Friday 20th - Bounty Hunter Update

A sigh of relief I suppose as with hear that Bounty Hunters are a confirmed class. Not only that, but we see them with a cool-looking set of armour, weaponry and a good cake of info that we can take chunks out of a devour separately (metaphorically).

A quick link: http://www.swtor.com/info/classes/bounty-hunter

That part about Imperial Relations got me thinking - are they specific only to the Sith Empire? The impression I got was that they were for both. Or maybe, is this a secret third faction that we hadn't heard of before? Also not that the pictures are on Hutta, not Tython or Korriban. (Hutta is, so far, the only confirmed neutral world in ToR).

I also get the feeling from this latest update that BioWare do seem to think Bounty Hunter = evil alignment.

Even the US government licences real life bounty hunters, so I'm surprised that a US based games division is lumping BHs into the bad guy camp.

If they are.

Which they seem to be doing. ("See also: Sith Empire")

hehe I like the flamethrower vid.

Evil-Sith-Darth-McNasty: 'Ha! face my 'force-grip, worm'

*audible crunching noise as Bounty Hunter is lifted off the ground clutching their neck with both hands*

Bounty Hunter: 'Urk! urghhh....ahhh!!!! c...cant breathe....c...cant... oh, hang on a mo! you're well within 10ft there mate!'

*with one hand still on his neck, Bounty Hunter outstretches other hand and a massive bout of flame erupts from his forearm flamethrower and engulfs the Sith who abruptly 'stops' the Force Grip.*

Evil-Sith-Darth-McNasty: [Screams like a little girly-man]

Bounty Hunter: 'booyah! fekkin PWN'ed, ya evil mofo!'

....etc

That totally suggests that bounty hunters strictly work for the Empire, which sucks. I'm just wondering what the Republic equivalent will be. Hope it's not just all Jedi or we have a problem.

Alas, i think you may well be right Black Heart.

That massive Sith logo bottom right on the Bounty Hunter page is horribly conclusive.

This is not looking good...

Hmm.... Yeah... But, we could always make non-bounty hunters on the Republic side and play around like Bounty Hunters would.... But I do hope there is a Republic equivilant.

That sounds like damn good fun actually, HL2

from what i can tell, bounty hunters would mostly be empire due to the weapon tech, bad guys tend to have better gear then any one else. or a 3erd faction, wich would be awsome on a stick!

We might just have to make soldiers then round around pretending to be BHs.

Harlequin2 wrote:

Hmm.... Yeah... But, we could always make non-bounty hunters on the Republic side and play around like Bounty Hunters would.... But I do hope there is a Republic equivilant.

There probably will be. We should post in the Suggestions box on the official forums to have a Republic equivalent to a bounty hunter (which may be termed 'Mercenary')

Black Heart wrote:

That totally suggests that bounty hunters strictly work for the Empire, which sucks. I'm just wondering what the Republic equivalent will be. Hope it's not just all Jedi or we have a problem.

I agree and it's got me REALLY worried. If this is confirmed to be true it could cause a hell of a lot of trouble for the guild. Of course I love the look of the class but if it's Sith Empire only then I will not be impressed.

Neither

Bleeehh..