Electronic Arts Press Conference Live Blog

Our Gamescom 2011 coverage kicks off today at 7AM PT / 10AM ET with our live blog of the Electronic Arts Press Conference. Dr. Ray Muzyka from BioWare will present a live multiplayer demonstration of Star Wars: The Old Republic during the press conference. There is a live stream available of the press conference for fans around the world. The live blog of the event is contained after the jump.

Update: Eternity Vault demonstration video now available after the jump. Dissection of the demonstration is in the media gallery below. More coming soon from the dissection throughout the day.


Live Blog


  • Starts at 7AM PT / 10AM ET

  • 6:37: Andy Katkin: "And yes, there will be plenty of SWTOR and BF3 in this event ... and some pretty cool surprises as well!"

  • 6:48: Video of the Press Conference will come up a few hours after the event.

  • 7:00: People seating, press conference about to start.

  • 7:04: Event starting, introduction.

  • 7:05: Showing EA Sports title, Fifa Street.

  • 7:12: Showing Need for Speed.

  • 7:18: Dr. Ray Muzyka on stage now, BioWare.

  • 7:19: Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes Announced, F2P MMO from BioWare, coming this fall, signup for beta today.

  • 7:20: Talking about SWTOR now, talking about preorder numbers.

  • 7:21: Showing off a conversation cutscene of SWTOR, Bith seen in game. Expanding testing over the beta weekends, you'll be able to play any class/species.

  • 7:23: Eternity Vault Operation live demo lead by Gabe.

  • 7:23: Group takes pods down to the service from their damaged imperial ship, raid frames shown during the demo.

  • 7:25: Sith Inquisitor using force shields and mind numb to help on healing/damage mitigation.

  • 7:27: Taking down the two turrets at the entrance, boss droid called Annihilation Droid comes out after they're finished, programmed to wipe out civilization and protecting the vault.

  • 7:28: New trailer for the Eternity Vault shown.

  • 7:29: Mass Effect 3 now up.

  • 7:30: Appears to be the end for SWTOR out of the press conference.

Gallery: Eternity Vault Demonstration Dissection

Eternity Vault Demonstration Dissection Image 5
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Eternity Vault Demonstration Dissection Image 2

Comments

  • albine's avatar
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    #58 albine Posted 8/17/2011 1:52:29 PM
    check out the clip at 3.44, looks like player unit frames can be customised.
  • Kaiser's avatar
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    #55 Kaiser Posted 8/17/2011 2:22:20 AM
    Wow, the puzzle element is just awesome, I do hope it works out to be something much more than just a gimmicky "turn knob A while on phase A, turn knob B while on transition, etc." and is actually varied. A variable puzzle that is different every single time you use it would be an awesome challenge. Otherwise, everyone will just have to "learn the fight" and go to swtorwiki.com or something.
  • Ymeltje's avatar
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    #53 Ymeltje Posted 8/16/2011 10:38:25 PM
    Got my Gamescom ticket for Saturday! I realy cant wait!
    I hope i can play the game a little, even if its only a minute.
  • brilderee's avatar
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    #51 brilderee Posted 8/16/2011 8:59:46 PM
    hawty at 2:35, anyone from DH know who she is ; )

    Anywho, the raid looks tight....seems like a scripted ending quillixx said. They look on there faces after gameplay footage was not that of a wipe in front of hundreds of people.

    More to come!!!!
  • darthuser4655's avatar
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    #48 darthuser4655 Posted 8/16/2011 7:33:54 PM
    Darksided purple lightsaber awww yea!
  • Elkesai's avatar
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    #56 Elkesai Posted 8/17/2011 2:28:18 AM
    Grape popsicle.
  • theunwarshed's avatar
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    #46 theunwarshed Posted 8/16/2011 7:19:08 PM
    does it look to anyone else that the all raid members appear grouped into 1 big group? i assumed that since the base group size for TOR is 4 that we would see the standard division of groups by that number. if it is just 1 group that has the potential for some serious game play ramifications. how will healing, buffing be effected? what about specific boss and aggro mechanics? to give an example of the concern, from AoC the tier 1 boss Yakhmar, you had to make sure no Barbs (with their fire proc) were in the main tank group or he would spam his mez ability and cause a wipe. if everyone's basically in the same group in TOR raids could this be a problem?
  • Algiebba's avatar
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    #49 Algiebba Posted 8/16/2011 7:43:58 PM
    I would imagine that they would design the game in such a way as to not have mechanics that would cause problems if this is the case.
  • Jaswar's avatar
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    #45 Jaswar Posted 8/16/2011 7:18:27 PM
    That was a WIPE :(
  • Quillixx's avatar
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    #50 Quillixx Posted 8/16/2011 8:23:35 PM
    It was a scripted wipe ;)

    You could tell they were trying to show off several 'iconic' abilities, but had a few bad timings.
    --- The Orbital Bombardment had no droids to kill as the last droid died right before the damage hit.
    --- The AOE lightning was also used on a single droid.
    --- They tried to have the Marauder's Charge ability be the killing blow on the second tower.

    Sadly, no Imperial Agent: Sniper was present. They doubled up on Sorcs.

    As for the wipe, they stopped healing after the bot landed, and they all purposefully moved into the AOE knockback range, save for the 'camera guy' sorc.

    I was a bit bummed with the ending. The two things I really wanted to see were (A) Loot bag mechanics and what was given to a few of the classes as an example... and (B) The quantity of drops the boss gave for an 8 man raid.
  • abner_ford's avatar
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    #52 abner_ford Posted 8/16/2011 10:00:12 PM
    Who knows how long the fight would've lasted otherwise...
  • Viruschill's avatar
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    #57 Viruschill Posted 8/17/2011 9:01:18 AM
    I'm sure presentation time played a key factor into what they could actually show
  • h0tangel99's avatar
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    #43 h0tangel99 Posted 8/16/2011 6:37:47 PM
    That huge droid that they all died at looked fun to fight
  • darthuser3231's avatar
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    #42 darthuser3231 Posted 8/16/2011 5:55:19 PM
    I want this game IN MY BELLY!
  • darthuser915's avatar
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    #37 darthuser915 Posted 8/16/2011 4:43:35 PM
    Well it was very intense it seemed and not to mention look fun. The knocked back that big droid did was nice. I look very much forward to playing this mmo at the raiding level. I can only hope the pvp will be just as good. Even though Ive already got word that a certain area of it wasnt to much fun. But that is why its beta right.
    Good video though of the raiding . Thx DH team for sharing
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