
Following today's maintenance, a new patch was deployed for players to download. Highlights from this patch included:
Several New Items on the Cartel Market:
- The Czerka CR-17 Incendia mount
- Three new armor sets including the Sand People Pillager Set, The Sanctified Caretaker Set, and the Malevolent Interrogator Set.
- The Preferred Access Bundle, which grants players a number of unlocks and customization options.
Several more things are available at new discounts on the market as well. For the full patch notes, and to discuss the changes brought with this patch, hit the jump.
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.
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Posted 1/28/2013 3:38:01 AMDoes this patch made some improvments in game relabillity? Or its just me noticed game run smoother about 50%?
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Posted 1/28/2013 4:27:43 AMI've noticed a marked improvement in performance as well. I didn't notice anything about it in the patches, but I think sometimes undocumented changes related to performance make it in; like fine tuning the engine for performance, etc.
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Posted 1/26/2013 10:17:15 AMVox, you're on a roll, bro! Thanks for keeping us posted! Keep up the great work!
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Posted 1/26/2013 10:27:21 AMThanks, I'm glad you're enjoying!
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Posted 1/25/2013 12:07:29 AMJust pointing out the patch is 1.6.3 not 1.6.1. :)
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Posted 1/25/2013 12:18:24 AMD'oh, how embarassing. Fixing now, and thank you.
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Posted 1/24/2013 8:16:08 PMThose prices... I guess if BioWare is making the money the game needs to improve that's great, but 1800CC for a mount just seems crazy to me. I could see $5 on average, $10 for a REALLY good one, which I guess the pod-racer mount might qualify for. But ~$15-$18?
On the upside, that preferred access bundle drove inventory expansion (account wide) credit prices down, so I got to max out on those!
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Posted 1/24/2013 8:25:17 PMYeah, I have to agree with you on that one. I had imagined most of the price points to be around $5, $10 at most for something really special. The cash shop in The Secret World is basically all cosmetic, and their price points are around that range, so it feels affordable. But yeah, I'll either have to wait for them to lower the prices, or give it a pass.
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Posted 1/26/2013 10:14:41 AMOr get it on the GTN for just under 2 million credits, which is much more time conducive than 1800 cartel points.
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Posted 1/26/2013 10:27:48 AMYeah, I'd be much more willing to spend credits on it, that's for sure. I just wish the prices direct from Cartel Market were more reasonable.
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Posted 1/26/2013 10:16:22 PMI agree Vox. The ability to buy cartel items from the GTN, however, has been very good for patient players like myself. ;)
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Posted 1/24/2013 8:03:19 PM"The Quickbar lock/unlock graphic has been reverted back to its original icon."
I shake my head as to why this was ever changed in the first place.
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Posted 1/25/2013 10:19:26 AMThey said that was an unintended result from the previous patch re: the icon.
Agree on the pricing. It's on par with what Blizzard does ($25 for mounts, $10 for pets) but not right, I think, for this game. If SWTOR had a similar subscriber/user base as WoW, I could see using that price point. But they're not (probably). I don't know that I'll get it, but it is pretty cool to see. I'll just have to live vicariously through others. : )
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Posted 1/25/2013 8:58:57 PMDon't forget that the WoW pets and mounts are account wide. The Czerka CR-17 Incendia is very pricey if it is just a single character mount.
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Posted 1/26/2013 10:16:07 AMThis^
Although the SWTOR mounts are much cooler than the wow sparkley my little ponies. =)