How can a trooper take 50 hits from a light saber and still be fine?

[jearle]

African or European?

It could hold it by the husks!

[SoCal]

How can she slap?
HOW CAN SHE SLAP!?

Why did the thread not end here?

[Bongomadness]

Point of the thread anyone?
Or is it just about as low as people go to try and bash a game?
Dont get it, seems like a waste of forum space tbh.

[mrbadxampl]

African or European?

how is it that you know so much about swallows?

[sleekit]

you really wanna start picking apart the supposed science/logic in a franchise/cultural phenomena who's space combat is based on aerial dogfighting...as shown in the WW2 war movies george lucas watched as a kid ?

where space ships make noise as they whizz past ?

where they use swords made of light that cannot possibly exist even a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

really ?

Beskar'gam armour. I WIN! I WIN!

[golds]

You can't explain that!

[Deleted]

Think he's trying to make a point that Star Wars: The old Republic doesn't feel much like Star Wars when you just stand there and slash away with light sabers not one shotting people

iknorite kotor didnt feel like star wars either because you did the same thing!
THATS IT I CANCEL MY SUBHURDUR

[Slugfest]

Because reality is for those who lack imagination.

[Glorious Leader]

Snip

That was good thank you. I lawled.

[feek]

Hey, how exactly is a rainbow made? How exactly does the sun set? How exactly does the posi-trac rear end on a Plymouth work? It just does.

[Xorious]

Why don't stormtroopers have 0% accuracy like in the movies? In the movies stormtroopers NEVER hit their targets! :P

[Rooflesstoofless]

OP, you were obviously expecting the kind of lightsabers in that were represented in the movies. Bioware has clearly stated this is unrealistic and would instead base their lightsabers on characteristics of those found in real life.

[Deleted]

You said wet shirt doesn't break, not piss shirt bends bars.

Hah Shanghai Noon, good call. Also nice one with the Misfits pic

[Deleted]

Aliens....

[gherkin]

Simple.

My trooper is really good at taking glancing blows.
Your jedi is really terrible at hitting a moving... well, any target.

[tomtim90]

Same reason Headshot doesn't instantgib it's targets. If a Jedi Knight and an Imperial Agent are fighting each other, according to the movies the Jedi would just slice them in two and move on. This is a game...an MMORPG...there has to be balance. Sure it doesn't feel like one of the movies in that regard, but anyone who didn't roll a lightsaber class would be raging in PvP.

[Verain]

They made a philosophical mistake, that's why.


In a game like WoW, or D&D, you score hits and reduce hit points. It's abstract. If you are playing D&D and hit an 85 hit point fighter for 10 points of damage, the description could be anything from a glancing blow to a shallow cut. Hit a 6 hit point commoner with that and he's gushing arterial blood.

WoW has to animate this, and does so generically. Any given sword strike could be deflected or mitigated by armor, but we've lost the ability to describe hits as essentially misses (expending luck, etc.). Still, not too bad.


But TOR is VERY "cinematic". When your character attacks another with a lightsaber flurry, you basically see yourself striking into (and sometimes through) them, yet the end result is "herp-a-derp, shooting back now".



Anyway, you can dismiss it, talk about how you don't need realism in video games, or whatever. The point is that the combat system is supposed to model combat, and right now the display of that very much doesn't line up to what actually is going on.

[Lancer]

The same reason why you don't die from an axe to your torso in WoW.

[willtron]

Wouldn't his head be chopped off?

The Cinematics make it look like they get ONE hit and they get a kill, yet the game play light saber is like a plastic baseball bat.

You want a trailer where they spend 1 minute fighting, hitting each other constantly? Or do you want PvP when you just one shot everything?

[MisterSheep]

To accomodate gameplay...

Just like any raid boss in WoW, you might be seemingly hacking in their toes or knees for the past ten minutes, with each hit landing, but if it were to happen in a movie or in real life, it would be a huge struggle in wich most of your blows get blocked, deflected or dodged. Plus in a real scenario you wouldn't be standing idle hitting your foe's butt. You would probably be jumping around on it's back, avoiding their blows and trying to take the momento and hit at their weak spot.


Would you imagine tanking a dragon in WoW if you had to jump backward everytime it swipes with its claw, having to hide behind a wall or using your shield at the right time to protect yourself from it's breath. And to attract the dragon's attention, you would have to do some kind of maneuver that includes jumping over collapsing stairs to catch that chain hanging from the ceilling, and then land on the dragon's back, grab one of it's horn and strike on it's head with your sword as he triest to do barrel roll to make you fall down.

Of course that'd be epic in a movie, but in a gaming perspective...