STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ News

We will be bringing down servers tomorrow, March 25 at 7am CT / 12pm UTC to deploy a fix for the polymorph issue keeping players from progressing through cinematic scenes in the Knight of the Eternal Throne Chapters.

Estimated downtime: Less than one hour

Uprisings

• Group Finder will now feature Story Mode instead of Veteran Mode.
  
• Reduced enemy health and enemy damage dealt in Story and Veteran Mode.
  
• Enhanced enemies will appear more often when using the Experimental Combat Enhancer.

Items

• The Coruscanti and Kaas Traveler’s Hoods no longer hide facial hair.

Missions

• Fixed an issue that blocked some players from starting chapter cinematics in Knight of the Eternal Throne and Knights of the Fallen Empire.
  

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!