Star Wars Gaming Megathread Episode II - Attack of the Season Pass - Games

[QUOTE=Drewsko;49474805]To be fair, only the game is focused on DASH RENDAR's antics, while the book is more focused on Luke, Leia, Vader, Xizor and the rest of the main cast, and the comics spend half their time on the subplot of Boba Fett's delivery run to Jabba. Heck, only in the game can you find out that [sp]DASH RENDAR DOESN'T die at the end.[/sp][/QUOTE] He paid his dues, or to better put he, he RENDAR'D unto Xizor what was due to him. You don't think a little explosion could stop the great DASH RENDAR do you? It's funny that the Outrider is still canon, and yet neither Dash Rendar or Leebo are stated to be canon (yet, who knows what the future holds for the great DASH RENDAR.) I heard something about Dash Rendar being some sort of prize for an X-Wing tournament though, so there's that.

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patrolling the sand dunes almost makes you wish for a sarlacc pit

Oh god, Sarlacc debuffs

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49477196]I almost wanna make a Facepunch group for people who play Battlefront. Get in on some online play for the PS4 or whatever you're playing it on, just sort the people by what console they play or if they're on PC.[/QUOTE] Sign me up. I need some more people to play with. Trying to pub stomp here on the PS4

I remember Bounty Hunting in SWG. People would get SO butthurt. Most targets were in PvP zones so you had to join one faction to enter the zone. And I didn't discriminate, I was an equal opportunity employer. I wouldn't kill my target who was actively fighting rebels, but if rebels incapacitated them, I'd just deathblow them before the rebel would. It saved them their PvP rating. I'd even pay for their cloning sickness. But nope, they can't see past the fact that they were dead anyway and the rebel's credits went to an imperial, they mad a fellow imperial collected Replacing my armor models with Boba Fett made it even better, though only for me. Back in my cozy medium home [img]http://i.imgur.com/YUN9k6v.jpg[/img] I miss Pre-CU SWG. Before all that shit

Seeing all these SWG pics makes my heart sink into nostalgia. My first PC game, and my first feeling that I could actually explore. I never finished exploring, and the EMU doesn't do it for me. The best thing that could ever happen to me is a SWG2.0. With this new leadership, maybe we'll see something change.... But I doubt it. Sounds dumb, but SWG days were some of my fondest memories. I'm still friends with the people I met on there, and I felt like it was the most immersive MMO on the market and still beats out most the shit today.

Post-CU/NGE SWG was better than a lot of MMO's out today.

[QUOTE=revan740;49480868]Seeing all these SWG pics makes my heart sink into nostalgia. My first PC game, and my first feeling that I could actually explore. I never finished exploring, and the EMU doesn't do it for me. The best thing that could ever happen to me is a SWG2.0. With this new leadership, maybe we'll see something change.... But I doubt it. Sounds dumb, but SWG days were some of my fondest memories. I'm still friends with the people I met on there, and I felt like it was the most immersive MMO on the market and still beats out most the shit today.[/QUOTE] Yep. I feel a lot of that came from them pushing for the whole social aspect of the game. I've only seen housing done better in Wildstar, but that was instanced. The whole social aspect of the game was great. Most common and used goods came from people crafting them, entertainers had a purpose and encouraged people to pop into cantinas for buffs and to talk. But now a days if it's not WoW as far as MMOs go most publishers immediately write it off as garbage or make it a shitty free to play game. I also feel like it was more set up around the end game rather than the leveling process. A lot of the more recent MMOs to come out don't seem to realize most people are gonna burn through the content and hit endgame within the first week or two. [QUOTE=Raidyr;49480964]Post-CU/NGE SWG was better than a lot of MMO's out today.[/QUOTE] After a while yeah, sadly the NGE launch was an absolute mess that butchered the game for a while. They managed to stitch it back up and make it work well again but they'd lost a large chunk of their players with it's execution.

The thing that I loved about the game was exactly that; the developers really focused on the social aspect. I remember just wandering around planets and coming up to cities and meeting new people and just chatting. I remember there being an economy with people who were generous and had a name for themselves within the community. I remember the names of random fucking vendors that made furniture and where they were on what planet. I also really enjoy that a lot of the effects for abilities weren't over done like a JRPG like many MMORPGs, and all the animations were motion captures. It just felt real. Does anyone here play the EMU? I can't get into it because I literally know nobody to play with. Would people be interested in getting together and starting a city or something?

That's because almost EVERY single vendor, almost EVERY single item that wasn't just total garbage was all made by players. The entire game WAS the playerbase, and without a good size playerbase (and not terrible game, which happened later), the game wasn't the same. There really hasn't been anything like it since. I can't go back to the grind, though. I'm out of MMOs forever.

I miss SWG so much...

SWG's space shit could've been a game all on it's own. It was extremely well done

I liked that you could decorate your ships if it was a multi-player ship. So many weird ingame parties on ships.

[QUOTE=revan740;49481892]I liked that you could decorate your ships if it was a multi-player ship. So many weird ingame parties on ships.[/QUOTE] I remember I ended up at a party on a space yacht and everyone was dressed in formal attire and I was dressed as a scout trooper. Was really awkward.

[QUOTE=VOSK;49481907]I remember I ended up at a party on a space yacht and everyone was dressed in formal attire and I was dressed as a scout trooper. Was really awkward.[/QUOTE] I loved that the effects from water fountains were fixed, so when you tilted the ship it would spray everyone in the party instead of falling to the ground.

So dissapointed I didn't have a computer during SWG's prime. It sounded like the dream MMO.

It really was. Bounty hunting story time. At a time during SWG- pretty much nearly everybody got extremely asshurt at the fact they'd get bounty hunted. I was on uuuh, Flurry (the server) I think. Ultimately I picked up some fat bounty on tatooine for a couple million credits, thought it'd be a difficult fight or something. Eventually I send out my seeker/probe droids, all that shit, and discovered that the bounty was in some town in the middle of buttfuck nowhere on tatooine. So I take out my barc speeder and haul my ass over there, and after a good 15 minutes I was finally there only to discover that the guy I was bounty hunting was a heavy-roleplayer. You're probably thinking, "does that really matter?" and I'm gonna tell you: yes. He was apparently inside his home that I assumed locked, so I quickly took a single step inside his crib and it didn't auto-eject me from his place, and it wasn't locked. But I looked in chat and he started doing some weird "*puts it in your ass*" emotes and I thought I was figured out, that he was gonna pop out to try and kill me. Turns out he was with another ~exotic roleplayer~. Needless to say, my previous assumption was completely wrong- he didn't discover me. He was ERPing with some fucking twi'lek dancer in his house, that was unlocked. I pop into his house with literally 4 rows of buffs on, cus y'know. Easy credits. I turn the corner in his home only to see he had NOTHING on him- he had no clothes cept those default jorts you get when you make a character. Initiated combat, ejected both of us outside of the house when I see a flustered "prepares his lubricant and rub1231251235123" or something like that text in chat. He tried to fight back but he still had his chatbox open. I was about to do my whole opener on my rotation of abilities when I discovered he was already dead. First 3 abilities pretty much nuked him. Collected the bounty. His whole roleplay guild tried to "ban" me from major vendors because I ruined his midnight delight. What an experience.

[QUOTE=overwatch pvt;49482284]So dissapointed I didn't have a computer during SWG's prime. It sounded like the dream MMO.[/QUOTE] SWG was the dream MMO. I remember seeing [url=http://i.imgur.com/aLAie5Q.jpg]the box[/url] in a store and being absolutely [i]sold[/i] on what it promised. Explore the Star Wars galaxy all on your own, fight for the rebels or the Empire or do your own thing, meet Luke Skywalker. Imagining it all was like ecstasy for my 11-year old brain. Naturally, I relentlessly begged my parents to get it for me, and in the end they did. After finally figuring out how to install it and sign up (having zero idea what an MMO was), there was so much stuff I couldn't wait to do. Most of all, becoming a stormtrooper and living aboard a Star Destroyer. Of course, my PC was a piece of shit that couldn't render anything more complex than the desert plains of Tatooine, the starting planet, so I didn't get to do any of it. After taking a shuttle to a city planet the game kept crashing and I never played it again. Still, the few memories I do have are great. Like trekking through Tatooine, hoping to find Ben Kenobi after seeing his house marked on a map, and being bummed out when some guy I met in a garage in the middle of nowhere told me he was dead. I remember a Wookiee in a landspeeder coming to saving my ass after I foolishly picked a fight with a flock of desert monster things. Some guy explaining to me that I would never become a Jedi because it was incredibly difficult (I don't even think I ever saw one). So idk, maybe it was a good thing that the game crashed on me. That way my memories will never be tainted by all the ways in which they ruined the game.

[QUOTE=Laferio;49482493]It really was. Bounty hunting story time. At a time during SWG- pretty much nearly everybody got extremely asshurt at the fact they'd get bounty hunted. I was on uuuh, Flurry (the server) I think. Ultimately I picked up some fat bounty on tatooine for a couple million credits, thought it'd be a difficult fight or something. Eventually I send out my seeker/probe droids, all that shit, and discovered that the bounty was in some town in the middle of buttfuck nowhere on tatooine. So I take out my barc speeder and haul my ass over there, and after a good 15 minutes I was finally there only to discover that the guy I was bounty hunting was a heavy-roleplayer. You're probably thinking, "does that really matter?" and I'm gonna tell you: yes. He was apparently inside his home that I assumed locked, so I quickly took a single step inside his crib and it didn't auto-eject me from his place, and it wasn't locked. But I looked in chat and he started doing some weird "*puts it in your ass*" emotes and I thought I was figured out, that he was gonna pop out to try and kill me. Turns out he was with another ~exotic roleplayer~. Needless to say, my previous assumption was completely wrong- he didn't discover me. He was ERPing with some fucking twi'lek dancer in his house, that was unlocked. I pop into his house with literally 4 rows of buffs on, cus y'know. Easy credits. I turn the corner in his home only to see he had NOTHING on him- he had no clothes cept those default jorts you get when you make a character. Initiated combat, ejected both of us outside of the house when I see a flustered "prepares his lubricant and rub1231251235123" or something like that text in chat. He tried to fight back but he still had his chatbox open. I was about to do my whole opener on my rotation of abilities when I discovered he was already dead. First 3 abilities pretty much nuked him. Collected the bounty. His whole roleplay guild tried to "ban" me from major vendors because I ruined his midnight delight. What an experience.[/QUOTE] Three Bounty Hunter stories coming right up. 2 NGE, 1 Pre-CU First. I only took bounties that were worth something. Back in Pre-CU, 100,000 credits was a lot of money, it was about how much a full set of composite armor cost before you went to someone who was a smuggler who could slice it for you so you could actually wear it all without being buffed by a doctor. But in NGE? 100k wasn't shit. So I only grabbed bounties worth a million or more. And I was imperial because you had to side with a faction if you want to enter PvP zones. But that didn't deter me from picking up imperial bounties. So I call down my planetary droid which you use to figure out which planet your target is on. He's on Tatooine. Okay. I haul my ass to Tatooine, call down a droid that scans the planet you're on only. Droid finds him on the outskirts of the main city. Not in a player city but within the SEA of player houses that dot the border of the main city and placeable space. I hop on my speeder and head for the waypoint my droid has been placing and updating as it tracks. He isn't moving so I quickly get there. As I approach I see him and another player dueling one another. They're just friendly duels. Now what happens when you lose a duel, you get knocked out for about 15-30 seconds before you get back up. If you don't get deathblown by a character, that is. He goes down from this duel a couple seconds after he comes into view. I'm thinking holy shit what timing. I roll right up to the two guys on my speeder, hop off, double click the guy's body to kill him. Get over a million credits transferred into my account, get back on my speeder, and return to the city. Story 2. I'm in Theed's cantina just chilling out and shooting the shit. There's a few entertainers and about 10ish or so people. People go in and out of cantina's all the time to watch entertainers for buffs, and use them as glorified chat rooms to chill in. I've been PvP'ing so I KNOW I'm on the bounty boards, so I have my fingers on my hotkeys ready to fight at the drop of a fucking hat. Any one of these people could have my name. In walk two people dressed in armor with an electric cannon. Well this is the NGE so it's quite easy to spot who is what class right away unless they actively go out of their way to hide it, unlike CU/Pre-CU. (Though they did allow costumes later in NGE that made this easier to do) These two guys were bounty hunters. Everyone that enters the Cantina I target to look at their buffs and both of these guys were buffed to the nines. I knew these guys were here for me, and they were together. So I got ready to hit certain keys in a certain order as soon as they opened up. The way BH'ing works in SWG is you don't know who has your name, and you won't know until they shoot at you. And only after they attack you are they even an attackable target. Before then they're just like any other normal person. They could have your name for weeks, stalking you, befriending you (There's a great story about an instance of this. EvE levels of story telling). But these guys made it obvious. Then one of the guys went Prone. I knew it was about to kick off. The second guy's head looked at me, so I knew he was targeting me. And I popped my shield button, and just then the guy who went prone opened up with the Sniper shot that requires you to be prone. So here all these people are in the Cantina, going about their business, chatting, buffing, tipping, two shady fucks walk in, scout the lay of the land, and shit kicks off interrupting all of it. After some quick hotkey action I was able to quickly dispatch one of the guys with a couple lucky crits, a VERY helpful one from snipershot, which I had my own macro written (You could write macros in game) to do the /prone command, fire my sniper shot, and then stand back up. I retreated to the back room of the Cantina while fighting the second guy, breaking line of sight, and slipped out the back door. Got far enough away to break combat, pulled out my speeder and fucked the fuck off. Shield is on a 5 minute CD and mine was up, and the guy I was fighting hadn't even popped his yet. My big mistake was returning 3 minutes later, seeing the red dot on my radar (He had attacked me so now he was overt to me). I busted through the front door of the cantina and just lit the fucker up. Unfortunately, Shield. He had it, I didn't. I lost. Story 3: Pre-CU. 5 Bounty Hunters attacked a single Jedi at the Coronet Starport. The fight lasted about 20 minutes and the Jedi won. Fuck yeah [editline]8th January 2016[/editline] Fucking hell that wall of text. Some good fond memories of my time in SWG though. Grouping up and having a Ranger track a Krayt dragon, which were probably the biggest challenge in the game, to actually find and kill one. The fight would take 10 minutes and you needed a combat medic. They dropped valuable crafting mats, and the quality of the resources mattered in how good what you crafted with it was, and the spawns and qualities changed constantly. Then there comes the CU and Krayt Dragons were just another trash mob. A low level one at that Sigh

[QUOTE=TheTalon;49483329]Story 3: Pre-CU. 5 Bounty Hunters attacked a single Jedi at the Coronet Starport. The fight lasted about 20 minutes and the Jedi won. Fuck yeah Sigh[/QUOTE] Was it during the times when jedi only had 3 lives?

These SWG stories are bringing me close to tears, I still have all the discs above my computer too... just incase...One day. :/

[QUOTE=VOSK;49484748]These SWG stories are bringing me close to tears, I still have all the discs above my computer too... just incase...One day. :/[/QUOTE] So is it worth playing whatever version of the game exists now? It sounds perfect, and I love all the stories.

[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;49484401]Was it during the times when jedi only had 3 lives?[/QUOTE] Most likely, when they got rid of permadeath Jedi also got substantially weaker. I started playing right as the CU came out so I only know of the Jedi village on Dathomir instead of holocron grinding. [QUOTE=That Ninja;49484975]So is it worth playing whatever version of the game exists now? It sounds perfect, and I love all the stories.[/QUOTE] There's a NGE Emu up now that is the game as it was when it closed down. A lot of old Galaxies players have been going back to it. I haven't because I'm missing my 4th disk for whatever reason and I don't feel like trying to torrent the game.

[QUOTE=That Ninja;49484975]So is it worth playing whatever version of the game exists now? It sounds perfect, and I love all the stories.[/QUOTE] I found it hard to play without friends that were also interested in playing. You can still do a shit ton of stuff that was in at launch, they're just missing some things they hope to add in later. But I mean you can build a house and a city and have people live in it. The only thing I hated about Pre-CU was the lack of content. It's all a grind until you get to endgame. At least, that's what it seemed like.

[QUOTE=revan740;49485155] The only thing I hated about Pre-CU was the lack of content. It's all a grind until you get to endgame. At least, that's what it seemed like.[/QUOTE] Nah, pretty much all relatively old MMOs and MUDs were grindy as all hell. That's why they emphasized the whole "it's a massive chatroom!" aspect. You'd grind for an ungodly amount of time, then you'd come back to the main population hubs and take a load off, then you'd go back to grinding.

I found it funny that Space Stations in SWG didn't have any defenses, you could shoot at one and it would do nothing. If there was a party of a Social ship, like the Yacht, could other players blow it up and kill everyone?

[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;49485595]Nah, pretty much all relatively old MMOs and MUDs were grindy as all hell. That's why they emphasized the whole "it's a massive chatroom!" aspect. You'd grind for an ungodly amount of time, then you'd come back to the main population hubs and take a load off, then you'd go back to grinding.[/QUOTE] True, but I enjoyed that I could actually go and do quests in NGE to grind instead of just sitting around and doing mission terminal shit and being ungodly overpowered by a Kreetle because the combat system wasn't up to par.

[QUOTE=TheTalon;49480650]I remember Bounty Hunting in SWG. People would get SO butthurt. Most targets were in PvP zones so you had to join one faction to enter the zone. And I didn't discriminate, I was an equal opportunity employer. I wouldn't kill my target who was actively fighting rebels, but if rebels incapacitated them, I'd just deathblow them before the rebel would. It saved them their PvP rating. I'd even pay for their cloning sickness. But nope, they can't see past the fact that they were dead anyway and the rebel's credits went to an imperial, they mad a fellow imperial collected[/QUOTE] I played bounty hunter too and it was fun as fuck. Though I never did reach master. My favorite story was hunting an Imperial player, me being Imperial myself. Since I wasn't very high in the tree, I didn't get a lot of missions so I took whatever I could find. I tracked the bounty to a war zone and realized it was a PvP area. I'm too underleveled to do serious PvP, but I decide to join the war zone and find him. I find him with a group of other Imperials fighting Rebels. He was much higher level than me, so I had no chance of fighting him. So briefly join him and his squad, nervous as fuck to not accidentally press attack and blow my cover. I try to stay as close as possible to him, waiting for the moment he falls. Eventually, he gets downed and I rush to him and deathblow him and immediately make my escape and remove my PvP status. I miss SWG

I decided it was time to reinstall SWG after talking here. Currently updating Project SWG (NGE server), and then going to something called "SWG Reborn". They have space flight apparently?