{"id":191,"date":"2011-10-07T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T22:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=191"},"modified":"2011-10-07T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T22:37:40","slug":"friday-update-1072011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Friday Update 10\/7\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Friday update brought us the 2nd half of the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/news\/blog\/20111007\" target=\"_blank\">Companion<\/a> related dev blog from William Wallace.\u00c2\u00a0 Quick little excerpt, discussing various ways to control your Companion&#8217;s abilities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many players will fall somewhere in between the two extremes, and will use the AI toggles occasionally to change the way their companion fights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Players may choose to disable some area-of-effect abilities when using crowd control or when fighting tough single enemies.<\/li>\n<li>Players may activate special modes or stances for their companion, causing them to focus more on damage or tanking, or on a single target versus groups of enemies.<\/li>\n<li>Players may want to manually activate buffs and powerful special abilities on long cooldowns, as opposed to letting the companion pick when to use their most powerful attacks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We also got a &#8216;Choose Your Side&#8221; video, where different members of the BW staff discuss who would win, in a battle between a Noble Jedi Knight.. and a mercenary dog of a Bounty Hunter!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FT4cLHU3Yd0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAnd, in case that wasn&#8217;t enough&#8230; we got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/news\/news-article\/20111007-1\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a> of some of the events\/panels that TOR will bet at for New York ComiCon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Star Wars<\/em>: The Old Republic will also be taking center stage as part of three separate panels! Our main panel will be held on Friday, October 14th at 2:30pm EDT inside room 1A10 of the MTV Theater. Additionally, on October 14th inside the American Airlines Theater, members of the <em>Star Wars<\/em>: The Old Republic development team will be taking part in a Q&amp;A panel moderated by MMORPG.com. Finally, at 2:45pm EDT on Sunday, October 16th, BioWare\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Principle Writer and Revan author Drew Karpyshyn will be taking part in a panel on writing novels set in the <em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Details of the Meet and Greet were also posted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are unable to make it to New York Comic Con, BioWare will also be hosting a Community Meet &amp; Greet on Wednesday, October 12th at District 36. Lasting from 8:00PM EDT until 11:00PM EDT, fans will be able to get some hands-on time with the Origin Worlds content, have a drink at the open bar and hang out with members of the <em>Star Wars<\/em>: The Old Republic team. Space is limited, so show up early to make sure that you can get in!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Friday update brought us the 2nd half of the excellent Companion related dev blog from William Wallace.\u00c2\u00a0 Quick little excerpt, discussing various ways to control your Companion&#8217;s abilities: Many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}