SWTOR 1.2 Patch

[Xenus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtnLMcWdARY

En çok yeni texture'lara sevindim. Harbiden baya çalışılmış. 1.1 gibi boş bir patch değil yani. Yeni operation, flashpoint, warzone ve pvp-pve tier setleri var. Nisan'da geliyormuş. Legacy olayını açmışlar. Legacy abilities, legacy species ve ship modificationları var. Force choke yapan smuggler, flame thrower kullanan sith warrior gördüm.

Birde yavru tantaun gibi petlerimiz olacak asdf. Videonun sonundaki yeni tier setlerden Inquisitor seti ne öyle witch doctor gibi. Ama özellikle Commando ve BH seti harika (:P)


Warzone: Novare Coast

Operation: Explosive Conflict

Flashpoint: Lost Island

Expanded legacy system (legacy family tree, legacy abilities, legacy unlocks, legacy species unlocks)

Advanced options (UI customization, Improved character textures, appearance customization, mission tracker useables)

Additional features (warzone rankings, new corellia daily missions, new mini pets, guild banks, new gear, New Vehicles, Craftable Augments, New Crafting Schematics, Extractable Tier 2 Mods, New Lightsaber Colors, Ship Droids Gain Affection, Legacy Item Drops, New Roleplay Emotes.)

[Mortis]

trailer yapma aşamasında kalacaklardı abi
bioware trailer yapım şirketi olsun business to business çalışsın artık

[-Deno-]

son trailer'da gösterilenler umut vadediyor.

bu kadar zaman beklediğimiz oyun salak saçma sebeplerden bu kadar çabuk baymamalıydı yani.

[Mortis]

üzgünüm deno

mou osoi zo!

[aquila]

temeli saglam degil ki, ustune ne koyarsan koy.

[DA2019]

Oyun asıl şimdi release olmalıydı. Sağolsun EA, hep aynı hatayı yapıyor.

[Xenus]

Legacy abilityleri sadece heroic moment anında kullanılabilincekmiş. Balance sorunu olmayacak yani.

Yeni operation diğer iki operationdan daha zor olacakmış. NM mode 1.2 ile testi devam ettiğinden dolayı gelmiyormuş. Yeni tier gear da sadece bu NM modedan düşecekmiş. Operationlar ve Flashpointler için single server group finder gelicekmiş 1.3 patchi ile...

[Evr]

http://www.swtor.com/guildsummit
bu arada guild summitte baya bir şey açıklıyorlar şu an canlı izleyebilirsiniz.
tabi komik olan yanlış hatırlamıyosam 170 guild katılmış 5 tanesi republic :P

şu ana kadar söylenenlerden önemli olanlar
war hero gear
achievments
1.2de normal ve hm olacak nim ilerde patchle eklencek ayrıca en sonunda hm ve nim loot farklı olacak vs izleyin işte :)

şimdi sorulduda kaçırmışım dynamic event mevzusu falan olacakmış ilerde ilginç birazdanda legacy bölümü başlıyacak

[synthesizer]

tam da bırakıyodum ha, iyi oldu valla

[Evr]

oha legacy super olacak
buff olayı muhteşem
tum karakterlerin bufflarını unlock ediyorsun hangileriyle
lvl 50 olduysan tek karakterde kullanabiliyorsun (class buff)

heroic moment
wz ve ops dışı kullanılıyo
scoundrelda force stasis kullanıyosun mesela

ana companion questlerin tamamını bitirince
tum karakterlere ona gore buff alıyosun adam mesela corsodan ornek verdi tum karkaterlere accuracy ve presence buff alıyosun

[Xenus]

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/121/1219843p1.html

"Class changes in 1.2 include new abilities for the Warrior and the Knight, a nerf for the Bounty Hunter, and more. Every class will receive changes, and all skill tree points refunded so you can look over the trees again before deciding how to rebuild your class. "Some players will be excited, some might not. That's always the case when there's tweaks to classes."

Tam da arsenal merc kasmaya başlamışken olacak şey mi bu. Sorc akar 8-)
Sanırım juggernaut ve JK'a heal gelebilir. Başka her classın combattan çıkmadan self-healing bir skilli bulunuyor yanılmıyorsam.

[Evr]

ship droid voice restriction koyduk diyince tum salon coştu hahahahah
1.2 ile geliyor bu arada :)

[tegororn]

toplantıyı çok net ve bağlantıda problem olmadan izleyebiliyorum.

Site üzerinde interaktif anket, soru, yorum kısmını da çok iyi kotarmışlar.

Takdir ettim.

[Evr]

rp kısmına kadar dinledim guild summiti gayet güzel şeyler geliyor 1.2 ve sonrasında, toparlarlar oyunu devamınıda 1.2 gibi getirirlerse, akılları başlarına geliyor yavaş yavaş.

özetle 1.2

New Warzone: Novare Coast (planet Denova)
New Operation: Explosive Conflict (planet Denova)
New Flashpoint: The Lost island
Expanded Legacy system: New legacy abilities (i.e. sith using a flamethrower), new races unlocked (chiss), legacy unlocks (pratice dummies and mailbox for your ship)
Advanced UI customization: the dev team put in a lot of hrs into this.
Improved character textures
Appearance customization
Adding useable to the mission tracker so you don’t have to find them in your inventory
Warzone rankings (group and solo performance) and new ranked pvp gear tiers
In –game events: limited time events, created by a dedicated team to make the SWTOR universe more dynamic. Can’t give out a lot of details right now – want to be more of a surprise.
New Corellia Daily missions
New mini-pets
Guild banks: This is something guilds have being asking for since launch – shared bank for guild members to use. Can unlock upto 7 tabs for guild use but it will be very expensive to unlock it all.
New gear
New vehicles
Extractable tier 2 mods
New lightsaber colors
Ship droids gain affection
New crafting schematic
Craftable augments
Legacy item drops
New roleplay emotes

[serhater]

warcraft wars : the old azeroth

[Xenus]

Extractable tier 2 mods kısmı dediği columi/champion modları ise orange geara bunları takmak bişey ifade etmez. Rakata ve yeni tierdaki tüm modları çıkabiliyor olmamız lazım yoksa orange itemlar augment ile bile çöp olur.

[Evr]

guild summitte anlattığı, tüm pvp/pve gearların(offhand shotgundan falan bile bahsetti) slotları sökülüp orange geara takılabilecek ha set bonuslar falan ne olacak bilmiyorum muhtemelen onada birşey düşünmüşlerdir :P.
crit craft orange gear augment slotlu olacağı için şart oluyor kısaca endgame için.

[-Deno-]

Evr said:

rp kısmına kadar dinledim guild summiti gayet güzel şeyler geliyor 1.2 ve sonrasında, toparlarlar oyunu devamınıda 1.2 gibi getirirlerse, akılları başlarına geliyor yavaş yavaş.

özetle 1.2

New Warzone: Novare Coast (planet Denova)
New Operation: Explosive Conflict (planet Denova)
New Flashpoint: The Lost island
Expanded Legacy system: New legacy abilities (i.e. sith using a flamethrower), new races unlocked (chiss), legacy unlocks (pratice dummies and mailbox for your ship)
Advanced UI customization: the dev team put in a lot of hrs into this.
Improved character textures
Appearance customization
Adding useable to the mission tracker so you don’t have to find them in your inventory
Warzone rankings (group and solo performance) and new ranked pvp gear tiers
In –game events: limited time events, created by a dedicated team to make the SWTOR universe more dynamic. Can’t give out a lot of details right now – want to be more of a surprise.
New Corellia Daily missions
New mini-pets
Guild banks: This is something guilds have being asking for since launch – shared bank for guild members to use. Can unlock upto 7 tabs for guild use but it will be very expensive to unlock it all.
New gear
New vehicles
Extractable tier 2 mods
New lightsaber colors
Ship droids gain affection
New crafting schematic
Craftable augments
Legacy item drops
New roleplay emotes

bana bu kadar saygı göstermelerine gerek yoktu ya, gezegen çok fazla olmuş eheh.

[Sovereign]

Evr said:

ship droid voice restriction

OHH BEEEEE

[Evr]

guild summitte bi eleman çıktı guildimizde şimdiden legacy 48-49 olanlar var, cap kaç diye sorunca affaladım
35 legacyim bir an gözümde tükendi ahahah

heroic moment olayı çok iyi, pvp serverdakilerin QQ larını duyar gibiyim çünkü ilum dışında open world pvpde kullanılabilecekmiş

o ship droid olayını söyleyince salon yıkıldı resmen ahahaha cidden ansıl bir nefret oluştu o droide ama onada süper özellikler geliyo
comp customization gibi robotumuza crew skill özelliği verebilecez yani mesela armstech crit vs gibi

ayrıca gemiye training dummy geliyor boss/pvp çeşitlerinde dmg meter varmı anlamadım ama combat log lafı geçti neyse buda iyiyidr :P
neutral gtn / mail vs hepsi 1.2 de

[Invulon]

aynen ben daha yeni 35 legacy oldum ki 3x50 oldu 4. ye ugrasiyorum. 49 icin 50 oldugu gunden beri hergun daily yapiyor olmasi falan lazim sanirim

[Miraul]

target of target. sanirim en iisi bu

[tegororn]

1.2 umut vaadediyor, umarım oyunu daha eğlenceli hale getirir

yalnız, zaten oyunun çıkışında olması gereken ama 1.2 ile gelecek oyun mekaniklerinin millet tarafından alkışlanması mallık mıdır yoksa ironi mi yapılıyor bilemedim. ui sunumunda salon inledi resmen :)

[Konn]

umutlandim

[Evr]

Guild Summit full yazmış birisi rp kısmına kadar

State of existing operations

38% of level 50 players have played in an operation
We know there are lots of bugs – particularly in Eternity Vault
With game testing and feedback things go a lot smoother – i..e KP launch much better
Looting system in normal needs improvements – we wanted to make it pug friendly so you don’t have to yield to someone who is a masterlooter when you are pugging. We will deviate from this auto-assigned loot system in patch 1.2 raid content and use system currently in use for hardmodes/nightmares. Also in the future we will allow you to trade loots assigned to you to other operation members for a limited time (hrs).
We know our existing operations are fairly easy, our goal is to make hardmodes and nightmare modes a bit more challenging than they are right now.
Something not intended that made certain encounters easier is the fact that armor debuffs from multiple people of the same classes can stack together – this is to be fixed.
We are well aware that hardmodes and nightmares give the same amount and quality of loot.

Explosive conflict – new operation with 1.2

It is going to be harder than the current raiding content and will involve a lot more coordination and execution rather than just gear/stat checks.
Takes place on Denova, it will be a Tier 2 raid (KP and EV are tier 1 raids)
Nightmare mode of Explosive Conflict will not be launched with patch 1.2. It will come after and feature new/additional mechanics on the nightmare difficulty and offer new additional gear tier different from hardmode.
We are also renaming the “normal” mode diffculty we have right now to “story” mode to give a better reflection of the difficulty. This is not a mode for guild progression but rather a mode to experience the story and socialize.
Story mode of new raid is not too gear dependent
Can reverse engineer operation gear for appearances

Future of operations

Bug fixing will be our highest priority.
fight the boss not the game – more in- game animations to give you clue on boss abilities

Flashpoints

They are enjoyable but we need better endgame progression via flashpoints. We want to smooth the curve to operations.
New Flashpoint: Lost Island – finish the story started in patch 1.1
Group finder: introduced in game-update 1.3 – also for heroic quests and flashpoints. It is single server only. We understand that community is very important to our players we want to preserve that.

Q& A

Q: trash drop credits on operations to help pay repair bill? also what initiatives to allow high level players to help lower level players (reverse mentoring system)..A: with 1.2 we don’t anticipate changes to the repair costs. We need to bring additional sinks in place if we want to change the repair costs. No ETA on reverse mentoring system
Q: will we see separate lockouts for hardmodes and nightmare with 1.2. A: no, hardmodes and nightmares are progression raids while story mode is more for socializing.
Q: 16m and 8m A: we want them to have a relative diffculty, we will lower some of the stats on 16m bosses to counter the coordination issue of 16m. More loot in 16m, more bonus loots (mounts, recipes) but same tier of loot.
16m and 8m will have the same content for now.
Q: Timestamp achivement for boss kills to help foster competition? A: yes that is something we very much do. We love achievements. We want to reward server first kils things etc. These are long term plans, not something in the immediate horizon.
Q: not big difference between columi and rakata, bigger gear disparity in the new raid content? A: yes there will be more of a disparity – our earlier goal is to not inflate the stats too much. Tionese to columi has a big jump but the jump from columi to rakata is more something of a prestigous jump. New tier for pve and pvp coming, it will have more stats that makes sense (i.e. less accuracy). we are opening augments acorss all gear pieces that supports – so there is a separate system you can use to customize your character. With 1.1.5 we have lightsaber crystals with expertise on it. There is limited pvp crafting. There will be more disparity between pvp and pve gear.
Q: threat meters, dps meters – are they coming? what is bioware’s stance? A: we want reliance on in-game visual cues but that is not we say we won’t give you dps and threat meters. We will have them in but just not in 1.2. We you to have control over what other see about your character – we went for the middle ground – in 1.2 you will be able to use a simple input in the chat system to see what defeated you. we also have a very detailed combat log you can write to your disk – someone enterprising can use it for their guild to see their performance but it will be out of game (3rd party).
Q: is craftable gear comparable to endgame pvp/pve gear? A: yes but we wil deter it to another panel.
Q: space missions – interesting but any plans to implant them into flashpoints/operations? A: we have a secret project for space missions in the works right now – can’t give you more details.
Q: enrage mechanics – is that soemthing we will see across the board? It limits the standard build you can take and have guaranteed success. A: intention is that in 8 man you have 2 tanks but that didn’t work out too well. with 1.2 you going need a lot more coordinate and tank –trading you will need 2 tanks for 1.2 raid content.
Q: lucas style of fighting? players split to do stuff – like 2 guys fighting a sith, 2 guys do something else? A: ancient pylons is soemthing we have tried but it is definitely something we are interested in looking into.
Q: 16m intended to be harder than 8m? A: the idea is to keep the diffculty level betwene the two as close as possible – we will make 16m bosses a bit easier to compensate for the raid coordinattion in 16m.
Q: as an ops leader are we going to get more tools to shift people around in ops groups? A: On the UI panel there is more discussion but yes we want to have more options.
Q: ready check system for flashpoints and operations? A: we don’t have a ready check? I am going back to the office and get that in.
Q: are we going to implent hardmdoes for flashpoints that currently do not have them? A; yes eventually we will be. can’t say when exactly.
Q: you can reverse eng ops gear – can you get schematics from that? A: yes, we will talk about it later.
Q: flashpoints – another diffculty added to flashpoints A: not in the near future. we will keep adding new flashpoints and the flashpoints are going to get harder.
Q: Dynamic style operations? i.e. more open world A: yes in 1.2 we will have open world bosses.

PVP discussion

Medal system- not balanced across classes right now.
No specific queues for warzones in place but we are allowing same-faction warzones to reduce the number of Huttballs.
New Warzone in 1,2: Novare coast: majority control objective – 3 point objective. You need to control at least 2 out of 3 objectives to do damage to fortification.
Ranked PVP Pre-season coming with 1.2: Character ratings for both solo and group play based on the ELO system.

Warzone changes

New Warzone dailies with 1.2 – new dailies requiring winning certain number of medals rather than wins.
Something to mention about the medal system – you might have noticed that the objective capture and defend columns are not working right now. This is because we didn’t finish off all the medals we want to have in there.
18 new medals introduced for objectives, participation and performance (i.e. the first to get the datacore, planting a bomb, catching a ball, and scoring in huttball ) – very positive audience reaction.
Warzone rewards will be based on earning medals but we also want to discourage farming (i.e. not finishing a match in Huttball when you are 5-0): 1. we are also capping the amount of medals you can get 2, you get more medals for winning a warzone fast.
The new cap for the medals is still to be determined – maybe around 8 because we are essentially doubling the amount of medals that are available right now.
If you win a warzone fast, you will get a medal for say finishing a warzone in 5 minutes, 6 minutes, 7 mintues, etc. if you win it in 5 minutes you get all the subsequent medals as well. This also encourage the losing team to continue participate in objectives and get more rewards.
In patch 1.1.5 we are doing the first step of this by capping it at 4 medals (not introducing the new medals yet) and increasing the amount of rewards per medal.
Vote to kick: coming up with patch 1.2. Players can vote inactive players out of the warzone to be replaced by someone else in the queue – we are aware of the potential abuses of the system and working on measures to prevent that.
Efforts to combat AFK – needs minimal player contribution to get medals – if you just sit around you not going to get much. Medals will add a modifier to your overall rewards in the warzone.

New tier of PVP gear – War Hero.

This gear will have a greater stat difference from PVE gear to minimize the cross-over with PVE gear. We don’t want you to use PVP gear to do hardmode flashpoints/operations etc but we don’t want to have the barrier of entry for PVE people to go into PVP to be too high.
New gear will more lean on expertise and stats that are more PVP focused.
New lightsaber colors
New PVP crafting – adding expertise crystals.
We are also adding a new entry level PVP gear to people that they can purchase with credits to bridge the barrier from when you hit level 50 and having to combat against Centurion/Champion geared players. This gap between fresh 50s and Centurion/Champion geared players is wider than we intended.
War hero gear from ranked warzone commendations. Regular warzone commendations will give you battlemaster gear and entry level PVP gear is going to be champion type level with more focus on expertise so it is not as viable in PVE.
The bag system for PVP gear will be removed with 1.2
Less randomness from rewards for PvP progression – we had a challenge at launch to be able to tier gear like we did with PVE. In PVE you have different tiers of progression content but in PVP its all flat, ranked warzones will allow us to tier PVP content and therefore tier our rewards.

Future of warzones

Existing warzones will allow for same faction vs faction – training mode scenarios. Schedule for patch 1.2-1.3.
Cross server ranked warzone queuing –this is important for competition but at the same time we will still have incentives that lean towards grouping people of the same server. This will leads to more level bracketing with the future possibility of bracketed tournaments. It will also have the ability to choose a specific warzone.
Bracketed tournament system – join instantly, once it matches enough teams you can just fight each other and get qualification points for 1st, 2nd, 3rd places etc.
We will allow you to queue a full of 8 people together for those ranked warzones and in the future we want to formalize that a bit more with teams. Timeline is TBD.
Persisting groups across warzones so you don’t have to reform them between warzones – something we want to add in the future as well.

Open world PVP

We know they are less popular than warzones. 3x more level 50 warzone players than ilum players – Ilum has some problems!
Going back to the drawing board for Ilum – more details later this year.
We got a bit too ambitious with ilum – we had some technical difficulties that got in the way of what we wanted to accomplish. Ilum will still be there but just not as incentivzed as much.
Redesign Ilum to be more fun and engaging – if it is the right time and right place it is going to be fun – we want to make timed objectives, balancing measures between factions.
Removing Ilum PVP quests – rewards being moved to warzones for now.
Minor changes to Outlaw den – we want players to get there quick. we will be introducing some quick travel, leaving it as a PvP sandbox.

Additional PVP concerns we are addressing

Mirrored classes imbalances – with animation etc.
Speed hacking/exploiting – we want to control them before we get to season 1 of ranked warzones.We got multiple teams working in detection and control and also increasing the size of these teams. Patch 1.2 being a pre-season will give us time to catch them.

Q &A

Q: Any plans for just PUGs in normal warzones right now so you don’t have to worry about getting steam-rolled by pre-mades. A: Normal warzones match-making system right now does make an effort to match group vs group – depends on the population and who is queued up and overtime it sort of loses its restrictions. When we get cross-server queues with ranked warzones it will make it prevalent that is group vs group and solo vs solo.
Q: With changes to pvp gear – will you also change the diminishing returns on expertise in order to have it go up more? A: all the stat caps have being re-balanced following the introduction of tiers – so yes.
Q: Ilum performance issues – issues with Hero engine? A: some of the engine issues don’t show until you go live – a lot of optimization issues with environment (turrets, walkers) in the area. This is something we are removing as part of the optimization.
Q: My guild mates were devasted by the removal of Ilum objective based gameplay on Ilum because of trading that were going on. . The new more deathmatch based system just wasn’t the same. Any plans to returns to returns to objectives based system in open world PVP? A: we had issues with the 5 objectives permanently locked to a faction (they are suppose to only lock for a specific amount of time). We weren’t able to do much before the game went live and as such there were trading were going on since these objectives lock permanently unless players changed them. We had to change it to killing for the meantime but it is not our long –term goal. Ilum in the future will be objective focused.
Q: pre-forming guilds before game was launched, we had allies and adversaries, any plans to utilize them as part of some in-game functionality? What about bounty offered on players? A: The bounty system is something the PVP team would love to see but we don’t have any definite timeline. We will talk more about allies and adversaries once we get to the guild stuff but it is on our wall of crazy ideas.
Q: with pre-formed 8 mans, can we challenge other guilds to a 8vs8 match in a warzone? A: it is something we have designed for – warzone challenges. Not going to be in 1.2 but in the future definitely.
Q: we have a few guildies that are battlemaster – are you going to make it less grindy to obtain these gear as right now they are farming daily and weekly quests to get those commendations? A: Right now if you are valor 60, the only way to get BM bags is via quests – winning warzones. This leads to bad behaviors of leaving warzones you are losing. It took away the incentives to get commendations and the incentives to get performance in warzones. In 1.2 the ranked warzone commendations will be used to purchase War hero gear directly (no valor rank or warzone rating required to equip the new War Hero gear) . Warzone rating will allow you to get a different color version of the War Hero gear (its more of a prestige thing, especially in the pre-season). Valor rank requirement for battlemaster gear was a temporary measure – valor rank is suppose a PvP prestige thing and not a gear progression. More valor ranks give you prestige things like being able to be the leader of a warzone, cool mounts etc.
Q: I run 24 vs 24 pvp matches in Outlaw Dens. how I am suppose to maintain my large pvp guild if you give us only 8 man content? A: large warzone battles is something we want to do in the future but 8 man content is just what we have right now. 8 is a good number in ranked warzones – everyone has a part. We do like to have players get together and have massive battles – this is what Ilum and Outlaw’s Den were originally intended for. We will have more content for larger PvP battles in the future.
Q: Current valor system will go away with ranked warzones and become more of a cosmetic thing? What about guild vs guild PVP? A: Guild vs guild pvp will be initially 8 vs 8 premades in ranked warzones and open world pvp in the future. Valor is a recognition of your PvP experience rather than your specific gear progression.
Q: Tab targeting improvements? clickable nameplates above their character? Sometimes I feel like I am playing a first person shooter with these poor settings. A: Yes we want to do them, larger boxes to click on, smarter tab-targeting, class based labels etc but not for 1.2
Q: As a RPer I don’t like watching someone running circles around me in PvP: Any plans to move away from running around circles? Any plans to be able to face the target you are on? A: auto-facing in PVP – definitely two camps on that. auto-facing we feel diminishing some game mechanics like positioning etc. We are planning to improve PVP animations but auto-facing is not something we want to have. if you have auto-facing it just becomes who has a better command of their rotation – we want PVP to have a bit more dimension than that..Smuggler/agent have auto-facing while in cover.
Q: Will obtain a set of BiS pvp gear after 1.2 will be achieved only through PvP or you need PVE/crafting as well? A: The bis will come from only ranked warzones. However, you can use use mods from war hero gear to put in critted orange gear. So there is a path to even better gear after war-hero via crafting
Q: Right now defense/shield/absorb is strong in PVE but nearly useless in PVP- any plans to make those tank stats more useful in PVE? If not any plans to remove these tank stats in favor of more DPS stats? A: As a tank you are vulnerable to force/tech attacks (some sorcs can tear you to shreds) but if you don’t use defense stats are you going to be also vulnerable to highest DPS classes like sentinels/snipers (especially if these guys stack accuracy on their gear). This make you vulnerable essentially to all classes but healers. People have being removing accuracy from their gear which allow tanks to run gear without any defense stats and still get away from it. When we get ranked warzones where people play more aggressively, you are not going to get away from that. With 1.2 there will be some under the hood adjustment to all stats so all theorycrafting will have to be done anyway.
Q: There isn’t much to do in PVP once you are done with dailies: any plans to add more than just quests/dailies? A: You are no longer limited by the daily as you can earn ranked warzone commendations nonstop. The focus on daily is going away – they will still be there – you will get a couple of ranked warzone commendations from it.
Q: Dynamic events – are there any focus on dynamic PVP events? A: we don’t want give away any of the dynamic event info – we want it to be a surprise. We don’t want you to be able to predict them.
Q: can we talk about just running around murdering people? A: its fun – we want to give you a drop list when you kill random players – some kind of mercenary commendations or valor or something else.

Legacy Presentation

In the very early days of SWTOR – we had a family tree of all the main characters of Star Wars to try show the whole story and how it went through time. This is something we have developed as a labor of love over a number of years. It touches everything we have in the game but we had to pull it back at launch – too risky for launch- it will have to wait. The wait is almost over!
Currently, the legacy system is just a pretty experience bar – it makes us look stupid but we didn’t want to make people mad if they level all these alts and we then tell them now we have a legacy system,

Family tree:

Automatically updated with all of your various characters from all of your various different things – decide if they are your allies, kids, wifes/husbands – its super cool roleplaying.
Legacy species/class unlocks: reach level 50 with a species, you can unlock that species on all classes on both factions – i.e. you “father” can be a sith and you can be a jedi. (so you can be a pureblood Jedi)
Reach level 50 with a human race – gain presence stat on all your existing and new legacy characters (since humans can be all classes).
Cyborgs – individual classes have their own individual cyborg attachments – you can now unlock all of them and be a uber cyborg.

Legacy Global Unlocks

Complete chapter 2 – unlock class emotes – unlock current classes buff for all other legacy characters (i.e. get sith warrior buffs for bounty hunter alt)
Complete chapter 3 – unlock heroic abilities for all your legacy chars – these new heroic abilities will require companions to use like the heroic moment abilities you have right now – so you can’t use them in operations.
Example of heroic ability: force choke from sith warrior on all your Imperial Agent alt if you complete sith warrior to chap 3.
Completing a companion character – complete all missions for that companion – shorter cooldown on heroic abilities, longer duration for heroic moment and unlock small stats boost for first companion of each “type” (i.e. ranged tank) you have unlocked.
Additional presence buff for completing additional companions of the same type.
Examples: As a smuggler you complete all the missions for Corso Riggs (ranged tank type) – unlocked shorter cooldown and longer duration for Heroic moment for all legacy characters. Also unlock small accuracy boost for all legacy characters. If you complete all the missions for Risha (ranged DPS) now, you will unlock addiitonal reduction to cooldown and longer duration for Heroic moment for all legacy characters & small critical hit boost for all legacy characters.
Alignment abilities: reach level 50 and gain dark/light V or neutral alignment – unlock active abilities for all legacy characters – not all rewards are combat based
Valor rank unlocks – unarmed duels – unarmed combat moves can be unlocked with valor system
Social rank unlocks – dance with your companions, new emotes (RP packages – big package of RP emotes).
Most legacy rewards can be purchased or unlocked – people with millions of credits can buy these rather than “unlock” them – some of the rewards are not initially purchasable but will be allowed in later patch
We want to also reward people who just play one char – hence the purchase route
Once 1.2 hits live, we will through your level 50 characters and unlock these heroic abilities – so level yours alts to 50 now!

Additional legacy rewards

Cooldown reductions for emergency fleet pass/quick travel
Jetpack – short duration sprint – we moved to sprint to level 1. Jetpack for BHs, rocket boots for everyone else.
Items for your ship – training dummies (operation, warzone dummies, healing dummies), repair droid (buy, repair, and sell upgrades for your ship droids that improves specific crafting abilities), mailboxes, auction houses (neutral GTN terminal but very very high up the legacy system – we want fleet to be populated it requires a lot of legacy level and a lot of credits).
Legacy weapons and armor – you will get token drops (can be traded for any class) that are bound to your legacy system – bind on legacy – can’t trade with others but you have full mailing options within your legacy. These do not scale with levels.
Legacy appearances – unique orange gear only unlocked with legacy levels.

Future of Legacy

Character specific rewards: specific buffs to help your early-game experience for your alts. (i.e. purchase a PvP xp buff for your PvP alt or purchase a speeder license on your low level alt).
Customize your gameplay with each of your alts.
HUGE REWARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LEGACY SYSTEM. 1.2 and 1.3 are huge legacy patches.

Q & A

Q: can I transfer an alt from a different server? A: yes when character servers come, which is not in the immediate future – these alts will meld together and you will get higher of the two legacy levels.
Q: can I share legacy with other players? A: it is a one of our dev’s biggest pet project – we do not have a plan where we know how to make that yet but we have a lot of hopes for it.
Q: can you use force choke on the Republic side? A: yes
Q: can you change the race of a previous alt when you unlock a new race? A: no you need to make a new alt.
Q: any plans to allow characters to use weapons not intended for their class – like cosmetic weapons A: we will address that in heroic abilities – you get very iconic abilities specific for that class you have unlocked. Cosmetic weapons might be a possibility in future legacy development.
Q: I want barbershop, can I get them with legacy? unlock more cosmetic slots? A: that is something in the works but something you won’t be able to see for a while. Different cosmetic slots are even more further back.
Q: Alt: those buffs from other classes, are those self only or apply to all group members? Does that mean we don’t need to bring a specific class for ops/warzones? A; yes.
Q: Shared bank between your alts? A: Legacy bank is on the table – its behind guild bank. we are pro-legacy bank. In 1.2 we will allow you to send cross-faction mails.
Q: more character slots? A; no plans at the moment but suggestion is noted.
Q: class quests are unique but stuff like solo planetary quests – can we bypass them? A: yes we will give you specific buffs that rewards for doing specific activities – i.e. bonus xp for doing class content. This is coming in patch 1.3.
Q: will buffs from different factions stack? i.e. will Sith warrior and Jedi knight buffs stack? A; they won’t stack but you can use them cross faction.
Q: endgame flashpoint/operation loots being bind to legacy to extend the farming of your flashpoints/operations? A: No current plans – but there is an inherent flexibility gearing up your alts via extract mods/crafting. No plans to handling out the specific BoP items to your other characters. We will give you one huge quest that unlock rewards for all your chars if you complete it (coming in 1.3, 1.4).
Q: dual spec in the legacy system? A: more than dual spec, multi-spec is coming. It is tied to the legacy system. not coming with 1.2 – at first allow you to save different specs but in later patches you can save gear layouts.
Q: plans to allow rename/legacy system? A: we don’t have an automated system in place right now, maybe something in the works soon. Right now you will have to contact a CSR.
Q: maximum legacy level? A: get out more! the cap is 50 right now;
Q: any plan to give some sort of crafting advantage through the legacy system? A: we love it but there might be balancing issues. We are opening up our crafting system with 1.2 – we want crafting to be more BOE and less BOP. Not in 1.2 but shop droids have specific cores you can purchase from the repair droid that improve specific crafting skills. You also build affection with your ship droid and we put a voice restraining bolt on the droid (huge cheering from the audience).
Q: can you put your companions into your family tree? A: not right now.
Q: cosmetic ship upgrades from legacy? A: yes cosmetic ship upgrades in the future but may not be tied to legacy. Its quite aways down the road.
Q: how can an agent use a force ability? A: force using potential goes strong in your family line – you just need someone in your family line that can use force powers.
Q: how will heroic moment abilities affect open world PVP where companions can be used? A: right now you can do it and that is all I can say about that. Open world PVP is the wild west – anything is possible. Objective based areas like Ilum do not allow companions. Maybe you can solo hardmode flashpoints with your companions using heroic abilities.



Economy/Crew skills discussion

Economy

Our economy is doing very well despite the hard to use GTN
Crew skill distribution (marked): biochem is not the most used skill – archeology and scavenging skill are the most popular crew skills. Most popular crafting skill is artifice followed by biochem. Underworld trading dominates mission skills

crewskilldistribution

Bioanalysis seems like a good money-maker – low popularity but high demand from biochem.
Wealth distribution for level 50 chars – 80% of level 50s have less than 400k credits. . chart ends at 10 million – less than 1% have 10 million.
With patch 1.1.5 we introduced some content for rich people – encourage them to let go of their credits.
Credit sinks: majority of credits spent – ability training – this drops off around Feb as more and more people are 50. Other sinks like container purchases now take over.
Credit sources: Quest reward (dailies)– biggest source of income – this is the way to get credits. Selling content to vendors helps as well
Relative wealth- this is the discrepancy between sources and sinks: the actual inflation rate we have right now is around 12% – it is not too bad. People are saving up in anticipation of new stuff like legacy.
Faction selection distribution – 57% empire to 42% republic across all servers (they mentioned my population study I posted on Reddit hehe). More empire players on PVP servers. With cross-server warzones we can equalize a lot of the faction imbalances.
Gender selection of characters: 70% male, 30% female.
Class distribution:: Sith Inq is the most popular class, smuggler/IA are very low numbers. In alpha testing Jedi Knight was the most popular class. Short of making the class really OP there isn’t much we can do. It can get a bit lightning heavy in warzones.The class distribution you see here is not because one class is overpowered but rather part of pre-conceived start wars fantasy.

classdistribution

Leveling curve: time to level – very smooth curve. there is no big gaps or gaps around 40 or something. Our target time for 50 – you guys nailed that in terms of game hours played (can’t tell you how much that is). Real time to level 50- you guys blew past that as you guys play too much! we have seen some insane play hrs in early access (some even to superhuman levels).

levelingcurve

Top 25 products based by sales volume: desh rank the highest.
Products ranked by sale price: crafters at the top end of our gear progression are making a killing – almost all of the stuff sold is rakata or rank 25 mods/enhancements/armoring.

State of the economy and exploits

84% of our players have less than 1 million credits.
Repair costs seem a bit too high – currently we can’t change it but when 1.2 goes live (has more money sinks) we may adjust it if necessary.
Exploits: Ilum chest looting fixed in 1.2 – if you show up with a lot of credits we will track your activity.
We don’t see a lot of kill-stealing in our games but this kind of behaviors is seen with chests
we have a team of 30 people to get rid of people that credit spam – they get banned as soon they show up. We can track all credit transfers.
See a spammer, report it, fastest way to get them banned.

Crew skills

crew skill missions is the #2 moneysink.
Not every crewskill is viable for endgame – only biochem currently is.
Coming up in 1.2 – legacy upgrades – improve C2-N2/Rv-N8 crafting abilities with equipment.
Reverse engineering received a major overhaul– better rates and you can reverse eng more items – we made it a lot more useful. Endgame mods from reverse engineering.
You can craft operation gear with critical augments.
EVERY CREW SKILL IS BEING GIVEN AN ENDGAME USE
Augment crafting – sythweaving, armstech armormech will be able to make augments
Slicing – will be become the source of augment materials.
Cybertech speeders will become BoE (Bind on Equip).
Changed prices on speeders – you are now paying less for tier 3 speeder training but cool looking mounts – expect to pay more.
Cybertech grenades – shorter cooldowns.
Artifice – new color crystals and it is the first profession to gain our PvP crafting – gain mats and schematics from doing PvP and purchasing bags.
5 page of patch notes for crew skill – a blog released soon!
Crafting – avg craft is richer, looks better and better geared than a non-crafter. we expect this to really take off with patch 1.2

Q & A:

Q: expensive to remove 25 mods but if you can make those mods, shouldn’t it be cheaper for you? A: not for 1.2, we will look into it.
Q: I pvp, my gear never breaks, add repair cost to pvp? A: maybe – riot in the audience. Yes we are aware of the discrepancy PvE and PvP gear repair costs. Net income between PvPers and PvEers are actually about the same.
Q: is there a design intent to give crew skills a social purpose? Like allow crew skills able to change colors A: with 1.1.5 – lightsaber colors – all colors are available with the same stats. We are adding a large number of orange gears to the game – you will be only able to get them from crafters; crafters – best source of customized appearances in 1.2
Q: I can get armoring crew skills to make rakata equipment and then dismiss that crew skill and learn biochem and still wear my Rakata items. On the other hand, if I learn Biochem first, make a rakata stim and then learn synthweaving or anything else – I can’t use the reuseable stim anymore. A: Reuseable stims wil be phased out over time – they will not be upgraded in the future.
Q: Exotech stims – the epic materials are very hard to get and produce (from highest level of diplomacy missions) – any plans to change that? A: Bioanalyis is very low and there are a lot more biochems – so there is a huge inflation on bioanalysis materials. Not much we can do about that – supply and demand will take care of it by itself.
Q: Cybertech healer – can I get kolto grenade? A: It’s a good idea.
Q: Contract system for crafting – request to have something made? A: yes it is on the wall of crazy, not immediate concern but its in the works. probably some day.
Q: Some clothing options look slightly different color on different classes? A: some items look different between republic and empire – this is an intentional feature to preserve some faction identity. in terms of color – what you said is not something we have seen, can you send us a screenshots?
Q: Crafting gear better than endgame pvp/pve? A: yes it is better but it is more work since you have to extract mods from endgame gear and get a critted orange gear made. Also losing the restrictions on some of the operation mat drops to help out crafters. We are going to bring out crafting to its full glory – crafting is fully supported on all patches.
Q: 1. Phasing out reuseables – how far is it to make every crew skill to be viable in game? 2. RE chance at end-game level, is it worth the risk? A: 1.2 will have a tooltip that can tell you if you can RE something and get something out of it. We also increase the gains from RE and removing the duplicates out of the RE system so you don’t re-learn the same schematic. In terms of reuseables – we are really bootstrapping the augment economy with this patch so phasing out reuseables is not a concern at this point.
Q: Any plans for longer crew skills missions – 16 hr missions for epic stuff or greater returns A: we like the idea too – incentive to log on at least once a day.
Q: any plans to add crafting daily to give people option to get high level mats? A: new resource nodes on new content and also on existing high level areas to help you out.Also we will eliminate the BoP restriction on the operation mats.
Q: possible to send two companions to send on the same mission to reduce the time: A: not possible right now.
With 1.2 expensive missions you brought from GTN are no longer failable.

RP discussion

Legacy features: RP emotes, family tree, social unlocks, alignment unlocks
Chat bubbles – we had a performance issue so we had to remove it previously.
more orange gear with viability at end-game – wear what you want, whereever you want
dynamic events: NOT TALKING ABOUT IT – serverwide limited time events
improving spawning techs – npcs that you can’t click on – they will increase or decrease depending on your system – we will populated the more empty areas.
more ambient creartures
legacy: how does it affect roleplayers? What you like to see?
Q/A & suggestions from audience.
Q:: Beast mounts? – A: on the list
Q: clothing restricted by class A: in the future all cosmetic gear will work for all types and we wll get a ton of it.
Q: custom-emotes cross-faction
Q: type 4 sith, he want an equivalent male slave outfit. A: its coming
Q: re-enter class quest areas to RP A: no, but we will give you some RP space in the future.
Q: people with un-RP legacy names – dude, bro legacy, any chance for tighter RP naming policies? A: more ways to adjust what you see in other people’s nameplates. Can’t really restrict naming rules.
Q: more variety of ambient content in populated areas.
Q: Squad inside a guild system – like a guild inside a guild for people that don’t want to leave their old guild? A: why can’t you do it with private chat channels?
Q: cut/paste chat lines to allow RP off the game.
Q: legacy system- not blood related? A: yes people in your legacy can be allies etc, does not have to be in a family.
Q: attach other players to your legacy? A: it is coming but it is tricky- something in the future.
Q: companion ride along with taxis – ride shotgun – we had something implanted before, but M1-4x came along.
Q: name a companion for RP purposes.
Suggestion: ignore turn off their nameplates too. A: we love it – good solution to people with weird legacy names.
Q: I don’t like a companion, can I kick him/her out? A: No, we originally allow you to kill companions – people abused it and kill off all their companions and got mad.
suggestion: biography sheet in character window to help with role-playing. A: you carry a huge amount of data – companions, quests etc we are trying to reduce it but you can comment on your friend list with 1.2
Q/suggestion: will we see a possibiluty of a 2 seater mount? A: we would love to but it is way down the road. You will ride a tauntaun mount first.

Guild Features Discussion

We think guilds are very important to us and we have a roadmap for improving the guild experience.
Guild UI is functional but could use more features.
Guilds want tools to make coordinate easiers and ways to show off their epeen.
Guild banks: they work and they are awesome. Upto 7 tabs you can buy, each tab goes up in price. Guild leaders can allow access to certain tabs or demand authenicators for certain tabs,
Guild bank is the hardest feature for 1.2
Guild bank: you can repair using guild funds.
Post 1.2 stuff
guild calender, guild emblems – show off your guild on your armor. it’s a toggle on/off and show on certain hotspots.
Guild advertising – make it easies for players to find & join your guild.
guild progression is in the world – very large project – not something you will see soon
guild capital ships design exists
no timeline for these features
Q: guild mail/newsletter system – work in conjunction with guild calender system? A: we are hoping guild calender will solve that but it involves a lot of storage space and can involve spam potentially
Q: what kind of guild UI improvements do you have? A: fix moiuse scroll in guild UI and allow you to invite people to groups from guild UI.
Q: look at guild list and check people’s crafting skills A: happening sometime after patch 1.2
Q: plan for a tax system? A: that is in category of well – duh moments. ya I just realized we didn’t have it – we will get it in now that we have a guild bank. no ETA.
Q: Off-game approval of guild members like we had it pre-launch? A: maybe, but its a lot of work – too much stuff to do.
Q: allowances by rank – does repair take away from guild allowances? A: yes, and you can also respec from guild funds
Q: any plan for logs to see ginvites and gkicks A: yes, no ETA
Q: Guild rivals A: we talked about it earlier in the pvp section
Q: invite people from guild list? A: its done in 1.2
Q: able to see if someone is grouped in guild chat and change colors if the group is already full? A: interesting idea, I will write it down.

UI discussion

Only 1/2 of the features present here will come out with 1.2
Retro mode: chat box down bottom left
Edit mode: blue signify that this is a feature on that is not always on, you can move things anywhere you want
You can scale all the UI elements individually.
Red signifiy things not turned on.
Only 4 quickslot bars.
target of target is in 1.2
allow you to have more than two windows open at the same – especially useful for crew skill misisons
You can save your UI setups and swap it with other people.
Q: Click to cast for healers? % bars for target of target or focus targets? A: % is in target of target, click to cast not in 1.2. You can see your party’s target of target as well.
Q: any simple macros? A: its on the list, no eta. No macros that affect combat directly. We don’t want a higher barrier of entry to combat.
Q: buffs and debuffs – too small right now and I can’t see – are those icons are resizeable individually A: they are not in this build, if you scale your ops frame you can increase the size of the icons.
Q: Powerauras?? Procs off your abilities – icons pop on your screen to let you know A: we want that – we don’t want you stare down at your buttons. In 1.2 a lot of abilities have proper sound cues to help with that.
Q: a way to differenate between my debuffs/dots and someone else’s debuffs/dots A: we want to allow you select what debuffs/buffs you want to show . Yes but long term.
Q: I don’t have enough quickbars for my abilities – can you streamline abilites? A: maybe macros? we need to do more exploration, we need to get another quickbar in term (not in 1.2). Multi=spec will bring spec specific quickslots.
Q: companion bars don’t pop over your bars A: yes, it is considered its own bar now.
Auction house UI change: yes coming with 1.2 you will be a lot happier, can’t tell you details. its 80% less stupid to post and buy stuff from the GTN.
Q: a way to save keybind profiles? A: not part of 1.2, its on the roadmap.
Q: API to develop mods? A: its in planning stage, its very complicated, we want to ensure its fair and balanced. its something we will work on, its a lot of work.
Q: is there going to be a stealth bar for stealth using classes? A: in the short term no.
Q: can I remove my name and class name from the new UI? A: probably not
Q: any plans on skinning for different colors for visually impaired/color blind people? A: not the priority in the near future.

The Rest

leveling is in good shape – need more story
exit polls – people want more story
GU1.2: new daily mission in Corellia
Unify to chest option is back – it was a beta feature. Gear can be toggled on/off indivdually for appearance. It is not going to be same color – but a color that fits the theme.
Higher resolution textures available. I can has advertising mode? Yes you can.
Dual/mutlispecs – coming in 2 parts – switch between skill trees, 2nd part switch changes to gear loadouts.
When do we get more story? This year
Q & A
Q: at level 50, bonus quests only offer you legacy xp – can you turn the old xp you used to get pre-50 into credits or other type of rewards. A: we had it in beta, it will depends on the current economy – we don’t want to generate too much cash.
Q: Galatic guild vs guild warfare coming? A That is something the pvp team wants to do – some sort of massive R vs R
Q: nightmare mode for new ops – additional mechanics and different rewards – hence why it is arriving after 1.2 Hardmorde and nightmare mode will be the way to gear up.
Q: cross server communication? A: that is down the road a bit. Cross faction communication – Damion was against it initially but might be possisble with adversies.
Q: Only guild leader can set ranks, restrict access etc.. can they give permission to someone else? A: long term
Q: BHs/trooper ever get a battle rez? A: NO
Q: Podracing? A: we are excited but we are focusing on the tools you need right now. We have designs for all sort of mini-games
Q: server balance. A: what if we put in a system that encourage people to play the other side? We think that will help. We are hoping the legacy will help with that. No server transfers right now, maybe further down the line. Legacy is too complicated to allow server transfer
Q: cooler outfits for republic chars endgame progression? A: we will take a look at it and try.
Q: Legacy system encourage people to play both factions- you are splitting our guilds who are playing on only one side. A: maybe we need to allow you to create sister guilds on the otherside but legacy will be destructive to the community. In the future – account wide friends.
Q: legacy abilities – these abilites are faction specific – force choke only specific to sith warriors for example and you need to level that rather than a jedi knight.
Q: pvp warzones – some warzones are no 8vs8, can fix that? A: we have incentives in 1.2 to reduce people leaving warzones and some optimization to the matchmaking system
Q: Any updates on same gender romance/ A: its coming with story updates sometime this year. It wil depend on our writers. When we do this, we don’t want just change the dialogue to the other gender. We want new romance arcs etc. Its coming when full story comes. which is this year.
Q: No incentive to go back to older planets – add daily hubs? A: dynamic events team will cover this and likely make some unpopulated .area more populated.
Q: option to turn off environmental effects – smoke/clouds? A: yes we have an entire team dedicated to make swtor run on low-end machines (i.e. laptop) but no macs. 1.1.5 have updated shader setitng for very low spec machines. We are also aware of issues on high-end machines and the work the team is doing on low-end machines will benefit all machines across the board.
Q: epic weapons/armor quests. A: not in 1.2, you may need characters on both faction to play.