Star Wars: The Old Republic's PvP 'Warzones' detailed in video
by Griffin McElroy 
on Nov 6th 2010 12:00AM
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Posted: Nov 6th 2010 12:11AM Shadowbender said
Ever notice that BioWare sounds like "Buy-our-ware" when you say it fast?
That being said, I can't wait to buy and love this.
That being said, I can't wait to buy and love this.
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 12:24AM Shikadi said
Looks cool!
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 12:57AM quikblink said
Anyone else get a MAG vibe from this?
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 1:00AM piez said
Sounds like Loghain at the beginning.
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 1:00AM Jhoalot said
SWTOR and Guildwars 2, man this sure looks really awesome!
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 1:57AM DarknessBear said
From what I've heard, the game is in terrible shape and will be a huge disappointment. I'm hoping it's not true..
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 2:04AM drewciferpike said
I was excited, but that simply didn't look fun.
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 10:13AM Emophia said
Animations seem really awkward.
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 10:35AM fischju said
This is the first time I've seen them talk about PvP. Looks like an objective based public quest, Republic vs Empire. It could be good, depending on how important winning these are and how they effect the larger game. Hopefully very important.
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 4:10PM fischju said
@(Unverified) You might want to check out Warhammer Online, it's a much better game now than from launch and completely RvR (Realm vs Realm, ie Order vs Destruction, may as well call Republic vs Imperial RvR too) oriented, it's a lot of fun. Hundreds of players attacking a keep with hundreds inside it trying to repel them... It also has public quests but not PvP ones, I'd say SWTOR took (or hopefully took) inspiration from WAR for the PvP.
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Posted: Nov 6th 2010 10:48AM Theepictimeishere said
@DarknessBear By any chance do you have any inside knowledge?
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 11:56AM Aberhams said
regarding lightsaber wielding players vs. non-lightsaber wielding folks, i get the impression that the player jedi/sith won't be the super hero luke/obi wan/vader type jedi, they are the rank and file average joe who can fall to blaster fire almost as easily as anyone else if they don't manage to block the shots.
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 2:01PM fischju said
You might want to check out Warhammer Online, it's a much better game now than from launch and completely RvR (Realm vs Realm, ie Order vs Destruction, may as well call Republic vs Imperial RvR too) oriented, it's a lot of fun. Hundreds of players attacking a keep with hundreds inside it trying to repel them... It also has public quests but not PvP ones, I'd say SWTOR took (or hopefully took) inspiration from WAR for the PvP.
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 3:05PM Shiv Thrice said
Uh god, Bioware do your self a favor and just release cinematic trailers until the game launches. That just look like total crap.
Posted: Nov 6th 2010 3:18PM ChongShin said
I didn't like the animations, either, but it's far from release so I expect them to continue with their improvements.
My concern about SW:TOR is that it seems more like something that you would play on a dedicated server than on a MMO server. They really should save money and release a(nother) trilogy of single player games with multiplayer maps. All of us KOTOR fans would still enjoy it, and I'm certain that the quality of the games would be great. It would also save the company (a lot of) money that could be put toward expansions and DLC. This appears to be the general direction that they're taking with it, anyway.
This video looks really cool, but it doesn't in any way say "MMO" to me. I can see that they're aiming for the World of Warcraft battle ground experience, but this video, to me, feels more like Jedi Academy multiplayer than it does WoW BG.
For all of their TALK about how it's not (mostly) a single player experience I have yet to SEE any actual proof of their claim, and this FPS-like multiplayer map hardly supports the idea of a MMO; quite the opposite.
Fun? It certainly does look that way. There's no doubt that I would buy and play this, particularly in a game like Jedi Academy. Monthly subscription fun? No. I have yet to see anything from SW:TOR that warrants a monthly subscription or even a server beyond player hosted MP maps as an added feature to an otherwise great single-player game.
My concern about SW:TOR is that it seems more like something that you would play on a dedicated server than on a MMO server. They really should save money and release a(nother) trilogy of single player games with multiplayer maps. All of us KOTOR fans would still enjoy it, and I'm certain that the quality of the games would be great. It would also save the company (a lot of) money that could be put toward expansions and DLC. This appears to be the general direction that they're taking with it, anyway.
This video looks really cool, but it doesn't in any way say "MMO" to me. I can see that they're aiming for the World of Warcraft battle ground experience, but this video, to me, feels more like Jedi Academy multiplayer than it does WoW BG.
For all of their TALK about how it's not (mostly) a single player experience I have yet to SEE any actual proof of their claim, and this FPS-like multiplayer map hardly supports the idea of a MMO; quite the opposite.
Fun? It certainly does look that way. There's no doubt that I would buy and play this, particularly in a game like Jedi Academy. Monthly subscription fun? No. I have yet to see anything from SW:TOR that warrants a monthly subscription or even a server beyond player hosted MP maps as an added feature to an otherwise great single-player game.
Posted: Nov 8th 2010 9:37AM thranx said
@ChongShin
2 words. Persistant World. That's what you get for $15, and it makes allll the difference.
No, I'm not feeling super positive about the game, and this video doesn't do anything to change that sentiment, but I'll gladly pay $15 a month for a true MMO over crap like Guild Wars that is /NOT/ an MMO. It's simply a multiplayer action RPG with a graphical lobby and trade system.
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2 words. Persistant World. That's what you get for $15, and it makes allll the difference.
No, I'm not feeling super positive about the game, and this video doesn't do anything to change that sentiment, but I'll gladly pay $15 a month for a true MMO over crap like Guild Wars that is /NOT/ an MMO. It's simply a multiplayer action RPG with a graphical lobby and trade system.
Posted: Nov 7th 2010 12:59AM GeoffSchultz said
How come this $300 million dollar MMO looks like it's from 2004.
Posted: Nov 7th 2010 9:47PM Straymind said
@GeoffSchultz The game is being built to bridge the gap between high performance systems and low performance systems, one of the reasons games like WoW are successful is that your mom's old desktop can handle it, while the beefier machines can extraxt extra graphical goodness from it's textures and particle effects.
The homogenized character models and muted textures are Bioware making a smart business move, sure they could have modeled everything to the level that you see in mass effect 2 (Shep has individually defined stubble hairs o.O) but the only a fraction of the audience that is interested in MMOs and more particularly Star Wars would be able to play it.
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The homogenized character models and muted textures are Bioware making a smart business move, sure they could have modeled everything to the level that you see in mass effect 2 (Shep has individually defined stubble hairs o.O) but the only a fraction of the audience that is interested in MMOs and more particularly Star Wars would be able to play it.
Posted: Nov 8th 2010 9:39AM thranx said
Public quests are easily the greatest segment of play in Warhammer Online that should be in every MMO, but this video makes it feel much more like a progressive attack/defend multiplayer map from the likes of TF2 or BFBC2. Something seperated from the world.
One can hope, tho.
One can hope, tho.
Posted: Nov 8th 2010 9:40AM thranx said
bah to broken replys. The above was ment to be @fischju and unverified
