1.2.3 Patch Notes

1.2.3 Patch Notes

5/8/2012

Classes and Combat

General

• Corrected an issue that prevented Smugglers and Imperial Agents from taking cover in place while moving
• Channeled abilities now fully complete if a buff providing an Alacrity bonus wears off while the ability is being channeled.

Flashpoints and Operations

Flashpoints

Boarding Party

• This Flashpoint's Hard Mode no longer has a daily limitation.

Operations

General

• Players now receive a "Timed Run" buff when attempting Eternity Vault and Karagga's Palace in Nightmare Mode. Killing Soa or Karagga before this buff expires grants the Infernal or Unyielding title, respectively.

Explosive Conflict

• Zorn's "Fearful" debuff is now correctly restricted to 30 meters.
• The Demolition Probe Droid no longer attempts to move to the player in the scout tower, which could result in the Droid evading.
• Minefield turrets no longer occasionally reactivate after the group has engaged Vorgath.
• Kephess's Gift of the Masters ability now uses the correct (smaller) radius.

Items

General

• Custom (orange) moddable items that have no modifications installed can now be reverse engineered.

Legacy

• All characters in a Legacy now appear in the Family Tree, even if the character has not logged in since patch 1.2.

Missions and NPCs

Missions

General

• Implemented changes to ensure that mission encounters reset (and related enemies respawn) correctly. A small number of missions had encounters that did not properly reset.

World Missions

Ilum

• Daily missions on Ilum no longer require the player to complete the Ilum World Mission Arc.

Class Missions

Sith Inquisitor

• The Fallen Dreadnought: Corrected an issue that blocked progression on this mission if the player skipped a mission step.

NPCs

• The Nightmare Pilgrim's (World Boss on Voss) totem no longer enters a state that prevents players from interacting with it.
• Some issues that could cause incorrect NPC pathfinding on Corellia have been addressed.

UI

General

• Corrected an issue that could prevent the interface editor from being opened by the "+" button on the hotbar.

Galactic Trade Network

• An issue that prevented some item category searches from functioning unless an item name or price range was also specified has been corrected.
• The default value for the Rarity field is now Standard instead of Any. This allows players to search for most items without requiring that they select an option in the Rarity field.
• When claiming items or credits attached to mail, players will no longer encounter a rare error stating that the message cannot be sent.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Players that completed the steps required to unlock the "Containment Officer" title during the Rakghoul Plague event but did not receive the title have been granted it.

1.2.2 Patch Notes

1.2.2 Patch Notes

5/1/2012

Classes and Combat

General

• Corrected an issue that prevented damage shields (such as Force Armor) from re-applying properly when activated before the current damage shield expired has been addressed.

Trooper

Commando

• Plasma Cell now correctly deals its damage 3 times per application.

Companion Characters

General

• Corrected an issue that caused companion stat bonuses from equipped items to be miscalculated when the companion was resummoned.

Crew Skills

General

• Corrected some performance issues related to opening the crafting window if it contained a very large number of schematics.

Crafting Skills

• Some gear that could be reverse engineered but erroneously displayed the "No Research Available" tooltip has been corrected.

Gathering Skills

Slicing

• Premium Slicing lockboxes now yield the correct amount of credits.

Flashpoints and Operations

General

• An issue that prevented Hard Mode Flashpoints from dropping loot based on group composition has been addressed. Drops usable by a person in the group are not 100% guaranteed, but the system now properly takes composition into account.
• The "Exit Area" button in Flashpoints and Operations is now disabled during combat.
• Corrected an issue that prevented Operation Group leaders from being added to the Operation Officer Chat channel.

Operations

Explosive Conflict

• Pulsar Droids in the Warlord Kephess encounter now have the correct amount of health in 16-player Hard Mode.
• Kephess now uses the Gift of the Masters ability during 16-player Hard Mode.

Items

General

• Mysterious, Unusual, and Wondrous Eggs can now be sold on the Galactic Trade Network.
• An issue that could prevent hair from showing on Jedi Knights while wearing certain visors has been addressed.

Missions and NPCs

General

• The weekly Nightmare Pilgrim mission now rewards 4 Black Hole Commendations.
• If a player logout causes a mission to fail, the player is now transported outside of that mission's phase when logging back in.

Missions

World Missions

Corellia

Black Hole Area

• The previous mission requirements for The End of Torvix (Imperial) and Chasing the Shadow (Republic) have been removed. Players can now accept these missions at any time within the daily restrictions.
• Players not on the mission The End of Torvix (Imperial) or Chasing the Shadow (Republic) can now use the elevators inside the phase to assist group members with the mission.

Taris

• No Escape: Corrected an issue that could prevent an encounter associated with this mission from resetting if the group was defeated and re-entered the phase.

Class Missions

Jedi Consular

• Marked: Corrected an issue that prevented the player from speaking to Lord Shendan if they exited the phase before speaking with him.

Smuggler

• Heist of the Millennium: The map now indicates the correct elevator on the step “Return to the Shuttle.” Several map note issues have been addressed.

Trooper

• Stay Frosty: This bonus mission no longer occasionally fails to end even after the player completes the primary mission.

PvP

Warzones

General

• Corrected an issue that could cause multiple sounds to play on top of each other when receiving multiple medals at once.

Huttball

• A rare issue that could grant players rewards for two Huttball wins at the end of a match has been corrected.

Voidstar

• Corrected an issue that occasionally caused both teams in the Voidstar to receive less rewards than intended.

Space Combat

General

• Corrected a UI issue that could prevent players from firing their ship's weapons.
• Female characters' companions now play the proper voice-over during Space Combat Missions.

UI

General

• Pressing the Enter key on the prompt that displays when purchasing an expensive item now cancels the window instead of accepting the cost.
• Corrected an issue that could cause completed missions to reappear in the mission log and tracker.
• Pressing the R key to reply after receiving multiple tells now correctly displays the name of the player that will receive the reply.
• Moving items in the inventory no longer affects their display in hotbars or in the mission tracker. This also corrects an issue that could prevent items in hotbars or the mission trackers from being used from those locations.

Galactic Trade Network

• The Search button is now correctly disabled for categories that do not have a subcategory when there are no search results.

Groups and Targeting

• The "Always Show Class Symbol" preference is now disabled by default.
• Target Markers can now be bound to keys in the preferences menu.

Guilds

• Guild Banks now display on the map even if the player is not in a guild or the player's guild does not currently have a Guild Bank.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Corrected a rare client crash that could occur for characters with full banks, inventories, and a full ability list.
• Some text errors in the French and German clients have been corrected.
• An issue that could cause display errors in fullscreen windowed mode has been corrected.
• Corrected an issue that could cause the primary graphics to display to not be selected as the startup monitor when running the game for the first time on machines with multiple graphics devices.

Bonus XP and maxing out companion affection with gifts

This post is a bit of an update on what I'm doing in SWTOR at the moment, including information on using bonus XP and low level gifts to boost up a new companions affection quickly.

With the server transfers opening up last week I finally managed to get two of my other characters over to my main server. The characters I have right now are:
Level 50 Miraluka Jedi Consular Shadow who is blind and cannot be seen
Level 50 Jedi Guardian who looks just like me, or a fitter version of me
Level 40 Smuggler gun-slinger with a cyborg eye-patch for the win
Level 20 Miraluka Sith Warrior, and I'm sick of people asking me where I got my helmet from that looks like glasses
Level 22 Trooper Comando, and why does anybody like to heal? I am finding this character almost painful
... and a couple of level 1s.

They are all on the same server (now). What I'm planning on doing is having one of each style spec. So my Jedi Knight is a Guardian and my Sith Warrior is a Marauder. My Jedi Consular is Shadow and my Sith Inquisitor will be a Sorcerer. That's the plan. So in the end I will have played every style of advanced class.

PvP vs PvE

Pre-patch 1.2 I leveled my Shadow up to 50 mainly through PvP. But post-1.2 I'm finding the going is a bit slow. I am having a blast on my Sith Warrior and it's real fun to PvP with but the PvP rewards have been nerfed to the extent that it's a lot faster to PvE level, especially if you're stacking your bonus XP like I am.

Stacking bonus XP

What I mean by stacking bonus XP is that I'll let a character sit and max out their bonus XP for a few days whilst I play with another character. With five characters on the go it's really easy to spend 100% of your game time leveling with bonus XP. PvP is way slower than this.

Note to self: remove the Ratghoul customization if you plan on making out with your companion

Maxing affection with new companions

The other thing I'm doing with all my alts is maxing out affection with a companion as soon as I get them. Using the Companion Items Vendor on my fleet station, I start by purchasing 50 or 60 level 1 gifts which that particular companion loves. (Check what they like in our Companion Lists) These cost 200 each. I pop that gift in the number 1 spot and turn on a repeating macro on my G19 keyboard, so that every four seconds a gift is presented to the companion. So in four minutes they get 60 gifts they like. As soon as they reach around 3000 affection they stop liking the level 1 gifts and then require the level 2s. Another 40 or so level 2s will take your companion to just over 5000 affection.

What I found after leveling 3 level 50s (2 in live and 1 on beta) is that at the end of all your mission lines, most companions are sitting on 4000 - 5000 affection. By starting them off with the cheap gifts from the vendor and getting them to the 5000 mark before you even start using them on missions, means that at the end when you do reach level 50 they will be maxed or close to it.

Every companion costs about 60-70 000 to get started in this way. So this is impractical for a new player. But anybody who has got level 50 alts knows how easy it is to make 60-70K. To try and bump them up once they have reached 6-7000 affection with gifts ends up costing a lot more because the higher level gifts cost more. Best case scenario, if you're getting your gifts through missions, you're looking at 2-2.5K each. After you have topped up your companion to about 5000 affection, then take them to the cantina or ship and start their missions. You will see your affection go up approximately an extra 1000 just from the first group of missions.

See-through bikini on Ratghoul plagued companion

With the Ratgoul plague ending tonight I've been rushing frantically trying to collect all of the Ratghoul customizations for companions that have only been made available during the plague time. Bioware made eight available, one for each class. To get the customizations you had to purchase a random role customization chest from the Jawa on Tatooine and I ended up with six unique different ones and about five duplicates. Luckily I was able to get three of the female ones that are available for Kira, Mako and Elara Donne. Like always, I thought I'd take some nice high res images of the female companions in bikinis. Unfortunately, Bioware didn't think anybody would consider equipping bikinis on their female plagued companions! The result was inappropriate to say the least.

I was shocked when I saw how much the bikini revealed on Elara. How did this get into the game? She is showing way too much! :)

The default naked look for Elara has a long sleeve shirt and pants equipped. I guess Bioware didn't want to spend the time creating body skins for female zombies. Let's hope they fix it. I'll check Mako and Kira and post what I find. I only just got those customizations minutes before the servers went down.

At first I thought it was because she wore heavy armor but Kira wears light armor and it will be interesting to see if she can pull off the bikini zombie look.

The Many Looks of Vette

Complete Guide to Vette Customizations

Vette is undoubtedly one of the cutest female companions in all of SWTOR. As you would expect from a Twilik female, she has a bubbly personality but can be a little bit naughty at times. Although she doesn't like cruelty she is definitely no goody two shoes when it comes to the law.

[Spoiler Alert in next two sentences only] Even though she was brought up with Risha, the Smuggler companion, being playmates throughout their childhood years, she has a very different persona to Risha. She is way more likable.

Her witty comments add a certain something to a lot of the mission story lines.

When you first gain access to Vette you get a reward which allows you to choose between customizations one, two and three. You only get to choose one and the others are then available from vendors.

In this image you can see that she has a total of nine looks available ingame. The looks in the image above are in order, the default look on the left and then 1-4 on the top row and 5-8 on the bottom row.


1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 are available from your regular customization vendors on Balmorra and Taris, found in the cantinas.
2 is available from the Security Key vendor and also made available when you first get Vette, as one of the three choices.
6 is available from the Collector's Edition vendor in the Imperial Fleet.

All customizations, apart from customization six, are 12500 credits. Customization six, from the Collector's Edition vendor is just 2000 credits.

The vendor on Taris.

Don't forget to check out similar posts:

Our full list of companions and gifts
The Many Looks of Elara Dorne
The Many Looks of Kira Carsen
The Many Looks of Mako
The Many Looks of Risha
The Many Looks of Nadia Grell

For information on customization options for other companions check out the other 'Many Looks of ... ' posts on SWTORFace.

Get Ready for SWTOR Space Combat

There is absolutely no timeline on this but in an interview with NowGamer, SWTOR's lead developer Daniel Erickson has spilled the beans on a major future update to SWTOR that will include space combat. He wasn't explicit about it but the cracks between the lines are pretty obvious. He said:

"the next iteration of space is the single thing I’m most excited about in the entire future plan."

Pick up a novel by Michael A. Stackpole and flip on over to a space battle scene and imagine that playing out in SWTOR!

Further on in the interview Erickson referred to BioWare's commitment to listening to what their gamers want. The next iteration of space must at least in part be a reaction to the recent official poll which had 46.54% of respondents say that "Full 3D space battles" is the "Star Wars fantasty that excites you the most." A further 28.06% voted for "Capitol ship battles."

I can't wait. Memories of X-Wing vs Tie Fighter and Star Wars Galaxies are flooding in ...

SWTOR 1.2.0c Patch Notes

1.2.0c Patch Notes


4/19/2012


General


Corrected an audio issue that could cause a loud, perpetual "jet engine" sound that is most noticeable on the Republic and Imperial Fleets.


Corrected a rare issue that could cause players to be unable to access their guild.


Classes and Combat


Bounty Hunter
Mercenary


Heatseeker Missile: This ability will now only gain extra damage from your additional stacks of Heat Signatures and will not incorrectly detect debuffs from other players.


Trooper
Commando


Demolition Round: This ability will now only gain extra damage from your additional stacks of Gravity Vortex and will not incorrectly detect debuffs from other players.


World Event
Jeelvic the Jawa will no longer take more DNA samples than intended for purchases.


Players who were not properly granted final event codex entry and title for defeating Infected Trapjaw, Zama Brak, and Urtagh will be granted both the title and codex entry.


PvP
Increased rewards for players on the losing side of Warzone matches.
Players will now receive rewards for Warzones if they have earned at least one medal.

Sith Warrior Companion Update

I've noticed over the last week, since game Update 1.2 came out, our companion pages are getting quite a beating. It seems that every man and his tantuan are trying to get the most out of our companion gifts sections, because of the new presence buff and other unique buffs you get from maximizing your companion's affection. To make it easier on you we've been updating all of our companion pages.

Today we've just published a new version of our Sith Warrior companion page. Sith Warrior is our most popular page next to Sith Inquisitor. To get the most out of your game experience as a Sith Warrior, check it out now.

To all you Republic players that are sick of getting your ass whipped in PvP, Sith Warrior might prove to be beneficial as your next character.

'Tracking The Origins' Mission Guide, With all Maps

With the attack of the rakghouls world event taking place, players are running around like mad trying to get the most they can out the new content. Apart from items you can purchase through the daily missions, there is also a mission where you are awarded this awesome little non-combat pet called the Crimson Rakling. Unlike other missions, no waypoints are provided for the objectives in this mission, so I have put together a complete guide, with maps, of all the objectives in this mission called Tracking The Origins.

Note: This guide has been done with a Republic character. Although the first section leading up to collecting pieces of the ship Stardream, are Republic only, all the parts of this mission where you have to collect the ship parts, and where they are located, are the same for Republic and Sith players.

To start this mission head to Tatooine and go to the Anchorhead Starport. Click on the Emergency Notice Terminal at 1726, 455. This will give you a first buff called ‘Informed’, you will then need to go get the ‘Attacked’ and ‘Exposed’ buffs (explained below). All 3 buffs have a 10 minute timer.

Rakghoul Live Event Emergency Terminal Broadcast

To get the next buff 'Attacked' head to the North-Western part of Anchorhead and click the crashed escape pod in a wall. You get attacked but the guards help you out.

'Attacked' Buff 1783, 444 in Anchorhead

Now to get the ‘Exposed’  buffs go to the medical supplies at 2352, 434 Anchorhead.

When you have done all 3 you get a buff called  'On The Trail'. You then need to go to the Containment Operations Console next to the speeder transport point.

The Containment Operations Console is located at 1824, 445

Clicking on the console will start a mission, the objective of which is to scan 12 pieces of the downed ship called Stardream. Start your search in the Dune Sea. Unlike other missions in the game, no map or waypoints are provided, unless you have this guide ... :) If you have a mobile device, this site is optimized for mobile browsing, so you can have this guide open on your phone while you play.

Note: Some of the waypoints in the screenshots display incorrectly. Use the ones written in text and use the visual image from the maps to see where the parts are.

Part 1: The first piece of the wreckage is located at: -1395, -442.

Part 2: -2411, –756 (On the top of a half circle cliff surrounding a Sandpeople camp).

Part 3: -2030, -1896 (Next to a Mandalorian landing pad).

In between parts 3 and 4 you'll need to head to the Jundland. Take the speeder to the Dreviad Outpost.

Part 4: 738, -2545 (North of Dreviad, on top of an underground entrance).

Part 5: 1191, –1267 (Around the center of the map)

Part 6: 1094, -443 (Lodged in the side of a cliff. Jump down to get it!)

Part 7: 754, -913 (On a small ledge quite far down the wall of a sheer cliff).

Part 8: 306, 433 (On a ledge a bit east of the Sith base at Mos Anek).

Part 9: 1097, 724 (In a Heroic area (circa level 24-25) east of Imperial base Varath. If you're doing this quest at a lower level you can easily dodge the elite mobs to get to the objective).

Part 10: 1796, 602 (Find the Shattered Basin Tunnel at 1260, 575 to pass into Severin Mesa Windfarms where the fragment landed).

Shattered Basin Tunnel at 1260, 575

Part 10 found at 1796, 602

Part 11: -592, -1445 (You will find it up on a little hill nestled against a wall behind a Sand People Mooncaller and his Bantha).

Part 12: -500, -331 (Heroic quest area, the Transport Ship Crash Site. It's in between the Jundland and Dune Sea maps. you will find a wide sand ramp at -359, 136).

When you have all 12 you will get the codex entry: Rakghoul Pandemic 5 – Origins of the Outbreak and your mission tracker will change to say ‘Find the infected Risp’. Republic players should head to Outpost Largona, Imperial players can fly to Outpost Rennar. From there it should be a short drive to your mission marker at 2302, -161 where you will find a small box marked ‘Animal Carrier’.

Inside you'll find your new non-combat pet growling and attempting to bite your ankles. In the same area where you pick him up you'll find several daily missions which award tokens that will allow you to purchase this little guy's brother, a pale rakling.

I hope this guide has made it easier for you to find the objectives for this mission. If you have any feedback or comments, please leave them in the comments section below.

Attention SWTOR Smugglers

Some of our most popular content are the lists of information about companions for SWTOR. Each one has been getting an overhaul over the last few weeks so that they look better and it's easier to find what you need. The Smuggler Companion List has just been updated. On it you'll find out all of the character information about each Smuggler companion, where you get them and what gifts they like.

Here's the section on Guss Tuno, the last companion for the Smuggler class.

Guss Tuno

Character Information

Gender: Male

Species: Mon Calamari

Age: Unknown

Gameplay Information

First Encountered On: Hoth

Becomes a Companion: In the class mission called Trick or Treat

Companion Type: Healer

Armor: Medium Armor

Crew Skill: +10 Underworld trading Efficiency, +2 Critical Investigation