Posts Tagged ‘1.3’
Star Wars: The Old Republic Official Podcast Episode II
Today we received a second episode of the official SWTOR podcast. It comes complete with a glimpse of some behind-the-scenes philosophies on flashpoint and operation design, along with some previously-recorded footage about Game Update 1.3. Hello everyone! My name is Eric Musco and I, along with Brooks Guthrie are happy to bring you episode two [...]
1.3.0b Patch Notes 6/29/2012
Items Augment slots in items crafted before 1.3 that have not been manually upgraded by players are now the appropriate tier based on the level of the item (if no augments are installed) or the level of the augment that is currently installed in the augment slot. Read More…
Game Update 1.3 Known Issues and Bugs
SWTOR’s Game Update was unleashed yesterday (and there was much rejoicing!), but just in case you’ve been experiencing some odd bugs, we thought we’d post a current list of some known issues and bugs. BioWare has most of this information available on the forums, but some of it’s not simple to find. We’re here to [...]
Community News: More on Ranked Warzones
Yesterday, BioWare posted a community blog article detailing some of the behind-the-scenes plans and goals for Team Ranked Warzones, which will hopefully reach live servers when Game Update 1.3 hits. You can check out the article here. Here’s one of the most important bits of the article: Before Season One begins with official rankings, we [...]
Game Update 1.3 Legacy Perks
Currently on the PTS, Game Update 1.3′s new Legacy perks are available for player testing. Here is a preview of them, along with screenshots of tooltips, information about the different ranks, costs, and cooldowns for each of the abilities. There are four new types of perks: advancement, companion, travel, and convenience. Like other Legacy perks, [...]
Class Changes and Balance in Game Update 1.3
On June 6th, BioWare posted a community blog about some of the class and balance changes coming our way in Game Update 1.3. You can read the full blog here. The in-progress PTS patch notes in reference can be viewed here. Some interesting information was revealed on the blog concerning the changes being made to [...]
What if Transfers Aren’t Enough
During last Friday’s Community Q&A session, one very good question regarding what happens after servers transfers was asked: “What will you be doing to keep guilds and server communities together once server transfer is implemented?” Here is the answer that was received: Joveth Gonzalez (Online Community Manager): “Once server transfers are implemented, we will re-evaluate [...]
HK-41 Companion Coming in 1.3?
It’s speculation time again! One of the earliest sources of future SWTOR patch leaks stated that HK-47, the popular droid companion from the Knights of the Old Republic series, would be reborn, of sorts, into a new version– as HK-41, and would enter SWTOR as a new companion in Game Update 1.3. Here is the [...]
New 1.3 Details: Information on Ranked Warzones
At the London MCM Expo held on May 26th, there was a SWTOR panel with Emmanuel Lusinchi that focused on some highlights of Game Update 1.3. Some interesting points were revealed. The entire panel can be seen on Gamespot’s Twitch TV. A very awesome transcribe of the panel can also be found over at Dulfy’s [...]
The Possibility of SWTOR Mega-servers
In a recent Massively interview with Daniel Erickson, Erickson briefly discussed BioWare’s vision for the group finder tool and the company’s reasoning behind the same-server limitation. This is what he said, according to Massively’s follow-up article: When asked if the new group finder would be cross-server, Erickson replied that it would be single-server because “we [...]
Coming Soon to SWTOR: Game Update 1.3 Video
Yesterday, BioWare released a video detailing some of the features being added to Game Update 1.3, which is being called Allies: The video doesn’t contain either an estimated release date or any type of announcement regarding its arrival on the PTS. It is nice, however, to finally be able to view some of the in-game [...]
The Silence Between Patches
Developers have been quiet on the SWTOR official forums these last couple of weeks. Besides the weekly scheduled Q&A sessions and a few augment questions that were addressed, BioWare’s Dev Tracker has remained fairly empty. Players have been awaiting more details about Game Update 1.3, especially information regarding the two features that are considered extremely [...]
IGN Previews Game Update 1.3
With game update 1.2 now in the past, the community is already looking forward to 1.3. IGN brings us a preview of the update along with an interview with James Ohlen. Here are a few highlights of that interview: IGN: The group finder has been a requested feature since The Old Republic’s launch, though there [...]
Laura Shot Third: SWTOR Under Fire
By now, we all are probably familiar with the rumors spreading mass amounts of doom and gloom about SWTOR across the MMORPG community. Practically every forum and review site has at least a handful of negative opinions regarding the game. The term “TOR-tanic” is often used, comparing SWTOR to both a legendary disaster and a [...]
Character Transfers & Group Finder
With the Asia Pacific Character Transfers being initiated 4/24/12 a lot of players have been asking about when Character Transfers will be available for everyone else. At Pax East when the Devs were asked about which 1.3 features would they have liked to make it into 1.2, they responded with “Group Finder and Character Transfer”. [...]
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