SSSP teaser from Dulfy

[CandyCotton Marshmallows]

off rails space combat; I know there will be some thrilled players. Time to put the ear plugs in before the squeeling begins

[Edge-]

If this really is space combat without rails, PvP or PvE, I will finally consider finishing leveling my character and even buying the Makeb expansion for this.

DON'T FUCK THIS UP, BIOWARE!

[Keren]

3 seconds of "gameplay" and they could actually hype the half playerbase.. LOL

[Deleted]

Sweet mother of Wedge.

Whatever else it is it sure looks like a vast improvement on the current space game.

The SSSP turned out to be free form space afterall? Fantastic news for us flyboys/gals.

[IRunSoFarAway]

I remember that one, I think it was called Jump To Lightspeed, right?

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I remember that one, I think it was called Jump To Lightspeed, right?

If it ends up copying JTL i'd be overjoyed.

Space PvP/PvE;
Space loot;
Space part crafting;
Pilot profession;
Ithorian and Sullastan species added.

Regardless, I'm happy with the teaser...for now

[ldev]

Well this has potential, because I hope of X-Wing clone.

Right now space missions are utter crap and I have "flyboy" title only on my first character. Even if they give quite an EXP boost, 4-6 minutes is still wayyyy too much to interact with that crap.

[RoninaThorstone]

off rails space combat; I know there will be some thrilled players. Time to put the ear plugs in before the squeeling begins

Umm... Uhh... Oh jesus... Umm...

Okay... oh god... okay... breathe... breathe...

I...

Okay.

Yes.

You can have all my money, bioware. All of it.

[Psychlon]

or it could just be the entry video of a new operation with some gameplay footage of some new railshooters


but it sure isn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bring it on.... if this is true, I won't even bother with same armor models for PvE and PvP.

[Elim Garak]

No cockpit. So it's more of a Freespace kind of game. Not JtL.

[Kelimbror]

Well...I'll reserve judgment until more information is given. That video could be anything really. Looks cool, but there is certainly not enough gameplay to determine what is going on.

[WoWGoneBad]

Soooooo those last three seconds look VERY promising i gooa say I still have my doubts but those last 3 seconds light the tiniest sparke of hope

[RoninaThorstone]

Soooooo those last three seconds look VERY promising i gooa say I still have my doubts but those last 3 seconds light the tiniest sparke of hope

If they manage to make space combat as fun as starconflict I will be so happy.

Then, if they could steal firefalls engine and NGE swtor with firefall's combat... (I love how arsonal is a better bounty hunter than swtors bounty hunter... Railshot? check. Death from above? Check. Rocket punch? More like AOE rocket punch! Jetpack? CHECK!!!)

Also, flurry of bolts and power shot.

[ldev]

I just hope there will be legacy space ship unlocks just like races, because my Bounty Hunter will /wrist.

[Edge-]

If this isn't off the rails space combat, they are going to get the hopes of a lot of people up just to shatter them. But it does look like it.

[Razael]

Ehh, we really should wait before we speculate on how godly this is. Might end up being disapointing.

[RoninaThorstone]

Ehh, we really should wait before we speculate on how godly this is. Might end up being disapointing.

@edge: Yes. If it isn't off rails combat they will probably recieve death threats (not from me... I swear)

@ Mirve: Yeah, I've been going over all the ways they could botch this up:

It could be on rails.
It could be 1 PVE space mission that isn't on rails... And only 1.
It could be only single player.
It could be that the firing works the same it does in the current PVE missions and shot fired at a player (if there's pvp) will follow that player and never miss.
It could be that you can still shoot THROUGH ships and space stations.
It could be pay to win (remember the cash shop ship parts?)
It could be subscribers only

I mean, bioware has, now, a history of doing things the worst way possible first and then having to go back and fix it. And they aren't exactly quick about it (removing battleground restrictions... almost a year late)

I mean, ideally? There's pvp and a bunch of pve missions ranging from solo to 5 man. Is that what we can expect in the first go? No. You can not expect bioware to get this right the first time. These are the guys who said 'tube shooter'.

[WoWGoneBad]

If they manage to make space combat as fun as starconflict I will be so happy.

Then, if they could steal firefalls engine and NGE swtor with firefall's combat... (I love how arsonal is a better bounty hunter than swtors bounty hunter... Railshot? check. Death from above? Check. Rocket punch? More like AOE rocket punch! Jetpack? CHECK!!!)

Also, flurry of bolts and power shot.

OOOOOHHHHHH MER GAERD i LOVE the Arsenal frame in Firefall you truly od feel like an arsenal with all that weaponry. would LOVE for the combat system of Firefall but NOT the keybindings i just might start giving hope to swtor again.

[RoninaThorstone]

OOOOOHHHHHH MER GAERD i LOVE the Arsenal frame in Firefall you truly od feel like an arsenal with all that weaponry. would LOVE for the combat system of Firefall but NOT the keybindings i just might start giving hope to swtor again.

You can rebind those and I think they are going to make it so you can assign keys to certain items for the 5th key.
I think right now a technical limitation is prevent it.

[FlawlessSoul]

This is what I've wanted from SWTOR's space combat since day one.

It doesn't *have* to be to the level of XvT/XWA to be amazingly fun. I'd recommend that if anyone wants to see "casual" space combat done well, they try the Galaxy on Fire games. GoF2 HD is available on PC, and it really is quite fun.

This may lead to customisable starship interiors. But off-rails is something I'd re-sub for.