Star Wars: The Old Republic Dev Tracker

Good morning, everyone!

We will be taking down servers in approximately 15 minutes to begin migrating Satele Shan and Star Forge over to the cloud. Please remember that expected downtime is 6 hours for all servers this time around. I'll provide updates here as I get them. 

Thanks! 

On 9/16/2023 at 3:31 PM, Lord_Malganus said:

Time would be better spent fixing all the issues in the game instead of a screenshot contest.

Clearing up a misconception here! This is a community run event, and it is one that is now entering its third year. The frames were done and built in the first year so the only lifting done on the team each following year is adding the winning shots to the event vendor. Essentially, that makes it so there's little impact on the design team and the heavier lifting is on the community team. So this is a fun project that community owns and the way the contest was built allows for others team to focus on things such as creating new content, polishing current content, and/or reviewing and fix bugs. Hope that helps!   

On 9/16/2023 at 3:40 PM, Whykara said:

I like the screenshot contest. Community acti...

Wanted to chime in here and say that in regards to 7.4 proper, we're preparing for the update livestream and will be making a formal date announcement in the coming weeks. We'll be covering a lot of info, for sure. I'll be making a separate thread for the date announce, and will post updates there per usual. So stay tuned! 

Hello everyone, 

Adding the following to the known issues list regarding Galactic Seasons 5. 

• The Space Missions "[HEROIC] Thanium Disruption" and "[HEROIC] Cha Raaba Assault" are not giving credit towards the Galactic Season Objective "We're Not Out of This Yet"

Hello everyone!

We are moving into the final stage of migrating the last two servers over to the cloud! Details below.

Date: September 20th
Time: 7am CT / 12pm UTC
Expected downtime: 6 hours

For this rollout, players should expect for all servers to remain offline for the duration of the maintenance window. This is to account for additional testing on every server to ensure that all servers behave and perform cohesively and there are no interruptions to the player experience. 

As always, we will be posting in relevant threads with updates on when the servers will be taken down and when they are brought back up. 

Thanks!
 

Hi everyone, 

I'm pleased to announce that we're bringing back the Best View in SWTOR contest for a third year in a row! All the details can be found here. Please be sure to read the submission details in full! Those of you who are familiar with the contest will know that there are 10 select planets that we are accepting submissions for.  This year, the 10 planets are: 

• Balmorra
• Belsavis
• Corellia
• Dantooine
• Ilum
• Nar Shaddaa
• Onderon
• Oricon
• Ruhnuk
• Voss

I'm really looking forward to seeing everyon...

13 hours ago, Saeten said:

Event calendar and in-games events doesn't shot a Bounty Hunting week but Conquest tab in-game shows Death Mark starting next week Sept 19 and that is the Bounty Hunting conquest companion event. What gives? @JackieKo

Missed it on the internal calendar! But it'll be added shortly. Thanks! 

On 9/4/2023 at 2:57 PM, Darves said:

In earlier seasons, if you had the right companion active, you got 3 reputation tokens when you completed a flashpoint, and 12 tokens when you completed story mode operations. Now you don't get anything so if you can actually get reputation tokens now it's not the same way as in previous seasons

Hello!

I wanted to touch base on how drops for these types of seasonal reputation currency items work in our game currently. Since Season 2 each season has had one of these, and we did change some things in Season 3 to allow past season currencies to be gathered after the season is completed.

If the season is active, group content such as Flashpoints and Operations drop the associated currency as long as you haven’t maxed out the reputation. However, after the season is no longer active, the currency stops being dropped in that content. You ca...

Hello everyone, 

Servers are coming back online now. We ran into some unexpected issues that required additional investigation and testing, but we're good to go now! Thank you for your patience! 

Hi there,

Completing the 4 Ops is intended. We're seeing feedback on this, so we're definitely taking all of it into consideration. Please feel free to add more feedback about the Galactic Seasons objectives as needed.

Hi everyone, 

Letting you all know as early as possible that we anticipate going over the 11am CT / 4pm UTC window, so we are extending downtime. I do not currently have an ETA on when the servers will be back up but I will be updating this thread the moment I have more information. 

I can shed a little light on this. So yes, moving over to the cloud definitely helps streamline quite a bit overall! For this patch specifically, there are other technical pieces we are updating that are not player facing. Taking into consideration the combination of these updates, the fixes that were published in the patch notes, and testing everything before bringing servers back up, we landed on 4 hours as a safe window of time to allocate for this patch. 

And Star Forge and Satele Shan are not yet migrated over to the cloud, but we'll post more details about that soon! 

Good morning, everyone!

We will be taking down all servers in approximately 15 minutes to deploy Game Update 7..3.1a. I'll update this thread when they come back up! 

On 9/8/2023 at 8:05 PM, Elvarania said:

Bump. Has the drop rate been increased as of the patch?

 Hi there, I received confirmation that there are drops for the Interpreter's Retreat area 7.3.1. Prior to 7.3.1, these drops were not working as they should, but now everything is working correctly.

On 9/7/2023 at 9:31 PM, septru said:

 

@JackieKo are there certain conditions that raise the drop chance? Such as number of players in the group, difficulty of phase, enemy type, etc.? 

Hi everyone,

Thanks for flagging this. I was out for a couple days, so I didn't have eyes on the tags, but I did receive info from the team that will explain what is happening with the PvP Seasons track.

First, let me go over how the season catch up is intended to work from start to finish. When a PvP Season goes live, it will remain active for a total of 12 weeks, or 84 days. Players should not expect to see the credit catch-up mechanic turn-on until just before week 8 into the season or day 55. Once the catch up is active, it will progress at a pace of 1 level per day up to the maximum purchasable level, which is level 15.

Everything stated above is what is supposed to happen when a season begins. However, with PvP Season 3, players saw the catch up way earlier than intended. Essentially, that was a bug and it was patched with 7.3.1.

Secondly, this was something that was being worked on but we missed with internal comms an...

Hey everyone,

We will be taking the servers offline on September 13, 2023 to deploy Game Update 7.3.1a.

Details:
DATE: September 13, 2023
TIME: 7am-11am CT (12:00 - 16:00 UTC)
VERSION: 7.3.1a

Patch notes will be available later today, here: http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes 

Thank you for your patience as we maintain Star Wars™: The Old Republic™!
 

Hey folks,

Apologies for the missed message yesterday, I somehow have a cold even though it is 1,000 degrees in Texas. We are confirmed for the Mission items in Collections. One note is that if you have already completed one of the Missions, or are currently on it, the Mission item will be added to your inventory or sent to you in the mail. You may need to move the item around within your inventory or to another character (since they are now Legacy bound) to trigger the Collection unlock.

Stay tuned for comms on maintenance timing and info on any other fixes. Thanks all.

-eric

Hey folks,

Alright, here is my update for today. I can't speak yet in 100% certainty as those mission items are not playing nice in getting in Collections but we are getting close (and that is still our intent). Looking good on that front, but should have a final update there Monday. Some of the other changes you will see are:

• The vendor (you can still get the items from the vendor for GS tokens instead of collections if you choose) will check your GS level instead of Mission progress.
• The Mission items will now be Bind on Legacy, in case you happen to claim them on the wrong character (especially relevant for the second or third Mission items).

More details to follow on Monday, have a good weekend!

-eric