Iwipe Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Tonight's cantina tour at NYC has tons of goodies inside the flash drive. There are about 8-10 images of the two new planets Rishi and Yavin 4. Two images of new SoR gear and some concept arts of the upcoming stronghold pack. http://dulfy.net/2014/10/10/swtor-new-york-cantina-tour-flash-drive-files/ Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Wicked Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) YAYYYYYYYYYYY. Thank you, Dulfy. BTW... Yavin 4 is a moon. I know a nitpick as hell about it but it is. EDIT: Well... That doesn't sound good. EDIT: (2) These look cool though: http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SWTOR_Revan_Reborn.jpg http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SWTOR_Rishii_Male_Concept.jpg http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SWTOR_Rishii_Female_Concept_thumb.jpg EDIT: (3) I also think you meant Naga Sadow instead of Freedon Nadd. The latter had little to do with the Massassi. Edited October 10, 2014 by Darth_Wicked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfux Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Thank you dulfy! Great pics! Really loving the artwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwipe Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 YAYYYYYYYYYYY. I also think you meant Naga Sadow instead of Freedon Nadd. The latter had little to do with the Massassi. Oh I meant the planet was involved with Freedon Nadd, not the Massassi. I will edit it to make it clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewFromPhilly Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Wow that gear is ugly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Wicked Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Wow that gear is ugly Could be better but we've had worse. I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essence_of_Light Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) Thanks Dulfy! You da real MVP. Edited October 10, 2014 by Essence_of_Light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deewe Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Could be better but we've had worse. I think. Totally it's not as bad as some other things but gear it totally a miss in SWTOR. Also wonder why they had to add Pirate hats in a SW game And once again thanks Dulfy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta_V Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Could be better but we've had worse. I think. And at least it's distinct between classes again. The scoundrel gear looks like it belongs to scoundrels, the consular gear looks like it belongs to consulars, etc. Non of that Oricon "everyone looks the same" crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno_Tarshil Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 That Revan Set, as long as it matches the in-game version, I WANT IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarian Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 That color crystal...looks like Mantle of the Force. Now that, I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essence_of_Light Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) That Revan Set, as long as it matches the in-game version, I WANT IT! Coming soon™ in a Cartel Pack with a whopping .0000001% drop rate. Edited October 10, 2014 by Essence_of_Light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno_Tarshil Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Coming soon™ in a Cartel Pack with a whopping .0000001% drop rate. Bioware is about to get rich then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimmuJanKaarl Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Rishi looks AWESOME. I love the wood plank floors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unchosen Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Three-cornered hat? No thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec_Fortescue Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 once again: begging for hood down variants for consular chest pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillionsKNives Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) I'm not going to remember all of it but I'll try to recite what I can. If I think of more I'll add it later. Q&A What do you think of the state of PVP? They're always iterating and working on balance, and they think that the rebalancing they're doing is going to do a lot to improve PVP and they're going to be monitoring that a lot. They're not happy with how things are now balance wise, and also are currently working on something to fix the issues with queue times for ranked (and probably regular) PVP. People griefing by purposefully making others flag for PVP Those sound like bugs and he'll bring it up with the team. Is anything going to be done to make it easier for small guilds to expand their guild ships? It's supposed to be hard by design. But, they are watching things and if it becomes a big problem then they might adjust things. Can you increase Red Sphere drop rates from the Gree event? Do you want it? (loud yeses from croud) You got it. Will class quests be structured more like 3.0 class quests from now on? They want to include as much class stuff as they can, and 3.0 is a testing ground to see our reactions and whether we like it. They won't be doing full storylines like pre-50 stuff but they do want to include more of it in the future. Post-Q&A talking with Musco Taunt Resetting Commanders? It may be intentional, but Musco wasn't sure. Probably a question for [some other dev]. Why so long between Operations? Looking ahead at the project plan they knew this was going to be a problem. However they only had two options that they could realistically go with. The first was to release an operation before the expansion, but have it quickly become obsolete come 3.0, and only have one operation available with 3.0. Or they could wait and have two for 3.0 but have a really long time without anything. It was really crappy and high end PVErs got "f*****". It is something that they don't want to ever do again (have that much time between operations). SGRA in 3.0? There will be SGRA in 3.0 during the story. These NPCs will be "player-sexual", meaning that if you are a player no matter your gender you can romance them. There will be no companion SGRA though. Companion Story in 3.0? No companion story in 3.0 Which flashpoints will be HM in 3.0? He can neither confirm nor deny which flashpoints they will be. ;) Will Colocoid Wargames become a HM? He really wishes it was, but it won't any time soon (if ever). Too much would have to be redesigned for a HM version. Can they increase decoration drop rates on flashpoints without a HM (e.g., Colocoid Wargames) He said to the person asking to PM him about it later because he doesn't see why the drop rates shouldn't be higher for that. DOT cleansing. How does it work? DOTs can not be cleansed...in PVP. He was going to hold off on telling us until the combat live stream, but probably should have told us right then. Will there be new companions in 3.0? No. Has anyone guessed that you're an employee of BioWare when playing on the live servers? No. He always plays naive though, and even if he was asked he would say "I don't know who that is". An example of a normal conversion was, "so you heard what Musco wrote on the forums?", "nope I don't read the forums, but he sounds like a really smart and cool guy". Edit: How do you get on the closed PTS / how are you picking people? Hilary Nicole is doing a lot of it and is at least partially pulling from fansites and guilds that have gotten in touch with her in the past. They are trying to pull people from all different play styles. Hardcore to casual, progression raiders to bad raiders. I don't remember how we got to this The operations guys are probably the most proud team of what they do. The day that an operation launches they order some pizza and beer and sit in the office watching guild streams. They watch the good groups and the bad groups. They like to see how people are clearing it, what they're doing that they didn't expect, and what groups are getting hung up on. The PVP team also watches a ton of streams. They would probably all be chatting with the players streaming too, but Musco doesn't let them. He doesn't trust a bunch of drunk devs chatting with players (irony?). They also read the forums a lot as well. Which class is currently OP? They have a recurring meeting every week for one hour where they discuss class damage. They look over live data and statistics from the game to see how each class is doing with the best players, the worst players, the average players, etc. Musco brings up a lot of player concerns with "this class is OP" in these meetings, which sometimes gets responded with things like "yeah, but do you see this graph right here". Will commendations be changed in 3.0? (I'm 70% sure that this was being confirmed, not just speculation) Commendations will not be changing, we will be keeping the Ultimate, Elite, and Basic commendations. Why the limit on NPCs / Legacy banks? Performance. Not just local performance, if they put too much they will end up lagging the entire server. The devs want more space too. The first thing when the legacy stuff was released one of the devs logged in and complained about how limited the legacy bank storage was. Can we place static stronghold NPCs to bypass limit? Musco really likes the idea, but it seems too obvious that while it sounds like a simple idea, he suspects the reason they didn't do it might be because it would be too complex to put in. Or they just didn't think of it. He'll bring it up with the devs. Short Chat with Keith(?) AKA, Musco's boss - Random info Live server playtime Plays a lot. Usually plays from when he gets home around 8pm until 2am. Longer sometimes on the weekends. 12 55s. Loves and leveled the Bounty Hunter first. Marauders/Sentinels All the time when playing on live servers they will leap in before the rest of the group. He's gone to the design team and asked them what it is about them that causes them to want to jump in. As a tank he will whisper the healer to let the marauder/sentinel die if they pull first more than once. 12x XP It may come back post-3.0. He had suggested it to the other devs as a perk for whenever you get a class buff unlocked in legacy. 3x per class buff. That or some other kind of legacy unlock. Edited October 10, 2014 by MillionsKNives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essence_of_Light Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) Will there be new companions in 3.0? No. There goes the hopes and dreams of all the people who wanted Theron/Lana/Jakarro as companions. Oh, and thanks for the Q&A, Nives. Edited October 10, 2014 by Essence_of_Light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwipe Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 I'm not going to remember all of it but I'll try to recite what I can. If I think of more I'll add it later. [. Cool thanks for the detailed writeup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeterno Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Guess it's not an MMO if it doesn't do a pirate themed thing at some stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillionsKNives Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Updated my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurluas Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Really sad to see that there are no companions or companion stories. At least I can still do Lana as an npc... *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pietrastor Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) Will class quests be structured more like 3.0 class quests from now on? They want to include as much class stuff as they can, and 3.0 is a testing ground to see our reactions and whether we like it. They won't be doing full storylines like pre-50 stuff but they do want to include more of it in the future. Yes this requires so much testing ground, after all the community is so unsure whether it likes class missions and content Will commendations be changed in 3.0? (I'm 70% sure that this was being confirmed, not just speculation) Commendations will not be changing, we will be keeping the Ultimate, Elite, and Basic commendations. Would be good if true, not getting my hopes up yet. Basic/Elite/Ultimate system is clear and instantly intuitive compared to whatever "Black Hole/Commedations of Hatred/Rakata" system they had before. And all the "but players will jsut stock comms before expansion!" arguments are silly anyway, those who will want to unlock full highest gear will do it first week anyway using alts and legacy shells Edited October 10, 2014 by Pietrastor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrco Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) Yes this requires so much testing ground, after all the community is so unsure whether it likes class missions and content If they're changing the way they're delivering class stories, then yes, that does require testing. They want to see if the players like the new method and whether it'll need changing/modifying in any way to provide a better experience. Edited October 10, 2014 by Hrco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pietrastor Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) If they're changing the way they're delivering class stories, then yes, that does require testing. They want to see if the players like the new method and whether it'll need changing/modifying in any way to provide a better experience. How about giving a bigger "testing sample" then? Like maybe 2 missions at least? 'Cause you know the fruits of this "testing" won't even come out before mid 2015 for 3rd expansion Average of 1 class mission per 3.5 years since launch doesn't make me bothered and hot exactly... Edited October 10, 2014 by Pietrastor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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