14 DAY TRIAL // Star Wars: The Old Republic has just received its first big update with the 1.1 Rise of the Raskghouls content but the developers at BioWare are unable to slow down and they are already talking about another significant update, which will introduce a whole new Legacy System.
One of the core features of the new patch will be system that allows players to create a complex web of relationships between the various characters that a gamer creates, similar to how families become important in the six Star Wars movies.
James Ohlen, who is the game director working on Star Wars: The Old Republic, told Gamespot that, “We wanted to have a system that encouraged players to create alts and to play the game through the different story paths. So the legacy system is meant to do that. It essentially allows you to, instead of just having a bunch of alts that have no relation to each other, you can actually create a family tree where your alts can be related to your main character, either as, you know, a sibling, a son, a father, a family friend, or a husband and wife.”
He added, “You can actually choose the relationship your characters will have with each other. And then you gain legacy experience points and legacy levels, and with legacy experience points and levels, that gives you–that allows you to unlock abilities, perks, a whole slew of different advantages, essentially, that all the members of your legacy tree will be able to enjoy.”
It seems that the Legacy system will basically be another way for players to customize their characters and differentiate them from those of other players, once it is unlocked around level 30.
BioWare also hopes that it will convince gamers to play though Star Wars: The Old Republic a second or third time and to keep paying their monthly subscription.