BioWare released today the full official patch notes for the upcoming game update 5.10.3 “The Dantooine Incursion” for Star Wars: The Old Republic!
The patch notes arrive a few hours ahead of the scheduled three hours maintenance. The game servers will go down at 13:00 GMT and are expected to come back up around 16:00 GMT on June 4th, 2019.
The most important part of this update is the new recurring event “The Pirate Incursion“. It is located on Dantooine – a classic Star Wars planet, which makes it debut in SWTOR after being only briefly mentioned previously.
The event will run for two weeks (two weekly events back to back) starting June 4th. There are a lot of new missions and mini stories to complete on Dantooine. A large number of lore objects and a few funny secret achievements should keep you busy for these first two weeks.You will still have access to Dantooine outside of the event weeks, but most of the missions and activities will be locked. The reputation vendors will be happy to welcome you any time and take your special currency and credits!
After the second week ends, the event will fall back in line with the rest of the recurring events and start appearing on monthly basis for one week at a time.
To start the Dantooine event you can find a holonews terminal on the Fleet. It will give you a quest leading to Dantooine. After a short cinematic, you will be given the task to go to the nearby Mission Terminal and start picking up the Daily Missions. If you are low level or have not completed the Ossus Storyline yet, you will see a shorter and more generic cinematic from that intro mission.
Note: I have a guide coming up with all missions, achievements and rewards. Unfortunately the insane lag and logging issues on my server may result in a delay of the guide’s publication with a few days until the Weekend. I cleared a whole evening for June 4th, so I’d be able to run the event live and finish, change, add what is needed if anything was different or new compared to the PTS version, but the servers just couldn’t handle the interest, I guess. :)))
The Nar Shaddaa Nightlife (online casino gambling simulator) returns later this month. The event is scheduled to start on 18th and will run until the end of July.
BioWare sneaked an interesting surprise into this update. The patch notes only briefly mention the “New Planetary Transitions”. Apparently many of the old planets have had their arrival and departure animations improved or perhaps completely changed. We will learn more tomorrow when the update goes live.
A few bugs and issues have been fixed for some classes, namely the Stalwart Defense utility for the Guardians (no longer granting unintended damage reduction). And if you have been wondering if some of your companions are not working as fast as they should, you would be happy to hear that the issue related to their time efficiency is now fixed and the time/crit rate should now be back to normal.
On the PvP front BioWare managed to address the issue where players were able to use Phase Walk to capture points from longer distances than intended while participating in a Warzone scenario.
The full patch notes are available below and you can take a look to see what additional fixes and improvements have been made on top of these I already presented above. The Dantooine Incursion could be the last large update before Onslaught. BioWare is already gaining speed with the work on the games’ newest Expansion. Onslaught comes some time in September and we will be able to start testing different parts of it (not the story, of course) later this month. First up in the line for PTS is the Spoils of War system, which is a brand new gearing system, developed for 6.0.
SWTOR Update 5.10.3 Full Patch Notes:
Highlights
- New Planet: Dantooine – With the renewed war between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, the remote planet of Dantooine has become the next stage in this growing conflict.
- New In-game Event: The Pirate Incursion – This new recurring in-game event will take place on Dantooine as the Republic, Empire, and Nova Blade pirates vie for control of the planet. New Daily and Heroic Missions, new rewards, and more! This event will run twice from June 4th – June 11th and again from June 11th – June 18th. After that it will be a standard recurring event.
- New Planetary Transitions – Alderaan, Corellia, Hoth, Korriban, Tython and many more planets have had their arrivals updated. Travel the galaxy in your favorite starship and see these planets like never before.
- Double Event – Earn double experience, Command Experience, and more from June 11th – June 18th.
- Nar Shaddaa Nightlife – The Nightlife event returns with new rewards! Get your credits ready for June 18th – July 30th.
General
- Corrected an issue where in some situations Weekly conquest Objectives and Targets would reset.
- Players who deposit credits into their Guild Bank will no longer be dropped to character select in rare circumstances.
- Players can now travel to any Stronghold from the Tatooine Stronghold Terminal as intended.
- It was recently discovered that wall art depicting the Jedi Code on Ossus was written out of order. The Jedi have launched an investigation into this error, which has now been corrected.
- Combining the Guild Perk “Mount Improvements III” with “Improved Speeder Piloting V” no longer slows some mounts.
- Using the “Disconnect” ability while transformed into Scyva on Iokath now properly returns the player to their normal form.
- Quick Travel, Emergency Fleet Pass, and all Priority Transports now play their full animation when used.
- A character’s weapons will no longer float in front of the character when they are revived.
- Players can no longer end up stuck off of the train in the Umbara Stronghold in some situations.
- Players can now preview items from their Guild Bank.
- Many Stronghold centerpiece hooks now have additional hook slots of varying sizes (in addition to functioning as a centerpiece hook).
- The drop rate for item rating 252 and 258 items along with Masterwork Crystals has been increased for Command Crates.
- A percentage of all experience earned is now converted into Conquest Points.
- The multiplier for earning Conquests points in a Guild has been reduced to 2x (down from 3x).
- Developer note: Although this is a nerf to the multiplier for Conquests in Guilds, an average player should not see a reduction in Conquest Points earned due to the XP > Conquest point change. Active players should see increased Conquest points earned overall.
Classes +Combat
Jedi Knight
Guardian
Defense
- The Stalwart Defense utility no longer grants unintended damage reduction in addition to the 30% reduction granted while stunned.
Crew Skills
- Corrected an issue where Companion affection was not calculating the correct bonus for time efficiency and crit rate.
Flashpoints + Operations + Uprisings
Flashpoints
Blood Hunt
- The K’lor’Slug Guardian will no longer stop attacking the player in rare circumstances.
Operations
Dread Palace
- The Dread Transposer will now teleport the player back on to the platform as intended during the Dread Master Tyrans encounter.
Gods From the Machine
- Having the Guild Perk “Vitality Set Bonus” will no longer cause the Communication Breakdown debuff to last indefinitely during the Master Mode Izax Encounter. This was blocking combat resurrections during the encounter.
- Players can no longer reflect damage from the Anchor Drone’s during the Izax encounter.
Items + Economy
- The May the 4th Droid has had their in-game name corrected to M4-Y8.
- Corrected an issue where players who had the Galvanized Infantry Armor set unlocked in Collections were instead receiving the Energized Infantry Armor Set.
- The visual effects from the Arclight Nova mount will no longer persist when the player dismounts.
- The Makeb Canopy Stronghold Decoration has been restored to its original size.
- The Irrigated Garden Decoration can now be picked up when placed on the Manaan Rooftop Garden.
- A number of Weapons now function properly in Collections:
- Defiant Technographer’s Blaster
- Defiant Technographer’s Offhand Blaster
- Defiant Technographer’s Blaster Rifle
- Defiant Technographer’s Sniper Rifle
- BL-28 Blaster
- BL-28 Blaster Rifle
- BL-28 Sniper Rifle
- EL-34 Rotary Plasma Cannon
- Exquisite Champion’s Dualsaber
- Exquisite Champion’s Lightsaber
- Interstellar Regulator’s Assault Cannon Dorn
- Interstellar Regulator’s Blaster Dorn
- Dauntless Avenger’s Saberstaff
- Interstellar Regulator’s Blaster Rifle Dorn
- Interstellar Regulator’s Sniper Rifle Dorn
- Dauntless Avenger’s Lightsaber
- Unassembled Components can now be stacked as intended in Legacy Storage.
- Increased the drop rate for the Symbiote Rakling for killing The Eyeless on Story Mode during the Rakghoul Plague event.
- Cartel Market Certificates can now drop from the High Roller slots during the Nar Shaddaa Nightlife Event.
Missions + NPCs
- The holocall animation will now play in its entirety when traveling to an Alliance Alert.
- Players will no longer be stuck in the ground after using the Forge during Chapter XII: Visions in the Dark.
- Troopers who use the Ossus story autocomplete will now receive Theron Shan as intended.
- Troopers who complete Chapter XI: Disavowed now receive the Colonel title as intended. Troopers who previously earned this title but did not receive it should now see it on their character.
- Fixed a variety of typos and inconsistencies in the Mission names and text for the Eternal Championship.
- Fixed a variety of typos and inconsistencies in the Mission names and text for Ossus Missions.
- Darth Marr will no longer drop loot if he dies as your Companion during Chapter I: The Hunt.
- The Mission item “Guidance Beacon” will now highlight as usable as intended during the Agent Class Mission “The Sky Burns”.
- Corrected a typo in the loading screen text for Sith Warriors starting the Knights of the Fallen Empire storyline.
- Weekly Missions for the Ossus Lair Boss has been added to the Fleet Mission Terminals.
Warzones
- The Guild Recharge Drone can no longer be used in Warzones.
- Players can no longer use Phase Walk to capture points from further than intended in Warzones.
