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Space Combat Preview – MMORPG.com
Michael Britton, over at MMORPG.com, had the chance to sit in a Space Combat presentation during his recent press visit to EA’s Redwood Shores offices:
As part of our wrap-up of the Immersion Days event in San Francisco we were treated to a presentation of Star Wars: The Old Republic’s space combat and starships. Once players finish out the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas (or the Republic capital of Coruscant) they’ll have access to their very own starship.
Michael offers up a great overview of what they saw, and provides a few little gold nuggets of info as well:
- Space combat does award experience and credits, they want you to play it whenever you want and not feel like you’re wasting time doing it. Space combat is completely optional.
- At launch space combat will be singleplayer only. They are looking to expand the feature further post-launch, and they are very open as to where it goes from here based on player feedback after the game goes live. They’d love to “free fly” stuff, multiplayer, etc, but again, this all depends on feedback.
- Mods as it stands right now are purely functional, such as weapons, shields, etc. Cosmetic modifications to the ship (such as hanging a painting up on your wall) are supported in the game tech, but are not currently available.
- Traveling around the galaxy costs credits, and the cost is based on your distance from your desired destination. Class quests that take place in a different location will allow you to fly back for free, BioWare doesn’t want players getting trapped anywhere trying to complete their story content.
- You can board your friends’ ships and travel with them. However, your ship will still travel with you so you won’t be stranded if your friend logs out on a planet you’ve just traveled to with him.
I can tell you the Fan Site Summit didn’t include any Space Combat content, so hopefully there may be some other media outlets posting more info soon!
Hop on over to MMORPG.com and check it out!
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Groovy, Space sounds like a lot of fun out of the box. I dun mind the rails system. SWG space was fun but like the planets had a lot of wide open areas of nothing which got boring after a bit. Looking forward to getting my hands on space and seeing whats what.
Awesome stuff. Love that we can hitch a lift with friends. Thats an RP wet dream right there.
One question that just struck me – Can you sit in those chairs?
You know it’s funny… we had a question on our list for the Fan Site Summit:
“There are chairs. Can we sit in them?”
And we never got to ask it… ! And of course, silly me didn’t try, despite being in a million buildings with chairs.
I hope so… for me it provides Immersion™