E3: General Information Learned

We are back from over an hour and a half playing 6 of the 8 classes in Star Wars: The Old Republic, not including Jedi Knight and Jedi Consular. All official videos are posted on our YouTube channel. Although we will have more specific information about the classes shortly, we first wanted to give you a heads-up on some of our findings after the jump.

Updated: June 30 @ 5:40 PM EST

  • When you die, you resurrect outside a small med center building in proximity to your bind station. You spawn with all equipment in hand -- no corpse run necessary.

  • Blaine Christine specifically mentioned PvP acquired armor sets in his presentation.

  • The group size limit in our demo was four players.

  • You acquire new skills through class trainers in the main quest hubs.

  • Class trainers are labeled "Elite."

  • Side quests did not seem to be class restricted.

  • You cannot initiate quest dialog if a nearby party member is in combat.

  • Certain quest givers may be contacted via HoloCom, which works the same as a normal cutscene.

  • A trade command and Lobby chat channel are available, but upon activating them we received a message that said "This function is not yet implemented."

  • Chiss and Human characters both had a /dance action available, and the dance was identical for both males and females.

  • Multiplayer dialog system allows each player to choose their own response, and an automatic dice roll decides the winning choice.

  • If you are in a group and initiate a quest dialog, the other members in your group have two minutes to reach the conversation point. If they don't make it, you have the option to start the conversation without your groupmates.

  • For non-instanced quest givers, the NPC doesn't move around much. Instanced quest givers tended to have elaborate cut scenes where they interact with the environment.

  • Mobs have a leash radius, and some did manage to evade us.

  • If you right click on an inventory item with a vendor trade window open, the item is sold. Values are in single credits with no fractional amounts.

  • Auto-run is available and in the usual places of Mouse 3/Numlock.

  • The taxi system was similar to World of Warcraft's gryphons. You pay a small fee and are transported from Station A to Station B.

  • The character creation screen was very similar to Dragon Age: Origins

  • The aggro indicator is blue when there is no aggro, yellow they are aware of you (mouseover status says "ALERTED") but not engaged, and red indicates in combat. The ranges for this varied depending on the type of mob.

  • For completing quests, you sometimes received items, money, alignment points, and experience points, or any combination therein.

  • For completing quests in a group, you received "Social Points." We don't know their purpose.

  • If a quest is instanced you enter a green portal. If you aren't eligible for the quest, the entrance is red.

  • All classes have a "Revive" ability, a 5s cast time, 10m range, no cooldown ability which can be used on a player or companion. The tooltip did not indicate if the ability is restricted to out of combat use.

  • You can inspect the gear of other players in your group from any distance, even if they're on a different planet.

  • You can inspect the gear of all other players in visual proximity. We don't know the maximum range of this.

  • In our groups the loot rules were "Round Robin" without a dice-rolling mechanic, and the credits looted were split equally among players in the group that were in proximity.

  • Loot was appropriate for what the mob would carry, such as a droid carrying a gun drops a gun (and often seemingly useless spare parts).

  • Personal Ships are described as a "base of operations" for the classes, groups, and companions.

  • Companions are seen in the "hanger," similar to the way that they are in the Mass Effect and KoTOR series.

  • A Dashade Companion and Human (looks like one of the lightly armored trooper concept art images) are seen in the background during the presentation.

  • Flytext seen during the gameplay hands on, works like scrolling combat text but more in the way of Borderlands where damage numbers pop out in different directions around the enemy as you damage them as well as yourself.

  • Preferences allowed for the customization of Flytext in similar ways of Scrolling Combat Text.

  • Preferences allowed for the adding of action bars, similar to the way they are added in the World of Warcraft default UI.

  • Bottom right hand corner bar graph is mentioned as "Game Server Delay"

  • WASD is default in-game



Character Statistics (4 tabs in all)

Base
Damage (Primary)
Bonus Damage
Critical Chance		PVP
Bonus Damage
Trauma Ignore
Critical Damage Reduction
Critical Chance Reduction
Damage Reduction		Tech
Bonus Damage
Bonus Healing
Critical Chance
Energy Regen Rating (in seconds)
Accuracy		Defense
Damage Reduction
Defense chance (percentage)
Glance chance (percentage)
Glance Absorption
Resistance




Map of Ord Mantell, minus the landmarks and features.


Map of Hutta ala Paint


UI & Game Options

Control Options:
Auto-Loot on Right Click, Auto Self-Targeting, Camera Max Distance (set to 7), Camera Rotation Speed, Deselect Target Upon Clicking on Terrain, Inverse Mouse Horizontal, Inverse Mouse Vertical, Mouse Sensitivity (set to 1)

FlyText Options:
Fly Text Enabled, Fly Text Ability Damage From Self, Fly Text Ability Damage From Companion, Fly Text Ability Damage on Self, Fly Text Combat Misc From Companion, Fly Text Combat Miss From Other, Fly Text Combat Miss From Self, Fly Text Heal From Companion, Fly Text Damage From Self, Damage On Companion, Damage on Self, Miscellaneous, Effect Gain Negative, Effect Gain Positive, Effect Loss Negative, Effect Loss Positive, Ability Damage From Companion, Heal From Companion, Heal From Other, Heal From Party, Heal From Self, Low Health Companion, Low Health Self, Mitigation Companion, Mitigation Other, Mitigation Self, Screen Space, Experience.

Rendering Options:
Standard Texture Quality Ones, Refresh Rate, Resolution Size.

Nameplate Options:
Nameplate on Enemy NPCs, Nameplate on Enemy Players, Nameplate on Enemy Player Companions, Nameplate on Friendly NPCs, Nameplate on Friendly Players, Nameplate on Friendly Player Companions, Nameplate on My Companion, Nameplate on Self

Social Options:
Automatically Ignore Group Invites, Automatically Ignore Guild Invites, Automatically Ignore Trade Invites, Profanity Filter, Conversation Mode (mouseover: Is the player playing multiplayer, solo, or as conversation mode?). Set to Conversation Mode.

Social Window:
18 people online displayed at time; tells you name and planet they are on, and can filter the list. Friends List function also present.

Equipment / Loot

Sith Training Blade
Bound
Main Hand
17-24 Kinetic Damage
Durability 100/100
Requires Training Saber

Neophyte Robe
Chest
2 Armor
Durability 75/75
Requires Light Armor
Requires Sith Inquisitor

Neophyte Trousers
Legs
2 Armor
Durability 75/75
Requires Light Armor
Requires Sith Inquisitor

Neophyte Ankle Wraps
Feet
1 Armor
Durability 75/75
Requires Light Armor
Requires Sith Inquisitor

Sith Duel Leathers
Bound
Chest
Armor 23
3 Agility

Sith Practice Blade
Bound
Main Hand
17-24 Kenetic Damage
Durability 100/100

Acolyte Robe
Chest
2 Armor
Durability 75/75
Requires Light Armor
Requires Sith Warrior

Acolyte Trousers
Legs
2 Armor
Durability 75/75
Requires Light Armor
Requires Sith Warrior

War Blade - Quest Item/Reward
Bound
Main Hand
Durability 100/100

Dantooinian Light Target rifle
17-29 Energy Damage
+1 to Presence
Durability 100/00

Courier's Pistol
Bind on Pickup
Main Hand, Off Hand
15-27 Energy Damage
+1 Presence
Req. Blaster Pistol

Burnished Blaster Pistol (purchased for 208 credits from vendor)
18-33 Energy Damage
+2 Cunning
Req. Level 3

Basic Medpack
Restores 150 to 170 health.
Cooldown: 30s

Grey Item Drops

Dud grenade

Ruined Wookie Disguise
Dropped by the elite mob "Agent ___" on Hutta
No stats.

Quest XP/Turn in Notes

Based on a Level 2 Trooper
1680 EXP Required to Level Up

Clearing the Air (Quest)
10 Credits
102 Experience

Exp gained per kill 25-120
25-30 each for each person in a three person group.
110-120 for the bigger solo enemies.

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