Lightsaber Upgrades

[homiJ15]

Just as long as there is some serious stormtrooper/other enemy body dismemberment i dont care what color my saber is (course i really do hope you can Pimp out your Sith)

[TKA-001]

If the trailer is any indication, there is likely to be no dismemberment whatsoever.

[homiJ15]

fo sho? in all of the jedi knight games theres at least an arm that comes off, and in the Episode 3 game arms and sometimes legs come off and when your about to fight some jedi chick there are clone trooper heads, arms, legs, and mutilated bodies laying everywhere and T-rated games can have blood and gore (even though this games only rated Teen for fantasy violence) but Hayden Blackman said in an issue of Game Informer (not quoting this exactly) that "if you swing your saber and force push at the same time that the person would go flying off (and sometimes in more than one peice)" and it said that you could get eatin by a rancor, do force repulse in its stomach and blow it up, to me that sounds more violent than choppin up some troopers. But anyways im just sayin though cuz iv always wanted to totally own a stormtrooper with my saber and id figure what a better way to do it than in a next gen star wars game, but anyways its still gona be a great game (inhales a long needed breath of air)

[Ztalker]

You could always get the Darth Vader breathing mechanism for these things

 

Anyways, homiJ15 point is a valid one. We DID see God of War-like quick time events, possibly ending with a cranial stab with a lightsaber of the force-stomach action described.

Then why not add some of that in the normal fights with stormtroopers? Seems like a missed chance...

[TKA-001]

Because people don't want every enemy to explode.

[homiJ15]

not just explode, theres also the equally great implode

[Gurges-Ahter]

If by silver you mean white, then yes, silver. I honestly don't see how the "silver" blade in K2 is silver as opposed to white.

What type of screen do you use while playing? PC or XBox? I played on an XBox and, while at a hotel, the silver blade was hard to differentiate from the white on a crappy TV. But when I played at home, on the 65" screen with HD upconvert, it was easily discernible as silver (and not white).

 

Lightsabers deflecting other types of energy isn't a power, it's just what the blade does.

Windu's blade didn't just deflect lightning; it redirected it in a loop back to the lightning-user.

 

What exactly does it mean to "upgrade" a lightsaber? An un-"upgraded" lightsaber certainly can cut through virtually anything except a few select materials (or a very large amount of durasteel).

In KotOR, the upgrades included things like different emitters that focused the blade or made it broader, and sometimes brighter. The different crystals had different effects on the wielder as well, such as adding wisdom.

[Ryazan]

Haden Blackman said on G4 that there will be combat crystals and color crystals. I hope there's a black one.

 

By the way, you know how all lightsaber blades are white with a colored shroud around it? That's basically how a black saber would look-white with a black shroud.

 

The combat crystals probably do things such as increasing blade power, so that it inflicts more damage or even shorts out some electrical systems.