Category: Star Wars: The Old Republic News

The cagey Star Wars: The Old Republic team is being very cagey about some type of announcement coming during the weekly Producer’s Livestream. According to Twitter, it should be a "BIG" announcement of some import.

Bioware’s Michael Backus has written an extensive post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic site to let players know that their voices have been heard with regard to recent changes to the way companions were buffed when Knights of the Fallen Empire launched last month. In it, Backus details why changes were made, but acknowledges that "we didn’t realize how with Knights of the Fallen Empire gameplay had evolved."

Bioware has a new post from Eric Musco that concerns recent feedback about changes in the companion system after the last Star Wars: The Old Republic patch. According to Musco, the team has taken player feedback from the official forums, Reddit, fan sites and more into consideration for creating an "action list" of things they will be addressing over time.

The Star Wars: The Old Republic forums are afire with the nerf to companion damage and healing outputs that arrived with yesterday’s patch. Bioware’s Eric Musco took to the forum to explain why alterations in companions’ base stats and damage/healing reductions were necessary, a post that has generated an astonishing fifty-one pages of angry posts from players.

Ian Ryan has sent out a new Twitter post to let the world know that he is headed to Bioware Austin as the new Lead Writer for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Ryan has worked on other notable projects including Thief, Game of Thrones Ascent and on the Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia.

Is it worth it for BioWare to try and build what seems like an actual singleplayer RPG on top of an MMO foundation? If we treat the first nine chapters of Knights of the Fallen Empire as BioWare’s sales pitch, I’m going to have to say yes.

All Star Wars: The Old Republic players can now log into the game to experience Bioware’s return to story with the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion. KotFE brings significant changes to several game systems and brings story back to the forefront of the SWTOR experience.

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s newest expansion, Knights of the Fallen Empire, starts off with a bang and just doesn’t let go. I thought BioWare really upped its game with Shadow of Revan, but I had to check to make sure I was actually still playing SWTOR when I jumped into KOTFE for the first time today.

With the launch of the early access program for the Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion, Knights of the Fallen Empire, a big change will be coming to the companion system that can be boiled down to the change from gaining "affection" to earning "influence". The more influence, the more power a companion has which has a direct relationship to companion damage, healing, and health.

There are a host of sweeping game changes coming to SWTOR when Knights of the Fallen Empire launches later this morning. We were scheduled to have some early hands-on time with BioWare’s expansion, but some technical oddities with the test server and Mike Bitton’s access kept that from happening. Instead, like you all, we’re now watching the clock and waiting for 11am Eastern to roll along.