Monday Musings: The Final Frontier

“Flying is for Droids.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi

• BioWare revealed a little tidbit about the Super Secret Space Project at the Community Cantina in Seattle.
• The project is a little less secret now, but not much.
• We still don’t know what it entails. The obvious guess is X-Wing vs. Tie-Fighter / Jump to Lightspeed like space combat with PvP.
• There was no mention of when we would see this.
• I suspect this will be the core of the next expansion.
• If it is coming in an expansion, then I would not expect to see it until next Spring. Maybe in April which would be about year after the release of RotHC.
• April seems a long way off, but there will be a Beta period before that.
• Fingers already crossed for a Beta invite.
• FWIW, I haven’t played the space mini-game in months.
• Most days I forget it exists.
• I usually remember it when I’m bored.
• I’m happy to say I haven’t been bored in SWTOR in a quite a while.
• The space project will give us new ships to fly, but it is doubtful that we’ll get new ships to replace our class ones.
• The space project wasn’t the only thing mentioned at the Cantina tour.
• There was mention of additional playable species. Cathar were successful so BioWare is talking about what to add next.
• I’d love to see Wookiees.
• Probably won’t be Wookiees.
• Imperial Wookies really don’t fit.
• I’m trying to imagine a Wookiee Imperial Agent.
• “She’s still spitting up hairballs”, comes to mind.
• Wookiee conversations would get really old really fast too.
• Yeah, Wookiess ain’t gonna’ happen.
• Note: I wrote the stuff about Wookiees before Ootinicast posted their transcript. No playable Wookiees confirmed, for all the reasons I noted above 🙂
• They like way they told the Makeb story. Moving forward they may make a little more individualize regarding classes, but it sounds like fully blow class stories won’t happen moving forward.
• I wish they would rethink that. Yes, the Makeb story was very good, but those class stories were outstanding.
• Sounds like BioWare has a lot in the hopper right for SWTOR. Can’t wait to see it all happen.

Finally, I leave you with this Space Project teaser trailer that was uploaded by the fine folks from OotiniCast, and you can read their whole Cantina Tour write-up here.