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Star Wars: The Old Republic: E3 Imperial Agent Hands On
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MMORPG.com's Michael Bitton had some hands on time with Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic at E3. Today, he brings us his experiences playing the Imperial Agent.
We met with the Bioware and LucasArts folks in an E3 meeting room tucked far away from the chaotic and absolutely gigantic EA booth that was down on the show floor, where we were assailed with all sorts of The Old Republic awesome, including a demo of the game's armor progression, the awesome "Hope" cinematic, a group gameplay demo, and more. While all this was going on, the room adjacent to us could be seen through the glass wall separating us, which contained two rows of machines set up with the actual game running live. Needless to say, all I could do was think about the moment I'd finally get to get my hands on the game. That day has come, and I chose to spend my first live experience with Star Wars: The Old Republic as a female Chiss Imperial Agent.
If you read the series of possible playable races articles we ran in recent weeks, you'd know I was pretty keen on the idea of Chiss being in the game, however, I felt they'd be an unlikely addition due to their isolationist nature. Turns out this didn't stop Bioware from putting them into the game, and my dreams of playing a Chiss in Star Wars: The Old Republic came true in short order. Why the Imperial Agent? Because spies are cool - duh!
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stealth?
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So once an Imperial Agent gets his Stealth ability , one can asume that he can fully rely on ambushing his targets from behind cover. Sweet !!!
Chiss! Awesome. I can't wait.
What's wrong with stealth its only in like every popular MMO.
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Kind of, just without the rapist.
Stealth is the only reason I continue to THIS DAY play DAOC. Without it I just wouldn't play as that is the style of play I prefer. Mostly this has to do with my play times being limited. I don't want to wait around for that Perfect Group, especially in PvP. This sounds great.
I assuming some races will be locked to particular factions, the Chiss come from the outer rim region where the Sith Empire is, it is unlikely they'd let them be in the Republic.
Interesting. I'm not a fan of the stealth classes (play wise), but I'm sure the people that like to pvp will enjoy it. I'm kind of looking forward to this title. We'll see how it goes as more info is released.
Nice preview MIke! I'm glad you liked it. Was this just a stand alone demo or were you put on a server with the other people around you? Could you see them in the starting area or was each station dedicated to a specific class type?
Did you get a chance to customize your character at all? Did you toy around in the menus or get a chance to level up and select new skills?
How were the load times for instances? How many of the quests were instanced that you had a chance of playing? Were there any open world quests?
Yeah, I have a lot of questions I suppose..... good write-up though.
Oh, and here's a little gem for you geeks out there like me. If you're wondering how Bioware is accounting for the fact Chiss are suddenly prevalent throughout the galaxy, at least enough to be represented in Star Wars: The Old Republic as a playable race. Daniel's answer was, "They aren't." which leads me to believe that races may actually be faction, and perhaps in some cases class specific. Something to think about.
This part is somewhat worrying.
I have yet to see a wookie and I am not playing the game until I see a wookie toon I can play!!!
After reading their history they'd probably be available on the Republic side only and I'd speculated locked to either smauggler or jedi classes... although I find a stealthy Wookie and amusing possibilty (a bit like the infamous Tauren Rogue)...
From other Blogs and videos I say yesturday. It looks like much of the instancing was seemless with a green film over a door way and such. From that, I would guess that your class story arc quest NPC will be inside a room with this green film over it so you can run into the room and have your conversation as well as others will run into there own instance. I would guess that if you were in the same group, you would all run into the same instance. Just a guess. The rest looked like any other open area like WoW or LOTRO as far as side quests and open area NPC quest givers. This is all from watching and listening on my part.
A blog also said that as they quested, other classes were in the same area running around. This seems to me to mean it is an open area and that any instances will have that green film over an intrance to a cave or building. You would enter and leave seamlessly. One could only guess that if you leave a planet on your ship, you would have loading screens or cinematics as you come and go.
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I'd rather see more use of Cover than there being any Stealth in the game. As fun as stealth is, it causes too many problems with all the non-stealth classes whining about it.
AWESOME! Moree good news!
Wookies dont look like they will be a playable class, as all players has to speak, and well wookies grawl.
Wookie's are pagged for the companions, Smugglers should have them. Also each class has his own set of companions so i'm guessing smugglers with be the only class with them.
Nice review, good little tidbits of info there.
In general I'm still a little worried about the game, how limited you will be for so many things. Openness and options are best. But, beyond all that, I'm still very excited.
Re: Wookies, in their webcomic, wasn't there a wookie BH? I could definitely see that happnin.
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Wookies are awesome lets all just agree on that right off the bat. Lucas has stated he doesnt like to see wookies as heroic roles." will they be in the game yes. will they be playable...we can not be sure
however the Chiss is something that still worries me...the race itself is awesome, but the fact that they are still pretty much humans..only with blue skin (on the out side) ( i guess the term is near-human)
we need some something more then just humans with cool skin colors.
like a Cerean is pretty much as close to a human as i will take.
Nice write up.
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Interesting. That sounds like how Fallen Earth handles instances. They also dont have loading screens, with doors or a caveentrance being used as instance border. You either go in alone or with complete group. Other groups will load their own instance. If a game does need instances, I prefer this method over the loadscreen one.
Very cool stuff.
wouldn't be suprised if stealth was like there RPG. but it would be kind of like a battle field type hing, and when they were between medium and close range they appear as a blur in the graphics.
Well, Twilek have already been seen in game as well as playable characters. Races will probably continue to be announced all the way until beta.
Edit from above, I meant AS playable characters.
Ya I would really hate to see TOR come out with only Human/human like races to play,but in one of the demos i saw from E3 it Appeared there was a calimairian (i know my spellNs bad on that) Trooper. So lets all just "Hope" >.0