Swtor creative director charles boyd shares some insights about the last 2 expansions to the game as well as how well the different approaches to the chapter based story were accepted by the players. The old republic and be the hero of your own star wars saga in a. The old republic is a freetoplay, awardwinning bioware. This story takes place in the star wars fictional universe shortly after the. As mentioned in the link i directed you too, i would advise that you check with your college it department to make sure the connection will allow communication between the. And im sure you can tell from the use of those sarcastic quotation marks that i may have had some issues with the expansion and i will get to that. It mainly depends on your speed but you are looking for an average of a 36. Issue is that both the star wars mmos have been kind of gakky. If youre imperial, you receive your ship at the end of the dromund kaas storyline. So, i searched around on reddit, useless people didnt answer once i brought it up, so, i assumed something was corrupted in my folders of the game. We do indeed have a focus, and that is the trooper class in the old republic. However, we also consider general tor news and information to be of high importance to the site, and do our best to keep our readers up to speed on the goings on regarding swtor. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
I really need help with this or just with why the game takes so long to download, last time i was downloading it, it took me about 5 hours max and this time i would. If you already have an ea account that uses the same email address as the one youre attempting to use here, we will set your ea password, date of birth, language and country to match the account information you enter on if you dont already have an ea account, we will. I have a speed of 10 mbits megabits per second and the launcher would only ever go as high as 150 kbs kilobytes per second instead of the full speed of about 1 mbs megabyte per second. You may use a pc cleaner program to speed up the process. But then mass effect 3 came out and i played that instead.
Start this story arc by speaking to a droid on the fleet near the new outbound mission hangar. I mean swtor companion page gaming face is kinda boring. While im curious as to what classes my fellow star wars. Does anyone know how many gbs swtor is at now currently.
Theyre just set to heal by default because thats generally the most useful role. But ill update this post as soon as i get a hour or two in the game. You might add a video or a pic or two to grab people interested about what youve got to say. Ridiculously long queue for dps to queue for dungeon. Jedi knight jedi academy was released called knights of the force. All of my other games are installed and ready to go within 12 hours.
Jan 19, 20 depending on your connection and the version of the game that swtor has available for direct download like that, it could possibly take 46 hours if you are having to download additional patches that were not included in the initial download. Ok so the game has been working fine until i tried to download the patch today. Oh, and to instigate even more frustration in those who are. Now you can level up your guild as well as your characters. I think it was tuesday when i finally noticed the swtor icon on my desktop. Aug 10, 2018 the swtor hq at eas helper section has done a good job at combining many of the possible problems players have or may experience with the launcher of the game. Swtor is taking too long to download so i just try to play it since it is playable after main donwload is overit is now at 57. If you are experience this problem is most likely because in some moment on time you linked that email address with a ea account if you either remember or not, and what you need to do in case you dont want to talk to support center is to change the swtor email address until you find an email which is not related at all with ea for example. Calling their customer support hotline for immediate issues. Stop being toxic to people taking the time to answer your questions. A few weeks ago i created a swtor account, planning to take advantage of the free weekend.
Mar 11, 2012 ok, so after countless attempts at getting the game to install through the three discs i finally used the game client and it installed, and now im waiting for the game to do all the updates and patches. I have been waiting and yes ive been counting 3 hours how long will it take i have a windows 7 hp pavilion and good internet. Why does it take so long get an email 20 30min, i have set up other email accounts on my tablet 30sec tops to receive emails, but when stent to outlook email accounts 20 to 30 min. A view of the conversation wheel with a darkside response highlighted. When you first associate the security key with your swtor account you will be asked to enter the serial number of the key. Oct, 2016 next, i navigated to the folder containing launcher.
The old republic english customer service readonly patch taking forever to download first bioware post. A few weeks ago the swtor launcher stopped downloading as fast as it used to and started to start at higher speeds then eventually go down to lower. A fun addition to the old republic though that the majority of mmorpgs dont emply is the ai companion system. The old republic players will be rolling come launch, there is little other reason for this post but for me to shamelessly geek out over cool videos. How long does it take to install star wars old republic. While there, you kill an imperial officer only for his wife to call on the holo. If you already have an ea account that uses the same email address as the one youre attempting to use here, we will set your ea password, date of birth, language and country to match the account information you enter on swtor. Not too bad since my net has a big speed and 25 gigs would download very fast, 34 or 5 hours dependding on whos ussing my line we share it at our home, but what i cant get my head around is the gut wrenching slow speed of the download in the launcher. After some digging online i found that i had accidentally hit the key on the numeric keypad.
Yes, the fact that you are working from a college campus can in fact be a reason affecting your download speed. As of july 21st, 2011, if you are creating a new account, you must also have a matching ea account. Once the predownloader has completed downloading new patches you will notice several new folders have been created. Taking forever to load second life server second life.
As it is necessary to install this patch, it is no longer possible to play, as long as the. Like most major events in swtor, your ship is a part of your story questlines. Oct 16, 2015 i recently was playing swtor and my character began walking slowly. Throughout this video i discuss all the content you should play within the star wars. I loronline lawrence bring to you must do swtor a parody of disneys very own must do disney. I play as a level 29 jedi knightguardian and im having issues defeating darth angral due to being sorely under leveled hes level 33, and, since i am one of those standard free to play players. Ridiculously long queue for dps to queue for dungeon elder. Hi, i just bought a digital copy of star wars the old republic about an hour or so ago and it is taking an eternity to download. Swtor had a lot of neat stuff, but to me, swtor was horribly executed. For quite some time i have been having slow patching, i cant even remember how long it took to download swtor itself. At least in swtor they bothered to make dungeon runs available to everyone immediately by giving u a pocket healertankdps when you enter the dungeon that was enough to fill up the missing role. Ive restarted pc and my launcher many times, and i dont know what to do.
A cautionary tale i have checked and double checked these emails for privacy warnings, and i dont see them. So, i looked on the forums, and it said to delete a certain folder. Launcher stuck at this is the second major problem ive had with this game and apparently i cant access any kind of support team so im hoping maybe somebody here can help with this. So i dont get whats up with swtor and its slowass download speeds. Do not forget to submit a case to your local attorneys office as they are taking your money and refuse to provide the service you. Your best bet is to run it when you are going to bed, so you can wake up in the morning and start playing. I just reinstalled all my laptops software including windows. May 08, 2016 they can look at other games for inspirations, like swtor giving pocket healersdpstanks for dungeons, dungeons and dragons online ddo giving out personal hirelings to help out in dungeons, neverwinter online giving the option to go solo, by reducing the monster strength, etc.
Leveling up your guild increases the bonus xp available to your members, and earns you guild commendations which you need to buy guild perks. If you have swtor launcher issues, check for solution here. I looked around and found a youtube article talking about it. So i have played this game before but due to me changing my pc and everything i have to download the entire game again. So ive been updating swtor for a whole day now, the download isnt taking long, but installing is. Charles boyd on swtor story chapters and returning companion. Star wars the old republic download toms hardware forum. Guild xp is earned by your guild members taking part in conquest events, they earn 2 guild xp for each conquest point. After a long download which lasted a couple days my game finally downloaded and i closed the launcher. Im also going to be covering how the swtor devs plan to resolve these issues following there weekly livestream on the 23rd of november 2016. It was intended as an expansion packtotal conversion for the game, offering players the ability to explore all the various maps of the game and fight against or be hundreds of characters from across the star wars saga. Available to all players, f2p, preferred, or subscriber. U cant expect to always have consistency with online downloads.
One of the most dedicated and venerable jedi rp guilds on darth malgus. The downloading is peeking almost constantly at 2 mbs,yet its taking forever. Unless they contact me and ask me to take this post down, it will stand. To fix the issue of the launcher taking forever to load up after you click on it to load, i have a fix for you. Lucasarts, the lucasarts logo, star wars and related properties are trademarks in the united states andor in other countries. You could peek at yahoos home page and note how they create post titles to get viewers to open the links. Run the pre downloader and set the directory to the new folder you created and copied to this computer. Find out whats taking up the most space on your c drive and delete or transfer those unnecessary files. Please ensure you take down this serial number and keep it safe as it may be required to remove the security key from the account. To fix the issue of the launcher taking forever to load up after you click on it to load, i. The old republic, you can set up a recurring payment or use the onetime payment option set up a recurring payment. As of july 21st, 2011, if you are creating a new swtor. Next, i navigated to the folder containing launcher.
I recently was playing swtor and my character began walking slowly. Besides the things u cant control, this also occurs due to. Copy the new folder you created to the computer you wish to download the patches on. Which surprised me as there were plenty of mmorpgs taking the action combat route yet star wars opted to remain traditional to mmorpgs at the time. The old republic, a storydriven mmorpg from bioware and lucasarts. Im downloading star wars the old republic,and its taking forever. My internet isnt the fastest,but i can download a 3gb update for war thunder,in less than an hour. The game was also chock full of grinding, combat was slow and unwieldy, and story. The swtor hq at eas helper section has done a good job at combining many of the possible problems players have or may experience with the launcher of the game.
The old republic takes is actually a tab target combat style. Hey there, ive recently downloaded secondlife and everything is just so laggy and takes ages to load that it is just impossible to really play ive been in a zone for 5 minutes and only now has it fully loaded. Next day i had to wait for launcher to update the game because there was a maintenance so i assumed that was it. After logging in, the launcher started downloading the latest game. So i finally got around to trying out the latest expansion from bioware austins star wars. Click on subscriptions, then subscribe follow the onscreen instructions to add the payment method of your choice and select a subscription plan. I didnt even realize that id missed the free weekend until mass effect 3 was over. Grant it i have a slower connection but it only takes about an hour and a half to download a gigabyte sized file. Galaxies had the open sand box that was just great for the setting, and definitely the games highlight, but on an overall was just a bad version of ever quest in space. The freezing takes place just after the choice of a game character and a retart of. Its almost a lackluster effort from zenimax to fix this issue. Im not used to games taking more than an hour or 2 to install, how long does this one normally take. Apr 09, 2015 no but i was talking to you as you necrod a 2 year old thread to ask for help.
Tech support latest patch taking forever to download. Even while i was a subscriber the leveling was too slow, i quit. Their collection is quite extensive and contains well described possible paths for fixing the issues and recovering the launcher. Swtor scored a devastating critical hit on lotro for 999,999 points of damage. Yesterday ive been stuck at installing 100% during the maintenance with red bar not green, now wanting to download the freaking patch im stuck at veryifing 0%. Now when i enter the game it shows its in quick play mode, meaning i can only play c. However, once it hit 59%, it became horribly, horribly slow.
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