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BioWare's Star Wars MMO To Have Space Combat

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-in-case-they-weren't-busy-enough dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Big news for Star Wars fans looking forward to BioWare's upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG — space combat has been confirmed for the game. Players will be able to fly around the galaxy in their own personal starships, avoiding asteroid belts, landing in dangerous territory and battling other vessels. The initial news makes it sound like a cross between Mass Effect's galaxy map and a traditional space fighting game, where players will have to find 'hotspots' on the galaxy map in order to enter a particular zone."

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  1. Flashbacks to X-Wing ... by perpenso · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm having flashbacks to X-Wing and Tie Fighter, two of my favorite DOS era games.

    1. Re:Flashbacks to X-Wing ... by Dusty101 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Mod parent up!

      Why LucasArts never released a modern version of these games is beyond me. Utterly brilliant. Back in the day, I bought an MS Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick primarily for XvT. It used to clunk when you picked up a cargo container. Those were the days...

    2. Re:Flashbacks to X-Wing ... by Radres · · Score: 5, Informative

      Have you tried Microsoft Allegiance (now open source!)?

      http://www.freeallegiance.org/

  2. Our own spaceship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But who's gonna fly it, kid, you?

  3. Re:Co-op Capital Ships by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or is this against some lets-fight-retarded-in-space treaty?

    No, it's the Audiences Find Space Flight Confusing So Lets Act Like It's The Same As Atmospheric Flight -- BUT IN SPAAACE treaty.

    The AFSPFCSLALITSAAF--BUTINSPAAACE treaty is responsible for some of the craziest representations of space combat in movies, and by extension video games. Star Trek is not a signatory, but did feel pressured to conform to some of the standards, like ships all keep essentially the same vertical orientation, and turn in slow arcs like naval ships. In recent years upstarts like Battlestar Galactica, termed "rogue fictions" by members of the AFSPFCSLALITSAAF--BUTINSPAAACE Alliance, have completely abandoned these the societal conventions the treaty is based up, in that they have ships that operate based on Newtonian physics in a vacuum, and also don't have laser blasters at all. But they aren't so crazy that they don't have sound in space. That's only for the real extremists like Kubrik or Wedon.

    Hm weird where that went. Oh well.

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