bonus chapter involving HK-55 as the main character.
I have to admit, I went in with low hopes of this as a gimmick. But this chapter was spectacular and hilarious and had a lot of twists and turns in it going to spoilers
Spoiler!
You meet up with a droid after waking up in a lab run by the Shroud, a super criminal from earlier in the game. The new companion droid to HK doesn't remember anything and keeps rebooting, she's also hilarious, especially because she has a device that lets her imitate humans.
When she walks into a room with an imprisoned Ecarch and turns into her and mocks her I nearly busted a gut.
The Exarch becomes a brief companion, and on an elevator ride she starts talking about seeing a vision of her fate where she rides in a elevator with metallic warrior (you) and then faces her greatest challenge. At that point the door opens and she's sucked into space.
One of the side missions is to find the Shrouds logs and he starts detailing what's happened through the story line so far. It gets to the point where he's extremely happy that the outlander has been killed (frozen in carbonite). Then the next log has him realizing that the "stupid Outlander" is alive and screwing with his plans.
One of the last logs to me was priceless as he talks bout his new plan called Operation I hate the Outlander and will kill him. Then he sullenly says "Going to bed early tonight"
Anyways the game is based around fighting your way out of the shroud base so you can prevent him from killing the outlander. The level design to me was fantastic and it included a long underwater segment and space segment. The underwater segment is fantastic and the sound is muted, but you keep hearing both droids muttering about rusting.
Anyways we finally reach the shroud as he's planting bombs in the command center in Odessia and
Spoiler!
we find out that your companion was actually the shroud the ultimate criminal mastermind. But she accidentally wiped out her memory when she was shocked while trying to access HK's memory. the human shroud was the 5th person to play that role"
Overall a pretty outstanding bonus chapter and the dialogue choices were pretty fabulous as you go full I hate all meatbags role. He even expresses frustration when he can't kill a unarmed civillian due to rules put into place earlier by the Outlander in a previous companion chapter.
Now we're stuck waiting for the new story which comes out at the end of the year
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Some big changes coming to the game, I'm not 100% sure, but I think crystals awarded to "gear up" are going away...now kind of an XP system and you get crates with gear at certain levels. The harder the content (Nightmare Ops etc) the more "XP" you get.
Reading through that, I would assume that you can or will still get crystals that can be used on gear below level 70.
So right now the max gear I think you can get is 220 with crystals. So you'll probably still be able to get to that level with crystals, but once you hit 70, it all becomes about command points, and crystals either will become useless or will be usable to purchase non gear items like decorations, or companion gifts or the boxes for heroic missions.
I like the Dark vs Light idea, though it would piss me off if I'm fighting a elite enemy and a bunch of random generated Sith jumped into the battle and killed me.
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Imperial Agent - Just an amazing story that can end a lot of different ways depending on your choices. Plus the actual play choices between Stealth and Sniper are great
Sith Warrior _ I played this guy as a fairly neutral character. But there's something about striding onto the battlefield and hacking a bunch of people up, and force choke. On top of it I liked the story it showed the true nature of the Sith
Sith Inquisitor - Ok the story isn't stunningly great, but its all about a slaves rise to power. Plus when you shoot lightning you want to yell "Power unlimited power"
Smuggler - The universe's ultimate rogue on a treasure hunt, which is great. Plus his character righting is great
Bounty Hunter - Just a man making his way in the universe. Being a bounty hunter is fun, plus you get the armor and a ton of weapons.
Jedi Knight- Don't get me wrong, its a good story, but it just feels like the Jedi Council treats you like a moron half the time, but this is the central story in the game that links to all others.
Jedi Consulor - I wasn't a fan of this one, mainly because the voice acting was so dry, and everyone treats you like the golden child.
Republic Trooper - This could have been so much better, the story was ok, but if you play light side your a soft soldier, if you play darkside you are literally a murderous psychopath with a license to kill
In terms of fun to play
Imperial Agent - Just so much fun for me as your almost like Jason Borne and there is something gratifying about sneaking up behind someone and sticking a knife in his back
Smuggler - Just great character writing and voice acting. He has hilarious lines throughout the story and is a bit of a a%%
Sith Inqusitor - This one screams for you to let out your inner evil, I played this one completely darkside and this is a story about the Sith Code.
Peace is a lie there is only passion
Through Passion I gain strength
Through Strength I gain power
Through power I gain victory
Through Victory my chains are broken
The force shall free me
Bounty Hunter - Its fun to play the role of scum and villany but there is a nobleness to the character as well
Sith Warrior - When I first started playing the description was that the Sith Warrior was going to be like Vader, the Inquisitor Palpatine. But there's a lot of Palpatine in the Sith Warrior as well as Vader. Its a great character to play
Jedi Knight - I wanted to so play this dark side, but in the end even though clearly I had fallen to the Darkside and slaughtered thousands the Jedi Council decide that it was sorta ok
Republic Soldier - The mechanics are fun, but the character is kind of blah unless you play a completely merciless killing machine where the ends justify the means and orders mean nothings
Jedi Consulor- The voice acting wrecked this for me, it was so fricken dry. I didn't even think much of the fighting options and the main story line was kind of silly.
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I picked it up again a couple weeks ago and started a character from scratch.
The leveling has been quick. I'm already 61 and haven't been going hard-at-it by any means. Don't see a lot of other players around though. Even in the old main hubs on the HUD it says there's only a handful of people in the zone and they're usually just standing AFK. Not sure if there's a new main hub or something where everybody hangs out. Or maybe just 99% of people play the Empire and I'm the lonely fool on the Republic side.
Tried queueing up to try some starfighter battles to see what that's like but nothing ever popped.
Strongholds - wtf. Kinda just glanced at that because it gave me a Strongholds quest but looked pretty overwhelming so I left it alone to work on storyline quests.
I don't get the Cartel thing where you have to pay to unlock things for your character, then pay additional amounts to unlock them for your Legacy. Makes me laugh that I have a special pet tauntaun for being a player when the Legacy system went live, but since I used it on a character back then it says I can't use it on any more... You'd think a Legacy pet would be usable by my Legacy but I guess not?
I picked it up again a couple weeks ago and started a character from scratch.
The leveling has been quick. I'm already 61 and haven't been going hard-at-it by any means. Don't see a lot of other players around though. Even in the old main hubs on the HUD it says there's only a handful of people in the zone and they're usually just standing AFK. Not sure if there's a new main hub or something where everybody hangs out. Or maybe just 99% of people play the Empire and I'm the lonely fool on the Republic side.
Tried queueing up to try some starfighter battles to see what that's like but nothing ever popped.
Strongholds - wtf. Kinda just glanced at that because it gave me a Strongholds quest but looked pretty overwhelming so I left it alone to work on storyline quests.
I don't get the Cartel thing where you have to pay to unlock things for your character, then pay additional amounts to unlock them for your Legacy. Makes me laugh that I have a special pet tauntaun for being a player when the Legacy system went live, but since I used it on a character back then it says I can't use it on any more... You'd think a Legacy pet would be usable by my Legacy but I guess not?
Some servers have heavy populations and some don't, I expect there will be another consolidation soon, probably after the next major upgrade.
I rarely use the Cartel Market, there are enough ways to gear up with you get to Odessan using daily quests. I usually use my cartel coins to do legacy locks. I found a unstable lightsabre which is a rare drop and I unlocked it for my force characters.
I've never played Starfighter, but I understand its not really being used much. Strongholds, I've got them all and decorated to 100% I kind of enjoyed it, especially my sex palace on Tatooine.
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V 5.0 was released yesterday to subscribers and included the Knights of the Eternal Throne Expansion
I just started playing it last night and there are lots of fundamental changes to the game itself. Crystals are gone, so when you want to buy mods it via credits. Armor is given through rewards from the look of it or buying sets on the cartel market.
Crafting has also changed, in order to craft to the higher gear you are forced into PVP or operations.
Speaking of crafting you can now craft to level 600 and your character can now level to 70 which is nice because it makes heroics meaningful.
Once you hit 70 you can get access to a personal command console which allows you to quickly access and teleport to heroics and operations and to other things, it also lets you replay chapters of the previous expansion if you wish. this is a great way to shorten travel time.
As for the expansion itself when they talked about choices mattering at the start of Fallen Empire we saw a little bit of that with the deaths of some characters. But the full weights of your decisions hit you in this one
Spoiler!
Senya asks for your help in protecting her son, at the end of the last expansion you had the choice to let her go to try to redeem him or shooting her down. In this one the choice is given whether you want revenge on Arcann or to protect him. If you want revenge the only way to do that is to kill Senya your former companion, however the way they wrote it has some extreme emotional heft, and its significantly changes the game as there will be no redemption for the two children.
Also and far more satisfying I got to chase down Koth who stole the Grave Stone at the end of the last expansion. Frankly I had hated Koth, he was a hypocrite and a liar and I took a lot of satisfaction in first choking him and then ramming my lightsaber through his chest
The other thing is that they've improved the graphics and facial software int he game and it looks gorgeous and runs a lot faster.
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I'm trying to get into this game since ESO turned into a steaming turd with the One Tamriel update. I'm playing with a couple buddies, but considering the only Star Wars movies I've ever seen were the original three, you can imagine I somewhat lack the passion that they have for the franchise, and that makes it hard to get into it at first. And as it turns out, that was also exactly the case with ESO for me, since I had little interest in playing Skyrim when I found out it was single player only.
Even if your not a star wars buff the story lines are pretty incredible and stand alone by themselves.
The only thing that really upset me last night was my Sith Inquisitor Assassin can no longer use Force Lightning. Part of the reason why I liked playing him so much was that I could fry people from a distance.
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So I took some time over the holidays to run two of my 10 characters through the last expansion with is Knights of the Eternal throne.
There are lots of spoilers here so I'll spoiler tag them.
In terms of story line I thought it was amazingly well written, there were basically 9 chapters. Overall it took me about 12 hours of game play to run them through.
Spoiler!
At the end of KOTFE Arcann had been defeated and his crazed sister had taken over the throne and control of the Eternal fleet with the help of your former companion Scorpio. the Sith Emperor in the guise of Valkorian was pushing for you to take the eternal throne.
So this chapter was all about getting rid of Vailyn, who it turned out had been conditioned by her father to be controlled by the phrase "Kneel before the dragon of Zakul".
Anyways the first chapter starts with Vailyn invading Voss, the home of the force sensitive mystics. It turns out that after another companion Senya had betrayed you and taken her son Arcaan there to be heeled and redeemed. This was the first big choices matter moment as you have the option of killing her and going after her son or saving her and going after her son. This could have a major impact later on in the story. But at the end of the day, I decided to work with her and save her son which is funny because these were my two darkest characters.
Funnily enough the Sith Empire comes to your aid and you head to Kaas City to meet the Sith Empress, in this chapter you are betrayed and shot down. It seems like former Republic leader Sareesh has betrayed you and tried to kill you so you can take over the alliance. Of course you survive and have the choice of imprisoning her and killing her. She ate 3 feet of concentrated laser beam. nobody cried
Another choices matter came shortly after that, Koth another of your companions returns. In the last story depending on your actions he could have either stayed with you and commanded the GraveStone or stolen the Gravestone. So your focus was on taking the gravestone back after Vailyn tries to steel it. But your choice was either to forgive Koth, punch him out or execute him. Because I hated him I slammed my lightsabre through his chest.
Right after that you and the eternal fleet are transported to a new planet that's entirely run by AI. It seems like this is the home of the eternal fleet and Scorpio. While Vailyn tries to steal back her fleet, your just concerned with survival. You fight your way to the controlling AI and kill it. Then Scorpio shows up and tells you that she wants to upload herself to the computer and you will never hear from her again. You have a choice to allow her this or kill her. I couldn't bring myself to kill her.
The next chapter is a fun little chapter with very little fighting as you have to infiltrate Vailyn's party disguised as a Knight, this is very much a spy chapter as you plant bombs throughout the palace to free the slaves. The end is really cool as Arcaan returns. He either comes back to help you if you spared his mother or kill you if you killed his mother. Since I had spared her I gained a powerful companion.
Vailyn of course wanting to get rid of her father's restraints returned to where she was raised which was the Sith Emperor's homeworld. While you couldn't stop her from undergoing the ritual. you did find the Emperors vault and found an ancient holocron that contained the spirit of the Emperors father who had been imprisoned and tormented for a thousands years.
Once you escape you find out that Vailyn has invaded your alliance base. You return to find a full fledged war and you are given the choice of either saving Vette or Torian one of your two companions. I choose to save Vette because she's really just a kid. Vailyn brutally snaps Torian's neck using the force. The two of you fight and you eventually kill Vailyn. The war is over.
Or is it, with no control of the eternal throne the fleet goes insane and goes back to its basic programming of extermination. Zakuul, the republic and the Empire are all in danger of being destroyed. you have to according to Valkorian take the throne and restore peace.
you travel to Zakuul and reach the throne and take control of the fleet. But this is where the Emperor betrays you, his intent is to take over your body and seize the throne. The rest of the game is a battle in your own mind against the Emperor. Again this is where the choices matter. If you choose to imprison the Emperor's father he helps you out as Valkorian still has control of Vailyn's spirit. you eventually defeat her and you convince her to join you in killing her father. At the same time if you chose to save Arcaan he joins you as well.
In a stunning twist you manage to defeat the Immortal Emperor by using the phrase "Kneel before the dragon of Zakuul" which works because your mind your rules. You kill him forever and return to take aver the throne as either a brutal dictator or as the head of the eternal alliance.
The story ends with word of uprising and the Empire and Reppublic arming for war.
Thats the story. the game play itself was actually a sharp improvement you also got to do things like control a maintenance droid and take command of a walker during the invasions of Voss and the defense of your base.
The engine has undergone some really strong graphical improvements and nowhere was it clearer then on the new worlds. Also the characters faces were sharply improved.
In terms of outside of the story game play the crystals that you used to upgrade your armor and weapons are gone. Everything is done through command boxes that you gain by gathering command points. This means that the game is a bit grindier as you have to participate in flashpoints, heroic missions, Galactic starfighter missions and the new Uprisings. Also it means that the contents of the box can be somewhat random which can be frustrating.
I don't know where this game can go storywise, the main villain the Emperor is clearly dead and you are either the Emperor or the head of a peacekeeping fleet. I guess the next story line will be a war between the Sith and Republic with you as a third faction.
But I really enjoyed it.
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They killed all interest for me with no new raid content.
I've been playing mmo since the launch of dark age of Camelot so I'm accustomed to the gear treadmill. Unfortunately instead of gearing for "new" content and encounters I have to re-gear for the same encounters I've already cleared dozens of times.
I did notice some shader improvements with 5.0 though, I'm trying to finish off the chapters so I can cancel my sub.
