Another Tuesday means another Star Wars: the Old Republic (SWTOR) patch. A few of the highlights:
- Players can now use vehicles on Coruscant in the large areas of the Black Sun, Old Galactic Market, The Works, and the Jedi Temple districts. This makes purchasers of the Legacy Character Perk of speeder riding at level10 very very happy.
- The crafting UI now correctly takes companion affection and other factors into account when displaying mission times.
- An issue that could prevent some players from being displayed in the Warzone group frames has been corrected.
Full notes after the jump!
1.3.4 Patch Notes
7/24/2012
General
- Players can now use vehicles on Coruscant in the large areas of the Black Sun, Old Galactic Market, The Works, and the Jedi Temple districts.
Classes and Combat
General
- All class “stun break” abilities now properly remove blind effects. For example, the blind effect caused by a Sorcerer’s Backlash skill can now be broken with each class’s “stun break” ability.
Companion Characters
General
- Centurion Weaponmaster’s head gear no longer causes non-human companion heads to disappear.
Crew Skills
General
- The crafting UI now correctly takes companion affection and other factors into account when displaying mission times.
Flashpoints and Operations
Flashpoints
The Esseles
- In Hard Mode, Vokk’s enrage timer has been increased to 3 minutes. The damage for his Double Saber Toss and Lightning Storm has been reduced, and the time between the target appearing and damage for Lightning Storm occurring has been increased.
Operations
Eternity Vault
- Soa’s orbs, lightning balls, and mind traps no longer grant social points.
Group Finder
- Simultaneously submitted votes to kick a player are now counted correctly.
- Lockout info now continues to display after closing the Group Finder pop-up.
- The Group Finder group acceptance dialog now causes the main Group Finder window to close.
- The travel dialog now closes automatically if it is open when you leave the group.
- Players that experience a disconnect during a random Group Finder destination now receive the correct daily rewards if eligible.
- Player eligibility for daily Group Finder rewards is now displayed correctly in the Group Finder window.
- The tooltip on the Group Finder button now correctly reflects whether a group is eligible to find a replacement player.
Missions and NPCs
Missions
Belsavis
- Republic Secrets: Corrected an issue that prevented players from clicking on the “Republic Data” datapad.
Tatooine
- Drive out the Twin Suns Pirates: This bonus objective can no longer be repeated more than once daily.
PvP
General
- An issue that could prevent some players from being displayed in the Warzone group frames has been corrected.
- Players no longer receive an incorrect “You have been queue for solo Warzones” message when being queue for a group Warzone while in a loading screen.
- The Warzone scorecard now correctly tracks the number of kills; in some instances previously, it displayed a lower number than were actually performed.
Some good stuff in there! Vehicles on Coruscant are a godsend not just for the lowbies… nothing like going back there at a higher level and still having to hoof it everywhere.
Centurion Weaponmaster’s head gear no longer causes non-human companion heads to disappear.
Wonder what new thing will now cause companion heads to disappear instead. 😉
Quite a nerf to Vokk, but I guess that’s to make him more pug friendly.
Soa’s orbs, lightning balls, and mind traps no longer grant social points.
Nooo, it was so funny when people suddenly gained “Party Time” halfway through the fight. 😛
Players that experience a disconnect during a random Group Finder destination now receive the correct daily rewards if eligible.
That’s an important fix.
Republic Secrets: Corrected an issue that prevented players from clicking on the “Republic Data” datapad.
I think that’s the first time ever I saw a bugfix for a quest that I was actually having problems with myself, heh.
And I do hope the incomplete party frames in warzones are fixed for good now. It’s another one of those small things that has been quite persistent.
I’ve started to get used to my headless companion…
😉
All good things come to an end eventually… 😉
As usual, I’m all for improvements. 🙂