Star Wars: The Old Republic's 'Trooper' class detailed

This was my initial reaction:
http://www.bungie.net/images/news/inlineimages/AnniversaryMCNewsweekLrg.jpg

"They're evidently highly effective at close-quaters combat"

Why do you comment on an article you didn't read? You know you just make yourself look stupid.

except i was asuming that was a typo, as it makes little sense.

"they evidently would have been good at close quarters combat if everyone else wasn't running around with lightsabers and michlorians" should have been the full quote.

THIS is the class you were hoping for? Not something way more interesting, like a bounty hunter or a Wookiee engineer or something?

I'm excited about seeing the various classes BioWare are creating, but they're going to have to try a lot harder than this in order to get me seriously interested in the game.

I think the Republic Trooper is far more interesting than a bounty hunter :)

this is 300 years later than those so id imagine their designs would change a bit

odd, that was supposed to reply to dimaskrenz

I'd like the option of mixing certain elements from classes. So you could be a clone-trooper that has some bounty hunter skills on the side. Something like that.

Also, I want this game on the Xbox 360, since my pc is a piece of shit when it comes to playing games.

This is a few thousand years before clone troopers.

I know the designs are changed. But, clone trooper-look a like? Come on Bioware!

now i can't decide between bounty hunter and trooper. damn.

no shit it's a few thousand years before, but there's no denying that they basically are the same.

Holy balls do I fail. I always thought your gt was a Matrix reference. I'm a real asshat. Mostly because that doesn't make sense either. Dude I'm thinking of was the merovingian... Immmmmm faaaailing awaaaaaaayyyyy

@Mystile

This is a game which is going to be designed (like WoW) to run on practically anything. Stick a $50 graphics card in your PC and you'll probably manage some pretty good settings.

Some of the Republic Trooper armour did make them look sort of like that first image. As for the Sith Troopers, I imagine that'll be a seperate class, unless the Bounty Hunter is the Sith equivalent.

But it just doesn't look an Old Republic army...
Are they trying to re-design clone armour for Old Republic? Doesn't feel Old Republic at all...

Maybe they got special armour because they were special forces.

I'm hoping it's like SWG before they ruined it.

Good luck. This will be another easy MMO.

I'd prefer it to be hardcore like SWG used to be, too. But it's just not going to happen.

I remember the treks through the desert in SWG. Those were good times.

Well, you have to keep in mind that the overall technology in Star Wars episode 1, 2 and 3 somehow seems more advanced than the technology in 4, 5 and 6 which takes place after.

I mean, come on those killer robots with dual-lasers in each hand that rolled around in circles with their own personal nearly impenetrable shield?

How come when Luke Skywalker and Han Solo mounted their rescue attempt in Star Wars: A New Hope those things never show up?

A. CGI at the time didn't exist to make them without an extremely cheesy looking effect.

B. Its more personable if the story is human versus human rather than human versus robot guard.

Its kind of strange though because it feels like to me that the 'driods' launched to track down one of the escape pods from the captured corvette that had C3 Po and R2D2 were less advanced than the droids from 20 year prior in episode 1. What happened? Did the empire run out of money and decided to get the 80% off 800 year old droid models?

Where did the robot guards go? Did the empire decide it was unfair to lay off all those henchmen in favor of autorobonization after the Evil Hencemen Union was established and hired all the henchmen back to get easily-shot?

Star War's technology timeline is as screwed up as Star Trek storyline is after that travesty with Scott Backula 'Enterprise' was made.

Yeah, a new Republic Commando would be awesome! I remember spending countless hours upon hours on that game. Would be nice to have an updated version, for sure.

Without trying to be a picky Star Wars fan, yeah, this bothered me.

Basically they're saying the Republic based their logo on the Sith emblem..? No one questioned that? It's like the European Union using a swastika.