SWTOR information gathered thus far from various sources

[synthetikv]

Sounds like a Dairy Queen.

Everyone should be required to work in a resturant for at least a year in shitty conditions, so they have a realistic frame of reference next time they want to be an asshole to their server.

i've worked in several restaurants. if anything its made me more of a dick to the servers.

[Raz415]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebUMuuS1AZs&hd=1

Should contain some useful information.

Btw, has anyone else noticed that one of those two guys that stopped the player before he met with his mentor totally looked like Kratos?
His voice was way out of line though, he was a mountain of a man, looking like a god of war and he sounded like a pussy.

[Eightace]

Btw, has anyone else noticed that one of those two guys that stopped the player before he met with his mentor totally looked like Kratos?

Fuck fighting him then.

[spleen1015]

At around the 14:40 mark of the Biscuit vid, there's a loot indicator that is green instead of blue like all of the others that I have seen. It looked like he looted a green item off that mob.

Was the loot indicator in fact different because there was a green quality item on the mob? That's is a nice touch, IMO.

---------- Post added 2011-08-18 at 08:42 AM ----------

Looks like he looted a Korriban Commendation. Anyone know what that is?

[Eightace]

At around the 14:40 mark of the Biscuit vid, there's a loot indicator that is green instead of blue like all of the others that I have seen. It looked like he looted a green item off that mob.

Was the loot indicator in fact different because there was a green quality item on the mob? That's is a nice touch, IMO.

---------- Post added 2011-08-18 at 08:42 AM ----------

Looks like he looted a Korriban Commendation. Anyone know what that is?

Yes, different quality drops have different colours. If an epic dropped on a mob it would glow purple etc.

The commendations can be swapped for level appropriate gear.

[stikz]

At around the 14:40 mark of the Biscuit vid, there's a loot indicator that is green instead of blue like all of the others that I have seen. It looked like he looted a green item off that mob.

Was the loot indicator in fact different because there was a green quality item on the mob? That's is a nice touch, IMO.

---------- Post added 2011-08-18 at 08:42 AM ----------

Looks like he looted a Korriban Commendation. Anyone know what that is?

The loot indicator changes color according to the loot quality. Green item = green indicator, etc.

[jvbastel]

That's quite nice actually

[Pyre Fierceshot]

Yes, different quality drops have different colours. If an epic dropped on a mob it would glow purple etc.

The commendations can be swapped for level appropriate gear.

I love a little touch like that to the game, since on WoW I use to not bother looting stuff while doing dailies on TB etc, then one day I did and got lucky with 2 epics. I just hate killing stuff then looting it.

Hopefully there is AoE looting like in Rift.

[spleen1015]

Yes, different quality drops have different colours. If an epic dropped on a mob it would glow purple etc.

The commendations can be swapped for level appropriate gear.

I like the idea behind the commendations instead of a bunch of random 'of the Gorilla' loot.

I assume they exist for every planet?

[Akio]

EDIT: Because 50 people answered the same question. :P

[Eightace]

I love a little touch like that to the game, since on WoW I use to not bother looting stuff while doing dailies on TB etc, then one day I did and got lucky with 2 epics. I just hate killing stuff then looting it.

Hopefully there is AoE looting like in Rift.

I heard there is, i think Trollsbane confirmed it before he got told to shut up.

[Shilien]

I like the idea behind the commendations instead of a bunch of random 'of the Gorilla' loot.

I assume they exist for every planet?

Yea, and random drops still exist (echani, gammorean, etc).

---------- Post added 2011-08-18 at 08:49 AM ----------

I heard there is, i think Trollsbane confirmed it before he got told to shut up.

There is, went in this build.

[Pyre Fierceshot]

There is, went in this build.

Awesome, it makes me actually loot things, rather than attempt to loot 20 mobs 1 by 1.

[jearle]

Finally got a chance to watch the operations video last night, the one on Darth Hater. Have a couple questions anyone might shed light on.

Raid frame UI seemed pretty basic and useful - Have they mentioned anything new about movement of UI frames? Even if just raid frames?
Target of Target - Is this in the game? I have not seen it yet

Healing - Have they implemented the "healing ui" I heard about in a Q n A yet?
Healing -Did it seem like 2-3 folks in the raid group were almost dead half the time? Or was that their resource bars going empty?
If 1 how the hell didn't they die? If 2 the healing didn't seem too terrible, in fact it was minimal.

I have more I will start with this group.

Thanks for the discussion.

[Pyre Fierceshot]

Healing - Have they implemented the "healing ui" I heard about in a Q n A yet?
Healing -1. Did it seem like 2-3 folks in the raid group were almost dead half the time? Or was that their resource bars going empty?
If 1 how the hell didn't they die? If 2 the healing didn't seem too terrible, in fact it was minimal.

I think it was more the fact, that they only had a few minutes to show off this stuff there, so weren't playing properly, or they were all just really bad.

:edit: Jesus christ these new smilies are scary.

[Shilien]

Finally got a chance to watch the operations video last night, the one on Darth Hater. Have a couple questions anyone might shed light on.

Raid frame UI seemed pretty basic and useful - Have they mentioned anything new about movement of UI frames? Even if just raid frames?
Target of Target - Is this in the game? I have not seen it yet

Healing - Have they implemented the "healing ui" I heard about in a Q n A yet?
Healing -1. Did it seem like 2-3 folks in the raid group were almost dead half the time? Or was that their resource bars going empty?
If 1 how the hell didn't they die? If 2 the healing didn't seem too terrible, in fact it was minimal.

I have more I will start with this group.

Thanks for the discussion.

On beta most of that stuff is incomplete. No target of target, focus target is basic/oldschool (sets your active target to a pre-defined focus target), etc. In fact I'm pretty sure raid frames just got unbugged this build so likely are still not fully 'feature complete' yet.

[Doylez]

Yes, different quality drops have different colours. If an epic dropped on a mob it would glow purple etc.

inb4 WoW copys it
At least I hope so, I don't even loot any mobs anymore because it's just not worth it 99% of the time.

[Eightace]

Was it Rift that was the first to come up with AOE looting? I got bored with that game after 3 weeks, but it was an excellent feature.
SWTOR coming up with different coloured "glows" for different quality loot is something i expect to become industry standard too, good idea Bioware.

[Pyre Fierceshot]

Was it Rift that was the first to come up with AOE looting? I got bored with that game after 3 weeks, but it was an excellent feature.
SWTOR coming up with different coloured "glows" for different quality loot is something i expect to become industry standard too, good idea Bioware.

No idea, but it was the first game I played with it in. One of the best things it added to the MMO table.

Same thing for SWTOR colour codes.

[jearle]

I think it was more the fact, that they only had a few minutes to show off this stuff there, so weren't playing properly, or they were all just really bad.

:edit: Jesus christ these new smilies are scary.

In the full video on darth hater they actually don't wipe on purpose, it is a different live oepration then the 5 minute one where they die on purpose (seemingly). Although they skipped the 2nd half or last 3rd of the fight. The health was definitely extremely spikey if so, maybe its one of those reduce health to 1 HP mechanic and you have time to heal that person ~ 6 seconds before they die.