There's actually lore that force users can be overcome by non force users in the books and especially in the old republic series, so this won't break canon. There is specific armor to deflect force powers by gemming them with force crystals, as there are weapons like vibroblades that are somehow charged to deflect lightsabers. So I can't imagine the nonforce users would be a waste of time as a class, on the contrary, I can see them being very effective.
Since the bounty hunters will be long range dps I can see them being similar to mages in wow, stun, move back, dps, rinse and repeat. Smugglers are more likely to be a support class and I have a feeling in a pvp arena, may be at a disadvantage due to their reliance on cover etc.
It's all speculation at this moment. I do feel there will be nerfs and ability adjustments made as the game progresses, and that can be good and bad. If they can keep the patches flowing at a reasonable pace much like warhammer and not like WoW (where a class could be broken for months at a time) I can deal with it.
I am concerned with jedi vs sith options but I would assume based on prior MMOs that bioware has learned that different abilities for different factions increases the development time two fold. WoW is probably the best example of what happens when you have 2 factions with 2 different sets of abilities, look at the shaman vs paladin debates from years ago.
I am figuring that we will see a lot of "grey sith" and "grey jedi" healers. (think chaotic evil, chaotic good)
Meaning; we will see a lot of more neutral balanced healers to kind of level the playing field in end game. Sith will be less likely to be all lovey dovey and jedi will be more likely to be evil in some circumstances.
I would see this playing out a bit in the sith warrior/jedi knight area as well. Since kotr allowed you to basically build your toon as evil or good as you want, I'd expect to see pretty much good sith inquistors as well as good jedi consulars, and on the other hand very evil jedi knights as well as very evil sith warriors.
It's all about threat so I'd assume they work towards either reducing that threat or making it much higher. Being evil tends to = more damage in most MMOs (and very much in the kotr world) so we will have to wait and see if that's the case here.
currently, I'm preparing for this MMO more than I have in the past.
I already have forums set up where some of my friends can discuss guild/clan/party configurations and loot systems. We are already discussing lightsaber building, quest groups, times to get together etc.
We are going over the old KOTR games to figure out what crafting items will be available in game and who will craft what.
I only have a few folks atm that are all real life friends working on this, but we are very serious about this MMO.
I am glad bioware is taking their time with this, we need more companies to get it right in the beginning. I don't want to be an MMO game tester and have all my abilities nerfed within a month of release.
I have held off from being an early adopter of games to the increase in bugs. I rarely purchase a game at release but wait a couple of weeks to a few months to verify the game is going to work out of the box as intended, or if it won't at least a patch will be out when I get it.
It is unfortunate as I don't believe I'm the only one. How many of you hold off on purchases for this reason?
On my server currently, if a person uses the new looking for group tool to get a random instance, there is an error where you get "too many instances are running try again". Well this locks you out of using the random LFG tool for 15 minutes and you don't get into the instance.
Once you leave group, you get a 15 minute debuff preventing you from getting into another group.
I hope you all can see where this is going.
It has made the game unplayable. I'm buying an FPS and just playing that for a week or two, there's no point to even trying to log onto WoW until they fix this.
nope,you're not alone, I didn't buy into it either. My roommate has bought it for xbox 360, but I really hate FPS on the 360 so I will stand strong beside you and forever boycott this game. . .
woot! I've been cheering for Armadillo for a long time, hopefully we can prevent the first strogg attack if they can gain pace and get the number 1 spot soon.
I know for a fact Quake 3 had a dedicated server, I ran one on linux for years, I'm pretty sure Q2 had one, but I haven't played it in like a decade. . .
This is a great example of open source really helping humanity learn new and interesting things.
It's great to see that the tools provided by open software can really help speed up research.
I wonder what would happen if old versions of adobe photoshop, 3ds max, or cubase were left to open source for research purposes. What kind of discoveries would scientists make with programs like these?
I have 2 cousins who are deaf. They have been using smart phones for a long time rather than TTY devices. In addition, they are all over the net as a means of communication.
They have always paid for this out of pocket. Amazingly, they never had insurance companies to pay for their TTY devices in the first place (those devices cost around 400 bucks about twenty years ago) so I think they are happy just paying for a cheaper service.
I think getting closed captioning added to all televisions was the biggest savings for them. I know my aunt and uncle paid about 20 bucks a month or so and a couple hundred bucks up front for closed captioning devices about 20 years ago.
I'm not sure what insurance you would have that would have paid for these things in the past. I'm sure there are some plans, but honestly, for most 'normal' folks without great insurance plans, these things were just expenses that everyone paid for and just looked at as part of the expense of raising a child, no different than medicine, food, and clothing.
My great grandfather was feeling like that and never had anyone to talk to so a great uncle of mine sat down and had him record stories from back in the day to tape.
He came over every weekend and just talked about the good old days. These are all recorded at my grandmothers house. We've sat back and listened to these years later and it gives you a really great perspective on your late relatives, and as I get older, I get some of the adult inferences I missed when I first heard the recordings as a child.
Maybe something like that, giving him something to contribute, would make him wake up and realize he's got stuff to do everyday that's important.
You know, your story is almost exactly like mine. I set up a bnetd server to play with my friends and when bnetd got shut down, we eventually quit playing starcraft.
I wonder how many others have had the same experience.
I am not at all surprised in the numbers. Every person I've known who has had a 360 has had it die.
Mine just died last week.
I also read a lot of people wouldn't hesitate to buy the next iteration, I am very hesitant.
I won't buy another next gen console until at least a year after it coming out to determine the failure rate, as this has really made me cautious. I know that MS was nice enough to extend warranties on the 3 red rings deal, but what happens when they decide not to next time?
I always wondered about this CO2 worry. As long as we have enough plants to process it and we aren't pumping poison we shouldn't drastically change the atmosphere, at least thats what I always thought.
Since the article is talking about scientists studying pedestrian traffic, they have no data on the effect crashes have on the slow down.
We know that people walking in a confined section of sidewalk acting like jerks keeps the flow of traffic moving, but this does not really apply to vehicles since they cannot add in a few variables such as crashes from being too close, crashes from changing lanes in front of others etc.
I think the article title is misleading (not the slashdot headline, but the actual article title) as it describes driving, when the research was clearly geared towards pedestrians.
I know that I didn't pick up Assassins Creed as I played it at a buddies house and was disappointed, Splinter Cell games bore the hell out of me, and honestly are frustrating at a lot of points. Brothers in Arms? no thanks. Far Cry 2? Well after the decision by the developers not to patch Crysis anymore I kind of stopped buying their games. . .
I mean seriously, there's a pile of cluster fucks in that list of games, the ones I mentioned were the "popular" games, but there's piles of shit in there.
Who the hell wants to play Caesar Milan's The Dog Whisperer? I mean. . . really? (okay maybe some people liked it, poor wretched souls they are)
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There's actually lore that force users can be overcome by non force users in the books and especially in the old republic series, so this won't break canon. There is specific armor to deflect force powers by gemming them with force crystals, as there are weapons like vibroblades that are somehow charged to deflect lightsabers. So I can't imagine the nonforce users would be a waste of time as a class, on the contrary, I can see them being very effective.
Since the bounty hunters will be long range dps I can see them being similar to mages in wow, stun, move back, dps, rinse and repeat. Smugglers are more likely to be a support class and I have a feeling in a pvp arena, may be at a disadvantage due to their reliance on cover etc.
It's all speculation at this moment. I do feel there will be nerfs and ability adjustments made as the game progresses, and that can be good and bad. If they can keep the patches flowing at a reasonable pace much like warhammer and not like WoW (where a class could be broken for months at a time) I can deal with it.
I am concerned with jedi vs sith options but I would assume based on prior MMOs that bioware has learned that different abilities for different factions increases the development time two fold. WoW is probably the best example of what happens when you have 2 factions with 2 different sets of abilities, look at the shaman vs paladin debates from years ago.
I am figuring that we will see a lot of "grey sith" and "grey jedi" healers. (think chaotic evil, chaotic good)
Meaning; we will see a lot of more neutral balanced healers to kind of level the playing field in end game. Sith will be less likely to be all lovey dovey and jedi will be more likely to be evil in some circumstances.
I would see this playing out a bit in the sith warrior/jedi knight area as well. Since kotr allowed you to basically build your toon as evil or good as you want, I'd expect to see pretty much good sith inquistors as well as good jedi consulars, and on the other hand very evil jedi knights as well as very evil sith warriors.
It's all about threat so I'd assume they work towards either reducing that threat or making it much higher. Being evil tends to = more damage in most MMOs (and very much in the kotr world) so we will have to wait and see if that's the case here.
currently, I'm preparing for this MMO more than I have in the past.
I already have forums set up where some of my friends can discuss guild/clan/party configurations and loot systems. We are already discussing lightsaber building, quest groups, times to get together etc.
We are going over the old KOTR games to figure out what crafting items will be available in game and who will craft what.
I only have a few folks atm that are all real life friends working on this, but we are very serious about this MMO.
I am glad bioware is taking their time with this, we need more companies to get it right in the beginning. I don't want to be an MMO game tester and have all my abilities nerfed within a month of release.
I have held off from being an early adopter of games to the increase in bugs. I rarely purchase a game at release but wait a couple of weeks to a few months to verify the game is going to work out of the box as intended, or if it won't at least a patch will be out when I get it.
It is unfortunate as I don't believe I'm the only one. How many of you hold off on purchases for this reason?
this is not the case, the consequence is time and inconvenience
On my server currently, if a person uses the new looking for group tool to get a random instance, there is an error where you get "too many instances are running try again". Well this locks you out of using the random LFG tool for 15 minutes and you don't get into the instance.
Once you leave group, you get a 15 minute debuff preventing you from getting into another group.
I hope you all can see where this is going.
It has made the game unplayable. I'm buying an FPS and just playing that for a week or two, there's no point to even trying to log onto WoW until they fix this.
nope,you're not alone, I didn't buy into it either. My roommate has bought it for xbox 360, but I really hate FPS on the 360 so I will stand strong beside you and forever boycott this game. . .
--just like I've done with Steam in general
o_0
woot! I've been cheering for Armadillo for a long time, hopefully we can prevent the first strogg attack if they can gain pace and get the number 1 spot soon.
dedicated server means - "a server run as a service not as a client"
if you are talking about company run servers, then specify this
I know for a fact Quake 3 had a dedicated server, I ran one on linux for years, I'm pretty sure Q2 had one, but I haven't played it in like a decade. . .
This is a great example of open source really helping humanity learn new and interesting things.
It's great to see that the tools provided by open software can really help speed up research.
I wonder what would happen if old versions of adobe photoshop, 3ds max, or cubase were left to open source for research purposes. What kind of discoveries would scientists make with programs like these?
what they failed to mention to the terrorists is that these virgins all play world of warcraft and have an affinity for cheetos and mountain dew. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
There are some in congress attempting to institute this policy once more.
Counter Strike, it's serious business
I have 2 cousins who are deaf. They have been using smart phones for a long time rather than TTY devices. In addition, they are all over the net as a means of communication.
They have always paid for this out of pocket. Amazingly, they never had insurance companies to pay for their TTY devices in the first place (those devices cost around 400 bucks about twenty years ago) so I think they are happy just paying for a cheaper service.
I think getting closed captioning added to all televisions was the biggest savings for them. I know my aunt and uncle paid about 20 bucks a month or so and a couple hundred bucks up front for closed captioning devices about 20 years ago.
I'm not sure what insurance you would have that would have paid for these things in the past. I'm sure there are some plans, but honestly, for most 'normal' folks without great insurance plans, these things were just expenses that everyone paid for and just looked at as part of the expense of raising a child, no different than medicine, food, and clothing.
Here's a suggestion. . .
My great grandfather was feeling like that and never had anyone to talk to so a great uncle of mine sat down and had him record stories from back in the day to tape.
He came over every weekend and just talked about the good old days. These are all recorded at my grandmothers house. We've sat back and listened to these years later and it gives you a really great perspective on your late relatives, and as I get older, I get some of the adult inferences I missed when I first heard the recordings as a child.
Maybe something like that, giving him something to contribute, would make him wake up and realize he's got stuff to do everyday that's important.
You know, your story is almost exactly like mine. I set up a bnetd server to play with my friends and when bnetd got shut down, we eventually quit playing starcraft.
I wonder how many others have had the same experience.
I am not at all surprised in the numbers.
Every person I've known who has had a 360 has had it die.
Mine just died last week.
I also read a lot of people wouldn't hesitate to buy the next iteration, I am very hesitant.
I won't buy another next gen console until at least a year after it coming out to determine the failure rate, as this has really made me cautious. I know that MS was nice enough to extend warranties on the 3 red rings deal, but what happens when they decide not to next time?
I always wondered about this CO2 worry. As long as we have enough plants to process it and we aren't pumping poison we shouldn't drastically change the atmosphere, at least thats what I always thought.
maybe artists should make albums with more than 1 good song?
isn't that why they invented domain controllers?
careful now. . .
You should have posted this under AC, you might just have federal agents at your door!
on the brightside, I'm sure the weight loss you've experienced has given you a greater amount of self esteem!
j/k
Since the article is talking about scientists studying pedestrian traffic, they have no data on the effect crashes have on the slow down.
We know that people walking in a confined section of sidewalk acting like jerks keeps the flow of traffic moving, but this does not really apply to vehicles since they cannot add in a few variables such as crashes from being too close, crashes from changing lanes in front of others etc.
I think the article title is misleading (not the slashdot headline, but the actual article title) as it describes driving, when the research was clearly geared towards pedestrians.
The following WIKI page lists all of Ubisofts games, I challenge folks to find any great games that were released in the past year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubisoft_games
I know that I didn't pick up Assassins Creed as I played it at a buddies house and was disappointed, Splinter Cell games bore the hell out of me, and honestly are frustrating at a lot of points. Brothers in Arms? no thanks. Far Cry 2? Well after the decision by the developers not to patch Crysis anymore I kind of stopped buying their games. . .
I mean seriously, there's a pile of cluster fucks in that list of games, the ones I mentioned were the "popular" games, but there's piles of shit in there.
Who the hell wants to play Caesar Milan's The Dog Whisperer? I mean. . . really? (okay maybe some people liked it, poor wretched souls they are)