Sep 3, 2010
Posted by Lethality in News | 3 Comments
Friday Update: Space Combat Holonet Update
Today, in the calm before the storm known as PAX, Joanne Laroche posted this Friday’s update:
Blast your way through asteroid fields, enemy fighters, and a variety of other obstacles as you encounter fast-paced Space Combat missions in Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. In these occurrences, you’ll fly your personal starship to various “hot spots” on the galaxy map and experience gameplay that will evoke memories of some of the great Star Wars™ space battles.
Click here to visit the brand new Space Combat information page.
If you notice, the bottom of that page has room for 8 ships not 6. I think that means something ;)
Umm, I cant see there is any room for 8.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the new page:
http://www.swtor.com/info/systems/space-combat
You’ll see the 2 currently revealed ships each in their own respective columns. Then you can clearly see based on the size of the graphics/badges, there is room for 2 more columns. To me it looks like 8 ships total.
The placement of revealed ships looks odd. They could fit 2 more columns in but only if they adjust the spacing between columns. The images of the two ships are 209px wide with 24px of space between them. The page area is only about 960px wide (including the borders) and the gutters on either side are 46px wide. With the current spacing they can only add one column.
I really want there to be 8 ships but I guess it makes sense for the Knights/Consulars and the Warriors/Inquisitors to share a ship model. Maybe each class has access to different modifications?