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There's plenty of all three in Star Wars The Old Republic . The Good I've played a Bounty Hunter before, but never previously went further than Dromund Kaas. This time around I've enjoyed the class a lot more while following the three rules I set for this character. 1. Always follow through on a job. 2. If the target is wanted dead or alive, dead is better. 3. If possible, kill the client as well. This has led me to take some really mean spirited options that I've passed up on in the past and I've lost count of the number of times a conversation scene has ended with a blaster shot. It's not dissimilar to my experience on the Sith Warrior, except where she chews the scenery and goes all in on being Evil with a capital E, the Bounty Hunter is much more businesslike and her dry, understated ruthlessness just makes the mayhem more entertaining. The overall story arc is something of an excuse plot, but it has a lot of good moments along the way. As is usually the ca...

Remember who you're talking to...

"You look like you'd be at home in a jungle." This was far from my first time on Dromund Kaas. Most recently I was there on my Sith Warrior at the end of 2020, and prior to that I've passed through on a number of other characters over the years. Excluding the starter worlds, this is the planet I've spent the most time on in The Old Republic . On my Warrior I took a completist approach and did all the side missions and Heroics on Korriban, Dromund Kaas and Balmorra. On my Bounty Hunter, I've been more selective. I skipped all of the Heroics on Hutta and most of them on Dromund Kaas, and I also passed up on the Cult of Revan side story on the grounds that my Bounty Hunter isn't interested in Sith politics. I've also been selective about which exploration missions I've done. Partly this was to see if my level stayed a little more in sync on subsequent worlds. It didn't, much. When I emerged from the spaceport I immediately went over to pick up the...

Role Models

"There's no time to make you a Mandalorian." If The Old Republic was being released today that line would definitely have been cut. It's City of Heroes that refers to its classes as archetypes, but there's surely no game that takes that more literally than The Old Republic. SWTOR doesn't try to hide the fact that several of its classes are based not just on character types but on specific characters, with the Smuggler being the most obvious example - and here's a Wookiee companion just in case you somehow didn't realize this is the Han Solo class. Then there's the Bounty Hunter, aka the Boba Fett. It's a well worn observation that Boba Fett is a weirdly popular character give that he didn't actually do much in The Empire Strikes Back and went out like a schmuck in Return of the Jedi . I suppose being the only thing in the Star Wars Holiday Special that wasn't completely awful counts as a point in his favor, but still... Rarely has...

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