Better late than never: On the official website, the plans for the current year of the Free2Play MMO “Star Wars: The Old Republic” have now been revealed. While there are no major revelations from Bioware, all the already known goals are once again neatly listed.
Since this was probably too little to justify a separate developer post, they also talked a bit more about the general direction in which SWTOR is supposed to develop.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is an MMO, but also a Bioware game
“Combat, exploration, progression, and story” are according to the lead producer Bruce Maclean the four core elements of a good MMO. While in recent years they mainly focused on combat and progression, they wanted to emphasize the “BioWare” aspect a bit more with “Shadow of Revan” and bring the story to the forefront. This will also be the case in the upcoming expansions. The personal character story will be woven into the narrative (at least partially) and new decisions are intended to carry more weight in future content.
I don’t want to give away too much, as we are still in the middle of development, but I can assure you that our plans for our game will bring the true Star Wars™ experience back to the forefront. – Bruce Maclean, Lead Producer.
2 Addons and a lot of “small stuff”
In total, they plan to release at least two major expansions this year – the first in summer and the second at the end of the year. In between, they want to keep the players entertained in other ways.
- As previously reported, Patch 3.1 will bring the hard difficulty level for the latest flashpoints on February 12 and the 4th PvP season will begin.
- Several weeks later, they will implement the outfit designer into the game and advance the storyline on Ziost a bit to clarify open questions from the “Shadow of Revan” expansions.
- In an even more distant future, there will be a new stronghold and of course the Togruta as a playable race.
As soon as there are further information, we will of course keep you updated. You can read the entire developer post on swtor.com.
