Here are my notes and the most important news from the event
Catch up with updates from the previous Producer Live Streams
Check out the Collective Post to learn Everything about SWTOR KOTET
The event aired live on Twitch.TV on 27th October 2016. Hosts were community manager Eric Musco, producer Ben Irving and creative director Charles Boyd.
Video Overview
You can also watch the full video recording of the event here.
Community Topics
- Catch up mechanics for gear – crafting is the answer. Bioware wants to address the issues with RNG gear looting via the crafting system. Example given was when you play a DPS and want to switch to heal in the next Ops run, you have no gear for that, because so far your Galactic Rank has been giving you DPS gear. Crafted gear will not be on the same level, but will be a good entry point. Schematics will drop from Ops bosses and other places. More info on the forums in the next few days. This seems to be the way Bioware wants to make EndGame crafting viable again and also patch up the gap RNG Command Crates will create in the gearing process for dual-spec classes.
- Cartel Market Passes – are a part of the past. If you still have some of those in your inventory, when KOTET launches, Bioware will give you back 1:1 the Cartel Coins you have spent for the tokens. Make sure those tokens are IN your inventories when Early Access begins!
- Commendation conversion rates – Bioware is removing all commendations in Patch 5.0 and will be reimbursing players with credits (everything that used to cost comms InGame, will cost credits in 5.0).
- Nothing is changing to the Preferred status players – their limits remain exactly the same + they wont be able to earn Command Rank XP.
Promotions
- Rapid Recon Walker mount – be active subscriber on 27th November.
- Early Access – be active subscriber form 25th October until 27th November, gain access to KOTET missions on 29th November.
- Shae will be available from level one.
Galactic Command
Once again Bioware did a quick recap of what Galactic Command is. You can learn about the new major system from my short video overview, linked below.
Uprisings
- Accessible through Galactic Comand at max level.
- New 4-player content – different than Flashpoints, focused on fighting more enemies at a time.
- Fast and action packed – much shorter and faster than Flashpoints.
- Challenge modes – All Uprisings are 4-player now. Launching with Story mode and Veteran, with Master difficulty coming soon after. The Veteran level is intended to be a serious challenge for organized groups. Master will be the old school Nightmare challenge, near-impossible for casual teams (as described by the Devs themselves). Bosses are intended to be quite tough.
- Power-ups – available inside Uprisings, they give you extra boosts like a heal boost (this was the only one shown in the short demo). Other boosts include a thermal devastator,rocket launcher and more.
- A quick demo was shown from the Firefrost Uprising on the planet Hoth. featuring power-ups and fast paced action.
- A 2nd very short demo showed one of the bosses in the Uprising Firefrost, the 1st boss.
Uprisings and EndGame
- Coming with KOTET: Galactic Command, 16+ men world bosses for Dark vs Light, end-game content scaled to lvl 70, 9 new chapters with various difficulty levels (not all have all 3 modes)
- In mid-late November Bioware will talk more about what is coming after the launch of KOTET and Patch 5.0 – Master Chapters and Master Uprisings.
- Additional group content – Devs still not revealing what they mean by “repeatable group content focus for 2017”. No mention of Operations, but they once again insisted on Group content to be the main focus for SWTOR in 2017.
Stream and Blog Plans
- 17th October Live Stream – Galactic Command Overview
- 20th October Live Stream – Dark vs Light Overview
- 27th October – current event
- 3rd November Producer Live Stream – Combat and Class changes
- 10th November Producer Live Stream – Repeatable chapters and difficulty levels
- 17th November Producer Live Stream – New planets and story insights with Charles
- 24th November Producer Live Stream – KOTET wrap-up and Q&A event
Q&A
- When you repeat chapters, your 2nd choices do not count if they differ from the first ones when you did the same chapter. Example – if you do Chapter 4 once, the choices are remembered. If you repeat the chapter, the choices that affect the story in the future chapters will not be altered and will still remember your first decision.
- Uprisings will NOT be cross-faction enabled.
- Uprisings are available only to Subscribers.
- The 5 year collage (player submitted screenshots) is still being worked on, no date when will it be ready and released.
- Charles promised that he and the devs want to bring ALL companions back through story. How and when, still unclear, but the goal is all of them to return via a story/quest.
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