Star Wars: The Old Republic Dev Tracker

Hi there, 

PTS is not currently open. We brought down the server on Friday. Feel free to follow 7.2.1 updates from this thread. Thanks! 

On 2/11/2023 at 8:54 AM, SilentMagician said:

Note that your other thread specifically directed people to come here to give feedback. So if you're going around deleting feedback that you directed to come here, you need to be clear in your original instructions.

That's fair. I updated the language in the general thread. I'm also repeating for the fourth time here in this thread that PTS feedback be left here and general discussion be kept to the general thread. I am leaving your comment here because you made a fair point in communication flow. 

Adding a note here for players who need a boost to level 80 on the PTS. There is a level boost terminal on Odessen if you need it. Once you land on Odessen, turn around, and the terminal should be close by! 

11 hours ago, Cindron said:

I am confused.  Will you only get the mount if you participate while the devs are on at 1:30 ct Thursday?  Or as long as you hit a warzone before they shut down on Friday?

 

The criteria is: 

• Log onto PTS
• Complete a Warzone

Playing a match with the team is not required at all. We're just hopping into the queues to see how everything is working live, and to also encourage pops for everyone participating.

Hi everyone, 

We're setting up another play test with the devs for tomorrow, February 16th at 1:30pm CT to further test the Alderaan PvP Map. Please note the following: 

• This phase of PTS will be closing on Friday, February 17th at 5:00pm CT
• As a heads up, the Opal Vulptilla mount can only be earned during this phase of PTS, so you will no longer have the opportunity to earn the reward after the Friday deadline. 

See you all during tomorrow's play test!

On 2/10/2023 at 10:53 PM, Stalha said:

I had the same issue, but I was able to fix it by turning compatibility mode off for both executables as suggested by a few other posts in the Testing 64 bit thread. Go to the SWTOR directory (for me that was Windows (C:)/Program Files (x86)/Electronic Arts/BioWare/Star Wars - The Old Republic), right click on launcher.exe, select Properties, go to the Compatibility tab, and make sure the compatibility mode box is unchecked. Do the same check for the PTS launcher, which is at Star Wars - The Old Republic/publictest/retailclient/swtor.exe. Once my two launchers had the same compatibility settings, the PTS showed up in my server select screen.

Hi there, 

Glad that this is working for you. We had a follow question to this workaround. Was there ever a point in the past where you manually updated compatibility mode? Possibly for other workaroun...

Hey everyone just wanted to take the time and answer some questions that have come up in the thread. 

First, I wanted to address what a Turret Zone is. This is essentially the radius in which you gain Defender points when standing near and objective for 30 seconds. This radius also accounts for gaining Attacker and Defender points on player kills. This allows for highly mobile fights that can stray further away from the node to still count towards each player's objective score who is within the radius and contributing to the fight. 

The second thing I wanted to address is on the topic of stalemates. Currently, if a node is unable to be captured by either team due to a stalemate then neither side will gain objective points. If this situation happens, players should be rota...

Hi everyone, 

We received reports that some players are seeing a maintenance error message when trying to log onto the PTS. We will be resetting the PTS shortly in order to see if this will fix the state that these players are in. Players who are currently on PTS should expect a bounce soon, but the server will come back up immediately after. 

Thanks!

Hi everyone, 

We received reports from players that they are unable to completely log onto the PTS as they do not see anything on the server list. If you are experiencing this, please follow these step so that we can do further investigation into this issue: 

• Send an email to [email protected] and in the subject line include "7.2.1 PTS - Empty Server List".
• Send us the host.developer.log file  C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\BioWare\Star Wars - The Old Republic Launcher\ on Windows
• Send us the client log located in the install directory \Star Wars-The Old Republic\publictest\retailclient\publictest\logs
• If possible, please indicate if you are experiencing this on the the launcher, Steam, both, or if one is working and not the other
• Be sure to include your account name!

Thanks all!

Hi all, 

Slightly repurposing the OP here to also include known issues for this current phase of PTS. I'll be updating this post as needed. Added the following:

Credit Economy

• Travelling between Strongholds doesn't always cost credits.
  • There is follow up info that can be found here. 
• Durability changes are not working

Thanks! 

25 minutes ago, go_rogue said:

Eric, a quick question on this. Is it for exiting to it's destination location, e.g. Alderaan stronghold exiting to Alderaan? What about Return to location from stronghold since one technically isn't travelling to a new location? E.g. I'm on Alderaan, I go to my Nar Shaddaa stronghold, then return to Alderaan?

Fair question, let me clarify within your example:

• You are on Alderaan. You go to your Nar SH and then use return to Alderaan. NO COST (you never actually traveled to another planet beyond the SH)
• You are on Alderaan. You go to your Nar SH and then exit area onto Nar Shaddaa. COST (you traveled to another location)

Generally speaking, Exit Area would have a travel cost and Return to Area would not.

-eric