The event aired on 8th December 2016. Hosts were community manager Eric Musco, creative director Charles Boyd and producer Ben Irving.
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Community Topics
- Galactic Command Changes – Bioware is aware of the massive rage and frustration the RNG loot mechanic has caused. Few changes have been done already to mainly address exploits (the 10 to 1 CXP per Gold NPC kill was one of them).
- Next week in 5.0.1 Bioware will up the rewards for Flashpoints and Uprisings with up to 50%. PvP activity and rewards seems to be in a good place right now.
- Bioware is taking seriously all the issues and complaints about the system implemented with 5.0 and will be doing adjustments in the next couple months, based on the provided feedback.
- Operations – there is an issue with the balancing for the early tier. Bioware’s solution and suggestion is for players to run Uprisings first to prepare and gear up for Operations and make them more smooth and pleasant experience.
- Dark vs Light event (the old one) – The lost achievemrnts will be given back this December with a patch. Master Ranos’ mission issue will be resolved in the next patch (this coming Tuesday).
- The Harbinger issues are being worked out and it’s a main priority for the team to establish what was wrong and fix it ASAP.
- There might be a Double CXP Event coming in the near future.
- KOTET was NOT the final Story Update to SWTOR! There is more coming in the future!
In-Game Events
- Life Day – starts 13th December, ends 10th January.
- 5th Anniversary – starts 13th December, ends 17th January. – 13th December is when 7 Days Early Access began for SWTOR players in 2011.
- Rakghoul Resurgence on Corellia – starts 20th December, ends 27th December.
- Bounty Contract Week – starts 27th December, ends 3rd January
- Relics of the Gree – starts 10th January, ends 17th January.
Five Year Anniversary
- Senya Holo Statue – confirmed as reward for the 5th Anniversary!
- Celebration Jawa NPC – counts for the “That’s just wrong” achievement.
- New Stronghold Decorations – 7-piece art collection, 5 Credit Strongholds.
Coming to SWTOR in early 2017
- New Uprisings in January 2017!
- master Mode KOTFE and KOTET Chapters in January.
- Master Mode Uprisings in February/March
- Possible bigger update in March 2017 containing some “new cool stuff”, they are not revealing yet what and when. Focus on Group Content was confirmed as main priority for the whole 2017.
Q&A
- The future of RNG?
– Ben Irving explained exactly what I have been saying – in the early days of each expansion, the green gear is expected to be an upgrade to your old purple mods. It’s just how progression works in MMOs. The RNG is, sadly, not going away. Based on feedback and data gathered, there will be adjustments, but the system will stay. Honestly, did anybody expect Bioware to scrape it completely just because we (some of us) don’t like it? ^^ - Server transfers?
– The current promotion will run until 17th January. - Will the earned CXP from gold mobs be reversed?
– Not sure yet. Next patch will increase the earned points to 2CXP per gold NPC kill (up from 1). - How would alt gearing work with Galactic Command?
– There are plans to allow alts of fully maxed (rank 300 is what Ben meant, most likely) main characters to progress quicker through the Galactic Command as a bonus. - Server merges coming?
– Can’t talk about that at the moment. The team will keep monitoring the situation in January and decide based on results after the Server Transfer Promotion. - Any way to unbind armorings?
– No. - Cantina in Australia?
– Probably not, it’s too far away. - When is the next Bioware stream?
– Next Thursday.
