SWTOR In 2024 - Is It Worth Playing? 

Yep, for all the game's flaws it's still really great to experience these class stories. Almost done Jedi Knight, and I think I'll rotate between light and dark side stories.

@@GamingForImmersionthat's the best way to do it. It is jarring to go from a LS sith warrior who can kill people or be rude due to his power, to a Jedi and having everyone be super nice and supportive. Hard to get used to but it's the best way to keep it fresh

That would be awesome.

by sheer monotization ya no thx its fine were its at.

Imagine a SWATOR with graphics as good as Warframe or Dragons Dogma 2, a character creator as extensive as Dragons Dogma 2 and still have a great story and truly free to play

​@@Avalon19511yay more f2p garbage with ridiculous cashshop and paid dyes. If you're going to do a live game do it properly with subscription.

if they would modernise and remake Starwars Galaxies would probably be more popular.

I'm really enjoying it, even more so now that I've learned to set my companion to passive and the combats have become interesting again.

Very true.

Funny that you mention WoW, I'm considering revisiting that one, too. It's been about 10 years for me, I think.

You can play for free, but 14 dollars is not much

I would love that. GW2 has the best combat of any MMO I've ever played, that would be so cool to have in a Star Wars universe.

Good to hear!

Totally agree, that would be my dream MMORPG.

Pretty much how I feel, too.

Good question. Possibly they want to stay accessible to folks with older computers, but it sure would be nice for them to give us some updated graphics with the option to scale it down.

Nice. I played it for almost a year back when it first launched, there's a lot now that is familiar and a lot that's changed.

@@GamingForImmersion About the changes I'm glad that I can decide what role my companions would take and that I no longer need to gear them like in the old days.

Glad to hear it! Such a good game, and I have a suggestion for you when you start to feel like it's too easy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c8vZaaZdf-k.html

@GamingForImmersion oh dude ty this is perfect 👌

True, I just wish the some of the time getting to endgame had a little challenge.

Yep, I also made a more recent video about setting the companion to passive all the time. I use them to gather mats and participate in dialogues and nothing else, and the game is way better.

I did. It doesn't do what people seem to think it does: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c8vZaaZdf-k.html

Feels more like FF14 just wasn’t for you as I disagree completely with how you feel about the base game. Mind you I am with you in the fact that I eventually did leave the game for the most part but that wasn’t until the most recent expansion due to the game not providing me with any reason to stick around.

I've started playing without a companion and it's just the right amount of challenge now.

Do you consider paying a sub as “wasting real money”? Because I dont think you need to interact with the cash shop at all outside of maybe paying a sub for access to some stuff

I'm loving it, probably my favorite Chapter 1 so far. Yes, it'll probably be the second story I upload. Takes a while to edit these.

@@GamingForImmersion I do understand why you chose to change the format, that said, I will miss the old one. Gave me a feeling that I was with you on your journey when you explore and find new things. And the oh and ahs when you continue in the story. Same thing with your slower campains in WH3. I have your videos besides me when playing myself, or doing work. More of a friend on a trip than just another youtuber... Will miss those things in your new Stories fromat. Just want to let you know. :)

Very glad to hear it. I have mixed feelings about changing the format, too, but it was getting to be a bit much to juggle recording all the time I waste on crafting and random missions. Love to hear the sense of community, that's awesome.

Haha not offended, glad to help! I have my own books that I tried narrating and realized it's harder than it sounds.

There's fair bit of discussion on the difficulty option in the comments. It does not affect story missions, unfortunately.

Well said. Very much the way I feel except that I haven't reached that point of exhaustion, yet. The thing is, I remember when the game first came out that it wasn't nearly as trivial. At some point they changed it for the worse.

@@GamingForImmersion I think it was always pretty easy but if you want to know the point it became trivial, it's when they turned all of the companions gear into cosmetic only and when they added level scaling to the old content. They made companions so ludicrously powerful that they are downright more powerful than the player character, and they level scaled the challenge out of old content in particular. So even if you were using the games mechanics to try and make the game more challenging by not upgrading your gear, your companion still trivializes combat anyway and even when you can't use them the level scaling trivializes the combat. You can try turning off their ability to attack or unsummoning them, but companions are a core part of the game and the story, and so it's far from a perfect solution. And even if it was, the low difficulty isn't just the fault of gear numbers, it's the lack of interesting fight design. Traditional tab-target combat like SWTOR has can be fun, but it does still require enemies that do more than just damage you. Unfortunately that's all most enemies are capable of doing, they don't have any mechanics to dodge or play around, and moreover since you can't use your companion (since they're stupid OP) there's no playing your role in the holy trinity. That last part is particularly sad, because having a companion with you at all times in an MMO that is just as powerful as a player character is honestly a genius idea. It means you can design all combat in the game with the assumption that the player character always has access to sustain and defense. This should allow solo content to design more interesting and traditional fights alike to dungeon and raid bosses, but even back when the game launched, it never really made use of this idea. And that's just kinda the problem with SWTOR as a whole, isn't it? The game has a lot of these amazing ideas and features, and then it just never uses them in interesting or creative ways. I still remember the first time I played a Flashpoint in this game, and how blown away I was by the fact that every player character had a chance to make dialogue choices. There's so much cool stuff you could do with that, including like conflict within the party over which decisions to make. But they never use it that way, every flashpoint is just a solo cutscene where the participants roll to see who gets to pick a dialogue choice. That there's different PCs talking has no actual function in the way the cutscene or the mission is designed, it's purely an aesthetic difference. So much of the games best features are wasted in the same way. Even the story itself is wasted because the game builds up to these climactic encounters and then the actual fights aren't even that interesting. Can you imagine a universe where SWTOR's solo content had fights like Guild Wars 2's story missions? SWTOR would be an incredible game in that universe, too bad we live in this one instead :( It hurts as a Star Wars fan and a fan of video games to look at SWTOR. It's not bad, but it is a disappointment of cataclysmic proportions, and a waste of incredible potential on top of that.

I think a SWTOR with GW2 type combat and some modern graphics would be amazing. It would probably ruin my life because I'd never stop playing.

I wasn't one-shotting bosses in the expansions, for sure. But I may have been undergeared and/or not a particularly good player. The bad thing about this game is you can get away with being a bad player and never knowing it because the game never forces you to L2P.

@@GamingForImmersion you dont one hit any bosses at any point, i believe the dude was exaggerating the ease of the class stories

A lot of good points, I agree with almost all of that. I do think a lot of MMO players care about story (I'm one of them), but yes they're (we're) probably outnumbered.

​@@GamingForImmersionstar wars galaxies didn't. You made your own story. Had lot more freedom too and was pretty fun mmo. SWTOR is poor man version of kotor and kotor 2 and not a very good mmo because it linear and a boring game design.

Whether you consider it or not, it is still an excellent mmorpg

It's a MMSORPG - a Massive Multi-SOLO Online Role Play Game

I completely agree, which is why I made this video shortly after the first: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c8vZaaZdf-k.html I even have started making companion-less playthroughs. BTW, I'm not under 40. I don't think age has much to do with it, some people like challenge and some don't. My best friend who I often game with agrees with you, he sees no need for extra challenge. My brother, who is even older than I, likes the higher difficulties.

I know the option you're referring to, I thought it was only for flashpoints. It affects the main story, too? If so, that's a game-changer.

@@GamingForImmersion hey, as far as I know, yes. I never tried it because I'm a lazy bastard :)

So I went ahead and tested this out. Changed the setting to Master and did some story missions. Just as easy as ever.

@@GamingForImmersion I was wrong then, sorry.

No worries.

The game without a partner is very difficult, maybe in story mode not so much but there are more levels.

That setting has no effect on the leveling process or class story missions, alas. I did start using companion set to passive, though, and that makes the game so much better!

It's for flashpoints. Doesn't appear to have any effect on story missions.

Which character does she voice??

@@alivingalbumcover9724 female sith warrior

Agreed.

They should update the progression system and build diversivication. Lowering XP gain through the class story content so it actually require making side quests to level up the character. Making a build should be something more than choosing one utility every 10 levels or so. I miss 1.0 and 2.0 SWTOR - it actually feels like a proper MMO

I hear you but it feels like a wasted opportunity that the base game doesn't have it.

@@GamingForImmersion Swtor Story was way harder back then. Thats why they made it easier, lot complained. And btw you can adjust your Q difficulty by clicking right on your Avatar Window and Chose story diffuculty.

I'm showing my ignorance here, what's Q difficulty? I thought that Mission Difficulty Preference was for Flashpoints. Does it affect class missions?

Never played it. I usually avoided superhero movie and games. Recommended?

@@GamingForImmersion big time

Definitely an improvement. I've taken to making the companions passive all the time, which provides a much better challenge and actually makes combats interesting again.

@@GamingForImmersion I play with my buddy, so we don't even use companions