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Dissected: Designing the Dark Side Video

After a brief holiday vacation, our dissection of the Star Wars: The Old Republic 'Designing the Dark Side' video is now online. We unfortunately cannot credit anyone for the first finds as we did not create the usual thread on the forum for the dissection. We will continually add in new discoveries as we find them, so make sure to keep checking this post. Note: things we mentioned in prior dissections, we do not revisit again in this one. Dissection complete with our Orange Boxes after the jump.
The first of the images involves facial customization that we saw in our trip to LucasArts. It seems to confirm, at least on the player characters, that we will have similar customization options in the game.

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Possibly the most interesting piece of the entire video was the reveal of armor sets that we will be using throughout the game. Not much is definitively known about these armor sets, but we speculated about this exact point and they seem to confirm what we theorized. The concept art of the armor sets mention classifications as med, heavy, and light.

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We also saw tooltips of all of the skills used during the PvP portion of the video.

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There were significant visual changes to the UI since game play was last seen in a video. Some of the changes were seen at our trip to LucasArts, and were mentioned in our prior articles.

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Second of the UI images -

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We hope you enjoyed our late ( ;) ) dissection of the video.

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  • Tim Skijwalker's avatar
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    #43 Tim Skijwalker Posted 1/19/2010 5:36:04 AM
    indeed it looks mroe like 40
  • chillinvillain's avatar
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    #41 chillinvillain Posted 1/4/2010 3:32:31 AM
    on the last UI pic, i'm pretty sure the level is 43...
  • emlaeh's avatar
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    #44 emlaeh Posted 2/3/2010 12:09:00 AM
    Take a look at the other article we posted about levels & Designing the Darkside.

    Now I want to go through every single "similar" shot and see if the level number changes throughout the video.
  • chillinvillain's avatar
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    #42 chillinvillain Posted 1/4/2010 3:35:26 AM
    oh and forgot to comment, man did you see the shadows on the PvP vid? Even following the chick while in the air...I haven't seen that before in an MMO
  • RogueJedi86's avatar
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    #37 RogueJedi86 Posted 1/1/2010 4:18:25 AM
    In screenshot 4, I see Rawrrrrr is dual-wielding sabers. I was going to say that's new, but we saw that in the E3/GamesCon demo of the Sith Warrior.
  • Lethality's avatar
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    #36 Lethality Posted 1/1/2010 2:00:32 AM
    I've noticed the UI is configured differently than in the previously released gameplay videos...

    The experience bar is now flat along the bottom, and the black curved backdrop is gone.

    But perhaps most interestingly is the black area to the far left bottom corner of the screen. At first it looks black and empty... but if you look closely, there are definitely UI elements/buttons hidden in there.

    Check it out at about 4:05:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeZYGgcUDcY

    Can anyone make any of that out?
  • emlaeh's avatar
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    #39 emlaeh Posted 1/1/2010 5:25:15 AM
    There is an FPS counter on the lower left; it doesn't show in this screenshot.
  • Deidare's avatar
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    #40 Deidare Posted 1/1/2010 5:26:50 AM
    Oh so thats what it is then, eh? Alright, thanks.
  • jedi.grak's avatar
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    #34 jedi.grak Posted 12/31/2009 7:27:09 PM
    i think the sith inquisitor at the last picture is not lv 40 or 50 as ppl say. We all know that the sith inquisitor starts in korriban,as we can see that the inquisitor at the picture is at the valley of the dark lords which is in korriban , i think a higher lv sith inquisitor would have left korriban around lv 20 and gone to another planet where he can receive more quests. im almost sure that the first number is a 1 and the second is either a 0 or an 8.

    i find it very unlikely that a higher lv character would go to newbie starting places but its possible, and it is also possible that there is higher lv quests in korriban but in my opnion the lv of the inquisitor is 10-18
  • emlaeh's avatar
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    #38 emlaeh Posted 1/1/2010 5:21:02 AM
    It would be unwise for BioWare to have high level players completely "abandon" planets where new subscribers gather, or they'd have to develop an entire expansion just to fix that common MMO problem. ;)
  • Pangscar's avatar
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    #33 Pangscar Posted 12/31/2009 5:12:58 PM
    Really liking the UI. Seems to get better every time we see it in one of these videos.
  • Corinthar's avatar
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    #32 Corinthar Posted 12/31/2009 1:12:51 PM
    As Mr Vader himself once said:

    "Impressive! Most impressive"

    Thanks again for the brilliant information. I just hope that your site, coupled with the SW:TOR official forums, can keep the hype charged prior to release.

    Ah, while I'm at it Happy New Year to the staff and community members! :)
  • engrey's avatar
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    #35 engrey Posted 12/31/2009 9:11:19 PM
    TOR General is full of fail, no logic and all "I KNOWZ HOW THE GAME WORKS LOOK ITS LIKE WOW AND MAGES AND !!ZOMG!!!!"

    Yes, that would be great here...
  • Revix2k9's avatar
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    #31 Revix2k9 Posted 12/31/2009 5:28:17 AM
    there was a qoute that everything you see as concept you would see ingame except for or maybe darth jar jar binks :P
  • emlaeh's avatar
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    #30 emlaeh Posted 12/31/2009 4:27:27 AM
    Sith is how we roll.

    And the Emperor is really Leo Olebe.
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