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Background: I play video games on and off, but never intensely and I am notoriously bad at them. My only foray into MMO's has been World of Tanks and I only play Tier 1 and 2. I have not played RPG video games since Adventure on the Apple II.
Problem: My husband really enjoys video games, especially RPG's. He got deluxe edition of SWtOR and has been avidly playing it. I was watching him the other night and commented on how cute T7-01 is, he took that as interest in playing the game and with some excitement proceeded to buy me a copy of the game and a 2 month membership and installed it on my laptop for me all while I was at work. He very excitedly told me that now we can play together. I love my husband very much so I am willing to give this a try, however I really have no idea what I am doing.
Can anyone give me some tips and tricks to getting the hang of this thing? I have started with a Trooper and I really do not know what I am doing other than running into walls, rocks, computer terminals.... (oh ya, and dying, apparently I can do that well).
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Wouter Dhondt
Belgium
Anzegem
My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred. In the Emperor's name, let none survive.
When I now saw this Coppelius, the frightful and terrific thought took possession of my soul, that indeed no one but he could be the Sandman.
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Hard to say. What is the problem your facing? Controls issue? Interface issue? Gameplay issue?
Wouldn't it be easier to ask your Husband to give you a demo of how to play. Or would you rather not ask him?
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Sean Doubt
Canada
Vancouver
British Columbia
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I think your best bet is to play with your husband, have him coach you and teach you to play. The skill set to be very good at SWTOR may take a while, especially if you are "notoriously bad at them" (video games). I have been trying to get my wife to try SWTOR - so good for you for trying it out! You may never become great at the game, but just aim for being competent and having fun with your husband maybe? Learning the controls will simply take practice.
It may take some patience on his part to show you all the ropes, maybe even have him coach you while you play and he sits over your shoulder watching so he can see what are doing. I don't know if that helps you much. Maybe have your husband play a healer class to help you out as well when you play together?
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I don't like to ask him for too much help as he gets frustrated. Not with me, but because he feels bad that I am not "getting it".
I am hoping that there are some tutorials out there that I could go through at my own speed.
Visually I find it challenging to remember all the controls and what all the buttons and symbols mean. I was looking for something I could print out and put on the desk beside me.
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Jules
Belgium
Leuven
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
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I'm with you, gamer girl! I, too, am a SWOTOR enabler. I play together with my boyfriend, he's the trooper and I'm the scoundrel. He loves it and I think it's fun enough. I'm not sure what trouble you're having, but here's some tips:
- Play a few levels with a different class on your own just to figure stuff out at your own speed
- I, too, have trouble not running into things, for some reason my camera view just pans from one side to the other like a maniac - you get used to it after a while, though. I hardly walk into walls anymore!
- If your guy is anything like mine, he'll be zoooming through every location at breakneck speed, racing from quest to quest. Tell him to slow the hell down  Also tell him not to keep talking through the dialogue.
- To avoid running into enemies, I like to press tab a lot: it will put a nice red ring around the enemy closest to you.
- In combat, tab is also a good way to quickly select the next enemy.
- edit: also, you can use the number keys to use your abilites instead of clicking them with the mouse. It's way quicker!
- If it helps, Troopers kick ASS from level 10 onwards! My boyfriend says he didn't really like the trooper until level 14, so asskicking is on the way.
Anything else you're having trouble with?
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Wouter Dhondt
Belgium
Anzegem
My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred. In the Emperor's name, let none survive.
When I now saw this Coppelius, the frightful and terrific thought took possession of my soul, that indeed no one but he could be the Sandman.
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It certainly takes a while to get used to. This is my first MMO as well (ok, I played WoW in trial till level 6). Beginning was going well for me but the game was getting really hard after a while. I was dying all the time. That was until someone at work told me I could gain skills if I gained levels. I was just entering level 10 at that point. I didn't know this till that point and must have missed it somewhere.
Still haven't figured out the whole game, but getting there.
There is some good info on the official forums:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=88942
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=612
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=530
There is also the game manual:
http://www.swtor.com/gamemanual
Hope this helps somewhat
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Wouter Dhondt
Belgium
Anzegem
My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred. In the Emperor's name, let none survive.
When I now saw this Coppelius, the frightful and terrific thought took possession of my soul, that indeed no one but he could be the Sandman.
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Juleske wrote: Also tell him not to keep talking through the dialogue.
THIS!!! I play during lunch break at work. I have a colleague at level 40 and one at level 50. They are maniacs! They come over to watch my progress now and then and always talk during dialogue. Hate that. The dialogue is so good in this game, I wouldn't want to miss it. (granted I'm probably playing it a little too much single player )
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Is it normal in video games that you right click to select things. I am getting frustrated as I am used to left clicking on things.
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Lars Nelson
United States
Fridley
Minnesota
I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake, but in the mean time, rest well, and dream of Large Women.
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Take out your new Blaster and shoot him for buying you a video game without asking if you wanted it first...
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Jan Van Zon
Belgium
Leuven
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walk_softly wrote: Is it normal in video games that you right click to select things. I am getting frustrated as I am used to left clicking on things.
It's an MMO thing mostly. I still get confused by this as well and I'm an MMO veteran of over 10 years. It gets really weird because it's rightclicking on items in your inventory, but then it's a leftclick when you've put the same item in your quickbar.
I think the best way of looking at it is thinking of your right click as an "action button", you can often leftclick enemies and other things in the environment just to see more info about them, but to attack or use them, you have to click the right mouse button.
Also, if you go to preferences and to the key bindings, you can set a standard key for "follow" which will automatically put your character to follow the person you selected (this would be one of those occasions where you have to left click your target first I think). It might be good to use on those occasions where your getting desperate and really have no idea where your going anymore, or if you have to walk away from the computer for a little bit or something.
Also, never be afraid to ask your husband for thorough explanations. He's played the game (and perhaps othr like it before?) and knows some of those little things. Just get him to stop and sit down with you a little while to explain the little things like the minimap, inventory management, ability usage, etc. Some things may not occur to him that they are a bit weird to get used to because they came natural to him, so don't be afraid to question him about everything.
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Johan Jönsson
Sweden
Göteborg
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walk_softly wrote:
Can anyone give me some tips and tricks to getting the hang of this thing? I have started with a Trooper and I really do not know what I am doing other than running into walls, rocks, computer terminals.... (oh ya, and dying, apparently I can do that well).
I recognize this.
I´m a smuggler on Ord Mantell. Got the story by the intro-somehow I have landed on this planet with some cargo. I go out the door and there are a lot of people shooting-very confusing.
I found out who´s the enemy (separatists) and whos the friend (republic army apparently).
Next step was to see little green markers on the strange minimap, those are my objectives.
The obstacles are the separatists
1) Apparently the separatists can´t be talked to, have to shoot at them.
2) You have to click on them, so that they get a red marking beneath them (You also see their portrait at the bottom of screen)
3) Sometimes more clicking makes you attacking them, otherwise you have to push number 1 or some other labeled button.
They die quite easy, apparently you are a seriously great shooter.
4) They always come in bunches of three or four, when one is down, proceed to next. I use TAB to change victim.
After I learned the above, I was quite free to roam the countryside.
As a smuggler I made a sport of getting as little involved as possible in the armys business and killed as few as possible, sneaked along walls (or on them) and walked in the wake of other players.
btw, you can walk by holding down both buttons on mouse OR by using keyboard, e.g. the arrow-keys. Jump with space-bar.
Happy hunting, hope to see you on the planet Nar Shaddaa (something special, it is)
p.s
Search Youtube for "SWTOR for dummies", e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5qP9kJYpOc
d.s.
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Meshell Brown
United Kingdom
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Maybe you should try this website: http://www.torhead.com/
If you type in the quest in the search bar it can help you with the quest you are doing by giving hints/tips etc from other players. Very handy!
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Jan Van Zon
Belgium
Leuven
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So did things work out a bit in the end? Still playing the game?
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Sean Doubt
Canada
Vancouver
British Columbia
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Conlaen wrote: So did things work out a bit in the end? Still playing the game?
Yeah, all of us husbands out here want to know, so we can accounts for our wives too! 
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Posted Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:57 pm
