SDCC 2011: Day 3 Live Blog & Coverage
The third day of Darth Hater's coverage of Star Wars: The Old Republic activities at San Diego Comic-Con kicks off at 2:00p PT/5:00p ET with our coverage of the writer Q&A BioWare Base. Then at 4:00p PT/7:00p ET we will live blog the 'Dark Horse and BioWare: A Comic and Video Game Partnership' panel. The two remaining events have us covering a Q&A at 7:30p PT/10:30p ET and then the developer meet and greet that will last until 10:30p PT/1:00a ET.- Writer Q&A at BioWare Base
- Dark Horse and BioWare: A Comic and Video Game Partnership Live Blog
- BioWare Base Q&A/Meet and Greet
- Stephen Reid Answers Pre-Order Questions
Make sure to refresh this post for the most up-to-date information coming out of the Q&As and live blogs. We will transcribe the audio and update with direct quotes as soon as possible after the conclusion. We will have the audio of all of the events up as soon as we can after the conclusion of the Q&As and panels as well.
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- Q&A live blog starts at 7:30p PT.
- 7:01p: Correction, doesn't start till 7:30. We'll post an update on Twitter when it begins and start the live blog then.
- 7:33p: Q&A starting, introducing Alexander Freed, Drew Karpyshyn, James Ohlen, Dallas Dickinson, Jennifer Hale, Rich Vogel.
- 7:36p: Question: Will we see talent trees to prepare our character before launch? - Likely.
- 7:37p: Q: Healers are tough to play, adding in help in the UI? DD: We will be adding in things to help healers.
- 7:38p: Q: Funniest moment at BWA? DD: Rich Vogel, anything that comes out of his mouth is exciting, comedy gold
- 7:39p: Q: Will you be able to choose between empire and campaign (switch sides)? JO: You are empire and republic for all time but you choose at the beginning of the game.
- 7:39p: Talking about favorite movie in the series.
- 7:40p: Q: Can you be a good jedi or bad jedi? JO: Yes you are, if you're a sith warrior you can be the good version of darth vader. On the jedi you can be the bad version of a jedi. DD: Moral code while supporting the empire = cool.
- 7:41p: Q: Empire and republic characters on the same server? DD: Yes, there will be multiple shards. SR: There may be reasons to put two factions on the same server that we haven't talked about yet.
- 7:42p: DD: Single target tanking and multi are available in the game.
- 7:42p: Q: Heroic versions of flashpoints? JO: Flashpoints 4 player adventures. We're right now considering doing a hard mode, there will be one to do at a much higher level.
- 7:43p: DD: You can have each character on the shard be in a different guild on different factions.
- 7:44p: Q: Plans for applications for crew skills? JO: That's on the wall of crazy.
- 7:45p: DK: We have to respect the ip, but make it feel distinct. Juggling balls with both ideas. You have to use original material as a template
- 7:46p: JH: I like the get it done types, different attitudes no favorite.
- 7:47p: Q: Cross faction communication between friends? JO: Nope, you're screwed. You're enemies. You can walk up to them and do chat bubbles with them.
- 7:48p: JO: In SWTOR we have a problem because we have a big class story, have to solve the problem of gankers around class story, we have a system that players can't hang around and stop your class story, but you might be ganked venturing out.
- 7:49p: Q: If your guild is pvp and you don't want to play pvp what options are there? DD: There aren't many options, if you are a pvp server you are at the least signing up for part of the some pvp on a pvp server.
- 7:50p: Q: Are gundarks in the game? SR: Yes DD: You can fight them on Dromund Kaas.
- 7:51p: Q: Republic leader? SR: Satele Shan
- 7:52p: Q: Addons? RV: We're working on that now, post launch feature, but it will at some point come.
- 7:52p: Q: Plans for guilds more than friends list? We want fuill feature guilds, will have some for ship and after.
- 7:53p: Q: Guild ranks? DD: We allow you to change titles in the guild, details later.
- 7:53p: Q: Guild pop cap limit our progression? DD: As of right now, I don't think so. SR: We'll talk about that at some other point.
- 7:54p: JO: Will only currently be able to view friends on the same server. RV: On the wall of crazy.
- 7:55p: Shards term comes out of UO and became slang.
- 7:56p: Q: Endgame? JO: Eternity Vault, more ops coming. More warzones coming. Single planet devoted to single player endgame.
- 7:56p: Q: Change appearance in game after creation? JO: Maybe.
- 7:57p: Q: Systems in place for weapon customization? JO: Yes.
- 7:57p: Q: Racials? JO: Yes, we have that planned, and almost sure at launch. RV: We're working on it. DD: Working on it, if it doesn't work out it might not be there.
- 7:58p: Q: What are you doing to prevent endgame from becoming a gear war? JO: We have a system, that stephen would kill me if I talked about but we will talk about that in the next couple months. RV: We'll talk about that later because we're working on them currently.
- 8:00p: Q&A Over.
Photos from the event are in the media gallery.
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Posted 7/24/2011 5:13:37 PMSure, not everyone follows the game like we do, but if they don't, they should save it for the people who have questions that DON'T have answers to them, and let them ask other players, or, actually RESEARCH the game.
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