Beta SQUADRON 367 - Iron Citadel

[Svpernova09]

SQUADRON 367 weekend beta test, PvP Server Iron Citadel Sith side, toon name: Svpernova

Look me up if you're able to get on Iron Citadel

[Multibocks]

Wish I was at home playing instead of on vacation!

[Svpernova09]

Wish I was at home playing instead of on vacation!

hahaha I actually have a lot of stuff going on IRL this weekend at our hackerspace, so I'm all packed up and going to have my desktop with me so I can sneak away and play during downtime.

[Lyonheart]

I wish the perma testers could play with you weekend testers 8(

[Crum1515]

I wish the perma testers could play with you weekend testers 8(


^^

makes me a sad panda

[Themopolis]

Someone say how their day is going. Great, good or bleh. Or perhaps someone could rate their day on a scale from 1 to 10.

[Multibocks]

The first day I was a 10, for sure. Had a blast.

[Themopolis]

Awesome Multi! Glad you're having a good day...may tomorrow be even better for ya.

[Svpernova09]

only level 3, only had time to play a little bit. Holy shit this game is going to be fun. Maybe it's because it's still zomg new, will play a good bit tomorrow so we'll see.

[Themopolis]

I'll take supernova's enthuiasm rating of 3 to be at least 4 on my boring life scale.

[shadewalker]

I'll take supernova's enthuiasm rating of 3 to be at least 4 on my boring life scale.

I think he means his character is only level 3.

[Themopolis]

Yes....I am a tard....but there is nothing wrong with that. I started drinking this organic red wine and it's messing with reality.

[TamanXXX]

Got Lvl 3 on 2 characters. Played both sides. Had to stop or I may go into withdrawal when the weekends over. I am super exited for release.

[Crum1515]

Hit 21 on the Sith Marauder, and 18 on the Sith Sorc, like 5 on the BH and 3 on the IA. I can say this game is a blast. Only one major gripe I have is when running flashpoints over and over and over and over in the beta, I seem to get a person who is doing it for the first time and they want to listen to the entire conversations when we do the multiplayer story chat. After hearing it 90000000 times it tends to make me crazy, I just skip it all and wait at the "waiting for other players" screen so i can make my choice and then wait some more for the next text block. The few times the group agree'd to skip it all it was quick, easy and a blast.

The bosses are no joke, if you do them at the level it becomes available you better have your dicks in a row. Kind of unforgiving in the first instance. There is a boss that requires the tank to kite it, while someone peels adds off and DPS's them down. Tons of AoE damage. Watching people who have never played an MMO or newbies to the game try it the first time is FUUUNNNNNNNNNNYYY :P

PvP is a riot. My test group is all over the place level wise, so they put everyone from level 10 to 50 in the same bracket and gave everyone a modified bolster buff. We all do the same damage and have the same health, only difference is the amount of skills players have dependent on their level. There are the 3 warzones, and each one is fun. Huttball makes me the angriest due to people being tards.

Game scales real well on machines, we have people in our test group playing on single core pentium D's with nvidia 9800gt's and they say they are getting 25-30 fps in the open world questing, but pvp and large cities drop frame rate a bit.

Still plenty of bugs, nothing super but what you expect to see in a game at this stage. some items have no art yet, or models, some have no name just place holders.

Sorc's are OP as 2 lesbians in a frat house in PvE when it comes to questing alone, they just never stop. Warriors are well balanced in my opinion. Marauders do not get much in the way of utility in the early levels so PvP can be frustrating if you are trying to be John Wayne.

I do not know much of the story, I skip most of the sequences when questing, not only for time saving but to save something for launch.

Hrm... I would rate my experience in the past 2 weeks of beta at 7. It would be higher, but I would say half the people in my test group are stupid asshats that have no idea what it means to be in beta and refuse to use the forums to look up issues or read FAQ's and deserve to be fisted with a hammer.

[Svpernova09]

I made it to level 7 when I had to quit. It's really, *really* good. I've only played a Sith Warrior so far and I've only done the first rounds of the quests up to the Sith Academy.

I'm really eager to play this game full time. I'd have no problem dropping WoW right now for SW:TOR. I think I'd play swtor more if I was in the longer beta, but the idea of 4 days and a character wipe, I guess I don't want to burn myself out doing the starter zone over and over.

[Oatboat]

*FIST PUMPS IN THE AIR*

Excitement rising

[Lyonheart]

There will be a mass exodus from WoW for sure.. more so than any other MMO to date. But only time will tell if it has staying power. All I can say is, even if the end game content is limited, there is replay value in playing alts like no other MMO before it. SO I'm sure most people will roll alts again and again.. The stories make it worth it. I'm not a guy who normally pays a lot of attention to VOs from quest NPCs ( EQ2 had tons of NPC quest VOs ) But this game has me listening and enjoying them.. not to mention it is how you choose to be light or dark.

[Esca]

For those of you who've had a chance to play, does the game look multi-boxable?

[jinkobi]

I was so excited when I got a message from SWTOR talking about a beta survey. Then only to find out a day later they had an email error.

I apply for every single BETA. Diablo, WOTLK, TBC, SWTOR, and I never get into a single friggen one ever.

Yes I am jealous and pissed!

[Mercbeast]

For those of you who've had a chance to play, does the game look multi-boxable?

It is MBable. Hardware only atm. Works flawlessly though.

[Crum1515]

It is MBable. Hardware only atm. Works flawlessly though.

both keyclone and isboxer load. i tested out keyclone and it worked like a champ for passing through keystrokes.

[47Savages]

HUZZAH!! That is good news!

[Mosg2]

How did ISBoxer work with passing through keyclicks? Was Keyclone able to resize and relocate the windows?