Star Wars Sverige

Legacy systemet kommer som sagt uppdateras i patch 1.2 och kommer addera en helt ny dimension till The Old Republic. Precis som Skywalker familjen så kommer man skaffa sig sitt eget familjeträd där man kan länka samman sina karaktärer på samma server och iochmed detta så kommer t.ex man få tillgång till nya raser (i början för de klasser där rasen inte fans från början) och även nya abilities för dina karaktärer och detta är bara början...

Bioware har släppt en utvecklingsdagbok där de förklarar sina ideer och tankar angående detta system, väldigt värt att kolla in alltså :

http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/developer-dispatch-legacy-system

Nu är alltså tiden kommen för länderna på den högra sidan av alla kartor av jorden att få ta del av detta underbara spel och det är nog inte en dag för tidigt tror jag att de också känner, iochmed deta så gick Dr. Greg Zeschuck ut med en press release angående detta som ni kan läsa nedan men mycket är ju standard info i princip:

BioWare and LucasArts are excited to announce that Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ will officially launch in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1st, 2012! Fans in these regions who purchase the game will be able to experience their very own Star Wars™ saga on regional servers. Players who have already begun their journey will also have a limited-time opportunity to migrate their characters from their current servers to Asia Pacific servers after the launch on March 1st, giving them the chance to take advantage of the decreased network latency by playing on a regional server. All players who qualify for a character transfer will be notified in early March with more details.

In the press release announcing the Asia Pacific launch date, General Manager of the BioWare Label’s MMO Business Unit and Co-Founder of BioWare Dr. Greg Zeschuk expressed appreciation for the patience of fans in the region:

Our biggest priority for The Old Republic has always been to deliver a high quality product and high quality service and we are pleased with our results in North America and Europe. We appreciate that our fans in these countries have been patient and we are excited to deliver this same great customer experience to players this March.
Star Wars: The Old Republic will be available in both Standard and Digital Deluxe editions. The Standard Edition will retail for $79.99 AUD / $89.99 NZD / $389.00 HKD / $64.00 SGD and the Digital Deluxe Edition of the game, an Origin.com exclusive, will retail for $89.99 AUD / $99.99 NZD / $465.00 HKD / $76.90 SGD. 30 days of game time will be included with every version of the game, and after that time players will be able to continue playing the game by paying a monthly subscription, or by purchasing a 60-Day Pre-Paid Game Time Card for $32.99 AUS / $42.99 NZD / $249.00 HKD / $39.90 SGD. Star Wars: The Old Republic has three recurring subscription plans and players in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore will be charged in USD:

•1 Month Subscription (automatically billed every 30 days): $14.99 USD per month
•3 Month Subscription (automatically billed every 90 days): $13.99 USD per month (one-time charge of $41.97 USD)
•6 Month Subscription (automatically billed every 180 days): $12.99 USD per month (one-time charge of $77.94 USD)
Star Wars: The Old Republic is currently available for pre-order* at the following participating retailers in Australia and New Zealand. There are no participating retailers in Hong Kong and Singapore for pre-orders. Also, there will be no pre-orders available at Origin.com:

Australia

•EB Games
•JB Hi Fi
•GAME Australia
•Big W online
 New Zealand

•EB Games
•JB Hi Fi
•Mighty Ape
 

Individuals who pre-order the game in Australia or New Zealand will be entitled to the Color Crystal pre-order item, which changes the weapon effect.

Players in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore will also be given the opportunity to receive the Founder’s Medal** – an exclusive in-game title awarded to early players of the game. In order to qualify, players must complete one of the following transactions by Monday, April 30th, 2012, 12:01AM EDT, 2:00AM NZDT; Hong Kong & Singapore: Sunday, April 29th, 2012, 9:01PM HKT, 9:01PM SGT:

•Billed at least once for an active Star Wars: The Old Republic recurring subscription
•Redeemed a Star Wars: The Old Republic 60-Day Pre-Paid Game Time Code

Har du liksom många andra förkovrat dig i tankarna på vilken fraktion du ska spela i the old republic? Vara en bad-ass sith som är allmänt otrevlig och dräper folk till höger och vänster eller en jedi som på bästa Luke Skywalker maner räddar befolkning och världar hit och dit och är godheten personifierad.

Nu behöver du inte fundera längre utan läs igenom anledningarna nedan så är saken biff, och du kommer känna att du trots allt gjort rätt val när allt kommer omkring:

- The Hero's Journey

Star Wars is all about the hero’s journey. Joseph Campbell’s theory of the monomyth says that most protagonists in a narrative follow a pattern: A hero from the common world explores an outside supernatural world where he faces a rival, and after victory over that rival, returns to his common world and bestows a boon upon his fellow people. It breaks down further than that, into 17 stages to be exact, but the basic idea has appeared in countless movies, books, TV shows, and more. The Republic classes follow this pattern almost to the letter. The Trooper and Smuggler both start their class story on routine jobs, but become involved in a conflict bigger than themselves. Even as some of the more fantastical classes, such as the Jedi, your journey takes you to planets you wouldn’t see as a lowly padawan, and meet people you wouldn’t normally find in the Republic. The monomyth is fundamentally a satisfying narrative pattern that takes into account the structure and pacing of Freytag’s triangle. No matter which Republic class you choose the story won’t make you feel like you’re missing something.

- Jedi Fantasy

Since the first showing of Star Wars in 1977, fans wanted nothing more than to wield a lightsaber and control the power of the Force. It is a fantasy true today for kids watching the Clone Wars television show as it was with people who saw Star Wars in the theaters. Playing either one of the Jedi classes fulfill this fantasy with added benefit of choice. Some Star Wars games in the past funnel you through the story with no ability to affect how the narrative concludes, but in Star Wars: The Old Republic along with the previous two Knights of the Old Republic games, you choose how to approach each situation. Do you follow the path of the Light, using the Jedi code for guidance as you become a hero of the Republic, or do you follow the path of the Dark, ignoring the Jedi code and defending your Republic by any means necessary? It’s a choice that any class can make, but it creates an intriguing dynamic for the Jedi classes as it shows the contrast between the classic archetype versus the anti-hero.

- Badass Trooper

Being a Jedi is great, but some players don’t want to use a lightsaber. Instead, they want to grab the biggest gun possible and single-handedly take on the Sith Empire. If that sounds fun, you should play a Trooper. The class plays like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie from the 1990s without the terrible story and cheesy lines; you’re a one-man army mowing down enemies left and right with big guns, grenades, and lots of explosions. The story is hyper-militaristic and immerses you in the life of the Republic’s most elite Special Forces unit. It is hands-down the best class story of the Republic. BioWare should be commended not only for creating a class that encapsulates the strength of the Republic military, but for leaving out the one important story detail in all of their marketing and promotional material that defines how the Trooper story unfolds.

- You always have someone to fight in PvP

It’s no secret that Sith players outnumber Republic players on most servers. Some claim their server ratios are as high as 5-to-1 in the Sith’s favor. If the Sith Empire has more players, what advantage does playing the under populated faction offer? Republic players enjoy shorter wait times for Warzones on a regular basis. Very rarely will Republic players have to wait in queue for longer than five minutes, even when grouped as a team of four. When they enter the Warzone, it isn’t Huttball every single time. Republic players have the luxury of playing Alderaan Civil War, Voidstar, and Huttball on a regular rotation. Victories are challenging as a Republic player and won through smart play, rather than large numbers.

- Voice Talent: Jennifer Hale, Nolan North, David Hayter, Kath Soucie

Where else besides the Republic are you going to find Commander Shepard, Nathan Drake, Solid Snake, Phil, and Lil on the same side? The Sith Empire highlights many voice actors who previously worked on other BioWare projects, but only the Republic boasts famous voice actors with high caliber voice-over work you heard elsewhere. Jennifer Hale, known for her famous portrayal of the female Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect series and various other games including Bulletstorm, Metal Gear Solid, Metroid Prime, and Brutal Legend, voices the female Trooper. Nolan North voices the male Jedi Consular, a proficient voice actor best recognized for his role as Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series as well as games such as Prince of Persia, Assassin’s Creed, and Portal 2. David Hayter, who plays Solid Snake of the Metal Gear Solid games, provides the voice work for the male Jedi Knight. Kath Soucie voices the female Smuggler and worked on various video games and television series including Tomb Raider, Kingdom Hearts, World of Warcraft, and Rugrats. I still remember the first time I heard her distinct voice as Sally Acorn on the Saturday morning Sonic cartoon.

Whatever your reason may be, the Republic has something that everyone can enjoy. Remember that you don’t have to be Sith if you want to play as a dark-sided character, you can also take a Republic character down the dark path. Some of the storylines and decisions may even seem more sinister against the backdrop of justice for the Republic

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Nu har Star Wars: The Old Republic uppdaterats återigen. Inget som fått världen att skälva den här gången men nog så viktiga små detaljer för den petige. Blev din klass starkare eller svagare? Listan över vad patchen innehöll kommer nedan:

Classes and Combat

General
•Fixed a bug that could cause the Global Cooldown to appear as if it has been cancelled when it is actually still in effect, resulting in a feeling of unresponsiveness to input.
•Corrected an issue that could cause an ability icon to appear usable but be unresponsive to clicks or keypresses for several seconds.
•Players revived by other players, including by in-combat revival abilities, now revive with 25% of maximum health.

Jedi Knight

Guardian
•Freezing Force: Now correctly lasts 9 seconds (up from 6 seconds).

Jedi Consular

Sage
•Mental Alacrity: Now correctly costs no Force to activate.
•Salvation: No longer heals targets twice on application. It now correctly heals all affected targets once when applied.

Smuggler

Scoundrel
•Flechette Round: Now provides 30% armor penetration while active.
•K.O.: This ability now knocks the target down for 1.5 seconds.
•Shoot First: The damage output of this ability has been decreased by approximately 20% to control burst damage and because it was enabling significantly faster than intended kills in PvP.

Imperial Agent

Operative
•Acid Blade: Now provides 30% armor penetration while active.
•Jarring Strike: This ability now knocks the target down for 1.5 seconds.
•Hidden Strike: The damage output of this ability has been decreased by approximately 20% to control burst damage and because it was enabling significantly faster than intended kills in PvP.

Bounty Hunter

Mercenary
•Sweeping Blasters can now be made free with Thermal Sensor Override.

Powertech
•Oil Slick now correctly costs no heat to activate.

Flashpoints and Operations

Flashpoints

Directive 7
•Bulwark's Area of Effect cone abilities now properly fire in the direction Bulwark is facing.
•Some of Bulwark's abilities were incorrectly susceptible to interruption. Bulwark is now immune to interrupts.

The False Emperor
•Fixed a conversation that could cause the cinematic with Arkis Wode to function incorrectly.

The Foundry
•Fixed an issue that could prevent the final fight in this Flashpoint from beginning after the cinematic.
•The final boss can no longer become stuck in an invulnerable state; there was still a small window where this could occur.

The Red Reaper
•Lord Kherus now grants less experience.
•Some of Lord Kherus's abilities have had their damage values adjusted to be more in line with the level of the Flashpoint.
•Players now enter into melee range with Lord Kherus in order to stop him from throwing crates.

Operations

Eternity Vault
•Players no longer randomly die in this Operation after being in Gharj's lava.

Karagga's Palace
•Foreman Crusher's enrage now includes a movement speed increase, allowing him to catch players who attempt to run.
•Fixed an issue that prevented the Materials Disposal Unit's main control station from becoming useable again after the Operation Group is defeated by the G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator on 16-man Hard Mode.
•Fixed an issue that prevented the G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator from deploying the correct number of Proximity Pulse Mines and Security Stun Drones during combat.
•The damage from G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator's sticky pulse grenade will scales appropriately for the selected Operation difficulty level.
•Karagga no longer fires his Unstable Energy twice in a row.
•Taking the shuttle after defeating Karagga no longer transports players to the incorrect hangar.
•Walls that were missing in Karagga's Palace are now in place.

Bug Fixes

General
•Fixed an issue that prevented some players in Operations Groups from receiving credit for the missions "[WEEKLY] Deadly Operations," "[WEEKLY] Galactic Operations," and "Journey to the Belsavis Depths." The entire Operations Group now receives credit when the objective is completed.

Items

Bug Fixes
•Comparative tooltips for researched items no longer have their stats reversed.

Missions and NPCs

Missions

Imperial
•Declaration of War: The mission will now progress as intended when players interact with their ship's holoterminal.
•Debriefing: The ship Holoterminal conversation related to this mission is no longer repeatable.
•The Eagle's Nest: The Assassin's Fortress mission is now correctly a prerequisite for this mission.
•Number One with a Bullet: Corrected an issue that prevented Bounty Hunters from leaving The Founder.
•The Mandalorian Killer: Thendys Noori no longer continues to heal Kellian Jarro after she has surrendered.
•Reallocation: The final mission conversation will now begin as intended when players interact with their ship's holoterminal.
•The Voice of Darkness: Fixed an issue that could cause Class Story mission progression to enter an incorrect state.

Republic
•Death Spiral: Fixed an issue that prevented Jedi Knights who completed the Commander Rayfel encounter from using the shuttle back to Belsavis Orbital Station.

NPCs

Bug Fixes
•Kintan Behemoths no longer occasionally walk on top of trees when in combat.

PvP

Warzones

General
•Fixed an issue that could prevent players from receiving mission rewards for completing Warzones.

Voidstar
•Players are no longer able to climb out of the attacking team spawn area in the hangar before the match starts.

World PvP

Ilum
•Additional base turrets now protect the taxi location inside each faction's base.

Space Combat

General
•Added two daily mission commendations to the high-level space dailies Operation Ascendant Pride (Imperial) and Operation New Eclipse (Republic).

UI

General
•Attempting to loot an item in a group when the Master Looter is off-planet now generates an error message.

Bug Fixes
•The leader of an Operations Group will no longer receive an incorrect message informing them that their companion has been dismissed.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
•Special items related to different editions of the game have been re-sent if they were deleted by the mail system prior to being claimed.


 

Efter 1.1 uppdateringen så fungerade inte World PVP på Illum riktigt som det skulle utan gjorde så att många spelare uttnyttjade situationen till sin egen fördel till många spelares förtret, Jeff Hickman som är Executive prodcuer- live services, förklarar nedan hur Bioware adresserar denna situaion som uppstod pågrund av patchen:

After Game Update 1.1 went live, we discovered that the Open World PvP area on Ilum was not working as our PvP design team intended. As many of you know, large groups of players began capturing the Ilum control points, then 'camping' at the enemy's base. This led to a very frustrating experience for a number of players who were unable to leave their base and fight back against their attackers. It was not a fair gameplay experience. In addition, some players on the attacking side gained more Valor points than designed for the time they spent in PvP.

The amount of Valor granted from these activities was significantly more than intended and we are now carefully investigating players who were on Ilum during this period, and present at some of these 'camping' events. I can reassure you that those who were involved and who gained an unfair advantage over other players inappropriately will be carefully reviewed and action will be taken to restore game balance. This could include Valor adjustments or account actions in accordance with the severity of the issue.

We have made the decision not to enact a mass 'rollback' of Valor points for all players in the game, or even on Ilum. This would unfairly penalize some players who may not have been present during this event. Rest assured though, anyone and everyone who is found to have exploited the situation to an unreasonable degree will be investigated and actions taken as needed. Our in-game metrics are able to give us precise details on where players were, what they were doing and what rewards they gained.

We take any sort of situation where one group of players gains an unexpected or unintended advantage over other players very seriously and will act to ensure that all players can have a fair and fun game experience.

Thanks for your patience while we worked to resolve this issue. Our team worked diligently to get a patch ready to address this and other issues, and we're already seeing the results in improved battles on Ilum. As always we welcome your feedback and will continue to improve moving forward!

Så vad tror ni? Kommer de spelare som utnyttjade situationen att straffas såsom bioware säger att de ska göras och håller verkligen Bioware så bra koll på alla spelare?

Ny info angående detta system!!!

So the legacy system, it's kind of inspired by the fact that the family dynamic is so important in the Star Wars movies. You have Luke being Anakin's son, the most famous father-son relationship in movies. We wanted to have a system that encouraged players to create alts and to play the game through the different story paths. So the legacy system is meant to do that. It essentially allows you to, instead of just having a bunch of alts that have no relation to each other, you can actually create a family tree where your alts can be related to your main character, either as, you know, a sibling, a son, a father, a family friend, or a husband and wife.

You can actually choose the relationship your characters will have with each other. And then you gain legacy experience points and legacy levels, and with legacy experience points and levels, that gives you--that allows you to unlock abilities, perks, a whole slew of different advantages, essentially, that all the members of your legacy tree will be able to enjoy.

So it's pretty tight, I think people are going to really like it, and it's something we want to push towards players who enjoy the level-up game. It'll also be beneficial to the end game, but it really is going to have a lot of abilities that make leveling up even more enjoyable and allow you to customize your leveling experience.

Värsta familjebanden!!!

Bioware släppte nyligen patch 1.0.2 som innehöll följande "fixar":

General
•Guilds that are currently leaderless will have an Officer chosen and promoted to Guild Leader.

Classes and Combat

Sith Inquisitor
•The Darth title is now properly granted to Sith Inquisitors.

Bug Fixes
•Corrected an issue that could prevent players from taking cover when targeting large NPCs.
•Fixed a bug that caused some abilities with activation times to be interrupted when used from cover.

Crew Skills

Gathering
•Removed some high-level harvesting nodes from Tatooine, Corellia, and Ilum.

Flashpoints and Operations

Flashpoints

Cademimu
•General Ortol can no longer be pulled out of his room.

Maelstrom Prison
•Corrected an issue that could cause Kilran to behave incorrectly when defeated in cover.

Taral V
•General Edikar now has the correct loot in Hard Mode and no longer enrages in Normal Mode.

Operations

Eternity Vault
•Gharj can no longer be pulled out of his encounter room.

Bug Fixes
•Fixed an issue that could cause choosing Nightmare Mode to not set enemies to Nightmare difficulty.

Items

General
•PvP lockboxes now cost 70 commendations, contain more consumables, and always contain an item.

Bug Fixes
•Corrected several PvP items that were Bind on Equip. They are now Bind on Pickup.
•PvP vendors on Capital Planets now offer the correct PvP items.
•Commendations received via in-game mail are now correctly added to the Currency tab.

Missions and NPCs

Missions

Imperial
•Number One with a Bullet: Players who choose dark side options now correctly receive the mission First Strike after completing this mission.
•First Strike: Players who did not receive this mission will now receive it upon entering their personal starships.

Republic
•Death Cloud: Players can now complete the "Toxic Waste" bonus objective regardless of how quickly they complete this mission.

Bug Fixes
•Corrected mission steps on several planets that could cause client instability.
•Fixed issues with some missions that could prevent pending rewards from being accepted.

Space Combat

Bug Fixes
•Fixed an issue that caused a client crash if a space station was destroyed in Space Combat.

UI

Maps
•Group members no longer appear on all planets on the Galaxy Map.
•Corrected an issue that could cause map notes to disappear after logging out and back into the game.
•Corrected some map notes that referenced the incorrect map.
•Updated map notes for "travel to planet" steps in class missions on Nar Shaddaa, Hoth, and Belsavis to indicate the planet's space station.

Bug Fixes
•Group members outside of a player's phase are no longer prompted to roll on items.
•The In-Game Customer Service Portal no longer appears to hang while the "updating" message is displayed.
•The "Show Sith Corruption" option no longer toggles off when transitioning between areas.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
•Taxi rides are no longer occasionally interrupted, causing the player to be dropped from the taxi.
•Using the /dismiss command now correctly dismisses a vanity pet.
•Corrected some issues that could cause players to become stuck on the loading screen when logging into a character.
•Players can now use emotes while riding a vehicle.
•Fixed a bug that prevented some text-only mail messages from being received.
•Upon a new installation and first launch of the game, settings files and in-game graphics preferences are now consistent with each other.
•Being in Do Not Disturb mode no longer prevents characters from being logged out for being away.
•Corrected an issue that caused poor performance on some machines in indoor areas with shadows enabled.
•Fixed an issue that could prevent players from being logged out for inactivity.

Trots patchen fanns vissa problem kvar som ska ha lösts med patchen 1.0.2c som kom den 6 januari:

We are working on getting a patch deployed to address the issues that some players are still experiencing after 1.0.2 including:

•Fixing an issue that causes in-game chat channels to stop functioning for some players.
•Preventing social emotes (like /getdown) from interfering with combat.
We’re currently testing this patch, and we hope to have it deploy sometime in the early hours of the morning tomorrow (CST), but if we experience any issues with this patch, we may hold off its deployment until tomorrow night.

There will be notifications that the servers will be going down before the patch is put in place, so please keep an eye out for these.

In addition, earlier today we deployed a patch (1.0.2a) that resolved a client crash upon character selection that some users were experiencing. The full patch note reads:

•Fixed an issue that could cause players to crash to desktop after selecting a character.
Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Bra att bioware tar tag och fixar spelet när problem uppstår, som den ökända /getdown buggen t.ex

Alltså Francis är min nya husgud!!! Kan man imitera Jabba The Hutt förtjänar man en plats bland kungarna i denna värld