PTS Patch Notes: Game Update 1.6

As mentioned earlier, Game Update 1.6 is now on the Public Test Servers for players to try out. With that, patch notes from the new update are available as well. For the notes in full, hit the jump.

The patch notes published for the Public Test Server are not final and are subject to change. Currently, only English notes are available, but French and German versions will be published when they are available.

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 lost technology for your faction.
  • New incredibly challenging Weekly [HEROIC] Space Combat missions are available!
  • All new Grade 7 Artifact Quality Starship Upgrades are now available!

Group Finder

  • Added a new Level 50 "Introduction to Group Finder" mission to the Daily Mission Terminal on the Republic and Imperial Fleets. This will be granted when players complete the Advanced Gear mission for their Class.
  • Group Finder categories have been updated with tooltips that provide a recommended gear rating and an outline of the rewards available from the content.
  • Increased Black Hole Commendations awarded by Story Mode Operations in Group Finder from 5 to 10.

Items

  • Tionese gear available from the Tionese vendor no longer costs Tionese Crystals, and their commendation costs have been reduced for most items.
  • Ancient Artifact Storage Boxes can now be purchased for 25 Tionese Crystals from all Tionese vendors.

Missions and NPCs

  • Added a new Level 50 "Advanced Gear" mission for each Class to the Daily Mission Terminal on the Imperial and Republic Fleets.

UI

  • The tooltips for several currencies will 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 on the Currency Window has been renamed to Endgame Commendations. Daily Commendations will now appear under the Endgame Commendations category.

Comments

  • Chazz224's avatar
    Nerf Herder
    • Posts: 27
    #3 Chazz224 Posted 11/25/2012 6:39:22 PM

    it's true sadly... they won't cut and copy anymore of our main's to the PTS server LOL but yet they want free feed back? I'm ok helping out and reporting bugs actually but ... huh give me the chance? No DENIED !!! No can do you are beat, it's as like they want a higher fail rate for when it hits the main server, unreal... Plus my favorite part is two fold actually, where as the new EWH gear is made for Op's opposed to PVP cause most of our new items regardless of class have now main power stats to offer any of us.

    Than the other issue is we still have on going glitches that have not been fixed since the 1.5 update but I guess they are just gonna roll over that as they are tolerable glitches at the very least, Release 1.6 so they can shut the servers down just before 1.7 " Maybe " to fix the old and newer glitches... My Goodness who runs this company and do they work at all or just sign off on everything while they are having their 10am Scotch and soda while chilling out in the pool catching their morning tan? A monkey can almsot do a better job than this ... Common sense to fix and repair before we move on to the new stuff and those glitches...

    Plus the new gear really is terrible if you know anything about pvp at all it is not good.

  • Nillard's avatar
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    • Posts: 42
    #2 Nillard Posted 11/22/2012 9:36:21 AM

    So let me get this straight Bioware....you want me to spend some of the time I PAY for (I'm still a subscriber) to test your new features for you for free instead of paying legit QA people to do it, and now your saying you aren't even copying characters over to the PTS anymore?

    So you finally have something on the PTS I'm happily willing To do this for, as I've been begging for this new Warzone seemingly forever, and in order to do so I'd need to reroll a character and power level him through the starter planet to get him to level 10 just so I can get into the new Warzone where I will then be useless and not able to contribute, enjoy, or effectively test it?

    At this point I think SWTOR is a running joke at EA where they have weekly meetings and say "how many awful decisions can we make before EVERYONE quits"?  Good news, I've played and paid since the first beta group and you have finally reached my threshold for epic stupidity...

  • Strongsadd's avatar
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    #1 Strongsadd Posted 11/20/2012 3:56:23 PM

    nice.

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