News: G4TV PlanetSide 2 Panel

[Bags]

Is SWTOR an RPG? With like a shit ton of voice acting and quests and stuff? Which planetside won't have.

[2coolforu]

Yep, and they were only partially in, it was in a very basic state.

[Volw]

Originally Posted by 2coolforu

And from what we've seen in the trailers only one set of armor and a handful of classes have been completed, and 3 vehicles and 6-7 weapons. Although I know they won't want to reveal everything right now, I doubt the entire game is polished up yet, they only just switched to the new engine recently. They've done some awesome work to get this far already!

They are going to want to have at least all the weapons, classes and vehicles working and in the game, I was one of the earliest testers of 'SWTOR' and even then all the classes were in and fleshed out, the story was done, many of the maps were fully made etc etc and that game isn't coming out for another year and that testing was nearly a year ago!

Yeah, but a game like SWTOR or any other MMO for that matter, doesn't need as extensive testing as PlanetSide. Both in terms of load testing and balancing. Edit: Mostly it's just content testing, which PS doesn't have all that much.

Besides. During media q&a, devs said it's just a teaser and it's far from what's in game right now. We've seen Reaver and Vanguard models a few months back as well.

[Bags]

Yeah, T-Ray said something along the lines of

"in a few weeks we'll be releasing stuff that'll make you ask 'why did they even bother showing is this teaser'"

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by 2coolforu

Yep, and they were only partially in, it was in a very basic state.

Comparing development of SWTOR and Planetside 2 isn't exactly comparing apples to apples. I don't think PS2 will take quite that long.

The teaser looked like the game was still in the very early stages though. It looked pretty, but with all the shots being fired, you will notice that nobody was actually getting hit. In the panels, they hinted that they arn't showing everything they have developed yet, but at the same time, when they first aired the teaser, Higby said that was the 1st time members of his team had seen it.

I really hope beta is this year. It seems like it's in the realm of possibility.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Raymac

Higby said that was the 1st time members of his team had seen it.

Maybe his team didn't work on the trailer? That would explain it.

[Hamma]

It was probably being worked on and tweaked right up until we saw it hehe.

[Volw]

Yeah, most likely they got QA people to work on it ;-)

You don't want top project people spend a day or so on shooting a trailer.