Star Wars: The Old Republic Dev Tracker

If you have not read the R-4 gearing post yet, I encourage you to do so!

Please leave general feedback here on how the gearing process feels as you complete R-4.

Hi everyone,

Now that 7.1 PTS is live, I have some additional info to share with you from the Design team regarding gearing in Operations, specifically in The R-4 Anomaly.

On PTS you’ll notice that gearing works differently in R4 than other Operations. There are 2 goals we’ve focused on with R4 gear.

Progression as a Group
Operations are difficult content requiring coordinated groups to progress. Progressing can be easier if the group has control over which members are receiving their upgrades. We want to allow groups to have some control over their power progression, and have built this into R4’s gearing.

Progression on every Kill
It isn’t fun to kill a boss and make no progress towards your goals, even if your team is progressing towards group goals. R4 will have a secondary method of progression allowing every player to gain power as their group conquers each boss.

How these take shape in R4
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Hi again,

For those who did not originally receive a patch for the launcher, can you please log out of the launcher then log back in? You should be receiving a patch at this time. Please report here if you do not!

Thanks!

Hi all,

For those who did not receive a patch to download, can you please confirm if you are using the web launcher or Steam?

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

PTS for 7.1 is here! In this phase, you will have the opportunity to test out the R-4 Anomaly Operation in its entirety alongside the Manaan Daily area.

There’s a lot of info we want to share with you all with not only 7.1 PTS, but for game update 7.1 in general, so please be sure to read through the following posts carefully before diving into PTS.

• R-4 Anomaly Operation Bosses and Design
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Please offer any general feedback you have about the daily area here.

• For the heroic area, please let us know if the are feels correct for max level. It should not be too easy or too difficult. If it is, give details on your experience.
• Was it difficult completing the Vital Intelligence and Deep Dead Drop missions? If so, please list why.

** Reiterating that for this phase of PTS, players MUST use a character that has completed the 7.0 story to play the Manaan Daily Area.

Thank you!

Please answer the following questions about Lady Dominique. If you are able to provide a VOD of your experience with this fight, please feel free to post it here or send me a PM! Videos of the encounter are incredibly helpful for the designers!

Background

• How often do you participate in Operations and on what difficulty?
• What role did you play on PTS?

General

• What are your overall impressions of Lady Dominique?
• What are your top three suggestions for improving this encounter?
• Considering this is Story Mode, did the difficulty feel appropriate?
• If you were unable to defeat the boss, what gave your team the most trouble?
• Did the length of the fight feel appropriate for a final boss?
• If you encountered any bugs (even known issues), please describe them in as much detail as possible.

Mechanics

• Were there any mechanics that were unclear or confusing?
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Hey folks,

As you likely saw in our most recent blog post, 7.1 has entered the final phase of our PTS! The Manaan Daily Area is now available for testing and more to the point of this thread, all of the R-4 Anomaly Operation will also be available.

Lady Dominique is the newest boss that has been added to the Operation. As she is the 4th and final boss, we wanted to make her a bit special, so we really honed and focused our efforts into some wild new mechanics and surprises players haven�t seen in the past.

One focus in particular was how the encounter communicates to the player in terms of readability of the boss mechanics. Our VFX team did some new work throughout the Operation, so we�re looking forward to what you all think about these improvements as you go through R-4 on PTS.

What�s great about working on SWTOR is the ability to try out new things and constantly find ways we can improve and enhance the player experience. We will continu... Read more

Hey everyone,

We will be taking the servers offline on June 7, 2022 to deploy Game Update 7.0.2b.

Details:
DATE: June 7, 2022
TIME: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT (1300 - 1600 UTC)
VERSION: 7.0.2b

Patch notes will be available on Monday, here: http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes.

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

Hello everyone,

The in-game events schedule has been updated for June! This month will feature the All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally, Rakghoul Resurgence, and Relics of the Gree events. More details here: SWTOR In-Game Events for June.

Hi all,

I'm Chris Durel and I�m a Gameplay Designer on the SWTOR team! I wanted to take a moment to speak about some upcoming changes we�re going to be making to class balance in 7.1 and future patches. The plan is to focus on those combat styles most in need of adjustment for 7.1 and then branch out from there to the remaining combat styles in future patches such as 7.2 and 7.3. Balance is, and always will be, an ongoing process, and we want to take our time to do our due diligence before making any changes.

With 7.1 comes changes to Marauders, Juggernauts, Snipers, and Mercenaries, in the form of balance adjustments, passive mod redesigns and quality of life improvements. The goal here is to bring these combat styles closer to their intended experiences and make disciplines more competitive with one another. Of special note, and after listening to lots of feedback and gathering data, are the changes to Fury and Carnage Marauders (Concentration and Combat ... Read more

Hi everyone,

I have a few things to share with you about 7.1!

First up, PTS will be opening back up soon. We are planning to go live before the end of the month. This phase will feature all of the R-4 Anomaly Operation and the Manaan Daily Area effectively letting you all see what will be included in 7.1. As always, when PTS is up, I will post all the relevant threads in the PTS sub-forums so you are able to leave feedback.

Second, this will be the final PTS phase for 7.1. Once PTS closes, the team will be working away on polishing ... Read more

Hi ronin_chi_lao,

Thanks for reporting this bug with the Guild Heraldry and tags.

Our team is aware of this bug. I'll add it to the known issues list:

• Guild Heraldry and Guild information are not correctly displayed when inspected.

Hi folks,

Thank you for the reports regarding the bug on the Ion Overload passive for Powertech/Vanguard.

The information provided was transferred to our team for additional investigation.