Playing Star Wars: The Old Republic lets the player encounter numerous planets, but a few of them all seem to come with a question the game never asks - and unless I’m missing something, no other media answers - but still feels important.
What happened to the planets by the time of the films?
The Voss prophets seem like they could have a major roll in The Clone Wars and The Rebellion against Palpatine’s empire, so why aren’t they involved? Did the republic keep using Belsavis as a prison planet, or is it long abandoned by the time the Skywalkers start terrorising the galaxy?
And the same question can be asked about technologies. In a side quest on Dromund Kass, we find a scientist who’s life work is creating cybernetic limbs that grow and heal like living fleash and bone. So where is that tech by the time of The Clone Wars?
Or The Infinite Engine. Was a growing machine that could become a weapons factory that can make anything from The Force just… misplaced?
I know that The Old Republic Era and the film era are seperated by roughly 33 centuries, and that’s a lot of time for things to be lost and forgotten, but it still feels weird.
I saw a thread on reddit about tinkering with individual graphics settings to “fix” the 7.6 changes. The initial change offered there didn’t do a lot for me, so I went back in myself and ran Theron’s date night (with its wacky lighting) a few times.
Spoilers: They can’t be reverted or ‘fixed’, but they can be toned down. The suspension of disbelief thing was killing my joy bad. I play on Ultra, so this is done with other settings at max; if you play on lower settings, the payoff might be less, but it’ll still help.
Here’s a screen shot with the 2 key settings outlined in red and yellow: Character Level of Detail and Character Texture Atlasing. Set both to “low.”
The wrinkles and eyebags are 3-D textures; light plays off of them, so you will still see shadows and creases where you did not before, but they are reduced by essentially 'blurring’ the character. As mentioned before, this is really evident for people in neon environments such as Mek Shaa and Nar Shaddaa; you will always see the creases/bags and their artifacts there. However, in most other direct light environments, the severity is reduced. Eva still has a few lines and wrinkles, but they’re not as crepey as they were before. It’s like when you have to smooth out your concealer at lunch because it got into a crease during the course of the morning.
Some good news for Chiss and Miralan: according to my Fria and Spouse’s blueberry, this does smooth out some of the color weirdness. Again, because the devs changed the textures of the characters, there will be some that remains, but it is less intense.
My Torgruta Padneema still looks pissed as fuck, so it doesn’t fix everything. No, she wasn’t always like that, just for clarification. Hope this helps someone who didn’t like how their blorbo turned out after the update. It won’t be the exact same, but hopefully it’s less of a change.
For a while now, I’ve been thinking of having Lord Fenrir forge himself a Sith sword, like the kind used by ancient Sith before they had Lightsabers. But there’s two problems with this.
1: It’s canon within the Fenrir-Verse that Lord Fenrir responds poorly to high tempretures - Tattooine was one of the planets he had the most trouble with - so he logicly shouldn’t be able to handle the heat of a forge.
2: According to Wookieepedia, ancient Sith swords were 1.4 metres or 4.5 feet in length. How is this a problem? Lord Fenrir is 5.2 feet tall. And I can’t think of a way for him to carry and use a weapon that is less than 1 foot shorter than he his.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could make this work, or would it be better to give up on giving Lord Fenrir a Sith sword?
Why is it that my Star Wars and SWTOR post never seem to get attention unless I tag people in them? Even then, it’s like my posts just don’t get exist.
For a long time I’ve toyed with the idea that my Sith characters in The Fenrir-verse might end up having to leave the Sith Empire and end up making their own order of Force Users. I’ve come up with a set of tenats that their order would follow, and I’d like some opinions on whether the tenats could be followed and still have it be an order of Darksiders.
Love can grant power as much as hate and is not to be dismissed.
Family is a treasure to be cherished and protected. Not a tool to used, nor a hindrance to be removed.
Relics, weapons, and armour of The Force belong to Force Users.
Weapons forged with The Force are not for practice. To draw them means intent to cause harm.
A weapon forged with The Force is an extension of the one who forged it. To alter it without consent, is an insult.
Knowledge kept hidden grows stagnant, and is forgotten. Knowledge shared amongst those able to use it, can be refined and perfected.
Study of The Force takes priority over any other discipline.
For a long time I’ve toyed with the idea that my Sith characters in The Fenrir-verse might end up having to leave the Sith Empire and end up making their own order of Force Users. I’ve come up with a set of tenats that their order would follow, and I’d like some opinions on whether the tenats could be followed and still have it be an order of Darksiders.
Love can grant power as much as hate and is not to be dismissed.
Family is a treasure to be cherished and protected. Not a tool to used, nor a hindrance to be removed.
Relics, weapons, and armour of The Force belong to Force Users.
Weapons forged with The Force are not for practice. To draw them means intent to cause harm.
A weapon forged with The Force is an extension of the one who forged it. To alter it without consent, is an insult.
Knowledge kept hidden grows stagnant, and is forgotten. Knowledge shared amongst those able to use it, can be refined and perfected.
Study of The Force takes priority over any other discipline.
I’ve made this poll before, but it got almost no attention, so I’m going to try again.
One complaint I’ve seen about Star Wars media made after the original trilogy is that it made The Force too powerful. In the films it’s just an energy field that connects all things, and all we see it do is move objects, mind trick people, show the future, and fill people with lightening.
In the expanded media however it can be used to pull down Star Destroyers, look into the past, cheat death by moving a persons soul into another body, and alter materials or living things. Some Sith can even destroy whole planets.
So I thought I should try to get as many peoples opinon as I could.
Was The Force made too powerful or ruined is expanded media?
Out of 310 votes, 69% voted no, but it seems that some people have a more complicated view than just yes or no. I know that one person said that Anakin as The Chosen One was supposed to be a living terror and that EU powers made him look weak.
Another pointed out how Darth Vader in A New Hope said that The Death Star’s planet destroying abilites were insignificant next to the power of The Force, and a few people mentioned how The Force itself isn’t too powerful, it’s the people who use that are.
If anyone has futher thoughts, I’d like to hear them. But please don’t put your thoughts as hashtags. It doesn’t help anyone to see a load of ’#I reckon this thing shouldn’t have been done #because it goes against this thing here’ and it just completly misses the point of hashtags.
When You’re an Imperial General, but somebody’s idiot Acolyte is getting in your way
Jokes aside, this is a problem.
Every Sith - even an Acolyte - theoretically outrank regular Imperials, even high-ranking members of the military.
While there are obviously some very capable, intelligent Acolytes in the Empire, they often seem like the exception. By definition, they are usually less experienced. Many are a product of a sub-culture that regards non-Force-sensitives as cannon fodder.
That’s… a terrible way of doing things. Does this Acolytes’ master even know what they’re doing?
I feel like a solution to this would be establishing that each Sith rank was equivilent to a Military rank.
An Acolyte equals a Sergent, an Apprentice equals a Captain, a Lord equals a Colonel, and a Darth is a General. Something like that. No Sith has authority over any Military personel above their corosponding rank, but they can freely command soldiers of matching rank or below.
The proplems then would be 1: making sure everybody knew the ranking system and their place in it, and 2: making sure that the Sith followed it. I imagine the second part would be the most difficult.
