[SWTOR] Chapter 13
What do you do with a free night and no Legion Beta invite? SWTOR!
I finished Chapter 13. It was pretty good, but again, like all of them, I found it too short. For this chapter, I was really looking forward to seeing Vette enter the KotFE storyline.
I finished Chapter 13. It was pretty good, but again, like all of them, I found it too short. For this chapter, I was really looking forward to seeing Vette enter the KotFE storyline.
Recently, I started a baby Sith Warrior
with a guy I used to work with and I've been getting to know Vette better through
that toon. Spoiler Alert: I like the way this character is written quite a bit.
The initial interaction with her sets the tone well with her wisecracking the
prison guard. In Chapter 13, Vette is more the supporting actress. The
star of the show is the Bounty Hunter companion, Gault. I never got far enough
with my Bounty Hunter to meet Gault. He was something of an unknown to me and
it didn't take long at all for him to turn off my Light Side Jedi Knight. I
would have liked the Chapter better had Vette had more screen time. She is
still the fun, wise cracking side kick but you can see the last 5 years of
dealing with the Eternal Empire have taken some of that lightheartedness away.
Perhaps BioWare could have gone into their vaunted "choice" bucket
and let you choose which companion you spend more time with like the Koth/Senya
choice in one of the earlier chapters.
Minor spoiler
Initially, I was disappointed when
Chapter 13 didn't address the cliffhanger at the end of Chapter 12 in any
meaningful way. I felt the hand waving "lost communication with all
parties" was a little weak. They did finally address it in the epilogue of
Chapter 13. While I liked the impact and consequences it had, it felt like they
could have done more. Basically, you get a "here's what happened"
kind of resolution. I have a sneaking suspicion the ending would have played
out exactly the same way regardless of my choices in Chapter 12 which is a weak
point in their narrative. If my choices don't matter much, why am I bothering
making them?
Two for the Road
I've been having a great time playing
with my buddy as we work through the low levels. SWTOR is a really great game
for a duo. Unfortunately, our Presence is so high from our other max level
toons that we are blazing through everything with little trouble. It also helps
that I (prepare to be shocked) rolled a tank (Immortal Juggernaut) and my
friend rolled a healer (healer spec Operative).
We are basically playing through the
story like it’s a single player or co-op game. SWTOR works very well like this
and the leveling stories are really solid, though I'm finding the Sith Warrior
story to be inferior to the Jedi Knight story to this point.
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