It has been an amazing year for Star Wars fans. With the new movie release of Star Wars: The Old Republic Knights of the Fallen Empire, will open on October 27th. 726c5d
Once the expansion launches, players will have nine new chapters of new SWTOR over on Gamescom, to talk about more information on the new expansion.
But, before we dig into that information, let’s talk about what has already been discovered. During the event in Cologne, he was shown content from Chapter 3, and this includes the Carbonite defrosting scene on planet Zakuul. The first question that he asked was how the transition would be handled?
“I don’t want to do spoilers, but I can say that the defeat of the Empire and wars and everything that happened before, and then some time has ed, and then this is a new era, with new heroes and new villains. But the player is that figure that bridges both gaps. He’s almost like an Obi Wan, except he’s an Obi Wan that doesn’t die! [laughs] It’s that kind of feel.”
Ohlen’s team is good about supplying new content, with nine studio is planning on following it up with continuous updates and it could be as often as every month.
“We want to have a land on this date. And then it’s going to continue to have the same cadence throughout the year.”
From what he saw at Gamescom, he could tell that the cutscene something that the team has been working on for quite some time.
“We’ve been focusing a lot on improving the tools and processes for our cinematic designers, and we have been putting a lot of effort in our cinematic tools, and making sure that the team and the tools and the pipelines are going to be able to produce high quality cinematic content on a regular basis.”
“One of the first steps towards that was Shadow of Revan from BioWare storytelling possible.”
Also, the signature storytelling is not always about quality cinematics, but it’s also about the player having meaningful choices with consequences that actually matter.
“We hear the complaints, we know that content in their game, so that’s something else we’re really focusing on.”
“What if you had an epic Bioware story, a ‘Knights of the Old Republic’ you could say, like in the Old Republic universe, where it was just focused on telling an epic story where the player was the hero, and you got great choices, and everything you love about choices and cinematic storytelling was there.”
Ohlen also agreed that it will probably improve the re-playability.
“Yes, for sure. If you have multiple characters, I’m pretty sure you’re going to want to play through Knights of the Fallen Empire multiple times, just to see how it all rolls out depending on your choice.”
The same as with other famous BioWare titles, like Ohlen explained.
“Maybe at the beginning they’ll be a little bit apprehensive, but I think once they see how good the story is, and the fact that we haven’t pulled an Alien 3 and just killed off the favourite characters – they’re still around and we’re going to make use of them. We know that they’re characters that people are very much attached to. But make use of them in different ways.”
“One of the affect the gameplay long-term.”
Their focus on making an amazing storyline is quite intentional. It’s also the result of regular and meaningful involvement with the community.
“There’s two Star Wars story, they would be happy campers for the rest of their lives.”
“That’s not to say that the other elements of the MMO aren’t important – we have a big contingent of fans in PVP warzones, we have a big contingent of fans who like the coop flashpoints and operations, and those are systems that we’re going to because they’re a big part of an online world – but the story is really what our community would love to see a lot more of.”
When he asked Ohlen about the recent community poll on the future mounts, and the large call for Basilisk War Droids, he responded with “No promises, but there’s a good chance that it will show up.”
One surprising planned updates, he asked Ohlen how exactly he was able to make money at all.
“There’s a whole bunch of answers there. We actually had lots of discussions, and then it became the obvious answer. Obviously, feel that’s important for our fans as well. So if we gated them by making content cost money, we feel that would not make a good community. So you become a subscriber, you get all the content.”
“But also, we really feel that if you have a vibrant Star Wars: The Old Republic universe for years, and so this is a way to encourage more people to come back and we’ve really lowered the barriers of entry.”
As their conversation was saying that in 2016 we won’t have equally exciting things to talk about.
