The Imperial Agent has been revealed as the sixth class for Star Wars: The Old Republic at a recent European press event. Today, the new class has been officially confirmed on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums, with its HoloNet entry to be published next week.

In addition to today's confirmation, IncGamers has the very first set of screenshots of the Imperial Agent, which you can view here.

Below you'll find the official description of the Imperial Agent  by Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Manager Sean Dahlberg:

The Imperial Agent is heavily inspired by several classic Star Wars characters such as Zam Wessel and Grand Moff Tarkin. Imperial Agents work behind the scenes to get the work of the Empire done. Specializing in high-tech gear, the Imperial Agent always has the right tools at the right time. They use abilities of subversion and subterfuge to infiltrate and assassinate enemies of the Sith Empire with deadly efficiency. Players who choose to be Imperial Agents in The Old Republic (TOR) will see the underbelly of the Empire in a whole new light.

This leaves two more classes to be unveiled. What do you think they will be? And what do you think of the Imperial Agent? Let us know in the comments below!

Sounds like I just found the class I'll play in swtor.

Definitely a class I'll be wanting to play.

oh cool awesomeness .....and....

CALLED IT!

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/3074466#3074466

Originally posted by jinxit

oh cool awesomeness .....and....

 

CALLED IT!

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/3074466#3074466

 

As did I. ;)

Myself.. All of the classes revealed are interesting. I think they are creating a game in which each class will be played by a large majority. Creating re-playability in an MMO is a great asepect. There is a possibility that things will be linear but in completly different ways. I am excited about this one....

was waiting for the "rogue" class.

sounds fun.

I'm so screwed if they limit characters per server...

Originally posted by ThalosVipav

I'm so screwed if they limit characters per server...

Agreed... but highly doubt they would limit the character slots. By creating a diverse experience for each class.. they would shot themselves in the foot by keeping the playerbase from making a character from each class.

IMO

Still waiting to see if there will be any casters.

Originally posted by Athcear

Still waiting to see if there will be any casters.

I'd be surprised if there was a true caster class.

Sounds awesome.  I'm one of the many as some would claim who is going with a Jedi main but I'm hopeful as others have mentioned they don't limit the characters per server.  Most games as I understand have done this mostly due to pvp reasons.  My only experiences off hand with this are SWG and DF as I can recall.  And as others have stated it would be kind of like shooting themselves in the foot by making a story based game and then limiting the players ability to see as much of the story as possible.

Originally posted by MikeB

Originally posted by jinxit

oh cool awesomeness .....and....

 

CALLED IT!

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/3074466#3074466

 

 

As did I. ;)

Lol so you did, damn you get extra force points for a pretty good write up too :p

Originally posted by mbd1968

Originally posted by Athcear

Still waiting to see if there will be any casters.

I'd be surprised if there was a true caster class.

I expect there to be some form of Sith Lord in the game (I.E. force user focused on force powers as opposed to martial combat like the Sith Warrior) . Of course, I'm just speculating here. :)

Agreed, im sure it will be possible to skip the weaponry parts of the jedi/sith skill trees and focus on pure force mastery.

To say I am excited about this class would be a bold understatement.

Nuff said :)

I am not much of a Rogue guy, so this does not provide too much excitement.

What I want is a non Jedi Melee class.

 I forsee a MEDIC next!!!

But what I don't want to see is people having to rely on buffs like in SWG for pvp standing around spamming " I need a buff".

These people working on the game are cutting out all that BS and flat out going to make the most UBER game for the next DECADE! 

They had also mentioned about having crafting, hope Crafters and Entertainers aren't one of the up and coming classes.

Hope this crafting systems is new and inventive and also not have to rely on other players. Just my thoughts others may like

that kind of game play.  I could be totally wrong and the next two classes ..... to use the terms Casters for a class in this game just seems totally wrong.  Seems to me like all the classes are pretty darn close in able to kick azz and take names so as for the next two will be equal in power also... nothing that is overpowering will throw the whole game out of whack. Anyway can't wait to play and hope to see all of you in the NEAR FUTURE!!!!

Woohoo this is my class! Was worried they were going to leave out my playstyle <3

Just got back from it, I didn't hear about the agent as much as I was hearing about the Jedi Consular and a Sith Inquisitor,  I'm surprised they're not officially announcing them.  Everybody there heard about them.

I'm guessing they're the Caster force users, like Yoda and Palpatine.

Originally posted by Sikison

 I forsee a MEDIC next!!!

Unlike SWG, there shouldn't be Medics.  They want a game that better reflects the films.  There were no living medics ever in the films and thus are leaving such mundane tasks for droids.  Will there be exceptions?  Maybe for exspansions.

I think the posters mention of "casters" is pretty on the mark.  We shall wait for the announcement.

While I do like Rogue classes I am honestly not that impressed with the reveal of the Imperial Agent.

I wonder if the Imperial Agent will use the same cover system that the Smuggler uses.

I was hoping for some sort of class which would allow us to expiriance Grand Moff Tarkin and Zam Weasel-like ways. I am really excited that they mentioned these two classes, though I though Zam was a Bounty Hinter? it makes sense I suppose. I just hope in an expansion or something, we can play into the Grand Moff class. But as for the next two classes, I would think the caster class is the way to go. Man thing the sith and jedi could have combat trees like in WoW and that ma be, et BioWare keeps referring to these classes as melee classes. I can't wait to see what they come up with next!!!

i hope they don't put a medic class in. instead they should do casters next and give them secondary healing abilities, i would go with a heal for jedi and a siphon health for sith.

Nifty, now to hope they publicly post footage of it unlike the trooper gameplay video which was stuck in the PAX demo.

Wonder if this class will be as entertaining as spy was in SWG.