First playable character class revealed: Bounty Hunter

One of the class's you well be able to play in the star wars: The Old Republic is the bounty hunter. Here is a link to the web page: Bounty Hunter

I plan to play this class.

... personally unless bioware changes something in their workings of the game i think its going to have more of a single player feel to it but i will defenitly be a bounty hunter, but i hope to hell as a bounty hunter you can kill players for money i'd fucking love that

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i hope to hell as a bounty hunter you can kill players for money i'd fucking love that

Yeah, that's what I am hoping for too. I'm kinda worried about being beaten like a red headed step-child by jedi tho.

Jedi are OP, nerf jedi.

Edit to say: Also, I'm torn about how every bounty hunter suddenly has Mandalorian Battle Armor. First, I think "My character looks like Boba Fett, bad ass." then "Everyone will look like Boba Fett, damn."

hopefully they dont make one suit of armor end game the best because at that point everyone will have it they need to make a few different ones with different specialties or something would be great

it does say something about being being jedi killers and force resistance if you read through all of it. So my guess is they are designed as a trump to the Jedi

dunno if you guys played galactic battlegrounds but bounty hunters trumped jedi hard core there was absolutely no contest hence half the reason i like bounty hunters

How did bounty hunters deal with force powers?

they killed the jedi before they got them off ... not sure how but their blasters were unblockable and did retarded dmg plus they had a natural resistance to it so there was the % chance nothing would happen even if they did get it off

I just want to throw this out there. Bounty hunter themselfs are not immune to the force. But if the bounty hunter is a alien species that is immune to the force, and there are alien species in the star wars universe that are immune to the force. Also if the bounty hunter is a force user as well he/she might be immune to some force powers. But the bounty hunter class as never been immune to force powers.

Immune, no they are not. I don't think that was said. I did say resistant, which was me reading between the lines. I only read the page once quickly, but under combat tatics

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Whether working for credits or principle, the Bounty Hunter pursues his targets with dogged determination and methodical precision. Bounty Hunters are renowned for their versatility on the battlefield and their ability to go toe-to-toe with force-users. Their legendary abilities in this arena have earned them the nickname “Jedi Killers”. Whoever they must face, however, the Bounty Hunter comes armed with the most-advanced weaponry on the black market, packing heavy firepower but always keeping a variety of tricks and gadgets ready to go.

The only way to go toe to toe with a jedi is to cancel out his force abilities, which is what lead me to say they may be resistant to the force. but regardless they are a jedi trump class according to the pharagraph above.

force resistance would be a much more likely mechanic to employ against jedi in an mmo otherwise bounty hunters would be OP and would need to be nerf'd hard fast ... w/o lube

On a side note i hate paper rock siscor races/classes in games. but it seems a nessacary evil unless you open everything to everyone like darkfall

I hope they come up with something other than "Force Resistance" - but I am not sure what.

The Force, at least to me, seemed mystical and different. The Force almost always guaranteed victory or survival against seemingly overwhelming odds. Add lightsabers, which appear to be unblockable except by another lightsaber, and you have a very overpowered character vs blaster users(which they can block shots from).

Breaking The Force down numerically seems like a disservice to it somehow. I can't come up with a good way to go about having The Force in a MMORPG without breaking it down to a numbers game though.

I am probably looking at it too much from the movie side of it, as I haven't read many books or played Star Wars games much. I've seen the movies countless times though.

I've seen mostly very skilled, epic Jedi in action. The NPC Jedi if you will.

I'm looking forward to it very much. If Darkfall doesn't open its doors soon I might be seeing everyone there first.

what many people forget is there were thousands of jedi, not just the council and the few heros you read about/saw in the movies. Those guys were not the average jedi but masters and very very few.

With everything being part of the force then it is easy to assume that everything can use the force to some degree. And after a time and exposure to force powers, a person might start to develop a force based resistance which is really nothing more than a subconsciece manifestation of the force. Atleast that is how I would handle it. Because like you said if every jedi was as badass as the movie, then only other jedi would be able to stop them.

at that point it would go back to the third movie when the empire turned on them and even with their numbers they got whiped out, or in attack of the clones just in the little rescue mission they lost jedi as well ... so they wouldnt be all powerful or else they shouldn't be playable imo ... god i feel like a nerd

Aegir wrote:

god i feel like a nerd

you are

I just want to point something out that krig said about lightsaber only able to block other lightsabers. That is not true. In the starwar universe there is a metal called Cortosis. Which they used to make armor and weapons that could block lightsabers.

well it is nice to know i will be able to shove my cortosis plated boot up some jedi's ass

Definitely interesting about Cortosis, but how common is it? I would bet it isn't too common otherwise Jedi would use something other than lightsabers.

Krig wrote:

Definitely interesting about Cortosis, but how common is it? I would bet it isn't too common otherwise Jedi would use something other than lightsabers.

That is using logic the jedi dont have. otherwise they would use rifles which combined with their force powers would be even more powerful then melee range light sabres.

If you ever played star wars knight of the old republic 1 & 2 for the xbox, must of what you fight that use a melee weapon other then a lightsaber, use Cortosis weapons. But there is one problem and that is that cortosis is very rare metal. Though with repeated strikes, a lightsaber could still cut through cortosis. Here a little more info on the metal: Cortosis

And to point out there are force user out there that use rifles and other ranged weapons with the force. You can even play one in the star wars role-playing(pen and paper role-playing). But the reason jedi dont use ranged weapons or other melee weapons is that the lightsaber is ceremonial to jedi not just for combat.Kind of like a samurai's sword. And for a jedi to build is first lightsaber was a right of passage to be coming a jedi knight.

modx wrote:

And to point out there are force user out there that use rifles and other ranged weapons with the force. You can even play one in the star wars role-playing(pen and paper role-playing). But the reason jedi dont use ranged weapons or other melee weapons is that the lightsaber is ceremonial to jedi not just for combat.Kind of like a samurai's sword. And for a jedi to build is first lightsaber was a right of passage to be coming a jedi knight.

I never said force users dont use ranged weapons. I said jedi dont, you call it ceremony I call it fucking stupid. The samuri by the way used many different weapons.

btw

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"You will now tell me how it was you defeated my attack," C'baoth repeated.
A slight grimace, quickly suppressed, touched Thrawn's lips. "It's quite simple, actually." He looked up
at the ysalamir wrapped around his shoulders, reaching a finger over to gently stroke its long neck.
"These creatures you see on our backs are called ysalamiri. They're sessile tree-dwelling creatures from a
distant, third-rate planet, and they have an interesting and possibly unique ability—they push back the
Force."
C'baoth frowned. "What do you mean, push it back?"
"They push its presence out away from themselves," Thrawn explained. "Much the same way a bubble is
created by air pushing outward against water. A single ysalamir can occasionally create a bubble as large
as ten meters across; a whole group of them reinforcing one another can create much larger ones."

that is from the thrawn trilogy series heir to the empire. C'baoth is a master jedi(well not really jedi at this time since he is trying to blast people with force lighting) and these creatures are able to stop his powers easily. Of course i dont want to run around with a lizard hanging on my back all of the time.