I'd be keen to hear about it as well. I have tried a few games after DDO, and the combat in none of them can compare. They feel sluggish, boring and unintuitive.

From two weekends of playing during beta:

Yes, character customization is pretty in-depth.  It isn't the best I've seen, but it's up there.

Each class has it's weaknesses and strengths.  Playing to your strengths will increase your survival rate.  So a Trooper that decides to try to stand toe to toe with a Sith will get his fucking ass handed to him.  But if that same Trooper keeps the Sith at range, he'll actually most likely come out as the victor of a heads up fight.  And he has the tools to keep him at range, but the Sith also has the tools to get himself in close.

I had very little trouble playing solo.  Translation = there is zero need to group in most situations.  You can, but you usually don't have to.

Re: Voice:  Over rated.  Or, should I say, it will be.  I'll be the first to admit that it's pretty awesome.  I'll also be the first to predict that you'll get really fucking tired of it really fucking fast.  Especially if you're an alt-o-holic.

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And for the record, I answered both of my weekend exit surveys with:
No.  I will not be purchasing this game upon release.

Memnir wrote on Dec 21^st, 2011 at 10:58pm:

You have one of his questions incorrectly quoted.  I asked nothing.

Milton wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2011 at 7:28am:


This is pretty much it.

Customization isn't as depth as say City of Heroes/Villans (but then no one else's is) but it is not terrible

The classes are pretty balanced, meaning each has it's pros and cons and if played right any class can take out an equally leveled opposing class.

The story arcs for some are phenominal, I'm really liking the Imperial Agent and Bounty Hunters in particular. The smugglers stunning move is hilarious too. But the Bounty Hunters Death from Above is just fucking spectacular (level 10 skill where you use your jets to hover about 20-30 feet above the ground and lay down a barrage of heavy hitting missiles)

Soloing is very doable as well. A lot of the HEROICS can be done with a companion as far as I've seen up to level 20. The flash points are challenging and I would reccomend a full 4 man party for. And the operations I haven't done yet but look pretty good. By the way if. You're looking for a world boss there is one in the first area you do on Coruscant (sp??).  Also the companions are very very helpful and the AI on then are pretty good.

With grouping they added a social skill portion of it for the NPC interaction where you can get gear based off of your social points as well. And the holocall is nice if you aren't near the NPC when your party meme era go to talk to him/her.

The voice acting is really good and they put a lot of time and effort into it. Some of it can be a little cheesy, but exactly what you'd expect playing a true light side Jedi for example. Honestly I really like the game, I played in the beta and pre-ordered it and have been in game since the 16th. Yeah the combat isn't DDO's but I can forgive that for all the other pros to the game.

Full disclosure though, it is right at launch so queues can be high and there are some bugs they are still working out but that's to be expected I would think. Even with the queues though they do tend to go fairly quick and there are a ton of servers so you can always work a few different ones for right now till everything calms down.


Mem, most of my toons are on the Grand Master Zym server but I have a few on other servers as well. If you decide to come on over let me know and I can help get ya started over there on one of the servers. Honestly I really enjoy the game, like I said the story arcs are great, it's easy enough to run solo if you don't feel like running with anyone at that point in time, and the crafting and other skills they added to the game add a unique flavor that I haven't seen in any other game.

Zippo wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2011 at 11:03am:


Bah... I was being an ass... will fix em both... and apologies.

Quite a lot to consider, that's for sure. Thanks all!

Oh nice responses.

Does it have mouselook and manual targeting like in DDO?

The thing that I always loved about DDO more than other MMOs was the FPS control style and the active combat.

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This is what made DDO.  Also, the only thing that keeps some of us still playing.

Felgor wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2011 at 5:43am:


Typically I agree with this statement, but there is something that just still grabs me about ToR. Maybe it's just the name recognition and because of it I'm letting it slide. But I honestly feel like everything else just kinda makes up for the lack of the FPS combat style in the game.

Memnir wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2011 at 1:28pm:



I don't know if there is an overall limit but you are allowed 8 per server and there is something like 90 servers total (about 50 or so are continental US).


Edit: By the way Mem, if you do end up getting it and decide you want a physical security key (the key fob that issues out security keys for logging in) I have an extra one. I ordered it for $5 (also allows access to security key vendors where they have some "unique" items that you cant get from other vendors) and for some reason Origin sent me out 2 so I have an extra sitting here that I can send your way too. It adds another little layer of security to your game and forum account to keep people out.