The WoWHead owners (ZAM Network) have TORHead up but it’s rather lacking and slow to update.
So here’s a nice alternative created by one guy from Reddit:
Go give it look. I personally am enjoying the item set page.
A quick note from the official blog regarding scheduled maintenance:
Scheduled Maintenance
Date: Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Time: 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) to 8AM CST (6AM PST/9AM EST/2PM GMT/3PM CET)
All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than six hours.
Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.
Source: http://www.swtor.com/blog/scheduled-maintenance-january-10th-2012
Lots of The Old Republic news today! Bioware’s Gabe Amatangelo (Principal Lead PvP, Operations & Flashpoints Designer) has updated the official blog with information on what to expect from future PVP updates.
In the first week after launch there were over a million Warzone matches played, with nearly half of all players participating in Warzones. Bad news for Republic players, though – the Empire currently leads overall, having won 53% of all Alderaan Civil War and Voidstar matches (across all servers). Huttball has been played the most, accounting for 39% of all matches – and yes, we’ll be adding a new same faction vs. same faction enabled Warzone in the future.
First and foremost here is what we are addressing as a top priority:
You can read what’s in-store, here:
http://www.swtor.com/blog/new-year%E2%80%99s-pvp-update
Game Director James Ohlen has just updated the official blog with a bit more information regarding bugs and the process of fixing them.
In my last two posts, I talked about how we will be adding new game systems and content in future patches. I also mentioned that we will be continuing to put effort toward bug fixing, balance changes and exploit proofing. But I didn’t give too much information on what we’re doing in that regard. So here are some more details on the topic.
Read the entire thing here:
http://www.swtor.com/blog/word-bugs-james-ohlen.
UPDATE: This post has been updated. Scroll to the bottom to see the info.
So several players figured out that using the /getdown command would not only cause your character to start dancing but would also interrupt any casting that your target was attempting.
Here’s a video of it in action:
We’re not sure if it worked in PVP, and have no intention of testing it, but suffice to say, Bioware did not approve of this and players were promptly sent emails similar to this:
(Click for full-size.)
Source: Reddit.com/r/gaming
UPDATE:
Biowares Community Manager: JovethGonzalez has jumped on this and has this to say:
Just wanted to let you know that this email is a fake. There are no such things as “special dance zones”.
Nobody puts our players in a corner.
Everybody is free to get down.We are NOT banning players for the use of emotes.
Source: The Official Forums.
The 1.0.2 patch is now live, here’s the notes:
General
- Guilds that are currently leaderless will have an Officer chosen and promoted to Guild Leader.
Classes and Combat
- The Darth title is now properly granted to Sith Inquisitors.
- Corrected an issue that could prevent players from taking cover when targeting large NPCs.
- Fixed a bug that caused some abilities with activation times to be interrupted when used from cover.
Sith Inquisitor
Bug Fixes
Crew Skills
- Removed some high-level harvesting nodes from Tatooine, Corellia, and Ilum.
Gathering
Flashpoints and Operations
- General Ortol can no longer be pulled out of his room.
- Corrected an issue that could cause Kilran to behave incorrectly when defeated in cover.
- General Edikar now has the correct loot in Hard Mode and no longer enrages in Normal Mode.
- Gharj can no longer be pulled out of his encounter room.
- Fixed an issue that could cause choosing Nightmare Mode to not set enemies to Nightmare difficulty.
Flashpoints
Cademimu
Maelstrom Prison
Taral V
Operations
Eternity Vault
Bug Fixes
Items
- PvP lockboxes now cost 70 commendations, contain more consumables, and always contain an item.
- Corrected several PvP items that were Bind on Equip. They are now Bind on Pickup.
- PvP vendors on Capital Planets now offer the correct PvP items.
- Commendations received via in-game mail are now correctly added to the Currency tab.
General
Bug Fixes
Missions and NPCs
- Number One with a Bullet: Players who choose dark side options now correctly receive the mission First Strike after completing this mission.
- First Strike: Players who did not receive this mission will now receive it upon entering their personal starships.
- Death Cloud: Players can now complete the “Toxic Waste” bonus objective regardless of how quickly they complete this mission.
- Corrected mission steps on several planets that could cause client instability.
- Fixed issues with some missions that could prevent pending rewards from being accepted.
Missions
Imperial
Republic
Bug Fixes
Space Combat
- Fixed an issue that caused a client crash if a space station was destroyed in Space Combat.
Bug Fixes
UI
- Group members no longer appear on all planets on the Galaxy Map.
- Corrected an issue that could cause map notes to disappear after logging out and back into the game.
- Corrected some map notes that referenced the incorrect map.
- Updated map notes for “travel to planet” steps in class missions on Nar Shaddaa, Hoth, and Belsavis to indicate the planet’s space station.
- Group members outside of a player’s phase are no longer prompted to roll on items.
- The In-Game Customer Service Portal no longer appears to hang while the “updating” message is displayed.
- The Guild interface now properly displays the guild member list when it is sorted.
- The “Show Sith Corruption” option no longer toggles off when transitioning between areas.
Maps
Bug Fixes
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
- Taxi rides are no longer occasionally interrupted, causing the player to be dropped from the taxi.
- Using the /dismiss command now correctly dismisses a vanity pet.
- Corrected some issues that could cause players to become stuck on the loading screen when logging into a character.
- Players can now use emotes while riding a vehicle.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some text-only mail messages from being received.
- Graphics preferences in settings files are now consistent with actual settings in use.
- Being in Do Not Disturb mode no longer prevents characters from being logged out for being away.
- Corrected an issue that caused poor performance on some machines in indoor areas with shadows enabled.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent players from being logged out for inactivity.
An interesting and useful topic has emerged on the official BioWare forums that discusses tweaking the game in some “lesser-known” ways.
Quote from the topic author (MartinSPT):
Provided are tips that are less known, and have a dramatic effect on quality and performance in the game. These come from our research group members internal testing that are fans of SWTOR and are computer engineers and OS theorists.
There’s a lot in there but it’s well worth a look if you’re into getting the best possible frame-rate and/or quality settings.
Here’s the link:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=114264
Thanks to MartinSPT for the extensive write-up.
The official blog has been updated to inform us of upcoming maintenance:
Scheduled Maintenance
Date: Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Time: 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) to 10AM CST (8AM PST/11AM EST/4PM GMT/5PM CET)
All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than eight hours.
Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.
A little bit more info on this can be found here:
http://www.swtor.com/blog/scheduled-maintenance-january-4-2012
MSNBC have named Star Wars: The Old Republic as their “Game of the Year” beating titles such as Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3 and Portal 2.
Watch the MSNBC video here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45799487#45799487
(If that URL doesn’t take you straight to Game of the Year video, simply click “Tech & Science” then “Games” to see it.)
It’s been a superb year for us gamers, as you can see from the (highly recommended) video below, let’s hope 2012 has more of the same.
Here’s the URL:
http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/nty9d/im_stephen_reid_senior_community_manager_for_star/
Started 25 minutes ago so you’ve still got time to throw some questions in.
Update
The Q&A session is now over. Reddit user Chossi_lah has rounded everything up into one neat little package (highly recommended reading for any TOR player) which can be found here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/nty9d/im_stephen_reid_senior_community_manager_for_star/c3bxds9
Big thanks to Stephen Reid for taking the time to do this. (And to Chossi_lah for making everything easier to access.)
If any more event sessions/events like this pop-up in the future I’ll be sure to let you all know.
