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Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 5 Patch Notes
Szark
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The folks at Star Wars Galaxies have published the patch notes for Game update 5, which fully integrates voice chat into the game, adds an in-game web browser, makes several changes to the Beast Master, and more
Highlights:
- Integrated voice chat, in-game web browser, beast master and munitions trader updates, Create a Painting contest winners, and the 60 month veteran reward.
Integrated Voice Chat:
- With the release of Game Update 5, fully integrated voice chat can now be found in Star Wars Galaxies. Voice chat can now be used to chat with your guild and groups at no additional cost.
- The integration of the in-game voice chat brings several brand new UI elements: the Voice Bar, the Voice Users Window, and a new voice tab in the Options window.
- After a user joins a group or a guild, they are automatically given access to the associated channel and it will appear in the Voice Bar Channel Selection List. When they leave the group or guild, the channel is removed from their list and they will be disconnected if they were in the channel at the time.
- Users can also invite other players to their own private chat channels using the radial menu or /voice invite command.
Read more here.
Comments
THE GALACTIC CIVIL WAR JUST GOT HOTTER.
Wait, no it didn't. Nothing was changed to improve it.... year.... 5?
Ingame Voice chat was what was missing from SWG, now that it finally has Integrated Voice Chat the game will be so much better !
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Serious death penalties makes every close call an adrenaline rush, and every minor achievement a major victory. This alternative rule-set should be in all MMORPGs.
Hilarious, in-game voice chat, so like it wasn't needed when there was thousands of players but they get to it when there is only a couple hundred. SOE tactics ftw.
the 5th year should of said..
We integrated 3 new Classic SWG Servers (PRE-CU) for our devoted fans and integrated voice chat as well!
That I can digg for a 5 year anniversary!
The voice chat was integrated by 1 person, because theyre doing it for all SOE games. So it was minimal effort. Same with the browser, it was just copy paste from EQ2.
The real highlight of this update is weapon crafting update. From now you can choose what do you want your weapon to look like and you can add more subcomponents to it. Several old weapons were reintroduced, old weapons can be re-crafted.... Munition traders will have a lot to do as everyone needs new weapons now., but you also need looted subcomponents for them and the looted schematics give them additional bonuses.
Not sure what was in the BM update but i guess it was good enough.
Also this is just system update, not a content update, only few new collections were added and a quest to craft 2 new armors. Content update will be in 1-1.5 months including Hoth.
Maybe not, but the complete revamp of the Weaponsmith profession in GU5 has gone quite a way to making the game better. Once again, weapon crafting is a complex and rewarding process that brings crafted weapons to the top of the food chain..
Once again?
Then that begs the question why was it altered to begin with, and why were people paying for it for nearly the last 3 years?
Seems everytime something is made useful again people hearld it as a some kind of triumph, when in fact it shouldn't have been made unuseful to begin with!
Can we all just agree that they should just kill most of SOE's games?
Once again?
Then that begs the question why was it altered to begin with, and why were people paying for it for nearly the last 3 years?
Seems everytime something is made useful again people hearld it as a some kind of triumph, when in fact it shouldn't have been made unuseful to begin with!
Maybe because some idiots made thing called NGE in 2005? Got it?
Once again?
Then that begs the question why was it altered to begin with, and why were people paying for it for nearly the last 3 years?
Seems everytime something is made useful again people hearld it as a some kind of triumph, when in fact it shouldn't have been made unuseful to begin with!
No, it probably shouldn't have been reduced to the state that it was, but it's not my style to dwell on the past.
Actually, in a way this current system is an improvement on the pre-nge weapon crafting as any weapon can now be made high-end, opening up more diversity options.
The patch notes should say...
Sorry! We are so sorry for taking this great game and making it into a pile of S**T! Again we are so so sorry!!!
what they did to this game is just sad...
They have added so much content and fixes at this point that, I'm sorry to tell you, I would be hard pressed to going back to the Pre-NGE grinder as compared to what we have now. The pile has broken down and fertilized the what has been there and the friuts of gaming are about to ripen. I used to think any new players I saw were alts to still playing vets. Now I am seeing an excess of newbies that is greater than that. When I venture to the "dead servers", I am surprised to see more players in Mos Eisley and Legacy Quest areas than before. I will wait and see after the 14-day free trail period if interest really did improve.
If they really wanted to bring people back to this game, make a "Retro" server and go back to the Pre-NGE experience. lol
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Yeah the 5 players that love Pre-Cu really is going to save them. One u guys bitched about the combat system so they changed it to CU. then people stoped playing it so they went NGE. Stop with the
SWG was a good concept but is victum to the wrong star wars timeline.
in-game voice chat always seemed to have low quality, in any/every game. I just use vent/TS, as im sure most of the MMORPG community does,.
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