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The Darth Hater team is still recovering from PAX Prime 2011 and getting ready for tonight's Live Q&A at 6p PT, so we put together a montage video containing a few of our favorite moments. Hit the jump for the latest rendition of the traditional Hater chant and more.

Darth Hater filmed some Star Wars: The Old Republic's Huttball Warzone PvP action from a Trooper Commando and Sith Sorcerer point of view at PAX Prime. The videos are embedded after the jump, and we'll add all the Huttball PvP videos we get to this post. Enjoy.

Psst. Pay attention to the audio in the Trooper video.

This week's Star Wars: The Old Republic Friday Update is a new developer walkthrough based on the Esseles Flashpoint. Republic players will be able to experience this flashpoint early on in their journeys, and will need to band together to protect a high-ranking diplomat and fight off an Imperial boarding party.

Working dissection is in the media gallery below. As with all of our dissections, items noted in prior dissections will not be mentioned here again unless otherwise important. Feel free to add your thoughts and items you noticed in the videos. If we decide to use your find, we will credit you in the dissection. Make sure to check back throughout the day for more. Official Devtracker post follows the jump.

Now that were back from San Diego Comic-Con, we were able to find some time to get our own video up of the Join Us, It Is Your Destiny' panel. Some of you might have seen it already on Gamespot or G4 but our own video gets a better angle/view of the abilities shown in the panel. We will work on dissection images to update the original gallery when we are able to find some time. For now though, the embed of our video follows the jump. Enjoy.

This week's Star Wars: The Old Republic Friday Update is a new trailer called 'Join the Fight.' The new, completely in-game trailer, originally premiered at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 and fans loved it. The video is now available for the world to see.

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The uneasy peace established by the Treaty of Coruscant is broken and both the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire build their armies. As both sides prepare for open war, a new generation of heroes must rise up to meet the challenges of a volatile age, declaring their allegiances and fighting for what they believe in.

Working dissection is in the media gallery below. As with all of our dissections, items noted in prior dissections will not be mentioned here again unless otherwise important. Feel free to add your thoughts and items you noticed in the videos. If we decide to use your find, we will credit you in the dissection. See the Media Gallery below for the dissection. Video embed and official DevTracker post follow the jump.

This week's Star Wars: The Old Republic Friday Update is the Battle for Alderaan Highlights Video. The video includes footage of a group of players taking on King Ulgo. Before this, a live stage demo from Gamespot featured the quest at E3 2011 along with many others. Up until now, the context of the event was muddy at best. However, we now have a greater understanding of Alderaan's story and more specifically, the self-proclaimed King Ulgo.

A working dissection of both of the videos is in the media gallery below. Make sure to check back for more. As with all of our dissections, items noted in prior dissections will not be mentioned here again unless otherwise important. Feel free to add your thoughts and items you noticed in the video. If we decide to use your find, we will credit you in the dissection.

The official DevTracker post and video embed follow the jump. Alternately, you can view the high-definition version of the video via our Youtube account.

Update: BioWare just moments ago released a new video from E3, this time highlighting commentary from the fans lucky enough to get a chance to play. Embed of the video is available after the jump.

This Friday brings us an in-depth look at Trooper progression, with a video in the flavor of the previous two progression videos that goes through both Commando and Vanguard Advanced Classes, showing a progression of gear and abilities. Check out the video embed below for more info about one of Star Wars: The Old Republic's emblematic ranged tanks, including abilities like stealth-detection droids and vibroblade attacks.

Official DevTracker post is contained after the jump. Our Working Dissection from the update is in the gallery below. As with all Dissections we will not mention stuff in past Dissections. If you find something you think we should point out, add it to the comments section of this post and if we use it we will credit you for the find.

Live from PAX East 2011, BioWare announces this week's Friday Update - New In-game Trailer. The Trailer recaps the high level story -- Peace in the Republic, Empire Returned, War, all set to clips of in-game footage. We're bringing this content live so watch this post for the Friday Update news.

UPDATE 11a PT: We had a chance to chat with Stephen Reid and we will have the full interview up relatively soon, but we wanted to let you know about something you will see tomorrow:

Stephen Reid
We're having a Saturday update; we got something going up tomorrow. I'm not going to spoil it but it is related to Taral V. I think people are going to like it; you're not going to have to work too hard to figure it out but it is something people have been asking for consistently for quite a long time.

No, it isn't a release date. But yeah, we're having an update tomorrow.

Working Dissection of the trailer is in the Media Gallery below. As with all dissections, we will not comment on stuff seen in prior videos. Make sure to keep checking out throughout the weekend for more content for the Dissection as we will add new content as we go. Official DevTracker post follows after the jump.

Late night official Star Wars: The Old Republic forum goer taekwondoboy found a new Smuggler class video as part of Machinima Realm's debut episode. There is a third person view of stealth at 00:54, and what appears to be a Wookiee companion reveal at 01:00.



Hat tip to Darth Hater community member Tango for the alert.

Working Dissection after the jump.

Last Updated: September 16th @ 4:30 PM EST

This week's friday update is the E3 Multiplayer Game Play Demo:

During E3 we gave live demos of multiplayer game play in The Old Republic for the press. Now we want to share the demo with the community! This demo shows how a diverse group of players use their abilities to complement one another in battle.

Commander Narlock readies his troops for an Imperial assault. As he does, all four Republic classes; a Jedi Consular, Jedi Knight, Smuggler, and Trooper join together to assist in fighting off the attack. Watch as each player does his or her part to take on the enemies, and beat the Imperial Troopers and Imperial Breach Droids.

See how group combat will be a thrilling part of The Old Republic in this Multiplayer Game Play Demo.

The downloadable and localized versions will be available next week.

Sean Dahlberg gives further insight about the video:

This is indeed another take of what happened during E3. In here you have Brian Arndt as the Smuggler, Rob Chestney as the Trooper, Cory as the Jedi Knight, and I played the Jedi Consular.

This was something shown during E3 on G4 but we wanted to give you a version that had no cuts from start to finish, where you got to hear the VO, and saw the same setup tackled in a slightly different way.

Working Dissection after the jump.

Last Updated: July 3 @ 1:22 PM EST

BioWare offered a really packed Friday Update this week, and included several announcements. First up, they announced the premiere issue of Blood of the Empire, the new webcomic:

The first issue of Blood of the Empire takes us to a galaxy engaged in war. The Sith Empire strikes blow after blow against a Republic reeling from the return of its ancient enemies, and the Jedi scramble to defend their holdings. But Imperial victory is far from certain...

Teneb Kel, a fiercely clever young man apprenticed as a Sith, is selected by his masters for a secret mission--a mission concerning the Emperor himself and a threat to the Dark Lords thousand-year plan. Doomed if he fails, expendable if he succeeds, Teneb must unravel the schemes at work around him if he is to seize control of his destiny and alter the course of history.

Check out the first issue written by Alexander Freed, illustrated by Dave Ross, inked by Mark McKenna, colored by Michael Atiyeh, and lettered by Michael Heisler!


And the latest Video Documentary, Combat in The Old Republic, is now available on the official site:

Whether you dream of beating the odds with just your luck and a blaster, or imagine restoring order to the galaxy with Force powers and a Lightsaber, you'll have your chance in Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Weve talked a lot about how The Old Republic is innovating on storytelling in MMOs, and now we want to share with you how combat in The Old Republic will deliver a new level of excitement for fans. Check out our latest Video Documentary that focuses on Combat to get an inside look at how were bringing dynamic Star Wars action to life in Star Wars: The Old Republic!

Watch Combat in The Old Republic now!

BioWare's Sean Dahlberg was also busy putting up some new polls on the official site, and announced a Fan Friday. This one included a ton of fan-created art, new forum avatars, a Developer Corner featuring a screenshot of a taxi and a video of Belsavis(?) focusing on environmental design with ZOMG WATER EFFECTS:

We're kicking off this Fan Friday by featuring some outstanding work by various members of the Star Wars: The Old Republic community. We also have some great stuff to show off in the Developer Corner, along with new polls and avatars! Make sure to catch it all!

More after the jump.

Here is Darth Hater's dissection of the latest Video Documentary from Star Wars: The Old Republic, which focuses largely on Combat. As in our prior dissections, we will add new content in as we find it, so keep checking back. Feel free to let us know if you notice something we missed, and we will be happy to add it to our dissection with credit. Note: if something is mentioned in a prior dissection, then we do not reiterate it again here. Low bandwidth users should note there are numerous images contained in this article.



Last Updated: April 26, 2010 @ 3:00 PM EDT

The Star Wars: The Old Republic Fatal Alliance cover image definitely sparked our interest at STARWARS.com:

The site also states the scheduled release date for the Sean Williams novel is July 20, 2010.

In other news, the official SWTOR Twitter hinted we might see a new video documentary in tomorrow's update:

Can anyone remember when exactly it was we posted our last Video Documentary for The Old Republic? #starwars

Although some of us mistakenly thought it was Return to Taris because we think the Developer Dispatches are indeed documentaries, the correct answer is Video Documentary #3 -- released on July 17, 2009.

Update after the jump

It's a bit too early to tell on this but it is quite interesting the way that this NPC seen in the Coruscant developer dispatch video seems to have control over this creature:



This is obviously pure speculation right now but this is the first time that we have seen a creature in close proximity to an NPC or player without them fighting it at the time almost as if it were the person's creature. I can't wait to get my hands on the high-res version of the video to get a better look at this in the future.

Though the article reveals nothing new from what we have known for some time it is nice to have confirmation on one of the items that we speculated on in our first dissection:

The dialogue options available in this scenario to Zeshuck and Eisendel would be determined by the skills of their characters and some randomization. "You can either agree or compete on what game dialogue you want to have and what direction the story goes. Because at the end of the day you are making a decision on whether I'm going to kill the captain or save the captain that's a dark side choice, Erik doesn't want that. It's neat to have that potential interaction."

Hat tip to Chillinvillain.

As promised here's our video version of the developer Q&A day 1. Embeds and direct links to the downloadable versions of the video after the jump.

We now have an HD version of our Coruscant trailer shown a few days back. Enjoy :)



Direct link to the HD download version of this reveal.

Gamespot has uploaded a high resolution version of the Coruscant reveal trailer we posted earlier. This version of the trailer is a bit higher quality than the one we posted. Even now after more than ten times of watching this reveal it is still just as impressive.

As promised here is the entire 2nd day gameplay demo that was shown at PAX. This is the demo where the trooper class, seen earlier in our other video, is shown in great detail. Check below for the Youtube embed and direct download link. Enjoy.

Today's last and final demonstration of the PAX Star Wars: The Old Republic demo shows off trooper gameplay footage. Oh also - /dance confirmed in this demo We also got to see a little glimpse of the death/respawn system - RETURN TO MEDCENTER is the death option in the demo when the person demoing the game died. We are hoping to have the full gameplay demo video up today if everything goes well with the bandwidth at PAX.

Youtube Embed:



UPDATE: The trooper video is now up for torrent download. Youtube embed above now up. Youtube also just parsed it into HD so everything should be good there.