SWTOR companions detailed in new video, interview

@(Unverified) dont respond to them, just hit the report icon in the corner, Massively removes them pretty fast, and you end looking like a maniac cursing at someone who isn't there to anyone who reads the posts afterwards :)

@Ren54

The need maybe, but the desire? NO.

I play MMOs with other people even if I don't have to be grouped to progress.

You should try it sometime, makes a MMO a much better game then being forced to group with idiots or doing everything solo.

I am viewing companions like I do characters in Bioware's single player games - as part of the story and a useful tool/skill set to compliment my own.

@Ren54 what the F are you talking about?! he was responding to a spam ad from one of those chinese bots. THAT is what i was talking about. I wasn't suggesting they report you. You may be an annoying ass, but you are allowed to be an annoying ass on these forums, apparently. Get over yourself. Not sure why you feel it's your responsibility to explain to all us idiots how bad swtor is. We really don't care what you think, and if we did - well, we heard it already.

You are truly an amazing specimen, Ren. Go back to your bridge. We get it already, your message is RIFT-good, SWToR-bad. OK already.

@Resurge

Before you jump down someone's throat, perhaps you should look again. With the spammer's post gone it does indeed look as if advice was being given to report Ren's posts. It was indeed what I assumed as well. A short correction letting Ren know what happened would have been more appropriate.

@blackcat7k

"Then again, disfigurement only seems to be allowed on males, while females need to be the golden ratio or GTFO. Hopefully, future companion characters can break out of that."

it's true...and this polarization is getting more extreme in and out of video games. If your a woman with a scar, or missing limb, you can kiss your romantic life good buy.

heck even if you look ever so slightly off from the golden mean...if you look unique...in and out of games it spells doom for your love life.

We like to think that in the future things will get better...but there just going to get much much worse.

@ElfLove

*goodbye

Arrrgh we need an edit button!

@blackcat7k, perhaps its not clear what happened from the edit.

they changed textures to give them a more "rugged" appeal (possibly to test out new skin/texture options) during the internal testing, and the feedback was that it indeed changed the companion's relationship with the tester/player, i.e. it ruined that companion for them.

people get upset over trivial differences all the time, that's human nature.

actually choosing to 'scar' a player via a UI slider, is different to starting up a conversation one day, then logging back into the game the next day and finding they have a pretty significant facial scar for no reason.

i recall a similar story about one of the human female textures in WoW as well during one of the blizzcon developer videos, where (iirc) they forgot to move a texture seam, and it would poke through in the animations i.e. like the worgen female problems. http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7431/wowscrnshot112610220653.jpg

@(Unverified)

Interesting...and still the fact of the mater remains. Men can change and be unique and scarred...but women must remain perfect or they are not a desired companion.

@blackcat7k said:"I'm trying to understand why "disfigured" characters can't be romanced?"
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Did you watch the video?

They clearly showed a scarred female companion who says "we have differences" or something to that effect.

@real65rcncom

""@blackcat7k said:"I'm trying to understand why "disfigured" characters can't be romanced?"
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Did you watch the video?
They clearly showed a scarred female companion who says "we have differences" or something to that effect."""

Watch that not be an issue with male companions..... >_>

@blackcat7k Welcome to Brave New World II, where males are all straight and hunky and females are all slim and with uber boobs. SURPRISE!

@(Unverified)

They've already stated that there will be no scarring based on Dark Side alignment, it would seem the possibility is quite far off.

@KDolo

Ehh I nobody mentioned dark side scarring. The first poster referred to the companion characters having scars on the face... I commented on females having scars too....

Then I watched the video again and saw a female with a scar indeed @ 3:45.

@(Unverified)

Actually, this is standard-Bioware-Operating-Procedure. There was a video I remember talking about "aging" or "age lines" if you go Dark Side (I think a bit before or at PAX). And their games have such features if you go "bad", like other games (Fable) and you look good if you go "light side".

So accented scarring would not surprise me.

@Tom in VA i like the idea of bringing 2-3 companions along and having them do their own thing in a flashpoint. especially if your companion was teamed up with your party's companion character to help out the B team.

or, they just become your ship's valet service in a flashpoint, i.e. "bring the ship around, X", "cover the exits, X", "where's my Space-Coffee, X"

i'm sure it's possible that the magic dies, and in the later game when companions don't see later harder flashpoints and you'll be switching from questing to crafting and archaeology/gathering/hunting objectives and PvP, etc. and you'll never hear from some of them again.

i.e. ME2's infamous "calibrations" comes to mind as the ultimate problem with companion storylines.

i suppose it's a way to give the game flavor, and really fleshing out their independence as characters, without hacking the whole 4-man group UI too much, i.e. sending C3p0 and r2d2 out to do their thing in a flashpoint, while you go and rescue the princess and fight the Sith/Jedi/Rakatan etc.