E3: Level cap raise, new warzone, new operation, new planet with class story

[Hostagecat]

This is nice news to hear, that they are moving forward and addressing alot of peoples wishes.

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Thanks for posting, good stuff.

[noahjam326]

That is beyond ludicrous.

This looks like a good opportunity for violence.

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I doubt they will do class story. It will be difficult to get ALL the VO's back in to get their responses and Companion quips. More likely than not they will recycle the previously recorded stock phrases and/or utilize a 3rd party to do most of the exposition. I'd be impressed if they do get the previous VO's back in the studio....but in their current state it sounds a little ambitious.

Except Bioware has already answered this multiple times and explained that all of the voice actors for the Classes are under contract for some time.

[namelessone]

I, too, think its too early for a level cap raise, its just not ready yet. but they also said they will add new skills. maybe through higher talent tiers?
Cant say I really like that

Wait, doesn't level cap increase trash all of the current endgame content?

[Deleted]

This is just the stuff from that survey they did. It will most likely be paid and only raise the level cap by 2. If they raised it by 5 they would need an entire tier of FPs and Ops at 55 or everyone would QQ that there's nothing to do at 55 so it's just 2 levels of story quests then a raid.

I thought the game already had Nightmare mode for the operations, with the exception of the newest one. (unless they already released that)

Its nightmare mode flashpoints that was in the E3 thing I think.

[Spellweaver]

also Nightmare mode guys, for all those "done in 2 weeks since release" .. hope it's gonna be hard as hell)) + free trial till level 15 since July that could finally attract a lot of new players lets hope they'll keep their word, I'm looking forward too all of those updates and more definitely, and during the next E3 we could 'maybe' hear something about new xpac that'd be awesome

I thought the game already had Nightmare mode for the operations, with the exception of the newest one. (unless they already released that)

[Ap0calypse]

This is just the stuff from that survey they did. It will most likely be paid and only raise the level cap by 2. If they raised it by 5 they would need an entire tier of FPs and Ops at 55 or everyone would QQ that there's nothing to do at 55 so it's just 2 levels of story quests then a raid.

It'll most likely be free, there was no mention anywhere that it was an expansion, will need to be paid for or anything of the sort. Most likely the only new gear will be from the new FP/OP and the planet. Although there didn't seem to be any new looking gear anywhere in that video, so maybe we don't get new gear for the new levels. Who knows? It will most likely only be 2-5 new levels only though as it isn't an expansion.

Also the nightmare mode mentioned by the guy at the start is for Denova (aka Explosive Content) most likely. Though he did seem to mention a "Hardcore" mode? Or did I just mishear that?

[Deleted]

Here is a good transcript from the SWTOR E3 presentation (link). I really hope BioWare will come soon with some more details. What they showed us looks very appealing but I will only be convinced once I find out more.

[Roxinius]

Here is the trailer video shown from the E3 Event

that video got me as hard as a diamond in and ice storm

[Arlee]

I thought the game already had Nightmare mode for the operations, with the exception of the newest one. (unless they already released that)

The Nightmare mode for Denova is currently planned to be part of 1.3.

[Rexter2k5]

That is beyond ludicrous.

This looks like a good opportunity for violence.

ect...


I doubt they will do class story. It will be difficult to get ALL the VO's back in to get their responses and Companion quips. More likely than not they will recycle the previously recorded stock phrases and/or utilize a 3rd party to do most of the exposition. I'd be impressed if they do get the previous VO's back in the studio....but in their current state it sounds a little ambitious.

All VO's are under contract. And I enjoy the ambitiousness.

[Styxz]

First off, all the voice Actors signed contracts to continue for a few years with voice acting needs for TOR.

Secondly, really? Guys? Can you help the uninformed, and like... tell us stuff? I've been browsing every forum and search engine to find out -exactly- what the new stuff is. OP, was it really too hard to actually list the new stuff was? I can't exactly stream a video right now, so I have no idea what the new race, new planet, or new warzone are.

The hell is this?

YOU look it up...

OT: This all sounds good but I wonder if it's a bit soon for the level cap to raise. I mean I guess they need to give some incentive to go to the new planet, but I feel like there's bigger issues on the table. Regardless, glad to see the storm of new info and plans.

[Deleted]

Didn't they fire the story writers?

[noahjam326]

Didn't they fire the story writers?

I haven't seen any real evidence to prove that. Mostly just random guessing. Only hard evidence I've seen is that the Q&A team had a massive hit taken from them.

[Arlee]

Didn't they fire the story writers?

The only writers I have seen reliably reported as being part of the layoffs is some of the web-content writers. As far as I have seen no story writers were laid off.

[Rayvene]

Also, this was their 6 month plan... so the level cap increase is likely a December target... which would be 1 year after release. Seems appropriate... most expacs seem to be 1 to 1.5 years...

[Ixator]

Also, this was their 6 month plan... so the level cap increase is likely a December target... which would be 1 year after release. Seems appropriate... most expacs seem to be 1 to 1.5 years...

Hmm did I miss something? In the end of the trailer it says coming in july

EDIT: NVM, the july thing is the free trial -_-

[vizzle]

Raise the level cap and make all your current flashpoints and operations obsolete, in a game where people already complain there's nothing to do... good idea BW. Way too early for this, ridiculous.

People want features, not another day of leveling.

[Leonard McCoy]

People want features, not another day of leveling.

The thing I here star wars get the most positive feed back is for the leveling experience tied to story. People liked it, I don't see why they wouldn't do more of it. I'm curious if this will be part of an xpac or a patch.

[vizzle]

The thing I here star wars get the most positive feed back is for the leveling experience tied to story. People liked it, I don't see why they wouldn't do more of it. I'm curious if this will be part of an xpac or a patch.

The problem is no matter how amazing the leveling is, it only happens once. After people go through it, it's done. Leveling brings no sustainability to a game, at the end of the day it's done and it's not the reason people are going to stay subscribed.

[woodydave44]

The thing I here star wars get the most positive feed back is for the leveling experience tied to story. People liked it, I don't see why they wouldn't do more of it. I'm curious if this will be part of an xpac or a patch.

You missed the entire point of his post