Space combat confirmed

[Garrison]

First, thank you to all of you who participated in our Comic-Con Reveal mission! While we didn't quite make the numbers, we definitely saw how excited the community is about this and how everyone came together. After all of that, there's no way we could hold back with our special reveal at Comic-Con!

If you’ve been following the news coming out of the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ panel at Comic-Con International, you’ve heard the announcement that we will indeed have Space Combat as part of the TOR experience! But what does that mean? Space combat is an alternative gameplay experience to the primary game of storytelling, questing, and ground-based combat. In space combat, you fly your personal ship to various “hot spots” on your galaxy map. From there, you will blast your way through asteroid fields, enemy fighters, frigates, destroyers, and a variety of other obstacles that will evoke memories of some of the great Star Wars™ space battles.

To learn more, pick up the October 2010 edition of PC Gamer which hits newsstands starting August 17th for screenshots and an exclusive interview or check back with us in the weeks to come.

[Baxtoom]

I saw this via my twitter feed. I think it's good news. It sounds like more of a deversion right now like a mini game instead of a full on game mechanism. Oh well we shall see as time moves on.


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[Shreder]

I wonder how integral it will be. Knowing SWG really made it a separate game, I would hope that Bioware can bridge the gap between the two and make it a unified, fun experience.

[VikStone]

Excellent, sounds like they can do a lot of things with it. But is the combat going to be RPG-ish based like EvE or twitch-based? And hot-spots sounds a lot like instances. But if they make it similar to PvP zones like in WoW over contested planets, that's gonna be awesome.

[Darian_Carr]

cool...anything to mean more time in space is a good thing. I love the ships in SWG but there was not enough content to mean more time in space...I am hoping this game changes that.

[Moose]

They could put in the old X-Wing TIE Fighter game as their space combat and I'd be happy with it. Sounds like a diversion game, like you said, but they will likely add onto it if it becomes popular.