I have several questions regarding tags
• Why does the First Order Sith Trooper has a “Sith” tag but not Asajj Ventress or HK-47?
• Is the tag based on official canon label on the character’s practice or is it based on their affiliation and loyalty to their respective faction?
• Or is it based on namesake? — Because if it is, Rey (Jedi Training) should also have the “Jedi” tag.
• If Rey (Jedi Training) has the ‘Jedi’ tag, why not Commander Luke Skywalker have it too? After all, he was a Jedi Padawan to Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back.
• If Jedi Padawan are not considered “Jedi”, shouldn’t Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee have their “Jedi” tags removed too?
The usual argument for the Sith would be “‘Canon’ Rule of Two” but think about it: There are a few characters introduced in the game that is non-canon such as the Old Republic characters so...
• Is the ‘canon’ argument really valid? — I personally find the tags a little inconsistent. Do share your thoughts.
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Try telling that to Visas Marr, who has an astounding amount of 0 faction tags!
Jedi (or sith) Grevious you say?
Hmmmm...
A better question is: why is someone who is "all the jedi" have nothing to do with them in this game?
Tags are very inconsistent. Sometimes tags are given for synergy or not included for the same reason.
Unfortunately CG is less concerned over breaking cannon than balancing.
I think that is more for balance reasons. Rey under Jedi knight reven would be nigh unbeatable. SL Kylo ren might be the only counter.
In short, there are two factors to consider:
1. This is strategic and tactical game
2. This is Star Wars game
Both are important when developers assign (or not) tags. They are trying to capture SW characters in the game which should have some form of balance. Many characters has obvious allegiance and automatically receive corresponding tags (GM Yoda is Jedi, Leya is Rebel, etc.)
But there are also some characters in the "gray" zone, which aren't strongly linked to some factions and/or changed allegiance one or more time. When considering how to handle such characters developers look at the game content and balance. They could give us several versions of the same character for different factions (Revan, Ashoka, etc). Or they can give some tags to character who linked with some faction only by business (Jango and separatists) if they think that some faction need a boost. Or they can decide not to give some tags to such character if they feel it will hurt game balance in some way (Visas Marr and Jedi). Some of their decisions may be questionable but still there is same logic under every case - SW canon and game balance.
In that case this game just wouldn't exist. It's Star Wars game developing under control of franchise owner, and many-many people (me included) play it because it's Star Wars. If CG had another priorities they could develop similar game without any restrictions using some generic characters. But they choose to make a game for SW franchise.
Techncially CG said they didnt take rey from the end of the film but rather in the middle where she wasnt sure who she was thus she wasnt a jedi fully and she wasnt a palpatine either.
But i do agree she should be a jedi, and if anything should have a line of code saying savior doesnt work on her ect, to help with balance.
(Something like if GL rey goes benither 2% hp she instantly dies regaruadless of other effects. Why this you say? Because that should bypass savior's whos case happens at 1%)
Similarly, why do none of the Kylo Rens (OG, KRU, or SLKR) have Sith tags?
Well heir to the jedi could mean something else. Say you had a king. Let's call him Henry. He has a son who is to be his heir. This child is called Ben. Ben being the heir to Henry means he will take his place, but that does not make Ben become Harry. So with Rey, she is the heir to the jedi, meaning she is not a jedi, she is something more or less than a jedi.
Maybe she's not a jedi because she is more powerful than them, nothing can beat the unbeatable rey.
Jedi have to keep themselves in check and follow the order, Rey is just an unstoppable force, beyond a jedi.
Exactly.
If Padme gets immunity to a Sith-empire exclusive debuff; then surely Rey can be balanced without disregarding cannon tags.
/troll comment
Where it gets sticky is Kylo Ren. He didnt follow the Sith in the Force sense but he did join the Final Order which was the Sith. All of those followers with Palpatine would technically be Sith in the sense of a grouo of people like in the beginning thousands of year before.
CG said because of JKR.
Should have change JKR's skill to OR only.
OP, where do you stand on Old Ben and his rebel tag?
The rule of two is enforced by the will of the Sith Lord and time. In real life, there can be only 1 Pope, but at 1 time there were 3. Guess how that was settled
Same deal with the Sith rule of 2.
NS =/= Sith. NS seemed to have their own neutral code when it came to dark/light. Came across as creepy neutral not evil. Their infatuation with dark magic wasn't necessarily out of powercraving.
Jedi title was a title. Not all light-side force-sensitives were Jedi and not all Jedi were = in force ability.
Rey should have Jedi tag. The order was functionally eliminated at her point though.
also it may be down to how immersed they are in the culture like Luke and Rey just started learning about Jedi whereas a ahsoka started as a youngling .
If CLS have the Jedi tag, he would jump in a JK Revan team. Same goes for JTR and GL Rey. It would end up very unbalanced. Visa Marr is a weird one as she’s basically Jolee without the Jedi tag.
But I do think Ventress should have some Sith OR separatist synergy. Unless she’s based on her character arc from Clone Wars, where she had to side with her Nightsisters? I haven’t got that far yet (but catching up on Disney Plus.) Outside that faction, she isn’t that good enough to be paired with Dooku or any separatists.