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Exciting news this morning for fans of Star Wars: The Old Republic. The Imperial Agent class was revealed at a European press event, and is currently popping up in Google alerts across the internet. We first noticed news from Now Gamer about the reveal. Shortly after, Sean Dahlberg made the official announcement on the TOR forums.
And the next class reveal is…
For those of you who may have attended or read reviews from the Electronic Arts European Press Tour that happened earlier this week, you already know the answer to this. It’s the Imperial Agent!
The Imperial Agent is heavily inspired by several classic Star Wars characters such as Zam Wessel and Grand Moff Tarkin. Imperial Agents work behind the scenes to get the work of the Empire done. Specializing in high-tech gear, the Imperial Agent always has the right tools at the right time. They use abilities of subversion and subterfuge to infiltrate and assassinate enemies of the Sith Empire with deadly efficiency. Players who choose to be Imperial Agents in The Old Republic (TOR) will see the underbelly of the Empire in a whole new light.
Stay tuned for the Imperial Agent’s HoloNet update next week. In the meanwhile, join the speculation on the Imperial Agent’s class forums!
We were also able to see the first screenshots for the Imperial Agent courtesy of Inc Gamers, and here they are!
Now that this information has been confirmed by BioWare, we are just waiting for more class data to analyze. We are following this news closely, and, as more is revealed, we will keep you up to date. So stay tuned to Darth Hater!
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the blond looks somewhat anorexic.
Black is slimming
So far it seems there’s a two-choise body shape modifier: “Beefy” and “Slim”.
Or as the Bioware fellas would say it:
“We will be tapping into the desire of players wanting to experience either the Angelina Jolie/Jeniffer Lopez fantasy or the Amy Winehouse archtype.”
“As for the males; they’ll be able to choose between the iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger type or the typical Brad Pitt role.”
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Wait. What? Huh?!
I fail to check this site one morning and there’s the Imperial Agent?
They’re making fun of me and my exel sheet aren’t they?
Making fun of us staying up late playing Dragon Age and having to get up early
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Also: I predicted a speed-up in Timeline reveals. Not a speed-up in class reveals!
They’re totally making fun of us. I horrably fail as an SW:TOR seer.
I guess I’ll leave it up to you Darth Haters. That way I can read it and pretend to be indifferent while others do the over-exited geeky work for me.
stealth/sniper class? maybe packing an electric vibro-dagger when foes get close, based off the web comics and every ranged class so far has a cc in melee range. looks good though, cant wait to see him on the holonet.
I’m excited for the story line of this class. There are a lot of cool and interesting things you can do with an Imperial Agent in the star wars universe, so I imagine it will be a fun class to quest with.
Did they actually say they were inspired from the Moffs, Trakin etc or was that just creative license on the authors part? Because the moffs were not really the ones getting their hands dirty, they were the ones ordering people to get their hands dirty and do things we will be doing as the Imperial Agent class.
EDIT: Just saw Seans comments about the inspiration for the, Zam I can see but I stand by the point the Tarkin or the Moffs were not agents, they were officers who gave orders and didn’t get their own hands dirty.
I don’t see it either. The Moffs were the leaders of the Imperials and Zam was a Bounty Hunter.
It would be clearer if they said it was based on Mara Jade. Even though she was more of a Sith Spy instead of an Imperial Agent. On the other had, we haven’t got any further info on the Imperial Agent yet.
Zam wasn’t a BH tho, she was trying to carry out a job for one. She was way more Agent than BH as far as i could see. No Jet Pack, or flamethrower, or heavy armour, and a Sniper type rifle like the screenies here. All makes sense to me. And i like to think that Tarkin was an active agent in his prime, working his way up to Moff as he got older.
Since when does a Jet Pack and/or Flamthrower define a BH? Just take a look at Greedo or Cad Bane for instance.
The book Death Star by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry is probably the main example for Tarkin as a Imperial Agent. But really we would have to see there description of a Agent first.
I agree that Tarkin and Zam were bad choices. The expanded universe and wiki both say Zam is a BH.
Garindan would be a good example, but not many know who he is. ^.^ I mean… his voice was a synthesized John Wayne clip. How cool is that?!
Oh and how are Sith Spy and imperial agent different?
The big difference is naming. A Sith doesn’t necessarily have to be an Imperial and an Imperial is practically never a Sith.
Presumably Agent is meant to be the political side of the Sith Empire, contrasting with the Sith Warriors being the Force side of the Empire. You start as a lowly assassin like Zam Wessel, and advance in ranks to eventually be a Grand Moff Tarkin like figure who still fights in combat. I can imagine alot of potential in their storyline, dealing with enemies and corrupted allies alike.
According to screenshots and forum posts the planet from these screenshots is balmorra… i wonder if that means that republic is also gonna have class which “fits” to that pvp environment??? what would it be if it is so? sry for my bad english
What makes you think this is a PvP planet? This isn’t confimred in any way yet.
read the description of the planet again, it does confirm there will be pvp on the planet
I don’t see it confirming anything. Have you got a quote for me that does? Maybe I’m overlooking it.
“kept Balmorra in a constant state of war.”
“the Sith Empire resolved to take Balmorra, and in answer the Galactic Republic sent soldiers to aid the Balmorrans in their fight to preserve their independence.”
“A small, underground Republic force was left on the planet to aid their Resistance”
“Now, years after the treaty, a regrouped and rebuilt Republic is testing the limits of their fragile peace with the Empire, sending back the reinforcements they had pulled off the planet years before.”
“Meanwhile, the Sith Empire is escalating their presence on the planet, determined to claim Balmorra’s weapons, and put an end to this conflict once and for all.”
I read that too. Doesn’t say anything about PVP. It’s possible, but we don’t know anything about those gamemechanics yet, so that isn’t written in stone.
what are you talking about those are huge hints that this planet is a pvp planet. What it does not say though is what kind of pvp planet. It does not hint anything more then a contested zone like in WoW.
Hold on mate. You are the one first saying that this discription confirms pvp. But it doesn’t confirm anything.
Now you’re going back to hints. Which I already agreed on if you read my comments.
I am saying that those hints, which they are, do confirm pvp. The majority of Bioware’s announcements have only been confirming there hints.
Guys, you simply ignored the fact that this is the first time ever we see female playing characters on screenshots.
I checked. There are female player characters on several screenshots to date (e.g. sith warrior). But this is good if we have more
There was also the BH female gameplay vid too dont forget
I don’t forget, but radical said about screenshots. This BH female gameplay is one of my most favourite
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I don’t know how we didn’t see this class coming ug im and idiot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNj8ivZt0E
Well, if this is the “proof” of a particular class, then we’re bound to see some kind of Mandalorian class I guess. The timeline entries before this one clearly stated that the Mandalorians were alligned with the Empire.
Yes but they were tricked once they find out that they are puppets to the Sith the alliance would be broken. It would not be good game design to have a class based on a faction that will most likely leave the Sith.
They haven’t found out yet that Mandalore is actually a Sith puppet though.
Anyway, maybe this could be a future third allegiance or something.
I know they haven’t found out yet it’s most likely going to be one of the main story plots for the Republic
Devs have stated that we wont get to play a Mando ‘initially’, I’m guessing 1st expansion.
These screenshots look so much more finished then we have seen before. Textures are beautiful and definition is unreal.
I agree that the recent images for both Imperial Agent and Jedi Knight look much nicer than some of the earlier shots we had. Is it just me, though, or does the blonde woman’s left arm look kinda funny?
Maybe not funny, but she looks for me a bit much slimer than for example the second woman on fourth picture. This is like Meiko from bounty hunter gameplay versus first oficer from flashpoint. Different hips and breasts size (argument for customization scope). She has big armor on shoulders.
It does look a bit emaciated and bent
Yes. I have downloaded all screenshots, and this is striking when look through them. If I have something to accuse that be only place where first and fourth screenshots was captured. I mean this places are deserted. Balmorra’s screenshots are more “littered”. This is only in exposure meaning
And maybe they can do something with grass draw range 
Trooper= Bounty Hunter
Jedi Knight= Sith Warrior
Smuggler= Imperial Agent
?? (Creature Handler)= ?? (Droid Engineer) come on pet classes. I’ll be sad if the game has no pet classes. This also brings up the question: Does a Smuggler have stealth?
I don’t think there will be pet classes. Don’t forget that on SWTOR, players will have characters with them, as in KOTOR.
Umm, I have not seen that. I must of missed that announcement. Did they have a video or blog entry talking about combat NPC folloing your character around?
Companion characters were announced at the very beginning bud. Confirmed that everyone will be able to have one companion active along side u as u play, or u can stay solo. So there really isnt a sensible argument for a specific handler class.
Cool!
Thank the maker, this oil bath is going to feel soooo good!
I mean it looks like I get the sniper I have been praying for.
Look at that speeder!
The speeder is intresting, and the planet looks like balmorra imo, starting planet or later leveling zone? Thats the question!
I would hope that the speeder is a mount.
We keep seeing characters standing beside speeder bikes, one after another, it’s almost like they are trying to tell us something. I wish we would find out one way or another though because I want to know! lol
They have the agents forum up now!
awesome, good to know, I was busy making the post and haven’t been able to look lol