UPDATE: http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20111021
- Flare Gun - The Flare Gun is a small cosmetic device that allows you to fire a particle flare high into the sky above your character’s head.
- Training Droid - A small but advanced piece of machinery, the Training Droid will hover by your side as you explore the galaxy. The Training Droid will also serve you in combat, marking your target with a particle effect that clearly identifies them as an enemy.
- HoloDancer - The HoloDancer allows you to take the party with you in your travels and can be deployed at almost any time by activating the HoloDancer and targeting the ground near your character.
- HoloCam - The HoloCam lets your character take high-resolution images of the countless wonders that they will discover on their journey across the galaxy.
- STAP - The STAP, or Single Trooper Aerial Platform, is a custom-skinned vehicle that you will be able to acquire at no cost to you. The vehicle itself will become available once your character gains the ability to pilot vehicles.
- Mouse Droid - This mouse droid, custom-skinned for Collector’s Edition owners, serves as a faithful pet that will follow you as you make your way across the galaxy.
- Collector’s Edition Store - At launch the Collector’s Edition Store will be available to those who have the Collector’s Edition of The Old Republic, and will feature items found nowhere else in the game! The Collector’s Edition will be stocked with exclusive social items for yourself, and unique appearances for your companion. The store will also have regular updates to give players incentive to keep coming back.
Items in red are Collectors Edition Only
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As you may or may not know, pre-ordering SWTOR comes with many perks beyond just early game access. In the context of this thread, I am specifically referring to digital items that come with the DD or CE pre-orders.
We can roughly deduce how many of these features will work:
The Flare Gun, like a few AC specific abilities, causes an AOE emote to surrounding players along with a flare animation.
The Training Droid is a bit ambiguous since it is said to "offer combat assistance" even though it is an unspoken rule to not offer combat improvements for money. I'm sure BioWare knows what they are doing with this one, but it is not the focus of this thread.
The HoloDancer creates a holographic animation of a female dancer at a location of your choosing.
The STAP is a exclusive mount design given to people who have pre-ordered the DD or CE.
So, what is the HoloCam?
The pre-order page describes the item's function to "keep visual records of your in-game adventures as you travel the Star Wars galaxy".
What does that mean? Is it:
-A server-side screenshot saver?
-A compilation of pre-taken pictures that you unlock as you quest/level?
-A video playback of important moments in your story?
-Something else entirely?
This list of possibilities is in no way all-inclusive, so I'd like to hear some of your speculative thoughts on this item. Please share your ideas in the comments below along with anything else that is relevant to the topic of virtual pre-order perks.
From my experience in the Beta weekend (11/25/11), the in-game system to give eligible players the perks they paid for is not in or working yet (most likely because we have not technically "bought" the game yet). If that is incorrect and we know more than just the vague descriptions provided on the pre-order page about the items listed above, please feel free to correct me.