No, that is not a solution. Every time you view a cutscene, your companion reappears. You have to be constantly dismissing them if you want to play companionless. It's a real pain.

I averaged about 3 points per match, so around 8-9 matches. A better player could definitely do it faster. In deathmatches it's easier to do damage, so that's usually 4 points for 40k damage. But yeah, it's hard for anyone who isn't good at GSF. I agree they should make all medals count.

I hope it's not the end. I still have a lot of stuff I want to do in the game. I am a bit concerned because the content releases get smaller and smaller every time - I mean, I don't personally care because I play for the class stories, but it's a bad sign. If it dies, it will be because Bioware/EA didn't bother to put enough money/manpower into it to keep it going. It would be sad to see such a waste.

As an old player, I still love this game. I just hope they don't take too long to fix the bugs.

These are positive changes. I prefer to be able to do whatever content I choose rather than only having some of it available each week. That being said, the main problem with 7.0 for me is the massive amount of bugs. Please make fixing these your focus for 7.0.1. And add vendors for the missing planetary leveling gear please.

I wouldn't really care about going over the cap if it weren't for the fact that it prevents me from collecting my Galactic Seasons rewards. Today I completed a level that had 20 medals and a gift for Fen Zeil, and it wouldn't let me collect the gift because the medals would put me over the cap. And I can't spend them without having aquatics too. Really stupid design choice.

A workaround is to remove the item that you don't want unified from the outfit slot and then reapply it. That costs credits or course, but it does un-unify it.

Agree! The design is ugly, and not even well executed since the lines are jagged and pixelly. Also my characters never wear helmets so having the classes represented by helmets feels off and unconnected. Finally, the aesthetic doesn't match the rest of the screen. Which makes me worried that they're planning on turning the whole login screen into some kind of hideous minimalistic thing like the character designer. Please don't do it, Bioware. Minimalism is extremely unoriginal and boring, and it's not anywhere near as popular as its ubiquity would suggest. Stick with the slightly retro style of classic SWTOR and bring back the old class icons.

What's wrong with GSI and Eternal Championship? I was able to complete both of them this week. Although I do think they should be reconsidered as objectives since the amount of effort needed is really disproportionate.

Star fortresses are not counting towards Technological Advancements, at least the story mode ones. Story mode fps are supposed to award 2 points but I got zero. Also, the Nathema Conspiracy flashpoint is bugged - on the platform where the final two boss fights occur, my companion keeps randomly dying due to "fall damage" just from walking around. Makes completing the fp on story mode nearly impossible. The number of bugs in this update is insane. Game is barely functional.

Yeah, I noticed that on female BT1 the chestpiece clips with her legs. Since it;s a cartel set you'd think they would have fixed it by now.

I actually checked my storage too, but it wasn't there either. I don't think it would really make sense for it to go there anyway when my gear goes to my inventory. To update my original post, I've now experienced the vanishing tactical effect with a class tactical too, so it looks like it's not limited to generic ones.

You need to press N to go to the companions window. You're not supposed to be able to summon from the crew skills window.

The class/spec specific tacticals return to my inventory along with my gear when I switch to a loadout of a different spec, but the generic ones (Life Warden, Overwhelming Offence, &c) do not. They neither remain equipped nor go back to my inventory; instead they vanish into limbo. I was able to recover one by swapping back to the previous loadout and removing it, but another time that didn't work - the tactical had vanished from that loadout too, and I received it in item recovery in the mail a few minutes later. As it is, it's impossible to use them in more than one loadout.

I was at my wit's end trying to figure out why my level 80 sorcerer was doing less damage than my level 77 sage, and it turned out to be that her relics weren't proccing. The workaround suggested by OP (swapping slots) worked for me, but this seriously needs to be fixed. I don't want to have to fiddle with my relics every time I travel to a different planet. This is a major bug that needs to be addressed in the next update.

I also ran Assault on Tython twice, once on story mode and once on veteran, and didn't get any drops. I don't really want to continue farming without knowing whether they're really there, or whether they're bugged like so many other things in 7.0.

Getting rid of level scaling would destroy the game. Luckily, there's zero chance that they're ever going to do that.

...Am I only the one who hasn't even noticed a difference with companions? What exactly has changed?

Removing tacticals is fine, but you should have given us the credits + tech frags to buy a new tactical. 100 credits is a joke given how much they cost.

I'm also having this problem. I have one of each kind of lockbox and none of them will open.

I'm having the same problem with the Artifact Lockboxes from Ossus.

Same. I also did these for the first time this week, and GSI immediately became my least favorite rep to farm.

Please focus on fixing bugs for the time being rather than unnecessary "revamps" that will just introduce more bugs. And after that focus on adding story content. Also please bring back the planetary gear sets that were removed asap.

Happened to me yesterday as well.

The "Artifact Lockbox" rewarded by the Ossus weekly won't open. It says "right click to open" but when I right click nothing happens.