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As always, the staff are super friendly and always around to chat and answer questions. They’re a lot of fun to hang with and in addition to the cosplay contest and the Q&A, they made sure to mingle and answer questions and chat with the fans.
Venue: Hard Rock Café
Date: Thursday October 8th, 2015
Time: 7 – 11PM EDT
Address: 1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
Costumes were rated on 4 criteria:
- Creativity
- Detail/Craftsmanship
- Cohesive Theme
- Overall Presentation
Judges were:
- Michael Backus (Lead Designer)
- Tait Watson (Community manager)
- Taras Harkavyi (prop maker)
Top 3 based on Judge scores (in no particular order)
- Jedi Sentinel
- Arcann
- Malaena Keiran
Viewers at home (and those of us at the Cantina) were then asked to vote for the order of the final three at this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/swtorcosplay
Results
- Arcann (41%)
- Malaena
- Jedi Sentinel (22%)
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- Q: Describe Level Sync for us
- A: Be able to revisit old worlds, play with friends but still feel powerful. You will have all your abilities, ives.
- Q: You can change the role of your work?
- A: Right click their portrait to play with whichever companion you like rather be forced due to the their role. They get a different set of abilities depending on if they are healer/tank/dps but the visuals are slightly different between the companions.
- Q: “Last year at NY ComiCon, you said that there was something ‘better than cross-server’ coming. What is it? Where/when is it?”
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- Musco- I did say that, and I’m going to give you the Group Finder pops aren’t happening as fast as we or you would like. That’s for Warzones, Flashpoints, Operations, all of it. So, we that is the problem we are trying to resolve.
- Backus- I will probably lose my job for this, but I can say that there are two things that we are actively working on to announcement and implementation before next New York ComiCon.
- Musco- That is subject to change!
- Q: “What’s the next stronghold?”
- Backus- The next one? Well, I can’t say much, but I know that there have been a lot of requests and a strong desire for a more beautiful location for a stronghold. So our team is working on a bunch of new things for strongholds and is looking into some of the more beautiful or interesting locations: Manaan, Alderaan…
- Q: “Why is there a clickable Sabacc table in the Esseles???”
- Backus- Honestly? We did that to f*ck with you. No, but more seriously, when it comes to mini-games, they’re not as easy to implement as you might think. It takes a lot of idea that you think would be awesome, write it down!
- Q: “Space PVE?”
- Backus- Nope
After giving away some cool free stuff, the devs spent the rest of the event mingling (and drinking, of course) and just having a good time with everyone.
Here are some more pictures from the cosplay contest and the event.
