The massively multiplayer game will see changes intended to evoke the Star Wars motion pictures; update due later this month...
The update will introduce sweeping changes to the online game, such as redefining all characters into nine professions: bounty hunters, smugglers, spies, traders, entertainers, commandos, medics, officers, and force-sensitives. So instead of keeping the lore of the Jedi a guarded secret, the updated game will let you jump on the fast track to becoming one of the universe's mystical knights, if you wish. However, LucasArts insists that even though the secrets of the Jedi have become less and less...secret, the majority of its players prefer other professions, and expects the same even after the update...
In addition to adding revised character classes, the update will also include a streamlined interface that will reduce many options down to a single click of the mouse.
This includes battles, since the update will also overhaul the way combat will work by making it real-time by clicks, rather than using its traditional "autoattack" method. You'll actually be able to click your mouse repeatedly (or click and hold) to squeeze off individual blaster shots in battle...
LucasArts will actually be releasing this "new player experience" as a free-to-download, free-to-play standalone game that anyone can download and use to try out the first 10 character levels of the nine new professions.
The upcoming update, and free 10-level game, for Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided is scheduled to launch on November 15.
