If anyone else has a chance, check this to see if it's not just me. Dirty Fighting's Wounding Shots, which has an awesome sound on Live, has no continual sound on PTS and the ability doesn't even make any noise/animation over the cast time. It sounds like the Vital Shot sound, but firing only once in the middle of the 3 second cast. After the last time they screwed our sounds, I'm scared. Particularly since it's one of the few sounds left on Gunslingers I love hearing.

This. Sincerely, this.

Hrm, I'm absolutely not discounting what you've said - I don't doubt it. I did it this week on my BH Healer who is mostly Black Hole with 4-5 pieces of Rakata. It was a bit rough since we had melee that loved to stand infront of the big guy and get the unclearable bleed DOT, but we survived through it. We didn't notice any double spitting but the higher damage was there. Usually that came from him being up on the pipes too long in the past. Not sure why it is doing this to you.

It's a known bug. Only 3 of the 7 missions are currently showing up. According to the Devs, we're supposed to expect a fix after the 1st of the year.

I hear ya, that one more or less requires the offensive Grade 7 parts. Basically have to hit your EMP on the first pass to hit all the satellites and then pump lasers and missiles galore on every single pass you go by it.

It is easier once you learn the tricks of the trade when it comes to these new missions. Basically, you MUST use your mouse to target fire and the WASD keys as well as spacebar. There are times when you need to focus purely on dodging/surviving and firing off the occasional missile at the targets. For Thanium Disruption it's mainly taking out the 2 fighters first, dodging asteroids, then at the first minefield just be very aware of dodging/spinning/barrel rolling through without taking much damage and after the minelayer pop the EWP and start blazing away at the Shuttle/Mandalorian Leader from a distance. Once you get directly below the Frigate, pop your EMP, then switch fast to shield recharge. For the next 60 seconds or so it's dodging asteroids and fire while hitting as many missiles as you can. (NOTE: You have several chances to lay into all three primary targets after you get past the minefields again and into 'open' space.) Once you learn where you need to dodge, juke, dive, etc, etc, etc it becomes easier. Take this: In all 7 gear the first time through I came out with 25/4000 HP. Next time was 30/4000 HP. Next, 3500/4000. Past three times I've done it on a few toons I've barely had a scratch on my hull - JUST from knowing the layout and gaining experience in it.

I wish that worked lol. I beat them all on 3 toons thus far, only had the Operations for two of them show up on 1 toon, and then only 1 Operation show for the other, none for the 3rd toon.

They definitely are difficult and I completely sympathize. I had enough CC to buy the Grade 7 parts right off the bat. Yesterday, I did the missions on my main and they were tough. Thanium Disruption I barely made it through on the 3rd try with, and I kid you not, 25 HP left on my ship's hull out of 4000. Fourth time, 31. I think out of the 6 I completed 1 bonus mission in total. Today, I got to clear all of the Space Combat missions on my Gunslinger alt with the Grade 7 parts as well. On her, I completed them all on the first try including every bonus mission, sans the one for the Thanium Disruption. Speaking of the Thanium Disruption, today, on that one after watching a video on where/when to hit certain abilities and when to attack and when to dodge, I came out with barely any damage to my hull at all versus yesterday's 25/4000HP. In all, it is just a very, very steep learning curve. Once you learn the tricks, though, they are easy - they require you to pay much more attention and focus on survival as well as doing damage and completing objectives. Now, if the actual Operation Weeklies for the Heroic Space Missions would pop up that would be nice too

Uh huh. Your opinion on my opinion.

1.6 is seriously going live on December 11th when there have been absolutely NO updates/fixes to the PTS since 1.6 went live there (edit: sorry, was one)? There are a number of threads that specifically address the space missions - a very large portion of the player base will not touch these missions with their degree of difficulty vs. reward coupled with the cost of gaining the necessary Grade 7 parts. It was also mentioned in one of the blogs/news stories that the rewards were going to be increased to further incentivize the missions. They were never updates on PTS, so is that going to be added to live?

They are going up only for FTP players, not subscribers.

This. Fantastic for those of you that have done it over and over since 1.2, but for those still working on it, leave it for Nightmare mode.

So, I'm sure this won't get noticed from on high, but has anyone else had some seriously horrible luck? I've got 3 toons with Slicing, all focused on getting the level 6 purple components for Augments from crits on the Slicing Component missions. Inquisitor (Max Affection, +2 Crit Slicing from Andronikos), Agent (Max Affection, +2 Crit Slicing from Scorpio), and Smuggler (Max Affection, +1 Crit Slicing from Risha). Results? Over 60+ missions run in the past day or so, and only two have crit. Two. That's it.Statistically, that's insane! Even for a run of bad luck. Especially considering the breakdown of the so called crit chances given by the developers. Has anyone else had some seriously horrible luck here or is this a trend?

I can confirm it does work between characters in the same Legacy. I sent a few medpacks/stims from my Republic Scoundrel to my Sith Sniper.

Underworld Trading T6 metals.....

Aye, that one I've been avoiding. I've been having this issue with any/all that pop up Rich for Metals.

Has anyone had any issues with the Rich Rank 5 or 6 Metal missions? I am constantly getting returns of only blue materials, and usually 2-4 instead of a 'rich' yield. I've completed around 15-20 rich of both rank 5 and 6 over the past few days, and not a single purple has come back. All done with companions at 10k affection as well. This is, of course, if I even get the blasted metals listed on my mission list and not just companion gifts. Anyone else experiencing this?