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G4 MMO Report: Companion In Raids?
If we somehow missed this news, I’ll be the first one to apologize.
I scoured the dev tracker and perused recent interviews, but nowhere did I find hints of the news that Casey Schreiner delivered in today’s MMO Report on G4 TV: Companions can “hold a place” in Operations.
Now, the way he made the comment was a little ambiguous, considering I don’t know the source, but if it’s remotely true then BioWare is going against a stance they promoted just a few short months ago – that high level content such as Operations should be won or lost by the player, not by AI.
So, we need more information on this one, which I’ll be working to get. In the mean time, you can watch it for yourself right here and let us know your thoughts. Or if I missed something along the way… perhaps I was unconscious for the past few weeks without my knowledge.
[UPDATE] The good people in the comments section below are on the right track I believe…
[UPDATE 2] Senior Community Manager Stephen Reid replied to us on Twitter with the clarity we were looking for:
@Rockjaw: Nope.
So that puts that to rest!
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I recall something about companions placeholding, but not in Operations. I think G4 is getting operations and flashpoints confused. The impression I got was 4 players are needed to start a FLASHPOINT (not raiding here folks), but if one of them went offline or had to leave, a companion could be brought out to cover for them for a portion of the mission (i.e. dungeon not raid).
I agree, I believe they are getting mixed up between operations and flashpoints.
This was my understanding as well. I think Casey just got confused.
Flashpoints=yes. Operations=no.
It’s just that, in that case… this wasn’t even close to news. We’ve known companions can take up player slots in Flashpoints for some time. So it’s strange it would show up on today’s report, even if he was getting mixed up.
i hate to comment and say the same thing but i will….. if u go back to pax west vids there is an interview with DE i think where he says they can sub in at flashpoints but operations will take much more skill and wont be companion avaiable for operations. He also states that even high lv flashpoints (hardmodes and reg 50’s instances) though it can be done with very skilled players, that it will not be viable to bring companions to these and they difficulty lv is ramped up quite a bit. Im trying to find the link for the interview right now ill post it tonight if i can find it..
http://www.swtor.com/news/blog/20111007
Quote from developer blog: “Any player leaving the group can be substituted by a companion of the group’s choice, with the party leader in control of which player gets to use their companion.
If a player leaves the group or its proximity, to travel to a vendor for instance, he is able to summon his companion for the journey. Upon reentering proximity of the group, the companion is automatically dismissed. The remaining group can temporarily substitute the missing player with one of their companions if desired.”
This blog specifically is speaking about flashpoints. Now listen to the MMO report talk about how companions can be used in raids. The way both are explained sound very very similar, with the exception that he’s claiming it has been announced for raids. I think the MMO report screwed up their research/report.
Please, please, please let it be that they confused operations with flashpoints. I wouldn’t say that companions in operations is a game breaker for me….but it would be heading down that road.
i hate to comment and say the same thing but i will…. if u go back to pax west vids there is an interview with DE i think where he says they can sub in at flashpoints but operations will take much more skill and wont be companion avaiable for operations. He also states that even high lv flashpoints (hardmodes and reg 50’s instances) though it can be done with very skilled players, that it will not be viable to bring companions to these and they difficulty lv is ramped up quite a bit. Im trying to find the link for the interview right now ill post it tonight if i can find it.
What’s the phrase? Screenshot or didn’t happen
why are you bringing up comments made in the MMO Report from months ago? This MMO Report was the one right after E3.
It’s labeled October 13th.
In Pytor’s defense, the MMO Report that’s linked in the article is from June 23.
There be linkage goof!
Seems to be a mis-communication somewhere.
http://torwars.com/2011/10/13/g4-mmo-report-swtor-companions-in-operations/