SWGANH QA Scoop (Weekly QA News)

The Sunday Scoop: January 31, 2009

Note: QA has a weekly information column on the Developer Forums and we wondered if visitors to this site might enjoy reading about what happens at SWG:ANH during the week from the QA perspective. So I have reprinted it here. Happy reading!

Dev News (and some tester news mixed in!)
Eruptor has been quietly working away on the tutorial for some time and this week we were able to get another look at his progress! The tutorial is made up of nine parts. Eru has completed Parts I through III and is well into Part IV.

Most of us probably took the original tutorial once or twice. But, it was likely to have been in 2003! You may feel a strange sort of ‘déjà vu’ when you are in the tutorial again. So testers, if you haven’t been to the tutorial since Eru added the latest stuff, you must go!

In Part I, you learn how to navigate and go from third to first person. You learn to chat also. Then in Part II, you are shown how to use the radial menu and collect your basic supplies from the Imperial Officer. Moving to Part III, you learn about banking and the Bazaar, and in Part IV, cloning and insurance. You will notice that Eru also added some new NPCs. He gave us this hint: ‘the tutorial space station is now populated with more NPCs who have a lot of opinions of what you do in there ’

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