Happy May The 4th Be With You!!!!
One of things that is absolutely paramount to the continuity and awesomeness of the Star Wars series is the lightsaber. Without a doubt! However, in game form, certain concessions must be made to accommodate the MMO setting. That is, of course, gear and progression. MMOs do well with having better gear from leveling, questing, crafting, and raiding. This gives an unending cycle of acquisition and replacement, and that’s actually a good thing! It gives a lot of purpose to play the games. But one major thing is missing in the SWTOR game, that’s distinguishability. Totally a word. What I mean is this; in many other similar games, the weapons and gear are obvious. They are big and glowing and have things floating around them… so you can tell when something is an upgrade. Visually, it looks more powerful. With the lightsaber, all you have is the hilt and the blade, which have limited visible differences. The hilts (am I using that right?) are way too small to really be noticed and the blades, well, they’re lightsabers. I guess there is some distinction with color intensity, variety of colors, and different colored cores, especially with limited availability with certain combos, but at some point, there will be an end to the combinations. Well… unless they make my rainbowed sword of justice…
So how do we go about fixing this? Or does it even need to be fixed? I’m loving the remoddable gear and sporting a certain look, so maybe… just maybe, this whole thing is a non-issue. BUT, to play Sith’s Advocate for a second, let’s brainstorm some ideas. One thing I really like about the sith assassin types is there little electric blades. Not sure what that is, but visually it’s stunning! Now, I’m thinking of an “enchanted” kind of look. Think of a fiery or an icy enchant! An enchant of undeath! These are wowcraft references, but you get my point. I think exterior glows, little zaps, fire, snowies, floating things, etc… all ideas for blade additions. (obviously wouldn’t be actual enchants you add, but just visual enhancements to the leet gear drops) Another idea would be “activation effects”. What’s cooler than a lightsaber and striking a pose? Firing one up! It’s that sound, the slow draw of the blade, the glow… these things add up to be quite an intimidating weapon. So, additional effects might help to give better visual ques as to the strength and power of the gear level. For instance, stronger/louder/more crackled draw sounds can really beef up the effect. Even stuff like a large flash of light or lightning or sparks on draw would be an amazing plus. Oh! How about effects in addition to the assassin lightningy thing like overcharged glows OR big uncontrollable flamed blades! Like the energy’s all out of control!
Well… those are some ideas anyways. What do you guys think?
“hocky religooms and anchient weapons are no use agasnt a good blaster at your side”-han solo
Also CHAINSWORDS!!! Becase tere more “messy”
Also i hate it when people jude a game based on graphics! I mean cmon gameplay always, do many people inqnore reallly cool games becase the graphics are “ancient” the pyramids are ancient, a older viedio game is a classic not ancient! And they also do it the graphics are diffrent!
There is nothign wrong with classics! (that foes for all media)
Oh and also this is the reasos i left SWTOR
1. It was very buggy on my comouter and was not very smooth so not enjoyable
2. The player base was too diffrent everyone was not your level and guilds where too small so finding a group was a pain. Not the manual part. Becase everyone was not your level, and i am often ignored whenmi “lfg” in chat
3.wanted to save money for a warhammer 40k army
If i play another subscibe MMO it’s gonna be wow
I like both games the same buti want to wait for SWTOR to “mature” have bigger guilds from, ect
And i could not go on the bigger servers becase it was too laggy
And i hear wow was really buggy in vannila, so if i wait SWTOR will be just as smooth!
Also Big time rush -songs are kinda crappy but the comedy is very unique! (ina. Good way)
Well my final reason for wow over swtor (both awsome) this is more of a personal reason
My charter’s where not me………………..
In wow i felt like everyone of my charter’s where a small part of me, who i was and what made me tick
In swtor my charters have a great story’s but i was nothing like them
I do like chain swords! did see a special the other day about whip swords which are freakin awesome!!!
while I really like both games, I think I’m sticking more to the dark side. see, I’ve always been more of a sci-fi kinda guy, so it works well for me. plus, all those problems you mentioned are mainly cause it’s new. wow had a ton of issues at launch so maybe swtor will get better with age. but for now, I really like it. to each their own!
well… until Elder Scrolls Online comes out!!! because Bethesda owns my soul!
Honestly, that wasn’t the problem i had with the lightsabers. Instead of the deadly acient weapons of doom, they are basically wiffle bats for balance. It had to be done, as a one shot weapon which kills any non-wielder would be a tad OP, but still, it didn’t seem like they tried to hard.
this is kind of explained somewhere, both on this site (someone had a really good comment about it) and the wikis, but the lightsabers do come in varying intensities… some of the training sabers were so low powered that you could grab the “blade” and only get minor burns and bruises.
there are also materials that are lightsaber/blaster resistant (like mandalorian iron) and some cause feedback that can disable them for a short time.
so mix all that together and they become less “one shotty” with the appropriate armor and power levels.
but that’s my take on it anyways.
Also i don’t like the idea of fighting garrosh! I mean shure he’s very brash and arrogant but thrall was right all along! He DID make the horde stronger if thrall was still there it would be more horde conflict better at war with the alliance than a horde civil war! Also in the redridge story line (or somemother zone) when a horde general killed inccents he made an appearance and chewed him out, and he also does not tolerate corruption so i personally like garrosh!
If anything varrian is the one i hate!
I mean he inly think’s of war and human’s and even then he ignores people who starve in hos kingdom’s own backyard! He’s more of a hothead than garrosh and also he barley even cares about the night elvs and the gnomes!
And that is why inhope the prince will not turn out like his father!
Also I LOVE GOBLINS! Here you have a very serous world then BAM these little green men come with money beer pools and MAKE-shift tech!
The warhammer 40k ork’s are like that too with make-shift techoology that shount not even work but it does!
Are we talking about same Varian Wrynn? “The savior of Ashenwale”
He was chosen as champion by a wolf Ancient… the single Ancient which did not head call of Cenarius to convene, and attacked Burning legion in Ashenwale directly. Goldrin, or Lo´gosh… chose Varian. and filled him with fury. Same fury Worgren suffer…
With help of Genn Greymane the fury was tamed, and Varian and Genn, and Gilneans swept over Garosh´s horde and his Magnataurs in Ashenwale, forcing horde further than it was in years.
The storyline in most of Cataclysm depicts time before Alliance summit in which this was done.
Varian Wryn cares for the Alliance, but that was the problem, he cared too much and wasn´t focused… he thought that most of the problems that came to be were because of his absence when he lost his memory.
And no, prince will not turn like his father, at minimum prince is not warrior, he is gifted with using The Light, currently he joined prophet Velen to study it.
(And Well… Varian trying to persuade him to study “The light” with Benedictus in Stormwind was really funny.)
I guess there’s some use to Garrosh… even though I still don’t like him. Varok all the way!
Ah let it be… glowsticks are overated… a good sniper rifle will always do the job…
Though only an absolute moron would take the blaster sniper rifle… a rapid fire Verpine hyper-velocity railgun which fire metal pelllets is the way how to take down sith and Jedi best… even they can´t realy dodge well aimed 10 km/s bullet fired as relative surprise..
Ok that sounds like a reallly cool gun
But what about the people starving in westfall? That is what really ticks me off
Before Cataclysm when he was a slave without memory? Or after it when Alliance was in shambles? Everyone had trouble… Alliance gathered At Darnassus (it also accepted the Worgren into it´s midst there) to solve it.
Even Stormwind did not have resources to handle it that quickly.
There alliance members were pooling resources and decided where to mend things, who had food changed it for masons. Horde started to make a push…
Alliance was forced out of Hillsbrand, which put Aerie and Stromgarde in danger, Gilneas has fallen, Horde attacked Ashenwale… and was stoped five minutes before night… (Even though to quote Varian´s world to Garrosh “Horde should fear the night, because with night, come the worgren.”)
Noone willingly let Westfall to starve, but Stormwind simply did not have supplies to solve it.
Summit in Darnassus wasn´t exactly a star succes before Horde strike on Ashenvale… Varian needed to solve one particular grievance between him and Genn Greymane.
Ok you changed my opinion about varian congrats!
But i still think garrosh is cool
uhg, why do blaster bolts fire soooo slow? man, even I could dodge them!
seems like ballistics are much more useful than blaster fire.
Yeah… in The Clone wars tw series even Mandalorian guards onboard their Dutcheséss flagship seemed capable of blocking blaster bolts..
but well blaster does most damage by heat, not kinetic energy. And therefore it is very usefull in low gravity enviroment, and well, with their powercells can last for months without reloading.
hmm… very true! a ballistic in low gravity would transfer less energy and of course would toss the shooter back. I guess something like a railgun would work too… but…
you hit the nail with the heat damage! the blaster bolts don’t seem like they ever do any structural damage to the inside of ships, so if you’re in a pressurized environment, a little hole in the wall might not end well for anyone. and having a few months without refills is nice too!
so I guess that’s the tradeoff huh? slower speed but also won’t kill everyone on the ship.
It is all about the basic colors and the HILT ! I love me those Curved hilts !
Oh and also the Sound…..OH THE SOUND !
Where is my Lightsaber…GIMME NOW !
they can do some crazy awesome stuff with hilts!
check out some fanart from the forums of some amazing designs!
Weapons
Awesome SWTOR
*was supposed to say lightsabers but I got distracted…