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SWTOR News
9/6/09 1:32 PM -
2nd PAX Demo shows Trooper Gameplay, /Dance, and Death System 
by sado
, posted September 6th, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Today's last and final demonstration of the PAX Star Wars: The Old Republic demo shows off trooper gameplay footage. Oh also - /dance confirmed in this demo We also got to see a little glimpse of the death/respawn system - RETURN TO MEDCENTER is the death option in the demo when the person demoing the game died. We are hoping to have the full gameplay demo video up today if everything goes well with the bandwidth at PAX.

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UPDATE: The trooper video is now up for torrent download. Youtube embed above now up. Youtube also just parsed it into HD so everything should be good there.
 
 
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Comment by Darth Hater @ PAX | Darth Hater - An Old Republic Community made on 9/8/09 6:48:05 PM
[...] 2nd PAX Demo shows Trooper Gameplay, /Dance, and Death System [...]
Comment by smugglerfrtyto made on 9/8/09 6:48:37 AM
Also of note though it wasn't mentioned (at least not that I noticed) was an example of the self heal used by the trooper. Mimicking the stim packs from KotoR, the Trooper used some sort of injection device to heal himself up right before he died. 2:33-2:34 in the video above. Just thought this should be mentioned, because I know the healing system has fostered great debate in the community.
DH Team
Comment by sado made on 9/8/09 6:50:40 AM
We commented on it in the podcast and will soon in the dissection.
Comment by EUCantina.net − Republic Trooper Footage shown at PAX made on 9/7/09 11:48:04 AM
[...] news for The Old Republicfans, there is more gameplay for you to enjoy! Darthhater.com has uploaded a video of the Republic trooper in action [...]
Comment by PurpleCliff made on 9/6/09 9:36:11 PM
I think it looks more polished than the Demo Walkthrough, I'm excited again! :D

1:27 to 1:33 almost made me scream out loud ... that is epic!!
DH Team
Comment by bjbrains made on 9/7/09 1:45:58 AM
ironically, this is the same build all the way back from E3. Yes, really. Now imagine about 6 months of work (based on the general pattern of finalizing an demonstration build at least a month before hand). Now I want to see their internal build. :P
DH Team
Comment by sado made on 9/7/09 6:39:16 PM
Yep :)
Comment by Dan made on 9/6/09 9:26:17 PM
I didnt see the /dance anywhere? Can someone let me know where it is?
DH Team
Comment by sado made on 9/6/09 10:04:18 PM
It is in the full demo video that we are uploading right now, not in this video.
Comment by Ain-EST made on 9/7/09 1:27:16 AM
Awesome. ETA til finished uploading ?
Comment by Forrest made on 9/6/09 7:24:28 PM
I think that by watching WoW, the whole MMO community as well as Bioware and Mythic have learned a lot. One thing is that players DON'T want a permanent, lasting, or excessively inconvenient penalty for death. TOR will probably have something similar to wow, with a quick respawn back at the main base (Med Center), maybe with some temporary debuffs on timer.
DH Team
Comment by sado made on 9/6/09 5:44:53 PM
For those wondering the /dance command will be covered in the Full Gameplay footage that we will be posting here soon.
Comment by Feo made on 9/6/09 5:11:28 PM
I noticed at one point, the Trooper was able to run and gun like the smuggler class can, but I think that is just because of lag or maybe his character was bugged for a moment (around 2:15).

I have to say, the Trooper footage here is looking really good. It's made me feel much better about combat in general. It definitely looks more entertaining than the Smuggler combat (imo).
Comment by Sedit made on 9/6/09 3:10:51 PM
While they were showing this vid, did they say anything about the death system, specifically when the trooper died?

I can't believe that is how they are going to handle death and it is most likely just a place holder until they can figure out a good death system to use.... I so really hope so anyways =/
Comment by RogueJedi86 made on 9/6/09 4:43:05 PM
Returning to a Med Center does at least make more sense than SWG's "Clone Wars", where everyone who died came back as a clone with insurance. There is a precedent for the Med Center too. When Luke got torn up by the Wampa in ESB, he was placed in a bacta tank at the Echo Base Med Center. He woke up when he was about to be taken out. It fits.
Comment by ryanmac made on 9/6/09 2:52:54 PM
Trooper really has some fun looking attack animations.
DH Team
Comment by sado made on 9/6/09 2:48:44 PM
We're getting extremely heavy traffic right now so the download might be a bit slow, the youtube link is up now for those interested in using that method.
Comment by Feo made on 9/6/09 4:55:31 PM
downloading at over 2mb a sec. right now.
Comment by Syrenidus made on 9/6/09 2:15:17 PM
Omg trooper!! YES!!
Comment by Sztanyi made on 9/6/09 1:54:18 PM
Oh snap! all 3 of these things are sick! As for the death system, i may have just read it wrong, but i take it the demo person died by accident?
DH Team
Comment by sado made on 9/6/09 2:00:08 PM
Yes they died by accident it seemed in the demo.
Comment by Sztanyi made on 9/6/09 2:25:01 PM
heh that's pretty funny :) Im happy though, because ive been really curious about the death system :D
Comment by Tasuru made on 9/6/09 2:02:52 PM
Good news for us!
Comment by Tasuru made on 9/6/09 1:54:03 PM
Freaking awesome! This PAX update has been incredible!
DH Team
Comment by sado made on 9/6/09 2:00:41 PM
PAX has been pretty overwhelming so far when it comes to news about TOR I would say ;)
Comment by Hewo made on 9/6/09 2:20:19 PM
Well they told us to expect this constant stream of information. If this keeps up we should have a good month ahead of us :)
Comment by Sztanyi made on 9/6/09 2:27:04 PM
yea i'm pleasantly surprised by all this new info :) I just dont get why they dont update their own website with these videos and stuff... why wait until friday when you have so many new things coming out... then again who cares, since the awesome guys at darth hater keep us updated! :P ty for doing this for us