Well, the day is here.
It's time to sign up for the SW:TOR beta and then wait and pray for a slot.
The possibility of an imminent beta announcement was circulated around the net by various blog writers. I got my info from Wall of Text who I've followed since the late stages of Warhammer Online's closed beta.
Bad news as of 12:13 p.m. eastern time is that the SW:TOR site is currently down for maintenance.
Now, a big question will be how they will actually pick their testers. Community involvement is a huge thing for them, but a lot of gamers don't want to be involved in all of that speculation and drama. Will BioWare overlook potential testers who have little-to-no involvement with the community up to this point? There is merit in picking some of the best contributors from their forum community.
I just hope they'll have mercy upon me. I have ideas, I want to test, I know how to track issues and I feel I have a good grasp on the universe they are attempting to recreate within their game. And yeah, I have some experience.
Hope and pray... Hope and pray.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
DarthHater's PAX Coverage of TOR
DarthHater has been covering The Old Republic and done a wonderful job getting everything to the community.
The latest post shows Trooper gameplay plus a little bit of death...
The trooper is actually just as intriguing as any of the other clsses that have been demonstrated so far. According to the speaker they start on Ord Mantell which I believe is also the starting point for the smuggler class (I'll research that a bit more.) The first ability displayed in the video, fire bomb, looks absolutely amazing and devastating. They also demonstrate a detonator ability toward the end of the video that ticks away with the classic sound of a thermal detonator. It appeared to take out one enemy and left another temporarily knocked down.
So the question for Galactic Republic fans is now: Smuggler or Trooper? I like both of the classes, I'm not actually impressed with Bounty Hunters in comparison to the other three classes demoed. But I know that there is a lot more to be revealed about each of the classes, plus four that have yet to be unveiled.
Big thanks to DarthHater again for the great coverage of SWTOR at PAX.
The latest post shows Trooper gameplay plus a little bit of death...
The trooper is actually just as intriguing as any of the other clsses that have been demonstrated so far. According to the speaker they start on Ord Mantell which I believe is also the starting point for the smuggler class (I'll research that a bit more.) The first ability displayed in the video, fire bomb, looks absolutely amazing and devastating. They also demonstrate a detonator ability toward the end of the video that ticks away with the classic sound of a thermal detonator. It appeared to take out one enemy and left another temporarily knocked down.
So the question for Galactic Republic fans is now: Smuggler or Trooper? I like both of the classes, I'm not actually impressed with Bounty Hunters in comparison to the other three classes demoed. But I know that there is a lot more to be revealed about each of the classes, plus four that have yet to be unveiled.
Big thanks to DarthHater again for the great coverage of SWTOR at PAX.
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