Jedi Archive

Hello,

My name is Josh Gilhen and I was one of those chosen to play the Beta at the Sony offices in Austin.

Just post questions and I'll do my best to answer. First we have these:

No. Jedi entering the system will be an equal class to the others. The grind will be much shorter.

Existing Jedi get to reach level 90. They also get an exclusive robe, a higher damage saber, blue glowy

and an Elder title.

- Will force healing be around? I didn’t see anything in there about it?

Healing is still around, as is force run. I don't have specifics yet. The steak was too good to ignore.

The new system is being published in phases, unlike the CU so that it doesn't come out all bugged.

Later publishes will go deeper in to features like the Dark/Light factions.

- If the XP nerf coming back? Looks like verbatim from that sh*t publish

You need much less XP to level, so it's been ajusted accordingly. People level often via quests so that

players can finish their templates to go out there and start having fun!

Space is staying as is. Infact Goliath showed me a certain ship he was working on...I can't give

specifics but it's not a capital ship- more of a cruiser that's many times the size of the Yacht.

When I was there, they were making up their conversion tables. ADKs will either remain usefull or

changed to something to equal value.

Any class can pick up melee. Some it works better for than others. For instances you can be a Bounty

Hunter who specializes in Hand to Hand combat or in weaponry. It's like Pre-CU, but since the SP

system changed you can be much better at it.

Nothing. It just got devided into a larger class. There are sopme changes for future publishes. On an

interesting note, Pure crafters or entertainers no longer draw NPC aggros and crafters can sell their crap

rescources to NPCs for a decent price.

Yes, due to the new twitch combat, CH doesn't work aynmore the way it used to. Mounts are remaining

ingame, as are combat pets because SOE is not completly destroying the prof. They are shelfing it until

they have a way to implement it in the new system.

Giving every player an alt is technicaly not fessable. You know how Bria nearly explodes every time it

boots up? That's because all the character data eats up the server Ram, causing them to have to jack it

up with other server rescources. Giving every player an alt would turn every server into Bria, and Bria

into a pile of smoldering server.

First of all, slicing is gone in it's current form. Expect changes in future publishes. Smuggler is more of

a dirty combat class now that uses awesome tricks to escape and fight. They also can sell items on any

Vendor/Bazzar they own or public int he galaxy without leaving wherever they are.

Soon it will be the harvester purge. 3 months inactivity and they kaput. They also want to make

harvesters dirt cheap to make so that after being dropped a few times, they break and architects can

replace them.

- Anyone can place a Vendor

- SEAs are getting a facelift. Broken mods will be gradually removed and existing ones will change

into their new game equivilant.

- Mobs wont cluster any more so that you can nail a clean shot.

- Cinematics will be itroduced as a togglable option (like the Mustafar ones. There's 3 new ones in the

new player tutorial)

- Grenades rock! You don't throw them at a targeted player but just in general direction. The explosion

will mark the terrain for a while and send mobs flying.

- Some cities will receive graphical improvements in the terrain. Isley for instance.

Currently, the Devs have to adress the issues of 40 correspondants, not to mention the ones not

profession related. For any team, that is a sh!t load of work. By breaking it down into a smaller number

that the profs still exist in but in different functions, they can adress issues in a much better way.

This also makes mixing more unique- All ranged and melee were essentially the same minus the

weapon and range on them. The new system makes mixing and matching more unique to the player's

style. There won't be any more FOTM templates.

Another positive aspect is this will eliminate credit farmers and AFK loot/grinding permanently.

- Lag is virtually gone in masses. Many things in the old system were server side to protect it from

hackers. For instance, if you wanted to sit your pc was like "Can I please sit down?" Server goes "Hang

on a sec, I'm busy....Alright go ahead". All the combat and basic stuff have been moved client side.

This means a huge improvement, especially in mass PVP.

- Officers have the coolest abilities- An officer can call in bombing strikes every so often in which Tie

bombers literaly fly 20 feet overhead and bomb the crap out of the lair. This can be used in PVP, but

bear in mind players can move alot before it hits.

- Because of the new targeting system, if someone in your group is taking alot of damage and is about

to die, you can step between them and absorb the hits while they run.

- If you get stuck out in the middle of nowhere, you can call a shuttle to fly you to the nearest Starport.

- Alot of people think this is going to be an FPS. That's not so. The hitbox is very forgiving for

regeristing hits no matter their size. (Size issue has been adressed, everyone will be the same regardless

of wookie or bothan). For example:

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=339131&poll_id=0&warned=y

Anywhere in the red area will take damage as long as you float your cursor over it. This means it isn't

precise shooting like CS, just a way to keep you active. Battles only last about 10 seconds on a mob

your level so it's quite fun.

- BH missions work like the Star Wars Bounty Hunter game (long system to detail,googleit )