swtor.com updated with the next chapter in their Blood of the Empire webcomic: Act 2: The Broken World Chapter 1: 2i6v73
Act 2: The Broken World – Teneb Kel has received his mission from the Dark Council: Find and slay the Emperor’s traitorous apprentice, Exal Kressh. But can one young act 2 of Blood of the Empire.
In the fifth secrets will she reveal to the man sent to kill her? Meanwhile, Maggot’s night off continues, and new faces observe from the shadows. It’s the beginning of a night full of revelations...
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And we also get a special Fan Friday, in the form of an E3 Wrapup:
It has been a sensational week for The excitement for this game. Thanks for all your !
Sean also took the time to provide sort of a manifesto to fans who might be a little over-zealous in their vocalization of what E3 brought:
Hey guys,
I got up at 4am this morning to get back to Austin so I’ll make this short and sweet instead of rambling on as I tend to.
We’ve talked about this before but it bears mentioning again; the updates we do are for the entire TOR Community. We have everything from people who read the site almost every minute to people who visit the site once a week; people who scour the web for data and people who like to be directed to what and where our updates are. So when we do our big broadcast messages, it is directed towards the entire TOR Community.
This week’s updates are crafted for the entire community and while a segment may learn everything before even the first day of E-3 (and some even before the Pre-E3 Press Event, ack!), a large portion of our community doesn’t learn about things until later and usually when we are informing them of the updates by posting them on our website and the social networks we participate in.
Now, I know some of you will disagree with me (I have been reading the threads and posts between shifts when doing demos and at night), I personally believe we revealed a lot this week:
- Hope – A new cinematic trailer.
- Player Ships – Announcing a mobile base of operations and even showing two of them.
- Armor Progression – Showed off a few new outfits and gave a small peek at how a character might progress.
- Live Gameplay – We’ve never shown that yet and not only did we show a single-player experience we also showed a group experience. On live television where anything could happen.
- Species reveals – Announced two more species; Chiss and Twi’lek.
- War Zones – Talked a little about our PvP system; granted, we have a lot more details to give out on that but we have to refine and test things first to make sure we’re giving out great and accurate information
- Hands-On Demos – We let a lot of people come to our booths and play TOR; yes some were mainstream press and we had a few celebs come by, but we also had quite a few community come through that work on various fan sites and podcasts (and many that aren’t even TOR specific).
And that’s not even counting all the information and things talked about during the various interviews. Granted, I’m seeing things from my point of view, but I think we did a lot over the last five days.
Hmm, and maybe I should go back and remove the part about me not rambling… because I think I ended up doing that after all
Quick Edit: And no, not asking for you guys to thank us or anything else. I am just trying to give a little more information on why things are they way they are based on some of the posts I have been reading over the last week.
Rob Chestney also made a post on the the official forums where he gives some explanation on the standard MMO roles seen in one of the gameplay videos:
Hey guys,
This is a great thread and it’s nice to see so many of the discussions that take place within later date, we’ll definitely try to show you some different strategies and team dynamics so you can get a better idea of the breadth of the experience of team combat in TOR.
Eventually, we look forward to you guys getting your hands on the game to find out for yourselves!
Thanks!!
