I'm excited for SW:TOR. I have a pre-order box et all. Looking forward to finally playing it. I initially intended to play a Jedi Consular. Until I saw the first leaked footage and that official flashpoint walkthrough with the Jedi Consular class flexing its Porta Potty Force Hurl muscles.
 
The Jedi Consular unearths a piece of filthy brown tubing from underground, looking somewhat like a squished porta potty to me - and hurls it at his enemies. No matter if he's on a space station or somewhere in a dense jungle or on a rocky mountain. To me, that's a total immersion killer. Why would there be the same smashed porta potty buried to be unearthed where-ever the Jedi Consular threads? It feels wrong and is immensely immersion-breaking.
 
Why not make this Jedi Consular skill somewhat similar to Mortal Kombat's Sub Zero's 'Icelance' or whatever it's called. You know just with dust and rock and bolts and such. Compacting it into a snazzy pointed cone or rock lance and hurl it at his foes? Something that doesn't look completely wrong and ridiculous. In fact this worries me a bit, because it's so obviously in bad taste and whoever plays a consular as a ranged damage dealer will see that same squished porta potty fly a million times - why is something like that still in the game? The animation is going to be silly the second time. If not already the first time, if it's done at an unfit location.
 
Check the last couple of seconds of the Jedi Consular trailer to see the 'Porta Potty Force Hurl' skill in action.

Even Jedis can't hold it in forever...?

Porta potties are not octangular.
 
That having been said, what would be better to hurl at your enemies with great force.

you really gonna bitch about being able to hurl septic tanks at your enemies?   HE CAN CAUSE EARTHQUAKES WITH NOTHING BUT A STERN LOOK

Porta potties are not octangular.  That having been said, what would be better to hurl at your enemies with great force.

@Ragdrazi said:

Porta potties are not octangular.  That having been said, what would be better to hurl at your enemies with great force.

Compact dust particles and such into a rock lance and hurl that shit. 
 
OR... Have a dynamic 'thing' to hurl, depending on the surrounding world. A chunk of wood in a forrest. A tube in a space ship. A slab of rock on a mountain. And so forth. With some model-variation. A selection of 3 porta potties. Not just throw THE ONE GALACTIC PORTA POTTY over and over again.

It`s supposed to be dumb, this is Star Wars, remember? Just go with it.

That having been said, what would be better to hurl at your enemies with great force.

Wouldn't it take longer for a Jedi to collect dust particles, and combine said particles into something that large? It sounds like Dragon Ball Z: the enemy stands there and watches someone power up this energy beam and does nothing but talk.  
 
They should have made the world somewhat destructible so you could fling broken bits of the environment, instead of unearthing the same porta-potty.

@Ragdrazi said:

That having been said, what would be better to hurl at your enemies with great force.

Their friends, their pets or their family I'd presume.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@Ragdrazi said:

That having been said, what would be better to hurl at your enemies with great force.

Their friends, their pets or their family I'd presume.

Hmm. Killing people with the people and things they care about most. That is kinda twisted.

Wouldn't it take longer for a Jedi to collect dust particles, and combine said particles into something that large? It sounds like Dragon Ball Z: the enemy stands there and watches someone power up this energy beam and does nothing but talk.   They should have made the world somewhat destructible so you could fling broken bits of the environment, instead of unearthing the same porta-potty.

@Axxol said:

Wouldn't it take longer for a Jedi to collect dust particles, and combine said particles into something that large? It sounds like Dragon Ball Z: the enemy stands there and watches someone power up this energy beam and does nothing but talk.   They should have made the world somewhat destructible so you could fling broken bits of the environment, instead of unearthing the same porta-potty.

Guess it's an opener with lenghty cast time. Somewhere between 2-3 seconds.  They'd easily fit enough cool looking frames in there for it to work.  Either way, I don't like the way this particular skill looks in action. As a big fan of 'cohesive' worldbuilding; this feels wrong and does spoil my immersion by showing the seams of SW:TOR being a game way too clearly. There just can't be a porta potty to be unearthed everywhere you go. And it certainly wouldn't always be the same porta potty everytime, as it currently is. It may be functional, but it's in bad taste.

@Seppli: Stop saying porta potty over and over.

Hahaha, well, light side powers are kinda boring in kotor1 anyways, if you wanna be a light side crazy magic dude, you have to put alot of points in charisma so you can use drain life and electricity... i guees they dont have alot to work with Seppli, only invisible push and cc.

While I personally agree that it's dumb to not have that ability pull up something specific to the environment you're in...  I'm going to agree with the others that that does not look like a porta potty at all.  It looks like one of the random metal doohickey ship parts a jedi would pull out of a wall fixture inside a space ship or space station or something.

  Also - he's pulling that out of solid slate rock in a volcanic cavern. Talk about silly.

It looks more like a generic gas/hydrogen/propane tank to me honestly. :/