The download is now available for those invited to this "Free for All" beta weekend!!!!
What to do:
1) Login into your SWTOR forum account.
2) Go to www.swtor.com/tester
3) Confirm your participation in the Beta
4) Check your email for the confirmation email. It will have a link to download the client .exe file
5) Install the game via the SWTOR_setup.exe (this will take a lot of time due to the 20gb dl/install size).
Remember: After installing the game, the PLAY button will be greyed out. This indicates that the test period has not begun yet (5pm CST Friday Nov 25th). Once the scheduled Beta event starts the PLAY button will light up and you may enter the game, select server and beging creating your characters. Until then I suggest starting the Launcher every day or 2 to update files as needed.
**UPDATE** The weekend beta will begin Friday at 10AM CST rather than 5PM CST.
-- Edited by Menis on Tuesday 22nd of November 2011 03:07:04 AM
Another update concerning this weekend's testing...
They are simulating the Early Access Staggered Launch this weekend as well as another Server Stress Test. You will be allowed in starting Friday @ 10am CST IF you RSVP soon. Otherwise you may have to wait until Saturday @ 10am CST or Sunday @ 10am CST depending on when you confirm your invite to the beta weekend.
Those wanting more time to test the game this weekend need to RSVP / Confirm their invites A.S.A.P.
The earlier you RSVP / Confirm, the more time you will get to play.
Keep in mind that a lot of people end up waiting in a queue during weekend stress test. This is really important for development, so don't get frustrated if you're stuck waiting a long time to play. I'm just saying this because a lot of people from last weekend's stress test complained A LOT. The more people who can log in and stress the servers this weekend the better the servers will be for launch! :D
There were tons of people posting their nightmare stories of long queues to get in over the last beta weekend.
Initially I had a 37 minute wait to get in after the scheduled 5pm CST start time & had 1 instance where I was placed in a small queue (few minutes) after relogging from a server reset.
Other than those 2 points I had ZERO issues with getting my game on!
I logged in and played a couple of levels of smuggler. Logged out to try a differant class and haven't been able to log back in - can't get past a loading screen.
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