Didn't get to PAX? Empire blockading your planet? Someone blew up your prototype space station? Never worry, as well as that Smuggler video, Bioware also posted a PAX hightlights video. Showing various fans playing various things, and some crowded presentations, the video makes PAX look like a lot of fun.
I must say, I do try to embed the video from the SWTOR.com site, but the gawp and auto-play is very annoying, so generally I find one on YouTube instead. Making the SWTOR video not autoplay would be a start, I might use the official ones then.
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Saturday, 10 September 2011
Saturday, 3 September 2011
MMORPG.com has interviewed James Ohlen and Gabe Amantangelo and posted it online. There is much talk of PvP, interesting if you are into that sort of thing, and some nuggets about replayability via alting. Sith and Republic characters have totally different quests, but reroll on the same faction and things will be familiar:
No one has pressed Bioware about grouping up with two different classes either. There was some talk that you would have to travel to a different planet than your starter one to group with a friend who has a different class, in the lower levels. But maybe at higher levels our class quests all take place on the same planets, and so we can group up, doing one person's quests then the others. I guess in this respect, having non-class quests actually helps, as everyone in the same zone is usually on the same set of quests, and grouping becomes easy.
However if you decide to play a Bounty Hunter and then play a Sith Warrior, your origin worlds will be completely different, and then once you get to the capital world the content sort of “blends” together. Your class content is going to be completely different, but the smaller side quests will be shared by all.I guess this will be ok or sucky depending on how much the class quest actually takes up of your total questing. They go on to say you can skip zones or quests, so you can minimize repeating content. But this won't work for your 5th alt.
No one has pressed Bioware about grouping up with two different classes either. There was some talk that you would have to travel to a different planet than your starter one to group with a friend who has a different class, in the lower levels. But maybe at higher levels our class quests all take place on the same planets, and so we can group up, doing one person's quests then the others. I guess in this respect, having non-class quests actually helps, as everyone in the same zone is usually on the same set of quests, and grouping becomes easy.
Friday, 2 September 2011
The MMO Report ft The Old Republic
The MMO Report has made a PAX special, featuring The Old Republic at 7 minutes 25 seconds in.
They talk about hutt ball, operation eternity vault, open world PvP and beta.
They talk about hutt ball, operation eternity vault, open world PvP and beta.
Monday, 29 August 2011
Beta testing weekends start... this weekend!
The most exciting news from PAX Prime was that the Beta Testing weekends start this weekend, September 2nd. Darth Hater has the notes from the developer presentation where they announced it, and Massively is where I spotted the news first.
Now there is some discussion over whether this is US only, or US and EU, or world wide. From what @RockJaw has said, the beta testing weekends are a weekend pass with time to download before the servers open. Now the US will get in first, with the EU following "soon" which I hope to mean the weekend of September 9th.
The beta test weekend is just that, only the weekend, so you'll need to carve out some serious free time if you get chosen, with potentially only 3 days to play. I mean test. Yeah test.
I am also not sure if those testing will be under NDA, or whether the internets is about to let rip with a massive flood of TOR screenshots, impressions and videos. One can only hope so.
Even under NDA so you can't tell anyone anything, the chance to "test" for even an evening is too good to pass up, so I (along with everyone else) will be keenly watching my inbox. Then not nothing about anything.
Now there is some discussion over whether this is US only, or US and EU, or world wide. From what @RockJaw has said, the beta testing weekends are a weekend pass with time to download before the servers open. Now the US will get in first, with the EU following "soon" which I hope to mean the weekend of September 9th.
The beta test weekend is just that, only the weekend, so you'll need to carve out some serious free time if you get chosen, with potentially only 3 days to play. I mean test. Yeah test.
I am also not sure if those testing will be under NDA, or whether the internets is about to let rip with a massive flood of TOR screenshots, impressions and videos. One can only hope so.
Even under NDA so you can't tell anyone anything, the chance to "test" for even an evening is too good to pass up, so I (along with everyone else) will be keenly watching my inbox. Then not nothing about anything.
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