Han Solo and Chewie rescue you from Imperial Stormtroopers who are under orders to kidnap you
Bang Bang Bang
Chewie telling Han the hyperdrive is broken
Han's reaction
Oh dear
Defending the Falcon from the upper gun turret!
Jumping to lightspeed
Cinematic opening showing the Imperials destroying the station
Cinematic showing the blockade
Cinematic showing the falcon running the blockade
Seriously though, not too bad. At least seems better than the old start.
Also, remember these are just pictures. You can't hear the music nor hear the voice overs and they hired a voice actor who sounds identical to Harrison Ford.
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Mortious's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
they hired a voice actor who sounds identical to Harrison Ford.
Are you sure? Because that sure looks like dialogue ripped directly from A New Hope. Why bother paying for an actor if you can use a thirty year old recording?
It's not something people hear about.
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JooJooFlop said:
So the whole shebang is on the test server now? Combat still looks like it always was. Is it really like a 3rd person shooter or do you still lock onto shit and fire attacks that you can't dodge by just moving out of the way?
It's a cross between FPS and MMORPG, not like Planetside at all. You point and shoot, and use terrain to your advantage.
They're going to dedicate a small team to making a full pass over every game object and adding collision detection, so you can dive behind things. But estimates are it will take them 6 months to do that.
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Sean had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Are you sure? Because that sure looks like dialogue ripped directly from A New Hope. Why bother paying for an actor if you can use a thirty year old recording?
They'd probably have to pay Ford some kind of royalties to do that and they'd still need the new guy to say any new shit as well.
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ACES! Another post by Mortious:
It's a cross between FPS and MMORPG, not like Planetside at all. You point and shoot, and use terrain to your advantage.They're going to dedicate a small team to making a full pass over every game object and adding collision detection, so you can dive behind things. But estimates are it will take them 6 months to do that.
So, like Fable's combat system but with hitscan projectiles you can't dodge?
looks...
really awesome.
Oh man, complimenting SWG hurt. 
off to the airport!
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diadem's fortune cookie read:
one thing i never got was.... how do you make a blockade in space?off to the airport!
Shoot anything that moves?
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diademing:
one thing i never got was.... how do you make a blockade in space?off to the airport!
er, the same way you'd blockade anything else? Position vessels such that nothing can get from point A to point B without passing within firing range.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Maradon! said:
er, the same way you'd blockade anything else? Position vessels such that nothing can get from point A to point B without passing within firing range.
But movement in Space is three-dimensional. You'd have to enclose the target in a spheroid of ships.
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Skawing:
But movement in Space is three-dimensional. You'd have to enclose the target in a spheroid of ships.
Yeah, a spheroid of ships only just dense enough for each ship's range of fire to meet that of the next.
Also, remember, the empire has near infinite resources to draw upon.
Now large battles will have blaster bolts flying absolutely everywhere just like the movies. Like it should be.
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Mortious had this to say about Duck Tales:
Generic Hanger[xIMG]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/the_avatar/screenShot0014.jpg[/IMG]
You liar. I don't see a hanger in that hangar.
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ACES! Another post by Mortious:
Something that may not be apparent is the rate of fire for blasters has been increased 1000 fold. Not the rate of damage, just the graphical way the bolts are displayed. Pistols for example re-fire extremely quickly like Jango Fett's pistols in EP2.Now large battles will have blaster bolts flying absolutely everywhere just like the movies. Like it should be.
Any chance they will finally allow dual weild pistolas?
Peter fucked around with this message on 11-05-2005 at 08:28 AM.
--also those shtos from the inside of the YT...Man maybe I shuold've bought one? Have/will they up the ship slots at all?
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Mortious had this to say about Knight Rider:
The cinematic engine is now integrated into the game so they can add movies all over the place, just like in KOTOR. They already added one for when you travel to Mustafar.
Finally someone takes a cue from FFXI! Well, sort of like FFXI at least.
I read the Dev's letter and the attached notes, any new details on the classes coming to light? Gork fucked around with this message on 11-06-2005 at 12:46 AM.
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Kaiote had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Patching.....
I'm very close to doing this myself.
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Fizodeth was naked while typing this:
So.. are they giving trials with this stuff?
Yeah, on the 15th they'll let you try the tutorial for free which is supposed to allow you to bring a character as high as Lv.10.
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JooJooFlop obviously shouldn't have said:
I'm very close to doing this myself.
Patched all day today and now I'm running space missions until the 15th.
Especially since my Test Center version was the initial Combat Upgrade open beta version. 
I was able to use /segoggles and /flashspeeder, too 
I just wish I knew why it keeps saying level up from time to time over my head even when just walking around... I throught we didn't need to see trainers or anything?
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Mightion Defensor impressed everyone with:/segoggles
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It has been ordained by Primus, that there will be a Chosen One who will use the Matrix to "light our darkest hour." That darkest hour may come sooner if Tarquinn keeps posting things like this:
/donothing
It only works if you have the Special Edition.
I can't even connect
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Falaanla Marr had this to say about (_|_):
how the fuck are you all connecting to one of the test centers?I can't even connect
Luck has a lot to do with it.
You arn't missing much, though. Right now the lag and frame rate issues are keeping it from being very enjoyable.
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Mightion Defensor said:
I just wish I knew why it keeps saying level up from time to time over my head even when just walking around... I throught we didn't need to see trainers or anything?
That means someone near you has levelled up, it's a bug they have to fix.
Running the new game on TC is choppy, and laggy, but works fine on this laptop, even tho it has integrated video and low ram (512).
Regular SWG crashes from something in the video drivers. (Yes, I updated)
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Caid '5 Fists' Berrit had this to say about Punky Brewster:
I can't even find the test servers to try to connect to them...
Click the link at login that says "Test Center"
And hope they aren't spammed to hell.. tho, they cloned Corbantis earlier, so there should be less people on the others now.
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Caid '5 Fists' Berrit wrote their words upon the rocks;
I can't even find the test servers to try to connect to them...
Open the regular launchpad, and after you put in your username and password, there's a button atthe bottom that says "Test Center". Log into that, and prepare for a VERY long patch.
