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woooo hooooo!!!!!!

lol.

If TC-Corbantis is still live when I get home from work today, I'll run some testing with the spy profession (even though that's not what I'll be respeccing to in Live). I can tell you a few things, from my ten-minute time in this morning.

High end weapons will probably be unusuable right away. My T21, ALR, and other similar weapons are certed for CL88.

I've noticed that there are issued items as you reach certain levels. No such items are supplied with the conversion.

Sneak has a significant cooldown timer, and a very short duration (in seconds-didn't think to count it. Will do when I get back in).

I'm still working out how to do some of the basic stuff, still. Wish they'd put up a manual of basic commands somewhere....

ah carp.

Guess who deleted a perfectly avereage marksman/scout on Corbantis about a month ago?

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Almagill wrote:
ah carp.

Guess who deleted a perfectly avereage marksman/scout on Corbantis about a month ago?

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bah!!!

I would've enjoyed hunting with ya man!!! lol. Ah well.

As I understand it they took down TC prime to put up TC-Corbantis.

TCPrime was the only TC that would allow me to make a character (even there I couldn't board the falcon) - all the others told me I had too many characters on them.

I am now convinced they don't want me to Beta test this. Lol.

OK, so I did the respect on my toon on the Corbantis TC last night. Here is what I found inititally. When I did the respect I had no idea how to read the skill screen or how to use the new keymap. Would be helpful to put a cheat sheet on these items. When you are done with the respect you will be in the starport in your boxers, so make sure you clean them before CU2. I am able to wear my padded armor though.

I did respect to Spy. Here are some of my opinions so far about the respect and about Spy.

Pros:

• The new special skills are very cool. I really dig the poisons.


• The movement is relatively the same except you cannot use the mouse, just the arrow keys.


• I found aiming not to be hard, wierd, but not hard.

Cons:

• Make sure you have a lower level weapon before CU2 hits in your inventory. I am a level 80 but I cannot use my Adv. Laser or T-21 rifles because you need to be a level 88 to use them.


• I cannot figure out how to repair my swoop. I make it to the garage,but then who knows how to repair it.


• Then here is the kicker. I still have my traps, cammo-kits, and camps in my inventory. I thought (could be wrong) that when we respect that all items not used in the game will be changed to the profession you picked or to something useful in the game. When I tried to use the traps or camps it stated that I did not have the necessary skills to use them. Does this mean that there is another profession that will be able to use these items or will I be stuck with a thousand traps, cammo-kits, and camps?

Those are just a few things that I discovered while playing my toon on test center for an hour last night.

IPEM

MASTER RANGER

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IPEM wrote:

OK, so I did the respect on my toon on the Corbantis TC last night. Here is what I found inititally. When I did the respect I had no idea how to read the skill screen or how to use the new keymap. Would be helpful to put a cheat sheet on these items. When you are done with the respect you will be in the starport in your boxers, so make sure you clean them before CU2. I am able to wear my padded armor though.

I did respect to Spy. Here are some of my opinions so far about the respect and about Spy.

Pros:

• The new special skills are very cool. I really dig the poisons.
• The movement is relatively the same except you cannot use the mouse, just the arrow keys.
• I found aiming not to be hard, wierd, but not hard.

Cons:

• Make sure you have a lower level weapon before CU2 hits in your inventory. I am a level 80 but I cannot use my Adv. Laser or T-21 rifles because you need to be a level 88 to use them.
• I cannot figure out how to repair my swoop. I make it to the garage,but then who knows how to repair it.
• Then here is the kicker. I still have my traps, cammo-kits, and camps in my inventory. I thought (could be wrong) that when we respect that all items not used in the game will be changed to the profession you picked or to something useful in the game. When I tried to use the traps or camps it stated that I did not have the necessary skills to use them. Does this mean that there is another profession that will be able to use these items or will I be stuck with a thousand traps, cammo-kits, and camps?

Those are just a few things that I discovered while playing my toon on test center for an hour last night.

IPEM

MASTER RANGER

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I have a lot of concerns with this new system. One of my major ones though is the manner in which they've cahnged the keyboard setup. One thing that I've noticed about SWG in comparison to other MMOs is that chat is much more core to the game experience. When "modal" chat was changed / introduced it represented a game interface that made chat less accessible - the result was that alot of new players weren't chatting as much and I think this hurt what has proven to be the really powerful part of SWG: community.

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WildBil2Me wrote:
As I understand it they took down TC prime to put up TC-Corbantis.

TCPrime was the only TC that would allow me to make a character (even there I couldn't board the falcon) - all the others told me I had too many characters on them.

I am now convinced they don't want me to Beta test this. Lol.

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Try again tonight Bill. There are four TC's running tha tI can see (not corbantis tho? huh?) and I seem to be able to generate a toon on whichever one I choose.

Sneaking suspicion that the 'cannt create' issue the other night was a bit of population control as we get towards the end of the lowbie testing and move into mid level and conversion.

IF you find you get stuck on the ramp now, don't panick, go stand on the ramp slightly to the left of the arrow and just wait a few seconds till the game engine catches up with you. You'll be launched to space with Hand, Chewie and that dustbin...

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IPEM wrote:

• Then here is the kicker. I still have my traps, cammo-kits, and camps in my inventory. I thought (could be wrong) that when we respect that all items not used in the game will be changed to the profession you picked or to something useful in the game. When I tried to use the traps or camps it stated that I did not have the necessary skills to use them. Does this mean that there is another profession that will be able to use these items or will I be stuck with a thousand traps, cammo-kits, and camps?
  

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Almagill wrote:

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WildBil2Me wrote:
As I understand it they took down TC prime to put up TC-Corbantis.

TCPrime was the only TC that would allow me to make a character (even there I couldn't board the falcon) - all the others told me I had too many characters on them.

I am now convinced they don't want me to Beta test this. Lol.

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Try again tonight Bill. There are four TC's running tha tI can see (not corbantis tho? huh?) and I seem to be able to generate a toon on whichever one I choose.

Sneaking suspicion that the 'cannt create' issue the other night was a bit of population control as we get towards the end of the lowbie testing and move into mid level and conversion.

IF you find you get stuck on the ramp now, don't panick, go stand on the ramp slightly to the left of the arrow and just wait a few seconds till the game engine catches up with you. You'll be launched to space with Hand, Chewie and that dustbin...

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Will definitely try again tonight... I'm really looking forward to some in depth testing.

I still have my second account active so if things don't work out with my prime I'll see if my alt can access the TCs at all.