Actually that particular armor is blured on both PCs i have, first is AMD 6700, second RTX 4070, only the "mantle" or whatsit though. I have special PC iam playing SWTOR on with GTX 1080, 8GB RAM and I7 3770 with one 500GB SSD to avoid problems. The thing with post 2022 cards, be in AMD or nVidia, is that they cannot be utilized even at half of their power, less so the new functions like Path Tracing, FSR, DLSS or Ray Tracing because of HERO engine creating huge software bottleneck. Hero engine is very old with literally only 2 games running it on entire planet Earth, unsurprisingly ESO and SWTOR. Its NOT an engine any sane developer would like to use in 2024 realy. For example what they are adding DX12 support for escapes me completely. Probably for the sake of "doing something". SWTOR is not Jedi Survivor, Cyberpunk, Alan Wake or Horizon, this thing is Dragon Age 2-ish period. Any new technology will be completely wasted in this game unless they re-do it from scratch in example Frostbite, and thats not gonna happen - ever. So as someone here wrote, it is indeed on Dev side - sort of Just get some crap pc for 200 bucks like me and you will be fine

same here ... "working as intended" incomming

Same here, first loged out due inactivity now showing as completely offline and greyed out

*Unpopular opinion* I don't understand all the blaming of BW. They are on the EA leash afterall, so the one to blame is Electronic Arts in the first place. Bioware are just developers who were striped off the last bits of creativity and choice. They are being told what to release, in what state and when, finished or not. Its the same situation like Naughty Dog / Sony, Crystal Dynamics / Ubisoft or CCP Games / Pearl Abyss. Bioware on its own can decide f*ckall, they have owners. This update is a disaster indeed, but BW is realy the last to blame

It actually is legit as the game is indeed being "expanded" but both, the quality and style in which is delivered are questionable. I knew upfront it will end up like it did as i don't believe in good expansions for old games, its same as i know the Division 2 upcoming expansion will be horrible.

SWTOR is ded, nobody is gonna bother. Its quite clear that this expansion will be cut into pieces just like KOTET/KOTFE was for the sole purpose of milking nearly dead cow. The last real expansion i remember was Revan. I seriously doubt anybody, unless insane, will invest any more time and resources into something like SWTOR. They'll be better of with entirely new game, there is no point to bother with outdated game, which is not even real MMO, on hilarious engine. Thats a fact. Title success and selling numbers are what drives Bioware and the likes, deal with it. They don't care and if the numbers will be real bad, they'll just shut it down, community or not.

Hey there, well, iam returning - sort of - player, started back in 2011 and stoped back in 2012 , about a month ago i went back to try it again. That being said iam lost in all those new things, so looking for someone (guild or a group) to help me and explain to me all the new terms like HM, NiM, SM, *** and such, to exlain gearing system, rotations (whatever it means) and other usefull things. Iam also lost in this command system and ... well basically all the stuff that wasnt available 8 years ago when i used to play. I was able to somehow levelup few of my chars to 70 (well most of them to be frank) where majority of them are Imp side (Sith sorcerers, Assassins, them bashing around sith warriors ... like marauders or whatever, bounty hunter, operative, almost all the classes) but i feel like iam missing a lot of stuff this game can offer. So yeh, i would welcome any help anyone can offer in anything at all, characters ingame are Amplified (Jugg 70 - currently playing), Ultrasonique (Mar 70), Hyperactive (sorc 70), Supercharger (assassin 70), Hellcamp (Sniper 70), Symptome (Merc 70), Aridia (70 merc), hell if i remember the rest ... Also please note that iam able to play whenever my work allows it or before i catch family aggro, so i dont have any fixed time frame. Thanks in advance for any reply, both ingame or here that is.

or just shut down completely iam quite sure those 800 people who still play wont mind

Not happening as theres literally nobody left to leave in the first place, all you have now is bunch of star wars nerds who play the game "just because"

You'll rot in hell for that!

nearly 3 hours actually ... supposed to end 6PM for me now is 8.30PM

i wish BW was as good maintaining their games as they are in Troll-Fu thats fo'sho

stop login in nerds the speed went down to 0.02KB/s ... i bet they have the patch stored on the game server

All #SWTOR servers are now available! Thank you for your patience!

asking for that is like asking for fast patch >.>

Considering this patching period i wouldnt be so sure

lets look on the bright side ....... o wait, theres none

It would be my decision as well, if i only knew what are you talking about :x

i doubt anyone here knows as they lack the first part

someone fart so they have to turn on vent >.>

I have to agree there

i have a feeling that "external partners" is code phrase for "we screwed up but we have no clue what"

You cant explain, people are lazy to check that behind 8/10 stays Oli Welsh on January 2012 and behind 4/10 stays Richard Cobbett November 2012, its easier to accuse whole magazine from not being objective, such a great game like TOR cant loose 4 points for not offering anything new but the same stuff like 1 year ago isnt it !!!

And your point is?

They had to do that, its business, nothing else, as TOR is not realy a shiny example of a game you would like to play longer then a year tops as some sort of missing KOTOR 3 compensation. I actually understand them.