Star Wars: The Old Republic Dev Tracker

Hi all, I wanted to chime in here because there are a lot of perceptions on what a community manager is and I’m happy to shed some light on this. Of course, I can’t give out every little detail but I can offer a high level overview. 

First thing I want to address is that the SWTOR community expands outside of these forums. While we do post official communication here, this platform is included in spaces where I interact and gather feedback. Players and their experiences, feedback, and engagement can be found all over the internet. 

Second, not every community manager’s responsibilities will be the same from team to team. There are different types of CMs in the industry and there can be overlap and similarities in responsibilities and also different responsibilities entirely based upon what the role requires and what the CM’s skillsets are. 

ThanderSnB’s bulleted list is pretty close! Some other things that can be added is answ...

Hi again,

The purchase issues are now fixed. Thanks for your patience.

Hi folks,

Our team is aware of the purchase issues some players might encounter on our website. Our team is currently looking into it. We will update you in this thread and on our Twitter account when we have more information.

20 hours ago, steveerkcanjerk said:

So yeah, you have every right to spend your money how you want and I am pretty sure you have to be subbed to post here unless that changed but doubt it. 

Hi there, 

No intention of derailing the thread, but needed to correct some misinformation around this topic. This has not changed. We are looking at ways for Preferred accounts to engage in the forums, however, nothing has been changed. An update like that would definitely be announced and communicated out. So for the time being, I am confirming that this has not changed, and the team will be investigating this forum bug. 

Thanks

Hello everyone, 

We will be taking down the PTS around 12pm CT today. We will not be bringing PTS back up as the team will be moving forward with finalizing changes and polish. Details on 7.3's release date will be announced at a later time. Thank you for all of your feedback on the 7.3 PTS!

Jackie 

Hey folks,

One thing we have seen a little bit of confusion around is what difficulty modes exist on PTS and will be available for Shrine of Silence when 7.3 goes live. Since our naming conventions can be a little confusing sometimes let me reiterate what they are, and what they mean.

• Solo-Story: A solo-only mode where the player is often accompanied by characters relevant to the story and sees cutscenes throughout the Flashpoint. These are usually required parts of the main story in the game.
• Story - Easiest difficulty, meant to be completed solo.
• Veteran - Middle difficulty, meant to be completed with a group of any composition.
• Master - Hardest difficulty, meant to be completed with a coordinated group, built around the trinity (healer, tank, and DPS).

With that in mind, a reminder. Shrine of Silence marks a shift in our philosophy around how and where we will deliver crit path stor...

Hi all!

Poking back in to respond, thanks so much for the comments and feedback so far. A common question is if we’ll be reducing the Weekly Arena Missions similar to the Arena Objectives. The answer is we will! I’ll update the initial post as well as list the information below.

Reduced the requirements for PvP Arena Weekly Missions:

• [DAILY] My Kind of Scum
  • Now requires 4 Arena Matches (Wins count x3) - down from 6
• [DAILY] Arena of Death!
  • Now requires 4 Arena Matches (Wins count x3) - down from 6
• [WEEKLY] Time for Pain!
  • Now requires 16 Arena Matches (Wins count x3) - down from 24
• [WEEKLY] Go Berserk!
  • Now requires 16 Arena Matches (Wins count x3)  - down from 24

As always, please keep the constructive feedback coming to make PvP Season the best exper...

Hello everyone, 

PTS will be opening back up shortly. I have updated the OP with the newest information and organized it a bit better for easy reference. 

Thanks!

Hi everyone, 

PTS has been taken down. We will be preparing for another patch to go out in the coming days (actual day yet to be determined). I'll update this thread when we're ready to reopen. 

Thanks for all the feedback! 

Hi there,

Yes, the team is aware of the bug and it's being investigated.

When exploits are reviewed, there are a number of factors that are taken into consideration which also includes actions taken against the accounts. Having reviewed this specific case, it does not fall under actionable exploit. It will, however, be fixed in an upcoming patch.

Overall, we always encourage players to play the game as intended to avoid potential actions taken against their accounts.

Hi RevBurt,

Thanks for the report regarding the bug on Guild Perk "Major Critical Boost".

Our team is aware of this bug that affects all the Guild Perk Abilities. We've added it to the known issues list for more visibility: 

• Active Guild Perk Abilities are removed from the Quickbar after a transition.

Hey Community!

I wanted to touch on some changes to Arena objectives coming in PvP Season 3. When we were building out the Seasonal Objectives for Arenas, to keep it simple we made it require double the amount of Warzones given their relative time commitment in theory. However, in practice we know that the time it takes in many cases for Arenas isn’t exactly half a Warzone. In season 3 we’ll be lowering Arena objective requirements to be closer in alignment with our goals and feel a bit more in line with Warzone Objectives in their time to complete.
The updated objective requirements will be:

• Arenas: Decorated
  • Earn at least 7 medals in 6 Arena matches (down from 8 matches)
• Arenas: Combatant
  • Play 12 Arena matches (down from 16 matches)
• Arenas: Domination
  • Win 4 Arena matches (down from 6 matches)

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Hi all, 

Thanks for the follow ups and the messages. We are still investigating what causes issues for some players to access the game while the system alert is up. 

Regarding the reports where players are seeing a cropped launcher, the team has found that modifying the text size in the control panel should allow you to see the launcher as intended. If the windows text size is configured above 100%, the launcher will appear cropped. The team will be working on a launcher patch this week to fix this setting. In the interim, you can change the text size manually to fix the cropping issue and then access the game. 

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