A/V The Old Republic MMO: The New Official Thread

These were datamined. They are still waiting to be officially announced. There haven't been any new PTS patches recently.

I am not sure. We should not expect to return to this planet. I think that Nathema or Ziost are more likely, since they both are dead worlds.

 

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Previous codes that still work (if you have missed them):

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Well, both Ziost or Nathema would imply something related to Vitiate (Zildrog?).

Technically speaking Makeb could also work for Republic players (who believe that the world was destroyed).

 

If I recall, the traitor one didn't.

 

Not happy that I might lose my character names and have to rename them when the server merger happens.

 

What if it will be on Nathema and the traitor as we know it is Theron Shan.

What if Vitiate/Valkorion are inside his head to tell him to burn the alliance.

I hope that a returning companion will return then for Nathema such as Lord Scourge to help you or not.
Kira could also return together with Lord Scourge as a Child of the emperor.

 

A quick question to those of you who know all about KotFE and KotET.

I've been out of touch with SWTOR for about a year (totally discontinued playing) - are these additions worth resubbing for? If not, what is the end point development wise that has been reached/being sought here?

(As a side matter of continuity - do these story lines not completely mess up the timeline?)

 

Yes, these stories help make the other expansions make more sense.

 

Yes, these stories help make the other expansions make more sense.

 

Yes, they help make the new expansions make more sense.

 

Sorry for the double post, my connection was acting up.

 

I would say yes they are worth resubbing for

As to the timeline? Eh maybe. I mean don't all KOTOR stories do that to an extent? It was largely a gap in the timeline so it doesn't directly contradict anything

 

New info from the livestream:

General Notes

• October 24 maintenance will be quite long – longer than 4 hrs.
• Operation bosses development is taking longer than planned. Not able to hit the target of having all 5 bosses before end of 2017.
• 16man operation lag - we are aware of it, please send bug reports/info to us. Cause is not Hero Engine, it is some memory issue.
• Credit cap for legacy bank will probably be 100 billion.

Server Merges

• We won’t reveal the full details on how character name conflict resolution will work to prevent people from gaming the system and getting a name. However, higher level and more active character will give you better chances at keeping that name.
• Non subs will lose their names to subscribers no matter what.
• Having non unique names like guild names (with the origin server) isn’t possible with character names.
• If you have two level 50 legacies, one is randomly chosen to be your legacy after the merge.
• If you have fully decorated strongholds, they will all be there after the server merge. However with decorations if you have them placed at the cap limit (i.e. 10/10) on multiple strongholds, you will need to remove some of them before placing new ones. They will allow you go over the cap but to place new ones you need to go under the cap.
• There isn’t technically a RP server right now, we are exploring options to allow RPers RP in a safe place which they can control. It may not happen with United Forces update but we are looking into it.
• They always had a list of potential server names. Musco remember the Hot Prospect server name from when he joined Bioware six years ago and he thought it was a funny name. He helped Hot Prospect to rise to the top of the list of prospects.
• The theme with the new server names is that they have three KOTOR ship names and two character names.
• They are looking to reduce the cost of server transfer, legacy name, character name, and guild name renames.
• Max number of characters per server is 52 (if you brought character slots). Max for subscribers without buying any character slots is 12. We are looking to change these numbers for the merge.
• You can have a max of 10 strongholds with 5.5, but conquest bonus is capped at 150%.

PvP/Starfighter

• New PvP map based on the Alderaan ruleset and cross-faction. Making other PvP maps into cross faction is something we are looking into but need to make new voice overs etc.
• We are hoping that the higher server population after server merges will reduce the chances of win trading.
• Bringing back old PvP Rewards (like the Furious rewards) – We are talking about bringing it back, we won’t put them in cartel market but thinking of an ingame way to bring them back.
• Extensive changes to all ships in GSF. New GSF map will be team deathmath.

Augments/Gearing

• Any unopened command crates you have now can be saved up for 5.6 and disintegrated into unassembled components.
• The new augments will be obtained with the new flashpoint currency, with harder difficulties rewarding more currency. These new augments are more powerful than current auguments and are not taken into account for our class balances so you should go over our target DPS with these new augments.
• There will be a detailed blog post explaining all the changes to augments later.

Class Balances

• Changes with 5.5 will finish our initial sweep of class changes to our target goals. After that we can look into things like if we nerfed something too hard or if there are content people can't do with the new changes

Companions

• Andronikos will be coming back as a companion a bit sooner, they got some story planned for him. Same for Kira and Scourge.
• Will look into adding into a search function for companions.
• Companions actively being worked on for a return
  • Ensign Temple (5.6)
  • Arcann with Romance
  • Corso
  • Risha
  • Akaavi
  • Mako
  • Vector
  • Kira
  • Scourge
  • Dark Side Jaesa
  • Felix Iresso
  • Ashara
• Companions that are not named doesn't mean they won't return.

Additional Q&A with Keith

• There are going to be constant UI improvements
• They are currently trying to make yellow eyes possible
• They are looking at all accounts to determine how much they will increase the max character cap. "Most will not hit it"
• Name purge will be on merge day
• no current plans for pet battles
• they are discussing ways to bring PvP gear back
• Transfer prices will stay at 90CC (possibly cross-region transfers will be reduced to that as well)
• There is no set schedule for the companion returns
• "Charles has a crazy idea already on how to bring Tharan Cedrax back"
• "I can't comment on our expansion plans right now"
• An option to extend operation lockouts is "on the list"
• They are currently working on a number of bugfixes regarding guilds
• Possible new races soon?
• Possible return for class based stories?
• No plans for being able to purchase multiple copies of a stronghold - only possible if you had multiple before the merge
• "It is very unlikely that we will put BiS on vendors"
• Apparently MM Copero will be made for 242 gear like Umbara
• No current plans to upgrade to 64bit or add Vulkan API support
• Possible replacement / removal of cartel certificates
• Daily Areas will go back to 75 CXP per mission next week. Keith is discussing with the team how they can increase CXP for everything
• New augments probably 230 and 236
• No new (Legacy-)cargo bay tabs right now, might do more later
• Weapon slots for the outfit designer are in the backlog but not on the schedule
• "Right now, no increase in guild membership. That could change" "But I'm not inclined to make these changes until everyone's moved"
• New guild features/perks are on the TO-DO list (will probably be tied to Conquest update)

MORE

• New PvP map will be cross-faction
• They are working on possibilities to preserve RP
• Musco is responsible for the West Coast server name
• Transfers will be disabled for a week before and after merge
• They're thinking about making old warzones cross-faction
• They are actively working on bringing back characters like Kira, Scourge, Risha and Ashara in the near future
• Stronghold cap of 10 confirmed
• You will only need all your strongholds to be at a combined 600% completion for the 150% conquest bonus even if some are not fully decorated
• Charles is "very aware of the desire" to get back to Rep vs Imp
• Keith appeared and is currently working on his 12th rank 300 char
• They'll look into adding a search bar for the companion window
• Keith always lets Torian die but only killed Koth twice

Timothy Zahn will be at the cantina. He is also being consulted for the upcoming story

 

Timothy Zahn?! Never expected he would be involved with swtor. Well, with the upcoming Chiss flashpoint I guess it makes sense, but still kind of a surprise. With the end of the old EU, not like they have to worry about messing up canon anymore.

I had forgotten how many Republic companions were still missing (Smuggler, Consular and especially certain important Knight companions) so nice to hear they're finally working on bringing more of them back. Too bad too late for me already. Of all companions, Kira and Scourge should have been part of KotFE or KotET, rather than random people like Gault or Vette. Now, who cares? Valkorion is already dealt with, and if he comes back again, boring.

I know Tharan is not liked, but I'm pretty sure Holiday was popular. I always kind of wish Tharan and Holiday could have teamed up with Dr. Oggurubb for mad scientist hijinks (I view Dr. Lokin as amoral rather than mad). Imagine if Holiday had fought SCORPIO for control of the Eternal Fleet, but then its obvious the KotFE writer's favorite class story was Agent (having to put up with Kaliyo is my main reason for not finishing KotFE on most of my characters) with how huge a role SCORPIO got over everyone else.

Its kind of nice to hear they're going to upgrade servers, but losing character names sounds annoying. They want us to sub to keep our names, but I'm debating if its worth it. Especially if they're cutting CXP back to the normal pathetic levels.

They're not bothering with an "expansion" this year, but still sounds like they've got some ambitious plans. I expect plenty of things to go wrong with the server merges though, its rare for hardware changes to work correctly. I hope they can build momentum for the flashpoint stories, that's the only big things they've got planned anymore (since they're way behind on the Operations boss schedule).

 

Super excited about server merges!!! I've stopped playing because I could never get a PVP match, me and my brother loved queueing together. Maybe I'll start doing flashpoints and operations again now that it'll be easier to put a group together.

 

I don't like how they are basically forcing you to have to sub to keep your name.

 

About the companions who will not return. Elara Dorne and Malavai Quinn?
Are they going to be involved more in the future with the expansion or story?

What about Doc Nadia Grell Iresso Felix and Khem Val?

 

I guess my worry is that it will run in to the other canon already established after the KOTOR period - which is indeed there.
But as just mentioned above, with the lore of this period being irrelevant now to the official canon, I guess they can mess it up all they want.

I'll resub on game-play grounds only then.

 

How do we get Darth Hexid? I missed out on the Chiss one, so I would like to get at least one haha

 

Elara and Quinn came back with Iokath, but I seriously doubt they'll do anything else with them. Even most of the KotFE/KotET companions barely do anything after their chapter, aside from Lana. In theory the rest might return someday, but its hard to believe them anymore, at the rate they're going. It would be nice to see more Consular companions back, its not like they can't get Zenith's voice actor back.

For Darth Hexid, their FAQ said we have to do three PVE or PVP missions through group finder during the Nov. 8-27 time period.

Huh, they're changing the Hot Prospect server name, apparently the forums complained it sounded like a certain slang term. I liked the reference to the KotOR comic ship, but I doubt most of the remaining player base has even heard of the KotOR comic. A server name like Satele Shan is a much more obvious reference. Too bad, I still miss some of the old server names.

 

I uninstalled SWTOR for the first time since launch a few weeks ago. The game is dead IMO.

 

Considering that their current naming system does not allow duplicates, it is quite reasonable that people who paid will have special treatment.

Seems easy!

Yeah, some people are already joking about "grinding" Satele or her "going down". It would be much better to name it after some other ship or place.

The game takes place in 3630s BBY. The next major Legends event is maybe Darth Ruin and the New Sith Wars circa 2000s BBY. I doubt we will ever reach that point.

The next known (quite minor) character is Darth Desolous from TFU game and he is from circa 3520s BBY. Still around 100 years from current events.

Now I think... would it be cool to somehow include the Lost Tribe of Sith in SWTOR? I quiet liked these stories by J.J. Miller. I guess they are too isolated during SWTOR events to be a part of the upcoming story.

I find it more surprising that they would involve Zahn for just one Flashpoint. Maybe there will be more...

To Chiss specialists out there - are there any dragons or serpents in Chiss culture/mythology?

 

Fair enough - perhaps my complaint is more with the nature in which events have unfolded. SWTOR and by extension the original KOTOR games, have taken time to build an impressive lore and backstory to the events of SWTOR, but recent expansions have developed the galactic conflict to a huge climax - and the story has come a little unstuck. For the only way to resolve the events of KotFE in particular was to move the galaxy in a direction even more unusual and unknown. So all of that will have to be reversed to get back to the status quo that is already established as following on from the KOTOR period.

The Chiss are noted for an absence of that type of culture. They are instinctively scientific - that has been the focus of their appearances to date. They have a predisposition of cold and barren worlds, a clue, I suppose, to their personalities.

 

I feel like The Old Republic is like my other MMORPG in Star Trek: Online.

It started really bad and became really really good.

However, it's also reached the maximum point of storyline.

You can't top the Sith Emperor or the Iconians so you need to go DOWNNNNNN.

 

Maybe the next big threat in the game is the Chiss, similar to the Hutt expansion?

 

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