The Imperial Agent Dissected

SW:TOR blog DarthHater recently got to interview Jake Neri, a producer on the game at LucasArts, on the newly announced Imperial Agent class. An interesting bit mentioned in the interview is how the class’s stealth mechanics would work. It sounds like they will be taking a similar approach to KotOR with some kind of stealth belt:

Yeah, there is a lot of lore and fiction in Star Wars about the “Stealth Belt” mechanics and things like that. We are looking to grab from there. That is one of the things about working with Star Wars, most every permutation of everything related to any combat, sneaking, or fighting, war, battles, or anything, it’s there for us to draw upon, and that’s just a perfect example of that. It’s not necessarily something you have to go buy, or get, but something as a class you have inherently. It’s one of your abilities. And we fictionalize it through the fact that you have a belt.

It is also sounding like the Agent will able to use the same cover mechanic that was introduced with the Smuggler. Check out the full interview at DarthHater. Thanks to RogueJedi86 for pointing it out on our forums!