Sprite - Welcome to another great Stratics house of commons with the developers of Star Wars Galaxies! Tonight's topic will center on
the upcoming Trials of Obi-Wan expansion.
Sprite - Please send those questions to [QT]Brekkee or [QT]Elm - to do so type /msg [QT]NICK My question here. Please only send
questions to our QT's as those sent to myself or the developers will not make it into the lineup.
Sprite - The full logs will be posted on http://swg.stratics.com after the chat. We'll begin with a quick intro from our guests...now
would be a good time to send in those questions!
Tiggs - Hello Folks! Tiggs, Director of SWG Community. Thanks for coming =)
SpaceRancor - Hello and thank you all for coming tonight. I am Eli Holding, lead designer for Trials of Obi-Wan.
Rogue_5 - Hi. My name is Grant "Rogue_5" McDaniel. I am the SOE Producer for Star Wars Galaxies.
Peahi - Greetings - I am Peahi, a LucasArts Community and Press Relations Manager for Galaxies
Shadowbrak - Good evening everyone. I am Travis Hicks, content designer for The Trials of Obi-Wan
Sprite - *Le_Jedi_Fou* Are there any other new ships than the YT-2400 ?
SpaceRancor - *Le_Jedi_Fou* We wanted to focus on the ground game with this expansion but still give something to our space players. So we decided to only give out the YT-2400 with this expansion.
Sprite - *Jenden* with all of the droids in the new expansion, will there be any new schematics for droid engineers?
Shadowbrak - *Jenden* There are no new droid chassis in the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion.
Sprite - *Sickness* Heya dev team 1 question will "we" jedi get anything worthy with ToOW?
SpaceRancor - *Sickness* With ToOW we added in several new Jedi robes and a new color crystal for thier lightsaber.
Sprite - *Turel* I noticed there are some new weapons in ToOW. Will any of these have new effects or different stats to those already
in-game, or are the differences mainly in appearance?
Shadowbrak - *Turel* There is new art in the expansion for weapons but a bigger change on the whole are the new weapon effects
introduced as a part of Publish 24. Many of the existing weapons effects have been updated with new graphics.
Sprite - *gadgettek* What sort of content will be added to the crafting professions in this expansion, or is this yet another combat
only expansion
SpaceRancor - *gadgettek* Well the crafting professions did recieve more then thirty new schematics throughout all their classes.
Granted some of the ways that a crafter needs to work with combat classes in order to gain these schematics. But schematics do make
up close to thirty percent of all new loot drops and covers all the new weapon models.
Sprite - *JediMasterCarlito* With the changed NPC AI and new found difficulties in fighting higher level NPCs, if there going to be a
change to high end loot, and if so, when can we expect it?
SpaceRancor - *JediMasterCarlito* We have pushed the quality of loot up a notch with the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion. Beyond the types
of loot that the players are used to seeing now, we have added in self buffs, wearable buffs, and weapons with added procs...all
designed to make the players more powerful in the face of stronger foes.
Sprite - *Redemption* Whats that whole deal with the HK-47 on Mustafar?
Peahi - *Redemption* HK-47 was an intriguing character you may recognize from KOTOR.
Peahi - As with many Star Wars games, we really like to blend the fiction whenever possible,
Peahi - as long as it fits with the canon. HK-47 will provide some exciting new quests and
Peahi - story arcs for players who choose to seek him out.
Sprite - *MaKeR\\* hello, will player jedi be able to wear the new looted cloaks from mustafar over the padawan robes ?
Shadowbrak - *MaKeR\\* The new Jedi cloaks cannot be worn over the older robes.
Sprite - *TKM-Starsider* Can you give specific examples of Mustafar-specific content geared for players under CL54 (not including
bunker house, flea, or desert skiff)?
SpaceRancor - *TKM-Starsider* Well we have added in the Chu-Gon Dar Cube which is obtainable by a level 1 character. There are several
straight exploration style quests that lead the players around Mustafar. That being said lower level characters will have to be far
more careful on Mustafar then they are on many of the other worlds.
Sprite - *Cyrus* My question: With the low amount of Action Cost for AI, and the wide variety of abilities, will being a non-jedi,
ungrouped, be even possible in the upcomming expansion?
drawkin - *Cyrus* yes ungrouped, high level combat players will be able to get through much of Mustafar’s content
Sprite - *DeRathi* What i would like to know is, are the bunker houses coming with the expansion going to be considered as player
housing or guild halls for the purposes of house pack-up?
drawkin - ah done, sorry
Rogue_5 - The bunkers can be used as either a player house or a guild. Regardless of which way it is used it will be able to be packed
up.
Sprite - *Banana_saber_owner* Hello, about how many new weapons are available in this new expansion ?
SpaceRancor - *Banana_saber_owner* There will be roughly 50 to 60 new weapons. Including 14 never before seen weapon models.
Sprite - *Banana_saber_owner* Hello, who came with the idea of the "lava" crystal ?
Shadowbrak - *Banana_saber_owner* Will "Darth_Platypus" Wallace came up with the idea for the lava crystal
Sprite - *RogueJedi86* Why was Beta ended so abruptly when there were still plenty of issues and bugs that hadn't been taken care of?
Rogue_5 - We are still continuing to fix issues that were reported during the Beta. We needed to close it so we could have some time
to test a few things on a private server. We want there to still be a few surprises when the expansion is released.