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[TeaLeaf]

Not for me during 4.3. I'll be raiding 4.3 WoW guaranteed.  Any SWTOR will take a social back seat for the time being.

[Twyst]

Well, I played the game intermittently over the weekend as my internet connection allowed. This led to my biggest bug with the game. If your network connection goes down, my whole PC seems to lock up and I can't tab out. Although this could be because I was running in full screen and not windowed mode.

Anyway, my goal for the weekend was to play Juggernaut and Assassin and work out which I liked the best. I started off with the Jugg and found myself powering through the content without any major hickups or problem. The playstyle was fine and I found that provided the jugg keeps moving at steady pace there are no rage issues. However, if rage does drop off, the damage you do is quite lackluster. I tanked throughout BT and had constant agro problems against the DPS who just hit random targets. Pugs eh?

Onto the Assassin. Constant stop, start for me and many deaths. I found that because I knew the missions in the starting zone and the game more, I powered through a lot faster. But then I hit two massive walls. Blood Legacy and The Map quests, both very hard compared to the jugg. Probably a light vs medium armor thing, but I finally got through them with the help of stim packs and med kits. I also tanked throughout BT and had little agro problems, aside from when the marauder just charged blindly in as I have no charge move. The other issue that I had is that although I was Assassin tank, I kept wanting to do force lightning omg cool effect moves.

Which class will I play at launch? Well, probably the Jug as he fits in with my playstyle better I think. Although the Assassin stealth is kinda cool and I will probably level one as an alt.

Oh yeah, anyone running Intel IGP graphics needs the 11 oct driver or later. There's still a few issues, but at least the game is now playable en solo for the bit I'm doing now on my lenovo T500 work laptop. Not going to run flashpoints on it though. I even installed Windows7 in on my gaming rig just for this test where it works great. So one decision I also need to make is can I justify the cost of a Windows license as well as the game?

[Grimnar]

This game will replace wow for me, but i will be raiding in wow for at least a while. Not really sure for how long etc..  will depend on how the 4.3 raids are i think.

[Bellanie]

For me, i love this game! and yes it will replace wow for me come the new year when my game time runs out:D

Been playing a Sith warrior  - level 20 atm, and loving it. i have gone for Marauder, its fun and being able to dual wield 2 lightsabers is just pure heaven, as for crew skills i took biochem and bioanylsits, pretty much the swtor version of herbing and alc:D i love the fact that you can send your companion off to make stuff for you and you can go off questing while they are doing it.

I hope they do fix the companion bug as its really annoying running around my ship and hearing someone else's companion its making me paranoid....

but over loving the game, finding making money really easy sofar, not as bad as i thought it would be:D

on another note i like the "hearthstone" like ability but being able ti choose what point on the map you go to, and the taxi service is really handy to have.

Also tried a Sith assassin and really liking that not tried a tank or healer, and tbh dont think i will at this present time. i wonder if they are going to allow mods in game for your ui. with the UI i wish i could find a way to make it smaller than it is as i find it takes up to much of the screen. My apologys for not being on TS much but i could not hear the talk during quests.

But overall a firm 9/10 for me i am loving it and cannot wait for it to go live, thinking of cancelling my preoder and just going and picking up a copy from game/tesco etc on release as i aalready have the early access code activated on my account, but we shall see.

cheers Bell

[Twyst]

but the question now is.. will it replace WoW for you guys?

I've already made my decision and am jumping over to SWTOR. I can only afford one MMO sadly (although the wife would prefer none - lol).

[Vargen]

but the question now is.. will it replace WoW for you guys?

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...WoW is now officially obsolete...
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The short answer YES!

[Slush]

but the question now is.. will it replace WoW for you guys?

I played a little this weekend, and .. No, not yet, maybe not at all, probably not at all. Time will tell.
WoW obsolete? Mmm.. not yet, mate.

[Whitey]

but the question now is.. will it replace WoW for you guys?

Nope.  It will replace the time I level/play alts but not my raiding/levelling (when Kung Fu Panda hits) time on my main.

[Sneakytiger]

i'm 50/50 between sith inquisitor assasin or bounty hunter with dual weilding blasters.
i might have to mains will see at launch which i play most.
but love this game, it has all the things i want from a mmo and u can fly spaceships !!!

[vladic]

My personal Review, well for starters Lag was NOT an issue for myself, this may be due to different service providers or the server i chose which had either instant log in or a 5 minute que, regardless aside from one large lag spike during a dungeon that sent me through the floor of the world there were no connection or desktop issues on my end.

I started out playing a bounty hunter at around 7PM on saturday evening for about 4 hours and although initially disapointed by lack of abilities (due to my own not figuring out how to access codex add icons to map etc ), however once aquiring gadgets and abilties such as flamethrower, Rocket darts etc the Bounty hunter became a barrel of fun, stunning one inidividual attaching a dart to him and destroying entire groups of NONE elites was a wonderful experience

At ten i had a crack at the Mercenary class (DPS/healer allowed) eventually settling upon DPS (although judging by the healing abilties i aquired for myself healing as a bounty hunter would be fun due to being able to DPS during to improve some abilities ) With two blasters your DPS output is really increase (and the animations are damned awsome ) so for alot of fun Bounty Hunter I do definatly declare.

I attempted a sith warrior briefly however its obvious similarity to Vladic (I STAB YOU!!!) my warrior was slightly off putting due to having played melee roles exclusivly for around 5 years, however i got to around level 8 and still found them to be exceptional fun so for melee lovers, warriors are up your street.

Mission wise (these arnt quests ) I found them to be exceptionally enjoyable especially the class specific story that is told around you, the fact that your choices affect your future although im assuming this doesnt kick in till later, made me actually think of my choices plus the voice acting added to the immersion and depth you actually felt, as lets face it in WoW you just didnt care what you killed, where as having a child beg you not to kill his father in his own voice with tears was amazing (I still shot him )

Star wars wise, the game covers all the bases, epic dialogue, star wars feel, weaponry and tactics are believable for the universe and as a previous SWG player who saw his game get raped by the corporate butchers known as SOE, this is definatly a far cry from the horror that game became and is an excellent addition to the KOTOR universe

[Gorion]

Loved it, it has more of an actual rpg feel than an mmo.  Loved KOTOR, loved this one more.  Was reading that a single game chapter (total of has more content that a KOTOR game.

Add the modern gfx, and grouping and you have TOR.

WoW is going to be taking a massive hit to it's subscriber amounts, and it's pretty obvious since they are releasing pandas now.

[Gortex]

Like a lot of fellow DMW members I pre-installed and logged in on Friday with a massive expectation to have my little world set alight by the wonders of Mr Lucas world. I then was disappointed within the first 5 minutes of logging in and finding only one English server and my place in the cue over 7000 and people on comms around 1500, found myself saying see this is what happens when you let EA try to do anything with a good game. Someone on comms then piped up and mentioned there were 3 other English servers available (better late than never I guess) and that he was in the cue but with a very low number, so I decided to jump ship and go try another server and my number changed from 7000+ to about 600. Needless to say ended up logging in before most of the others on TS and thought I would open up the press to talk button and treat them all to the Starwars entry music and what they would soon be enjoying. Strangely this was not taken very well and was received with much cursing and will cut you with my saber attitude.

Once in was treated the delights of picking the character that I would play first in the game and was interested to see that of the 4 races available for each class had different attributes and something that would be worth looking into in detail later. I went for a blue skinned bounty hunter (class chosen about 6 months ago) and went into the starting video which I was highly impressed with.

I ended up playing 6 classes (yes that did include 3 Jedi toons) and got all to level 5 with my highest to level 13 (I think) which was rolled on the server with everyone else following the day out Sat with the rugby. But rather go into too much detail and spoil it for everyone not part of the beta will keep my review to good and bad points of the game.

Good Points.
-   Main character quest line is different with all classes and really makes you feel part of the story but also independent to your class.
-   Character interaction was perfect and much better than wow
-   Dark/Light side at first confused me and is not always easy to work out but really is good for helping role the toon you want it to be.
-   Crew skills, lots to choose from and more in-depth than the wow professions.
-   Video quest lines are much more fun and enjoyable than having to read page after page of quests.
-   Voice over’s really helped set the ambiance of the game.
-   Music first rate and found myself humming along while doing a quest.
-   No auto attacking a target meaning you have to actually tell your character to fight and how to fight enhances the experience.
-   Lock button on the action bars and no hunting through setup for the unlock option each time.
-   Ability to enhance your weapons, armour and equipment. Personalise and change stuff so not every toon running around look the same.
-   Companion for all classes not just hunters.
-   Sending companions off to get resources rather than just follow you around all the time.
-   Companion interaction and influence. The admiration bar and how much they like you, adds to the experience of character personalisation.
-   Worlds looked very cool and in some cases beautiful. Attention to detail was excellent.
-   The Hearth Stone being set to all locations visited rather than just one helps save time.
-   Depth of information through the logs about everything you come across is vast and if can be bothered to read it all adds more information and insite to the characters, areas and point of the game.
-   Respawning when dead not from a spirit healer on the other side of the map, was able to resurrect back on the spot I died.
-   Size of the cites and cool touches to detail.
-   Lightsabers are very. very cool. But so is duel blasters.


Bad Points.
-   Map very confusing
-   Map only showing one vendor type at a time.
-   Graphics not that sharp (I am aware this was beta).
-   Line of Site had a mind on it’s own with me not being able to target and shoot something but there blaster shots going through the wall.
-   Groups & Flashpoint quest video section confusing and ended up just following others with no real idea what was going on or what I needed to do.
-   PVP not level capped into groups (getting owned by level 34 players when am level 11).
-   When taking a shuttle ride from planet to planet not being able to quite the cut seen of ship taking off. (cool the first 2 times but really annoying after this
-   After first play through can see some of the video cut scenes becoming boring.
-   While on comms had to keep taking headset off to listen and watch the video scenes. More than once did not hear what the person told me and ended up losing admiration points with my companion.
-   Flashpoints reminded me of dungeon runs in Dungeons and Dragons MMO which EA did and was a failure of a game.
-   Limit of choice in stature of creating character and on each class only being able to be limited race (might change in full game)

Overview.

On the whole I loved the game and can see it taking over from wow as the MMO I play (not running 2 monthly subscriptions at same time). The main thing I really liked was the effort put into character interaction and how you can model it to exactly how you want them to be. I always found that wow never really let you play it how you wanted to and were held back by blizzard. The only other MMO that came close to this was Lord of the Rings where it’s one massive selling point other than the fame of  the story was how you could really interact with your character and make it different to others around you. I also loved how things you did changed the out come of other things around you for the good or bad. For example how it affects you companion which can have a big effect on the gathering of materials and helpfulness they are to you when fighting an enemy.

I know some people did not get on with the video cut scenes and how long it was taking to go through the story line but I for one very much enjoyed it and made for a nice change of having to go off all the time to kill 10 of these or 20 of this and actually interact with the game. And when I did have to do a quest like that it gave me the story as to why I should do it which made the grind more bearable. I always end up levelling slower to others as like really getting everything out of the game the first time round and getting involved rather than racing to be first to the top and then going back and seeing it again and I think missing part of the fun. This I know is a personal thing and not everyone’s choice but I am so pleased that the game seems to give the same thoughts as that and encourages me to be part of it and my toon.

This is an excellent game and would recommend it to anyone and can not wait till the release date.

May the force be with you…………

[KKND]

Nice reading and very good info cheers.

[Gorion]

Pressing space will skip any dialogue and/or videos/planet leaving scenes.

[Grimnar]

Well i had not much time to play SW this weekend but i managed to get some playing time today and started up a Jedi knight and really loved it. One thing i really have to add is that i liked the republic story way more then the sith one.
I had fun on Sith side that was for sure but i got a bit amased on how the story is on the Republic is.

The only downside i found today about this beta was that the respawntimers where insane, a few times i had to wait around 5 min for a mob to respawn.....
That was the only thing i didn't like apart from the loads of server restarts etc.

They fixed alot of bugs since last beta weekend.