SWTOR Story Revisited Producer Live Stream: what did we learn

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 3rd November 2016. Hosts were community manager Eric Musco and creative director Charles Boyd. If you want to, you can check out the full recording of the live stream on the SWTOR Twitch channel here. I missed the first 4 minutes and could not record it all to transfer it to YouTube for a much friendlier and easier viewing experience.

Community Topics

Commendations to credits – the intention is that in KOTET the rank 5 and 6 companion gifts will not be cheap.
The previously planed Class and Combat changes live stream was canceled, not moved. Bioware will post updates on the forums.

Influencer Program

New program to highlight SWTOR content creators – streamers, bloggers, podcasts, youtubers and more.
Everybody is allowed to contact the community manager Eric Musco via the forums and request to be included in the program

Repeatable Chapters and Challenge Modes

Musco is playing Chapter 3 of KOTFE on the closed test server at Veteran difficulty while both him and Charles discuss various topics. The character he played was Mercenary with 224 gear and rank 20 companion. He was facing quite a big of a challenge defeating the more special NPCs.
All KOTFE and KOTET chapters will be repeatable in Patch 5.0.
Only the first playthrough will record and remember the player choices for the future story development. The romantic options also are set in stone after the first replay. You can see different dialogue outcome, but that will not have impact on your future relations and interactions with the said companion.
At launch only Story and Veteran difficulties will be available. Master difficulty is designed to be a Nightmare level challenge and only available to fairly well geared lvl 70 experienced players.
Veteran level scales up with the character’s level, including lvl 70.
The Veteran difficulty is balanced for mid-tier EndGame gear and rank 20 influence companion.
There is a new UI in place to help you launch chapters easier and quicker – select the chapter you want to play through and then pick the difficulty before the quest is placed in your log.
The Bonus HK chapter is also repeatable, but only in Story Mode!
No blog today covering what was said and shown in the live stream. The devs thought it would be better to show and tell, instead of write up a blog post.
Veteran difficulty is intended to be one of the best solo gameplay source for CXP. Group content is intended to be by far the best source of incoming CXP for your Command Ranks.

Upcoming events

10th November – Special guests live stream, no class and combat changes stream, it was canceled!
17th November – new planets and story insights with Charles
23rd November (changed, was originally announced to be on 24th) – KOTET Wrap-up and Q&A.

At the end of the event, a short cinematic teaser was shown. It was a part of the new KOTET Story. Check it out.

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