Sam's Horrible Nerd Thread for Star Wars *NOW WITH SPOILERS*

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7365

Oh heeeeey that... that makes SO MUCH sense.

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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10698

Yes. And it turns out she's setting these situations up on purpose, along with A MAJOR SPOILER WILL GO HERE IN 24 HOURS DON'T READ IF YOU'RE STILL PLAYING — at first i thought she was That Sort of character who is purposefully written to incite the player, but later on it becomes evident that her treatment of you is quite engineered, to a very specific end .. and it has two ground rules.

srsly epic spoilers ok

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7365

Aaaah okay so I'm super slow at everything and I probably won't read your spoilers even though I'm SUPER CURIOUS.

Update is: She likes me more now that I'm like "yes okay Kreia very good Kreia" even though I then traipse off to go help literally everybody in my path. Not only am I a shining beacon of everything that is good and right in the world, but the dude I broke out of a jail cell and everybody keeps Strongly Suggesting is a cold blooded killer has also tapped out his shiny beacon goodness. I'm feeling smug about all that.

Oh and I FIIINALLY got not only my very own orange lightsaber, but I also have a short lightsaber for my off hand that is yellow.

Now if only I could find heavy armor that doesn't look like somebody dipped my character into molten metal to fit it.
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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10698

I savescummed on Dantooine to get a silver crystal. That plus the girl Rodian on Nar Shaddaa once you open up Dantooine markets for her has a guaranteed silver crystal in inventory. Also I have Jar Shay Advisor Armor.

So, i'm looking good. And that's all that's important.

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7365

I'm baffled at how I could not find a friggin lightsaber to save my soul and suddenly people are just throwing them at me but oh well, they are SUPER AFFECTIVE. But yeah I can't even lie I'm way more invested in how my game characters look than I probably should be.

I've been wandering around Nar Shaddaa and this guy is like "HEY this hutt needs beautiful dancers" and I was like "EH SURE" but then I refused to go farther because what why did I say that. What.

And now I'm trying to picture that conversation. I mean my Jedi is built like a tank (an effect not helped by the wonky screen resolution) and I can only imagine she stood there looking terrifying in her bulky melted-on armor with inexplicable wedgy and the twi-lek was just like "Oh god yes of course you're beautiful oh god anything the hutt could do to me for bringing him a terrifying jedi instead of a dancer would be better than what your eyes are threatening to do to me right now."

I mean is there a reason to visit the hutt that isn't just 'dance around to gain dubious money'?
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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10698

there's a reason behind that, actually. haha

and yes there's a LOT you can do through dancing for Vogga. For example, on the docks there's a couple of aliens all chatting with each other in one of the slum apartments, and if you walk in the room they're all like "oh thought you could sneak up on us huh"

use a character with a stealth belt to sneak up on them in solo mode. listen to what they say about Vogga :3

Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10698

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7365

Oh I remember those assholes I didn't even think to sneak up on them. Will do!

Also that armor is badass. Do they have something in black that isn't like... "DEATH SITH ARMOR OF DOOM" or am I stuck looking like I glued some shiny stuff to a green jumpsuit? Ergh I could just look it up myself but I'm having a hard time finding a site about this game that doesn't have hateful formatting. To be fair I'm not looking very hard though. I prefer heavy armor. Because reasons. Being a tank reasons.
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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10698

additional armor tiers keep unlocking into the loot tables up to about, I believe, level 25. Some of it starts looking wa-a-a-a-a--a-ay out there, but the flex armor looks pretty cool.

this is relative to any other armor in the game though so it's a way easy standard. not only because some of the armor is just ugly as sin and gets crazier and crazier as you go up the armor tiers, but this game's soooooo olllllllllld and the models are stumpy and ugly so

Jal Shay Advisor Armor is imo best in the game shy of some of the insane robes you can get so late on it hardly matters. You can nab one of the +3 or +4 armors that still let you cast force powers verrrrry early on (first telos descent, in fact) and it will carry you through pretty much the entire game

i pretty much can't play in armor anymore because playing in armor = no force speed and no force speed is unacceptable because of how much you have to backtrack through this damn game

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7365

There is a LOT of backtracking, yeah. Like the whole port mini game in Nar Shaddaa is just ridiculous, it's all just forced running between three ports that are all far from each other very carefully presented like an actual puzzle. Force speed sounds kind of worth it, I may rethink my tanking ways and get something that allows for it.

My notes for this game are great though, because I can't be normal so between the random gibberish words and something that looks like a clock with 20 hours, I've also doodled a bunch of big eyed bats. No reason on the bats, they just appear when people let me around paper and writing utensils.
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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10698

jal shay and zeishon sha armors are +3 and +4 (respectively) armor class and still let you cast all force powers. a Master robe (light or dark, doesn't matter) is +3 at minimum if you can score one.

for dudes like atton, there's a sith armor that's +7 with a max dex of +7

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7365

So I had some zeishon sha armor laying around and I'm using that now. Is good. Also my lightsabers are ridiculously overpowered compared to literally every other type of weapon available and I'm not sure how that happened but it works. I can't upgrade any of the fucking blasters because it says my upgrades aren't for that type of blaster? No idea how to get shit that -would- work though. Bleh.

Arc Tempest · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 5205 Location: Oregon

Wait wait wait wait wait, does this mean this is your first encounter with HK-47? Because if it is, you're in for good times.
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