'Holy crud. Did you catch those Tweets? 15 Flashpoints?! Yeah, I know!'
The big Star Wars: The Old Republic panel at New York Comic Con has just concluded and TORWars was in attendance and live Tweeting the affair. Some tasty info-nuggets were dropped (EU launch date now Dec.20th as well, exclusive VIP fleet visitation for CE owners) for the SWTOR faithful and you’ll definitely want to read the log below!
“NYCC Panel Begins! Stephen Reid says Hi. Intro to team; James Ohlen, D. Erickson, Drew Karpyshyn, Cory Butler as Chewie!”
“Game Overview Now”
“‘Only 1 game & no secret game in the background. 100% dedicated to TOR’”
“Cory Butler talking. ‘Main focus keeping live servers up and running. 4.8 million hours testers have put into game.’”
“Stephen Reid says: ’200k forum posts a week’”
“D.Erickson says ’15 is the number of Flashpoints shipping at launch.’”
“There will always be a Flashpoint available all the way through the leveling experience.”
“More details on Flashpoints closer to launch.”
“Stephen Reid talks Eternity Vault. Screenshot shown.”
“New Operation with Hutts?”
“James Ohlen says ’3 Warzones; Alderaan, Huttball & Voidstar.’”
“Bright gold and purple lightsabers were seen in Voidstar preview video.”
“SWTOR Collector’s Edition has access to VIP fleet whenever visiting your city. Very exclusive.”
“D.Erickson – ‘Writing is done for TOR and I still have a job.’ Meaning expansions are being worked on.”
“Severe Lightside and Darkside points will alter the look of your character.”
“Diplomacy missions, running dailies, there are other ways to ‘repent’ if you wish to change your alignment.”
“New game trailer exclusive at NYCC.”
“Global release date is 12-20-2011. Panel complete. People are out!”
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Good to see
“Severe Lightside and Darkside points will alter the look of your character.”
Wow, nice touch Bioware. Good to see the highstreet will not dictate a release date on this side of the pond!
I guess digital downloads make the classic UK / Europe Friday release approach irrelevant. Happy days.
Writers already working on expansions… wowzerz
…guess those preorders are starting to pay off for us gamers, already!
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OMG. Best details yet. I love the idea of being able to see how good or evil someone is on the look of their character. I hope I get evil glowy red eyes for going fully darkside on my juggernaut. I might make a lightside bounty hunter just to be funny after that. Also the beta testing and server tests must have gone really well if they have upped the EU release to the 20th. Well done. Nice save, and I can’t wait.
Pathos.
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