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Mounts/Vehicles?
grody75
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So I really haven't heard anyone talk about mounts or vehicles in the game. Anyone aware if they will be included or not? Won't seem to be a MMO without some sort of travel around the planets. And if they are included would you get them after achieving certain levels like WoW or could you just buy them at the beginning like SWG? Thoughts?
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It's highly unlikely that there won't be some type of mount. My guess is they'll be purchasable at a certain level, but they may be obtainable through some type of story-dependent quest that is available at several various levels. So you might not get your mount at level X, you might get it at level Y (1 or 2 below X), X, or Z (1 or 2 above) depending on when you do that quest. I'm just speculating though.
They said in an interview their WILL be mounts, and you can expect them to fit in with Star Wars, but they could not elaborate yet.
There has to be some kinda of transportation or mount/vehicle in SWTOR. BW has already said that there is going to be space travel and they want this to be like the ultimate Star Wars experience and KOTOR 3,4,5, and 6...BW said that this will be bigger than all the games BW has made put together so if they want it to be like that there has to be mount/vehicles. SWTOR is going to have everything your typical MMO would have and more, and it's going HUGE!!! So, yes I'm pretty sure there will be mounts in SWTOR.
Well, the interview I managed to dredge up included the following comment in regard to this topic:
SWTOR-Welten: Another question is the movement in TOR. Will there be mounts? If yes, could you give us an example?
Rich Vogel: Whether we have mounts or not we haven't discussed yet, but you can guess, right?
From my perspective, I would say that this statement indicates that we will most likely see mounts in SW: TOR. (If anyone can provide us with a link to an interview that contains less ambiguous statements, it would be appreciated.)
Also, after reading that interview again, I'm slightly disappointed that the character appearance customization options are being described as "similar to WoW" in nature. This seems to contradict the following statement made in an interview with IGN:
Jake Neri: One of things on that too that's really nice is that we oftentimes get to interact with Lucas Licensing and they've really urged us to go above and beyond with the look of the characters and the customizations available. And I think the team is realizing that. I think that people will be pretty excited with how they can take their characters' looks.
I suppose that the obvious answer to both of my concerns--as is the case with any MMO at this stage in development--is that the game is still a work in progress and that all of this is subject to change, but that sounds so incredibly insipid.
Although I'm hoping that we'll have a large array of vehicles at our disposal that are situation dependent (e.g. if public quests are available in any form, this idea would be plausible, as in the player would have the option to jump into a turret or a vehicle of some sort in order to stave off the enemy--several MMOs currently utilize this feature in some form) in addition to personal mounts. (If the developers truly want to achieve that "Star Wars feeling," this seems imperative.)
I doubt you'd need one...
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There so are many possibilities for mounts/vehicles. From living mounts like the one Obi-Wan rides in Revenge of the Sith to a swoop bike or landspeeder to a space ship like the Ebon Hawk. I wonder if there will be vehicular combat? Possibly in space?
I wonder what the public transportation between planets is like?
i wouldnt mind rolling general greivious's mount