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Darth Hater Episode 13 - Strappin on the Stealth Belts

Episode 13 of the Darth Hater podcast is now up for stream and download. Check the bottom of the post for the stream and download links. Podcast notes after the jump.


Intro
Justin Lowe - Sado - Twitter: @realdarthhater
Pete Trerice - Misenus - Twitter: @petetrerice
Josh Coleman - Colm - Twitter: @colmination
Josh Ogborn - Sleeper - @dhsleeper
Ben Dover Stiers

Segments
1. Imperial Agent (Dover)
a. Introduction (Dover)
a2. Sado and Dover talk about the walkthrough, lead into the Holonet review
WALKTHROUGH http://darthhater.com/2009/11/14/imperial-agent-demo-walkthrough/
a3. Discuss the Jake Neri interview on the Imperial Agent (Dover/Sado)
INTERVIEW:http://darthhater.com/2009/11/13/interview-with-jake-neri-on-the-imperial-agent/
MP3File1 (Jake Neri on Opener to General Combat Tactics)
Discuss File1
MP3File2 (Furthering on the combat tactics and abilities)
Discuss File2
MP3File3 (Stealth)
Discuss File3
MP3File4 (Closing)
b1. Holonet Review (sado) (Weapons, armor, tactics)
HOLONET: http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/classes/imperial-agent
b2. Discuss the Portable Barrier, Stealth Belt (Colm start the discussion)
d. Community questions, comments or poll results related to this topic (Sleeper)
POLL: http://darthhater.com/2009/11/14/community-poll-questions-for-this-weeks-podcast-2/

COMMENTS ON IMPERIAL AGENT
PercMerc - Of the classes theyve announced so far I cant see them giving stealth to anyone else. They could always announce new classes and change my mind. But for now I dont see the smugglers using stealth.
Pinio - My answer is no. Because we can expect, something compare to agent, you know some kind of symmetry not strictly mirror. It would be unnatural if on 8 classes only one can move unseen. IMO smuggler could has something like stealth ability. I know that smuggler is a little rowdy, romantic hero, but not always looking for audience. Han often used cover and stealth to attain his targets. Maybe good way to give to this class stealth is dress for someone. Get clothes from dead body, or steal them from somewhere Remember that smuggler is smuggling class, so he/she cant do this only by go cover to cover. IMO it fit good to this class even if we base only on movies like I wrote several posts below.
Remlish - I think that there will be a Republic Mercenary class to go up against the Bounty Hunter and it will use the Stealth Belt ala KOTORs Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders seen in both games. In my opinion Republic Trooper is shown as a Heavy Armor class and Bounty Hunter is shown as a Medium Armor class so with that logic we should expect to see a Republic Medium Armor class and an Empire Heavy Armor class.

3. OTX Research (Pete)

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  • Lugano's avatar
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    #28 Lugano Posted 11/20/2009 9:45:37 AM
    Another great podcast! I have to say though, of all the classes introduced so far, I'm least excited for the imperial agent, but that is just my play style I think. I'm for of a "run into the middle of a crowd of people and whirlwind everything to death" kind of guy

    Edit: Just listened to the podcast again and I had a thought (shocking, I know) but I really believe that there is going to be a republic class that has similar abilities to the agent. Maybe a "senator/diplomat" class similar to Leia. The class doesn't need to have stealth, but they could have that commander feel to them
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    #27 Dover Posted 11/18/2009 1:46:30 PM
    Wow is just the most common example to pull from. To be honest, if Lord of the Rings Online had 11 million players then we would be referencing the stealth that the Burglar uses, or comparing the Sith Warrior to a Champion or Guardian. I would even go so far as making comparisons with Everquest if I thought the readers would understand my descriptions.

    In other words, I wouldn't worry about it. There are similarities, but there are also similarities between Borderlands and Fallout 3. ;-)
  • kamakaze189's avatar
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    #26 kamakaze189 Posted 11/18/2009 1:17:50 PM
    Another Great Podcast! :)
  • PercMerc's avatar
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    #24 PercMerc Posted 11/17/2009 11:55:51 PM
    Another great podcast guys! Thanks for the quote. Made me all warm and fuzzy in my midi-chlorians. I have 19,999 per cell and would have more but... videogames... crap!
  • sado's avatar
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    #25 sado Posted 11/18/2009 4:35:51 AM
    Thanks for the feedback guys, glad you guys enjoyed it.
  • PercMerc's avatar
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    #23 PercMerc Posted 11/17/2009 11:49:10 PM
    I'm still hoping with all hopes that they give us the chance, nay, the priviledge of the mandalorian class on Sith side. Ever since throwing on some mandalorian armor in KOTOR I've been hooked. Plus after seeing a basilisk war droid in Force Unleashed... They just HAVE to!
  • sado's avatar
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    #21 sado Posted 11/17/2009 11:27:19 PM
    Issue with the feed is now fixed if you guys we're having problems with the feed.

    http://darthhater.com/2009/11/17/podcast-feed-fixed/
  • Team's avatar
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    #18 Team Posted 11/17/2009 8:13:39 PM
    the sith warrior has force choke, aoe force lightning, force jump and a self-heal. those are just the force powers we have seen. i cant justify a class based on force powers when the force users we have now already use the available canon force powers.
  • Dover's avatar
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    #14 Dover Posted 11/17/2009 6:26:56 PM
    Exactly. I personally think that watching 3 Jedi Knights fighting 3 Sith Warriors is much more interesting with them controlling combat with chokes, force pushes, and clashing lightsabers, as opposed to just seeing 6 guys repeatedly hitting each other with glow sticks.
  • Asomatous's avatar
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    #15 Asomatous Posted 11/17/2009 6:39:04 PM
    I see your points of view, and they are optimistic, which is great. I just don't want to see a Warhammer combat happen all over again, rather then people actually dieing, the whole group vs. group combat was about staying away from each other and getting 1 person pulled into your side and killing them. Everyone was CC'ed and tanks/melee classes just ran around like idiots being distractions, cause everyone would always CC them and leave them for last, focus on casters/ranged.
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    #13 Dover Posted 11/17/2009 6:24:55 PM
    Good call SE,

    I noticed the indicators but didn't notice a color change. Seeing as I'm colorblind, I miss the little things like that. It will be interesting to see if that's because of damage taken or because of time.
  • Xavier's avatar
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    #16 Xavier Posted 11/17/2009 8:03:47 PM
    I feel your pain Dover,
    I'm color blind and it cost me two awesome career paths when I was in the Navy. First, I was recruited for the nuclear engineering program. Until that is, they found out I was colorblind. A few years later, while on Active Duty, I was approached by the Army to jump ship (no pun intended) from Navy to Army for the High School to Flight School program. I was this close to going to flight school for Apache helicopters. Then, they found out I was color blind. *Sigh*
  • Zoid's avatar
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    #20 Zoid Posted 11/17/2009 11:23:04 PM
    The doctor says I am kinda colorblind, but I dont believe him. I just cant make out the numbers in the crazy dot test they give me.
  • PercMerc's avatar
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    #22 PercMerc Posted 11/17/2009 11:43:40 PM
    You're not alone Zoidberg... you're not alone.
  • Dover's avatar
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    #19 Dover Posted 11/17/2009 9:14:18 PM
    That sucks
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