Just to add to it all, I have not read the entire thread so sorry if it's been brought up. There's a point in the story, I think during the cryo dream, where Valkorion says something along the lines of "our bodies are not who we are." I always took this to mean that "what you are" wouldn't necessarily have a "body limit" to exhaust (which he sort of showed on Ziost). This is similar to the line quoted by DarthDymond in the linked thread, that "You discern a fraction of reality," meaning that the perspective of one body, one entity if you will, is only a limit that can be transcended by anyone with the power to do so.

I see your point. I have actually always felt like my choices on female player characters felt somewhat limited for romance, but I always just saw it as personal taste. I hadn't considered race as a limiting factor towards female characters but as you point out it's fairly obvious when you list them. Still hoping for romance inclusion in future content (besides Lana and Theron). Probably won't happen but who knows? They did have those two alerts for Elara and Vector, not much but at least something.

Same. Haven't folks been asking for Major Anri's goggles for player Twi'lek since before she was in the game?

Does that change anything? We have Kaleesh, Chagrian and Trandoshian companions that aren't romance options either.

Why is that weird? There are no female Cathar and Sith Pureblood or male Zabrak, Rattataki and Togruta romance options either.

Would they make sense in any other class? Maybe Sith Inquisitor or Smuggler, but I doubt any would serve Imperial Intelligence or the Republic Militairy given that it's a new world to the wider galaxy, right?

The cloaking ability that lets you escape combat is still useful in some Skytrooper encounters (although far from all), some classes can get a tactical that adds a charge to that ability too. After the Valkorion story, stealth itself becomes more useful.

The only specific instances that really make me groan are when the player character lets an enemy go for no reason.

Aren't they a bit too alien? If nothing else I imagine Bioware would be trying to keep any new playable species within the constraints of the facial animations already present. I would assume that the heads of Mon Calamari are too dissimilar to be seamlessly integrated into the existing cutscenes.

The final republic planetary quest on Hoth is also referenced later, although I am unsure if you actually need to play it for them to reference the elements that it involves.

Walker quests are boring, would love an option to just proceed on foot. The droid "puzzles" were never that time consuming, imo. I just don't get the reason for its inclusion when it serves as nothing but a one-time stop-gap.

You know, commenting about "first world problems" has become something of a meme, but it seems to fit perfectly here. I'm pretty sure it took OP more effort to write their post than it would have taken to complete the small tasks before the next story mission. There's plenty of thrill left in this game, tiny missions with easy tasks do not take away from that.

I don't think gear means much in this specific mission, I went through it with characters that don't have very good gear without much issue. The Mando flashpoint gave those chars trouble tho.

I haven't died in that fight yet, do you play story difficulty? So far I've just spammed the special abilities whenever the cooldown finishes. The Valkorion form does heal but I can't really tell what triggers it, I think it's coming within range of those "fountain" props that spawn around him.

This is my assumption as well. I assume it would just be easier to wait with her implementation until such a time (if ever) we get to announce the switch. It'd add extra variables to address if she starts serving in Aygo's capacity before that point.

I can't help but wonder if that'll just be forgotten forever. Tai and Nadia never really mention them. Maybe Zenith stuck around? Gaden Ko is an option on Nathema so I doubt we'll see him again. I'd honestly love to have a return of Hallow Voice and his group of Esh'ka would probably fit in well with the new alliance.

That and Nalen Raloch plz. Don't care about romance with him, I'd just love to see him as a realised Jedi. The Knight gets to run into their early opponent figure later in the story, no such scenes for Consular and Nalen so far.

Sanju Pyne is actually someone I'd love to have reappear. I sort of expecting a new Balmorra mission coming up at some point, where Zenith also would be reintroduced. The Imperial Agent is also involved with Zenith's background so I'd love some unique flavour for that class. I hope this won't make me sound mad bothurt but is it really necessary to put down Risha specifically as the only argument as to what makes Beryl and Sumalee so great? I agree that those character are cool but I loved Risha all the same. I'm still holding out hope that Risha will get an "alliance alert" thingy like Elara did, opening her up to female romance, as she's the only person in the galaxy, maybe with the exception of Beryl, that my smuggler would consider striking up a permanent romantic relationship with.

It would be even more meaningful not to revive a dead thread at all since thanking people in a dead thread, that they'll never notice, has no meaning what so ever. Necro's are annoying because it means we have to keep our eye out for the age of new threads posted, because we might be engaging in a discussion in which the original commentators are most probably no longer active to partake.

Watch Zenith die of old age before getting to rejoin our consulars. Man how I hate narrative time-skips.

I find requests for more user friendly hugs humorous. Swtor never ceases to reveal new things.

My JK had 2x Scourge mail and 0x Kira as well. Plus a weird mail from Theron calling her amazing half a dusin times.

How'd they determine that? I'd argue that they should just add subscribtion days to everyone that have been subscribed since the release of the update. I still haven't played the Mando flashpoint because of giant-hp-bar-dude.

I thought it was to be assumed by her comment "s/he dragged me here" that her "manifestation" at the time is not bound to Odessen but to the Commander specifically, maybe because of Valkorion absorbing her power while being in the mind of the commander?

I don't think they're wholly negative, I'm just pointing out that it's becoming a bit of a story-content related trend, one that I hope they do not keep up too often. It only adds something new as long as they can think up characters that a vaguely interesting. I think one of Bioware's strengths are writing fun characters but there are only so many personalities that you can explore before they start to repeat.