So... Star Wars The Old Republic has arrived. I missed launch week because of Xmas holidays, which was actually a good thing, as I skipped the initial bug/lag/queue fest.
My machine is holding up better than expected. Alone, it's quite playable with everything maxed up except shadows. RIFT was like that too. The problem comes when I enter a populated area, with NPC's and/or players. Then, it starts to get worse, below 20fps, ie, ugly.
I'm on target for a Core i5 2500K upgrade, but I'm still selecting components, PSU and stuff. Low noise is the culprit of my delay.
Back to gameplay. I joined forces with old Lords of Midnight guildies from Chromaggus server in WoW. They are going towards dps and tanking, so I'll go towards dps and healing, which is good.
After a long debate, I decided I won't be a bald man called Netcownt anymore. It was 5 years of looking at a bald head and neck, and it sucked. It's much nicer to watch a girl, so I went for a cyborg chick, human faced, called Netgold.
She rocks ! Well, she's a Bounty Hunter, so she better rock, and rock hard. Advantage ? I'm not a Sith at heart, and we started on the Sith side, so I couldn't see myself playing the "bad guy", although SWTOR allows Dark side and Light side decision making during quests. Bounty Hunters allow me to be mercenary, ie, do the good (or evil) because I'm paid for, not because of a Jedi or Sith mentality.
It makes a difference, LOL.
So, Netgold starts on Nal Hutta, and, as a Bounty Hunter, she quickly joins "The Big Hunt". Nesingwary keeps coming to my mind, I wonder why. If I could select a surname for my toon, she'd be Netgold Nesingwary, for sure.
Levels 1-10 are spent in Nal Hutta, preparing for the Hunt, doing shores here and there. Questing is fun, although a bit too easy, specially when I get a healing companion by level 8 or so.
There is a sense of "lots of new abilities for me to press keys, all seem to do about the same thing, ie, kill stuff".
But at the same time, some common things to other MMO show up, ie resource bar management (in my case it's called Heat, opposite to rage or.. whatever rogue had, I forgot, or hunter focus), AoE, crowd control, range abilities vs melee abilities, etc.
If I could match SWTOR with WoW, Bounty Hunter looks like a hunter. What else...
Tonight I'm leaving Nal Hutta and start exploring the outside world.
1 comment:
Hey, a reward nao desapareceu, tu ainda não a aceitaste, se vires a print screen que tens ai do inventario no canto superior direito tens algo que diz "Pending" se clicares nisso tens la a tua reward :p
Fora isso estou a adorar o jogo, esta fantastico. Quanto ao sith side, eu também preferia ser republic até ter visto o gear dos Empire players, acredita tu preferes ser empire, o gear do pessoal da republic e simplesmente hediondo. Quanto aos meus char's tou a me divertir imenso com o meu sniper, o gajo detesta os sith e sempre k pode trata-os mal e responde lhes mal :p Tou tb doido para testar bounty hunter e sith sorcerer (não tou a gostar do assassin :s)
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