Zarram Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Really, is this true? What's the point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddzball Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Yes, and to make them rare. It was a gold sink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarram Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Well, couldn't they just add new colors? Or will they return eventually? It kinda irks me that they are taking them away instead of making new colors that could be rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarram Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 I'm still a bit curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommass Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 The only color being removed in 1.2 is white Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
System_TOR Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Really, is this true? What's the point? No, they are removing alignment restrictions on colors and removing the white crystal, thats all, chinese whispers much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foobiscuit Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 In fact, the light/dark side restrictions on crystals are already gone. My Dark II Assassin uses a blue double-bladed lightsaber, and my Light II Guardian could use a red saber if she wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarram Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 In fact, the light/dark side restrictions on crystals are already gone. My Dark II Assassin uses a blue double-bladed lightsaber, and my Light II Guardian could use a red saber if she wanted to. Oh, so you can make a police jedi now lol. Blue and Red Sabers. What about purple crystals and such? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LemmingLeader Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 IMO, as a purist with the Star Wars movies, Red should only be with the Sith, and the other rainbow colors with the Jedi. Purple can be a sort of "gray area" with Dark Side aligned Jedi and Light Side aligned Sith. But that won't happen. As it stands right now, the lightsaber wielding Force user player characters in this game look like a colorful circus act. None of the traditional colors for the Jedi and most especially the Sith. When you see a group of Sith, they pretty much should be using Red lightsabers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeutschGamer Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 IMO, as a purist with the Star Wars movies, Red should only be with the Sith, and the other rainbow colors with the Jedi. Purple can be a sort of "gray area" with Dark Side aligned Jedi and Light Side aligned Sith. But that won't happen. As it stands right now, the lightsaber wielding Force user player characters in this game look like a colorful circus act. None of the traditional colors for the Jedi and most especially the Sith. When you see a group of Sith, they pretty much should be using Red lightsabers. Totally disagree, that's a really narrow minded view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LemmingLeader Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Totally disagree, that's a really narrow minded view. Disagree with the movies then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkgryphon Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 (edited) Totally disagree, that's a really narrow minded view. I think he explained it was narrow minded as it was only referencing the movies. I explicitly remember Anakin wielding a blue saber while he was clearly a Sith and killing Jedi Younglings and fighting Obi-wan, also him wielding a Red Saber taken from Dooku to cut his head off before clearly becoming a Sith. Edited April 9, 2012 by monkgryphon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorellianWannabe Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 IMO, as a purist with the Star Wars movies, Red should only be with the Sith, and the other rainbow colors with the Jedi. Purple can be a sort of "gray area" with Dark Side aligned Jedi and Light Side aligned Sith. But that won't happen. As it stands right now, the lightsaber wielding Force user player characters in this game look like a colorful circus act. None of the traditional colors for the Jedi and most especially the Sith. When you see a group of Sith, they pretty much should be using Red lightsabers. So there should be no Imperial Agents, since they weren't in the films? And if there were then they should use green crystals, while the Smugglers use red? And where is the stun setting on blasters? And why don't lightsaber wounds bleed like the guy in the cantina did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etilrellim Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 IMO, as a purist with the Star Wars movies, Red should only be with the Sith, and the other rainbow colors with the Jedi. Purple can be a sort of "gray area" with Dark Side aligned Jedi and Light Side aligned Sith. But that won't happen. As it stands right now, the lightsaber wielding Force user player characters in this game look like a colorful circus act. None of the traditional colors for the Jedi and most especially the Sith. When you see a group of Sith, they pretty much should be using Red lightsabers. There is a reason you tend to see the Sith using red sabers. While the Jedi used natural crystals, the Sith often used red-hued synthetic crystals. Sith-made synthetic crystals create a slightly more powerful blade when energized by the dark side of the Force, occasionally demonstrating the ability to "break" Jedi lightsaber blades, disrupting the energy circuit and shorting out the weapon, as almost happened to Obi-Wan Kenobi while fighting Darth Vader on the first Death Star. Though synthetic crystals were ordinarily unsuitable for use in lightsabers, the Sith discovered that they could create synth-crystals that were energized, magnetized, and modified with the power of the dark side of the Force in special furnaces, causing the crystal to glow in harmonic vibration. As a result of their artificial origins, synthetic crystals created more powerful lightsaber blades and could be more easily augmented. Also, their common usage by Sith and other Darksiders after this discovery caused synthetic crystals to become something of a staple among such groups, and their use among Jedi was strongly discouraged. However, synth-crystals could be made in any color, requiring only slight adjustments of the creation process and special manipulations through the Force during the forging. As Jedi frowned on the use of synthetic crystals in lightsabers, most individuals who utilized colors other than red were Darksiders looking to hide their affiliations. Here is your reason you see Sith with the red sabers. Does not mean they HAD to use red though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dystopic Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 (edited) Disagree with the movies then. Movies have nothing to do with the game though. This is thousands of years before the movies took place and there are no restriction on saber colors. Especially for the ridiculously mary sue storylines all player characters have. Edited April 9, 2012 by Dystopic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degarmo Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Please don't start this debate about colors again. They're going to do whatever people want and make stuff up along the way, rationalizing it using nuances of canon. Just accept it and move on because soon we will have barber-shop/candy-cane colored lightsabers, etc. You don't have to like it, but they'll let people use whatever colors they want eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilefunk Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 I explicitly remember Anakin wielding a blue saber while he was clearly a Sith and killing Jedi Younglings and fighting Obi-wan, also him wielding a Red Saber taken from Dooku to cut his head off before clearly becoming a Sith. derp, of course it was blue... it HAD to be (i'm sure you can figure out why) and yeah, what's he gonna do? stop mid-battle cause he can't physically use it? dumb. fyi... "As Kit Fisto's lightsaber hilt was a personal favorite of Nick Gillard, Cin Drallig's lightsaber hilt bears a resemblance to Fisto's. Based on behind the scenes materials, the lightsaber blade was originally to be rotoscoped in yellow. However, George Lucas would only allow either blue or green as the color of any regular Jedi's lightsaber blade. With the exception of Samuel L. Jackson's violet lightsaber blade he used as Mace Windu, Lucas would go no further with other colors" why don't any of you bring up the clone wars?... a hundred jedi at the arena ALL BUT ONE with blue and green sabers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockaday Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 IMO, as a purist with the Star Wars movies, Red should only be with the Sith, and the other rainbow colors with the Jedi. Purple can be a sort of "gray area" with Dark Side aligned Jedi and Light Side aligned Sith. But that won't happen. As it stands right now, the lightsaber wielding Force user player characters in this game look like a colorful circus act. None of the traditional colors for the Jedi and most especially the Sith. When you see a group of Sith, they pretty much should be using Red lightsabers. The movies were really simplified. This has been listed before so I won't bother again; but there are sith who use blue jedi who use red etc. Princess leia for one. Also the reason most Sith used red was because of tradition / availability really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilefunk Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 of course, bring the eu in (which this game is) and many more things are understandable... but to say color rules weren't well and fully established in the movies is simply incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglon Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 (edited) Ive seen this arguement on other threads. from what was stated there, Jedi were the ones to use red according to lore etc .. something to that effect. Edited April 9, 2012 by Maglon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockaday Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 derp, of course it was blue... it HAD to be (i'm sure you can figure out why) and yeah, what's he gonna do? stop mid-battle cause he can't physically use it? dumb. fyi... "As Kit Fisto's lightsaber hilt was a personal favorite of Nick Gillard, Cin Drallig's lightsaber hilt bears a resemblance to Fisto's. Based on behind the scenes materials, the lightsaber blade was originally to be rotoscoped in yellow. However, George Lucas would only allow either blue or green as the color of any regular Jedi's lightsaber blade. With the exception of Samuel L. Jackson's violet lightsaber blade he used as Mace Windu, Lucas would go no further with other colors" why don't any of you bring up the clone wars?... a hundred jedi at the arena ALL BUT ONE with blue and green sabers. You're talking about the guy who wants to show the Sith and Jedi only in one light. He wanted to make it obvious who he thought the bad guys and good guys were. Why don't you talk about how the Jedi tried to commit genocide ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilefunk Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 You're talking about the guy who wants to show the Sith and Jedi only in one light. He wanted to make it obvious who he thought the bad guys and good guys were. Why don't you talk about how the Jedi tried to commit genocide ^_^ true, and yet oddly i find myself drawn more to how star wars was originally conceived, as the archetypical battle between good and evil with clearly defined sides. for me, that's really what makes it fantasy. as we all know the realities of reality are quite different and much more abstract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockaday Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 true, and yet oddly i find myself drawn more to how star wars was originally conceived, as the archetypical battle between good and evil with clearly defined sides. for me, that's really what makes it fantasy. as we all know the realities of reality are quite different and much more abstract. Eh, I always thought the jedi were the bad guys. Why make SW so simple when it can be so great. /sigh Needs to be a Sith oriented movie lol. And not by the jedi fanboy we know as Lucas lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilefunk Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 (edited) Eh, I always thought the jedi were the bad guys. Why make SW so simple when it can be so great. /sigh Needs to be a Sith oriented movie lol. And not by the jedi fanboy we know as Lucas lol. haha don't get me wrong, as a little boy i cried at the end of jedi to this day i'm disappointed that not at least one an entire prequel flick wasn't dedicated to the imperial jedi hunt... how he crammed all the good stuff in at the end of revenge will bother... sorry lol can't start talking about that again Edited April 9, 2012 by smilefunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthAcerbus Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 derp, of course it was blue... it HAD to be (i'm sure you can figure out why) and yeah, what's he gonna do? stop mid-battle cause he can't physically use it? dumb. fyi... "As Kit Fisto's lightsaber hilt was a personal favorite of Nick Gillard, Cin Drallig's lightsaber hilt bears a resemblance to Fisto's. Based on behind the scenes materials, the lightsaber blade was originally to be rotoscoped in yellow. However, George Lucas would only allow either blue or green as the color of any regular Jedi's lightsaber blade. With the exception of Samuel L. Jackson's violet lightsaber blade he used as Mace Windu, Lucas would go no further with other colors" why don't any of you bring up the clone wars?... a hundred jedi at the arena ALL BUT ONE with blue and green sabers. By the time of the Clone Wars, saber crystals were coming exclusively from Ilum, which only produces green and blue. Mace Windu went way way out of his way to get his purple crystal. During The Old Republic, crystals come from many different locations, and therefore a much wider range of colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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