Post by Arunne on Jul 4, 2011 1:58:57 GMT -5
So I couldn't sleep and was surfing around my on-demand for something to watch and happened to find a SWTOR E3 interview on G4. Its only 4 minutes long but I go some of the best information for the game just from listening to it and watching the actual game play they showed. If you can find it, i would recommend watching it for the game play part.
It was with Daniel Erickson, the lead writer.
Some of the things I got from him:
1. He was emphatic about the 2011 release date, but wouldn't be specific.
2. The group size is 4.
3. There Flash-points and Operations (raid)
4. There are long story arcs that end is a group mission (ie. the alderaan video mission)
5. Speeder bikes are faction specific. They said they went for the full size speeder bikes but they were too big for the city, so that's why you get those stubby bikes in the videos. You can actually steal the other faction's speeder bike.
6. Character development seems pretty deep. He was talking about the trooper story and that he was asked to do stuff that made him question who is loyalty is with. Sounded interesting.
Game play -
They showed them playing the Alderaan group mission from the video. It was played from the trooper point of view. It showed the most I have seen of the UI. It pretty much looks like your standard MMO UI.
I thought that the actual game art was much better looking then the videos. I thought it was prettier then I would have expected it to be.
The group makeup was a Trooper Commando, Smuggler Gunslinger, Jedi Guardian, and Jedi Consular.
I noticed that everybody had to run up to the boss guy, and they get a green check mark over their head that they are ready, then when the trooper finally did it, the cut scene started.
Anyway it was a lot of info to process in a short video. I watched it a few times just for the game play to see how things went.
It was with Daniel Erickson, the lead writer.
Some of the things I got from him:
1. He was emphatic about the 2011 release date, but wouldn't be specific.
2. The group size is 4.
3. There Flash-points and Operations (raid)
4. There are long story arcs that end is a group mission (ie. the alderaan video mission)
5. Speeder bikes are faction specific. They said they went for the full size speeder bikes but they were too big for the city, so that's why you get those stubby bikes in the videos. You can actually steal the other faction's speeder bike.
6. Character development seems pretty deep. He was talking about the trooper story and that he was asked to do stuff that made him question who is loyalty is with. Sounded interesting.
Game play -
They showed them playing the Alderaan group mission from the video. It was played from the trooper point of view. It showed the most I have seen of the UI. It pretty much looks like your standard MMO UI.
I thought that the actual game art was much better looking then the videos. I thought it was prettier then I would have expected it to be.
The group makeup was a Trooper Commando, Smuggler Gunslinger, Jedi Guardian, and Jedi Consular.
I noticed that everybody had to run up to the boss guy, and they get a green check mark over their head that they are ready, then when the trooper finally did it, the cut scene started.
Anyway it was a lot of info to process in a short video. I watched it a few times just for the game play to see how things went.
Thanks Arunne for the tidbit there!
The difference, from what I read, is that the jedi start out as a padawan. The other guys start out as some experienced vets. So, the jedi in the story is very tallented, but still has much to learn. Due to that, it seems pretty reasonable that the other classes can keep up with a jedi. As for how it plays, they may try to claim that it is something unique in the mmo world, but all the videos show it to be exactly what we're used to. 
