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.
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.
We also saw tooltips of all of the skills used during the PvP portion of the video.
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.
Second of the UI images -
We hope you enjoyed our late ( ;) ) dissection of the video.
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.
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.
We also saw tooltips of all of the skills used during the PvP portion of the video.
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.
Second of the UI images -
We hope you enjoyed our late ( ;) ) dissection of the video.
Comments
Now I want to go through every single "similar" shot and see if the level number changes throughout the video.
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?
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
"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! :)
Yes, that would be great here...
And the Emperor is really Leo Olebe.