Tips and Tricks from Star Wars: The Old Republic Beta
Date: 12-02-2011 Views:
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Hello everyone, I recently had the chance to play SWTOR weekend beta for the full three days duration and I learned some things that I find are helpful for when you are starting the actual game on Dec 20. Here they are, hope you find them useful too!
1. Differentiating between main quests and side quests!
This may not be so obvious in other MMOs but in SWTOR the planets (zones) you visit have a main storyline and heaps of side quests! Main storyline is where most of the big rewards are but completing the side quests will grant you lots of experience! There are so many side quests out there that completing all of them may "over-level" you for the next planet!
2. (spoiler) Companions, spaceships and vehicles!
Completing the main quest on your starter planet (around level 8-10) will grant you a companion that will aid you in your travels. Completing the main quest on the 2nd planet (Dromund Kaas for Sith) will grant you your own personal spaceship! Once you reach level 25, you can buy or receive (if brought the Digital Deluxe or Collectors) your own personal vehicle that will make traveling within a planet much faster!
Remember you can send out your companions to go and sell the trash loot for you! (It will take about a minute for them to return)
Khem Val, the companion for Sith Inquisitors
Fury, the spaceship for Sith Inquisitors
STAP, vehicle received from purchasing Digital Deluxe or Collectors (image from swtor.com)
3. Autoloot and Area Loot!
One of the things I missed from playing Rift, and didn't know it existed in SWTOR, was the ability to have autoloot and area loot. Basically autoloot means that if you right click on a corpse, the loot will go to your inventory automatically without having you to click on each item. Area loot will allow you to loot multiple corpses in an area.
These options are disabled in SWTOR by default but you can enable it the preferences, under controls.
Make sure to hit Apply first before you hit OK or the changes won't be saved!
4. Summoning your companions!
If your companion is killed but you survived, you might need to right click on their portrait and choose Dismiss Companion. To re-summon your companion, simply click on the button on the bottom left of your companion window to resummon him/her!
This works also if your companion was dismissed for any other reason, like having human players in your party!
5. Skipping past dialogues/cutscenes
Yes, if you need to skip past dialogues/cutscenes for whatever reason, pressing the spacebar works to fast forward through it!
6. Quick travel, Taxi and Binding!
Quick travel is a skill you can use every 30 minutes that will teleport you to a location on the same planet that you have bound to. How do bind to a location?
You need to find these things, and right click them to bind to it!
These binding stations appear on the mini-map with the following icon
Taxi is an unmanned vehicle that carries you from one area to another. You must "discover" these Taxi stations before you can use them. They appear on the mini-map with the following icon.
