Star Wars The Old Republic. Heard of it? If you haven't you've been living under a rock. For the past year it's been the game everyone was waiting for. A few months back Bioware announced a release date of December 20th. Beta has been going on for a while and I wasn't planning on participating because I wasn't planning on getting the game. I'm more of a fantasy fan than a Sci-Fi fan.
A friend of mine, who has done betas for the game, suggested that "it can't hurt to get into the open beta". So I applied a couple weeks ago and got in for this weekend. My friend has loved every class/race combo that she's tried so I logged in this morning for my first go at SWTOR.
I have to say I'm pleased. It's a very clean game. I turned all the graphics to max and put it on the highest resolution possible and have been running it with absolutely no lag and rather high FPS (averaging 50-55). It's very informative when it comes to starting out. There's lots of tutorial windows to read how to do things. I have run across a couple things that haven't been explained well in my opinion like the Social Points system. I do plan to look up things like these elsewhere to answer my questions. The graphics aren't very impressive. For me they're somewhere between WoW and EQ2 which are both old games and in my opinion something releasing 7 years later should have beautiful graphics (like Aion and Rift for example).
When I had watched combat videos several months ago I was less than impressed with the combat animations and spell effects but playing the game the effects are much better than the impression I got in the videos.
I have not played very far into the game and have stuck with only one class, a Sith Inquisitor. I'm going to play around with some more classes and perhaps I'll grow to like the game enough that I'll end up playing it at release. We'll see. If you're participating in the beta have fun!
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