The Star Wars: The Old Republic developers have revealed what is coming with Update 7.5.1!
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Update 7.5.1
What will be in Update 7.5.1?
- Galactic Seasons 7
- Theme “The Greatest Bounty”
- Dark vs Light system world bosses coming back!!
- Dark vs Light system tokens returning as a reward
- Bounty Contract ‘week’ will be running the entire Season
- Date Nights
- Aric Jorgan
- Vette
- Twitch Drops = free cosmetic rewards
- Cartel Market
- Imperial Commando Armor
- Lotus Blade Lightsaber
- Burning Embers Lightsaber
- Lotus Blade Lightsaber
- Burning Embers Dualsaber
- Scattered Blossom Weapon Tuning
- Scattered Embers Weapon Tuning
- Master the Fight Bundle subscription bundle (July 30)
- Gearing Changes
- Update 7.6 teasers
When will Update 7.5.1 be released?
UPFATE!: “Hello everyone! We will be deploying Game Update 7.5.1 on August 20th! Time: 7:30am CT / 12:30pm UTC Estimated downtime: 4 hours ”
Developer Livestream
You can watch the Developer Livestream recording to see all of this information presented live by the SWTOR developers, it’s about an hour long.
Twitch Drops
Twitch Drops are a way of gaining free rewards by watching other players play Star Wars: The Old republic on Twitch. These will start when Update 7.5.1 launches, but you can link your account early. Here’s how to link your account and how Twitch Drops work!
The first reward will be the Orlean Voidstream Mount for watching 4 hours of SWTOR within 30 days of 7.5.1’s launch.
Galactic Seasons, Season 7
Galactic Seasons, Season 7 will be coming with Update 7.5.1! This Season as always will be bringing new reward that you can earn through the Season track, but players are even more excited about this season bringing back the Dark vs Light system planetary world bosses and Light vs Dark tokens!
Season 7 will be called “The Greatest Bounty”, and the Season story will lead you to Kantec Bren of the Bounty Broker Association, so it’s going to be a very bounty-themed season. The Bounty Event will be enabled during the entire season (it normally only lasts a week). There will not be any new, more difficult bounties for the bounty event, but, you will be sent after some incredibly difficult special world bosses that will require 8-16 people to defeat as a weekly Galactic Seasons objective!
Season 7 Rewards
Brynjak Leather Armor
Superior Hunter Armor
Furious / Temperamental Brynjak Mounts
(Vendor) / (Subscriber Track)
Weapons
Stalker Blaster, Blaster Rifle, Assault Cannon, Sniper Rifle, Lightsaber, and Dualsaber
F2P / Preferred Track Weapons
White Loth-cat Kitten Pet
Titles
- Legacy Title: Hunter
- Legacy Title: Carbonite Enthusiast
- Title: Bounty Wrangler
- Title: Hutt’s Favorite
- Title: Bane of the Outer Rim
Dark vs Light Bosses, Tokens, Armors and Vendors
In an exciting surprise announcement, the developers announced the return of both Dark vs Light bosses and Dark Side and Light Side tokens. Players (and me!) are excited about this because the bosses are quite difficult and fun challenges, have some neat achievements, and the rewards you can earn are very cool and were semi-retired until now.
The rewards are really slick, and I’m so glad they are coming back. I’ve put together a list of all of them and previews on a Dark vs Light Token Rewards Guide. This might change
I’ve written a Dark vs Light bosses guide with what I could remember and my footage from 2017, though we are still waiting for more details on exactly how these will work in 7.5.1.
This is a different system than the Dark vs Light system, but it will have the same rewards and bosses as the Dark vs Light system, which used to be a server-wide ongoing thing from a previous update. This is completely different than the Dark vs Light Event, which only has a similar name, and was a limited-time event in the summer of 2016.
Feast of Prosperity
The Feast of Prosperity fun and silly event will be returning in the Fall. Feast of Prosperity Guide
Date Night
The next batch of Date Night missions are on their way! Vette and Aric Jorgan’s Date Night missions will be debuting with 7.5.1.These Date Night Missions will be available for Troopers and Sith Warriors in active post-KotFE romances. Rewards include a Title, Achievement, and unique Decoration.
SWTOR Date Night Guide and Achievement Rewards – Lana, Theron, Koth, Arcann romance!
Cartel Market
A bunch of new items are coming with Update 7.5.1. All but the Imperial Commando armor are inspired by Star Wars: Visions!
Imperial Commando Armor
Lotus Blade Lightsaber
Burning Embers Lightsaber
Lotus Blade Lightsaber
Burning Embers Dualsaber
New Tunings
Scattered Blossom Weapon Tuning
Scattered Embers Weapon Tuning
(both, one on each weapon)
Master the Fight Bundle
The Master the Fight: Firebolt Edition Bundle will be dropping July 30th. This bundle contains:
- 180 Days Subscription Time
- 5500 Cartel Coins
- Vectron 240R Firebolt Mount (rideable at level 1 and has a quick burst mode)
- Primary Metallic Red Dye (x5 per character)
- Secondary Metallic Red Dye (x5 per character)
- Bundle is priced at $99.99
Gearing Changes
The developers have announced some gearing changes coming up. There are NO new tiers or types of gear, just more ways to gather the existing gear, which opens up more options for players who play the game in different ways to gear up. Gearing changes Info Post
Update 7.6
While the developers don’t share too much information about the next-next update, they did share what is coming up for the 7.6 “holiday” release.
- Next story update will be “Galactic Threads” – tying the threads together (this will be the Malgus / Sahar / Mandolorians / Shae / Heta main story)
- Story will take players to existing planets, where an entirely new type of content will await them (no details)
- New lair boss is on the way! (no details yet, it will be a single-boss operation)
- More art modernization is coming (see Hutta’s modernization here)
After 7.5.1 / 7.6
What will be coming up after 7.5.1.1? While we don’t have many hints yet, we do know that there will eventually be…
Seasons
We will see the continuation of PvP Seasons and Galactic Seasons – Galactic Seasons Season 7 will be starting in Update 7.5.1, and eventually Season 8 withUpdate 7.6.1, and PvP Seasons Season 7 will start sometime after 6, which ends around September 17th.
Date Nights
There are about 28 romanceable companions and the developers are hoping to release more date nights in the cadence of 1-2 Companion Date nights per Galactic Seasons. So Update 7.5.1 is bringing two more, with more in the future!
Romanceable Companions
- Akaavi Spar
- Andronikos Revel
- Arcann (Update 7.4.1)
- Aric Jorgan (Update 7.5.1)
- Ashara Zavros
- Corso Riggs
- Doc
- Elara Dorne
- Felix Iresso
- Jaesa Willsaam
- Kaliyo
- Khem Val
- Kira Carsen
- Koth Vortena (Update 7.4.1)
- Lana Beniko (Update 7.4.1)
- Lieutenant Pierce
- Lord Scourge
- Mako
- Malavai Quinn
- Nadia Grell
- Raina Temple
- Risha
- Tharan Cedrax
- Theron Shan (Update 7.4.1)
- Torian
- Vector
- Vette (Update 7.5.1)
- Zenith
DirectX 12 & Improved Steam Integrations
In a previous developer post, the devs said…
Also on the tech side, we are working on further updates such as improved integrations with Steam and updating to DirectX 12. We’ll start talking about all of this and more in the coming weeks. Source
With 64-bit now in the game, and DirectX 12 hopefully on the way, it’s possible we may see graphics updates in the future. We have already seen many graphical / art updates on the planets.
GTN Changes?
In addition to the recent changes to the GTN, the developers spoke in the past about potentially adding a buy-order system – you can put in a request to buy an item at a certain price, and other players can fulfill the order. Whether this will be added or not still is unclear, now that the new GTN is up and functional.
- This will be an overhaul of how the GTN Works to increase usability make finding what you want easier and buy or sell items at a fair price all while providing you with more Market information than ever before to help players make informed decisions (source developer livestream 7.3)
- We will also be building a commodity order system that lets you place orders for specific items and get them at a competitive price (source developer livestream 7.3)
Additional Servers?
All SWTOR servers are now on the cloud, and the Shae Vizla server has been running for a while as the APAC server, with transfers opened with 7.4.1. A new Fresh Start server may come in the future, players have been asking for one in North America. Read More
Future Story
And after that, more of everything. You can always expect more Flashpoints, more story, like Malgus says, ‘this is only the beginning.’ I talked a little bit about when 7.0 launched how much we had planned out the storyline and everything happening with Malgus, and how is plans are unfolding, and how the Mandalorian civil war storyline ties into that, we’ve got some stuff that I can not wait to see go live, and to see ya’lls faces and your reactions and your comments as it comes down the road.” – Charles Boyd (Former Creative Director, Developer 7.1 Livestream)
Crafting Update / Augments?
From an interview by Vulkk.com with the developers:
The official answer stated that while the developers “cannot provide a definitive timeline right now, a change to the Crafting system will not be implemented in the immediate future. At this time, players can continue spending credits on augments.” When the time comes that a crafting revamp will happen, BioWare said that they will give everyone plenty of time to adjust to the changes accordingly.
Based on BioWare’s answer, it seems that they are planning a more significant rework to the crafting system in line with other modernizations we’ve gotten with 7.0. Furthermore, it should theoretically be pretty trivial to just add another crafting tier if that’s all they wanted to do. – August 2022
Master Mode R-4?
It is unclear if Master Mode R-4 is still coming out, due to the large delay in launch of both 7.0 and the R-4 Anomaly operation in both story and veteran mode, but it is currently the only outstanding item on the list from the tenth anniversary, originally shared on a livestream July 1, 2021.
We have kind of a roadmap for #SWTOR even beyond the tenth anniversary! wow! All the way into 2022! More details coming closer to the launch of Legacy of the Sith expansion.
Not a new engine lol. But yes modernization and graphic fidelity. Maybe something to be excited about pic.twitter.com/A5vuG5GWpL
— Swtorista (@swtorista) July 1, 2021