Pistoleer Archive
Thread: The truth behind holsters and vehicles
Saw another post with this 360 screenshot in it and decided to update it and add a few comments meself. First off, here's the shot http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/media/qtswg/bothan_male.htm. If for some reason it doesn't load for you, go to the main page, click Gallery, click 360 Screenshots, then click the Bothan Male one. It show's clearly a double holster belt with 2 pistols in it (pistols are a little harder to spot). If they had this pre-release, they why not now a few months after release? Unless of course that screenshot isn't actually an in-game shot, but who knows. Another thing ya can spot in the background (almost straight ahead of the Bothan) is a landspeeder. Personally I'm not really worried about vehicles much at all since we're getting them this month anyways (or so they say), but once again, this is a pre-release screen so I suppose the only real explanation is that there were many bugs with the vehicles which had to be delayed. Anyways, sorry to bring up the whole holster/dual pistol thing AGAIN, but just wanted to give those who are eager a look at what may come...hopefully. Personally I'd rather see them fix the problems with Pistoleer before making us look all snazzy with dual pistols, holsters, etc. Anyways, enjoy the shot!
Your saying this screenshot was taken before release? In beta??
The vehicals is nothing big, the models have been ingame for a while. But the double pistols and holsters is HUGE. Anyone have any info on this?
Yes sir, I remember that 360 shot dating back to sometime in 2002 I believe, and so if there WAS bugs with the drawing animation of the pistols or such, it should have, in theory, been fixed by now and in-game. I've been around this game and these boards for awhile now, and even though I may not remember what I ate for breakfast on Wednesday, I know that screen is a pretty darn old one. Will try and dig up some info on it more, but as far as I can remember the dev's have kept very quiet on the whole holsters and dual wielding subject. Only thing I can remember about dual wielding that the dev's said is that the reason there is no dual wielding is that they planned to use the left hand as the "use" hand (for stimpacks and such) and the right hand as the weapon hand. Anybody else posting more info would be much apreciated.
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. I dont see it as an epiphany, I just would like to know why this was taking out of the game.
Well, this could be a few things. It could have caused too many problems, and they had bigger fish to fry. It could have been overbalancing. It could have been a specific belt with the image of 2 holsters for effect, but they weren't actually used.
As for the landspeeder, the image has been in the game for a while. And it could have been a vehicle as well; they've existed for a while, they just weren't ready for realease.
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=940043
Posted there.
Good stuff, thanks for posting it, and furthermore thank you for mentioning me KolTaggar, ya really didn't have to. Should be very interesting to see what the rest of the SWG community has to say about it, especially the devs.