STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC – Patch 1.1 auf den Testservern

Bio­Wa­re hat mit dem öffent­li­chen Pro­be­lauf des nächs­ten grö­ße­ren Patches (1.1) für STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC begon­nen, der wur­de näm­lich auf die Test­ser­ver aus­ge­spielt. Wie bei MMOs üblich dür­fen dort die Kun­den Bio­Wa­res Arbeit machen: die neue Ver­si­on aus­pro­bie­ren und dann gefun­de­ne Feh­ler mel­den. Neben den übli­chen Feh­ler­be­sei­ti­gun­gen han­delt es sich auch um das ers­te grö­ße­re Con­tent­up­date, es wird ein neu­er Flash­point hin­zu­ge­fügt. Des­sen Name lau­tet »Kaon Under Sie­ge« und ist für Spie­ler der Stu­fe 50 vor­ge­se­hen. Erreich­bar ist der Flash­point via Ziost Shadow und Gav Dara­gon, er kann im nor­ma­len oder im heroi­schen Modus gespielt werden.

»Kar­ag­gas Palast« war bis­lang eine klei­ne­re Ope­ra­ti­on mit nur einem Boss­geg­ner, die wird deut­lich auf­ge­pumpt: der Patch fügt der Instanz vier wei­te­re Bos­se hin­zu. Außer­dem wur­de ein Feh­ler besei­tigt, der Spie­ler dar­an hin­der­te, den Palast zu verlassen.

PvP war in SWTOR bis­her eine abso­lu­te Lach­num­mer, da Spie­ler aller Stu­fen gemein­sam in die War­zo­nes gewor­fen wur­den. Dass ein Level-15-Cha­rak­ter gegen einen auf Stu­fe 50 nicht lan­ge durch­hal­ten kann, soll­te auch jemand nach­voll­zie­hen kön­nen, der nicht viel Ahnung über MMOs hat. Hier wer­den nun ers­te Kor­rek­tu­ren vor­ge­nom­men. Mit dem Patch 1.1 wird das Pro­blem aller­dings nur mini­mal ver­bes­sert, denn aus­schließ­lich Spie­ler auf Stu­fe 50 wer­den in eige­nen PvP-Instan­zen spie­len. Alle ande­ren müs­sen nach wie vor zusam­men agie­ren – und auch das macht über­haupt kei­nen Sinn – ein­zig das Auf­tei­len in zehn-Level-Abschnit­te könn­te das PvP viel­leicht inter­es­sant gestalten.

Die gesam­ten (umfang­rei­chen) Patch­no­tes fin­det man hin­ter dem »wei­ter lesen«-Link.

Gene­ral

• Anti-ali­a­sing is now available and can be enab­led in the pre­fe­ren­ces menu.

Clas­ses and Combat

Gene­ral

• Heal­ing cau­sed by crowd con­trol abili­ties no lon­ger gene­ra­tes threat.
• Tool­tips for abili­ties modi­fied by skill points now dis­play cor­rect dama­ge values.

Guard

• This abili­ty now trans­fers to a new fri­end­ly tar­get wit­hout requi­ring deac­ti­va­ti­on on the pre­vious target.
• Acti­vat­ing this abili­ty while tar­ge­ting a guard­ed or inva­lid tar­get will still togg­le the Guard abili­ty off.
• A distinct visu­al effect is now pre­sent on cha­rac­ters using Guard on ano­ther cha­rac­ter, and ano­ther effect is now pre­sent on the guard­ed cha­rac­ter if they lea­ve Guard’s range.

Taunt

• A new visu­al effect has been added to the user and the tar­get of the Taunt abili­ty for the dura­ti­on of its effect.

Jedi Con­su­lar

• Pro­ject: This abili­ty no lon­ger shakes the screen of onlookers.

Shadow

• Batt­le Rea­di­ness: Now allows Com­bat Tech­ni­que to trig­ger once every 3 seconds.
• Com­bat Tech­ni­que: Heal­ing recei­ved through Com­bat Tech­ni­que has been increased, sca­les pro­per­ly at hig­her levels, and can only be trig­ge­red once every 4.5 seconds.
• Slow Time: This ability’s dama­ge has been increased by 15% and it now slows the move­ment speed of all affec­ted targets.

Jedi Knight

• Force Leap: This abili­ty no lon­ger func­tions on Por­ta­ble Holo Dancers.

Sith Inqui­si­tor
Assassin

• Dark Char­ge: Heal­ing recei­ved through Dark Char­ge has been increased, sca­les pro­per­ly at hig­her levels, and can only be trig­ge­red once every 4.5 seconds.
• Over­char­ge Saber: Now allows Dark Char­ge to trig­ger once every 3 seconds.
• Wither: Dama­ge has been increased by 15% and it now slows the move­ment speed of all affec­ted targets.

Sith War­ri­or

• Inter­ce­de: This abili­ty no lon­ger func­tions on Por­ta­ble Holo Dancers.
• Shat­ter: this ability’s tool­tip now cor­rect­ly reflects its dama­ge; dama­ge from this abili­ty has not been adjusted.

Impe­ri­al Agent
Bug Fixes

• Cor­rec­ted an issue whe­re acti­vat­ing cover, using Explo­si­ve Pro­be, and then using Sni­pe could cau­se Sni­pe to be interrupted.

Boun­ty Hunter
General

• Incen­dia­ry Mis­sile: This abili­ty is no lon­ger mis­clas­si­fied as an Area of Effect ability.

Com­pa­n­ion Characters

Gene­ral

• C2-N2 and 2V-R8 no lon­ger voca­li­ze craf­ting com­men­ta­ry during combat.
• The Car­bo­ni­zed Stream com­pa­n­ion abili­ty no lon­ger breaks prematurely.

Com­pa­n­ions
Kira Carsen

• Fixed an issue that cau­sed play­ers to be unable to pro­gress in Kira’s affec­tion con­ver­sa­ti­ons. Play­ers pre­vious­ly affec­ted by this issue can now speak to Kira and pro­gress normally.

Bug Fixes

• Com­pa­n­ions will now sell trash items when reques­ted, regard­less of group size.
• Com­pa­n­ion heal­ing abili­ties no lon­ger app­ly a per­ma­nent green effect on the character.
• Fixed an issue that cau­sed Com­pa­n­ion Cha­rac­ters to some­ti­mes have the incor­rect appearance in cinematics.

Crew Skills

Bug Fixes

• Cor­rec­ted an issue that pre­ven­ted recent­ly com­ple­ted Crew Skill mis­si­ons from show­ing up in the next list of available missions.
• Fixed a bug that could cau­se Crew Skills a cha­rac­ter didn’t have to appear in the Crew Skills window.
• Play­ers can no lon­ger loot har­ve­s­t­ing nodes they do not have the appro­pria­te Crew Skill for after a group mem­ber har­ve­sts (but does not loot) a node.

Flash­points and Operations

Gene­ral

• A new level 50 Flash­point, Kaon Under Sie­ge, is now available for play in Nor­mal and Hard Modes!
• The Gav Dara­gon and the Ziost Shadow have been expan­ded to accom­mo­da­te the Kaon Under Sie­ge gateway.
• The dif­fi­cul­ty of some non-boss enemies in Flash­points has been adjusted.
• Enemies now drop cre­dits more fre­quent­ly in Flashpoints.

Flash­points
Cademimu

• Gene­ral Ortol’s rocket fire dama­ge no lon­ger occurs when the rocket is not active.

The Black Talon

• Some enemies in this Flash­point are no lon­ger invisible.

The Foundry

• Cor­rec­ted an issue that could cau­se the final boss to beco­me stuck at 10% health.

The Batt­le of Ilum

• Krel Thak’s Allied Weequay Pira­tes have had their tough­ness redu­ced in Hard Mode.

The Fal­se Emperor

• The Sith Entity’s aff­lic­tion abili­ty now pro­per­ly deals dama­ge in Hard Mode.
• HK-47 now has the cor­rect amount of health in Nor­mal Mode.

Ope­ra­ti­ons
Eter­ni­ty Vault

• Play­ers are now able to suc­cessful­ly loot the chest after defea­ting the Infer­nal Council.
• Peri­me­ter Defen­se Can­nons have been re-tun­ed and have impro­ved tar­ge­ting behaviors.
• Soa’s Mind Trap and Force Throw abili­ties no lon­ger tar­get the same play­er mul­ti­ple times; they now tar­get every play­er in the group once.
• Ball light­ning enemies sum­mo­ned by Soa deal dama­ge in a smal­ler radius.
• The Anni­hi­la­ti­on Droid’s rocket burst attack no lon­ger deals dou­ble dama­ge in 16-play­er Operations.
• Soa now sum­mons fewer ball light­ning enemies during the final round in 16-play­er Operations.

Karagga’s Palace

• Four new bos­ses can now be batt­led by play­ers in Karagga’s Palace!
• Play­ers no lon­ger get stuck attemp­ting to exit the Karagga’s Palace phase.

Bug Fixes
Flashpoints

• Cor­rec­ted an issue that pre­ven­ted some ene­my NPCs from spaw­ning in Flashpoints.
• The cor­rect error mes­sa­ge now dis­plays when a play­er attempts to enter a dif­fe­rent Flash­point than the rest of the group.
• Flash­point gate­ways no lon­ger dis­play as oran­ge in incor­rect circumstances.
• Fixed an issue that pre­ven­ted Flash­point dif­fi­cul­ty from being set properly.
• Fixed an issue that cau­sed mapno­tes direc­ting play­ers to some Flash­points to not appear correctly.
• Cor­rec­ted map issues that made loca­ting mis­si­on objec­ti­ves on the Gav Dara­gon difficult.
• Fixed an issue pre­ven­ting some play­ers from ope­ning a chest after a boss fight if the group was pre­vious­ly defea­ted by the boss.

Items

Gene­ral

• An Item Modi­fi­ca­ti­on Table has been added to the Sup­pli­es are­as of the Repu­blic and Impe­ri­al Fleets.

PvP

• Batt­le­mas­ter Gear Tokens have been con­ver­ted into Batt­le­mas­ter Com­men­da­ti­ons, which can be used to purcha­se any Batt­le­mas­ter gear. This allows play­ers to purcha­se any pie­ce of gear ins­tead of requi­ring them to purcha­se the pie­ce indi­ca­ted by the token.
• Batt­le­mas­ter Bags now con­tain Batt­le­mas­ter Com­men­da­ti­ons ins­tead of Batt­le­mas­ter Gear Tokens. They still also con­tain Cham­pi­on Commendations.

Mis­si­ons and NPCs

Gene­ral

• All Bonus Series mis­si­ons and their requi­red mis­si­ons can now be abandoned.
• Cer­tain Wam­pas on Hoth that were prey­ing on lower-level cha­rac­ters have had their level reduced.

Mis­si­ons
Imperial

• Pres­su­re Points: The Leran­tha Lur­ker no lon­ger enga­ges play­ers in com­bat befo­re com­ple­ting its spawn sequence.
• Geroya be Haran: Objec­ti­ves rela­ted to this mis­si­on now glow when selected.
• In Cold Blood: Enemies that use Armor Pier­cing Cell during this mis­si­on no lon­ger each stack a debuff on the player.
• Shadow Spawn: The Sith Spawn no lon­ger knocks play­ers down for lon­ger than intended.
• Thug­gish Beha­vi­or: Cor­rec­ted an issue that could cau­se the play­er to remain stuck in com­bat during this mis­si­on. The requi­red kills to com­ple­te this mis­si­on have been reduced.

Repu­blic

• Clim­bing the Lad­der: A con­ver­sa­ti­on rela­ted to this mis­si­on no lon­ger ends prematurely.
• Droid Clean Up: Cor­rec­ted an issue that cau­sed the bonus mis­si­on to per­sist in the player’s mis­si­on log.
• The Sum­mit: The dif­fi­cul­ty of the encoun­ter with Sido­ne has been reduced.
• Vivicar Awaits: Lowe­red the amount of enemies that attack the play­er during the step “Find a Way Past the Force Field.”

NPCs
Bug Fixes

• Jil­coln Cadera’s abili­ties now cor­rect­ly take into account whe­ther a play­er is immu­ne from knockbacks.
• The “Pri­mal Des­troy­er” World Boss on Bel­sa­vis is now “Over­whel­ming” as intended.
• The World Boss “The First” on Dro­mund Kaas no lon­ger inhi­bits Boun­ty Hunter’s Rapid Shots, and Impe­ri­al Agents will no lon­ger be kno­cked out of cover during com­bat with it.

PvP

Gene­ral

• The shut­tle room in Dorn Base Com­mand Cen­ter on Hoth is no lon­ger con­side­red con­tes­ted territory.
• Ka on Voss is now a PvP Sanctuary.

War­zo­nes

• Level 50 play­ers now par­ti­ci­pa­te in their own War­zo­ne bra­cket and will not be matched with lower-level players.

Ilum

• The dai­ly and weekly mis­si­on objec­ti­ves in Ilum now requi­re defea­ting ene­my play­ers and/or coll­ec­ting arma­ments from the cen­ter objective.
• Play­ers now gain increased Valor from play­er kills in Ilum.
• Play­ers now gain increased bonus Valor for kills based on the num­ber of objec­ti­ves con­trol­led by their faction.
• Increased bonus Valor is now gran­ted for play­er kills when defen­ding an objec­ti­ve your fac­tion owns.
• A noti­fi­ca­ti­on is now dis­play­ed when a play­er gains Valor.
• Three new res­pawn points have been added for each faction.
• Com­pa­n­ions are now rest­ric­ted from the PvP objec­ti­ve area on Ilum.
• Noti­fi­ca­ti­ons are now dis­play­ed when ene­my play­ers are clo­se to an objective.

Bug Fixes
General

• The score­board value for “Hig­hest Pro­tec­tion Per Sin­gle Life” now func­tions correctly.
• Play­ers who have left a War­zo­ne can no lon­ger recei­ve an MVP vote from teammates.
• Your PvP sta­tus will now be tog­g­led auto­ma­ti­cal­ly upon lea­ving a PvP region.
• Addi­tio­nal feed­back is now pro­vi­ded when a play­er attempts to togg­le their PvP flag.
• The Bols­ter tool­tip now more accu­ra­te­ly repres­ents the buff’s effects.

Hutt­ball

• Cor­rec­ted a rare issue that could cau­se the Frog­dogs to be declared the win­ner in a 0–0 match even if the Rot­worms held the ball last.

Ilum

• Moun­ta­ble tur­rets in Ilum no lon­ger deal dama­ge to tar­gets behind them or out­side their range.
• Tur­rets no lon­ger imme­dia­te­ly dis­mount the play­er after use.

UI

Maps

• Fixed a bug that pre­ven­ted the mini­map title from dis­play­ing when loa­ding into the game or refres­hing the UI.
• Cor­rec­ted an issue that cau­sed some mapno­tes to dis­ap­pear from the mini­map when other mapno­tes were updated.

Items

• Item hyper­links now dis­play stats for craf­ted rese­arch items properly.
• Item hyper­links no lon­ger dis­play erro­n­eous addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on rela­ting to sche­ma­tics when examined.
• Attemp­ting to place a non-mis­si­on item into the mis­si­on inven­to­ry now dis­plays an error message.
• Drag­ging equip­ment onto the cha­rac­ter paper doll no lon­ger prompts an item dele­ti­on noti­ce. Items drag­ged to the paper doll are now equip­ped if possible.
• Item set bonu­ses now appear on the tool­tip when vie­w­ing an item on a vendor.
• Items that can be modi­fied now dis­play with the cor­rect loot color in the loot roll window.
• Com­pa­ra­ti­ve tool­tips now cor­rect­ly dis­play stat dif­fe­ren­ces when mou­sing over items in the Crew Skills window.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the tool­tip dis­play for abili­ty cool­downs over one hour in length.
• The inter­face for split­ting stacks of items now dis­plays correctly.
• Ser­vers that are online now always dis­play on top of ser­vers that are off­line in the Ser­ver Sel­ect screen.
• Cor­rec­ted a typo­gra­phi­cal error in the “Addi­tio­nal Com­mands” con­text menu option.
• Play­ers near­by a play­er who achie­ves a new Lega­cy level no lon­ger recei­ve the Lega­cy level-up notification.
• Lega­cy name dis­play pre­fe­ren­ces now per­sist when tra­vel­ling bet­ween planets.
• A new con­fir­ma­ti­on dia­lo­gue now appears when sub­mit­ting spam reports in game.
• Sort­ing now works cor­rect­ly in the Guilds tab.

Mis­cel­la­neous Bug Fixes

• The owner of a holo­call con­ver­sa­ti­on is no lon­ger shown in the last frame of the cinematic.
• The space­bar but­ton is now reco­gni­zed when a play­er pres­ses it to pro­gress after a loa­ding screen even if the space­bar but­ton has been re-bound.
• Addi­tio­nal issues that could impact per­for­mance on Taris have been addressed.
• Vani­ty pets can no lon­ger be con­side­red tar­gets for any abilities.
• Cor­rec­ted an issue that could cau­se some pre­fe­ren­ces to reset to defaults upon area transitions.
• An Aim Dat­acron on Ilum is now acces­si­ble and no lon­ger repeats its initi­al cine­ma­tic once used.
• A Dat­acron on Coru­scant is no lon­ger blo­cked by unin­ten­tio­nal collision.

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