{"id":38,"date":"2011-06-08T07:51:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-06-08T07:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:54:05","slug":"e3-tor-hands-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"E3 &#8211; TOR Hands On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this afternoon, there was a livestream event for a combo &#8216;play demo&#8217; and Q&amp;A session.\u00c2\u00a0 Daniel Erickson spent some time running around Tatooine showing it off, and answering questions.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the archived version over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/electronicarts\/video?clipId=pla_df59967d-dc2e-4e9c-b8b1-5270a342bebc\">Livestream<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m embedding it as well, but I don&#8217;t know how long it&#8217;ll be available.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.livestream.com\/embed\/electronicarts?layout=4&#038;clip=pla_df59967d-dc2e-4e9c-b8b1-5270a342bebc&#038;color=0x000000&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;mute=false&#038;iconColorOver=0xe7e7e7&#038;iconColor=0xcccccc&#038;allowchat=true\" style=\"border:0;outline:0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;padding-top:10px;text-align:center;width:560px\">Watch <a href=http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/?utm_source=lsplayer&amp;utm_medium=embed&amp;utm_campaign=footerlinks title=live streaming video>live streaming video<\/a> from <a href=http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/electronicarts?utm_source=lsplayer&amp;utm_medium=embed&amp;utm_campaign=footerlinks title=Watch electronicarts at livestream.com>electronicarts<\/a> at livestream.com<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askajedi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ask A Jedi<\/a> has a breakdown as well that looks pretty good.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I noticed while watching the video\/Q&amp;A:<br \/>\nTatooine 2nd to the last planet in Chapter 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Contested Zone&#8221; (PvP realms) first time Republic\/Empire together with minimal restraints.. Dune Sea real hotbed of PvP activity<\/p>\n<p>Jawa companion for Bounty Hunters.. named Blizz<\/p>\n<p>Mini speeder personal vehicle.. like a Seque on speed or an airbike kind of thing, pretty cool actually.<\/p>\n<p>World map can go transparent so you can leave it up, covering your screen, and still see where you&#8217;re going to help with navigation.<\/p>\n<p>UI looks pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Tatooine looks to be a pretty decent sized planet.<\/p>\n<p>No Ewoks (I guess that could be good or bad&#8230; Ewok Punting anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>Speeders are faction specific, but, can be obtained by the other faction<\/p>\n<p>Mounts currently available at level 25<\/p>\n<p>I like the &#8216;loot indicator&#8217; with the big light beam coming down, as opposed to the WoW style sparklies<\/p>\n<p>Landscape\/terrain looks really good.. even at the low res flash stream quality.<\/p>\n<p>there is a Sarlacc on Tatooine to throw people into.<\/p>\n<p>The Jetpack driven &#8216;charge&#8217; ability, looks fun<\/p>\n<p>You control companion gear, there are some &#8216;sets&#8217; for the more non-human companions<\/p>\n<p>The font used for the &#8220;Bonus Sandpeople Killed xx\/xx&#8221; looks to be the traditional star wars font, in all capital letters.. a nice touch, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>No actual &#8216;backpacks&#8217; dedicated &#8216;slot&#8217; for quest items that doesn&#8217;t fill up! =)<\/p>\n<p>Stated that you can pay to expand your inventory.\u00c2\u00a0 Not clear if that&#8217;s a micro transaction, or via ingame currency.<\/p>\n<p>Currently you can start PvP at level 1.. can&#8217;t level PvP only.<\/p>\n<p>Still at least one unannounced warzone<\/p>\n<p>Tatooine visible by all classes&#8230; Republic hub is Anchorhead.<\/p>\n<p>One more major pass to companion characters still planned.<\/p>\n<p>Red or Blue on screen indicator for earning dark side\/light side points<\/p>\n<p>Force using companions are available for some classes<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Reid&#8217;s fault the Devs are in fire ;)<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated Crew window for changing companions, don&#8217;t need to go back to your ship like in KOTOR.<\/p>\n<p>Cannot sell your companion (nor actively participate in slavery)<\/p>\n<p>Once your ship is unlocked, you can visit any planet you want, regardless of where you&#8217;re at in the story arc.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel likes RP-PVP servers, not confirming if they&#8217;re in yet or not<\/p>\n<p>after death, two options.. call in medical probe or return to med center.\u00c2\u00a0 Using med probe gives you 12 secs of full immunity\/stealth to run away from what killed you.<\/p>\n<p>There is a &#8216;rez timer&#8217; that increases with the amount of times you die.<\/p>\n<p>There are world bosses.<\/p>\n<p>On track for 2011 release<\/p>\n<p>Starships cannot be summoned wherever you want, stay at spaceport.<\/p>\n<p>Tatooine 24-28<\/p>\n<p>If your companion dies, you can rez them (assuming you survive).\u00c2\u00a0 All classes have out of combat rez.<\/p>\n<p>Demo machine has video settings turned down, bad internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, the game looks fairly far along development wise.\u00c2\u00a0 I know we&#8217;re going to get some end game raid information during E3, so I&#8217;m looking forward to that information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Really can&#8217;t wait to play.. this game looks pretty awesome so far.. time to go refresh the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/tester\" target=\"_blank\">swtor.com\/tester<\/a> page, repeatedly to see if I got a beta invite yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this afternoon, there was a livestream event for a combo &#8216;play demo&#8217; and Q&amp;A session.\u00c2\u00a0 Daniel Erickson spent some time running around Tatooine showing it off, and answering questions.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=38\" 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":[6,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}