Gamespot Hands-on.

A lot of good stuff in it. Twil'lek are announced as playable class to, and more.

http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6265070/star-wars-the-old-republic-exclusive-hands-on-bounty-hunter-trooper-imperial-agent-smuggler-sith-inquisitor-and-sith-warrior?tag=topslot%3Bimg%3B2&page=2

haaaa called it on the twil'lik and chisis as well very nice

Ah man, that looked so freakin' sweet. Love the look of the Troopers in the couple of screenshots that were taken of them. I think that standard Trooper armour with the red colour pattern is what Typho is going to be using a lot. The articles gave tonnes of nice juicy info tid bits as well, which is always a plus. Really can't wait for E3.

Also loving the idea of the "Reload" and "Vent Heat" abilities. Makes sense that a Trooper would have to reload his weapon every now and again, instead of being like a Hollywood movie, when the character has unlimited ammo until he feels like it's time to reload.

The storytelling sounds like some of best yet I'm excited!

Twilek, is my choice for a second playthrough. I kind of expected this would be a playable race.

Bounty hunter already sounds like a beast in combat, glad I chose it then heh.

My only concern is the way they made it sound like some of the PvP could be imbalanced. Of course we have to keep in mind these are early character builds.
But then again I haven't played an MMO where pvp was perfectly balanced.

Sounds like the smuggler will be relying a lot on the cover function, I guess it makes sense since he's not heavily armored, but it looking a bit too much like gears of war for my liking. Still, good to know he's got some other useful abilities.

Jax Nova wrote:

Sounds like the smuggler will be relying a lot on the cover function, I guess it makes sense since he's not heavily armored, but it looking a bit too much like gears of war for my liking. Still, good to know he's got some other useful abilities.

I hope your smuggler isn't the size of a car, that would indeed be bad.

Well there will be a few happy people in the guild today with Twi'Lek and Chiss confirmed.

All looks good, sounds like Bounty Hunter may be a bit over powered at the moment but it is still early.

Maybe this is grabbign at straws (probably is) but this could hint at personal ships maybe?

"The smugglers ship is stolen, they must get it back, and must go it on foot or else risk being shot down."

Probably nothing, but i like to cling to every small hope.

Oooh Chiss are confirmed! Bet that makes Gár happy

YAY more races good to see tho I think the twi'lek was no surprise its to popular for them to miss out......but might i ask bioware WERE ARE THE ARKANAINS!!!!

haha any way its looking better every tme we see one of these kinder updates all the mentioned classes look great Im sssooooo looking forward to playing SWTOR

ps like very one else here no doubt

Very nice read... had a bunch of interesting things in it. Like others Im a bit concerned about unbalanced classes at the moment but that will hopefully not be a very big issue later.

And Chiss are confirmed! Now I have quite the conundrum... Im really going to have to think about this for a bit before I decide on either human or Chiss.

I can't say that I have ever felt PvP in any game felt perfectly balanced, maybe I'm just not experienced enough.

There is always a glitch, exploit, or just one class having some small advantage over another. The Devs in all MMO games nerf, tweak and test all the time but somehow it exposes another problem. In the end there is always something to complain about.

Not sure pure balance can be found.

Deirbhile wrote:

I can't say that I have ever felt PvP in any game felt perfectly balanced, maybe I'm just not experienced enough.

There is always a glitch, exploit, or just one class having some small advantage over another. The Devs in all MMO games nerf, tweak and test all the time but somehow it exposes another problem. In the end there is always something to complain about.

Not sure pure balance can be found.

I agree... they are of course not going to be able to make things perfectly balanced. I was just concerned because the way they described it sounded as if certain classes were significantly stronger than others.