The Old Republic 1.2 Changelog

@HumanoidTyphoon said:

Space!

Is the final frontier

@Sharpshooter said:

That seems pretty cool. Still never gonna play TOR but I can still appreciate it.

Same here. I've been getting my MMO fix through Star Trek Online (because it is free so I don't feel guilty that I'm not playing for every cent I paid for it), but this seems really cool. I know WoW is still trying to get me back, but I've been gone long enough that I feel fine not paying a bunch of money a year on one game that will, without a doubt, consume me.

All cool in theory. Now go kill me ten womprats.

That seems pretty cool. Still never gonna play TOR but I can still appreciate it.

Sorry to say but I managed to keep playing this for two months, but eventually got bored and canceled my subscription.

Sir William Wallace!

Tell me when this goes free-to-play.

"A day late and a dollar short"

@MosaicM80 said:

@Time_Lord said:

if only it wasnt an mmo

If only it wasn't published by EA, made by Bioware and actually good....

It is good. You may not like it, but it is in no way a bad MMO.

TORs a really solid MMO and there's some good stuff in this update.

It's gonna have to really keep them coming along to stay relevant, but I'm fairly confident in the team by now.

Been waiting for legacy system. I've kind of been scared to start a new character when there could be nice passive experience boost legacy stuff coming out that could save a lot of time on the side questing, and stick mainly to the class story quest.
 
For a while now swtor has basically been for huttball because I really love huttball.

Star Wars background music makes anything shitastic. It's like reverse Guile Theme Goes with Everything.

This stuff should have been in at release.
 
With D3, GW2 and Tera coming...  i'm guessing a lot of players jump ship on SWTOR.  It was fun getting to level 50 but after you get tired of warzones the game is a bore to play.

I've been playing for almost two months now and loving it. The only negative I encountered was because of levelling up a lot via warzone matches, the Alderan missions were way below my level and provided no challenge. Now I'm keeping my level pretty even with the quest difficulty levels and I'm having a blast with the Trooper storyline. My interest in trying out the other 7 classes and their 200 hour+ storylines, coupled with additions like this, makes it an easy decision for me to keep subscribing.

Until 1:12: Who the fuck cares if you included a digital fantasy family tree program?

Later: Your character might be able to use abilities that their father had.

Other than that shit, what the fuck? That's it?

@onan: This wekends a Free weekend too I believe --for those who were not involved in last weeks

Why does the guy at 1:30 look 15 years old?

@Time_Lord said:

if only it wasnt an mmo

If only it wasn't published by EA, made by Bioware and actually good....

@Humanity said:

Whats up with William Wallace? Senior Game designer straight out of 8th grade prom.

Lol I was wondering the same thing. That guy looks like a gremlin.

if only it wasnt an mmo

Legacy stuff is very interesting. That being said, I should probably actually get a character on my main server to the point of having a Legacy before I keep rerolling guys.

This looks really coo in a lot of ways, but the story lines are not good enough to make me want to do generic questing for 5-6 days played time per character. I also think it's silly to give a bounty hunter the force choke power, if I wanted to force choke people, I'd play a sith. I wish they would make the end game difficult and add variety to the loot.

@paulunga said:

@onan: There actually was a free weekend last week as well. I gotta say I was actually fairly skeptical considering I never made it past level 10-15 in WoW either because it just bored me to death, but the conversations and story progression here actually adds a lot in my opinion. I maxed out rwo characters to 15 in those 4 days and I'm really chomping at the bits for my copy to arrive so I can continue playing my Sith Inquisitor and Infiltrator.

I'm aware there was one last weekend, but that's really helpful to no one but cheap time travelers. :)

I'm sitting on a free 2 week trial they sent me in the mail, I guess for participating in the beta. Debating on whether I should use it or not. I don't need another time sink, but the beta was a hell of a lot of fun. Not so much on the Jedi side, but I had a great time with my Sith Warrior.

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

@test0r said:

@HumanoidTyphoon said:

@Moncole said:

@HumanoidTyphoon said:

Space!

Is the final frontier

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.

Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds,

to seek out new life and new civilizations,

EDIT: Damn.

Ha! I see what you did there ;-)

The questing in this game is really, really linear in terms of areas to explore and that kind of nulls whatever kind of enticement I had to make a new character as a result of this legacy system. Awesome! I can make a sith pureblood Jedi... but I already have a Jedi.

i got to level 4 and then got bored

Space!

Awesome, was wondering when they would actually implement this. Might hop back into SWTOR this summer.

Very cool, I'm glad a friend of mine got me re-interested in this game after I gave it a shot, now I'm loving it. The legacy system seems like a fun thing to explore and cannot wait for 1.2 pets and UI customization :D

@wompa421 said:

@mrsmiley: if you do a character on the other faction that you didn't play the stories and side missions are completely different

I'm aware of that, but the missions themselves, as many as there are, really follow cookie cutter MMORPG rules, in that they're all pretty much the same "kill x number of y enemies" structure. It's not terrible, and in fact I've been an avid defender of SWTOR from haters throughout the launch month, but at the moment things are feeling a bit dry. Perhaps it's the fact that I make it a point to complete EVERY mission and bonus mission on EVERY planet? Perhaps I've brought this on myself. Either way, I'm sure things will become more interesting when I cap and start the end game content and PvP. :)

Man, that image got me excited for a new Teras Kasi game.

Brad's evil/good twin ~ 4:50

@mrsmiley: if you do a character on the other faction that you didn't play the stories and side missions are completely different

I completely forgot that I had this. I should totally hop back on when I have more time.

@onan: There actually was a free weekend last week as well. I gotta say I was actually fairly skeptical considering I never made it past level 10-15 in WoW either because it just bored me to death, but the conversations and story progression here actually adds a lot in my opinion. I maxed out rwo characters to 15 in those 4 days and I'm really chomping at the bits for my copy to arrive so I can continue playing my Sith Inquisitor and Infiltrator.

This should have been in the game from the very beginning, it was a big limiting factor on making a new character early on.

I'm done with this game though, by the time i finished my second character's main quest i stopped logging on because having to go through a lot of the side quests and sometimes even the main quests was just getting to be insufferable.

Many sighs were had.

I can see the legacy stuff being good when a game's had an expansion or two but since the game came out not too long ago, to hype up the legacy system now makes the overall game seem quite short to where you need to fill in the family tree. Now if you could do stuff in the legacy system the same way that one mission in kotor (or kotor2) of the family feud turned out then I might be more interested (can't remember the name but it was one little side mission that had 3-4 ways it could be resolved going from good to really really bad).

Whats up with William Wallace? Senior Game designer straight out of 8th grade prom.

SPOILER ALERT at 0:32

;_; no time to play...

See how it's doing in the summer I guess.

@Sk4m1kaze said:

I haven't played in a while, but adding combat abilities with this seems really imbalancing, unless they just replace existing abilities that do the same thing

The legacy abilities will only be available when you have a companion out, so you can't use them in a full party or during pvp or raids. Essentially they've acknowledged that you'll be overpowered when solo, and that that's ok.

And yea, this vid is a trailer for the upcoming legacy system, here's a detailed look at 1.2 changes that encompass way more than legacy:

http://dulfy.net/2012/03/08/upcoming-in-1-2a-summary/

I like a lot of the changes they are presenting, but it's all stuff that an MMO released in 2011-12 should have been in the game on day 1. For instance: The UI customizations are just getting added 3 months in.

@Hef: Unless cyborgization is way more invasive than I was led to believe, I doubt that you can impregnate a chick with sperm that create metal bits.

HYPE

Now all characters and classes play the same

Gave up on this game after 3 weeks. The performance in warzones was god awful no thank you.

This actually sounds pretty fucking awesome. A breeding simulator sounds cool. I would love to make a hybrid sith cyborg or something.

The Senior Game Designer looks about 15.

WILLIAM WALLACE!? FREEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!

There's a free SWTOR weekend this weekend too that's already started. Probably worth looking into.