Bioware releases another video highlighting a SWTOR class, this time the Han Solo-inspired Smuggler class. This support role looks like it can do a little bit of everything, including emergency heal. Nice jack-of-all-trades class for those who like to do it all.
PAX 2010: SWTOR closed beta class abilities list at Darth Hater
September 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Darth Hater SWTOR fan site was at PAX 2010 and managed to write down the skill list for many of the playable classes in the current closed beta. While this doesn’t include Advanced Abilities, it’s still a good overview of General Abilities for the Bounty Hunter, Imperial Agent, Sith Warrior, Sith Inquisitor, Trooper and Smuggler. Check out, Force Choke at level 8 for the Sith Warrior, the Bounty Hunter’s Thermal Detonation skill and more fun abilities. Sith Warrior video from this summer embedded below.
PAX 2010: SWTOR interview delves into Advanced Classes
September 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Ask A Jedi SWTOR fansite was on hand at PAX 2010 and recorded an interview with the MMORPG’s Senior Producer Blaine Christine and Daniel Erickson. You can read the transcript or listen to the embedded audio on their site. They cover a number of topics including how Advanced Classes change the role of the character, the role of companions and the controversy behind the Jedi Wizard announcement. They also touch on the creation of lightsabers and how that tradition within the Jedi order has evolved.
PAX 2010: SWTOR panel video on lightsaber creation and more
September 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Darth Hater fan site captured video of the entire SWTOR panel at this weekend’s PAX 2010 gamer conference. This includes many things we’ve seen so far, but particularly interesting is the video lightsaber creation. It also covers why space combat is a “rail shooter”, why Han Solo started as Dark Side Smuggler and how the Force powers being divided into Light Side and Dark Side categories. First video embedded after the jump.
The rest of the video presentation can be found in the Darth Hater article.
PAX 2010: Bioware releases new SWTOR video
September 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
At PAX 2010 this week, Bioware has released a new video entitled “Mysteries of the Knights of the Old Republic.” It shows five players on a mission to follow the footsteps of Darth Revan. Revan was both Jedi and Sith and his fate is unknown when he disappeared investigating deep evil on a distant planet. The video shows off the mission system as well as group combat and can be seen after the jump.
First two SWTOR spaceships revealed: Fury and Defender
August 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
BioWare has posted video and screenshots of the first two of six player spaceships in SWTOR. The Fury-class Imperial Interceptor for players in the Sith Empire and Corellian Defender-Class Light Corvette for the Galactic Republic faction are featured on the official site’s holonet database.
