I guess I'll throw my info & experience down as well Jedi Consular Shadow (14) Imperial Agent (8) The story lines are great and all differs, it makes you want to replay the storyarc just to see what other things could happen, lots of options, even if you don't get to speak for the group, you still get points toward your choice. I would like to see a future option to replay storyarc's to at least get titles or just see how it goes Classes are VERY balanced, as much as you like to kick off your more epic abilities, the other classes you group with are just as cool to watch, as they are to play, they all have great abilities as well Combat is tab to target, do ability, type. They rarely have the same animation/reaction combinations and the mix and time them very well. Deflection and weapon to weapon fights happen, its not just, [Run up, flurry flurry flurry, dead, next]. It's more, [engage, power, reaction, flurry, deflection, attack, power, save your friend, reaction, finishing move, deflection, engage next target]. Yes, you can throw people into the bottomless pits of Coruscant. No, you'll never know if they even had loot. Drops were good, and always seemed to keep your character up to date as you progressed through your level's missions, or from your level mobs. Flashpoint drops pretty much upgraded the entire team with something of great interest. There was no fighting over who got what. Everyone would get something, and were happy by the end of it. You could have your companion go sell your gray drops for you. Not a big fan of the random junk though, I think they could do without that and just up the amount of credits attained, but w/e You can dismantle or reverse engineer just about anything, as long as someone in your group has the skills to do so. Object / Boss Respawn time was a little long, had to steal some things from some people sometimes. Crafting consists of sending your companion to gather materials for a few minutes, or gathering them in areas that would likely have them, then you use those materials to have them create items, the more you create, the more skilled they are, each companion has skill modifiers for certain skills, my companion had a +15 Archaeology, so often, that's what I'd have him do, there is a chance for failure, and you can send them off to do tasks even if they're not with you. There seem to be a few basic skills that autotrain as you continue, but if you want anything special you have to see a trainer. This allows individuals to continue improving their skill without having to run to a trainer every 30min. Since you can do all this stuff wherever you are, each task has a time tacked to it depending on difficulty. This is a lot better then finding or standing next to a crafting station for hours. Longest time I've seen was 6min, goes by fast when your in a flashpoint. I didn't think healing options were that great, there never seemed to be enough of it. However, the game is difficult enough to be a challenge, yet simple enough to complete any challenge. Most fights alone I'd finish by 33% hp (without healing). So running with a group is obviously the fastest way, but running without is possible with a little extra rest. The auto follow system is path smart, it doesn't just set you on a line to the person your following, but sets a path it follows. Following a friend that jumped down an elevator, though I would have likely done the same, I was semi-afk, and litterally sprinted the long way around to catch up. By this time they were out of sight, but I still ended up behind them in time. The 'catch-up' in follow was also pretty epic. If you're so far away from the person your following you would accelerate to catch up just behind them. Long routes or great distances gave a pretty epic boost in speed. I was helping Burr with some missions, I had sprint, and he had not yet, so for that extra speed he'd just follow me. Mission and mob XP is better in a group, and grouping with other level differences don't change it much Bulk of XP comes from mission completion, not grinding out mobs, every mission you do will have a few 'bonus' missions you can do. Collection, mob kills, often on the path to your primary mission anyway with little side tracking Destination locations and group members are informative for you and your team, all of it tracked real time. Rest animations are all different and unique Environments are beautiful and quite detailed, I only found a few minor flaws but they seemed very particular on what's going on. Models are by FAR a lot better then most games. There's a good amount of options for characters, but I expect to see more in the future. In previous videos this was one of my concerns as some things looked excessively large and bulky, but they've fitted and cleaned it up quite a bit. Environment scale is well calculated, but like all games though vertical scale is a little higher. Ambiance was epic, it really brought you into the environment. Music was also epic of course. Voice acting is great. Recognize a lot of them. Though I'm curious how far you'd be able to manipulate your own character's voice in the future.
