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Along with winning awards today it seems as if Game Update 1.5 is now up as well on the Public Test Server. The update includes Sector X (the new daily area of Belsavis), Nightmare Explosive Conflict, HK-51, and more.

BioWare

Game Update 1.5 is now live on our Public Test Server! For those of you that already have high level, copied characters on our Public Test Server, we encourage you to explore Sector X, Nightmare Explosive Conflict, and the other new features on the Public Test Server right now. Get on, check everything out, and give us your feedback by posting on the Public Test Server forum. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to offer the ability to copy characters for this test nor will there be any rewards offered for testing. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Game Update 1.5 contains a host of new features including:

• New playable companion, HK-51 – Begin your journey to unlock one of the galaxies deadliest assassins.
• Section X –Head to Belsavis to discover this new daily hub and learn what you can do to help stop the Dread Masters in their newest scheme.
• Nightmare Mode Explosive Conflict – Take on even greater challenges in Explosive Conflict to earn the final pieces of the Dread Guard set and more.

Costs for the Campaign armorings are available after the jump. Patch notes are still coming online. They can be found after the jump and are being updated as they are released.

Campaign Armoring Costs

Patch Notes

Highlights

• Travel to Section X on Belsavis and learn why the nefarious Dread Guard has seized control of this ravaged sector of the planet! Section X can be accessed on Belsavis and via the daily mission shuttles.
• HK-51 can now be acquired as a Companion Character! A shipment of the infamous assassin droids can be found in the wreck of an Imperial transport ship, The Fatality, in Section X. Reactivating HK-51 requires finding and assembling parts from across the galaxy.
• Nightmare Mode is now available for Operation: Explosive Conflict! Bosses in Nightmare Mode present a new level of challenge, new mechanics, and high-quality rewards (such as a new vehicle and Dread Guard set pieces)!
• Dreadtooth, a new world boss, can be found roaming Section X. Each time Dreadtooth is defeated, he returns with a temporary, stacking power buff which increases his difficulty and the quality of his loot rewards.

Group Finder

• Travelling to a new area while in a Group Finder queue no longer occasionally causes the UI to behave as if the player is not in the queue.

Items

• Campaign armorings are now available for purchase on the Black Hole vendor for Black Hole Commendations.
• Dread Guard relics are now available on the Daily vendor for 300 Daily Commendations.
• A new set of droid armor is now available from the Daily vendor.
• More robes have been adjusted so that their backsides are not inappropriately large when worn.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Several typos and instances of incorrect text have been corrected in all languages.
• The Imperial Medcenter in the vicinity of the wreck of the Ambria’s Fury has been moved Northeast.