SWG: Chapter 8 Interview with Lead Designer Thomas Blair

It's the holiday season and Chapter 8 is on the horizon. As an early Life Day gift, SWG Lead Developer Thomas "Blixtev" Blair gave WarCry an early preview:

Space is big. Really big. And, at least in the Star Wars: Galaxies universe, it just got a bit bigger.

Fresh on the heels of one of the largest updates since the NGE, the SWG development team is in the final testing stages on Chapter 8, which was scheduled to be added to the Test Center servers today.

Click below to read the rest and check out some exclusive screenshots.

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no major bugs? no major bugs?? are they out of their minds?

ok i'll admit chapter 7 was absolutely amazing, it's exactlly what the game needed. but to say that there were no major bugs is obsurd. here is a small list of the bugs that plague the game due to the release of chapter 7.

1)in the heroic encounters if you call out a gackle bat(a vet reward that simply follows you around and gives you a little buff, aka a familiar), droid, or pet for whatever reason the boss creature gets incrediblly pissed off and the pets, droids, or familiar follows the boss around, the boss then hits the entire group for upwards of 9k damage a hit anywhere from 3-10 times doing about 100k worth of damage on the entire group.

2) in the tusken encouter at the end he has honor guards that come out and fight also, normally there's no real problem defeating them, except lately about 5 of them come out and do not become attackable,they remain WHITE and unattackable, however THEY can attack YOU.

3) heals missing or being dodged, an area heal from a medic cannot and should not miss, however with the release of the new chapter they have been missing, ive missed, throwing stasis on an aly, tossing the grenade, and bomb on an ally, as well as missed the area heals and buffs applied as a medic, ALSO player's own heals have been missing ALOT, as in i go to self heal with my jedi and whoops, I dodged it.

4) cannot call personal transport while the personal transport is already trying to pick you up.

5)AK prime from HK 47 hits for about 134,000 yes that is 134K worth of damage if you have the gackle bat out.

6) forgot one, this is a new one given with last weeks patches.when you go to open the game and log in from the launch pad, after you type in your log in screen name and PW it crashes you saying an error has occoured, it crashes you to desk top,and says that the server is busy for the update and crashes you.

also to say they worked closely with the piloting community could be true, however however 2 weeks ago the piloting community was in such an outrage that they nearly crashed the swg forums. not to mention that it's cool and all that they give interviews to you, but how bout they start telling their actual player base what's going on, we were promised constant updates of communication, what we get is few posts to the actual community.