Thu, May 27, 2010 | 23:33 BST
Companion characters in SWTOR explained
BioWare’s creative director and lead designer, James Ohlen, has dished on the companion characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Turns out, these Companions can not only join your cause for their own reasons, but can also be influenced by you, and are integral to the storyline.
Companions will range from droids to aliens, princess to pirates, and each class has its own unique views, commentary, personality, and will also help out in combat.
“Companion characters have a significant impact on the player’s experience,” Ohlen revealed to IGN. “They are integral to the player’s storyline. They interject during conversation to give the player their view on things. They give commentary as the player explores the world. They are an important part of combat, providing extra DPS, healing, tanking abilities or even crowd control.
“Players can change his companion’s attitudes and sometimes even his moral leaning. It is dependent on who the companion is and what kind of person the player is role-playing as.
“Some companions can be twisted to the darkside of the Force and others can be redeemed. Some companions can become stronger and more independent or be beaten down until they are subservient. This is done through a system that we are tentatively calling the Affection system.
“It’s loosely based on the Dragon Age affection system and allows the player to change his companion’s attitude through his actions, words and even through gifts”.
Sounds utterly great to us. EA’s surely investing its money wisely.
You can read the full interview through the link up top there.
BioWare plans to update the official SWTOR website with this information tomorrow.
SWTOR is out sometime after March 2011.
6 comments
#1
frostquake
28/05/10, 2:51 am
Just put it on a Freaking Console, I don’t care which one as I own them all…Its just I don’t have A new PC and can’t afford one…Maybe by 2011 I will be able to…Well unless the Oil is still Leaking in the Gulf!
Now it is Hurricane Season and they say that the Hurricanes are going to pick up the oil out of the Gulf and dump it on the states…Likely to kill everything, tree’s, grass, crops and animals…Sigh. Can you imagine driving through rain laced with raw oil…it just smears, not to mention how slick the roads would be, the roads would never clear they are saying if we get oil rain they will have to use dangerous chemicals to clean the streets to get rid of the oil on them BIG SIGH
#2
Jockie
28/05/10, 3:18 am
All sounds pretty nifty, but the game is still coming across as some giant single player KOTOR with tacked on multi-player. Although maybe that’s a good thing.
#3
Phoenixblight
28/05/10, 4:17 am
The last time I frequented the forums for this MMO the devs on the forums stated its not planned for any console.
#4
Grimrita
28/05/10, 7:11 am
Gamespot have just posted some more info on The sith class together with a short video
http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarstheoldrepublic/news.html?sid=6264088&tag=recent_updates;title;3&mode=previews
#5
endgame
28/05/10, 11:24 am
“frostquake” dude u’r such a newbie. hah
#6
AHA-Lambda
14/06/10, 4:00 pm
NEW SWTOR TRAILER
http://www.gamereactor.dk/nyheder/78519/EksklusivOld%20Republic-trailer/