So here is my idea about the green speech bubble. This needs to be confirmed by people who have had hands on experience.

Could the green text bubble simply mean that the person has not chosen one of the three responses yet? When they choose that is when the random number pops up.

Could the little green speech icon indicate that someone is using a mic, or just holding the push-to-talk key, or something?

Awesome dissection as always. Although, the Sith Warrior's facial markings seems to be just the burn options we may or may not have at character creation screen.

I am talking about these: http://swtor.com/news/news-article/20100115_001-0

thanks for the insight.

im thinking maybe midway through the smuggler story we can exect to be frozen in carbonite at some point.

Very Good Dissection

I enjoyed that, tnx.

I find it interesting that there is debate about whether Sith and Jedi classes will share one type of ship. From the announcement I always assumed that would be the case. The official post on the TOR site says:

"Smuggler ships, Trooper ships, Imperial Agent ships, Bounty Hunter ships, Jedi ships and Sith ships."

While this does not explicitly state that Jedi and Sith classes share one type of ship, it does seem to pretty strongly indicate it. Perhaps that is just one downside they are building into the game since Jedi and Sith could be so prevalent, to encourage people to try other classes.

Acording to what I remember from movie and some quote from Wookieepedia: "Han Solo was frozen in carbonite on Darth Vader's orders to test whether a Human could survive being encased in carbonite before his plan to freeze Luke Skywalker." So if they try this 3700 years before, it probably mean:
first - that this knowledge was forgotten and Vader must test this to confirm,
second - in old republic era they kill people when frozen them in corbonite (so in Empire Strikes Back this technology enchanced). Its confuse me when I saw this in video :)

Fantastic! I get excited for dissections. Great job and thanks!

Not sure if it's been covered before or not but a friend from the official forums wanted me to point out that the lights on the corners of the smuggler portable sheild can be seen changing colors (green to yellow to red). This could be an indication of damage done to the sheild and thus hit points on the shield left or time left before expiration.

Nice work as always.

By the looks of things only the person who wins the conversation dice roll gets any xp. Surely this encourages single play as if I group with another person (on average) I will get half the xp. If I group with 2 people a third and a full squad of 8 people I'm get 12%. And thats if I win an average of the rolls, I could walk out with no XP?

That seems a strange choice where it actively discourages grouping as it then requires the player to go out and make up the lost xp by grinding.

I am pretty sure the green speech bubble next to the group member's portrait is just showing that they are a group member involved in the conversation.. and not you.

As it is possible for a group member to not be involved in the conversation.

Okay to image 13/22, BioWare has already stated and confirmed there will be Companion customizations so you can knock that out of speculation for that specific screenshot. Also, the last image, shame on me, because I don't get it one bit. So how about a tiny explanation for some of us who don't have that great of a nerdbrain. Besides all of that, nice work. Looking forward to seeing more.

Going off a comment below about unique design of armor, and how much there will be:

Did anyone notice how detailed the NPC armor is? Most MMO's (even the behemoth WoW) have very pixelated, not unique armor sets for NPCs. You can tell they are NPCs just by the lower quality design of their clothes. Bioware has blown me away on their attention to detail to make the NPCs look as legitimate as the player characters. I think it is an important step to take to make the "fully voiced" mmo feel believable.

The Dashade companion was seen on the Fury Class Imperial transport. To my understanding, each of the 8 classes will have a unique ship (one class for the trooper, another for the bounty hunter, still another for the inquisitor, etc). We also know that the companions you gain will roam your ship, similar to the KOTOR series. I am curious, since the dashade is seen on the Fury Class Imperial transport, does this mean the Sith Warrior will have the opportunity to befriend a Dashade as well? As always, spectacular finds DH Team/Community.

Speaking of dissecting the new E3 content, I wonder if the "Hope" trailer suggests that Force users are able to use the Force on the environment (i.e. taking down a tree, hurling objects at the enemy, etc).

James Ohlen said that companion characters would be getting different gear as they leveled. Further proving pic 14 is the same guy.

""You're gonna be able to customize your companion character in different ways," Ohlen continued. "Your companion characters are going to be leveling up and getting different equipment." "

Source: http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1034

Nice work, an image says more than 1000 words, and you guys prove that here :)

Nice one again DH team.

I was under the impression that every class gets his/hers own ship and is different from every other class. It seems though that the ship for both Jedi and Sith classes are going to be the same. If the companion in the Jedi ship is Qyzen Fess then it should be a Consular ship, but we've seen a Knight approaching it. Same goes for the Sith ship. Teneb Kel seems to be a Inquisitor, but we are seeing a Warrior in the clips.

Is the green speech bubble with the "..." possibly whose quest (class quest?) it is? Maybe any final action is going to be that person performing the task eg shooting the guy in the head? Hmmm...

Good work all round :-)

Oh, the BH armour could SO have a colour 'dye' system like Mass Effect 2 to make people look a bit different (x2 colour tints, pattern tint, edges etc).

Yay carbanite! Great information guys, enjoyed eyeballing it all.
that sith holocron looks huge.

ARGHH I LOVE THIS!!!!

thanks darthhaters! Could not ask for more, you are superb.

Impressive dissection as always; well done Darth hater.

Might want to spell check the captions on picture #4 "beofre" you post them.

The guy in the bottom left corner in the screenshot with the bounty hunters (second one from the bottom) seems to be a "Weequay". That's the first in-game screenshot of that species as far as I know. (if u wanna add it to the pic)

nice dissection Sado,

The screenshots and the way the game looks has really grown on me.. I really like the graphics alot

It's already confirmed that you can get gear for companions I believe, so the customization of companions isn't anything new.

Good dissection. I have not looked too closely at the origin world videos yet. I've been waiting for a download link for those videos.

As for some specific notes, I believe the trooper "shield" could be similar to the shields in the KOTOR games which encompassed one's body. The carbonite slabs are probably the same as the Star Wars Discussion forum icon.

Very cool! I love these dissections. They bring a lot to light. Well done, Darth.

i am most interested in the logos on the BH's arm....when it shows 2 instances of an imperial logo, one of an unknown logo...possible crime/traitor/neutral faction?

The conversation ellipsis I believe to be not who is talking but an indicator that a player is making a dialogue choice still. At least that's what I gathered.

For personalizing gear on companions I could have sworn that that was already confirmed in print or in an interview somewhere, could be wrong though as that seems liek something the guys here at DH should have known.

Great dissection nonetheless!

About Qylen Fess:
Maybe they gave him armor that doesn't look interesting because they didn't want anyone to confuse him with a PC?

Even more interesting is that he was first shown alongside a Jedi Consular, and are now shown aboard a Jedi Knight's ship.

EDIT:
Xavier: "With both the Jedi Knight and Consular companions on the Vanguard, and both the Inquisitor and Warrior companions on the Fury class, this seems like further confirmation that both Jedi will have the Vanguard and both Sith will have the Fury. Which, I haven't seen a dev come out and say, but it makes perfect sense. "

I agree, this could be the explanation.

There's that Sado orange! How I've missed that color.

Good job!

Some of the images (the ship schematics and BH armor sets) aren't being recognized by the slideshow feature and are acting as links to the image.

Very well done. I hoped it would contain the remembered map of Ord Mantell you mentioned in the podcast? I'm anticipatiing this one very much!

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I find it of note that the image showing the cockpit of the sith vessel (where the Juggernaught is highlighted) clearly shows the ship flying in space

However, personally I don't think this means space travel but rather a 'state' of your ship. whether you're on-route to another plant (may not be instantaneous) or just tinkering with your workbench. After all, it wouldn't feel right if you can only use it when you're docked in port

the 5th picture (little icon thing) reminds me of Jedi Knights multiplayer chat, whenever you are typing something it brings up this little bubble with the "....." in it to show you are typing

@"Explains itself, and if it doesn't, Shame on you."

Thanks DH for the laugh. Thoroughly enjoyed that one. I think you guys drew the perfect amount of information without clamoring for things that weren't there.

Thanks guys.

As for the comment on the fact that both individuals take darkside points, I'd imagine that in the party situation everyone makes the choice of which dialogue they wish to use, and the winner of the roll gets their selection used. I'd speculate that as a demo the players are instructed to choose specific story options and as such they would get the same darkside/lightside points regardless of who won the roll.

At least, that is what I would hope for.

With both the Jedi Knight and Consular companions on the Vanguard, and both the Inquisitor and Warrior companions on the Fury class, this seems like further confirmation that both Jedi will have the Vanguard and both Sith will have the Fury. Which, I haven't seen a dev come out and say, but it makes perfect sense.

Also, the "Applying Coloration" on the Bounty Hunter armor progression shot is intriguing. Possible hint at "appearance tab" type system.

By far the most interesting for me were the implications of armor upgrades for companions, and the Aurebesh info on the BH's armor progression. Personalizing and customizing is an extremely important facet of a MMO for alot of folks, so this will be welcome news indeed.

Having played ME a ridiculous number of times the armor upgrades for the companions is not really a surprise, but is just as welcome as the character customization will be. It would be horrible to show up for a raid involving multiple groups of players and see roughly 8 or 9 of the exact same companions milling about. At least this way their appearance can be modified somewhat.

(btw... bless you for posting this today... Monday was looking pretty bleak for me, but once again DH came thru with flying colors for me.)

5th image: What about "I thinking about my respond" icon ? :)

The 1st time i saw the bounty hunter video were he kills those empire guys my 1st tought was, this is kinda of "duel" like in WoW.

Great finds. Honestly I find the most interesting part to be the Aurebesh translations from the BH armor screen. Specifically: Applying Coloration and Attaching Accessories.

This looks like classic BW hinting at what we can expect from gear customization (considering they know how people love to dissect the Aurebesh). I sort of assumed armor dye would be in, a system I love btw, along with some range of accessories. In this case I'm going to assume that means things like the jetpack, wrist flamer, the com device from the helm in the 3rd pic? Also note that the second pic has something applied to the char's right wrist while the third has something applied to the left wrist. Of course that could just be aesthetic.

Anyway great stuff as always, keep it coming =D

Thank you. Refreshing to see something.

I am a little concerned about the Morality Point 'Lock out' and 'auto-allocation'. It sounds like if you are locked out of making a choice (ie already did it), that you are at the will of the Group Leader.

For example, if the IA in Image 4 (the lower 'group' icon) was focusing on only 'Light' Morality Choices, he has basically takes a 'hit' because of the choice of his BH companion -- ie gained undesired Dark side points.

In image 10 with the Sith Warrior (the one you won't speculate ;) ) could it be facial features that develop over time based on light/dark side points?

Great Job guys!!!!