#showdown on ruhnuk spoilers

[archeo-starwars]

source: SWTOR: Legacy of the Sith - Showdown on Ruhnuk

[amons-hat-enthusiast]

Some nice screens I took during Legacy of the Sith run with Thanira

[mad-badger19]

I enjoyed the ruhnuk quest focused on mandalorian people. It further the character of Torian Cadera and the Cadera Clan.

"Everything's fine. My father refused to take the siths side. He didn't answer Mandalore the Innocent call. He was a traitor. Nothing to add."

Don't worry Torian, you have your cyar'ika to your side.

[kyber-heart]

[[spoilers for SWTOR 7.2 “Showdown on Ruhnuk]]

I have to say I was very surprised to see the player character (PC) get captured. It’s rare in this game to see the PC actually lose, or fail, or be injured. There’s only a handful of times when I’ve really felt like our enemies outplayed us and got our PCs good. Considering that it came from non-force users it was especially refreshing. 

I consider KOTET to be SWTOR’s Jump The Shark moment (because honestly the way it ends is so bat shit, how could it not be), therefore to have our characters be taken down a peg is fun to see, because it grounds them. For as many planet eating emperors and their OP kids that we beat, we still got taken out and captured by some Mandalorians and their sonic weapons. 

[cryo-lily]

What’s that old saying Bask?

“Fool me once...”

Blew his only chance for Issie’s kindness back on the Spirit of Vengeance and wasted it over creds. Stupid guy.

Meanwhile Mama Sith Tilera in the afterlife probably proudly going “That’s my girl”.

[rangerslayer-97]

SPOILER IN UNDERCUT! YOU ARE WARNED!

"Never threaten me."

Ha! Get rekt, Bask! I waited for this moment since you ran during the Spirit of Vengeance Flashpoint!

Take that Dar'Manda!

[larena]

It's cool that we can flirt with Rass Ordo, he's cute, but I really have to ask, where are my Shae Vizla flirt options? Where have they been this entire time, even.

I don't even need a full romance (though I wouldn't say no) but at least something like Senya had.

[tiredassmage]

semi-coherent 7.2 thoughts roundup/screenshot dump/’fuck this was fun, look at my boy!!!!!’ (short of the dailies because I had to dart off to work, so that’s a later in the week event for me) below the cut (and in a wacky order because ????? lmao what’s chronology fuck it we ball (in what order can i find my screenshots)

(I love reading everyone’s reviews, it feels like comparing notes xD)

honest to goodness think there’s some real competition for most satisfying kill option here. i deadass almost thought they weren’t going to give me the utter pleasure and i was going to be SO pissed, tyr was NOT takin’ more shit. my friend could confirm i was ready to jump this option the second it popped up, lmao.

genuinely some of my favorite cutscene action in a hot minute. not just because i got to watch my favorite bestest boy kick ass, take names, and maybe get his ass kicked a bit in return along the way (yeah, I’m predictable, sue me), but because it was genuinely some fuckin cinematics. showdown on ruhnuk for sure! genuinely impressed with the amount of action condensed into this patch’s cutscenes.

the atmosphere of the arena. hundreds, maybe thousands of mandalorians preparing to watch shae and heta duke it out. watching shae with bated breath. someone mentioned prequels-level epicness in their post and i wholeheartedly agree. this felt like watching an epic star wars showdown unfold, complete with heroic star wars action music, lol.

felt incredibly indulgently good to go scouting with shae. assess, infiltrate, eliminate, damn it’s almost like we’re back in intelligence for a change (tyr relishes it almost as much as shae relishes the hunt).

i’m also incredibly interested in their borderline opposition over objectives.

just when he’s maybe getting somewhere in de-escalating the situation, shae gets impatient and they both lose whatever they were hoping to gain. shae gets snappy, tyr understandably doesn’t quite appreciate it, but they move on. he respects her authority on dealing with heta, but he isn’t excited about losing leads on the bigger picture issue - especially on one that’s probably cost him a few good nights of sleep like malgus, lmao.

sir ur eyes are very pretty nd i love u anyway

i was incredibly interested in the amount of path decisions to be made along the way. heta mentions a round-up of your methods which i was all for.

dot.exe has encountered an error. tyr, thankfully, doesn’t share my “issue” for powerful women xD. he’s happily married, thank you.

overall? i honestly feel SO FED. very seen, lmao. this was a LOT of fun to play through. glad to see everything sort of tying together by sa’har and ri’kan being here, makes its introduction feel a bit less jarring. i’m here for the ~vibes of something bigger playing out for these characters, pushing them together, putting them in opposition. no new big reveals about the whys or the hows, perhaps, but i feel like the insights into these other characters was worth it. and, again, the absolute cinematics of it all was REALLY damn good. ruhnuk looks beautiful, there was a lot more to it than i had been expecting, i am so far a big fan of the ui changes and map update that was VERY nice.

runs back to the front of the line my other characters, i’ll be looking forward to going through this ride all over again, lol.

and also maybe i just missed my boy a lot. i will always be happy to have a reason to see my boy. xD

this was also fucking golden i fucking love this as a running thing i fucking LOVE that rass was SO DAMN EXCITED and also that the shuttle crashes are a running gag and tyr and shae were both equally (un)amused i literally just. i loved this. this was great for me, lol.

glad to not have another patch of endless alliance meetings summarizing information, basically, too. i can’t entirely blame shae for wanting away from all the mandalore clan running, can i? xD

also shoutout to the very real fear i felt for a good five minutes that they’d given us torian and akavvi back only for me to IMMEDIATELY fuck that up with comm silence don’t FUCK WITH ME LIKE THAT that’s my BOY (it was, in fact, fine in the end, but HOOOO). i don’t trust them to not let me pull something like that, okay, that seemed completely possible at the time. but they didn’t. so it’s okay.

[kemendin]

One particular Showdown on Ruhnuk thought....

I don’t have the brain to go into everything I liked/didn’t like, my overall opinion is that I’m surprisingly impressed and quite enjoyed this update, far more than I expected to!

One thing stands out to me which I think is a very different opinion from a lot of folks, judging by the forums, but -

I really, really liked how, for once, my character was not center stage. I liked this being Shae’s story, not Caspian’s. He was there to help, support, as a Jedi he’s  been rather more focused on Sa’har and the holocron and all that, but for once it wasn’t ABOUT him. And maybe this has to do with him being, still, a somewhat reluctant Alliance Commander, but it felt like a breath of fresh air to not be in the spotlight, to not be in charge. After so long being the center of the galaxy, I really enjoy exploring stories that show what OTHER people are doing. Their stories, their stakes, their motivations. It makes it feel like a richer, fuller galaxy to me.

Anyway. My two cents.

But also, Scourge, see what happens when you go off and leave your boyfriend? He gets into trouble. Constantly.

[koltowave]

7.2 spoilers

Holy moly i was so uncomfy with the sonic disruptors usage as non-lethal weapons against us. It sets a lot of really awful ethics breached when using it on our char and Shae. And it has strong echos to that tech being used RL by the US police that was developed by the US military to subjugate protestors and it has punchured hearing from said protestors. 

Heta Kol lost a lot of sympathy for me when she nonchalantly used it to trap her enemy. I’m not familiar with mandalorians and their culture and i have a feeling they wouldn’t use it, but this ain’t my cup of tea due to the RL influences in the last few years...

[tearblossom]

Anybody else think Ri’kan is SMOKIN’ HOT? 😳  Or is it just me?🥵

Too bad he’s probably crushing on this bitch right here. 🙄

Daddy? Sorry delicious Twi’lek Mando daddy! Sorry! 😭

[mad-badger19]

Torian to the rescue for his cyar'ika.

A battle is a team work. They have full confidence in each other and are invincible.

[kyber-heart]

Well that was something...

I’m not sure what that something *was* but it was something...

[kyber-heart]

A non spoiler collection of some of my favourite expressions from Showdown on Ruhnuk.

[tiredassmage]

probably belated reminder that if there is any spoilery content for the new patch today on here the variety of tags will include “swtor spoilers” “swtor 7.2″ and “swtor showdown on ruhnuk”

I was fed SO WELL Y’ALL. That’s all I can formulate rn bc I have to work tonight but kFNDSL;FNLSDF that was fun :DDDD