I'm so excited for Huttball, especially after watching the gameplay video from Gamescom. It just looks so fun! The Alderaan warzone looks pretty cool too, even though most people don't seem too excited about it. From what I've seen of the map, I think it'll be interesting. I'm sure I'll spend a ton of time PvPing.

I still haven't decided what class I'm going to roll first. For a while I was thinking Jedi Knight, and now I'm seriously considering a trooper (big guns, explosions, and Jennifer Hale as the female trooper voice? Yes please!). Although, after seeing the Huttball gameplay, I'm also considering a smuggler - that flashbang + groin kick was seriously great. Eventually I'll level every class, it's just so hard to figure out which to do first (or maybe that's just me).

I am posting this thread to see who is as amped up as I am for the upcoming release of SWTOR. By the time comes out I hope to get to know my fellow Star Wars lovers more and hopefully craft an elite team with which to PVP and quest with.

As my staus says at the moment I can't wait to play Huttball. That is the single coolest PVP warzone I have seen ever!

I plan on starting off with a Gunslinging Smuggler. This is for two reasons. The first being that Han Solo is my hero just for the fact that he can run with Jedi but never has to live up to their high standards. He gets the job done! The second reason is due to gaming logistics. Let's face it everyone at some point has wanted to be Jedi and I am sure a good majority of the starting players are doing just that.

So hit me up in this thread or private messages to get to know me more and I look forward to playing this game with everyone!

-Kevin

"Smugglers make every shot count, because they never know when it'll be their last."

Lucky I have all of the romance I need in my life. I also am fortunate that my fiance' wants to play this game with me. To those who aren't as lucky yet I say play the game as you would any game.

Would you stop playing Zelda just because you rescue a princess and not a prince...even though the elf man is clearly gay? No.

May the Force be with us all!

-Kevin

They've certainly created an issue out of this. It does seem odd to go to the effort of introducing romance and then only allowing it in restricted ways.

The trouble is, if they are really reluctant, but later bow to demand, I can half imagine them saying "oh alright we'll introduce it, but only on these servers."

Will avoiding romance completely effect the gameplay? Would it place your character at a disadvantage?

Great job, Brandon! So professional and I'm totally jealous.

Planning on starting out with a Jedi of some kind then maybe roll a Smuggler. Sith for the Force Lightning has me drooling though.

Being that I have an incurable case of altitis, I'll be playing an agent (purely for the spiffy ship), the trooper and the bounty hunter.

It rather bothers me that you are assigned a ship and a side based on your class. I would rather like to be a bounty hunter that works for whomever pays the most, republic or sith. I wouldn't mind playing a rank and file trooper in the sith empire's army, and it would be nifty to consider that the empire also has the equivalent of agents. I also rather think that, as a smuggler, one would be outside of both sides. Instead we have smugglers who... what, smuggle for the republic? (Unlike the little video they released of the smuggler being held by the jedi for suspicion of smuggling.) It boggles me that we don't have a group of aligned classes that allow you to choose a side and then the non-aligned classes (bounty hunter and smuggler) that operate outside of the conflict (outside, yet affected by).

I really really liked this latest episode, though I'm beginning to wonder if they're going a bit over the top with all of the love scenes. I suppose that, since they're on a pay channel, they're going a bit bananas with it; but just because you can doesn't necessarily mean you should.

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Those people in the incinerator could have been people who have broken their necks or have suffered extreme brain damage which normally would kill them but has now just turned them into vegetables.

They would just be vegetables, yet aware of everything. Horrible thought

Early on they established that there was "brain death" when the woman whose husband kept strangling her over and over turned her into a vegetable. The biggest problem I have with that is that they also established that, even after being separated from the body, people's cells aren't dying. If cells aren't dying, then the lack of oxygen to the brain or lack of blood to the brain should not be causing a vegetative state, they made that clear enough when they cut snap crackle and pop's head off. He'd long since lost all the blood in his body, as well as suffered enough of a shockwave to liquefy his brain; but he was clearly not in a vegetative state. As I said previously, normally I don't like to nitpick Doctor Who or Torchwood, but something about this series just begs me to. (The only other time I'd ever nitpicked either was with the Cyber-woman episode of Torchwood, which was just so silly it beggared belief.)

Aldente, thank you! I'll check that sight out and like others have said I'll probably create one of each evetually. :)

A smuggler who is a healer,,,I'm liking that. :) I eventually end up playing a healer - WoW - Holy Priest, Rift - Warden.

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one where he is on his cell phone

I'm surprised there were not more of these, considering how much I was on it >

Jedi Guardian :) I wish I could dual saber but I'll live with just one...until I make an alt...or two or three or four etc..

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one where he is on his cell phone

I'm surprised there were not more of these, considering how much I was on it >

I've also posted a couple of pictures in my Vegas album on Facebook of Brandon. One is him talking to Adam, one of the co-founders of Creation Entertainment (who put on the convention) and one where he is on his cell phone and William Shatner is walking right behind him! Of course, there are other photos in the album as well hahaha

Bradley Barbour is the name to look for. Request me as a friend if you need to :)

I'm thinking of trying a Trooper on Jedi side but I'm sticking with Inquisitor on Sith side, I love my force lightning! I'm hoping the Trooper will have some good abilities to make up for the lack of force and lightsaber, but I think I want to play all classes eventually just so I can get all I can from the game.

Episode 358 - Deep Space Nine - "The Way of the Warrior, Part 1" - 10/02/1995

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=3401

A Klingon fleet arrives on its way to expand the Klingon Empire in the face of the Dominion threat, and Worf is brought to DS9 to negotiate.

Enjoy!

Girl romance only.......I'd rather kiss a Wookie!

Not very forward thinking, which is a shame for such a big franchise.

Will I keep playing after a month? This guys attitude doesn't make me want to to be honest.

the world (chuckles)

I will be on for earlier access as well. I've already prepped my boss to be ready for last minute leave requests. :)

First: I always believe you should play something you will enjoy since your shelling out dollars to play.

I originally started out thinking about smuggler. Who wouldn't love the fastest ship in the fleet and umm..your own big hairy companion. woof In one vid the smuggler was the grp healer? What the heck? I wonder if they are doing away with healing classes and letting you pick up items to heal your grp with?

But of course I watched several vids from the official website and started liking the trooper. Wowzers they have big guns! :silly: Seriously they do pack a mean punch with their weapons and armor.

Question. In the vids I was watching troopers tend to be the tanks of any grp. Is that the general idea behind them or maybe it was just the few vids I was watching?

Release is a few months away so I guess there is still time. By release I'll probably change my mind again.

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It may be that they've decided to shy away from that sort of negative publicity, but it still leaves me to wonder why they decided to go this route rather than the easier path of simply not including romantic subplots in the story line. All of the major Bioware games include romance story lines, so perhaps they couldn't just leave it out of this one?

I don't think this is the case at all. As I mentioned in my earlier post, the Executive Producer on Mass Effect 3 has confirmed that for the first time in the series' history, at least ONE male same-sex relationship will be possible (female on female has always been possible).

Given the statement they made (linked elsewhere in the Stonewall Forumes) to the homophobes complaining about DA2, and the fact that they are finally including the SS relationship in ME3 tells me they aren't shying away from the issue.

Again, purely my mind seeking reason, but I wonder if the fact that they ultimately answer to LucasArts has anything to do with it.

Oh Brandon, you lucky, lucky man :woohoo: