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From what we saw in brief demo of the new starting area in the game, this philosophy carries over to the whole experience. Foremost is combat. It's faster, in that the blaster bolts fly with more frequency, and battles are resolved more quickly. In short, it's not like combat in most MMOs you've played. You have to click the mouse button to shoot with your gun, and a very "sticky" reticle aids you when it comes to selecting targets. You still get special abilities, but don't expect to be hitting hotkeys too often. Instead, you'll "load" abilities from your hotbar to your right mouse button, and use them that way. Once you're done with one particular attack, you simply load another one in. If you've played the Diablo games, you'll be in familiar territory.

You're much less of a nobody as well. Within 10 seconds of starting the game, you'll encounter none other than C3PO. He'll dole out your first mission (which involves retrieving a blaster from a locker), and instruct you in shooting it. Immediately afterwards, Han Solo, R2D2, and Chewbacca bust through a blast door, and break you out of prison. And inside of five minutes, you'll have lasered-up a group of Stormtroopers, stormed into the lower deck of the Millennium Falcon, and taken out some pursuing TIE fighters with its blaster cannon. Once you get the starting area proper -- Tensari Point Space Station -- you'll get to grind your teeth on the entry levels of the profession of your choice, with the host of trainers housed therein. If you choose to be a bounty hunter, incidentally, then you may not be surprised at this point to learn that your trainer will be none other than Boba Fett.

Clearly, SOE and LucasArts are laying the Star Wars-ness pretty thick. Ultimately, the overall experience will be less like going to Tashi Station and picking up some power converters, and more participating in an action-packed space opera, alongside names and faces you know and love.

You're gonna find yourself running with quite an infamous crew.

This would unequivocally be a good thing, if it weren't for the fact that there is already a player base currently neck-deep in Galaxies, of which at least a solid portion is already used to -- and likely quite attached to the game as it currently exists. Right now form, Star Wars Galaxies is a very hardcore game, the sort where players tend to be proud of their accomplishments.

"The community has responded even more positively than I hoped," Dickinson stated. "We have been very confident that the enhancements (to the combat system especially) were both more fun and the right thing to do for the game. Those who have gotten into the game and tried it out are, for the most part, really happy and excited about what this means for the future of SWG."

But what about those who aren't? It appears they'll likely be casualties of this revolution. "This is relatively unproven ground that we're treading on," said Dickinson, "but it all comes down to [doing good by the Star Wars fantasy]. We are making the game better, and we are delivering on the promise of what a Star Wars online experience should be. The game systems that are affected were the ones that kept us, as developers, from hitting those goals." For what it's worth, the new Galaxies seems like a game that I would personally enjoy a whole lot more than what was there before. But then again, I'm not part of a two-and-a-half year old guild. The new Star Wars Galaxies is set to go live on November 15th. It's currently available on the TestCenter, though, so by all means, give it a whirl.

Matig interviewtje Tbh 😯 maar de hoop voor Creature handlers is niet verloren als ik het verhaaal mag geloven.

Was er uberhaubt nog hoop dan voor de NGE? 😛

te lang en te saai om te lezen 😛

Saai hoor dat je niet leest 😀

er staan 9 van de 10 keer toch dingen in die gelogen zijn, of gewoon niet leuk zijn 😛

Maar wel de moeite waard om te lezen, ben je weer een stukje informatie rijker 😛

We kennen het ook over quatum fisics hebben, maar dan moet je eerst even deze DVD zien --> "What the fuck do we know?"

misscien vinden jullie dit wel de moeite waard om te lezen

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dit is dus echt iets wat ik noooooooit had verwacht

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Announcements&message.id=755#M755

Wat ik zeg, ze proberen klanten te behouden, they are desperate! 😀

ja nu moet het pas echt erg zijn

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en de consoles zijn er nog niet

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SWG wordt gewoon afgeslankt zodat het dadelijk op de PS3 kan en men hoopt dan meer SWG af te kunnen zetten.

PS3 is wel vet 🙄

Als ze zo nodig een SWG console wilden hebben, waarom moeten de PC spelers daar de dupe van worden?

Mijn laatste console is een PS1, en ik zal nooit een Xbox kopen, misschien wel ene PS2 of PS3, maar ik hoef geen console, PC pwnt de pan uit 😛

psp ps2 xbox en de 360 komt eraan 😛
maar zeg ook niet dat ik voorstander ben van SWG op ps3, liever niet nee.