Star Wars: The Old Republic Dev Tracker

Hey everyone, 

7.6 patch notes are now live. You can read them here. 

A few call outs: 

• The Dynamic Encounters PTS incentives will be granted at 7.6 launch, however, the XR-53 PTS title incentives will be granted in a future update. 
• Due to the modernized assets that will be going into 7.6, players should expect a larger download for this patch. 
• The DE translation for the following patch notes are missing and will be added tomorrow. 
  • Fixed an issue that caused faint texture lines to appear on light terrain areas on Ilum.
  • The following changes have been made regarding GTN messages:
    • GTN messages will expire in 14 days (down from 30),...

Hi all,

I know you've all been eager to read a follow up from PTS regarding the character modernization. That's still being worked on as we need additional info from various teams. We will be making the follow up post on Monday, however, what I can say now is that there were additional adjustments made between the last iteration of PTS and what will be seen live, so what was seen on PTS is not set in stone. But we will follow up with more details on Monday!

Hey all,

Wanted to pop in here real quick to add some context to this! we regularly audit and adjust CC prices across all CM items. If it is something that is categorical or limited time, like a sale, that is communicated. But outside of those situations it can be pretty frequent with both price increases and decreases and would be rather difficult to communicate in a way that is effective or digestible.

For the Appearance Designer pricing specifically, I double checked and this is not a recent change. It was part of a pricing adjustment that happened 8 months ago, in April. It has no correlation at all to the character modernization happening in 7.6.

To my first point though, when there are category and limited time pricing adjustments like sales to communicate, we will. As I stated in my ...

Hello everyone!

We will be taking servers down December 10th to deploy Game Update 7.6!

• Time: 7am CT / 1pm UTC
• Estimated downtime: 5 hours
  • We are estimating 5 hours of downtime due to the releasing inactive character names. 

Other things to note!

• The Rename: Character Name Consumable item will be 90% off from December 10 to December 17. 
• Character re-customizations will be 90% off from December 10  to January 7, 2025
• The 50% off Collection Unlocks sale will run from December 13 to January 7, 2025.
• Life Day items (except the T...

Hey everyone!

We're taking PTS down in approximately 15 minutes. To reiterate this was the final iteration of PTS. Though we are taking the server down, I do want to let you all know that we will be making some follow up posts in the near future, so keep an eye on the Dev Tracker.

Thanks!

Hey all, 

Please be sure to read the most recent PTS post regarding the Steam Deck issue. 

Thanks! 

Hello once more!

Wanted to follow up on the Steam launcher issue not launching on a Steam Deck that was raised in this thread. 

What’s happening with the launcher on PTS?  We’ve been upgrading our launcher and patching tech over the last few years, as the old launcher tech is outdated and rapidly becoming unsupportable. 

With our recent PTS iterations, we rolled out an upgraded Steam launcher to keep parity between it and the non-Steam launcher. As reported in the thread linked above, this launcher does not work on a Steam Deck. 

Now what? 
In the immediate future, we must continue testing the Steam launcher on the PTS. This will unfortunately bloc...

Hi again!

The PTS is now open again. 

Thanks all! 

Hey everyone!

We have taken down the PTS, and will be working on one final PTS build that will be released later this morning! Please read this post in its entirety so you know what to expect for this build. 

There will be final polish for Dynamic Encounters and the Story and Veteran Modes for the XR-53 Encounter. Note that the final art for the boss itself will not be seen until 7.6 goes live. 

Character Modernization

There are some adjustments going into this PTS build that players will notice: 

• Character model bodies appeared to have softened muscle definition. This has been fixed. 
• Wrinkles under eyes were more pronounced when the “low shader” setting was applied. Players will see in this PTS build that the wrinkles in that area will be significantly lessened.
• Wrinkles have been adjusted for characters seen during gameplay to appear in parity with...

On 11/15/2024 at 1:19 PM, Jerba said:

After installing today's PTS patch, two players from my guild that are playing on Linux receive a "host window timeout" error, even before the launcher opens. So whatever changes were made to the launcher, it seems like Linux (and Steam Deck) players might no longer be able to start the launcher.

Hey there!

No info to share at this time, but we are aware of this, and having conversations on how to resolve it. Thanks for the report!  

For those who want to check out the updates to the new augments, please read Bryant's post here. These changes are live and went out with today's build! 

Hey again players!

Thanks for your discussion and feedback regarding the new Augments and their crafting schematics. After reviewing the feedback we’re going to make some changes to the new Augments. These changes are already live on PTS if you want to test them out while you play!

Increase Token Inflow

• Drops of Corrupted Bioessence from Story Mode have been increased to 1-4 tokens (up from 1 token).
  • The chance at a bag of 20 Corrupted Bioprocessor from Story Mode has been removed.
• Drops of Corrupted Bioessence from Veteran Mode have been increased to 12-18 tokens (up from 12 tokens).
  • Veteran mode still has a chance to drop a bag of 20 Corrupted Bioprocessor. This will drop in addition to the guaranteed token drop, and is rolled as personal loot meaning it’s possible for all 8 players to receive it in the same run.

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Hello again, 

The PTS is now open! 

Thanks all! 

Hey everyone! 

We’re getting ready to deploy a new build on the PTS! 

Here’s a snapshot of the changes that players will see when the server comes back up. 

Character modernization:  

• Before hopping onto the PTS, please read Eric’s Character Modernization Status forum post! 
• In this iteration of PTS, players will see a fix applied to the shader change that impacted character models. Please leave feedback here.  

Steam launcher

• If connecting to the PTS via Steam, players should no longer see the EULA box pop up after accepting the terms and conditions once. 
• The launcher carousel design now matches the SWTOR launcher.  

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Hi everyone!

Please leave feedback here for character modernization. 

As stated in Eric’s Character Modernization Status post, if you are seeing noticeable changes in shapes of areas such as eyes, noses, and lips, please include character slides when submitting before and after comparison. Same with bug reports, providing a step by step (in this case the sliders) allows us to quickly reproduce an issue and look into what coul...

Hey folks, 

I’m here with a follow up on the modernization changes that you may have seen on the PTS. While this post talks about content currently on the PTS, it does cover a pretty broad topic hence why this is being posted in General Discussion. 

As we talked about in last week’s livestream, planet and character modernization would be hitting the PTS in last week’s build. In that build we saw a shader bug which caused unintended texture changes to character models, and we’re looking to have a fix applied in a PTS build that we’ll be pushing out this week (exact date and time TBD). When that build goes out, we’ll make a character modernization feedback thread in the PTS forums and assess further feedback that comes in. 

Relevant to character modernization as a whole, we did see several common sentiments (outside of the reports of the contrast issue) from feedback received the last few days I wanted to address. 

When is cha...

Hey all! 

Thanks for the feedback on the character modernization. I don't have all the info now, but I can confirm there is a bug in the shader change that is adding an unintended amount of contrast increase to characters skin. We'll be looking into this further and will post more info later. But wanted to pop in and let you all know!

 

Hi everyone!

We're opening the PTS back up! Please continue to use the below feedback threads to provide feedback for the team! 

• Dynamic Encounters feedback thread
• XR-53 Story Mode feedback thread
• XR-53 Veteran Mode feedback thread

Here is a list of updates/changes made to the XR-53 Encounter. 

And more details about the new augments! 

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Hey Community!

I’m here to give you more details around the new Augments we’ll be releasing with Patch 7.6.

3 New Tiers of Augments
Augment 83 (Item Rating 296, Prototype)

• These Augments are meant for players who don’t currently have Augments and find it too costly to obtain the Augments currently available. For this reason these Augments have an item rating lower than the current Superior Augment 77s.
• The tradeable schematic to craft these will drop from Propagator Core XR-53 on Story difficulty.
• Crafting these Augments will require Combined Crew Skill Materials, Processed Isotope Stabilizers, and Solid Resource Matrices.
• When deconstructing an Augment 83 there is a low chance to learn the schematic for Augment 86.

Augment 86 (Item Rating 302, Prototype)

• These Augments are a stepping stone to Advanced Augment 86 and will provide a...

Hi everyone!

Important notes for this current iteration of PTS: 

• Players can either fly to Ilum and walk through the phase door or use Group Activity Finder (this will be the only Encounter listed in that window). 
• The name of the Encounter is called Relentless Replication
• Trash mobs have not yet been implemented. 
• Gear vendors are available in the Supplies Section of both Fleets and near the phase gates. 

Please answer the following questions about the new lair boss, the Propagator Core XR-53. Feel free to also leave overall general feedback. 

• Did you enjoy fighting the Propagator Core XR-53 on Veteran?
• What was your operation comp by role?
• Knowing that the art is still WIP, did you find that an ability was confusing after you had seen it multiple times? Put another way, did you find what the boss was doing to be intuitive?
• ...