tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post651339287843928947..comments2024-03-26T20:47:12.919+00:00Comments on Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog: Star Wars Celebration + A Giveaway (Closed)Shintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-7923404709798090242019-04-14T11:02:44.345+01:002019-04-14T11:02:44.345+01:00Thanks for your comments, everyone! I will now clo...Thanks for your comments, everyone! I will now close the comments on this post (as we <i>know</i> what to expect from 6.0 now! :D) and will announce the winner of the time code shortly after.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-91393196037723617452019-04-13T11:57:10.413+01:002019-04-13T11:57:10.413+01:00Well, I can't say that anyone's ever compa...Well, I can't say that anyone's ever compared me to Salma Hayek before! Thank you very much for your kind words though; to be honest I was so abashed when I first saw your comment that I wasn't sure how to respond. I completely get that feeling of community members contributing to your experience even if you don't know them personally - after all I did just spend a lot of time gushing about Swtorista's contributions in the last few posts. You shouldn't have to worry either, as at this point I'm pretty sure I'm going to be around and writing about SWTOR until they turn the servers off (hopefully not for a long time)!Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-40007730006691200302019-04-12T22:10:58.545+01:002019-04-12T22:10:58.545+01:00Inspired by „A Love Letter to Odessen Proving Grou...Inspired by „A Love Letter to Odessen Proving Grounds“<br /><br />A Love Letter to Shintar (long overdue)<br /><br />Dear Shintar,<br /><br />i don't know, if you experienced it yourself...but most certainly you witnessed this phenomenon at least on other persons...friends...maybe even family members.<br /><br />Most commonly you see it in conjunction with singers or actors. It starts with the role they play, the song they perform, the lyrics, or just with a smile. They are good looking. Confident. After a while you read an article in a newspaper about them. You listen to an interview they gave. And before you realise it, you are a fan. You collect bits and pieces from different sources and add some of your own imagination what this famous people might be like in real life....and suddenly you developed a full-grown celebrity crush. Like my sister had a crush on Brad Pitt, ever since she saw him in Meet Joe Black. I am a more simple man...sometimes there is no real explanation why you like someone. It's just a miracle. For me it was Salma Hayek (From Dusk Till Dawn). After all these years i can't quite figure it out why i have a crush on her. Mysterious. But back to my subject....<br /><br />Shintar.<br /><br />I have a confession to make.<br /><br />I don't know what you do in real life, i don't know if you are pouring your milk in the bowl before your cereals, i don't even know how you look like...but...i put the bits and pieces from your blog and youtube channel together, added a little imagination to it and here you are...you are my celebrity crush.<br /><br />And so the circle closes...what i really want for the next SWTOR expansion? I want you. I want you to be there. I want you to play it. I want you to blog about it.<br /><br />After almost six years playing this game beside you...well technically i'm on a different server, and our characters never met...but you get, what i want to say...after all these years, you are a very important part in my swtor experience. I just can't imagine to dive into new adventures in this game, without reading about your insights a day later.<br /><br />So...please Shintar...promise me, you will be there.<br /><br />Warmly...your fan.<br /><br />P.S. and if this whole marriage thing isn't yours...call me...like my 10 year old niece is waiting for Tom Hiddlestons call<br />P.S.S. just in case...because it's is mathematically possible...are you in, when it comes to a three-way-relationship with Salma Hayek?<br /><br />Joke aside. I really appreciate your work. I hope i made you smile. See you in your next blogpost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-26936380889879710502019-04-11T14:45:52.806+01:002019-04-11T14:45:52.806+01:00For solo players like me, 6.0 should be stuffed to...For solo players like me, 6.0 should be stuffed to the gills with story content! The kind of story content that shows our characters hatching the master plans, and NPC's having to react to what "we're" doing. Also like to see them use our alliance in the story. The fact that we're a third faction has some interesting angles to be explored. Would also like to see more "The commander leading his troops into battle" moments like the start of KOTET chapter 1.<br /><br />I'll also join the grand chorus of players saying that we're over the the whole "random" thing. Especially the kind of weighted random stuff that results in getting 12 of the wrong type of relics in a row! We're not feeling the thrill of that hunt!<br /><br />To be fair RNG could be a good part of a larger system. A system where you're accruing some type of currency, but buying a complete set of gear with that currency would be a grind. With the RNG giving you "free" gear to save you from the grind, it could be a positive experience. As someone with a lot of alts, I actually need more gear than Bioware thinks I do, so stop being so stingy!<br /><br />Bonus points if you could design a system where playing alts doesn't halt your progress. The current system rewards you for focusing on one and only one character, forget the alts. Alts are fun to play though, and encouraging alts will result in more time logged into the game. In game time logged seems to be important to the developers, so make it happen!<br /><br />Verik, Republic Star Forge.The Nicksternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-78084483482962034522019-04-11T05:20:53.284+01:002019-04-11T05:20:53.284+01:00I'm just happy that they're going to be do...I'm just happy that they're going to be doing something with SWTOR. After Anthem, I was more than a bit concerned that EA was going to simply break up Bioware and absorb it into the EA brand.<br />Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-25256097399856799072019-04-11T00:02:48.631+01:002019-04-11T00:02:48.631+01:00Thanks for this Shin!
A big hope for 6.0 is:
Mor...Thanks for this Shin!<br /><br />A big hope for 6.0 is:<br /><br />More group stuff: be that story in terms groups being able to do story stuff again with each other, more flashpoints (maybe with a new storyline, I know hoping for a lot there), raids of course with hopefully a challenging yet interesting new boss (maybe like TFB).<br /><br />More story stuff: Ossus in some parts very tutorial-y, the story was interesting but the way you interacted with the world was not and it really set you up to do the grind of dailies, some will find okay, others like myself find mind numbly boring.<br /><br />Outfit designer: I find this one of the best features in the game, yet it is lacking in some areas. One big gripe I have with the outfit designer which I really hope they intro to 6.0 is adding weapons to it. Yes you can have most weapons as your actual weapon, but to quote Katy Perry<br />“[I] change your mind like a girl changes clothes”. I want to change my weapon without having to pull everything out, it's not fun.<br /><br />Gear Grind: I don't mind doing dailies on Ossus it's boring but it wastes time that I could have been productive so it works there, the major major gripe is box system... No no no no no... I'm a pretty casual player, but doing all the dailies then getting the same relic I've been getting all week, no thanks. So Bioware, please no RNG business with the next lot of gear, pretty please.<br /><br /><br />Judid, Republic, Darth MalgusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-58659926036787319972019-04-10T18:45:04.919+01:002019-04-10T18:45:04.919+01:00Ossus, despite its short story, kept me entertaine...Ossus, despite its short story, kept me entertained for 75+ hours across several alts. It got me to sub for a month even though I didn't need to. It got me back into the habit of playing regularly and whilst I'm no longer subbed I am levelling a new main and playing more now than I have for several years.<br /><br />So my hope for 6.0 is that I give them more money and that I'm very happy to do so. As for details, I'm avoiding speculation. I don't want to build a mental view of my perfect expansion, that's a sure way to be disappointed. Having said that I do hope that Kira returns in a satisfying way and, like Ossus, once the story is done there is plenty to keep me entertained.<br /><br />Forztr, Republic, Darth MalgusForztrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04273404405220230198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-35823856588026546252019-04-09T15:50:35.585+01:002019-04-09T15:50:35.585+01:00I have some hope since the Ossus update allowed me...I have some hope since the Ossus update allowed me to group up... but mostly because I talked to the devs at one of the Cantina events about it and they said it was something they would do more of and are aware people play together. <br /><br />Not that they are that believable but it fuels some hope :PYamirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02988070387880505549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-56753042923688175502019-04-09T14:31:11.642+01:002019-04-09T14:31:11.642+01:00Aw yes, I really miss the ability to quest as a gr...Aw yes, <a href="http://swtorcommando.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-group-content-i-miss-most.html" rel="nofollow">I really miss the ability to quest as a group</a> too. Unfortunately as time goes by I suspect it's becoming more and more unlikely that we'll ever see more of that type of content. I'm guessing that the effort required to produce it vs. the number of people who engage with it isn't really worth it for them.<br /><br />But good luck with getting your husband back into the game! Mine also fell out of love with SWTOR quite some time ago, but at least he's still subscribed to run ops with us.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-65739914272108941962019-04-09T14:27:59.217+01:002019-04-09T14:27:59.217+01:00I just wanted to say that I ❤️ this comment. And n...I just wanted to say that I ❤️ this comment. And not just because it's always nice to meet another person who <a href="http://swtorcommando.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-love-letter-to-odessen-proving-grounds.html" rel="nofollow">likes the Proving Grounds</a>. :PShintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-74257726280544568622019-04-08T11:13:00.001+01:002019-04-08T11:13:00.001+01:00What I would love to see is for them to go back to...What I would love to see is for them to go back to allowing people to do story together like in the original content and RotHC. They got too scared of people "not being able to make their own story choices" and locked us who enjoyed playing through the stories with friends out of some of the best fun the game had to offer.<br /><br />They did well with Ossus, as apart some hilarious cutscene glitches everything worked quite fine done in group, but I really miss what we had in the beginning!<br /><br />Yamiro, Imperial, Darth Malgus but the code would be for my husband who gave up on the game, I want him back in it!Yamirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02988070387880505549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-66167179223677902762019-04-07T17:40:04.020+01:002019-04-07T17:40:04.020+01:00I'm not too proud to try to for SWAG, so he...I'm not too proud to try to for SWAG, so he's my shot at a prize.<br /><br />I think it goes without saying that we'll see new story and some group content, but something that I think is long overdue is fresh set bonuses and relic types. Those have remained basically unchanged since Rise of the Hutt Cartel and I think it would be cool to see them revamped. In addition, if, as pretty much, everyone suspects we'll see separate PVE and PVP gearing, this might also be a way to separate the two modes with procs and bonuses suited to PVE or PVP.<br /><br />Intisar - Republic - Star ForgeIntisarNORhttp://www.generic-hero.com/ThisWeekinAurabesh/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-38010190249738209872019-04-07T12:51:32.610+01:002019-04-07T12:51:32.610+01:00Wohooo...i love giveaways. But this is a really th...Wohooo...i love giveaways. But this is a really though question...what do you really love to see in SWTOR?<br /><br />As a SWTOR player we have to fill extendend gaps between new content updates. And some of this time we spend with discussions. About the game, where it is, where it could be or what it should be.<br /><br />Soooo...you are asking a little question and i have to write an small article as an answer to capture multiple train of thoughts worth maybe hundreds of hours.<br /><br />I try to keep it humble.<br /><br />As a raider i need a new raid.<br />As a story player i need new story. And i mean separate class stories.<br />As a pvper i need some class changes, just to mix it up. Not to achieve perfect balance. We know all, that is not possible. A new map is never a bad thing. Maybe something completely different...like Odessen was. I know, most people hate Odessen. But i like it, because it is unique.<br />They should keep up the good work on cartell market stuff. They released some outstanding armour sets lately.<br />As an explorer i want new areas to explore. It doesn't have to be only on a new planet. Maybe add a new section of the Galactic Senate on Coruscant. You have to go there to pick up a new storyline and travel to the Jedi Temple, which -of course- is now almost rebuild. Something like a new bonus series. Works for every planet. Nar Shaddaa, Belsavis, Oricon...you name it. My eyes need something new. I played hundreds of thousands of hours leveling alts, and every corner in this game i saw a trillion times. Ossus is great. I loved the storyline, the questdesign, the bosses. But even if you take that all away...it will still be great for me, because my eyes can see a new environment. Not just the same old cave on every planet.<br /><br />Give me whatever you can, but give it to me. I'm dying of thirst. Give me...something.<br /><br />Combat Wombat, Imperial, Darth Malgus<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com