[2021] Operative and Sniper on the PTS!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the next phase of PTS featuring the Sniper and Operative Combat Styles. In case you missed it, we go through a bit of the philosophy behind the updates were making to Combat Styles in this article.

As with the Jedi Knight, we are still focused on streamlining ability sets in order to enable more player choice and maintain the unique identity of the class. All the constructive feedback we have been receiving from players who have dived into PTS has been helpful in identifying what experiences are crucial to players.

This phase of PTS will be slightly different than previous phases that have been tested. This will be the first time that players will see the work in progress (WIP) UI for the ability tree. You will no longer need to speak to a droid to select your Discipline. This is also the same for Guardian and Sentinel.

As always, please keep in mind the following reminders and a couple of new notes:

• You will be be capped at level 75
• Character copy is still not available at this time
• Set bonuses are not enabled during this phase of PTS. Gear will still grant you their stats, but the set bonuses will not work.
• Most ability mods are functional, but some will be marked as [IN DEV] to clarify that some may be in various stages of development and not 100% functional.
• As the ability tree is a WIP, please note that some icons are duplicated.

One note I did want to add was regarding the feedback we have seen about gearing for PTS. The current experience is that players have to take some additional time to gear to their liking, and that is intentional. While 306 gear could be provided, customizable stats would not be available, so we opted to allow players to customize their stats to match their live experience as closely as possible. As we continue to release 7.0 content to be tested, we will continue to look for ways to make it simpler for players to gear up on PTS.

Additionally, I wanted to reiterate in this post that level 3 Speeder Level Piloting is granted at the Onderon Daily Board. Be sure to travel to Onderon to acquire this before venturing out to test any of the available Combat Styles.

For details on how to access the PTS server, please go here

For details on how to try out Sniper and Operative, please go here.

Feedback threads can be found in the following places:

• Operative
• Sniper
• Guardian
• Sentinel

Be sure to check out the Status Update post as well. I have added a Change Log that covers changes that were made to Guardian and Sentinel and have updated the known issues there.

Thanks!

Hey TrixxieTriss,

We haven't stopped reading the feedback on the Guardian and Sentinel threads. I still provide the team with the constructive feedback from the threads when they are updated. It's why I heavily linked them in the OPs for the Sniper and Operative general and 'how to access' posts and also provided the Change Log.

We do plan on offering more classes to be tested in future PTS phases, so having all the individual feedback threads stickied would become a bit cumbersome. Even with everything stickied now, there's quite a bit. That said, I can work on LordCamTheGreat's suggestion with having a master feedback thread that is stickied as a compromise. Additionally, I'll be leaving a note for myself to consolidate the general and how to access posts for future PTS phases to save more room on the first page of threads.

Hi everyone,

Wanted to let you all know that the PTS server will be going down shortly to implement the following fixes:

• Sleep Dart is a back for Operatives (it was never intended to be removed)
• Combat Dummies will be level 75
• Engineering Sniper has Orbital Strike baseline
• Some tooltip clarifications/typo fixing

Down time is estimated to be approximately 30 minutes. Will update this thread when the server comes back up.

Hi everyone,

Wanted to let you all know that the PTS server will be going down shortly to implement the following fixes:

• Sleep Dart is a back for Operatives (it was never intended to be removed)
• Combat Dummies will be level 75
• Engineering Sniper has Orbital Strike baseline
• Some tooltip clarifications/typo fixing

Down time is estimated to be approximately 30 minutes. Will update this thread when the server comes back up.

Hi all,

We will be taking down the PTS shortly to perform character wipes in order to prepare for the next phase. We intend on launching the next phase sometime this week. All relevant info will be posted once it is live. Should any of this change, we will let you know.

Thank you,
Jackie