Oops! The Old Republic Info Leaked By Careless Retailer

[rsvp42]

In the case of lightsabers, colored stones have stats attached to them. So you can have the color you want or the stats you want, but not always both. I think the same goes for blasters. This could be a way to avoid that concern or to be able to choose colors before you find the proper crystal in game.

Well, it didn't work that way in Kotor. Color and Effect were independent of one another, with the exception of two color crystals you can get, one for orange, the other silver. There isn't much reason to expect these crystals to effect stats in any way considering this, although it is day 1 DLC, so it isn't out of the question.

The ones in game are confirmed to have stats on them. This doesn't mean that ALL red sabers are +atk and ALL blue sabers are +def or anything like that. It just means that if you like orange blades, but you find a purple one with more attack that you need, you'll have to switch to purple until you find a better orange. My guess is that this pre-order bonus bypasses that by allowing you to pick the color of your saber regardless of crystal (or the color of your blaster bolt for guns).

This is my understanding based on information revealed so far.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

I predict major crash and burn (pretty safe bet really). I just got back on world of warcraft after being out since BC and the amount of polish that went into that game is absurd.

Modern players aren't going to put up with MMO launch issues (and there will be issues) when they have so many other options.

Star Wars itself is such a tarnished brand with the 70's/80's generation who grew up with the original cultural phenomenon movies getting older and nothing spectacular released for the IP this century other than Kotor 1.

If they had followed the success of Kotor 1 with this of the same quality as WoW launch then it would have been golden, but now I think it is too late. The audience will be split with the Diable 3 launch which I'm sure will have tons more MMO features than the original did.

 

[Savber]

If you ignore the outrageous price that cover for The Old Republic is drool-worthy.

 

[Vrach]

It happens too often to be anything else.

How about a decent shop (a-la Diablo 3 one that we've seen a while ago), considering every single character position is available for cutting out right out of the readily available high quality cutscenes? Especially considering the model for the female Jedi on the pic (Satele Shan) has been shown to be QUITE different in game than in the movies, considering she's a LOT younger in the cutscenes and the cutscene she was first in was made before her model was finalized (leading to her having a near completely different look in the actual game).

So yeah. Calling shop on this one, although one with quite decent quality and good timing (SDCC big reveals announced).

 

[Floppertje]

It's real. Any fakes in the past have been squashed immediately on the main forums, but threads about this are still going strong. Plus community leads have been making sly jokes and refrences to it on their twitters. As for the language difference, it's a leak; they probably don't have access to any Polish version yet, assuming there will even be one.

yeah well the TOR forums are mainly populated by total retards. you can't read 5 posts without finding one that bashes one faction or the other, whines about bioware favoring one side over the other or crying how it's not enough like kotor

It happens too often to be anything else.

How about a decent shop (a-la Diablo 3 one that we've seen a while ago), considering every single character position is available for cutting out right out of the readily available high quality cutscenes? Especially considering the model for the female Jedi on the pic (Satele Shan) has been shown to be QUITE different in game than in the movies, considering she's a LOT younger in the cutscenes and the cutscene she was first in was made before her model was finalized (leading to her having a near completely different look in the actual game).

So yeah. Calling shop on this one, although one with quite decent quality and good timing (SDCC big reveals announced).

Give this man a cookie, he's intelligent (aka he agrees with what I said). *looks at the name* ah, well that explains it.

 

[JediMB]

Very KotOR. I don't object.

Captcha: love you

 

[Pr0]

Its legit, there are snaps on tinypic of preorder boxes that are still in the shrink wrap that have obviously been taken by game shop employees as they got the shipments in this morning in the EU/UK.

So its a legit pre-order, at least.

 

[repeating integers]

ORANGE AND BLUE

STAR WAAAARS

Fix'd. Blue lightsaber vs Red lightsaber naturally = blue vs red (or orange, which is a more natural-looking shade of red) contrast. I think it's justified in this case, much like Tron: Legacy.

 

[razor343]

Is that Malak in the background? Does the plot thicken?

 

[JediMB]

Is that Malak in the background? Does the plot thicken?

It's Darth Malgus [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Malgus]. No pot chicken for you.

 

[Xersues]

I'm still hoping for an August Beta with late Nov Launch.

The closed beta has been going on for months now. I'm expecting a September-ish release date at Comic Con.

Yeah but that isn't the "Marketing Beta" that's a real beta. We all know an MMO goes through a huge marketing demo beta that everyone and their brother can get into.

Hell, September release would be nice though.

 

[Stevey M]

*snip*

I'm guessing that this is as good as confirmed now, as I saw this exact box art on a preorder stall at my local games retailer.

 

[DeltaWolfson]

What is up with all the Stupid leaks this week?

 

[Doctor Greenthumb]

Well I got the Offical newsletter in my email today stating
Early Game Access - create your character and explore the universe first.

? The order in which you purchase and redeem your Pre-Order Code is the order in which you will gain early access to the game, prior to official launch day.

? A unique Color Stone to change your weapon effect - only available via pre-order.

and that preorder is avadible now