Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookies

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12 Mar 2005, 06:03 PM
Yoshi

Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookies

To coincide with Revenge of the Sith, LucasArts and SOE announced that the second Star Wars Galaxies expansion pack will be released in May. Revenge of the Wookies will allow players to visit Kashyyyk and effect the outcome of the slave trade there on one side or the other.

In addition, the bigger news is that the combat revamp will be released to all players at the same time, fixing many of the balance issues that have existed since beta.

Since WoW is wearing thin very quickly, I will likely be checking out the new expansion, as a sexy Ithorian. :D
12 Mar 2005, 06:05 PM
Rumpy

They use 3 Y's in a row for naming shit? MADNESS.
12 Mar 2005, 06:10 PM
frostwolf ex

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

They use 3 Y's in a row for naming shit? MADNESS.

well, consider how wookies talk..its kind of like romanizing japanese or soemthing. ah..yoshi is rejoining the fray.. i may be back soon too, i will still play city of heroes, but swg is good for a conventional game. my guys probably were wiped by now, since they did that big inactive character sweep a while ago, so a new rhodian medic will return, lemmie know what server you are on yosh.
12 Mar 2005, 11:40 PM
Yoshi

You'll love this. I decided to pay the $15 to see if my shit was still there in SWG. I wait about two hours for all the patches that I missed to be installed and log in. Apparently between the time I quit and now, they made structure maintenance automatically pull from your bank account if it hits 0. In other words, my stuff was all safe and sound, and I still had about 12 million in the bank. :D
13 Mar 2005, 03:06 AM
Timber

I was planing on getting back into Galaxies next month (& starting over) with a couple of friends who still play. So this is something cool to look forward to.
05 Apr 2005, 07:26 PM
frostwolf ex

just a note, you can pre-order the expansion now online for 25 bucks, and jtl is included. so if you fence sat on jump to lightspeed like i did, good for you. its supposed to download 2 weeks before the movie and you get some kind of animal from episode 3 if you pre order, im going to do that.
09 May 2005, 08:51 PM
Skittle

Don't waste your time or money.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

To coincide with Revenge of the Sith, LucasArts and SOE announced that the second Star Wars Galaxies expansion pack will be released in May. Revenge of the Wookies will allow players to visit Kashyyyk and effect the outcome of the slave trade there on one side or the other.

In addition, the bigger news is that the combat revamp will be released to all players at the same time, fixing many of the balance issues that have existed since beta.

Since WoW is wearing thin very quickly, I will likely be checking out the new expansion, as a sexy Ithorian. :D

The game is dying. I have loved this game since launch and about 3 weeks ago quit EQ2 to go back to the more immersive and social world of Galaxies. I had no idea the CU was coming, and was totally unprepared for the devastation it caused on the game. What was a fairly functional, if somewhat unbalanced, but entertaining game became a buggy, boring, EQII clone that makes no sense. My guild was devastated, my character relegated to worthless, and now there is a distinct lack of players constantly hovering in the back of your mind.

I'm sticking around in the hopes that SWG can pull out of this, but it's downright depressing to log into the game right now. Everyone in-game has this half-hearted, sad feel in everything they do or say. Most of those that are livid at the changes have left.

:cry:
09 May 2005, 09:14 PM
voltz

This thead = bent wookies x100,000
09 May 2005, 11:48 PM
Diff-chan

The Combat Upgrade was, from news I was reading (not just on SWG.com, on Slashdot as well) a buggy, ridiculous, unfinished mess, and I have no doubt this exp pack will be the same way. I dont know why SOE has put their most incompetent team behind this game, but it has shown.

I think the game needed a shitload of work, and to be honest, I think old-school players are talking about pre-CU like it was some sort of paradise when it was really badly designed and implemented implemented and needed a change desperately... but the CU giveth and taketh away (like everything else the SWG team has always done).
10 May 2005, 12:51 AM
Revoltor

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Originally Posted by voltz

This thead = bent wookies x100,000

I have only one question, Why are the wookies so full of rage?
10 May 2005, 01:53 AM
frostwolf ex

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

The Combat Upgrade was, from news I was reading (not just on SWG.com, on Slashdot as well) a buggy, ridiculous, unfinished mess, and I have no doubt this exp pack will be the same way. I dont know why SOE has put their most incompetent team behind this game, but it has shown.

I think the game needed a shitload of work, and to be honest, I think old-school players are talking about pre-CU like it was some sort of paradise when it was really badly designed and implemented implemented and needed a change desperately... but the CU giveth and taketh away (like everything else the SWG team has always done).

i havent found any bugs yet, maybe its just be but a lot of the "bug" yellers later were found to be liars trying to get advancements they didnt earn. its an idea that im still getting my head around, but i agree with your second paragraph, pre cr was worse, it was an improvement. the main complainers are the buff abusers who actually have to make real choices in their gameplay about wether to use armor or a lot of skills, i count that as a positive.
10 May 2005, 06:43 AM
gamevet

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Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

i havent found any bugs yet, maybe its just be but a lot of the "bug" yellers later were found to be liars trying to get advancements they didnt earn. its an idea that im still getting my head around, but i agree with your second paragraph, pre cr was worse, it was an improvement. the main complainers are the buff abusers who actually have to make real choices in their gameplay about wether to use armor or a lot of skills, i count that as a positive.

The /respec was the hardest part about the change. I messed up my character in trying the respec. I change him back for the good though. The armor had to be changed for my character as well though. My once decent looking armor set, has been reduced to a look not much better than that of Bone armor.

The only bug I noticed, was that while riding my bike, it would flash between my character's name and that of the bike.

I like how they've simplified the character stats and have a character level system in place. Now you can earn more health points, as your character advances.

The medic has become less of a character though and crafting is a bit more difficult. You can't make Stim B's, without having a crate of factory created Biological controllers.

The upgrade was rather frustrating at first, but I'm beginning to like the changes the more I play.
10 May 2005, 09:58 AM
Grey's Anatomy

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Originally Posted by Revoltor

I have only one question, Why are the wookies so full of rage?

Do you know how much shit get stuck in their fur?
If that happened to me, I'd be pissed too.
10 May 2005, 11:21 AM
Yoshi

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

The Combat Upgrade was, from news I was reading (not just on SWG.com, on Slashdot as well) a buggy, ridiculous, unfinished mess, and I have no doubt this exp pack will be the same way. I dont know why SOE has put their most incompetent team behind this game, but it has shown.

I think the game needed a shitload of work, and to be honest, I think old-school players are talking about pre-CU like it was some sort of paradise when it was really badly designed and implemented implemented and needed a change desperately... but the CU giveth and taketh away (like everything else the SWG team has always done).

This is all bullshit. People are resistant to change. 99% of the CURB ideas were positive changes, and the game is significantly better now than it was before.
10 May 2005, 12:46 PM
Revoltor

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Originally Posted by PiotrRasputin

Do you know how much shit get stuck in their fur?
If that happened to me, I'd be pissed too.

I wonder what a shaved down wookie looks like.

HRRRMMMMMM....
10 May 2005, 12:52 PM
Mzo

I think they're furious about being enslaved by the Empire.
10 May 2005, 12:59 PM
Revoltor

I wasn't aware wookies were being used as slaves. Shitty choice if you ask me.

I know bears and gorillas are strong but I sure as hell don't want them working for me.

I assume the wookie slave trade is discussed in one of the novels right? Perhaps even Episode 3?
10 May 2005, 01:02 PM
Mzo

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Originally Posted by Revoltor

I wasn't aware wookies were being used as slaves. Shitty choice if you ask me.

I know bears and gorillas are strong but I sure as hell don't want them working for me.

I assume the wookie slave trade is discussed in one of the novels right? Perhaps even Episode 3?

Nah, Chewie owes Han a Wookie life debt because Han rescued him from Imperials. Wooks were slaves for the Empire in the old trilogy.
10 May 2005, 01:06 PM
Diff-chan

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Nah, Chewie owes Han a Wookie life debt because Han rescued him from Imperials. Wooks were slaves for the Empire in the old trilogy.

LOLS NERD!!!!!!11111111111
10 May 2005, 01:15 PM
Revoltor

HE TOTALLY FELL FOR MY TRAP!!!

KIND OF LIKE WHEN THE EMPEROR LEAKED THE LOCATION OF THE SECOND DEATH STAR!!!
10 May 2005, 01:22 PM
dave is ok

IT'S A TRAPPPP!!!!
10 May 2005, 02:02 PM
gamevet

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Originally Posted by Revoltor

I wonder what a shaved down wookie looks like.

HRRRMMMMMM....

Http://www.tyromag.com/Conventions/D...ter_Mayhew.jpg
10 May 2005, 02:13 PM
Mzo

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

LOLS NERD!!!!!!11111111111

OHNOES OWNED D=
10 May 2005, 02:52 PM
Revoltor

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Originally Posted by gamevet

Http://www.tyromag.com/Conventions/D...ter_Mayhew.jpg

Yeah I saw it on one of the special features for the Star Wars trilogy set. An age-old mystery was solved.

A few others still remain like "What does a Jawa without his hood look like?" and "Why did I just see that Twilek's titty pop out?"