BioWare will be doing 12 days for sales on the cartel market tarting from Dec 18 to Dec 29. The Cartel Market will be updated at 11:am CT each day. Check ingame or here on our website for details one each sale. Below is the official word The 12 Days of SWTOR | 12.17.2014, 08:06 PM Happy holidays everyone! Beginning tomorrow, the Cartel Market will have daily surprise sales for the next 12 days (12/18/2014 – 12/29/2014). You can find out what’s on sale in game, but we will also be posting here and on social media the items going on the Market that day. The Market will be updated at 11:00am CT each day. Day 1: (Dec 18): For the first day, we will be putting the Crime Lord and Blockade Runner’s Cartel Packs back onto the market! They are available both as single packs (250 CC) and Hypercrates (5400 CC). Day 2: (Dec…
BioWare won’t re-grant bugged achievements
Eric Musco Just informed the community that BioWare won’t give back players any achievements, that players lost with game update 3.0.1. That’s right folks. You now need to re- earn all your lost achievements! Hey folks, Unfortunately, for the achievements that we addressed in 3.0.1, you will need to earn them again. It is our usual policy that when an achievement is bugged, that once fixed, we will not re-grant the achievement. This is typically due to it being difficult to isolate players who have earned the achievement versus those who haven’t. As a side/related note, if you sold the Data Packets which you received from Grophets, you will need to earn those again as well. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this. -eric
SWTOR Drops 2 Places in Raptr’s Most Played
While it’s still in the top 15, SWTOR has sadly dropped two ranks in the Raptr’s Most Played list this month. This means it moved from 12th place to 14th, which really isn’t a super large jump. Some big names topped the list in November, which could explain SWTOR getting bumped down two slots. Also, the release of WoW’s new expansion means it sits comfortably in the #2 spot, just below the ever-popular League of Legends. 3rd place is DOTA 2 and CS:GO brought up the 4th place spot. Spider Solitaire – Play Free Game Online is not on the list. Raptr credits this drop in ranks to some of the new titles that have been released (no surprise) especially to WoW’s new expansion. Another funny fact: “For the first time since October 2013, Spider Solitaire made its way back into Most Played. Turns out Thanksgiving isn’t just about turkey,…
Star Wars Fan Film: Retribution
It’ll be a while until the next Star Wars movie hits theaters, so in the meantime Star Wars fans can watch a half-hour movie created by… a college football player. Called Retribution, the film was written and directed by Georgia University student Chris Conley, who started work on the short video last November. While Retribution doesn’t have the same cast and budget of actual Star Wars movies, it’s actually quite good, even though it was filmed in Conley’s University surroundings. With a simple plot, decent sound and visual effects as well as plenty of shooting and fighting (light saber action included), Retribution shows what can be done with the right amount of Star Wars passion and proper gear. Published on YouTube on Saturday, Retribution has already passed 200,000 views and it’s likely the number will go up as more Star Wars fans discover it. You can watch the fan-made flick…
Star Wars Battlefront: Space to Ground Combat Confirmed?
Moviepilot has come to the conclusion that Star Wars: Battelfront will have Space to Ground Combat. The reason for this, is a game play trailer for the upcoming indie game: “No Man’s Sky” witch is developed by the same game engine. Check out the full article over at Moviepilot.com: Star Wars: Battlefront has yet to receive a release date for 2015, but we’re sure it’ll be hitting the Xbox One, PC and PS4 during the Holiday season of next year. A Star Wars christmas is all that we could ask for (oh wait…we got that film and it was horrendous…)! There is certainly a great deal that we expect from the Battlefront series, and from a Star Wars NextGen game made by DICE and EA. Each player is going to carry their own preferences and expectations for the title, but there’s certainly one thing that we all desire: Space to…
Server Lag Being Reduced with game update 3.0.1
Bioware is fixing the server lag issues that came with game update 3.0. hopefully they do not nerf instance sizes though, but it looks like it. Hey folks, First off, I apologize if you feel that we haven’t communicated around looking into the lag/delay issues which have been happening since 3.0 launched. When 3.0 / SoR early access started there were quite a few issues around things like ability delay. We worked very quickly to make some changes to our “instances” in order to help alleviate those problems. Since then we have been monitoring lag across the game and making adjustments as best we can to remove any issues that players are experiencing. Tomorrow we are adjusting things further in hopes that this will further improve performance or even completely remove those issues. That said, we are always going to be looking at performance and making improvements where possible. We…
An Update on The Furious Title
Due to complaints on the official forums, BioWare will be changing the Furious PvP title from Season 3 ranked PvP to Fairly Furious Read the full update here or below: Hey folks! I wanted to tell you about a change coming to one of your titles, the Furious. As many of you pointed out, this title already existed in game prior to the end of Season 3 rewards. We really apologize for this happening, it was an unfortunate oversight on our part that it got through and we want to correct that oversight. As of 3.0.2 anyone who currently has The Furious from Season 3 will have it replaced by Fairly Furious. If you still want to have The Furious title, you can just jump on over to Makeb and defeat the Golden fury to earn it. Now, one thing we also know with Season 3, is that some of you…
Goals for Addressing Server Concerns
Eric took the forum earlier to share some insights on BioWares plans to address server concerns for next year. You can read the full post here, or below: Hey folks, At our fan event in Las Vegas, one of the things we stated is that we are working to address the concerns of things like queue times and uneven server populations and that we would provide an update before the end of the year. As you might expect we’re not ready to tell you exactly what we are working on yet, but we did want to go into what our goals are for next year. To address issues of queue times across all types of content, both PvP and PvE. To rethink how we approach “server separation.” Remain sensitive to things like character identity. The continued ability to define your chosen server playstyle, PvE, PvP, RP, RP-PvP. We also would…
Game Update 3.0.1 Patch Notes
Tomorrows patch notes are now available. Check them out below: Game Update 3.0.1 Patch Notes Highlights Life Day is upon us once again! Celebrate the occasion from December 16th 2014 until January 6th, 2015 at 4AM PST (12 Noon GMT). General Updated the population limits for Rishi, Yavin 4, and the SOLO-Mode Flashpoints in order to address performance issues. The Master of Ceremonies vendor is now available on both Fleets, and sells the following items: Life Day Snowball Bomb Ability Blue-Purple Life Day Holo-tree Decoration Gold Life Day Holo-tree Decoration Sleigh I Vehicle Cyan Sphere Vehicle Life Day Tree Fireworks Anniversary Personnel has been assigned to either Fleet to distribute free Third Anniversary Stronghold Decorations! They will be available until Game Update 3.0.2, and have the following Decorations: 3rd Anniversary Fireworks Launcher 3rd Anniversary Galactic Memorial Art: 3rd Anniversary Celebration – Coruscant Art: 3rd Anniversary Celebration – Dromund Kaas Art:…
Server Maintenance December 16th: Update 3.0.1
BioWare will be taking the servers offline on December 16th in order to apply Game Update 3.0.1. The website will also be unavailable during this time. Details: DATE: Tuesday December 16th, 2014 TIME: 3AM PST (11AM GMT) – 7AM PST (3PM GMT) VERSION: 3.0.1 This update includes numerous bug fixes, as well as the 3rd Anniversary Decoration vendor, and the start of Life Day 2014! We will post the patch notes here on the website when they become available. Timezone(s) Start Time End Time UTC Offset Australia/Sydney December 16, 2014 10:00 pm December 17, 2014 02:00 am +11:00 Australia/Adelaide December 16, 2014 09:30 pm December 17, 2014 01:30 am +10:30 Australia/Brisbane December 16, 2014 09:00 pm December 17, 2014 01:00 am +10:00 Tokyo December 16, 2014 08:00 pm December 17, 2014 12:00 am +09:00 Australia/Perth, Hong Kong December 16, 2014 07:00 pm December 16, 2014 11:00 pm +08:00 Mumbai December…
Friday 12/12 community stream with Towelliee
BioWare will be holding a specieal Star Wars: The old Republic : Shadow of Revan stream tomorrow Friday the 12 of december, with Streamer Towelliee and SWTOR Producer Bruce Maclean. If you don’t know who Towelliee is, here is a short break down. Towelliee is a Twitch.TV partner, Video Game broadcaster, ShoutCaster, Entertainer and much more, He live in California, San Diego county area, and have been around in the gaming world for years.. He is what you will call a professional gamer ( not that good, but really entertaining ). He is most known for his World of Warcraft, DayZ, Guild Wars 2 and off course SWTOR streams ( Every one plays SWTOR right?) The stream will go live at 11AM PT/ 7AM GMT! You can watch it below, or over at the official stream at twitch Watch live video from SWTOR on www.twitch.tv
Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ character names revealed
The names of the new characters that appear in the first Star Wars: The Force Unleashed trailer were revealed today in a very unique way. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy shared the names with Entertainment Weekly, which posted them in a gallery. But it wasn’t just any gallery. The images from the trailer were put in the format of Topps’ iconic original Star Wars trading cards. They are: BB-8, the rolling, R2-D2-esque robot. Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), who’s seen flying in an X-Wing in the teaser. Kylo Ren (actor unknown), the mysterious hooded figure with the Stephen Colbert-approved lightsaber. Rey (Daisy Ridley), seen riding a speeder across a desert. Finn (John Boyega), the nervous-looking, helmet-less Stormtrooper, described on his card as “on the run.” Now, we don’t yet know if these are the full names for each of these characters, or if any of these names might be aliases (this is…
Fan Film: Ruins and Reckoning
Lightsaber duels, planets in ruins, the force… this Star Wars fan film has it all! In a galaxy far far away, a descending belt-wave has threatened life on our featured planet. While Republic armies are desperately trying to aid in evacuating the planet, one misguided Jedi, a general of the Republic, will not bend the law to allow prisoners the same favored fate as those fortunate enough to escape. Our rival Jedi, who has a deep affinity with one of the prisoners has little restraint in expressing his objection against his fellow Jedi. Ruins and Reckoning is a not for profit Star Wars fan-film produced in Atlanta GA
Third Anniversary Promotion
Star Wars: The Old Republic is turning three later this month, and to celebrate, BioWare is making the game’s Coruscant and Dromund Kaas Stronghold housing instances available for just three credits. Even the 5,000 credit normal price is very small. I imagine it’s to help you get familiar with the process of buying them and travelling to them, so you aren’t lost when you want to try Nar Shaddaa and Tatooine. Other then that, BioWare are giving away some pretty interesting decorations for player housings and guildships. Namely a holographic projection of the galaxy, paintings, and a fireworks launcher. You can pick these up at the Anniversary Personnel vendor in the Strongholds area of the Fleet from December 16th through January 13th. Help us celebrate three years of Star Wars™: The Old Republic™! For a limited-time, move into Coruscant and Dromund Kaas Strongholds for only THREE CREDITS (normally 5,000 credits) plus…
Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader Join Star Wars: Commander
Star Wars: Commander, the recently released Star Wars strategy game, is going to receive a new update tomorrow. The update is going to include, among some yet to be fully detailed changes, support for two characters that will also be released with the update as part of a limited-time campaign – Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. They were strangely not included in the game at launch, but will come with special abilities that will bring a sound advantage to players. Star Wars: Commander has been originally released this August in soft-launch mode on the Australia App Store, becoming available in all other regions some time later. The game is a free to play strategy that doesn’t play all that differently from Clash Of Clans and other similar games, as players will have to defend their home bases by using troops and vehicles taken from the Star Wars Universe, as well as Heroes like Han…
3.0.0b Patch Notes
Servers were down shortly today, while BioWare patched the servers. Here are the patchnotes: Items + Economy All PvP Modifications sold on vendors are now Bind on Pickup. This includes Warzone and Ranked Warzone Modifications. This means – If its like other times they changed the binding in the past – that previously purchases items will now have a BoP on them, meaning that anyone that has them now has them bound. Ones on the GTN and in Guild Banks won’t be bound to anyone yet. As soon as someone buys the mod or it is returned to the seller, it will bind. The ones in Guild Banks can stay unbound for a while until someone takes them out: we have some BoP Slot Machine decorations in our Guild Bank.
Dev Blog: Welcome to Shadow of Revan!
Shadow of Revan expansion is now official live. Technically opened last week, but for non-subscribers, the formal digital launch date was yesterday. With that Associate Producer For Star Wars: The old Republic, Andrew Horwitz, wrote a blog update over at the official websites, and of course BioWare also released a new trailer to coincide with the official launch. Check it out: Welcome to the launch of our latest expansion – Shadow of Revan! The Shadow of Revan Digital Expansion is the grand culmination of the Forged Alliances story arc. Revan is ready to make his boldest move yet, and we are excited to share it with you. When we started developing Shadow of Revan, we wanted to go back to our BioWare roots and focus on the story. We know that BioWare story is at the top of the list for things players want to experience in Star Wars™: The…
New Maintenance: Update 3.0.0b
BioWare will be taking down the servers again tomorrow to apply Patch 3.0.0b. Details: DATE: Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 TIME: 3AM PST (11AM GMT) – 5AM PST (1PM GMT) VERSION: 3.0.0b Patch Notes will be available after the maintenance window. Not posting patch notes till after maintenance usually happens when they are fixing an exploit of some kind, If any of you have any idea what’s up, let is know. yes there is tons of bugs, but if there is something useful, might as well share it with the community 🙂 Timezone Start Time End Time UTC Offset Australia/Sydney December 10, 2014 10:00 pm December 11, 2014 12:00 am +11:00 Australia/Adelaide December 10, 2014 09:30 pm December 10, 2014 11:30 pm +10:30 Australia/Brisbane December 10, 2014 09:00 pm December 10, 2014 11:00 pm +10:00 Tokyo December 10, 2014 08:00 pm December 10, 2014 10:00 pm +09:00 Australia/Perth December 10, 2014…
Star Wars: Battlefront – How Does it Tie to Star Wars 7?
After fans got to see the trailer for the upcoming “Star Wars 7”, various questions have popped up regarding the future of the franchise – but one in particular has been quite prominent on most discussion boards. Many fans are wondering to what extent the events from the new film will be related to the upcoming “Star Wars: Battlefront”, and whether there will be any special reason to go see the film if one is primarily interested in playing the game. So far, it’s known for sure that the new game will be official part of the canon. This has been exciting news for fans, as it means that the “Star Wars” universe is about to be expanded significantly, on one hand with the new storyline in the seventh movie, and on the other, with the game. One of the problems that the developers from DICE are facing is that they…
3.0.0a Patch Notes
All servers are now back up. Below are the patch notes: General Ability Costs have been removed from the game. Fixed a display bug that caused Prefab Decorations to not appear in the Decoration UI. Chests on Rishi and Yavin 4 no longer give too many Credits. Imperial Agent players will now get the appropriate Shadow of Revan introductory cinematic if they have completed Chapter 3 of their Class Story. Missions + NPCs The tree used to summon the Tonitran Beast during the Mission “Jungle’s Bounty” will no longer become unusable in certain cases. Corrected an issue with certain phases of the fight during the Mission “The Enemy Within.” Players who are defeated on the Mission “The Enemy Within” and return to a Medical Center can now re-enter the battle. Numerous Mission Reward Gear Packs have been fixed and now reward the appropriate items. Flashpoints + Operations The final encounter…
Maintenance: December 9th, 2014
BioWare will be taking the servers offline tomorrow on December 9th in order to apply Patch 3.0.0a. Details: DATE: Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 TIME: 3AM PST (11AM GMT) – 5AM PST (1PM GMT) VERSION: 3.0.0a This patch includes fixes and adjustments for the following issues: “The Enemy Within” encounter issues. Mission Reward Gear Packs giving the wrong/incomplete gear. The tree used to summon the Tonitran Beast on the Mission “Jungle’s Bounty” becoming unusable. “The Ravagers” final encounter not giving loot. “Temple of Sacrifice” final encounter not giving loot. This is not a complete list and full Patch Notes. We will post them here on the site when they become available after the maintenance window. Timezone Start Time End Time UTC Offset Australia/Sydney December 09, 2014 10:00 pm December 10, 2014 12:00 am +11:00 Australia/Adelaide December 09, 2014 09:30 pm December 09, 2014 11:30 pm +10:30 Australia/Brisbane December 09, 2014 09:00…
TOR TV: House of Cards SWTOR Intro
Youtube user EggsGamerTag has created a very cool House of Cards SWTOR intro that we just had to share with you. If you are not familiar with House of Cards, you are missing out. The show is an American political drama television series, developed and produced by Beau Willimon. It is an adaptation of BBC’s mini-series of the same name and is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs. The entire first season, thirteen episodes, premiered on February 1, 2013, on the streaming service Netflix. A second season of thirteen episodes premiered on February 14, 2014. On February 4, 2014, ten days prior to the release of the second season, Netflix announced that the show had been renewed for a third season, which will be released on February 27, 2015. For some reason, it also goes really well with Star Wars: The old Republic. Check it out yourself:
Training cost is a thing of the past in SWToR
Bioware’s community manager Eric Musco, posted a very interesting thread at the official forums today relating to training costs. Musco, responding to a number of fan threads requesting the removal of training costs from the game, decided to take action and bring forward the suggestion to developers for consideration. After discussing the matter internally, they decided to remove training costs all together! So,when you login next week you won’t be required to pay any credits for your training! Eric’s complete post follows below: Hey folks, Let’s talk a bit about training costs for your characters abilities. One thing has become clear from the player feedback in not only this thread, but since launch: players do not like training costs. It is a situation where every level you will see your hard earned credits go to a holographic Hutt doctor in order to make yourself a bit stronger. We have been talking about…
Potential Star Wars Episode VII Leak from 4Chan [Warning: Possible spoilers within. Read at your own risk]
These new leaks supposedly comes from a Lucasfilm employee who provides some details on various aspects of the upcoming Star Wars movie: The Force Awakens. We cannot verify if any or all of the rumored information provided in this post is considered new material or if it is just a roundup of existing rumors that have already been posted before, but it is still a quite interesting read. The film is dystopian and darker than Empire. Some 30-40 years have passed since Return of the Jedi, and the Empire and New Republic have been locked in a war of attrition. Everyone is languishing and sick of the war. The script, which is described as “too good for JJ Abrams”, begins in space, above a desert planet — presumably Tatooine. The opening crawl details the ongoing turmoil in the galaxy. How the fall of the Emperor left a void of power,…