I ended my sub. after beast master came out... whats new and good now ? before I resubsribe

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Originally posted by JediPopey

I ended my sub. after beast master came out... whats new and good now ? before I resubsribe

The biggest changes are probably in chapter 7 - collections and Heroics. Collections are pretty much what they sound like - collections of items that when complete give you badges and items. Some are based on loot, some on locations, some on kills, some on crafting. For examples, some mobs drop pieces of five different collections centred around item counts for housing. Collecting all the pieces of a collection gives you a badge and an increase in item count of 100 for any house you own. Another collection involves killing a few hundred of several different types of Tusken. The reward is a new title - Tusken Terrorizer. Some say its a loot grind, others, like me, enjoy the incentive to see more of the Galaxy and do more than stand around SP's comparing armour or PVP'ing in Restuss.

Heroics are instances by another name. The first three are varied in style, but essentially all involve battling waves of enemies and then a final Boss. Rewards include increases to combat stats, new sets of jewellery, and some nice loot drops.

There was more stuff included in chapter 6 than BM, but I don't know how much of it you saw before quitting.

And the new publish should be live in a little over a week, it will include new space content (missions and 4 new ships including 3 new gunboats). Also there is a new boardable spce station to gather and run the new space missions from.  There will also be a new heroic encounter that involves boarding a Star Destroyer and defeating the troops and bosses inside it.

Originally posted by Gutboy

And the new publish should be live in a little over a week, it will include new space content (missions and 4 new ships including 3 new gunboats). Also there is a new boardable spce station to gather and run the new space missions from.  There will also be a new heroic encounter that involves boarding a Star Destroyer and defeating the troops and bosses inside it.

Is it really coming that soon?

Yes it is, the devs said yesterday it would not be out this week but that next week was looking "good" to them to push the publish. The current dev team knows that the big time between chapters was not a good idea so they will be having them pushed out much faster this year.

I read the pub 8 feature list. this would have been great say a year ago.

I wonder what will happen at the 5 year anniversary? That is when the contract with Lucasarts is up supposedly. And with Bioware and LA all but saying KOTOR online is coming. I truly wonder what the future of SWG will be. I played swg for many years. I have not touched it in like 3 months. I just could not justify the station pass cost to swg and eq2. So I have been just paying for eq2 for a while. I loved swg before the nge like no other game. They have fixed the game to the point where it's playable again, but i wonder what will the future hold with the lucasarts contract. And if indeed Kotor online is around the corner. Will SWG simply empty out overnight dooming the game entirely? Enquiring minds want to know.

I have a theory. As long as Matrix Online is running SWG will also. I know of no game more devoid of life than MxO. We shall see.

As long as it is making money, why would they cancel it?