STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ News

We will be bringing down the servers on March 13 at 7:00am CT / 12:00pm UTC deploy Game Update 7.6.1a.

Estimated downtime: 2 hours

This patch will include the following:

General

• Uprisings in Activity Finder will now allow groups of any composition.
  
• Fixed an issue where Conquest points were not being calculated properly if a player had duplicate Strongholds.
  

Galactic Season Items

• The Senator's Consort Hairstyle and Regal Senator's hairstyle customizations are no longer missing for specific combinations of character species, origin story, and gender after being unlocked for the account.
  
• Unlocking the Kaas Vibrosword Display Decoration on the reward track will now grant a stack of 5 decorations (up from 1).
  
  • Players who have already claimed this reward will find it claimable on the track again.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Experimental and Control Blaster Pistols.
  

Dromund Kaas themed Utility Bundle



The Utility Bundle includes the following decorations:

• Item Modification
  
• Legacy Storage
  
• Guild Bank
  
• Cargo Bay
  
• GTN Wall-mounted Terminal
  
• GTN Kiosk
  
• Mail Box x 4
  
• Appearance Modification Station
  

Coruscant themed Utility Bundle



The Utility Bundle includes the following decorations:

• Item Modification
  
• Legacy Storage
  
• Guild Bank
  
• Cargo Bay
  
• GTN Wall-mounted Terminal
  
• GTN Kiosk
  
• Mail Box x 4
  
• Appearance Modification Station
  

Peerless Explorer Enviro-Suit inspired by Star Wars: Skeleton Crew™

Galactic Season 8 “Rising Powers”

Kai Zykken reaches out offering an opportunity to try out Czerka’s new Experimental Combat Enhancers. In order to test the effectiveness of these seasonal items, players will be guided to jump back into Uprisings content. 

Uprisings are now available to all players and can be accessed beginning level 10. 

See here for more details to see new rewards and seasonal objectives! 

New Basilisk Prototype Venture Customizations

Four new B3-S1 variants will be added to a new vendor at Lane’s Lab! Turn in Prototype Data and role-specific currencies to help fund The Curator’s projects in order to obtain the new variants!

(Defender customization) 

(Support customization)

(Combat Customization)

(Gold Aurodium Plating Customization)

Beginning in 7.6.1, players can also find new B3-S1 Training Modules for completing Dynamic Encounters on Hoth and Tatooine!

Cartel Market Additions

Two themed Utility Bundles and a Star Wars: Skeleton Crew™ inspired outfit are coming to the Cartel Market. 

See the Drommund Kaas and Coruscant Utility Bundles and the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew™ inspired Peerless Explorer’s Enviro-Suit here!

New Legacy Perk

Increased Speed Boost (Improved Speeder Rank 6) will be available to unlock for Subscribers!

Dynamic Encounter Achievements

Additional Achievements have been added to the Tatooine and Hoth Dynamic Encounters. 

Dantooine Spring Abundance Festival

This seasonal event returns with the launch of 7.6.1! Return to your homestead on Dantooine to complete a variety of daily and weekly missions and earn new rewards! Read more details here!

Twitch Drop

The AC-10 Disruptor Mount is the newest Drop that can be obtained after watching four hours of SWTOR content on Twitch! This Drop will remain active until April 8, 2025. To accrue progress toward this reward, connect your SWTOR and Twitch account through your account page on swtor.com. 

Beyond 7.6.1

Character Modernization Status

Our priorities after Game Update 7.6 include the following: 

• Reworking source assets to address wrinkles and muscle definition
  
• Reworking textures to fix neckline seams
  
• Improving textures on vibrant colored species such as Chiss

Other initiatives we are tackling include the following:

• Improved lighting for characters in gameplay to better match what’s seen in cinematics 
  
• Improved lighting in Preview Window
  
• Additional Species

Players will see the first set of changes when we stand up PTS very soon! 

Relentless Replication - Master Mode

Once we wrap testing and gathering feedback for character modernization, we will re-open the PTS for players to test Master Mode for the Propagator Core XR-53 encounter. 

Keep an eye on our forums and social channels to know when we begin opening up the PTS! 

Dantooine Spring Abundance Festival

Date: March 11 - April 8 (BEGINS AND ENDS AT 12:00PM GMT)

• Note: This event will start when servers open at 7.6.1 launch
  

Requirement: Level 20+

Even heroes need a break every now and then. What better way to pass the time than relaxing on a cozy farmstead on Dantooine? When the event is active, players can pick up the mission on the Fleet and make their way to Blba Groves, a secondary landing point on the planet Dantooine.

Dance the day away, bake pies (or eat them), rescue and rehabilitate injured animals, partake in a galactic egg hunt, and more!

Complete the daily and weekly missions to earn an assortment of rewards!

FEATURED REWARDS:

• [NEW] Plains Grophet Minipet
  
• [NEW] Shadowed Grophet Minipet
  
• [NEW] Swampland Zakkeg Minipet
  
• [NEW] Arrangement: Abundance Supplies 5 Decoration
  
• [NEW] Arrangement: Mushroom Merchant Stall Decoration
  
• [NEW] Dantooine Farm Thrasher Decoration
  
• [NEW] Trellis Field Decoration
  
• [NEW] Harvest Grain Storage Decoration
  
• Title: Crop Destroyer
  
• Title: Humble Farmhand
  
• Legacy Title: One Who Reaps
  
• Legacy Title: One Who Sows
  
• Abundance Supply Decorations 1-4
  
• Arrangement: Pie Decorations
  
• Spring Festival Barbeque Pit Decoration
  
• Spring Harvest Plant Decorations
  
• Cursed Farmland Pillar Decoration
  
• Dantooine Potted Fruit Tree Decoration
  
• Farm Harvest Shed Decoration
  
• Farmland Grazer Outfit
  
• Nightshift Tech Outfit
  
• Fitted Westar 19 Blaster Rifle
  
• Fitted Westar 19 Blaster
  
• Fitted Westar 19 Sniper Rifle
  
• Subterranean Mudhorn Creature Mount
  
• Farmland Speeder Mount
  
• Mudpup Mini Pets
  

(Trellis Field, Arrangement: Mushroom Merchant Stall, and Harvest Grain Storage Decorations)

(Dantooine Farm Thrasher and Arrangement: Abundance Supplies 5 Decorations)

(Shadowed Grophet and Plains Grophet Mini Pet)

(Swampland Zakkeg Mini Pet)

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Galactic Seasons

Galactic Season 8 “Rising Powers” begins with 7.6.1! None other than Kai Zykken will reach out with an offer to test a new adrenal boost created by Czerka. These Experimental Combat Enhancers have a variety of effects that can give you a special buff. Rewards for this season will feature items themed around Coruscant and Dromund Kaas and inspired by Star Wars: Skeleton Crew™ and Andor™! See all the details here. 

New Basilisk Prototype Venture Customizations

Four new B3-S1 variants will be added to a new vendor at Lane’s Lab! Turn in Prototype Data and role-specific currencies to help fund The Curator’s projects in order to obtain the new variants!

Beginning in 7.6.1, players can also find new B3-S1 Training Modules for completing Dynamic Encounters on Hoth and Tatooine!

Cartel Market Additions

The Dromund Kaas and Coruscant Utility Bundles and the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew™ inspired Peerless Explorer’s Enviro-Suit will be added to the Cartel Market at launch.

New Legacy Perk

Increased Speed Boost (Improved Speeder Rank 6) will be available to unlock for Subscribers!

• This perk is not shared with other characters in the Legacy and needs to be acquired separately for each.

Dynamic Encounter Achievements

Additional Achievements have been added to the Tatooine and Hoth Dynamic Encounters.

Dantooine Spring Abundance Festival

This seasonal event returns with the launch of 7.6.1! Return to your homestead on Dantooine to complete a variety of daily and weekly missions and earn new rewards! Read more details here! 

Operations / Operation Bosses

[R-4 Anomaly] Players who complete the R-4 Anomaly Operation in Veteran Mode within 40 minutes will receive the following rewards:

• Anomalously Skilled Achievement 
  
• Anomalously Skilled Character Title
  
• Wings of Nihrot Mount

This mount will be granted to the character that completes the run.

General 

• Moving parts that are attached to helms will now show in cinematics.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing some objects from properly glowing as interactable. 
  
• Fixed an issue where some missions were not granting Codex Entries upon completion. 
  
• Players can now interact with the jukebox in the Slippery Slopes Cantina. 
  
• The B3-S1 Companion no longer appears to attack dead enemies. 
  
• The "Enable moveable secondary windows" interface setting has been removed. This change allows players to close the Welcome Window, engage all vendors as intended, and use the Interface Editor without issue.
  

Missions

• [Mount Up!] A new mount onboarding mission has been created guiding new players to a Speeder Vendor. 
  
• Repeatable space missions mapnotes are now displayed on the Galaxy Map. 
  

Dynamic Encounters

• [Tatooine: Republic Attack: Mos Ila] Grenades are no longer limited by charges.
  
• [Tatooine: Breezepunks] A map note now appears when the “Find the technician” step is active. The technician is also no longer stealthed.  
  
• [Tatooine: Imperial Attack: Outpost Salara] The mapnote now accurately displays where the Walker mini boss appears on the map. 
  
• [Tatooine: Maintaining Order] The respawn rates for the NPCs that are required to be scanned has been decreased. 
  
• [Tatooine: Maintaining Order] It is now easier to scan the NPCs required to complete the encounter. 
  
• [Tatooine: Spaceport Chaos] The “No Banthan Calf in target area” error message is no longer displayed if Bantha Calves are present.  
  
• [Tatooine] The following Dynamic Encounters progress completion now counts for players from both factions who participate in the encounter regardless of which faction (character or group) entered combat first. 
  
  
  • The Last Scavenger’s Tale
    
  • Ancient Womp Rat
    
  • Mandalorian Menace
    
  • Irradiated Alpha Womp
  
  
• [Hoth: Unnecessary Repairs] The vents now respawn as intended. 
  
• [Hoth: Unnecessary Repairs] The knockback effect from setting off the trap will now only affect the player who triggers it. 
  
• [Hoth: Wamp Womp] Defeating Wampa Ravagers now count toward progress completion for the encounter. 
  
• [Hoth: Trial By Fire] Using the Encrypted Transmitter item no longer completely removes the mission and bonus objective when it is used within the event area. 
  
• [Hoth: Trial By Fire] Additional benefits are now granted when calibrating or charging the sensors for a second time. 
  
• [Hoth: Trial By Fire] The Encrypted Commlink Antenna can no longer be used after reaching its 20 times use limit. 
  
• [Hoth: Trial By Fire] The Hypercharge buff no longer stacks. 
  
• [Hoth: Mysterious Transmission] The transmitter item can now only be used once per event. 
  
• [Hoth: Underworld Engineering] The Lab Generator can now only be interacted with once per event. 
  
• [Hoth: Rodent Problem] Companions are now removed when the player is in a polymorph state. 
  
• [Hoth: Snow Grift] The Snow Mounds are no longer interactable when the encounter is completed. 
  
• [Hoth: A Bridge Too Close] Completion credit is now properly shared between all players who participate in the encounters and defeat the Sapper Commander boss. 
  
• [Hoth: Wire You So Cute?] A mapnote is now present when the encounter is active. 
  
• [Hoth: Wire You So Cute?] Players can no longer carry the Care Package outside of the event area. 
  
• [Hoth: Pirate Problem] A mapnote is now present when the encounter is active. 
  
• Completing the following Dynamic Encounters now count toward the “Missions: Dynamic Encounters Pinnacle” Conquest Objective: 
  
  
  • Wire You Doing That?
    
  • Wire Consequences
    
  • Wire You So Cute?" 
    
  • The Scavengers' Tale
    
  • Another Scavengers' Tale
    
  • The Last Scavengers' Tale
    
  • Bad Exchange
    
  • A Worse Exchange
    
  • A Catastrophic Exchange
    
  • Road Gig: The Debut
    
  • Road Gig: The Sophomore Album
    
  • Road Gig: The Comeback

Items

• Currency items will now show the currency type (character or Legacy) instead of the bind type. 
  
• Shae Vizla’s Battle Scarred Armor now has a jetpack animation when the Rocket Boost ability is used. 
  
• Fixed various seams that were showing when Shae Vizla’s Battle Scarred Armor is equipped. 
  
• Fixed an issue where the companion UI persisted when the companion is dismissed while the player is mounted on the Meirm Cicada Mount. 
  
• Companions will no longer take fall damage while they are riding on the Meirm Cicada Mount. 
  
• The Braidhawk hairstyle no longer clips through the player character’s head when using Male Body Type 4. 
  
• The Senate Podium Crystal decoration now glows as intended. 

Dantooine Spring Abundance Festival

• [Seed Sourcing] The Imperial Fleet Shady Vendor will no longer spawn inside walls. 
  
• [Patissier for a Day] Fixed an issue for players in groups where progression is blocked if players exit the phase during various points in the mission. 

Galactic Seasons

• Gaining a Galactic Season level via the 4-day login bonus will now correctly award the correct amount of Conquest points.

Flashpoints

• [Shrine of Silence] Updated timers so Tem-Su no longer respawns if Rada-Ki is not defeated within a specific time limit. 
  
• [Secrets of the Enclave] Defeated enemies can now be harvested using Scavenging or Bioanalysis Crew Skills.