BioWare's Patch Notes For SWTOR Brings Mixed Response

Written by: (Twitter @Shaddoe - ) | May 9, 2012 1:30 pm

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As with anything as complex as the database for Star Wars: The Old Republic, when one bug gets squashed, another appears.

On The Republic last night, our panel complained about the issues with the cover mechanic for the Smuggler and Agent classes. It had difficulty firing while the player was moving. In Tuesday’s Patch 1.2.3, this mechanic was restored.

All the Smugglers rejoiced until…

Some players logged in to find that the Matrix Cubes they used for stat bonuses were missing from their character. And even more depressing, some found that when they logged in they had the cubes, but when they loaded to another zone the cubes would go poof.

Fortunately, BioWare is extremely aware of this issue and are in the work of fixing it now.

On the bright side for raiders, the team has implemented titles for timed runs of the Eternity Vault and Karraga’s Palace operations. When running the nightmare mode of either of these instances, players will receive a buff. If you and your team are able to beat the dungeon before the the buff runs out you will receive the tile of “Infernal” for the EV run and “Unyielding” for the KP run.

Are there any changes that catch your eye?

BioWare's Patch Notes For SWTOR Brings Mixed Response

  • German Lopez

    The Infernal and Unyielding titles have been in since 1.1. This patch just adds the buff to track the time.

  • http://twitter.com/Deadalon Deadalon

    Mythic all over again… They dont know wtf they are doing ….

    • MMO_Doubter

       I bet Hickman has a hand in the fail.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Deep.Winter Nicholas Carrott

    My minor pet peeve is turning into a bigger pet peeve about these videos: the b-roll has NOTHING to do with the content being discussed and they’ve been overused. Guys! Get some new b-roll, please! Or rely on them less.

  • Deamont

    The titles… have been there for ages wut.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1625266606 Andreotti Davide

       Yes, they just made it clear to everyone what the timings were.

  • http://www.facebook.com/davidallmighty David Cohen

    1st boss in the new OPs was still hitting people with the debuff from well beyond 30 yards.. so not fixed with the fix…

  • http://www.facebook.com/davidallmighty David Cohen

     On that note… yall still need a raider on the staff :P I know people on here do a lot and can just play more casual, but having a raider who can just chime in when needed would really bring the show some better insight.

  • http://www.facebook.com/clint.casey1 Charles Clint Casey

    Yeah, the buff is a good change though. Before it was based on the instance time between when Bonethrasher die and when you kill Kragga.

    There was bug for a long time that would cause Foreman Crusher to respawn after a few minutes, so if you wiped after Foreman Crusher, a bugged Foreman Crusher would respawn. You had to reset the instance to get past bugged Foreman Crusher, so even if you managed to beat the 2 hours required to get the title before, you wouldn’t get the title because the title was tied to the instance you were running.

  • bumrar

    Well just did KP nightmare unfortunately when we wiped on G4-B3 most of the raid lost the new buff and those who lost the buff didn’t get the title even though we were within the time limit :( .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johnson/1353890372 Michael Johnson

    Bioware….

    QUIT. BREAKING. THE GAME

  • kyle robinson

    Still no reason for me to come back…Honestly the whole rathghoul plague is a turn off. When I think starwars i want the vibe of the 6 part series movie or at least the KOTRO vibe not space vaperism…sigh just lame

  • kyle robinson

    Look guys @ GB Rift is amazing atm and seems to only be getting better with time u guys really need to stop wasting time on trash games like this and cover the best MMO on the market atm at least a Bi-weekly or monthly episode just for RIFT like come on….

    • http://www.facebook.com/dean.sharaz Dean Sharaz

       lol how many subs does rift still hold? its dead..

  • http://www.facebook.com/toph1980 Christopher Fischer

    Gotta love BW and their fail patches, from nerfing crafting to destroying open world PvP. And still no ranked Warzones. Oh well, at least guilds got their bank now…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AT2CL2HMP7KKRTTZZDTTGJM72U yahoo-AT2CL2HMP7KKRTTZZDTTGJM72U

    i was wondering if perhaps you could go more indepth on some of the patches,instead of saying just read the patch notes.
    perhaps an indepth look at what legacy is for example and what extra things you can get from them.or even an indepth look at crafting and how its changed with the addition of the legacy items for your droid.
    i apreciate the shift from the doom and gloom.what im personally looking for is information not given in other places.like how come my droid crits mutiple items instead of just an augment like all my other pets.or how come my mats no longer go back into my ship bank when i cancel out a craft midstream.
    you know that type o thing.
    having shows that say omg they lost 1 million subs isnt really constructive.although i bet it draws in gw2 and wow players to watch.not that this sho was about that.
    im sure there is a fine line you need to walk. to no p’off people that play the game,as well as have people from other games watch it cuz they want it to fail.

    and ya guilds got thier banks…only problem is 500 people left my guild and went to fatman.i cant get anybody to come back and turn on my acess ;  ;

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