Bioware releases a rather big update with a lot of changes to the new Rishi Stronghold and the Warzones and Arenas to the PTS. Below you will find the Patch Notes.
Warzone / Arena Changes
- Voidstar is once again functional, it has also had its intro cinematic updated.
- Railings and various LoS blockers have been added to the Mandalorian Battle Ring to make the map more melee friendly.
- Players should no longer die randomly when using traversal abilities near terrain in Warzones and Arenas.
- Fixed various issues related to matchmaking.
- Interactable objects in the world will once again highlight blue.
- Giradda the Hutt and Baron Deathmark will no longer take damage from sudden death acid.
Rishi Hideout
- You can now use Kick the Huttball during Huttball matches in the Rishi Stronghold.
- There are less “doors to nowhere” in the Rishi Stronghold.
- A clean-up crew has removed some of the junk in the Rishi Stronghold.
- A terminal has been added to a Cannon on the Skydeck which will take you directly to the Rishi Cove.
- The “Carrying the Huttball” icon will now appear for players who receive the Huttball due to a character death during a Huttball match in the Rishi Stronghold.
- More hooks have been added throughout the Rishi Stronghold.
- The room unlock terminals in the Rishi Stronghold have been made clearer.
- Speedy is still the best, but he will no longer path through walls.
- Players will now gain a temporary ability to end combat when using the training dummies in the training room.
- The Rishi Stronghold now has a console that allows players to take control of an un-targetable, stealthed, non-combat droid. This Droid allows players to better see PvP action in the Stronghold.
- Jungle noises will no longer play on the Rishi Patrol Carrier.
- Players will no longer dismount when entering the Portside Crew Quarters.
- A terminal has been added to the Rishi Stronghold that will allow players to apply Bolster.
- Players can now use PvP medpacs in PvP areas of the Rishi Stronghold.
- The Huttball scoreboard in the Rishi Stronghold now goes up to 10 (up from 3).
- Players can no longer be mounted with the Huttball in the Rishi Stronghold.
- Players in the Rishi Stronghold can no longer pick up or catch the Huttball while stunned.
- Resetting a Huttball match in the Rishi Stronghold will now remove all Huttballs.
- Corrected an issue where some PvP areas in the Rishi Stronghold were not properly flagging players for PvP.
The Update is not patched to the PTS at the time of this post. It is expected late tonight or early on Saturday (timing may vary depending on your time zone)
There are two play tests scheduled for tomorrow – Saturday, 14th July. In both sessions Bioware Austin developers will be participating incognito. The first session will be from 15 to 17 GMT, the second will be from 22 to Midnight GMT.
The goal for these two play tests is for players to engage in Unranked Warzones, check out the latest changes and provide feedback for the developers if they wish to. Participation is 100% completely free and optional. No special rewards are announced for participating. You need to either create a character and get it to level 10 or higher or copy your existing one(s) from the live servers to the PTS.
Here is a short list of important upcoming changes. This isn’t all that is still to be added before the update goes live, just the highlights:
- The ability to sort your Stronghold list.
- Get resolve bars to show on portraits in the Rishi SH.
- The ability for players to completely turn off PvP in their Rishi SH.
- Make it so that SH keys determine players ability to use terminals in another players SH.
- Address the remaining LoS issues for decorations, especially related to channeled and AoE abilities.
As usual, you know you can rely on VULKK.com to keep you up to date. As soon as there is another update to the PTS, I’ll let you know. :)
