A/V The Old Republic MMO: The New Official Thread

The Korriban, Tython, Manaan, and Rakata flashpoints will bring you up to speed on this; they'll be soloable when the expansion comes out. But if you don't want to play them, here's the skinny:

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-The Empire and Republic decide that with the Dread Masters gone, it's high time to focus on each other again.
-Theron Shan and Colonel Darok contact Pubs and tell them they've got intel that Korriban's defenses will be weak. They plan a strike.
-Simultaneously, Lana Beniko and Darth Arkous contact Imps and tell them they've got intel that Tython's defenses will be weak. They plan a strike.
-The strikes happen in unison; both Tython and Korriban's academies are badly damaged. A member of the Dark Council and a member of the Jedi Council are killed.
-A Jedi Master named Jensyn secretly recovered a Rakatan artifact on Korriban, and a Sith Lord named Goh secretly recovered a Rakatan artifact on Tython.
-The Jedi and Sith find out their academies were attacked and return. Jensyn and Goh are both killed; the Jedi get Tython back and the Sith get Korriban back.
-Theron Shan is suspicious of Darok; Lana Beniko is suspicious of Darth Arkous.
-They investigate and find out Darok and Arkous are working together on Manaan. Theron sends Reps/Lana sends Imps to investigate.
-Come to find out, Darok and Arkous are Revanites.
-Theron and Lana team up and begin working together to take out Darok and Arkous.
-They locate them on Rakata Prime and send you to defeat them. Arkous and Darok are killed but Revan's fleet comes out of hyperspace. He reveals that he was killed on the Foundry, but reborn. He's cut ties with both Empire and Republic, thinking both stand in the way of his true goal, presumably killing the Emperor.

That's where the expansion will start.

 

We've seen that as a plot point in a number of missions so far, so while it's possible they're using it again, it's equally possible the source is just getting SOR mixed up with some earlier event. Certainly the trailer doesn't seem to feature anything like that.

I'm sort of inclined to be skeptical on the bit about the Emperor - assuming it's indeed referring to Vitiate and not some kind of mixup - as I don't really see why you'd need a "doomsday device" to "summon" him back. He's not dead or anything, just suffering from some kind of psychic backlash after the Jedi Knight killed his Voice. Like other people, I do like the idea of Revan trying to bring him back so he can destroy him, but on the whole I'm feeling skeptical towards this "leak". There may be real elements in it, but they're probably distorted.

 

I... I'm dumbfounded.

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If the guy in the podcast is correct and Revan is trying to resurrect Vitiate then it's clear that the Bioware writers have completely lost it. Honestly, that is one of the stupidest ideas they could have come up with.

 

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Good thing I don't care about Revan. Naga Sadow is where it's at.

 

Or if you want the short version:

 

That's the short version of the entirety of TOR.

 

Eh, not really. Belsavis, yeah, and Tatooine. But that's about it.

 

Yeah, there seems to be kind of a meme that TOR attributes everything to the Rakata, and it's not really borne out by the facts.

 

How much of the game is free or all ? does it include all the patches up to RotHC or will RotHC be free for all too ?

 

I know this has already been posted earlier but what do people think of this theory?

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As a minor note, I really like the armor designs in the trailer for what I'm assuming is the Revanite army. They're neat.

 

Up to RotHC and SoR.

But, being F2P means you have a number of restrictions imposed on you. Suggest you head to the official site (swtor.com) to get some insight into what each level of access affords you.

 

I had to let my subscription lapse last month, and the only thing that truly annoys me so far is that my companions can only craft one item at a time instead of being able to craft four or five items in a row. So it's more work for me; I have to command them to craft one item, wait for it to get done, and then command them to craft another. As a sub I could command them to do five, and they'd craft them one after the other, without me having to command one at a time.

 

That an the 350,000 credit limit.

 

Oh yeah, that too. They could at least let us withdraw from our escrow for free when we dropped below the limit–like, let us be able to draw out the exact number of credits needed to get back up to 350,000.

 

Or even put the excess at the time into escrow? I had just dropped to 1.25mil, and then bam! all gone.

I bought cartel points to hide head slot though. Like, there's no way a scoundrel as purdy as mine should be hidden.

 

Huh? My excess all went straight to escrow.

 

Mine didn't, and I haven't had a response on the ticket either.

Which is annoying because I was just starting to add aug kits to my gear, so I'm spending $200K per augment (or more) and having to claw back over the next 2 days in dailies.

 

Yeah, that is annoying. Wow.

 

Plus the extra cost to rip upgrades out of kit.. ugh. I have a jacket/pants combo which is basically "Bespin Han" I was using for PvP. Not sure how I feel about having to pay extra X% to remove augs from PvP kit and throw them at Orange gear.

 

It seems that SoR is on closed PTS. Somebody posted two .ogg files from one of Operations (probably from the last one). BIG SPOILERS:

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[Unknown Person] It's time! HK ! I have need of you!
[Revan's voice] He only thinks he is Revan.

I must say that Revan's voice sounds a little different (IMHO he sounds more like a force-ghost). If this will turn out to be true, then we will most probably have a storyline where Revan died in the Foundry but something possessed his body.

 

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Wow! That would be so cool because then I could have hero-Revan intact, even if as a Force ghost, and villain-Revan could still be a threat without trodding all over KOTOR's ending. Also, it seems we're about to see HK again–for the third time! I wonder how he escaped Malgus' space station before its destruction?

 

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What if Vitiate possessed Revan and now thinks that he's Revan

 

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Thats mine theory but we must wait for more information. I think that we will have the final answer on this particular matter soon. IMHO As much as I like "Hero" Revan I would like him to be alive.

 

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Please tell me they are not going where I think they are going: The current Revan is Lana's brother. Lana's brother was a Revanite who served under Malgus. After Malgus's fall, he took everything he could quickly grab related to Revan put on the mask and left. Due to his fragile mental state, the mask took control. The mask doesn't make him Revan but it's close enough too fool a lot of people including himself.