SWTOR players will see an increased rate of Unassembled Components gained from warzones starting with 5.1.2 witch is scheduled for next week: Updated Unassembled Component Rates – 5.1.2 | 02.24.2017, 09:01 AM Hey folks, As I mentioned in the GC roadmap thread, 5.1.2 at the end of February will bring a lot of changes to Missions and Unassembled Components. For this post I want to focus on Unassembled Components and the specific changes that you can expect. Below you will find the new values along with what their old values were. Warzone Win: 8 (up from 5) Warzone Loss: 3 (up from 2) Arena Win: 4 (up from 3) Arena Loss: 2 (up from 1) Solo Ranked Win: 8 (up from 5) Solo Ranked Loss: 3 (up from 2) Group Ranked Win: 10 (up from 8) Group Ranked Loss: 4 (up from 3) GSF Win: 8 (stays the same) GSF…
Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Upcoming Quality of Life game improvements – part 1
Star Wars: Galaxy of heroes is getting some combat options improvements with the upcoming patch. Check it out: Greetings holotable heroes, This week we’re going to be highlighting features from our upcoming quality of life update. These features are meant to improve your play experiences and provide some other nifty improvements. Today we’re to talk about two new features, Saving Squad Configurations and Speeding Up Combat! Saving Squad Configurations: Preset Squad Configurations can now be saved and selected in the squad selection screen. This feature is very robust allowing squads to be grouped into tabs (ex. AAT Squads) and rearranged/deleted. Speed Up Combat: Combat speed can now be modified between three settings (1x, 2x, 4x). These speeds are independent of Auto or manual battle allowing increased speed while retaining manual strategy. To see these new improvements in action be sure to check out the video from MobileGamer over on his…
Star Wars: Battlefront to Become Massive eSports Title?
With the first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive challenging League of Legends as the most watched competitive eSport title, there appears to be huge scope to develop Star Wars: Battlefront to be a massive eSport box office draw. There are a diverse group of games that have made the transition to becoming super successful eSports games, but generally, there are a few criteria that although not guaranteeing success, certainly make it more feasible. Here’s our breakdown of why Battlefront is (or should be) destined to become an eSports hit. Community The first thing you need is a strong community and no one will doubt that Star Wars has a massive community of fans. The release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has ensured that a new generation of fans have been added and the community has increased dramatically. Although not every fan is a gamer,…
Changes to the Cartel Market — Tuesday February 21 2017
Here are the weekly cartel market items on sale for Friday February 21 – February 28 2017. Remember you can support this blog by buying your cartel coins on Amazon via this link were you also will get a Exclusive Item [Online Game Code] Items No Longer Available Helpful links TEMPLE GUARDIAN ARMOR Information from TOR FASHION Items Available Again Price Helpful links XOXAAN’S ARMOR SET 2600 Information from TOR FASHION
Star Wars The Force Unleashed now free on Xbox One and Xbox 360 thanks to Xbox Games With Gold
Xbox Live Gold members can now download Star Wars: The Force Unleashed at no extra cost! The game usually costs £11.99 to download, but for the next two weeks, its free! All who hold a valid Xbox Live Gold subscription can get free access to everything that The Force Unleashed holds until Feb. 27. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed features an original story set between the third and fourth Star Wars films and stars Sam Witwer as a new apprentice to Darth Vader. Here’s the official game description: The Star Wars saga continues in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed! Take on the role of Darth Vader’s “Secret Apprentice” in a new chapter of the saga set during the largely unexplored era between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. Unleash over-the-top Force powers and devastating attack combos on enemies with unique…
Star Wars: Battelfront Rogue One DLC is free for everyone this weekend.
Star Wars: Battlefront Rogue One DLC will be free to play this weekend. So if you didn’t buy the season pass, your decision payed off 🙂 In Rogue One: Scarif, players will battle across four new maps, including the beaches of Scarif, and two new playable heroes will be included: Jyn Erso and Orson Krennic. Scarif’s added the ew modes, Infiltration to the game, witchis another multi-stage operation like the Death Star expansion’s Battle Station mode. Rebels and Imperials clash in ship-to-ship combat above Scarif (featuring the new U-Wing fighter/transport) and eventually make their way down to the climactic beach assault that you’ve probably seen in all those Star Wars: Rogue One trailers.
Darth Nihilus now available in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes
Yesterdays game update for Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes saw the arrival of Darth Nihilus as a support character “that can instantly defeat enemies by draining cooldowns”. Together with Darth Nihilus comes two other support characters: Sith Trooper– Sith Tank who Taunts and ignores enemy Protection Sith Assassin– Elusive Sith Attacker with Stealth synergy You can read the rest of the patch notes below: WHATS NEW Peace is a lie. This February embrace your passion. Through passion you gain strength. Through strength you gain power, and with that power, the dark side will rise victorious. Characters: New Sith characters make their way to Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes for our Lord of Hunger event. For more information on the event, please see @EA_Jesse event Information post. For a sneak peek on these new Sith, read on! Darth Nihilus- Sith Support that can instantly defeat enemies by draining cooldowns Sith Trooper- Sith…
No More New Content Updates For Star Wars Battlefront
It appears that Dice won’t release any more new content updates for Star Wars Battlefront. Since it’s no longer a secret that Battlefront 2 is in the works, it’s not really a big chock, but at least we now got an official confirmation on it, as EA Star Wars tweeted out: “There are currently no plans to add any new content updates to Star Wars Battlefront. ” @Gamemaster6481 There are currently no plans to add any new content updates to Star Wars Battlefront. — EAStarWars (@EAStarWars) February 15, 2017 So, I guess we have to stick with the game as it is, until the sequel is out later this year. The Battlefront sequel from EA will be out in late 2017 and it will have a single player campaign and content from more than just the original trilogy timeline. It should have more content than the aforementioned 2015 video game….
Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Sith Faction Pass
The mobile game Galaxy of Heroes will a lot of changes to the Sith faction with this upcomming game update. The update was planned for yesterday, but due to technical issues it has been delayed untill futher notice. February 14, 2017 7:39PM edited February 14 Hey Everyone, We’re working on getting the update out today, but are currently running into a few issues. The update may be delayed 1 day to address these issues. We’ll share any updates we have here in the forums. In the meantime, we wanted to share with you the changes we’re making to the Sith faction with this update. We hope you’re all as excited about these changes as we are! SITH FACTION PASS Count Dooku Basic: Hindering Press Can now debuff non-Jedi, and chance to debuff Jedi is increased. Omega: Can’t be Countered in addition to +15% Damage. Special: Force Lightning Chance to debuff increased….
Changes to the Cartel Market — Tuesday February 14 2017
Here are the weekly cartel market items on sale for Friday February 14 – February 21 2017. Remember you can support this blog by buying your cartel coins on Amazon via this link were you also will get a Exclusive Item [Online Game Code] Items No Longer Available Helpful links MEDITATION CHAMBER Information from TOR FASHION MANIPULATOR PACK Information from TOR FASHION SUPERCRATE: MANIPULATOR PACKS Information from TOR FASHION HYPERCRATE: MANIPULATOR PACKS Information from TOR FASHION Items Available Again Price Helpful links XOXAAN’S ARMOR SET 2600 Information from TOR FASHION Update at 1PM EST: Items No Longer Available Helpful links XOXAAN’S ARMOR SET Information from TOR FASHION Items Available Again Price Helpful links TEMPLE GUARDIAN ARMOR 2000 Information from TOR FASHION Bioware is being a little odd with this CM update so far. It looks like Temple Guardian Armor is only temporary, it is not listed in the Armor tab. I also am still…
Star Wars: Force Arena – New Cards and Special Mission
With the patch update the other day, the Force Arena team released a small content update with new cards. Check it out: [Notice] New Cards and Special Mission CM Simon | 2017/02/09 11:37 1. 2 New Units Added Rebel Alliance Meet the peaceful herbivore, Bantha, in Force Arena’s Battlefield. The Bantha is a very versatile animal. It’s fur, leather, meat, and bones are all useful! Even it’s feces can be used as fuel! Such an amazing resource! It also has Blue Milk which is amazing if you haven’t tried it! However, in Force Arena we have no use for such things. We need to tame the beast and weaponize it to strike fear into our enemies! -The Bantha (Not the Rider) is an animal which will move its heavy feet to attack structures. -The Bantha will be able to take an insane amount of damage, but its focus remains on structures….
Changes to the Cartel Market — Friday February 10 2017
Here are the weekly cartel market items on sale for Friday February 10 2017. Remember you can support this blog by buying your cartel coins on Amazon via this link were you also will get a Exclusive Item [Online Game Code] Items Available Again Price Helpful links GALACTIC LEGENDS ARMOR PACK 750 Information from TOR FASHION MEDITATION CHAMBER 1200 Information from TOR FASHION Price Change Old Price New Price Percent Change Normal Price Helpful links 5-PACK: COMMAND BOOST 800 600 –25% 700
SWTOR’s Tait Watson Leaving Bioware
Tait Watson just informed the community that she is leaving Bioware at end of this month and moving to California. Tait started out as a Social Media Representative back when the game was first lunched, and is now ending his Career in BioWare as Assistant Producer for Star Wars the old republic. Below is the new form the official forums: Original source: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9236031#edit9236031 Hey everyone, There have been two forum posts in my time at BioWare that have been difficult to write: my introduction, and this one. For those who prefer brevity, I won’t bury the lead: February will be my final month on the SWTOR team and, in fact, with BioWare. I have had an amazing few years here, but it is time to sail different seas. I will go ahead and nip a few things in the bud because I know they will come up: I haven’t been fired,…
SWTOR Bonus (C)XP is 350% instead of 250%
BioWare have a small present for us today. Instead of a 205% XP bonus, the SWTOR devs decided to up the CXP bonus to 350% until patch 5.1.2. Update to the 250% CXP Event. | 02.07.2017, 10:09 AM Hey folks, The math savvy among you are going to notice the current CXP boost in the game for the event is operating at 350% instead of 250% as we originally stated. Since the Mission buffs are coming in 5.1.2 we decided to make the boost even larger until then! Since this was a last minute change, the in-game tooltip will still state 250% but the bonus is in fact 350%. Note that XP and Requisition are still 250%. Get in there and enjoy your crazy CXP bonus. -eric
SWTOR Game Update 5.1.1 Patch Notes
BioWare just released the patch notes for game update 5.1.1 Check them out below: Highlights Bonus Experience Event! Level through your Command Ranks faster than ever before with a 250% increase to all Command Experience gains, as well as leveling Experience and Starfighter Requisition, until Game Update 5.2! New Consumable: Superior Command Boost! A new Command Experience Boost can be purchased on the Command Token Vendor for 200 Command Tokens. These Boosts last 2 hours, are Bind on Legacy, and increase Command Point gain up to Tier 3 by 100%. A 3-hour version of the Boost can be found on the Cartel Market. General Command Experience is now additive instead of multiplicative. The Command Point Weekly Cap has been significantly increased. Command Experience Packs are now Bind on Legacy and can be shared between characters in a Legacy. Group members are now easier to locate on maps. Cartel Market Command…
SWTOR 250% XP and CXP Feb 7 – April 10
BioWare is doing a doing a 250% XP and CXP event from Feb 7 to April 10 in Star Wars: The old Repulic. Jump in now, if you want to experience all class stories quick. JOIN WITH FRIENDS IN EXCITING IN-GAME EVENTS! JUMP INTO YOUR FAVORITE IN-GAME EVENTS ALL THROUGH FEBRUARY! 250% Bonus XP Event: February 7 – April 10 250% Bonus Command XP Event: February 7 – April 10 Bounty Contract Week: February 14 – 21 Relics of the Gree Event: February 28 – March 7 Check back for more details on future in-game events. 250% BONUS XP EVENT (FEBRUARY 7, 2017 – APRIL 10, 2017: BEGINS AND ENDS AT 4AM PST/12AM GMT) LEVEL: All Levels up to 70! From story missions to PvP Warzones to Starfighter battles, level up at 2.5x the speed — up to Level 70! Looking to get an even greater boost? Grab a few…
The Story Behind the Doomed Battlefront 3
Sadly, there was a battlefront game that was never meant to be: Battlefront 3. Star Wars Battlefront is an action shooter video game developed by EA DICE, with additional work from Criterion Games, and published by Electronic Arts. Battlefront 3 was the game that we never got. Details and salvaged footage from Free Radical’s Star Wars Battlefront 3 can now be found online. The same game was once in alpha at TimeSplitters development studio, but cancelled. Eventually DICE picked it up and rebooted it, but without any of the original ideas. A Battlefront 3 campaign was going to see twin clones on a mission to boost the Galactic Republic. So fans of Star Wars: Battlefront I and Star Wars: Battlefront II were looking for their Star Wars: Battlefront III and got Star Wars Battlefront instead. A lot of people were disappointed in EA’s Star Wars Battlefront for various reasons. Many will agree…
Changes to the Cartel Market — Tuesday January 31 2017
Here are the weekly cartel market items on sale for the week of January 31 – February 7 2017. Remember you can support this blog by buying your cartel coins on Amazon via this link were you also will get a Exclusive Item [Online Game Code] New Items Price Helpful links RELENTLESS INSURGENT’S ARMOR SET 1440 Information from TOR FASHION Price Change Old Price New Price Percent Change Normal Price Helpful links 5-PACK: COMMAND BOOST 600 800 +33% 800
Closed SWTOR PTS Applications are now open
The SWTOR team is now accepting applications for entry into the Closed PTS for 5.2 operations testing to guilds. Check it out: Hey folks, As we mentioned on the last Producer Live Stream, we are going to be putting Game Update 5.2 on PTS. For now, our plan is that the test server will be closed with the intention of opening up later on. I want to make sure that players have the opportunity to apply to get entry into this closed test, so let’s talk about how to do that. Here are the requirements: Being on the closed test server means signing an NDA. You must be willing to sign and abide by that agreement. You must be 18 years or older to be eligible. You must have an active subscription (to access the test server). You must be willing to play and provide feedback. You must be able…
SWTOR Galactic Command Gearing Roadmap – Coming This Week
Eric Musco just informed the SWTOR Community that a roadmap of the changes to Galactic Command will be puvlished this friday: Galactic Command Gearing Roadmap – Coming This Week | 01.30.2017, 10:05 PM Hey folks, In one of my previous posts I highlighted that beyond the changes we made in Game Update 5.1 that there are more coming. By Friday of this week I am going to make a forum post highlighting a roadmap of changes you can expect to address the feedback you have raised around gearing in Galactic Command. These changes will be starting in the next few weeks and will go through to Game Update 5.2. They are intended to address the following: Greatly increase the rate at which you earn Command Crates. Our goal is that you earn one Crate every 30 minutes, or less (on average). Looking at improvements we can make to Unassembled Components and…
Star Wars Games Bootlegs and Hacks
We’ve seen many Star Wars games: some good, some bad, some never released, but how about the hacks? YouTuber SpaceHamster gives us the rundown of some comically bad hacks bearing the Star Wars name. Some of these hacks are low effort ventures: Escape from Hoth inserts a tiny, pixelated Millennium Falcon into the Atari game Asteroids, for instance. There’s also a hack that inserts the name of iconic Star Wars characters into the NES game Baseball Stars but is otherwise identical to the original game. Other hacks are hilarious for the scenarios they generate. A fine example is a Battle City hack that puts Luke in the Death Star with an assault rifle. Another is the Yoda Bros., a minimalist, one-level hack of Super Mario Bros. Some hacks don’t even pretend to make much sense. Star Wars: Jedy (yes, that’s how it’s actually spelled) hacks the Sega Genesis game Wolfchild…
SWTOR Jan 26 Producer’s Livestream Coverage
Here is a rundown of what we learned from the SWTOR Jan 26 Producer’s Livestream where a new Iokath operation was announced. Agenda Community Topics Galactic Command Gearing 5.2 – The War for Iokath Story, Companions, and Group Content The Public Test Server Community Topics Players feels that gearing is still taking too long, will talk more next week about adjusting the speed of getting gear. Plan to do an event soon to double your CXP gain. Game Update 5.2 – War for Iokath Coming first week of April likely, if they can do a March release they will try. Bringing back operation content into SWTOR with 5.2. Master Mode Uprisings – hard challenge for 4 players. They will have additional mechanics and coming with 5.2. New storyline – Return to Iokath. Scouts from the Alliance, Republic, and Sith have all arrived on Iokath. You, as the alliance commander, need…
Top 5 Female SITH from Star Wars
While many people know the male Sith lords, fewer people know about the great females of the Sith. This was an equal opportunity universe and there were just as many female powerful Sith as there were male. In fact, some of the females rose to power, overtaking their own masters, or leading independently in their own right. Here’s a great video I happened upon that lists some of the top five female Sith from Star Wars. One reason I love this video so much is that he pretty much picked my picks. If I had to create a top list, it would include the same ladies. In fact, I would have picked the very same one for 1st place. Darth Cagnes: The Strategic Mastermind Background and Rise to Power Darth Cagnes is a lesser-known yet incredibly influential Sith Lord. Her strategic mind and mastery of the dark side allowed her…
SWTOR Bolster Changes in Game Update 5.1
Eric Musco took on the official forums to clarify the intentions regarding the bolster changes that came with patch 5.1 Bolster Changes in Game Update 5.1 | 01.25.2017, 11:30 PM Hey folks, For those unaware, in Game Update 5.1 we made the following change: Bolster now improves players up to 232 Item Rating (down from 250). This change raised quite a few questions from the PvP community as to why we made the change. I spoke with the team about it and I want to start by confirming that this change is intended, let’s talk about why! When we released Game Update 5.0, Bolster was incorrectly set to Item Rating 250. The goal of Bolster is that it gives a player a minimum bar of power. That is so that they can enter PvP and not be too far behind someone who is at maximum gear, but it allows them…