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Hi, I'm Dallas Dickinson, Director of Production on Star Wars: The Old Republic.
the new story-driven MMO from BioWare and LucasArts.
Today I'll be guiding you through the opening minutes of the Eternity Vault, a high-level multiparty Operation
involving an ancient prison that has been uncovered on the remote world of Belsavis.
Inside this prison, a terrible evil has broken free that now threatens both the Republic and the Empire.
At level 50 in the game, whichever side you are on, you'll be dispatched to deal with this threat.
Today we will be watching the first part of the experience from the Imperial perspective,
beggining with the conversation with General Threnoldt.
- My Lord, forgive the lack of protocol but war has broken the chain of command and my purpose is grave.
I'm General Threnoldt, commanding officer of the Imperial Reclamation Service.
I understand you are familiar with this?
- You run archeological expeditions to uncover sith and alien artifacts.
- And deal with the threats they represent.
We uncovered a new section of Belsavis prison during a bombing run.
It's been sealed for 20.000 years. The rakata called it the Eternity Vault.
It's where they kept the prisioners and technology they could never afford to release.
- This doesn't sound promising..
- We've been translating the rakatan inscriptions.
Most are undecipherable, but a few refer to a prisoner called "The Infernal One".
It took an army to stop The Infernal One before.
If we don't do anything, for the war against the Republic may be nothing next to what would come.
- The weapons in that Vault could give us an advantage over the Republic.
- That would be up to you.
General Threnoldt has briefed our group on the situation and our heroes know what they have to do.
- We're being now in Belsavis's atmosphere. Proceeding to surface.
- All hands, prepare for enemy fire. The Eternity Vault defenses are active.
Coming in the Belsavis's atmosphere, the imperial ship has come under fire from the prison turrets
and is going down. The players must get to the escape pods.
Each player takes his or her own pod to land in different points of the planet's surface.
Weather conditions are extreme on this part of Belsavis
Players have to run through the snowstorm to gather around a burning escape pod.
I HEAR THEM ENTER MY DOMAIN.
CHILDREN UNKNOWING. THEY WILL SERVE...
That voice belongs to the Infernal One. He knows our heroes have come for him,
and he has prepared his prison fortress to repel their attack
Our players wisely take a moment to activate any abilities they can give the group, defensive and offensive bonuses.
They are gonna need them.
So as the battle begins, you can see the Sith Juggernaut. He is the primary tank for the group,
and he is rushing ahead to draw fire from the turrets and the enemy droids.
The Sith Assassin is the group second tank and he is getting in there also,
drawing one of the Eternal Sentinel droids to him with his Force Pull ability.
The Sith Assassin has more than just his lightsaber, he also uses lightning attacks and his Wither ability.
The other members of the group are focusing their attention on the left side turret.
This turrets pack quite a punch, so they need to be taken out quickly.
Switching to the Sith Sorceror, we can see that he has come under attack by some of the droids.
Fortunately, the Juggernaut blasts by and gets the droids attention.
The Sorceror gets some healing out from the Agent, who is one of the medics of the group.
And now the Sorceror can fire off some Shock Blasts and a Lightning Attack at the turret.
The turret has focused it's sights on the Mercenary.
That light ray means a powerful Area Of Effect attack is incoming,
so it's good the Mercenary is off to the side. The Mercenary fires off a few Heat Seeker Missiles
and you can see on the bar that the group is burning down the turret's strength.
The majority of the group is now focused on taking out the remaining droids,
while off in the distance the Sith Marauder works on weakening that second turret.
Here we see the PowerTech use his Retractable Blade on one of the droids.
But even as one falls, more are coming in.
You can see the Sorcerer here unleashing Force Storm, a wide area of effect attack
to damage as many droids as possible.
Alright. The last of the droids is down. Now they just got to deal with that second turret.
And with one last Barrage of Missiles, that's down too.
MY FINEST CREATION: MACHINE OF MACHINES.
METAL DEBRIS WELDED TOGETHER
AND ALIGNED TOWARD DESTRUCTION. - Before they enter the Eternity Vault.
The Infernal One has another surprise for the group.
This is gonna be a harder fight.
The Sith Juggernaut Force Charges in to kick things off.
We switch perspectives to the Operative, who's already firing off some heals.
- Unauthorized lifeforms detected.
Note that he's got larger icons to show group members health front and center,
a nice UI (User Interface) option for medics.
So far so good. The Juggernaut and Assassin are keeping the droid's attention
while the others lay down damage from range.
The Annihilation Droid lays down a Sweep to blast back the group members who are standing too close.
Now here is when it gets complicated.
When the droid starts firing off those swarms of missiles, that's deadly.
Fortunately, the group knows this and you can see them taking cover behind the destroyed turret.
So most of the group is hiding, but the Juggernaut and Assassin are actually able to withstand this kind of firepower,
so they're just charging right back in.
As soon as the Missile Barrage is over, the rest of the group emerges to continue the fight as well.
We switch to the Sith Sorceror, who keeps his distance and
keeps a steady flow of Lightning streaming out to weaken the droid.
The player slides into first person view to get a better perspective on the battle.
Oh, looks like the Sorceror got a little to close and got knocked back by that sweeping arm.
Now the droid is beggining another bombardment with his rockets.
This time the group doesn't hide, however, and instead collapses in and keeps fighting.
It's critical here that the healers use Area Of Effect Heals on the entire group.
Even so, that's a lot of damage very quickly and the Marauder goes down.
Luckily the second Sorceror is skilled in healing has Reanimation,
which revives downed group members, even amidst the battle.
The red targetting reticle over our Sorceror indicates that he has been targeted for a heavy missile attack.
This attack will slam not only him, but anyone standing nearby,
so he smartly moves away from the rest of the group to take the hit.
- Targets analyzed. Engaging storm protocols.
Ouch, another swing from the Annihilation Droid's cannon sends the Juggernaut flying.
He will not stay down long though, running back using his Force Charge to leap into the fray.
Our heroes maintain their blistering assault, chipping away at the droid's health.
- Targets analyzed. Engaging storm protocols.
And here the droid is launching another missile barrage but his health is low, so the group just converges on him.
They are gonna go for it.
Ouh, the droid's attacks are just too much!
They are dropping, one, two, three, even four of the group's members go down, but it's not over.
They're so close, and... there you go!
One final attack from the PowerTech and the Annihilation Droid has gone down.
So that was just a small part of the larger Eternity Vault Operation.
We hope it has given you a good feel of what playing through the Operation will be like for you and your friends.
Thanks for watching.
We'll leave you now with a sneak peak at what the Infernal One has in store for players inside the Eternity Vault.
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