E3 News Discussion Thread (Update 15/6/10)

Although you can discuss the news in other threads SS and Lw want most of it contained here so we dont lose threads in the chaos of all the new info, Lord Nord you can keep posting new info in the Event Discussion thread which is very appreciated but keep most of the discussion here plz


New Info:

New Species Confirmed!
by Tando a Smudge
Gamespot link
New species have been confirmed prior to E3, which are Twe'lik and Chiss bring the species number to 4.
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Species Confired

Human
Chiss
Twe'lik
Rattataki

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Player ships Confirmed
By LW

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Every player, regardless of their chosen class, will get their own starship to command across the galaxy. Always dreamed of flying a Corellian vessel? Choose the Vanguard class when playing. Or maybe you've had some sort of sick dream where you gangster walk through the galaxy aboard an Imperial transport (if so, choose the Sith Fury class).

Of course, it would be pretty boring to have an entire galaxy packed with a handful of similar ships. To combat this, BioWare has created a robust customization package so that you can fully trick out your ship with premade gear sets or your own hand-picked items. Though BioWare isn't showing off the ships in action just yet, they assure us that there will be thousands of different variations so that each person can feel as if they have a unique vessel.

Ships will also double as player housing.

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Ok PJK

Chiss?? Wow thats a bit of a surprise. Twi'lek was always given I guess but yeah thats surprised me I have to say. On the plus side I guess it gives hope for more expanded universe species to be playable.

You can see that they're all the humanoid races though... Doesn't instill much hope in getting Trandoshans or any other exotic race.

The fact Twi'lek is in suggests it might be worth keeping you're chin up, Harl

After all, if the tail-heads are in then thats the "Will there be races who's heads don't fit in conventional helms?" question answered, plus Trandoshan are still one of the more humanoid races anyway, modelling them wouldn't be much of a headache (and we know they've already done so, because of what we've seen).

Add to that we still think of Trandoshan as "companion characters" because thats the only reference to them we've seen confirmed, but up until today you could say the same for Twi'lek...



Its a shame the "Behind the Scenes Video" was such an epic fail though; so far there is no decent quality copy of it anywhere outside of the US and frankly, there is VERY LITTLE footage of the new video anyway.

It gives you an idea of what is coming though, and it looks like Troopers finally get to lay down some pain!

(I put this as a spoiler because you may wish to wait until a better quality version is available)

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