Game Update 1.6: Ancient Hypergate

12/11/2012

Highlights

• Ancient Hypergate, a new Warzone, is available for play! Travel to an ancient ruin built around a Gree Hypergate and battle to control the precious technology for your faction.
• New incredibly challenging Weekly [HEROIC] Space Combat Missions are now available!
• All-new Grade 7 Artifact Quality Starship Upgrades are now available for credits or commendations from the Fleet and Mission Support vendors!

Cartel Market

New Items

• A new collection of rare goods, freshly smuggled in by the Hutt Cartel is now available! The Blockade Runner Cartel Pack can contain Rare bonus items not found in any other Cartel Market Pack! Cost: 360 Cartel Coins.
• The Grade 7 Starship Defensive Bundle contains defensive upgrades that will protect your ship during the most difficult missions! Cost: 400 Cartel Coins.
• Purchase the Grade 7 Starship Offensive Bundle to give your ship enhanced firepower! Cost: 550 Cartel Coins.
• The Grade 7 Starship Tactical Bundle contains powerful upgrades for your personal starship. Cost: 350 Cartel Coins.

Life Day Items

• The following items are available for a limited time only!

• Purchase the Life Day Robes, an adaptive armor set containing Life Day Vestments, Lower Robe, and Boots, to show your Life Day spirit! Cost: 960 Cartel Coins.
• The Czerka LD-1 Celebrator, an adaptive speeder, combines the convenience of travel with the joy of the Life Day celebration! Cost: 1800 Cartel Coins.
• Use the Life Day Tinsel Bomb to spread cheer to anyone it hits with a blast of shiny tinsel. Cost: 300 Cartel Coins.
• The Life Day Orb is a commemorative orb used to celebrate Life Day. Cost: 60 Cartel Coins.
• The Life Day Holo-Tree brings the joy of Life Day anywhere in the galaxy! Cost: 600 Cartel Coins.
• Get the most Life Day cheer with the Life Day Bundle, which includes the Life Day Orb, Life Day Holo-Tree, Life Day Tinsel Bomb, Czerka LD-1 Celebrator, and the Life Day Vestments, Lower Robe, and Boots for the discounted price of 2400 Cartel Coins.

Fireworks

• The following items are available for a limited time only!

• Celebrate the conquests of the Empire with Imperial Fireworks! Each box contains 10 Fireworks. Cost: 125 Cartel Coins.
• Celebrate the victories of the Republic with Republic Fireworks! Each box contains 10 Fireworks. Cost: 125 Cartel Coins.
• Create a dazzling display of colorful sparks with Fountain Fireworks. Each box contains 10 Fountain Fireworks. Cost: 75 Cartel Coins.
• Complete your Fireworks display with impressive Finale Fireworks and send a series of large, colorful explosions high into the air! Each box contains 10 Finale Fireworks. Cost: 50 Cartel Coins.
• Celebrate in style with the Fireworks Bundle! This bundle contains all four Fireworks boxes with an additional 2 Fireworks per box at a discounted price! Cost: 300 Cartel Coins.

Bugfixes

• One-handed blasters and Lightsabers found in Cartel Packs can now be used in both the main hand and off-hand equipment slots.

Crew Skills

• Players who previously unlearned a Crew Skill no longer lose schematics when learning new schematics from reverse engineering.

Group Finder

• A new "Introduction to Group Finder" mission has been added to the Daily Mission Terminal on the Republic and Imperial Fleets. This mission is granted when players complete the Advanced Gear mission.
• Group Finder categories have been updated with tooltips that provide a recommended gear rating and an outline of the rewards available from the content.
• 10 Black Hole Commendations are now awarded by Story Mode Operations in Group Finder (up from 5).

Items

• Elite War Hero Items are now available on the new Elite War Hero vendor. These items can be purchased using Ranked Commendations.
• War Hero Items can now be purchased with Warzone Commendations.
• Battlemaster Items are no longer available for purchase.
• Ancient Artifact Storage Boxes can now be purchased for 25 Tionese Crystals from all Tionese vendors.
• Tionese items available from the Tionese vendor no longer require Tionese Crystals, and most of their commendation costs have been reduced.
• Companion gear no longer alters player character stats when modified.
• A tooltip issue that caused identical items in the inventory to appear to count towards a set bonus (even when not equipped) has been corrected.

Missions and NPCs

• A new "Advanced Gear" mission for each class has been added to the Daily Mission Terminal on the Imperial and Republic Fleets.

PvP

• The requirements for offense and defense bronze medals have been lowered. Players now receive each medal the first time they receive associated objective points, regardless of the value.
• New Rated bracers and belts are now available on the War Hero vendor. These items are unmodded items similar to other Rated items. The old bracers and belt are no longer available.
• Bolster now appears as a positive effect that cannot be removed by the player (instead of as a negative effect).

Space Combat

• The ammo count for missiles and proton torpedoes now includes the missile or torpedo in the chamber.
• Imperial Agents, Sith Inquisitors, and Jedi Consulars can now swap Power Conversion Modules by right-clicking them.

UI

• The tooltips for several currencies now explain how they can be acquired and what they can be used to purchase. These currencies include: Tionese Commendations, Columi Commendations, Black Hole Commendations, Daily Commendations, and Tionese Crystals.
• The Flashpoint Commendations category in the currency window is now named "Elder Game Commendations." Daily commendations now appear in this category.
• The friends list no longer occasionally shows some friends as always offline.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Players no longer occasionally see other players on their personal starship.

1.6.2 Patch Notes

1/8/2013

Cartel Market

New Items

• Players can now unlock additional character slots! Cost: 600 Cartel Coins.
• The Newcomer Bundle is now available! It contains a wide range of items to help new players expedite their travels. Cost: 405 Cartel Coins (discounted by 50% for a limited time!).
• Two new armor sets, the Interstellar Privateer Armor Set and Clandestine Officer Armor Set, can now be purchased. Each armor set costs 1,440 Cartel Coins.
• A new Cartel Pack, the Skip Tracer Cartel Pack, is now on the Market. Cost: 360 Cartel Coins.

New Discounts

• The Gamorrean Axe is discounted by 30%. Cost: 245 Cartel Coins.
• Fleet Passes (single use) are discounted by 33%. Cost: 60 Cartel Coins.
• The Life Day Bundle is discounted by 35%. Cost: 2,400 Cartel Coins.
• The Newcomer Bundle is discounted by 50%. Cost: 405 Cartel Coins.

Bug Fixes

• Unlock items no longer stack in the inventory.
• Revan's Mask no longer clips through hoods on some body types.
• The textures for the Forward Recon chestpiece now display properly.
• The appearance of the Phantom and Perceptor's armor now matches the appearance seen in the Cartel Market.
• The Stylish Dancer's Top no longer binds on pickup.
• The Statele Shan Holo-Statue and Darth Malgus Holo-Statue no longer allow the use of Heroic Moment abilities.
• The Cyan-blue War Hero's Color Crystal now binds on equip.
• Using Imperial and Republic Firework items now causes the player to kneel down.
• Tinsel Bombs can now be used on both friendly and hostile targets.
• Players no longer move when using Fountain Fireworks.
• Tooltips for equipment that requires the Event Equipment Requisition Authorization now update when the player unlocks the requirement.
• The Carbonite Chamber and Life Day Orb now properly regenerate Ammo for Troopers.
• The Remote Control Starship now regenerates a player's health and energy pool when channeled.

General

• Character slot restrictions are now being enforced:

• Free-to-Play players are restricted to 2 characters per server.
• Preferred Status players are restricted to 6 characters per server.
• Subscribers are limited to 12 Characters per servers.
• All players have a Global Active Character Limit of 350 Characters.
• Additional Character Slots may now be purchased from the Cartel Market. Each Character Slot will increase the number of Characters a player may have across all servers by 1. Each purchase will increase the number characters that a player may mark as Active across all servers.
• Subscribers and Preferred Status Players who have more than the current character limits will be allowed to keep and play all characters. No new characters may be created on the account until the number of characters on the account falls under the Global Active Character Limit for the account type, even if additional character slots are purchased.

Classes and Combat

Smuggler

Scoundrel

Scrapper

• Flechette Round's damage over time effect no longer interrupts players attempting to capture an objective.

Imperial Agent

Operative

Concealment

• Acid Blade's damage over time effect no longer interrupts players attempting to capture an objective.

Companion Characters

HK-51

• HK-51's dagger, "Dicer," is now available in his combat outfit container.
• Warning: Rivals Detected: Players are no longer prevented from restarting this mission if they abandoned it. Players that were unable to re-obtain this mission can speak to Bren in Section X to continue.

Flashpoints and Operations

Flashpoints

Kaon Under Siege

• Optimizations have been implemented to improve performance inside this Flashpoint.
• The Infected Screamer's Brutalize attack now respects player immunities to knockback.

Maelstrom Prison

• The Fifth Fleet Footmen and Fifth Fleet Gunners now spawn correctly during the Grand Moff Kilran encounter.
• X-37 Oppressor's Power Punch now respects player immunities to knockback.

Operations

Eternity Vault

• Enrage timers have been increased by 1 minute for bosses (excluding the Ancient Pylons encounter) in this Operation in 16-player Story and Hard Modes.

Explosive Conflict

• Warlord Kephess' enrage timer has been increased to 5 minutes, 30 seconds in 16-player Nightmare Mode.
• The Defected Imperial Commander now spawns correctly in the Colonel Vorgath encounter.

Karagga's Palace

• Enrage timers have been increased by 1 minute for bosses in this Operation in 16-player Story and Hard Modes.

Terror from Beyond

• The Gargantuan Lobel mini-boss now spawns correctly.
• In the Terror from Beyond encounter, the Unstable Larva, Hypergate Beacons (in the first phase of Hard Mode), and Hypergate Irregularities now spawn correctly.

Items

• The Dread Guard's Corrupted Mask now uses appropriate voice sound effects during cinematics.
• The Devastator's Double-Bladed Lightsaber now correctly displays two blades.

Legacy

• Legacy of Combat abilities can no longer be used inside Warzones.
• Using Priority Transport: Capital World now properly advances mission steps that require players to travel to Coruscant or Dromund Kaas.

Missions and NPCs

Missions

Belsavis

• Section X Weekly missions no longer autocomplete if the player has previously completed the component missions.
• The Section X daily mission area has had some encounters removed and others relocated to provide easier travel between mission objectives.
• March of the Dread Guard: Players now use the remote device recovered from nearby enemy NPCs to free all prisoners. Only 5 prisoners now need to be freed (down from 12), and leader NPCs count towards this goal.
• Imminent Threat: Only 8 escaped prisoners are now required for this mission's objective (down from 16).

Class Missions

Jedi Consular

• Find the Ancient Weapon: Players can now complete this optional mission after recovering the item from the chest.

Trooper

• Justice: An issue that could cause players to become stuck in the floor on The Justice has been corrected.

NPCs

• After Dreadtooth is defeated, Dreadful Resurgence no longer persists. Dreadful Essence must be used to increase Dreadtooth's difficulty.
• Dreadtooth's difficulty when he is affected by 3 or more applications of Dreadful Resurgence has been decreased.
• Dreadtooth no longer drops crafting materials when affected by less than 3 applications of Dreadful Resurgence.
• The anti-griefing "Dread" debuff applied by Dreadtooth now uses a shorter range.
• The Shriek attack used by Dreadtooth no longer causes too many visual effects to be played each tick.

PvP

Warzones

Ancient Hypergate

• Players defending a pylon their team controls now gain defensive credit over time.
• Transmissions inside this Warzone now use appropriate voice effects.
• Players no longer gain attacker objective credit for finishing a capture attempt on an energy orb that has already been captured by another player.

Space Combat

• The costs for Grade 7 ship upgrades available from the Fleet vendor, Daily vendor, and Starship Upgrades credit vendor have been reduced.
• The credit reward from [Heroic] Space Combat missions has been reduced from 12,500 to 1,616.

UI

General

• The "Unify to Chest" armor color option now works correctly for players and companions.

Galactic Trade Network

• Preferred Players can now post 5 sales at a time on the GTN. Previously, Preferred Players were incorrectly limited to 2 sales.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Several items that were missing correct translations in French and German have been updated.
• A rare issue that could cause a Premium or Preferred Player to function as a Free-to-Play Player temporarily has been addressed.
• Using /stuck now kills the player without penalty when used on a Personal Starship.

1.6.3 Patch Notes

1/23/2013

Cartel Market

New Items

• The Czerka CR-17 Incendia, is now available. The protection provided from being knocked off this vehicle is greater than Speeder Piloting III. Cost: 1,800 Cartel Coins.
• Three new armor sets, the Sand People Pillager Set, The Sanctified Caretaker Set, and the Malevolent Interrogator Set can now be purchased. These sets of adaptive armor can be worn by any Class at level 1. Cost: 1,440 Cartel Coins each.
• The Preferred Access Bundle is now available! This bundle offers the player a selection of popular unlocks and customization options. Cost: 972 Cartel Coins (Discounted by 40% for a limited time!)

New Discounts

• Access Authorization: Section X (Character) is discounted by 10%. Cost: 540 Cartel Coins.
• Access Authorization: Section X (Account) is discounted by 10%. Cost: 1,215 Cartel Coins.
• Unlock: Cargo Hold Access (Character) is discounted by 20%. Cost: 380 Cartel Coins.
• Unlock: Cargo Hold Access (Account) is discounted by 20%. Cost: 840 Cartel Coins.
• Unlock: Additional Cargo Bay (Character) is discounted by 20%. Cost: 380 Cartel Coins.
• Unlock: Additional Cargo Bay (Account) is discounted by 20%. Cost: 840 Cartel Coins.
• The Newcomer Bundle is discounted by 50%. Cost: 405 Cartel Coins.
• Medical Probes are discounted by 50%. Cost: 250 Cartel Coins.

Expiring Discounts

• The Gamorrean Axe is no longer 30% off. Cost: 350 Cartel Coins.
• Fleet Pass (Single Use) is no longer 33% off. Cost: 90 Cartel Coins.

Items Removed From the Cartel Market

• Czerka LD-1 Celebrator
• Life Day Robes
• Life Day Holo-Tree
• Life Day Orb
• Life Day Tinsel Bomb
• Life Day Bundle
• Imperial Fireworks x10
• Republic Fireworks x10
• Fountain Fireworks x10
• Finale Fireworks x10
• Fireworks Bundle x12

Bug Fixes

• Players who have purchased vehicles via the Cartel Market will now find that their protection against being knocked off has been scaled up to Speeder Piloting III regardless of current Speeder Piloting level.
• All color crystals from the Cartel Market and Cartel Packs can now be placed on the Galactic Trade Network.
• The Fancy Reveler's Outfit pieces now correctly display an icon.
• Players will no longer be able to use unlocks such "Unlock: Additional Quickbar" if they already have the maximum allotment of that unlock.

Flashpoints and Operations

Flashpoints

Colicoid War Game

• Friendly Colicoids in Colicoid War Game are now immune to gap-closing abilities such as Intercede.

Taral V

• Players are now required to defeat General Edikar in order to complete the [FLASHPOINT] Taral V mission.

Operations

Eternity Vault

• Players can no longer pull Gharj to the entrance of the room.

Karagga's Palace

• Players are no longer able to reach the top of the pillars during the Foreman Crusher encounter.

PvP

Warzones

Ancient Hypergate

• Alacrity will no longer speed up the capture of Energy Orbs.
• New tiebreaker mechanic: If both teams have an identical score after reaching 600 the match enters a sudden death mode where the first team to capture a pylon wins the game.
• Gaining defensive objective points will no longer incorrectly display an invalid effect icon.
• Engaging in combat near a defensive objective will now correctly reset the vote kick timer.

Voidstar

• Players can no longer leave the spawn area prior to the match starting.

Space Combat

• Heroic Space Combat missions will now be available on the correct day.
• Space Combat Daily Missions will now be available 12 hours earlier. They will now reset each day at 6AM CST (4AM PST/7AM EST/12PM GMT/1PM CET/11PM AEDT).
• Players will no longer receive an "Ineligible" system message when accepting Daily Space Combat Missions.

UI

• Corrected an issue where logging out would cause the UI to not be displayed at character select.
• The Quickbar lock/unlock graphic has been reverted back to its original icon.

Miscellaneous

• Added missing text to the Cartel Market for the French and German versions.