So... to begin with. There really have been a few updates since our last podcast, who would have thought. - Me!
I'll start with the article about playable species. One little sentence in it really caught my attention - "we can tell you now that all classes will include optional non-human species". I read it and couldn't belive my eyes. Seriously, a thought that there could be a class without playable non-human species never even came close to slipping across my mind. What kind of Star Wars would it be if one could play only as human? What I do look forward to are Rodians, well and Kel Dors for Menti's sake :) (I shall have u whipped for revealing secrets!) I understand that implementing species may be a bit troublesome, every one of them different from another, but hey it's Bioware, those chaps can do it in no time, right? Hopefully the species won't be available only for certain classes. It'd suck if Twi'lek could only be smugglers or Chiss could only be Imperial Agents. Of course the idea of class specific species, such as, introduced in the mentioned article, Sith Purebloods or Miraluka is nice but I hope that the choice won't be limited for human or single non-human species for every class. Good call - class specific species + a number of 'universal' ones would be nice. I mean, c'mon, Zabraks could be any class in this game for example.
Moving on.
We've seen Jedi Knight's advanced classes. Well I'm not thrilled. Basically they tell us that you'll be either a tank or a dps. We've figured so much with Menti in one of our first podcasts. It's kinda like the "advanced leveling system" news or the "warzones" news. I understand that Bioware is telling us of the progress that they make with the game, but come on... Make it newsworthy. It makes me laugh when I read a vast article with all the big words in it, that turn out to be something obvious and no really giving any ground for deeper thoughts about the game. 'We would now like to announce that you will be able to interact with vendors in our new, revolutionary MMO!'
After some complaining.
Last, but certinaly not the least - space combat!
Now that is something I've been waiting to see. Then again, Bioware hasn't shown us much. We could hear that if we're worthy we'll be given our ow space ship (yippe!), then we could hear some space combat chatter and big nothing. No real info as such. Will we be able to fly our starships as we wish? Perhaps they will be only available on certain quests or in some zones. I would be greatly surprised if it turned out that literally whole universe awaits to be explored, but let's not fool ourselves. All the programing to make a decent flight simulator would take as much time as making the entire game. If I had to choose I'd go with fly-open zones, so to call them. Or perhaps a fly-free zone in a certain radius from any planet. That would be a neat solution. You go to the landing bay, a little loading screen, you're on a spaceship cruising through the stardust, hangin' with your homies, keepin' it real (:P). When you get close enough to a planet you get safely loaded to foresaid landing bay. You go far enough into the space, you're kindly asked to what other planet you'd want to travel. Yeah, now that's a nice idea and I'll stick with it. Unfortunatelly, I have to stop u right here Sliv. The 'space combat' thingie was implemented only because of a very high demand on this particular feature. It was not planned at all in the 'vanilla' ToR, thus, it will be very simple. It will be a quest-like feature that will appear from time to time, while u are on your starship and there won't be any freedom at all to it ;] It'll be like a tunnel flight flash game. Very simple, yet quite entertaining. Sorry to kill ur dreams... again ^^
P.S. As for our attitude it's mainly my fault. (Yup) Somehow I lost almost whole August. I know what happened with July - I had exams and then some more exams, passed all of them so I'm pretty proud of myself. (As are we all Slivie, wanna cookie?) Maybe that's where the August went, I was too busy patting my own back to do anything else... I'll concider that option and get back to you on that one.
P.P.S. I'm not telling Menti, that I've written it. Let's see how long it takes him to notice :P
M: Couple hours at most Sliv ^^ I'll add few words 2morrow.
P.P.P.S. There are 2 more things I'd like to mention. 1st of all, all the 'subclasses' names and specs have been revealed. Thus, we know now that for example melee Consulars and Inquisitors will have stealth (sneaky bastards!). Even though it has been discussed on a very basic level so far, it is there and it makes me want to play my class even more. Secondly, new section has been added to the website - starships. And as far as it is not much fun again, I took the liberty of trying to guess which ship will belong to which class. And so:
Those are only wild guesses, but I think they are quite accurate. Just some speculating again. And as a side remark - I'm delighted that btoh Jedis and Sith have only 1 ship for both classes. Finally, some bonus for the non-force wielders!
May the Force guide you.
Sliv
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