Got a chance to play in the Star Wars: The Old Republic beta this weekend. While, what Im about to post is technically breaking the beta agreement, I dont think its anything too 'spoiling'.
Any of you interested? Its a great game - very much WoW in the Star Wars universe in my opinion, but I thought WoW was great too until I lost interest - not to mention the last I heard, there were well over 6 million paying customers. Hard to beat that right?
Anyway, the game is playing great right now (due out Dec 20th here in the States). I had a few minor crashes to desktop, and minor lag in a few places, but my laptop is older (5 or 6 years?) and it ran the game fine (I did have to turn the graphics settings down a bit, but not too much). It could easily be released today, and it would be fine.
I was pressing Prt Scrn like crazy (most games have a screenshot folder), but sadly, much to my chagrin, that isnt implemented yet. These are just a few that I manged to put in MS Paint and save.
Without further ado:
I played as Raptoria, the Twilek Sith Inquisitor, and quit when I got my lightsaber around level 10. She seemed pretty gimp as far as damage goes, and she had no healing powers yet. Cool class though - a Sith Sorcerer, one of the advanced classes of the Inquisitor would be Darth Sidious.
Next up was Kale, the Zabrak Imperial Agent. The IA brings some pretty heavy firepower. I was easily finishing off groups of mobs that were at my level, taking very little damage (with one shot, maybe 2). The IA also brings darts, grenades, and the technological might of the Empire.
Nemro the Hutt's cantina
I had originally planned on playing this game as a Bounty Hunter (who wouldnt want to pretend to be Boba Fett????) but after my time with the IA, im not sure thats the way its gonna go. Ill be playing in the next round of beta testing - ill have to give the BH a go then.







Looks damn good.
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