Getting this as well "The launcher is looking for available updates" with no end. Force closed and repeated over a dozen times now. Tried old fixes posted months ago, restarted PC, made sure everything is up to date (dx9 etc to). Annoying. [Edit-1]: Reinstalled and still getting the same issue. Now installing through steam, will see if that's any different. 😕 [Edit-2]: Running through steam works, though copying the files to the steam folder to avoid downloading the whole game didn't. It had to be a full installation. Going to try copying the steam download files to override the standard launcher version and test that as well, out of curiousity. [Edit-3]: Of course that just causes steam to open and then fire up the launcher, ah well suppose i'll keep using it through steam for now until the stand alone launcher gets some kind of fix available. [Edit-4]: Oh for crying out loud, just tried a fresh (just stand alone launcher) reinstallation again, and it has this time allowed me to install/update. Typical lol.

Dammit, just when i choose to change my phone to, welp hope this gets fixed soon™!

As a returning player from a few months hiatus, i gotta say this pissed me off somewhat to find i spend around 200k credits removing all my (makeb) mods from my companion to transfer them to my now unlocked hk droid.. oh look droids dont use head/leg/waist/etc.. so now i need to rebuy all the amoring mods, for no good reason. Sorry but dumb change is dumb as f***. [Edit]: My bad looks like i may have necro'd this thread a bit, sorry. Guess i was blinded by a brief moment of rage Still a ******* change though!

Ah good point, missed that part, thats what i get for skimming and missing half the details x)

Odd i'm subbed and haven't recieved any yet.

You may have missed this part

Could this not be fixed via a hotfix of some sort instead of waiting for the next full patch? Kinda immersion breaking since i only started leveling my cathar a week ago, and so have a lot of story cutscenes ahead of me over the next couple of weeks. [EDIT]: Just noticed now that on my trooper Aric Jorgan appears to be suffering from this to, as the lower half of his face and neck are now far paler then they used to be..

Bump This please.

Its like this for all companions atm, a mod has already "forwarded on all the details to the relevant department to get this looked into" http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=562713&page=2 So with any luck.. it will get fixed soon... I hope.

He actually has two main stats, you can use cunning or aim gear

Honestly i wouldn't even recommend trying to level with him on a low level alt, if your interested in the class stories at all, as he has no extra dialogue for any of the games old content. If you have no interest in any of that, then this point is moot i guess. But yeah i do feel that 1mil is yet another over the top credit sink, and tbh we have plenty of them already..

I can confirm that having HK-51 on either a lvl 50 or low level char (12 in my alts case) does not grant you the ability to send out an extra companion on missions. EG, my lvl 50 can still send out 5, and my lvl 12 can still send out 2. Also HK-51 has some pretty good crafting bonuses, he gains "+5 Mission Efficiency" and "+1 Crafting Critical", so i would say that clearly will benefit any and all crew skills In order to unlock HK for an alt you must first unlock him via the quest chain with a lvl 50 char, after that you can unlock HK for each of your alts in one of two ways. First you can repeat the quest chain again on that char (as long as its a lvl 50) Or you can purchase the unlock through the character perks tab in your legacy window for either 1 million credits or 350 cartel coins.

Ah right ok, cheers. Might unlock him anyway, not like im gonna spend those creds on anything useful anyways x)

Since you've done this, could you tell me whether or not HK-51 joins in story conversations/comments every now and then? As thats the only thng stopping me from spending the creds to unlock him on my lowbie alt atm.

Can't seem to find any info on the subject, hence this topic If i was to unlock HK-51 for an alt via the legacy system would he join in conversations (story etc) while leveling? I have him unlocked on one char after going through the quest chain, but before i splash out 1mil creds to get him for my recently started imp agent it would be good to know if i'd be better off just sticking to the standard companions for story/dialogue/immersion purposes. Anyone tried him out in a lowbie story mission yet?

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=556181 Well they know about it, at least we know that much

Need to use a new code every time you log into the game launcher/site

Bit of a waste for one of the question slots for that weekly Q&A post, not a very useful 'answer' lol They may as well have just replied with /shrug and left it as that!

Corellia, though you can start the dailys (and the initial mini quest chain including them) on Belsavis and Illum. Every character I've played has hit 50 while questing on Belsavis or Illum (dailys) depending on which of the two I go to first. This is always the case for me whether I do all bonus series quests and all side quests throughout the game or not.

If his/her character has slicing as a crew skill then i don't see what the problem is.

I hope we don't get to many more 'alien' races that are identical in every way to human's except for skin colour/tattoo's/face paint etc. Because that would kinda suck. Not that i expect to see any races that stray from the basic humanoid appearance, ie i have no doubt all races we get to play will stand upright on two legs with two arms and a head Also i wouldn't expect to be able to play as anything that can't speak basic. But adding an extra slider like say in cyborg and calling its a different race is somewhat lame (regardless whether or not races like that exist in star wars, which i am well aware that they do, for whatever dumb reason) [Edit:]- Prepares for the rage this post may likely attract!

Just wanted to say thanks for making this and putting it out there for people to use! Very nice tool indeed, saved me a lot of time. I'll most certainly be making use of it again in the near future, thanks again!

Looks at the Jedi Consular gear, walks away.

God i hope they implement this at some point in the near future, i have social level 5 with one character, and theres no way in hell im grinding social points with any of my other char's, just takes so damn long! Hopefully they will at least add the social level to to our legacy around the same time they make social armour adaptive to your characters armour type.

The post implied that we should see the list of playable races increase some time during this year. Personally i doubt we'll see any expansions within a year of the games release so i would expect any new races to be humanoid and i'm almost willing to bet money that we won't see any races that arent capable of speaking basic, infact i doubt we'll ever get to play any race that can't speak basic, would be nice but still i find it unlikely. Definitely looking forward to seeing some news about this in the near (hopefully not to far) future!