If we're going through another round of bringing back dead antagonists, we'd better see Kephess in the next raid, that's all I'm saying.

Next year will be too late for me. I'm tired of them breaking the game in December, disappearing for 2 months with no patches, and then taking a year or more to fix just some of the issues. This is like the initial rollout of Galactic Command all over again--except worse because it's not just affecting gearing.

It's funny that you think they have any sort of testing and bug-fixing department.

Just another lie from Keith & company. They don't talk to us about anything or listen to our feedback. It's sad Eric is forced to be the messenger boy for their lies; I know none of this is actually his fault, he's just the go-between.

Please no. Trolls can already make open world RP impossible to do by spamming built-in emotes to scroll the chat window endlessly upwards (since /ignore doesn't block those messages in chat). It would be even worse if they could cover the whole screen with chat bubbles at the same time.

How about just not rolling out new bug-riddled content right before the whole staff goes on holiday for the next 6-8 weeks? The devs keep doing this to us during the holiday season year after year. It's like finding coal mixed with cow pies in your Christmas stocking, and not being able to throw it out for two months.

EA didn't put any of the story content on the PTS, only the daily quests associated with Ossus. It seems like they didn't test the story content in-house either. So there was ZERO testing before the code was put in place. Not that they would have listened to feedback from players even if they did put it on the PTS, since all the bugs reported on the PTS are still present in the live version of the game...

Did ANYTHING actually get fixed with this patch? So far everyone I know who's had bugs reports they still have the same bugs. It's frustrating because I haven't started Ossus yet on the one toon I've taken through all the prior content, because I didn't want to screw up that toon. I really don't want to keep waiting, but I don't want to lose companions or end up stuck for the next two to three months while EA goes on vacation.

I've looked in game as well, and you are indeed correct! I've updated the description of the glitched decoration in the OP. Added! Thank you for your report! The hologram flags and the Replica Sacrificial Sphere are both already listed in the OP. If you know of any other decorations with missing parts, please let me know! Good catch! Added to the list.

Yet again Keith and his minions slip in some major nerfs without giving prior warning in any posts to players, or even putting them in the patch notes the day before. This is right up there in underhandedness with EA getting rid of the West Coast servers and only admitting to it after players had logged in and found their server ping quadrupled. What cowards. Eric, you swore months and months ago that any changes not put in patch notes was a bug. It's sad that Keith has made you a liar. It's like you guys think players are stupid and won't notice the changes. Yet we always do, and then the devs always act surprised that players are--shocker!--upset that major nerfs were put into place without prior warning. Keith and company deliberately ignored the many, many threads on the PTS forum asking about the new bound nature of mods, and only now over a week after the content is live are we getting a confirmation that this is intended. Shame on you Keith. So much for your claims that you care about the players or their experience. What's the point of even having removable mods in gear anymore if you can't, you know, remove them and move them around to where they're most useful? Oh, right, it's to extend the mindless, tedious, overly complicated, RNG-based grind you've put in place with this new gear tier. Why a new gear tier to begin with? Is it because EA literally has nothing else coming down the pipe for this game and you hoped to keep us distracted with the new shiny treadmill long enough to milk more subscription fees from the game before everything shuts down? Because I don't see any other logical reason for it. The patch today fixed next to nothing, and now we're being told we're just going to have to live with all the bugs for the next 6-8 weeks while everyone goes on holiday? Why do something so stupid as dropping a major patch right before the holiday season when you know no one will be able to fix anything? This is something else EA keeps doing... and then they wonder why the sub count drops afterwards as a result, like with Galactic Command. Thanking us for our feedback when you don't listen to it and haven't from the beginning is flat out insulting. I'm done.

I still like Lana. I've liked Lana since Forged Alliances. I don't want to get rid of Lana. However, the toxic nature of the Space Waifu Lana fans has pushed me towards the belief that all LIs having a kill/dismiss option is the lesser evil over most LIs having a kill/dismiss option with one author favorite being singled out for special treatment. Especially when those same Space Waifu Lana fans who insist Lana can never be given a kill option and all the 'haters' are awful people for asking for one will go on and on about how they (using one player's statements for example) hate Theron's guts and saw his kill option as "karma" and justified. I can't stand hypocrisy. Getting called evil, heartless, cruel, spiteful, "not very progressive", homophobic, deplorable, racist, argumentative, immature, ignorant, shameful, nasty, etc. for expressing an opinion regarding my distaste for Lana being given 90+% of dev attention and screentime while all other LIs have turned into bricks has soured me on the character's presence in the game a million times more than the character herself (or her writing) ever did. At least if there's an option to get rid of Lana in the game, the devs will have to give us alternatives based on story choices again--or wipe the slate clean, which would definitely suck but at least we would all be on the same level then. Having one LI with plot armor while the rest can be killed off for little to no reason engenders nothing but resentment and toxicity.

Oh wow, seriously? They did that? Yeah, that was... not a well thought out decision. I don't even want to THINK about how long it would take to try to meet those numbers just killing probe droids and never looting them so you keep the quest active... *shudders* As I've done Ziost on most of my active toons, that's one set of Conquest objectives I'm SOL on achieving.

Yeah, it's sad to say it, but it's pretty clear any hope of ALL companions getting time in the spotlight will likely be in vain. There's just too many of them between the class companions, the KotFE/KotET companions, the Star Fortress companions, Shae and Nico from the subscriber rewards, and so on. The money and people they had to make that happen for the class stories are both long gone. I have non-LI companions I love too (Teeseven is actually my favorite Knight companion, because T7 + Jedi = win!), but with numbers having to be narrowed down to make it feasible it seems reasonable to single out LI companions for attention over non-LI ones. They tend to inspire stronger emotions in players as a rule.

I admit it, I laughed. XD Thanks for that, I needed it this morning. To be fair, Jonas is a flirt but he's not that bad... though I can totally see him calling Theron "Killjoy Shan", based on their shared dev blog story together.

All I said is that if kill/dismiss options for LIs are a thing, then it shouldn't only happen to some LIs and not all LIs but one. Honestly I'd much prefer if there were no kill/dismiss options for LI companions period, but axing everyone except one single dev favorite companion only engenders resentment in large parts of the player base, as we've seen here on the forums. It's worse than kill options for all--and kill options for all, I repeat, is a very bad thing. It's basically picking the lesser of two evils in my book. But again, as you said, this thread is about talking about more companion interactions overall, which I definitely support. I'd like to move away from The Lana Variety Hour and have more of an ensemble cast again like the early days of the Alliance storyline.

Your bias is showing pretty heavily there, insisting people have no legitimate reason to want to get rid of Lana. The character might not have done anything worthy of death/dismissal from your perspective, but that's not true for everyone. Hell, in this story patch those who chose to side with the Republic apparently found out the SIS had been trying to contact the Alliance Commander and Lana hadn't been letting the messages go through and didn't tell your Outlander about them! That's pretty disturbing. It would definitely be worth a "Sorry, I can't trust you anymore, please leave" dismissal for a lot of toons, and possibly a murder from some of the more paranoid and violent protagonists. As far as bringing up the 'kill/get rid of Lana' subject goes, blame the troll.

Agreed. If Theron was dead or banished in someone's playthrough, Aric Jorgan would have been the next logical option to get in touch with Jonas (since they worked together in the Trooper story and Jonas is the one who pointed Havoc Squad at the Alliance). If they were both dead or gone, Bey'wan would have been a secondary fallback. This isn't about rabid fandoms, this is about story logic and common sense. The former head of Sith Intelligence would be just about the last person to get someone in touch with a friendly SIS contact.

Very classy of you to go out of your way to insult and upset other people on a subject where emotions are already running high. I admit, I took the bait. Hope you're proud of yourself. The fact you won't even apologize for trolling and making a tense situation worse for giggles tells me everything I need to know about you. What I think is selfish? Insisting that one LI companion, out of all the LI companions, deserves special treatment because reasons. I don't hate Lana--I actually like Lana--but I do hate how she's been given plot armor and 90+ percent of companion screen time and attention. I hate how that special treatment means the devs will continue to cheap out and give her more and more attention while all other companions fall by the wayside. I hate how the most vocal Space Waifu Lana fans insist anyone who isn't also in love with Lana is either a kill all the things edgelord or a homophobe. I hate how those same fans will also call the kill options on other LIs "karma" and justified, but will insist Space Waifu Lana should never receive one because they don't want one. That is selfishness. I don't like kill options for LIs; I agree they were a horrible idea and I wish the devs could retcon them all out of existence and give people some proper companion interactions again. That said, if they're going to be a thing, I think it's a hell of a lot more fair for all LIs to have a kill option rather than for most LIs to have a kill option (and vanish from the story afterwards) while a lucky few dev favorites remain immortal and hog the spotlight forever.

Team Space Waifu Lana troll in the dungeon, do not engage.

Selfish much? Lana is not the only companion in this game. Other people deserve to have companions they like put in the spotlight. Also, your smug potshots at 'Lana haters' just make those of us who like Space Waifu Lana usually but are getting sick of her being shoved in our faces constantly a lot less sympathetic towards the Space Waifu Lana fans' demands that she never get a kill option. Why should I worry about your favorite companion potentially being bricked when you are literally gloating about every companion but Lana being already bricked?

I have to chime in and say I agree on this thread. I have a lot of issues with 5.10 and how it's been handled (and I mean A LOT), but the design of the planet of Ossus itself is wonderful. It has a very distinctive color palette and some gorgeous spaces. I'm particularly fond of the interior of the Jedi Library; you really feel like you're standing in a long abandoned part of history.

The narrative I've constructed? Every time anyone posts any critique of Space Waifu Lana at all, you either paint them as murderous edgelords who want to kill all toons, or accuse them of being mad at Space Waifu Lana for just existing and that everyone's being unfair and mean to Space Waifu Lana for no good reason. All I literally said in the post you responded to was that it made no sense 1) that she'd put you in touch with Jonas if Theron is still alive because Jonas and Theron are friends, and 2) that she's the only one we're allowed within the game to tell about being a saboteur of either faction. I even repeated TWICE that I liked Space Waifu Lana, and also said I had no desire to kill off Space Waifu Lana on any of my toons. And yet you immediately went off about how "OMG you guys are just mad at Lana for existing!" in response to that post. Let me remind you of exactly what you said: You really shouldn't be accusing anyone else of pushing a biased agenda when your own is so blatantly clear. You also shouldn't paint all people who disagree with you as unreasonable and unable to make happy when you immediately fly off the handle when anyone criticizes a fictional character you like or praises a fictional character you don't like.

Once again you ignore my points in favor of defending Space Waifu Lana from anything that isn't 100% praise. I don't know how many times I have to repeat that I like Lana and I'm only getting sick of the character because of how she's always shoved in our faces regardless of our choices even when it makes no sense--like putting us in touch with Jonas when Theron is still alive AND is canonically his friend in our story--before you'll actually listen. Nowhere in my post did I say I hated Lana just for existing and being in the scenes at all, as you like to paint everyone who is critical of Space Waifu Lana in any way. I get it, she can do no wrong in your eyes, but the rest of us would like our choices to actually matter as the devs originally promised. We'd like our story to actually make sense from a continuity and lore standpoint too. P.S. You think Theron shouldn't be doing anything but scrubbing toilets for the Alliance, and therefore you declare it doesn't make sense for anyone else to want to trust him again so he shouldn't be an option for the forest scene? Talk about trying to force your choices and opinions on everyone else.

Not to mention if you still have Theron alive, it makes ZERO sense for anyone other than him to be the one saying they'll put you in contact with their SIS contacts. He and Jonas are canonically friends in the story! The devs published a story featuring the two on their dev blog! Jonas is the one that passed along Theron's info to Havoc Squad and got them to join the Alliance! So why now are they deciding Lana is the one who has Jonas as a contact? And seriously, why can't we tell anyone other than Lana when we're being a saboteur of either faction? Why is it assumed our characters only trust Lana enough out of ALL our companions and potential LIs to tell her the truth and leave everyone else in the dark? Such blatant shoving of the Star Wars waifu in our face is what's making me sick of Lana and losing sympathy for the people who defend her special favorite status in the game. It's not the character itself--which I like--but the fact everyone else is being thrown out because the writers love Lana the most and only want to write about her. I have no desire to kill Lana on my toons. I like Lana. However, maybe if Lana DID have a kill/dismiss/leave behind option, then the writers would be forced to come up with actual alternative scenarios. They'd have to actually write, animate, and voice quest-giver lines for multiple companions so that they can account for who you still have left around when plot points happen, so they always have someone who can give you story information and send you on the next quest. Right now they can just give it all to Space Waifu Lana and continue to cheap out of creating additional character options. That's what's frustrating me.

Found another issue with a new decoration today, so the list has been updated.