Personally. the Casey Schreiner beard is the best nugget ever!

I'm just going to throw this out there and see if anyone noticed it too.

At 2:20, near the rocket's target, is a swoop/speeder bike.

Is this just a static model? Possibly. But I rather doubt it. It's in an odd position for a static object which means that it either appeared specifically for this encounter out of nowhere, or an NPC drove it there.

I'm leaning towards an NPC driving it, because having something appear out of thin air in an MMO would look rather strange. It is done all the time, sure, but in TOR I'm thinking they'll shy away from it.

So, assuming this NPC did drive this speeder bike over to fight our BH, we can only assume that this is our first glimpse at an actual drivable vehicle.

This might be wild speculation with no real grounds or evidence, but it's a hope.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before or not but if you look at teh video at 3:34 you see the same icon the smuggler uses for cover for the Imperial Agent. Looks like they will both be using the same cover system after all.

Sorry if someone has pointed this out already but, Just a note regarding the Green downward pointing arrows seen in the latest video in the vicinity of the smuggler.

We've seen these before in the Dev Walkthrough Video there to indicate where the cover areas are for the smuggler. The Green downward pointing arrows turn into the Green Gumby cover markers when the smuggler is close enough to use it

Sort of a mix of this disection and the Trooper Play Demo question, but I didn't really notice the 'Looking at you' aggro ranges (from page two of the Trooper play demo). Is it safe to say that 'aggro' was turned off for the Combat Video? Or were NPCs that unresponsive in the Trooper play test you guys did?

Very thorough dissection, though the Trooper cheering may be just that - a Trooper cheering, rather than any "rallying cry" ability. Still, nice speculation!

BEARD! ZOMG!

@ 05:07 ... It's Snowing... so weather effects confirmed !

As always good dissection.

Informative and good attention to detail.

I am looking forward to seeing more of your actual game play breakdowns.

I cant beleive there is no picture on the Jedi resisting the lightning at 4:08+4:09 (not getting stunned nor shocked)

Concerning the second Trooper pic. The additional soldiers seem a lot more like companion characters to me. I suspect that the troopers companions will be additional "squadmates". Seems like it would tie in well with their Havoc Squad Story mechanic.

I could be wrong but I just noticed something I haven't noticed before in any video or screen shot. Did anyone else pick up on this?

Pants....

2:56 or 5:14 for example. His pants aren't tucked into his boots. I've been waiting for this since the alpha screenshots. It was unbelievable to me that we would all be looking like Robinhood's "men in tights" or that skin tight pants is simply the hottest style in the galaxy.

Don't think I've seen anyone point this out, could have missed it, but at 4:10 we the SI casting a lightning spell on its target whole moving. Meaning unlike in past games you can move while "casting" abilities. Might just be that ability that lets you move and cast but certainly backs up BioWares theme of choreographed and dynamic combat.

I think the yellow arrows are a replacement for gumbi.

This is probably stupid but maybe you guys here at darth hater have seen this before. Between 3:10 and 3:15 in the video, when the camera is showing the trooper shooting is weapon, notice on the top left of the screen and you will see some kind of machine flashing. At 3:17 when the NPC is trying to free himself from a sticky grenade, watch at the left of is left shoulder and you will see a box flashing too
Probably something we have to pickup for a quest? maybe ship parts? that would be awsome.
Again weather confirmed, 3:10 again trees are moving because of the wind, and if you remember we have seen rain in dormund kaas screenshots, but this him pretty sure you already know.

If I am not mistaken towards the end of the video where the trooper threw a sticky bomb onto a enemy....was that not Jake Neri LOL

I like the small touches like the head on your character tracks your current target as you move. Like at 4.09 when the Sith Warrior stands still while his target moves his head keep looking at it. Also later on at 4.38 the BH keeps looking at target as he moves.

Nice touches like this I enjoy in games.

I am making a character of each class just for the record. I did the same thing in Mass Effect 2, and I have a couple of two morality classes (i.e., Renegade and Paragon). I wonder if DH is considering a massive comparison between what we know about SWTOR and ME2? For example: http://imtalkingames.com/2010/02/mass-effect-2-what-mass-effect-2-means-for-star-wars-the-old-republic-video/ has a start, but with this video, I am seeing more comparisons (e.g., cover system or freezing enemies).

WOW amazing I must have watched that video 15 times already ....... cant wait :)

Anyone noticed a possible "slowing effect" around 4:40 ?

Looks like the Jedi chasing the BH is slowed down.

Did anyone else notice somewhere between the 4:00 and 4:05 mark the sith inquisitor's dual bladed saber appears to have lightning going along the blades? Possible indications of a weapon power up?

At 4:09-4:10 we can see a female inquisitor vs a jedi who force pushes the inquisitor and receives a lightning attack but resists it cause he do not get stunned nor shocked (probably he got some damage though) so lightning might be resistable after all

At around 2:51 a Sith Inquisitor uses a Darth Maul esque melee attack.

I noticed that the graphics are set at a low setting. Not much lighting and shading effects compared to the fan friday video. I think they are marketing how well it works under cheap computer performance. There are many hints and clues as to what to be revealed, which are in the many. I hope to learn more from game testing sometime soon. ;)

Having watched the video again, I noticed that at least 2 devs said they want you to get in and start with great abilities right from the start.
I wonder if what we see in the video are mostly starter abilities???
Some of those actions are damn cool!!

The beard is nice. But we need beards like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYi24D9lHqc

This vid is really good.

I really want to know the system specs on the systems used to record the vid.
Because it is all about the eye candy

One last thing to include, Jake Neri looks very much like Michael Rosenbaum

http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2007/10/05/previews/Michael%20Rosenbaum-SGG-074281.jpg

Don't know if this has been said yet but @4:25 we see the same BH armor that is later seen dyed in a blue-ish green and red pattern. Maybe its possible to color certain parts of your armor :)

"Her" head... and yes she does. I was actually more curious at the actions of the Trooper who basically ran thru her attacks in order to do what looked like a "modified" rifle slam on the other Imperial character fighting the Jedi (behind the Sith Warrior) Looked like a "I'm coming to the rescue" type manuever to me...

btw... "she" (the Sith Warrior) was the same character seen at several other spots in the vid including close to the very end when it's talking about playing as "Darth Vader" and the Sith draws her lightsaber and jumps up to attack the smuggler type looking character shooting at her.

I would like to share a couple things I have noticed that I have not seen anyone else comment on. If this is old news forgive me :).

4:03 - 2h saber that is charged with lighting. The guy is just standing there and his 2h saber has lightning crackling through it.

4:52 The Jedi has a lightning field around him. There is a Sith in front of him that is NOT actively using lightning. This appears to be a DoT effect.

Fiasco

Great post. The specials make all the classes look fun to play.

I noticed a Jedi resisted lightning from an inquisitor he didnt get stunned nor shocked

Something I just noticed... normally, when an Imperial Agent drops his/her portable cover, there are blinking green markers on the corner of the shield. At 3:42 in the movie, one Agent has such a shield up. An orbital bombardment is called, and when the view centers back on the Agents, both have their shields up, but the blinking markers are yellow now, at 3:47.

Probably mentioned before, but there appears to be two new concept arts shown in the background. The first one is from a planet with an autumn feel to it. The first appearance of this concept art is behind James Ohlen at 1:18. I'm speculating that this planet is Voss, and the building seen in the art is probably a settlement of the Force mystics. The second new concept art is behind Mark How at 5:02. There are two waterfalls and a sunset in the background. Not really sure which planet this one is from, possibly a new one?

Have we seen capes yet in-game? There are tons of capes in this video! Definitely going for the Lando look!

I can't believe all the massive updates we got, if we keep getting more like this I will be very happy.

Seriously though.... who would play WoW after this game comes out? I think WoW players are just waiting for a good excuse to leave. This is that game.

The story is massive. I think they did well to make this known first while the look of the game was still very much in development. Now that they're showing so much combat it is only because the graphics have risen to a level where they feel comfortable enough with showing the game that people wont be turned off by the graphics. With the commotion of lightsaber hilts... yeah. Reasonable assumption.

But this game looks great and looks like it plays great. It may be premature but I think WoW is gonna lose its crown. Story + Combat + IP = win.

DH, great job.

The trooper threw a cryoban grenade. We saw those in the Kotor games.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/CryoBan_grenade

nice work guys.

- At :46 you see that the target of the sith warrior is stunned/disoriented. Assuming the sith warrior has some ability to stun/disorient their target.

- At 1:11 you see the trooper behind the sith inquisitor. He fires at the sith inquisitor and you see what appears to be an orange ball appear at the foot of the SI. To me it looks like its absorbed or deflected. You can see it better at 2:25.

- At 1:51 you see 2 imperial agents the one of the left is the focus. Looking at is weapon it appears to be the same gun that the Troopers use in many of the gameplay videos. If you look you can see a scope on the gun and that same fat muzzle design. If you look at 2:10 in the video you see a Trooper doing stock strike using that same weapon.

Im assuming weapons wont be specific to the empire or the republic and to a certain extent be available to multiple classes. (I.E. dont expect to see an Imperial Agent walking around with a minigun like the troopers.)

- At 2:04 you see 2 sith fighting one jedi. The jedi is attacking the sith on the left of the screen and he goes down into a crouch for a second or two. While the jedi is crouched you can see that the sith on the right side of the screen continues to swing at nothing but the air. Im assuming this is an older build or just a minor hitbox issue.

- At 2:20 you see new armor for the Bounty Hunter. Later at 3:00 you see the same armor on a larger character model. Some say they think that the bounty hunter under that armor is a Kel Dor. I dont see that being possible simply because if you look at the current Kel Dor screen shots that we have seen the side of their head is much wider then the mask in this video. If it is an alien at all it is not a kel dor.

- At 4:07 you see what i am assuming is the alternate animation for "stock strike" with the larger 2 handed machine gun. You see him run to the front of the group and can clearly see him knock back his sith target.

- At 4:28 you see a minor animation issue. The smuggler stun his target npc. While stunned the npc holds his palm wide open but his gun still manages to hover in his hand.

Just pointing out some of the interesting and or funny things i saw in the video. I still dont like lightsaber sparks QQ. Lets hope they will put in a check box so i can turn them on and off without having to turn down particle effects /pray


-Dyno

OMG First of all ty for the dissection :)... but right now i cant say anything else except
KSAO:FJDSAFL:KJASDLF:SJ DAF:JSDA FL:JSDAFL:JSDAL:FSDJA

Holy the Bounty Hunter looks AMAZING I already chose bounty hunter as my main class since the day it was announced... but these new abilities make him look SOOOO SICK

takes breath

Ok calming down now... So the abilities we see show me that BH will be an amazing chaser.... Meaning someone is running away from u... you can fly into them or grapple them...
Or lets say there is gonna be a team battle, but it hasn't started yet... the 2 sides are watching eachother waiting for the first move... then BOOM Grapple-hook one of the enemy players, straight into ur entire team, and you have the advantage already...

If anyone plays League of Legends, Blitzcrank, you know how amazing that ability is... For those who don't, ill give u a quick rundown...

League of Legends is a Dota style game, and Blitz is one of the champions you can play. He has an ability called Rocket grab, which does the same thing as that grapple ability we see the BH use. In LoL it can turn the tide of battle if used right.. It is a very tactical ability, and imo is amazing for BH...

Im reallllly excited for this now :D :D :D


Edit: just wondering.. but in the Kill / save captain vid, when we see the BH fly up, if i remember right he just shoots blasters (if i remember right the ability is called Reign of death? or something like th at) however here he shoots rockets? Has that been seen before, or is this new too?

Well, after looking over the dev dispatch and this combat vid: I believe the Yellow Arrow is still just a cover indicator, but it appears to be for standing cover ( which would probably be lower quality fitting with the yellow being kinda meh/neutral and green meaning good. )

In the Dev Dispatch at 6:38 the arrow to the left of the tree is yellow. Again at 6:44 we see a tree and the arrow to the left of it is also yellow. Also, right at 6:55 you can see the rock has green cover, and the arrow is right against it, suggesting you would crouch behind it...but the arrows by the barricade, which are kinda iffy wether they are yellow or green but I'm leaning toward yellow, are further away from the barricade and probably suggest they are for standing just like the NPCs on the other side.

Guys what about the new concept art showing unknown planets

At 3:01, two Troopers are seen throwing a sticky grenade at an enemy, an enemy that looks very alike the bounty hunter in the sixth picture from the top. I thought it was a Trandoshan first, due to what looks like claws on his feet. Though at a closer look, there seems to be only 2 "claws", so I'm really confused about what it could be. Footwear with claws? Anyone seen anything like that before? :S

goosebumps!

Thanks DH for dissection this <3

Wondering if you noticed the size of the Black Jedi Consular? He seemed as though he was much larger in his frame work than alot of the other characters I've seen thus far. Does this imply that we are going to have some size customization to our toons ? :)

Sinphonic -GM- Infensus Obscurum

Great job guys, keep up the good work!

Might be wrong but the "loot symbol" in 01:49 did that change compared to the one we've seen before in the VO video / Demo walkthrough.

The yellow downwards arrow on the smuggler picture. This might very well be an indicator for an ability since the same arrows only in green appear for the Imperial Agent at 03:34. They disappear but not for a reason I can see. The arrowas are there whether he in cover behind the shield or not. I thought it might be the cover indicator for the enemy but on the smuggler pic there is no enemy.

Scorpion ftw. GET OVER HERE

The combat vid with the large number of knock backs, routes and other snare like abilites has a feel of the WAR combat engine. I really hope that we don't see the cartoonish fights of people constantly flying through the air and running back to the fights only to get routed and knocked back again.

Glad someone else noticed what planets these battles were taking place in.

Nice job as always DH.

But now I don't know which class to choose. All of them worth a try.

my favorite video documentary so far, and gj with the fast dissection. Is it just me or does the sith warrior at 4:10 follow his target by turnining his head?

NICE WORK GUYS!!!!
didnt know if anyone already mentioned... but you had the yellow arrow for the smuggelr..
BUT the imperial agents 2 sec in front of that part has like 10 GREEN arrows!! take a look...

There is also a possible teasing hint in the screen shot taken below of a Jedi using only one saber, while another lightsaber rests on his belt.

http://img406.yfrog.com/img406/9294/twosabers.jpg

I've also sent it in the mail, but even on your screen shot of the assassin droid, cauterization marks on the droid are indicative of cauterization works in progress.

At 5:11 there's an alien mob fighting a low level Jedi Knight. Species unknown to me - I don't know SW universe so well.

http://images43.fotosik.pl/286/8a8a701d568b1d58med.jpg

Has anyone any suggestions?

Great, great, great dissection guys! Reverse lightsabers, yay ;]

Finally we have more Bounty Hunter (his skills are AWESOME).

It appears like they are trying to get away from the type of combat common in MMOs where you keep using the same sequences of abilities over and over. Do you think they are persuing a more decisional and varied approach to combat? and if so, do you think they will be successful?

@4:04 a Sith Inquisitor with his lightsaber charged
@4:35 a BH dodge animation very cool


Great work DH

This is very good news for machinima creators - it seems SWTOR will offer a lot of combat poses & animations and will allow for epic and fast montage similar to the one in the movies.

You can see some pretty detailed shadows and shading in some parts of the video - some parts are obviously fresher outtakes due to better graphics.

I liked the Jedi Knight charge scene - it resembles closely the one when Mace Windu killed Jango at the Arena in second prequel.

BH is my class choice now - I was torn between SW and Hunter before but now I'm sure.

And this armour - http://images45.fotosik.pl/287/e2244facc4c047camed.jpg is amazing! It's a refreshing change into something more 'predatory' or 'alien'.

4:33-4:44 seems to me like an arena fight!
Trooper+Jedi vs BH+SW

Damnit, and again I'm tempted to go dark side after seeing the Sith Warrior... drewl

In 04:03 is this a Padawan braid on the Jedi?
It would be awesome if you had to work your way up from Padawan to KnightMaster within the ranks!

Looking fwd to downloading this on main site when it's a HD Quicktime so I can frame by frame drool stupidly and repeatedly watch offline ;-)

Encouraging scenes of PvP on various planets/locations, hopefully not too unrealistically staged but where we as players may really be facing off against each other.

Lots to take away from this - I like the scale of things more now with larger looking background areas being shown. Can't wait to see the class balances in action as its a biggie for me.

GJ DH Masters of the orange boxes Back to video now...

@ 4:38, I bet that is inside the temple on Yavin 4

Here is a couple grabs I found;

1st picture is the SW Knock Back at full blum
2nd is the funky 1 footed protection droid?
3rd is the peak of the "haruuuken"
4th is the weird angle of the BH "organic" armor

Some Shots I Got

Good view of the "Dark side eyes" @ 00:19

A jaw guard/mask on the sith on the left @ 1:28

Looks like the "gumbys" are replaced with arrows. I see at least 4 @ 3:34

Interestion how the BH and opponents @ 1:48 don't have a shadows, but the rest do.

The Trooper ability to power up the gun changes the muzzel flash to the same color of the barrel aura. Cool

Good rag doll physics on the toons that were blown up.

Is it just me or do the sith lightsabers seem to be giving off a sort of dark aura around the blades. Some look darker then others. Maybe it's something to do with higher level weapons that the characters are using, but it really looks like certain red blades have a darker outline then others. This is just something very small that caught my eye.

Also watching the bounty hunter in action is starting to pull me away from Sith Warrior. Rocketing yourself towards enemies, magic electro lasos, missiles and cool ass helmets. Yeahy

BOUNTY HUNTER UPPERCUT

All I'm saying.

Damn, you guys are quick. :)
Just an observation....was it just me or did I not see ANY companion characters fighting alongside any of the toons? I wonder if that was just a decision on Biowares part to not include them in the video.....hmmmmm, interesting imo.
This latest vid makes my tummy hurt....I want this game sooooo bad.

Smugler, in the scrreshot with the arrow. Maybe he has an ability to roll to the next cover place or something like that.

Outstanding work Sado and Co.

Video was amazing, cant wait to sink my fingers into this game ^_^

All very good!!! Glad to see some PvP and more information on the classes !

Sinphonic -GM- Infensus Obscurum

There is a Single saber wielding force user in the video to thats using a purple lightsaber and gray robes. The ability hes using is the sith inquester lighting aoe. Just wondering if thats saying hes not completely dark char or maybe not a full inquester. I find that very interesting

Nice job fellas, thanks!

At 2:19 in the new video there is a bounty hunter that fly's in the air and fires rockets/missiles. His helmet really looks like it could possible be an alien and not a human player under the mask. And I'm Thinking the shape of that helmet really looks a lot like the shape of a Rodian's head.

Image 9, the sith on the left, he's got some crazy piece of head gear on. if you go to a part that is slightly before or after that screen shot, in the video you can see it better.

Re-watching the video; studying the mechanics. I noticed that when the Bounty Hunter uses his lasso to pull his opponent closer, the shot that was already fired by his opponent, and on it's way to the BH, was canceled and disappeared.

I'm sure this issue will be addressed before launch; as I can see this frustrating many players.

Edited for clarity

At 2:18-2:20, the bounty hunter does not seem to be human? A playable species perhaps? Could just be a certain type of armor though? And at 4:16-4:18, the person getting shot does not seem to be human?

Sorry if you guys already know this, or if I am wrong about it. ;)

Anyway, really great work! I actually come here more often than the main swtor.com website. :)

As for the smuggler screen shots, I'd wager the arrows are the new gumby cover mechanic graphic. There's also a shot with an agent at 3:33 and the same arrows are there as well.

At 4:02 is that a Padawan braid?

I remembered other thing, in the same 1st group picture, in the video the trees were moving because of the wind. I don't know if you guys here at DH already watched this when you played the demo in LA headquarters.

Love that the Sith in some of these pic's (2 sith / 1 Consl) is wearing a head piece/helmet. Need to see, not sure if it's gear or a customization option from the start, I'm leaning on it's "Gear".

At he 1st group screenshot posted here, the jedi is using dual blades but one of them is reversed, possibly we will see various light saber combat styles?!

In Image 16 (the smuggle with the arrows pointing down) they were first seen in the Developer Walk-through video at GamersCon when they first showed the smuggler. You may have missed them because they arrows were in the grass.

Edit 5:58 of 20:40 you see it the first time. also at 6:40 and 7:25-7:30. Seems like when you get close it changes to the avatar position indicator(API) (i just come up with that..lol) Anyway here is the link to the video http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/developer-walkthrough

/drool @ Bounty Hunter

The "Jedi Consular double-bladed saber twirl ability" is called Blade Dance as per the Holonet. The AOE ground-stab Force attack is not Force Quake but more like an SI's Overload. The multi-target "rain" ability by the SI is what seems to be Force Storm.

Good catches; I think you found it all.

Second from last pic (Troopers) showes a Trooper with out his helmet on, I assume this is not the smuggler because his armor is that of a troopers. First pic of the Trooper class with out a helmet on ingame?

Also noticed he has a clothed sheth hanging in front, indication of light armor/cloth ?

The new combat droid might actually be a mech, it kind of looks like there's a Trooper sitting inside it.

Zoomed up for a closer look