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We will be taking all servers offline to deploy Game Update 7.3.

Details:
DATE: June 28, 2023
TIME: 8am - 10am CT / 1pm - 3pm UTC
VERSION: 7.3b

Patch notes will be available soon.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain Star Wars™: The Old Republic™!

Hi folks!

I’ve been a part of SWTOR since well before launch and it’s been an incredible journey. I ended up taking on many different roles on the team over that time, so I’ve seen this game from just about every different angle there is. And honestly, I absolutely love this game—not to mention the people who continue to make it fun. Even after almost 12 years, I see so much room for growth and so much potential in SWTOR.

I know decisions that impact our people are the hardest part of change and evolution, but I believe Broadsword is the right studio to continue to enhance and modernize our game—and also expand the number of people who can play it.

Of course, I’m also very glad that I’ll be moving over with key team leaders and continuing to work with most of our current team. This team has never stopped excelling, even proudly delivering an amazing update 7.2 Showdown on Ruhnuk over the holiday break—along with technological improvements like our new fast launcher, 64-bit client , and Cloud Game Servers. I can’t thank them enough for their passion and dedication in bringing these experiences to life for our players.

I also want to thank EA and BioWare for all they have done for me and this team, not to mention all our friends at Lucasfilm Games, whose support and collaboration have helped make all this happen for us. They’re the best, and I look forward to continuing to work with them.

We are excited about the future of SWTOR, and once we get our feet firmly planted at Broadsword, we look forward to sharing plans for game direction and improvements. Until then, rest assured that all the current plans are still in motion!

As examples, we just delivered our largest story update in months, and a new story flashpoint with Game Update 7.3: Old Wounds, taking us back to the planet Voss, which we haven’t visited since our KOTET expansion back in 2016. We will also be rolling out Game Update 7.3.1, which will contain our next Galactic Season, in the coming months. And stay tuned for details on Game Update 7.4, where players will see the story continue following the events of Old Wounds. And there’s even more on the horizon. We will continue to publish communication on swtor.com and the SWTOR forums, as we always have, so you will be hearing from me again soon.

No change is easy, but it certainly helps that we’re all excited about the future of this very special game. We look forward to seeing that vision become reality alongside all our players and fans.

May the Force be with you,

Keith Kanneg
Executive Producer, Star Wars™: The Old Republic™


Statement from Gary McKay, General Manager of BioWare General FAQ

General

• Players on the Old Wounds’ crit path on Voss-Ka are now directed through the shuttle to get to the Interpreter's Retreat
  
• Various Voss armors set visuals have been fixed, they should now be available as drops from the Shrine of Silence Flashpoint and on the Vendor in the Interpreter’s Retreat.
  
  • There are some leggings that are still mismatched and will be fixed in a future update
    
• The Eternal Commander MK-M Blaster visuals and functionality fixed
  
• Imperial players who have made the relevant Saboteur choices will no longer receive an unintended follow-up mail from Tau Idair.
  
• The Terminator Droid (Powertech) and Suppression Droid (Vanguard) accuracy debuff now works as intended.
  
• The Cartel Market will no longer show an empty item on searches and the last page of the All tab.
  

Economy Credit Initiative

• Taxes on consumable stims, medpacs, and grenades were removed as originally intended.
  
• We've updated values of some items to be more in line with current inflation. This is largely centered around crafting materials and some Cartel Market items that were being improperly taxed due to their low market value.
  
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All patch notes can be found here.