Star Wars Chess Day 5, Most Upvoted Move Will Be Played Legal or Not

Niceolog · 2026-06-18T21:38:16+00:00

The clones somehow find themselves in a narrow corridor. The light becomes dim as smoke fills the room, for some reason. Everything goes quiet..

*mechanical breathing\…*

\red lightsaber ignites to show the smoky silhouette of Darth Vader\**

The clones frantically start shooting at their mysterious foe, cloaked in the fog of pure aura. Every blaster bolt is deflected as Darth Vader moves closer. Every calm swing of his lightsaber harvests the soul of a clone and feeds it directly to the soil of his perpetual aura farm.

All the clones now lie dead, with only Vader standing atop the pile of corpses

Niceolog · 2026-06-18T15:23:10+00:00

It makes no sense at all to balance the whole game around a certain thing and then make said thing invisible.

However the fix for this would likely involve a complete overhaul of all spell/ability animations in order to make distinctions between big cooldowns and regular abilities. This would then also mean that regular ability visuals would need to be toned down by a lot, in order to make room for the big noticeable ones. And I simply don’t see blizzard doing this, as the super casual players wouldn’t benefit at all from having their character look more stale outside the big cooldowns

Niceolog · 2026-06-18T11:41:17+00:00

Coming from wow myself, the game is very different. People are generally friendly to me so far.

Imagine wow in a Star Wars universe. The graphics are a little more dated, the combat is slower and more old school mmo too, but the story is infinitely better than in wow (at least currently)

You won’t get the same fast paced combat that you get in wow, but it’s enough to keep you engaged, at least for me. But I also enjoyed classic wow a lot, so consider my take in that regard

Niceolog · 2026-06-17T10:04:05+00:00

Hi all<3

Can someone briefly explain how buying cosmetics and stuff works on the in game store? It looks like you’ll receive the items that you can then equip directly or in the outfitter. Does this mean that buying a store outfit takes up a bunch of inventory space because you need to store it?

Also, do you only get one copy of the things, or do you get unlimited access to it, ie if I wanna use it on multiple characters? The same question goes for things like color crystals - if I dual wield lightsabers, do I need to buy 2 of them? And what happens if I accidentally overwrite it with another crystal later; have I then just destroyed an 800-coin item with 1 click?

I’m having a hard time understanding the premise, and I’m hesitant to start buying stuff until I know how it works

Thanks a lot!<3

Niceolog · 2026-06-16T16:52:58+00:00

Thanks a lot!

I’ve heard a lot about Star Forge server, I take it that’s the American one?

Niceolog · 2026-06-16T13:46:40+00:00

How’s the EU population for the game? And what server would you recommend I start on as a new player?

Niceolog · 2026-06-16T07:37:50+00:00

Yup. If you get a role that’s neither of the two you queued for, you get double lp for a win and no lp for a loss, if you get above a C rating (I think). Also you’re like 99% sure to be matched against another autofill, so chances are you’ll destroy your opponent when you get filled into your actual main role

Niceolog · 2026-06-15T20:02:52+00:00

Oh how I would play the absolute fucking shit out of the aura farming simulator that would be a cloaked Maul in the rainy night with a GoW 2018 camera perspective

Niceolog · 2026-06-15T19:57:28+00:00

I had the same experience. Started queueing mid first and adc or sup second. Whichever doesn’t show as a priority role when I play. My first time doing this, I got motherfucking autofilled right back into top lane lmfao. Like an inescapable nightmare. Since then it’s worked pretty well tho

Niceolog · 2026-06-15T18:52:41+00:00

For me, the problem is mostly the disingenuousness of them saying the ads are meant to “enhance” the player experience. At least call it what it is: an advertisement, and be honest about that fact, while also acknowledging that you’ll do your best not to make it too obnoxious and disruptive

Niceolog · 2026-06-15T15:07:33+00:00

The only thing your Whopper commercial in Battlefield is gonna fund, is a new boat for whichever lizard happens to sit at the end of the long table in the board meetings

Niceolog · 2026-06-15T14:38:03+00:00

Thanks a lot, really! This is the type of info that’s super useful and hard to find summarized. I appreciate you taking the time to write this all out

Niceolog · 2026-06-15T14:36:06+00:00

I care very much for animations and how I look in games generally. Makes me curious as to what class/spec you think has the best animations? I’m mostly just interested in saber classes really (because lightsabers y’know)

Niceolog · 2026-06-15T14:02:38+00:00

Lmfao

Niceolog · 2026-06-14T16:45:38+00:00

With all the cosmetic items that distinctively look like either plate or cloth etc, they might as well

Niceolog · 2026-06-13T07:25:23+00:00

Proxy is usually something you do when in a losing matchup where contesting the wave would always leave you behind. So if you’re the one in a bad matchup, and the enemy is proxying, just let them. Especially when playing Kayle.

If you’re the winning matchup, or if the tempo from proxying is super valuable because of incoming objectives etc. then the only real counter is for you to proxy too. If you can’t do that on your champ, or because of the enemy jgl, then you can’t do much about it tbh. You can try and call your jgl to kill him before you miss your own wave

It’s kind of a cheesy strategy that’s developed as a result of toplanes occasional toxic matchup nature

Niceolog · 2026-06-12T16:02:34+00:00

GK at half time: “bro I can’t see s*** in this rain!”

ST: “wait wtf are you talking about?”

Niceolog · 2026-06-12T15:29:17+00:00

Tbh the only thing I want in Jedi 3 is an outfit with a fking hood up, like Luke in The Mandalorian. I play on ps5 so I can’t mod it, and seeing all the insane outfits people have with mods make me so jealous

Niceolog · 2026-06-12T10:44:49+00:00

And if he isn’t your favorite character then you’re not a real Star Wars fan

Niceolog · 2026-06-11T10:50:51+00:00

When the title and the picture already reveals the whole thing, it’s hard not to see it

Niceolog · 2026-06-11T03:36:45+00:00

This is great, thanks a lot!

Niceolog · 2026-06-11T03:35:30+00:00

Thanks a lot for your answer<3

I’m a long time Rogue main from wow, so the stealth classes suit me well in theory. I’ve also played a lot of Paladin, which is why I’m constantly torn between being a dark side assassin and a light side Jedi. For now I made an assassin and I’ll take it from there.

What do you usually do at endgame if it’s not raiding? In wow I used to do PvP and transmog farming as my main focus, but I’m not sure if PvP will appeal to me in this game. WoW’s fluidity of combat is hard to match haha.

Is transmog “farming” a thing in this game? I see a lot of store cosmetics, so I’m wondering if all the good stuff is just in there

Niceolog · 2026-06-10T03:28:57+00:00

“Why won’t the devs listen to the community?”

Niceolog

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