New Space Combat Information

PC Action, a German Magazine, released new information today on Space Combat from a demo that was shown to the press leading up to GamesCom. To say that the information has blown up the Star Wars: The Old Republic Official Forum would be an understatement. Sean Dahlberg replied after stating:

As announced during Comic-Con International...

First, thank you to all of you who participated in our Comic-Con Reveal mission! While we didn't quite make the numbers, we definitely saw how excited the community is about this and how everyone came together. After all of that, there's no way we could hold back with our special reveal at Comic-Con!

If you've been following the news coming out of the Star Wars: The Old Republic panel at Comic-Con International, you've heard the announcement that we will indeed have Space Combat as part of the TOR experience! But what does that mean? Space combat is an alternative gameplay experience to the primary game of storytelling, questing, and ground-based combat. In space combat, you fly your personal ship to various hot spots on your galaxy map. From there, you will blast your way through asteroid fields, enemy fighters, frigates, destroyers, and a variety of other obstacles that will evoke memories of some of the great Star Wars space battles.

To learn more, pick up the October 2010 edition of PC Gamer which hits newsstands starting August 17th for screenshots and an exclusive interview or check back with us in the weeks to come.

Check out the cover of PC Gamer's October edition here:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/07/23/st...led-in-pcg-us/

There is an article about by the PC Action magazine that gives more details about Space Combat. There is a translation for this posted by a few users but I ask that everyone keep the discussion of the topic to this thread. Keeping the conversation within a (single) thread is easier for the team to look at consolidated constructive criticism and feedback instead of having to search all over and reading numerous short threads.

While discussing this, as always, be courteous to your fellow community members.

UPDATE[1]: To clarify, Space Combat is not a Turret Shooter (this is probably obvious after seeing the screenshot but some people were mentioning it in the other thread).

UPDATE[2]: Added the poll from a community member's thread.

For details on the information that was released today, check the community thread on the Official Forum linked below. Hat tip to Chris and Jamis on the heads up. You can find our community discussing the news on our forum.

Comments

  • freewngs's avatar
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    #4 freewngs Posted 8/9/2010 5:32:55 AM
    If you look at the space combat shot and watch the Coruscant video you see a ship at 4:56 that matches it. Compare that to the Ebon Hawk and you can safely assume it's the Smuggler ship.
  • InvaderMig's avatar
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    #3 InvaderMig Posted 8/9/2010 5:29:56 AM
    I have no one to blame but myself for thinking space would be more than just Star Fox. I mean don't get me wrong I liked Star Fox, but even that game had pvp and it was open twitch dog fighting. You could even be in a tank on the ground fighting the Star Fighters. Anyhow, I digress. I'm sure for the people who didn't really care for space, this is nice because they don't have to deal with a Z axis. For me, I gotta say it probably would have been better if it wasn't in the game at all.
  • munizfelix's avatar
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    #2 munizfelix Posted 8/9/2010 5:12:09 AM
    Most of the time the community twist the info they get and make up stuff based on assumptions but this time Bioware is really to blame for the shitstorm on the forums.

    If space content is just a minigame, why the hell did they make such a big deal out of it (Magazine covers, big reveals, etc)?

  • LethalSharpshooter's avatar
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    #25 LethalSharpshooter Posted 8/9/2010 1:19:34 PM
    Because more than half of the forum members were screaming after it?
    Maybe they couldn't stand the pressure.
  • serBetamax's avatar
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    #1 serBetamax Posted 8/9/2010 4:46:24 AM
    Interesting. Certainly it's a shame we won't be getting a TOR version of TIE-Fighter or something, but if they get it right this could be a lot of fun to play. Personally I hope we have full control over the ship though, rather than having it constantly moving forward through the level with us just steering.
  • TheTargetDemographicGuy's avatar
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    #70 TheTargetDemographicGuy Posted 8/10/2010 6:10:48 AM
    Good point. I too hope this is Free-Flight, and not some sort of mini-game obstacle course.

    I really hope this also means PvP space combat too (separate areas of course! PvP everywhere in space would ruin it for sure).

    At the very least, I hope they allow multiple players to play space missions together.

    If we could do it in single ships like SWG had (pilot & gunners) that would be amazing. Honestly, that was the only thing that kept me paying for SWG for the last year before I quit.
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