14 DAY TRIAL // BioWare has just released the first actual patch for its Star Wars: The Old Republic online role-playing game, fixing quite a few of the problems that appeared since the game was released last week on the PC in North America and Europe.
Star Wars: The Old Republic was eagerly awaited by a huge number of BioWare as well as Star Wars fans from all around the world. After plenty of teases, screenshots or videos, the game finally went online on December 20.
Now, after plenty of players finally got a chance to experience the final build of the game, it seems that quite a few bugs and issues were encountered by some of them. As such, the studio has just released the first patch for The Old Republic, in the form of update 1.0.1.
Quite a lot of problems will be fixed, according to BioWare, including performance issues on planets like Taris, missions that wouldn’t trigger properly or didn’t offer the right rewards, not to mention bugs that appeared in some Flashpoint or Operation content.
Check out all the fixes included in Star Wars: The Old Republic patch 1.0.1 below.
Classes and Combat
Combat Bug Fixes Fixed a bug that could cause the global cooldown to display incorrectly in the UI. Abilities that require Companion Characters now always correctly require a companion. NPCs no longer attempt to engage vanity pets in combat.
Imperial Agent Operative The tooltip for Acid Blade now displays the correct information.
Companion Characters
Companions Kira Carsen Fixed an issue that could cause Kira's affection progression to become blocked. Bug Fixes Companion Character dialogue now plays at the correct volume.
Crew Skills
Gathering Skills Slicing Rewards from Slicing have been reduced to bring them into balance with other skills. Adjusted incorrect values for medium slicing boxes. Bug Fixes Corrected an issue that could cause some gathering nodes to appear as unharvestable. Flashpoints and Operations Flashpoints Mandalorian Raiders Crowd control immunity has been removed from several members of the Enemy Boarding Party. Colicoid War Game An issue that prevented some players from mounting turrets in this Flashpoint has been corrected. The Red Reaper Darth Ikoral now uses his abilities correctly. Directive 7 Mentor now resets correctly if he defeats the player group. Bug Fixes All players in a group who have a daily Flashpoint mission now get credit for completing that Flashpoint.
Operations
Eternity Vault Fixed an issue that could cause players to instantly die when affected by Soa's knockback. Turrets in Normal Mode no longer behave as turrets from Hard Mode. Players are now able to properly obtain loot from chests. The Ancient Pylons now spawn enemies at the correct intervals. Karagga's Palace Players no longer need to reset this Operation if they do not defeat Bonethrasher. Corrected an issue that caused some players to become stuck at the throne room door.
Items
Bug Fixes PvP lockboxes can no longer be sold for credits. Fixed incorrect item rewards from PvP leveling lockboxes.
Missions and NPCs
Missions Imperial A New Master: Defeating Teeno no longer causes him to surrender on top of Phyne, making him difficult to interact with. General Faraire: All of Khourlet's Elite Guards are now accessible by the player. Bug Fixes Fixed a mission-related issue that could cause poor performance and client crashes on Taris for some players.
NPCs
Bug Fixes Corrected several instances of non-interactive NPCs appearing and disappearing from the player's view.
PvP
Warzones General Rewards for winning Warzones have been increased. Warzone completion rewards have been decreased. Bug Fixes Voidstar Corrected an issue that could prevent some players from entering the Voidstar. Made adjustments to prevent attacking players from reaching the doors in the reactor core before bridges are extended.
UI
Bug Fixes Fixed a bug that could prevent players from accepting pending mission rewards. Targeting a friendly player no longer occasionally displays incorrect text for the character's name. Corrected an issue that could cause some auction expirations to behave incorrectly. The splash screen no longer displays longer than the "accept changes" dialogue when changing resolutions on some computers. Master Looter now works correctly for items being looted from chests. The server select screen no longer displays over the character select after being disconnected for being away. Corrected an issue that could cause mission mapnotes to disappear when a new mission is obtained.
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
Special characters no longer display incorrectly in the French credits. Remaining baby names have been added to the credits. Corrected a link that displayed in French and German versions when the servers are unavailable. The new patch will be automatically downloaded by the Star Wars: The Old Republic launcher the next time you start the online game.