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Jeff Hickman and Bruce Maclean now on IGN with details on story

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Jeff Hickman and Bruce Maclean now on IGN with details on story

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Infernixx
06.15.2015 , 04:56 PM | #91
Quote: Originally Posted by Kaizersan View Post
Five new companions will be available throughout the quest, taken from a cast with very different allegiances.

"You're able to recruit help and additional companions from an expanded cast, including companions who were previously exclusive to other classes," said Maclean. "Building that alliance involves going to all the planets in the galaxy and doing activities and missions that build faction. If you want to recruit a character who's favorable to the Mandalorians, you'll be able to do missions for them. You want to recruit a character who hates the Hutts, you'll do missions to build your alliance standing against them."
holy crap, that's awesome.
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06.15.2015 , 04:59 PM | #92
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now that is interesting.

The whole alliance building thing seems like it is right from the get go. Really wonder how that'll work.
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Jerba
06.15.2015 , 05:00 PM | #93
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Whilst I think the blame isn't with adding end game content itself and is solely about how they've gone about doing it ( removing it as a must do for story, bugginess etc. ) I feel they aren't viewing ti this way and are instead of viewing it as a lack of interest rather than their stuff ups ( you can almost imagine BW pitching it that way to EA boards etc. in a hope of keeping their jobs "it's not our fault, we didn't stuff up the new content, people just aren't interested in this style of content anymore" ).
Not just the bugs but also the difficulty in general. The designers wanted to create challenging boss fights because all the nightmare progression guilds asked for it but because of that, the more casual guilds were not able to run through them. No longer could you carry weak players through SM, which made the operations inaccessible to many players, and caused other players who previously always participate in progression to quit the game.

Nevertheless, we have to keep in mind that the decision to create KotFE was likely made before SoR released so we can't say that they based their choices on Ravagers/ToS alone.
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06.15.2015 , 05:02 PM | #94
Anybody has a recording of just the interview? The Livestream linked does not rewind (or at least has some major issues with it)
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06.15.2015 , 05:03 PM | #95
That being said, I think they are going to keep 12x xp permanent and so you can just experience all the wonderful stories without doing the "mmo bits" if you don't want! That's why they are experimenting with the debuff on the fleet to get rid of it!

It all makes sense now! This is too good to be true. This expansion really focuses on what makes SWTOR shine. The story and they are going to come month by month in episodes!? Awesome. Truly great!
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06.15.2015 , 05:03 PM | #96
I'm hoping that will allow us to do group quests etc with people on the opposite faction... Ie find new allies... This would also fix some of the pvp concerns with low pops or one faction dominating another... It would also help with operations etc
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Infernixx
06.15.2015 , 05:03 PM | #97
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Anybody has a recording of just the interview? The Livestream linked does not rewind (or at least has some major issues with it)
http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/15/873...pire-expansion
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Infernixx nailed it. This is correct.
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bigray
06.15.2015 , 05:04 PM | #98
This is all super exciting. From the screenshots it looks like a major graphics upgrade. The reinvestment into the game is substantial, it looks like, and the rewards plus expansion being free for subscribers points to an aggressive mentality, they are really going hard for subs, as if they are going to try to build this back up to the juggernaut the originally envisioned. I see no downside here ... better to try and fail than to subsist and never know. But I don't think they will fail. Star Wars is going to be omnipresent in our culture for the next 10 years.

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Kaizersan
06.15.2015 , 05:06 PM | #99
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I'm hoping that will allow us to do group quests etc with people on the opposite faction... Ie find new allies... This would also fix some of the pvp concerns with low pops or one faction dominating another... It would also help with operations etc
This is what there better than cross server is by uniting the factions into one faction.

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Jerba
06.15.2015 , 05:08 PM | #100
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Anybody has a recording of just the interview? The Livestream linked does not rewind (or at least has some major issues with it)
Sadly no. Once the livestream is over, I can get a link to the specific part but for now, you have to rewind or maybe someone can screen capture the interview and upload it.
You can also check out my first post on page 1, I transcribed through the interview so you can at least read through it.
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