By Jim Rossignol on September 12th, 2012 at 4:00 pm.
SWTOR‘s fresh content mill continues to crank on the missions for light-saberists and chums. Speaking here, Bioware’s Austin bossbloke Matt Bromberg said: “We’re committed to: about every six weeks, doing a major update for the game — which would be a new Warzone, a new Operation, a new Flashpoint, a new event — and to doing that on a really frequent cadence, every six weeks.” So that’s EVERY SIX WEEKS. Got that? (Nice use of the word “cadence” there, Matt.) The upcoming 1.4 update is proof of this policy, because it contains a new operation called “Terror From Beyond”. This features the Gree planet of Asation, and a “hypergate”, which you can see in action below.
The hypergate which is like a normal gate, only it spews monsters onto the planet and glows a fashionable neon blue. In this preview video Bioware’s handsome writers and designers explain that the new not-a-dungeon consists in a bunch of esoteric missions, one of which is a puzzle in which the players must “debug a computer”, although they seem to do that by killing things. Seems like a theme in recent Bioware games… If only debugging were so satisfyingly explosive in the real world, eh programmers?
12/09/2012 at 16:07 wodin says:
Does anyone still play this???
12/09/2012 at 16:15 Bostec says:
Indeed. Where is the F2P update? Surely that should of come first so you know, people would actually play this update.
12/09/2012 at 16:30 Simon Hawthorne says:
Exactly. I would’ve phrased the question “Does anyone play this yet?”
I’ll give it a go when it’s F2P…not expecting it to be as good as KOTOR2 with the restoration mod though!
12/09/2012 at 16:22 Pucho says:
Your mama does. (sorry, couldn’t resist)
12/09/2012 at 16:42 Alceste007 says:
lol, your response was actually much better than his.
12/09/2012 at 20:11 Tuskin38 says:
I still play it 2-3 times a week (since launch), I don’t find anything wrong with it.
13/09/2012 at 08:40 Flea says:
I still play this, and I don’t understand what all the fuss is about and why people are so critical about this game. Week after week it runs away with a box full of hours of my life that I will never get back, but I’m not complaining!
12/09/2012 at 16:11 JFS says:
Warzone: Operation Flashpoint?
12/09/2012 at 16:24 Oryon says:
Ominous gate? Monsters from the ‘beyond’ spewing through it?
If only i could remember where i’ve seen this before.
12/09/2012 at 16:25 db1331 says:
I wish people would drop their Burning Crusade against this game.
12/09/2012 at 16:30 Aedrill says:
There’s a whole Secret World of haters out there, it’s not that easy, you know. There’s so many haters, that they fight entire Guild Wars against each other, just to have something to do. Sure, in The Perfect World everyone loves this game and maybe one day we’ll all go “WoW!” when we see it happen but Aion think so.
12/09/2012 at 17:26 Vorphalack says:
There will always be a Rift between MMO players.
12/09/2012 at 18:37 Njordsk says:
You’d need a second life to play them all anyway
13/09/2012 at 03:31 kaillyna1654 says:
I feel like an idiot for having bought this game at launch. There I said it. It feels good to get that off my chest. I’ll try to do better next time!
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12/09/2012 at 16:31 Oryon says:
Can’t feel anything but unfettered admiration for the Blizzard of creativity coming from TOR’s writers.
12/09/2012 at 18:53 Morlock says:
You got to admit that this update is really dragging the franchise through the M.U.D.
12/09/2012 at 16:28 Rao Dao Zao says:
I think it might cause a Rift in the community.
12/09/2012 at 17:53 Bhazor says:
Hey don’t dismiss the Love and Craft that has gone into this wholly original idea.
Hell, they must have put 40,000 man hours into this.
12/09/2012 at 16:26 Warduke says:
I don’t play the game but the video seems full of spoilers??
12/09/2012 at 16:32 Aedrill says:
That was my thought as well. “OK, now I don’t have to play it at all, I know all the important bits!”
12/09/2012 at 16:52 RaytraceRat says:
I think they took lead from hollywood trailers lately.
(read in a deep and dramatic voice)
There is a secret, that no one knows…
[the secret is just shown on the screen]
Until the end, you would not suspect who is the bad guy…
[there is an evil looking guy on the screen]
You would not believe how unexpected the plot twist is…
[guess what is on the screen]
etc.
12/09/2012 at 19:27 Bhazor says:
Spoilers
“They’ll need to hack a computer. It’s something entirely new, players having done this before”
Cuts to a bunch of characters hitting a computer with Mattel light sabers.
12/09/2012 at 16:35 jackieo says:
Erm, uh, it’s just… content updates to SWTOR were plagued with delays when they were fully staffed… I feel a little bit (read: fantastically) skeptical that the studio can come up updates the size of flashpoints and raids but on a shorter timeline and with 30%+ fewer people post-layoffs. Call me crazy.
12/09/2012 at 16:42 hemmingjay says:
You’re crazy.
12/09/2012 at 16:47 Aedrill says:
Totally batshit.
12/09/2012 at 16:53 RaytraceRat says:
Oh, hi there, I was just passing by, but I feel an urge to call you crazy. Sorry for that, bye.
12/09/2012 at 20:15 Earl-Grey says:
Caligula just called, he told me to remember to call you crazy.
You’re crazy.
12/09/2012 at 17:00 aldo_14 says:
Is that developers name ‘Charles Boyd’ or ‘Char Les Boyd’?
12/09/2012 at 19:36 Sparkasaurusmex says:
Charl Esb Oyd
12/09/2012 at 17:13 Carra says:
Dozens of wanna-be programmers who sign up at university after this video will be disappointed.
12/09/2012 at 17:52 Tei says:
This remind me of The Secret World, …. maybe SWTOR is tryiing to steal the 12 TSW player?
12/09/2012 at 18:18 f1x says:
I will resume the video for you guys,
Weird dudes speaking about very important mcguffins, bunch of guys running at a ridiculously fast speed, lasers, big ugly mob at the end
12/09/2012 at 18:37 aliksy says:
Man, I hope they add more content onto the rotting skeleton of an outdated game model. Wait, no I don’t.
12/09/2012 at 18:53 Lemming says:
Spend all that money on a Star Wars licensed game, then make non-Star Wars related content for it. Amazing.
12/09/2012 at 20:24 EPICTHEFAIL says:
How is this a new thing? The Star Wars license has been slapped on random crap for decades now, to the point where the universe barely has any of its own flavour left. Let`s not even get into BioWare not knowing the difference between Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons. At least making their own IP allowed them to make stuff that makes sense in-universe.
12/09/2012 at 19:53 BooleanBob says:
Debugging a computer, you say? Sounds like a job for the towers of fucking Hanoi!
12/09/2012 at 22:31 Nick says:
hahaha
12/09/2012 at 20:06 Beelzebud says:
I feel like an idiot for having bought this game at launch. There I said it. It feels good to get that off my chest. I’ll try to do better next time!
12/09/2012 at 20:09 Tuskin38 says:
I tried this operation on the Test Server, its very fun.