jimmyjediknight Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) If the game added a new faction what do you think it would be Edited January 18, 2022 by jimmyjediknight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setta Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 If the game added a new faction what do you think it would be Short answer : They're never going too. Longer Answer : They had the chance with Zakuul, but never took it. Suppose the option is still there to one day just defect to them as they rebuild, but they're basically a shell of their former selves at this point, and wouldn't really hold up as a legitimate 3rd faction. They could even have done something all the way back in the Hutt Cartel, and having a faction of renegade mercs there, and none aligned force users working for the Hutts but they didn't. They don't really even let you stay independent as an Alliance and shove a Pub or Imp partnership down your throat, while ignoring the 3rd faction that you form from the wreckage of the last two. Plus what powerful 3rd faction would come at this point? Is there another Empire just hiding somewhere that we don't know about? I mean sure the galaxy is a big place, but that would be repetitive, lame, and completely unimaginative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediQuaker Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 If the game added a new faction what do you think it would be Umm, the Alliance? 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulsutherland Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 If the game added a new faction what do you think it would be I doubt it'll ever happen. I guess you could argue the Eternal Alliance is the third faction but for me I'd like to play as either the Hutt Cartel, Zakuul Empire or Chiss Ascendancy. "FOR HOUSE INROKINI!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floplag Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Easy, non force users. Mandalorians. Genharadin, smugglers, all those people that either have no connection to or dont really care about the force or have any true ties to either the republic or the empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MystyqeofXev Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Setta nailed it in their spoiler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severith Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Short answer : They're never going too. Longer Answer : They had the chance with Zakuul, but never took it. Suppose the option is still there to one day just defect to them as they rebuild, but they're basically a shell of their former selves at this point, and wouldn't really hold up as a legitimate 3rd faction. They could even have done something all the way back in the Hutt Cartel, and having a faction of renegade mercs there, and none aligned force users working for the Hutts but they didn't. They don't really even let you stay independent as an Alliance and shove a Pub or Imp partnership down your throat, while ignoring the 3rd faction that you form from the wreckage of the last two. Plus what powerful 3rd faction would come at this point? Is there another Empire just hiding somewhere that we don't know about? I mean sure the galaxy is a big place, but that would be repetitive, lame, and completely unimaginative. A merc/criminal/force sensitives (not Jedi or Sith) faction would have been perfect, and allowing them to play both sides to fill up spots in pvp (back when pvp was imps vs pubs) or raids could of lead to alot of interesting reward mechanics and roleplay situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyjediknight Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 by a thired faction I mean at the character creation screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levanchar Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 I'd like to see some sort of underworld faction like Hutt Cartel or Black Sun as the way Bounty Hunters and Smugglers were forced to work exclusively for Imp/Pub is stupid - they are freelancers who work for the highest bidder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xordevoreaux Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) If the game added a new faction what do you think it would be As mentioned, Bioware missed the boat skipping out handing us our Alliance as a faction, probably because people screamed bloody murder on the forums that they wanted to return to Imp Vs. Pub rather than all this nicey-nice get along mentality, undoubtedly popping arteries of fan boys near and far. Something I've advocated in the past is carving out the classes of the existing factions so that smugglers and bounty hunters are not tied to either faction, but basically neutral, but that can't happen because of how closely tied those classes are to their stories. In other words, how many times has your bounty hunter expressed disdain for the Republic, or vice-versa for the smuggler, in cut scenes in which they volunteered those comments and weren't choices you could make? Probably more than once. So story progression gets in the way of carving out those two classes into a separate, free-booter faction, and Bioware won't reinvent the wheel at this point. Also problematic, outside of story, is how to reprogram factioned planets (DK, CS) and factioned instances (Taris, Balmorra, others) to accommodate a third faction. And finally, people would scream for the new faction to have its own home world, back story, etc., so again, I'm not holding out any great hope for that. Edited January 19, 2022 by xordevoreaux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruvalie Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 I hope they don't add a new faction. if they have the resources to do that they should instead continue the original class stories and add new conversations with the original companions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrionSol Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 If the game added a new faction what do you think it would be Mandalorians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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