STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ News

Defender Gilada now spawns as intended, allowing the Galactic Seasons 7 Objective "Ancient Enemies Returned II" to be completed.

We will be bringing down the servers on August 29 to deploy Game Update 7.5.1a.

Time: 7:00am CT / 12:00pm UTC
Estimated downtime: 2 hours

Click here for more details.

The All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally Date: Sept 17 - Sept 23 (BEGINS AND ENDS AT 12:00PM GMT)
Requirement: Level 20+

In the growing shadow of war, swoop fans across the galaxy descend on Dantooine, Tatooine, and even Onderon for the sport’s biggest spectacle—The All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally! They’re packing the stands, eager to take their minds off their troubles and cheer their favorite swoop gangs. The bikers are here to take on dangerous challenge courses, show off their piloting skills, and flaunt their souped-up swoop bikes. The thunder of the engines, the deafening applause from the fans, the wind battering their helmets… there’s no bigger rush for these thrill seekers.

Despite their reputation as wild rebels whose makeshift courses disregard local districting restrictions, swoop gangs aren’t a serious threat to anyone--something all true swoop fans know! They just love adrenaline-pounding speed, sweet jumps, and big explosions, and the All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally combines all three in one crowd-pleasing package. The biggest gangs on the circuit — Horizon’s Razor, the Pit Screamers, and the Blatant Beks — are ready to show their fans a great time.

FEATURED REWARDS:

• Swoop Rally Mounts (regular and gold versions)
  
• Swoop Gang Outfits
  
• Promotion Droid Mini-pets
  
• Various Stronghold Decorations
  
• …and more!
  

Galactic Seasons 7 “The Greatest Bounty”

Players will be meeting up with Kantec Bren of the Bounty Broker Association (BBA) thus kicking off “The Greatest Bounty”. For the entirety of the season, the Bounty Contract Event will be enabled. This season will also feature the world bosses from the Dark vs Light (DvL) event!

Rewards include new titles, the Brynjak and Superior Hunter Armors, the Furious and Temperamental Brynjak Mounts, new decos, themed weapons, a white Loth-cat kitten pet and more!

All the details around can be found here.

Date Night

Players are now able to experience Vette and Aric Jorgan’s Date Night missions! These Date Night Missions will be available for Troopers and Sith Warriors in active post-KotFE romances. Rewards include a Title, Achievement, and unique Decoration. As a reminder, these are weekly repeatable missions.

(Vette/Aric Jorgan)

Twitch Drops

Beginning today, players can accrue watch time to unlock the Orlean Voidstream Mount through Twitch Drops. Players who stream SWTOR to their audience will have the ability to offer Drops rewards to their viewers.

The Orlean Voidstream Mount will be unlocked after 4 hours of watch time and earnable for 30 days following 7.5.1 launch.



Streamers and viewers must have Drops enabled in order to participate in any campaigns. Streamers/channels will become ineligible for Drops if they violate Twitch/SWTOR’s Terms of Service or user guidelines. Please read through Twitch’s Drops guide for more details and information.

Gearing Adjustments

Adjustments to improve the experience of gearing progression are now live. Read up on all the details that offer players more choice in their rewards, more opportunities to get stronger, and ways to convert their Upgrade Caches to better gear.

Servers

All transfer restrictions on the Shae Vizla server have been removed.

Cartel Market

New items inspired by The Acolyte and Star Wars: Visions™ have dropped in the Cartel Market! See all of the offerings here.



A full list of patch notes can be found here.

Galactic Seasons 7 “The Greatest Bounty” will begin with the launch of Game Update 7.5.1 on August 20! Once the update goes live, players will be able to make progress through the Free Reward track or the Subscriber Reward track (both tracks are available to Subscribers!) and earn new rewards. Below are the details of what players can expect from this new season!

Bounty Hunters, rejoice!

During the 7.5.1 developer livestream, it was announced that the Bounty Contract Event will be enabled for the entirety of Galactic Seasons 7. Players will be meeting up with Kantec Bren of the Bounty Broker Association (BBA) thus kicking off “The Greatest Bounty”.

What is the Bounty Contract Event?


This is a recurring in-game event that allows players to play the role of a Bounty Hunter regardless of their current origin story. The BBA bounty contracts can be found on vendors in the Cartel Bazaar section of the Fleet. Each contract outlines the parameters of a bounty that has been posted on one of many planets across the galaxy, including contact information for the client who posted the bounty and a list of underworld contacts in the sector who may be persuaded to assist you in the hunt. Targets include members of crime syndicates, violent gangs, and various other law-breaking entities.

Players must be at least level 15 and have access to the Fleet in order to participate in this event.

Special bosses have been added to the weekly objectives


“The Greatest Bounty” will feature the world bosses from the Dark vs Light (DvL) event! Each week will feature one Dark Side and one Light Side world boss.



These bosses can spawn on Hoth, Tatooine, Dromund Kaas/Coruscant, or Alderaan as they have in the DvL event. These bosses are tough and are designed for 8-16 players, so come to these fights prepared! If one group has already beaten a world boss, don’t worry! The bosses are on a much faster respawn timer and you will not have to wait long for them to respawn.

As the bosses have made a return, so has the DvL currency that can be used at the DvL vendors on the Fleets. Note that Dark side bosses will drop Light Tokens and vice versa.

(DvL vendors on the Republic Fleet)

Some of the rewards that can be purchased through these vendors.

(Righteous Mystic and Dread Mystic Lightsabers)

(Honored Saberist and Honored Adept Armors)

(Dread Enforcer and Dire Taskmaster Armors)

(Noble Champion Speeder and Malicious Tyrant Assault Mounts)

Seasonal Rewards!

As with previous Seasons, there will be a Free and Subscriber track that players can earn rewards from as they complete objectives and progress through Galactic Seasons 7.

The following rewards will be available on the Free/Preferred reward track: 

• Galactic Seasons 7 Mission "Dangerous Game" Unlock
  
• Dark Side Tokens x 3
  
• Light Side Tokens x 3
  
• 2500 Tech Fragments (in total)
  
• Bubble Bomb (Blue) x15
  
• Medal of Commendation x100
  
• Legendary Embers x10
  
• Galactic Season Token x4
  
• Iokath Recombinator x5
  
• Stronghold Label: Hive of Scum and Villainy
  
• Legacy Title: Carbonite Enthusiast
  
• Fitted Armor Pack
  
• Bronze Cartel Weapon Crate x2
  
• Bronze Cartel Armor Crate x2
  
• Bronze Cartel Mount Crate x2
  
• Bronze Cartel Decoration Crate x3
  
• Silver Cartel Decoration Crate x2
  
• Silver Cartel Weapon Crate
  
• Silver Cartel Mount Crate
  
• Silver Cartel Armor Crate
  
• Gold Cartel Decoration Crate x2
  
• Prey Stalker themed weapons
  

(Prey Stalker Weapons: Lightsaber, Dualsaber, Sniper Rifle, Blaster, Assault Cannon, Blaster Rifle)

The following rewards will be available on the Subscriber track: 

• 2000 Cartel Coins (in total)
  
• Galactic Seasons Ultimate Cartel Pack x5
  
• 750 Tech Fragments (in total)
  
• Dark Side Tokens x9
  
• Light Side Tokens x9
  
• Medal of Commendation x100
  
• Galactic Season Token x11
  
• Legacy Title: Hunter
  
• Themed weapon set
  
• Temperamental Brynjak Creature Mount
  
• Armored Brynjak Creature Mount
  
• Hunter’s Seat Decoration
  
• Guild Chandelier Decoration
  
• Guildmaster's Cathedra Decoration
  
• Brynjak Leather-clad Personnel Decoration
  
• Joonga Decoration
  
• Imperator’s Throne Decoration
  
• Brynjak Leather Armor
  
• Superior Hunter Armor
  
• Hunter’s Headwrap (single helmet)
  
• Huntstalker’s Visage (single helmet)
  
• Vicious Visor (single helmet)
  
• Vengeance’s Vendetta (single helmet)
  
• Stronghold Label: Bounty Hunter’s Guild
  
• Bronze Cartel Weapon Crate
  
• Bronze Cartel Decoration Crate
  
• Bronze Cartel Armor Crate
  
• Silver Cartel Decoration Crate
  
• Silver Cartel Mount Crate
  
• Silver Cartel Armor Crate
  
• Silver Cartel Weapon Crate
  
• Gold Cartel Decoration Crate
  
• Deep Brown and Medium Red Dye
  
• Deep Brown and Medium Blue Dye
  
• Metallic Brass and Metallic Copper Dye
  
• Basilisk Prototype Customization 2
  
• White Loth-Cat Kitten Pet
  

(Brynjak Leather Armor)

(Superior Hunter Armor)

(White Loth-cat Kitten Pet)

(Sun Sunderer Lightsaber, Star Slayer Dualsaber, Skull Seeker Sniper Rifle, Dreadbolt Blaster, Blitzshot Assault Cannon, Lights Out Blaster Rifle)

(Hunstalker’s Visage / Vicious Visor)

(Vengeance’s Vendetta / Hunter’s Headwrap)

(Temperamental and Armored Brynjak Mount)

(Dunetreader / Dunestrider Dragon Mount. Dunestrider Dragon has Color Crystal elements.)

The Meta-Achievement reward for this season is a new Flair called “Hunter’s Mark”.



New Ki’at Thavo rewards

Ki’at Thavo’s inventory has been updated with new rewards from this season. These are available for Free-to-Play and Preferred players immediately.



(Guildmaster’s Cathedra, Imperator’sThrone, Hunter’s Seat Decorations)


(Basilisk Prototype Customization 2)

When the season ends, all the rewards listed above will be available for all players until the beginning of the next season, giving Subscribers the opportunity to purchase the rewards they are missing.

New Jaleit Nall rewards

Jaleit Nall’s inventory will still rotate every week at 12:00 PM GMT. After one week, the group is cycling out for 3 weeks and replaced by the following group. For example, Group A will remain active for 1 week, and then cycle out for 3 weeks and be replaced by Group B.

To allow players to get the rewards they want, Jaleit Nall will always be available regardless of whether or not the season is active. New items are in bold.

Group A will consist of the following rewards:




Group B will begin a week after Group A, remain for 1 week, and then cycle out for 3 weeks.



Group C will begin a week after Group B, remain for 1 week, and then cycle out for 3 weeks.



Group D will begin a week after Group C, remain for 1 week, and then cycle out for 3 weeks.




In addition to the rotating group rewards, the following rewards will always be available in Jaleit’s inventory:



Season Objectives

Players will see new Season Objectives themed around this new season. Here’s what to expect during the first four weeks! Similar to the previous seasons, the following weeks will be published a few days prior to the end of the last week. We will post these objectives on the site and in our our events calendar.

August 20 - August 26

August 27 - September 2

September 3 - September 9

September 10 - September 16