Space Combat WILL be in TOR

[chillinvillain]

Many prayers were answered on this, 24JULY2010, Friday Update:

First, thank you to all of you who participated in our Comic-Con Reveal mission! While we didn't quite make the numbers, we definitely saw how excited the community is about this and how everyone came together. After all of that, there's no way we could hold back with our special reveal at Comic-Con!

If you’ve been following the news coming out of the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ panel at Comic-Con International, you’ve heard the announcement that we will indeed have Space Combat as part of the TOR experience! But what does that mean? Space combat is an alternative gameplay experience to the primary game of storytelling, questing, and ground-based combat. In space combat, you fly your personal ship to various “hot spots” on your galaxy map. From there, you will blast your way through asteroid fields, enemy fighters, frigates, destroyers, and a variety of other obstacles that will evoke memories of some of the great Star Wars™ space battles.

To learn more, pick up the October 2010 edition of PC Gamer which hits newsstands starting August 17th for screenshots and an exclusive interview or check back with us in the weeks to come.

Check out the cover of PC Gamer's October edition here:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/07/23/st...led-in-pcg-us/

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthre ... dit3645409

[Ultiform]

Does this make it sound like it's either

1- (most likely) space combat battlegrounds?

or

2- space combat is PVE only and there's not real PVP?

[Hydoso]

Does this make it sound like it's either

1- (most likely) space combat battlegrounds?

or

2- space combat is PVE only and there's not real PVP?

sounds to me like we will only get to do space battle for a few quest

[DarkSheik]

If thats the case then there will be no real point to having it and a waste of time to design and program. So if they are smart they will make it very very very very very big and important. Would also be nice if you would get in your ship (or guild flagship) and physically fly out there. But w/e

[Hydoso]

If thats the case then there will be no real point to having it and a waste of time to design and program. So if they are smart they will make it very very very very very big and important. Would also be nice if you would get in your ship (or guild flagship) and physically fly out there. But w/e

I agree with you 100% on this. If they are going to do it they need to go all or nothing.

[Yram]

It sounds to me like both PVP and PVE.

PVP- "alternative gameplay experience to the primary game of storytelling, questing, and ground-based combat." - so not part of storyline and an alternative to questing.
“hot spots” - Sounds like an instance or something similar

PVE- "you will blast your way through asteroid fields, enemy fighters, frigates, destroyers, and a variety of other obstacles" - This sounds like PVE to me unless the fighters, firgates and destroyers he's talking about belong to other players.

[aldrahn]

in any case isn't it a bit stupid to implement space combat and leave the pvp aspect of this out??

[DarkSheik]

More than stupid. It's just fuckin retarded. And if that happens then it must and better be an addon after launch.

[Oxygen]

did anyone see the space combat in the new halo at e3? .. im assuming it will be close to that.

[DarkSheik]

Would be cool. They did say it would play out dif than an rpg

[aldrahn]

Amen to that i hated the way STO handled space combat..It was just a char with skills with a different skin.If anyone can remember the infamous bug that remained all the way up to the end of the open beta will know what i mean...totally betrayed their design mistakes...

[Grodack]

It just sounds like PvE. Probably can take along your buddies but thats about it. I wont get really excited until there are player controlled capital ships.