I've had a number of instances now where crew skill missions that are marked light side return dark side points for some reason (on success or failure).

I like this too. Also I've noticed some instances where the 'hide helment' option is ignored. (Rare but happens.)

Too Easy I realize a lot of the changes made over the past year are to make swtor accessible for different styles of play (i.e. skipping story stuff, sidequests, etc, focusing on parts of the game you like) - and I'm all for that, however, for players who like to do all the story stuff, it's currently so easy it's dangerously boring. I'm a casual player, most games I choose the lowest or next to lowest difficultly, I don't really play games for the combat - having said that SWTOR is currently WAY too easy. The main part of the problem is the level scaling, for example, Corsucant scales to 18, however, most of the mobs you fight are well below that, staritng at 11. The second part of the problem is, at least for subscribers that do all quests/side quests is by the time you even get to Coruscant, you're level already level 18 (especially if you do the Estelles flashpoint). Solution Ideas There are a number of ways this could be addressed, all have pluses and minuses. * Change the level scaling, i.e. Coruscant scale to 16 perhaps. * Regional Scaling - early parts of Coruscant (Old Galactic Market) scale to 11. Several other MMOs do this (Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online, etc.), however, it can make for some awkward 'lines' where there's a level jump. * Flatten mob levels, aside from starter worlds, flatten the levels to the scaled level. i.e. Coruscant, make everything 18. Downside to this is new arrivals to Coruscant who have skipped a lot of stuff (for whatever reason) could have a really hard time. * At the very least, make any instanced content scale to whatever level you are at - simliar to how the solo-able Flashpoints current are. (Or scale the player to whatever the content is at.) Bonus Series and Continuity Having the bonus series not require completion of the Planetary story arc is something I can grumble about but accept but also locking it to level 60 is kind of stupid since it can then make the bonus story arc be out of sync with the overall storyline. I think removing the level 60 pre-requisite would fix this. Maybe make the new level lock whatever the scale / max level fis or that planet. UI Issues The crew skill/companion UI is still a mess. The old crew skill UI is still required to do missions but everything else has been moved to the "Alliance" (Companions & Contacts) UI. The mission stuff should just be moved to the newer UI and the old one retired. Blocky Shadows The blocky shadow issue is still present, no matter how high you crank the shader/shadow/show map settings. This is especially obvious in some dialogue cutscenes (such as the Jedi Master pair on Tython concerned about padawans being in love). It seems to be cascaded shadows doing some bad math. Texture Quality Perhaps this is a limitation of the HERO engine but many of the textures are still very low quality. Looking especially bad in cutscenes. Planetary Approach/Departure Animations Many (Alderaan, Corellia, etc) planetary approach/depature animations are still generic and ugly.

When you close the launcher after the 308, it's actually still running so if you run it again, you get the other errors.

Here's my official "me too". It occurs when the launcher is at 99% of "Installing Game Client 201". It hangs on this for a couple minutes and then displays " Unable to retrieve patch data. Please check network connection. (308)" 2016-05-03 23:20:50 INFO SWTOR Launcher [Core:P1.8.2 Lib:P1.6] initialized. 2016-05-03 23:20:50 INFO File info: C:\Games\Star Wars - The Old Republic\launcher.exe size=8045584, created=1/19/2016 23:45:54, accessed=1/19/2016 23:45:54, written=12/10/2015 16:9:38 2016-05-03 23:20:50 INFO Initializing download manager 2016-05-03 23:20:50 INFO Loaded settings from C:\Games\Star Wars - The Old Republic\launcher-app.settings 2016-05-03 23:20:51 INFO Loaded agreements from C:\Games\Star Wars - The Old Republic\eula.settings 2016-05-03 23:20:51 INFO Loaded settings from C:\Games\Star Wars - The Old Republic\launcher.settings 2016-05-03 23:20:51 INFO Sending crash dumps to [https://patcher-crash.swtor.com/crashcatch] 2016-05-03 23:20:51 INFO completeLauncherInit() 2016-05-03 23:20:51 INFO -----------------------------(420)----------------------------- 2016-05-03 23:20:51 INFO Timezone: 420 2016-05-03 23:20:51 INFO SpecsHash=4106157472.1738948330 2016-05-03 23:20:51 INFO Checking for 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That's all that's in 4.0.4? What about all the other bugs?

Happened in almost every Knights of the Fallen Empire cutscene. My robe is "Citadel Bulwark's MK-2 Body Armor".

Just a note, I've now seen this occur with some pre-4.0 content

Another solution might be to make player <> enemy level disparity not matter as much (basically lower the multiplier used) so a -4 could still hurt you and they would take more than one basic attack to kill.

I can see that being annoying too really.

I'm now on Voss and the level scaling is still often 2 levels higher than it should be. The planets all seem to be scaling to the (in some cases adjusted) bonus series level. So on Voss you're scaled to 48, most enemies are 44-46. I almost think, at this point, maybe just change enemies on each world (after starter) to the level scale max. This would result in: Taris (Republic), everything would be 22. Belsavis, everything would be 46. Voss, everything would be 48. I suppose on the off chance that someone hasn't reached max by that point scale players up to max, but then you've pretty much more or less eliminated levels but at least it would be challenging again. Right now, and I do not often say this, the game is *way* too easy.

A number of changes in 4.0 have had some unintended side effects with the various Bonus Series: (These are all Republic side, I haven't played any Imperials lately.) Taris Bonus Series now stalls after "Missing Link". Hoth Bonus Series is now offered without completing any of planetary arc Belsavis Bonus Series is now offered without completing any of planetary arc Voss Bonus Series is now offered without completing any of planetary arc Also: Hoth Zerek Base Planetary Arc is now offered without completing previous steps

Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of the few (published) MMOs using HeroEngine which, unfortunately, is now in trouble financially. https://community.heroengine.com/forums/index.php/topic,6050.0.html Obviously changing to another engine would not be realistic

Setting the bonus series levels to 60+ seems to be a very odd choice.

Was able to take the Taris (REpublic) bonus series right after finishing the planetary arc but it broke after "Missing Link" was completed. Have not been able to pick up Tatooine and Nar Shaddaa. I'm level 59, starting chapter 2 of the class arc, (plantary arcs complete long ago). The contacts actually have a mission icon but it's the grayed out one. Edit: Could start Nar Shaddaa bonus serise when I hit 60... weird. Could BioWare have made this more confusing?