Community Q&A - Chat Bubbles and More!

Sebaya Keto posted Feb 17, 12  -  Author: Sebaya Keto,  BioWare,  Chat Bubbles,  Community Q&A,  EA,  Electronic Arts,  Game Update 1.2,  Game Update 1.3,  Hoods,  LucasArts,  Mordecia,  Operations,  role-play,  Roleplay,  Roll System,  RP,  Star Wars,  Star Wars The Old Republic,  SWTOR,  SWTOR-RP,  The Old Republic,  TOR,  Tziena


A new Community Q&A is up! So I know we talk a lot about chat bubbles, and our founder, Tziena, even has a recording of BioWare developers promising they would be in by launch. Obviously that didn't happen. What it seems like is that UI customization took priority, and that will be done in time for Game Update 1.2 in March. Once the UI team is free, they'll start working on chat bubbles; hopefully they can fix the issues that caused them to be pulled quickly. Depending on the issues and how serious they are, we could see chat bubbles added within weeks, or maybe a few months at most I'm sure. Either way they're coming to The Old Republic. Rejoice!

Also of importance is the mention of a hood toggle coming after Game Update 1.2. The next major update would be Game Update 1.3 which might be 2-3 months later. Either way, it's coming. They seem to be talking about headgear a lot. Companion headgear toggles are currently in the works. No ETA for them, but just good to know it's in the works, right?

Mordecia and all our other gambling entrepreneurs are going to be exciting that /roll has already been added to internal testing builds. BioWare internal testing is said to be 2-3 patches ahead of live, so that means it's likely still a few weeks off at least, but I think it's safe to say /roll will be available soon for RP events. Hopefully this will help spur people to play Sabaac more! Read on and I'll talk about the rest of what was said.
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Kaelik Any word on a possible transmog equivalent for TOR?
Sinreiko I would like to see chat bubbles too, but if they cause more performance issues than we already have, I'm glad they're h ...
Emerald Although all of it was great to hear, chat bubbles are pretty huge to me and it sounds like they are going to be a while ...