Thank you for the update in regards to the correlation between the voice actors strike/storyline update & cutscenes being delayed. That's an important piece of information to know that helps me (and other players) understand why voice acted cutscenes haven't been used in recent patches
@@marceldubaj5760 Depends, if they do it as a subscriber only feature, then it might be good for subs, some people have a lot of cc so grabbing dyes is easy for them BUT if that was no longer the "easiest" way of obtaining dyes, people will opt for convenience wherever they can in mmos.
My opinion: good overall update (minus the story part). Imo, after they finish polishing the planets, they should focus on polishing all the armor available in the game and make it 3D + making the dyes go well with them. Also they should focus on story and pvp. If they do these things good next year, the game will be in a good state imo. Upgrading planets, character model and armors will give the game a fresh start (prolly will feel like a brand new SW game).
Me already looking forward to driving around with Andronikos lounging next to me and our favourite fur baby at the back with us! It was always kind of silly that when you use speeder companions just disappeared. This provides some immersion to the game and is headcanon worthy.
That Comlink UI gives me such massive KOTOR II vibes, it's unreal... I almost want to get that Plumed PVP set, dye it yellow, and put it on a Cathar named Sylvester. I'd put money on the devs separating the Primary and Secondary dye slots on armor...and didn't they mention adding dye slots to weapons at one point? ...I wonder if they'll update old two-seater mounts and taxis to allow Companions...
I hope the dye system will be reworked to add the ability for us to mix-match our own dye modules. A guy on the swtor forum worked out that based on 11 colors, 5 shades variants each, there are 3135 possible dye combos to be had. Only a faction on that have been added to the game and at the rate new dye modules are released we'll be waiting forever to get a particular combo we want. What I want to see is single primary and single secondary dyes be added to the Cartel Market. We can them buy those and create our own dye module by combining them. There'll need to add a new dye station for this, maybe repurpose the appearance modifier station for it since it's currently defunct since we can change appearance directly in the character window. This would mean that there would be no need to add a second dye slot to the armor piece windows and the current dye modules are still usable. They can continue to sell the two color combo dye modules along side the new single color dyes added to the Cartel Market. Going forward the premade two color combo dye modules would be of colors with shades and textures not yet available as single dyes. Price it correctly and they won't lose out on revenue. Like currently Black/Black dye cost 1500cc so just price the single primary/secondary black dye at 750cc. That way if a player wants to create black/black dye module we'd just buy two black dyes to combine. If that makes sense. Like I've wanted a Deep Red/Deep Red dye module (which currently isn't in game). So I would by two of these single slot Deep Red dyes, take it to the Dye Module Creator Station, drop them in and create a Deep Red/Deep Red dye module. Then stamp it to an armor piece as usual.
love the comlink interface. a style that feels more "in universe" instead of just "game ui" is a grand step towards better immersion for me. it just feels a bit weird that there's no word about using it for older content or incorporating it into scenes that canonically use comlinks, but maybe (hopefully?) that can be added some time in the future.
The best thing they can do for dye packs is to have them be removable after slotting it (so you can reuse it) and being able to use the collections to get more of the cartel market dyes that are automatically bound to the legacy when retrieved.
I'm a massive fan of the comlink system. It looks so, so, so cool. This is probably not in the cards at the moment, but I hope it does mean that eventually we get some more companion content. The companion mails are so cool and we just barely get those anymore. The comlink system could be used as like, a "chat" for companions to keep them involved in the story without flooding us with mail but being easy to develop. A game called Honkai Star Rail has a very similar system and in that game, every day you can get a text from a randomly chosen companion with a small dialogue tree just to add some neat characterisation. Something like that would be neat for SWTOR imo.
Great breakdown!!! I just recently got back into the game and haven't felt this optimistic since Onslaught and all these updates seem like we're getting some good content, but also building blocks for some potentially amazing expansions to come. The new dialogue feature in particular looks great! -PD
I'm hoping to see a option in settings to turn off light side / dark side points. So that i can choose for example the dialogue option that gives light side points, without gaining light side points.
Replayable class-story and planet quests at different difficulties, similar to KoTFE, would go a long way towards keeping me playing my favorite character. Rather than having to make endless alts to keep playing anything other than FPs, OPs, daily-Heroics.
What I really want to see is the feature that allows for cloning of Decorations for Guild Strongholds/Flagships be made available for Personal Strongholds. It's such a pain when you need a specific item for a build, but it's something that isn't on the Cartel Market, isn't from a vendor, and only pops up every once in a while on the GTN for 1bil credits. I think making that feature available for Personal SHs would be a reasonable credit sink, and I don't think it'd hurt CM revenue much since you still need to purchase the CM decos in the first place to unlock them.
Oh man, didn't know the video game strike was still ongoing. Its been like half a year now? Broadsword doing an admirable job keeping the game chugging along.
Looks like i picked a good time to come back. I haven't played since 2016 and not only is there a lot of content to catch up on, there loads lot more coming soon! This is and probably always will be one of my favorite games to come back to...... and this is always the first place I look when I do lol
I wonder if the companion mounts will allow the companions to communicate while riding. That’s something I miss from back in the day when I was running across planets.
Dyes should really just be part of collections. Consumable dyes just feels bad, IMO. I know it would be less of a money-maker for them if you could just buy a dye once and be done, but I would rather have dyes be collection unlocks even if it meant a higher initial purchase price.
I want to thank the devs for all of the work but i wish we could have the choice in the settings between the two graphics style.. Because i personally REALLY LOVE the Clone Wars graphics and designs that we have right now. It'll break my heart if they don't give us an option between the two like other games.. (WoW, for ex) 😞🙏 But I completely understand that people like the new style and it's cool, i just wish and PRAY that they're going to let us choose what we want in the settings. + in addition, it can help people who don't have a really good PC to still run and play the game. (And i don't want these new graphics in low definitions personally, i prefer the exact old graphics for characters and world in either a lower definition or in an other settings.) In a way it's a preservation of art too, if they do this they can do whatever they want with the new graphics without limiting themselves. Because it seems that they want to remaster it. (It is a win win and i think it wouldn't be that hard to implement 🤔) Hopefully it will happen, i love this game so much. ❤️
I like the idea of adding content for endgame. Doing the same thing for years now is kinda meh.... I like the Season stuff but having different/new types of world quests or something like that would be awesome.
Hey what would the best server to transfer to if I'm going to be living in Japan for the next few years? Would still like to play the game when I have some time
I would wait till you move and then check out the Fleet on a north american and euro server during the time when you plan to play, to see what the population is like in YOUR preferred play time in japan :)
If the update the combat, with a modernized significant update, then I will take another serious look at this game. Point and click with a Jedi/Sith facing off with a guy that has a pistol standing directly in front of you not moving is not fun.
Wish I could afford to go on strike, but then again most of us have real jobs. If I were ea I’d throw in ai voice acting and be done. Wow has an addon someone made where it gave all quests voice acting through AI and it’s pretty great
Broadsword isn’t owned by EA, so the sale of the game doesn’t make sense. Broadsword is an independent company formed by former members of Mythic Entertainment, which was previously owned by EA.
As a creative writer, I'm with the voice actors on this one. I'm not against AI, but I *AM* against data laundering and non-consensual theft of people's works and likenesses for AI training.
??? ??? ??? to my ignorant knowledge, you have to change names if when a character is deactivated someone else registers the name right?? if I made a new character could I use the name on that character so that when reactivating my original character it'll force a name change ???????????
They should just use AI for the voices instead of relying on actors. Actors represent the past, and it’s time for the world to embrace AI as the future.
Firstly, AI doesn't exist in a vacuum. It relies on the work of real voice actors as training data. The more training data you have, the more realistic it sounds. You can't just make up a new voice for a new character. It would need to be based on someone, which would mean they'd have to rely on an actor anyway. Secondly, AI voices sound like dogshit. They're simply awful. You are genuinely stupid if you think they sound good. It is simply of a lower quality for the final product. Thirdly, it's really really not good for actual game developers in any role. It's next to impossible to actually give direction to an AI to make it do what you want. In actual roles, "AI prompters" will just spit out a hundred outputs and hope one of them is good enough. They're unable to actually expand on any ideas when requested. Finally, it's just morally wrong. Why deprive voice actors of their work? Plus AI generation takes an insane amount of power, enough that it's genuinely harming the environment because of how much water is used to train AI. You are requesting a morally bankrupt dystopia and I sincerely hope you stay FAR away from any game development role.
And the PvP community will now tear itself apart in starforge as the cliques begin spliting into their 4 man premades to bully each other/gatekeep newbs. Calling it now. and vs premades infesting the queue with their elitist filth instead of leaving the game. All the flaired PvP players leave too. Y'all gatekeep and cope just as hard.
there is no real content to play anymore unless you want to grind the same old ops day in day out, the game needs a real change in direction as its heading to the trash heap fast.
they should remake the character creation entirely, models, new animations, combat styles, saber wielding styles, remake the combat, then i will think about subscribing again or just release a new star wars mmorpg
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Thank you for the update in regards to the correlation between the voice actors strike/storyline update & cutscenes being delayed. That's an important piece of information to know that helps me (and other players) understand why voice acted cutscenes haven't been used in recent patches
cheers! they didnt go into that during the livestream but I've been following the news so it was easy to line up.
Getting dyes as an unlock instead of a consumable would be a game changer. Manifesting
would love that.
it would, but I'm afraid it would take away too much money from Developers considering for how expensive some of them are on Cartel Market
That, and being able to actually stack the (non-seasonal) dyes you have, which would be absolutely amazing.
@@marceldubaj5760 Depends, if they do it as a subscriber only feature, then it might be good for subs, some people have a lot of cc so grabbing dyes is easy for them BUT if that was no longer the "easiest" way of obtaining dyes, people will opt for convenience wherever they can in mmos.
00:00 Intro
00:25 Story Delay
02:18 Teaser Cutscene
04:28 Dynamic Encounters
06:06 Companion Mounts
06:41 Meirm Cicada Mount Subscriber Reward
07:25 Remote Trading Post
08:41 Comlink
11:57 PvP Season 7
12:54 Changes to PvP Balancing
13:46 Cartel Market
14:52 Dye Sale and Changes
16:08 New Free Hair
16:30 Propagator Core XR-53 Lair Boss
16:59 New Augments
17:55 PTS Testing & Rewards
18:26 Master the Fight Bundle
19:18 Life Day 2024
19:48 Graphics Updates: Planets
20:16 Graphics Updates: Characters
21:12 Name Purge
21:41 Mac Launcher Update
22:20 Summary
My opinion: good overall update (minus the story part). Imo, after they finish polishing the planets, they should focus on polishing all the armor available in the game and make it 3D + making the dyes go well with them. Also they should focus on story and pvp. If they do these things good next year, the game will be in a good state imo. Upgrading planets, character model and armors will give the game a fresh start (prolly will feel like a brand new SW game).
Me already looking forward to driving around with Andronikos lounging next to me and our favourite fur baby at the back with us! It was always kind of silly that when you use speeder companions just disappeared. This provides some immersion to the game and is headcanon worthy.
Really wish they would just add these to collections versus the mail, as is when I make a new character I have 28 mail to collect (enough is enough).
lol! I think im close to 100 new mails now.
only 28 mail? I'm at 58 now... lolol I agree tho. It would be nice if they'd just add this stuff to collections.
Only 28, I'm at about 76 per new character :P
I got 64 ;D
i’m at like 60 something i feel u lmao
That Comlink UI gives me such massive KOTOR II vibes, it's unreal...
I almost want to get that Plumed PVP set, dye it yellow, and put it on a Cathar named Sylvester.
I'd put money on the devs separating the Primary and Secondary dye slots on armor...and didn't they mention adding dye slots to weapons at one point?
...I wonder if they'll update old two-seater mounts and taxis to allow Companions...
I hope the dye system will be reworked to add the ability for us to mix-match our own dye modules. A guy on the swtor forum worked out that based on 11 colors, 5 shades variants each, there are 3135 possible dye combos to be had. Only a faction on that have been added to the game and at the rate new dye modules are released we'll be waiting forever to get a particular combo we want.
What I want to see is single primary and single secondary dyes be added to the Cartel Market. We can them buy those and create our own dye module by combining them.
There'll need to add a new dye station for this, maybe repurpose the appearance modifier station for it since it's currently defunct since we can change appearance directly in the character window. This would mean that there would be no need to add a second dye slot to the armor piece windows and the current dye modules are still usable. They can continue to sell the two color combo dye modules along side the new single color dyes added to the Cartel Market. Going forward the premade two color combo dye modules would be of colors with shades and textures not yet available as single dyes. Price it correctly and they won't lose out on revenue. Like currently Black/Black dye cost 1500cc so just price the single primary/secondary black dye at 750cc. That way if a player wants to create black/black dye module we'd just buy two black dyes to combine. If that makes sense.
Like I've wanted a Deep Red/Deep Red dye module (which currently isn't in game). So I would by two of these single slot Deep Red dyes, take it to the Dye Module Creator Station,
drop them in and create a Deep Red/Deep Red dye module. Then stamp it to an armor piece as usual.
love the comlink interface. a style that feels more "in universe" instead of just "game ui" is a grand step towards better immersion for me. it just feels a bit weird that there's no word about using it for older content or incorporating it into scenes that canonically use comlinks, but maybe (hopefully?) that can be added some time in the future.
The best thing they can do for dye packs is to have them be removable after slotting it (so you can reuse it) and being able to use the collections to get more of the cartel market dyes that are automatically bound to the legacy when retrieved.
I'm a massive fan of the comlink system. It looks so, so, so cool.
This is probably not in the cards at the moment, but I hope it does mean that eventually we get some more companion content. The companion mails are so cool and we just barely get those anymore. The comlink system could be used as like, a "chat" for companions to keep them involved in the story without flooding us with mail but being easy to develop.
A game called Honkai Star Rail has a very similar system and in that game, every day you can get a text from a randomly chosen companion with a small dialogue tree just to add some neat characterisation. Something like that would be neat for SWTOR imo.
I hope so too!
Companion mount is cool. Hopefully they add like a speeder bike that will let them sit on the back
Great breakdown!!! I just recently got back into the game and haven't felt this optimistic since Onslaught and all these updates seem like we're getting some good content, but also building blocks for some potentially amazing expansions to come.
The new dialogue feature in particular looks great!
-PD
Welcome back to the game!
This is getting my hyped to play again, I hope they just change a bit of the way the combat works and add overhead text/speech bubbles!
I knew about the graphic updates but had not seen the comparison, that was something! great summary thumbs up well earned
Fun fact: changes for the character faces have already happened on the test server, not in this video! :)
Dynamic encounters sounds cool! Hopefully it'll make the combat a bit more interesting.
They sound a bit childish mission wise but will give them a go before I decide not to bother with them
Man this is awesome I just hope the story will be out soon. As for the strike I just hope there is a solution where everyone works things out.
I'm hoping to see a option in settings to turn off light side / dark side points. So that i can choose for example the dialogue option that gives light side points, without gaining light side points.
I hope they retroactively apply the Comlink interface to some of the older interactions.
There's definitely some interfaces that could use it LOL.
Replayable class-story and planet quests at different difficulties, similar to KoTFE, would go a long way towards keeping me playing my favorite character. Rather than having to make endless alts to keep playing anything other than FPs, OPs, daily-Heroics.
Yay, that nihil inspired set from the high republic looks good. Really like both the old and the high republic
THE NAMES SHALL BE PURGED
Many Rishi died to bring us those armors
waw... Broadsword has done in 2 years more than Bioware in 12 😂
What I really want to see is the feature that allows for cloning of Decorations for Guild Strongholds/Flagships be made available for Personal Strongholds. It's such a pain when you need a specific item for a build, but it's something that isn't on the Cartel Market, isn't from a vendor, and only pops up every once in a while on the GTN for 1bil credits. I think making that feature available for Personal SHs would be a reasonable credit sink, and I don't think it'd hurt CM revenue much since you still need to purchase the CM decos in the first place to unlock them.
Oh man, didn't know the video game strike was still ongoing. Its been like half a year now?
Broadsword doing an admirable job keeping the game chugging along.
This one started in July 2024. Different than the other actors for movies/tv one.
Will you be able to hear your companion dialogue when free roaming for the new mount? I really hope so. It definitely helps with immersion
good question another player was wondering that too!
love that nihl armor from the dynamic ecounters event. i have a female twilek that basically wear nihl armor and having more options is great! yayyyy
Interesting time to return to the game! I love your videos soo much!
super exciting update !
Looks like i picked a good time to come back. I haven't played since 2016 and not only is there a lot of content to catch up on, there loads lot more coming soon! This is and probably always will be one of my favorite games to come back to...... and this is always the first place I look when I do lol
I dont even play anymore, but love your videos. Good work!
thanks and enjoy following along!
I wonder if the companion mounts will allow the companions to communicate while riding. That’s something I miss from back in the day when I was running across planets.
Oh! Like to hear their ambient dialogue about say Coruscant or Taris? good question!!!
Dyes should really just be part of collections. Consumable dyes just feels bad, IMO. I know it would be less of a money-maker for them if you could just buy a dye once and be done, but I would rather have dyes be collection unlocks even if it meant a higher initial purchase price.
We can only hope!
The old :PST Titles will be rewards for the Dynamic Encounters also they said in their Livestream
oh nice!
I hope to live to see Swtor for PS5 🙏
I want to thank the devs for all of the work but i wish we could have the choice in the settings between the two graphics style..
Because i personally REALLY LOVE the Clone Wars graphics and designs that we have right now. It'll break my heart if they don't give us an option between the two like other games.. (WoW, for ex)
😞🙏
But I completely understand that people like the new style and it's cool, i just wish and PRAY that they're going to let us choose what we want in the settings. + in addition, it can help people who don't have a really good PC to still run and play the game. (And i don't want these new graphics in low definitions personally, i prefer the exact old graphics for characters and world in either a lower definition or in an other settings.)
In a way it's a preservation of art too, if they do this they can do whatever they want with the new graphics without limiting themselves. Because it seems that they want to remaster it.
(It is a win win and i think it wouldn't be that hard to implement 🤔)
Hopefully it will happen, i love this game so much. ❤️
Thanks for the well detailed video! Still rooting for this game!!
cheers glad to share such a jam packed one lol!
Let's hope they'll do this name wipe every year, affecting players who haven't logged in for a year and are not Subscribers.
Omg I have to get one of those companion mounts.
Yay, swtorista!!!
im definitely coming back now after 3 month
I like the idea of adding content for endgame. Doing the same thing for years now is kinda meh.... I like the Season stuff but having different/new types of world quests or something like that would be awesome.
yes the Dynamic Encounters seem to be like world quests!
Bruh. I hate the fact that these strikes are happening man. EA needs to get their act together and reach a compromise.
I really hope that one day they fix the neck seems on all the twi'lek characters one of these updates.
ten year problem haha
@Swtorista And here's to another 10. Still can't even get the ability to reorder the main menu characters without logging in to each one manually.
1:21 Sounds to me like there was someone who does not like video games.
Anything high republic is a no, so my wallet is happy. I like the comlink option alot. I also like so much is gettable in game.
me too, like earning stuff in game!
Yaay! I'm so excited
Wait.... they are bringing back crafting as a useful skill? >cries in joy
No changes to crafting other than new augments. Crafting has always been useful for that :)
In order to buy the new 6 month bundle subscription to you have to cancel your recurring subscription of how does that work? Thx
No you do not
It just delays your next bulling date until the 6mo from the pack is finished.
@@jonathanmirhige2880 Ty
No you do not need to cancel, it just stacks on :)
I heard there will be a “Rename: Character Name Consumable item will be 99%” do you know when is that happening?
yeah! 90% off i think? I assume at 7.6 launch.
Can someone tell me which armor is used at the dye preview icons?
Ah! It's a mix nd match but Sinister Warrior is the chest.
When are the mounts out to see?
Hey what would the best server to transfer to if I'm going to be living in Japan for the next few years? Would still like to play the game when I have some time
I would wait till you move and then check out the Fleet on a north american and euro server during the time when you plan to play, to see what the population is like in YOUR preferred play time in japan :)
Not coming back until they hear out the voice actors
i miss this game. payed at release
Does this mean the genosian queen will be solo mode ?
I want all wolf mounts 😢
Poor Bessie is ignored.
If the update the combat, with a modernized significant update, then I will take another serious look at this game. Point and click with a Jedi/Sith facing off with a guy that has a pistol standing directly in front of you not moving is not fun.
Im hoping they actually have more voice acting next time. Rather than just reading a screen and then not hearing your character speak
I use to do PVP, but now that I have gotten the Mounts I wanted they don’t interest me anymore.
Wish I could afford to go on strike, but then again most of us have real jobs. If I were ea I’d throw in ai voice acting and be done. Wow has an addon someone made where it gave all quests voice acting through AI and it’s pretty great
Broadsword isn’t owned by EA, so the sale of the game doesn’t make sense. Broadsword is an independent company formed by former members of Mythic Entertainment, which was previously owned by EA.
As a creative writer, I'm with the voice actors on this one. I'm not against AI, but I *AM* against data laundering and non-consensual theft of people's works and likenesses for AI training.
And the spanish translation?????
SWTORISTA MUWAH
time to invest more in voice ai!!
??? ??? ??? to my ignorant knowledge, you have to change names if when a character is deactivated someone else registers the name right?? if I made a new character could I use the name on that character so that when reactivating my original character it'll force a name change ???????????
oh good question!!!!!!!!! it's very possible that it might work that way, if no one else takes the name. could be useful.
Not gonna lie Lana looks pretty uncomfy in that seat.
lol, our expectations? If they're talking about 7.5's collapse in voice acting, it's not going to meet anyone's expectations I know.
They should just use AI for the voices instead of relying on actors. Actors represent the past, and it’s time for the world to embrace AI as the future.
Firstly, AI doesn't exist in a vacuum. It relies on the work of real voice actors as training data. The more training data you have, the more realistic it sounds. You can't just make up a new voice for a new character. It would need to be based on someone, which would mean they'd have to rely on an actor anyway.
Secondly, AI voices sound like dogshit. They're simply awful. You are genuinely stupid if you think they sound good. It is simply of a lower quality for the final product.
Thirdly, it's really really not good for actual game developers in any role. It's next to impossible to actually give direction to an AI to make it do what you want. In actual roles, "AI prompters" will just spit out a hundred outputs and hope one of them is good enough. They're unable to actually expand on any ideas when requested.
Finally, it's just morally wrong. Why deprive voice actors of their work? Plus AI generation takes an insane amount of power, enough that it's genuinely harming the environment because of how much water is used to train AI.
You are requesting a morally bankrupt dystopia and I sincerely hope you stay FAR away from any game development role.
Too bad they did not fix the weird long legs.
And the PvP community will now tear itself apart in starforge as the cliques begin spliting into their 4 man premades to bully each other/gatekeep newbs.
Calling it now. and vs premades infesting the queue with their elitist filth instead of leaving the game.
All the flaired PvP players leave too. Y'all gatekeep and cope just as hard.
Those of you who just love unions… there you go
Without story it's really not worth it
this game seems to be falling behind... It is sad cause it is so cool but idk.
Avoid hiring VA by making comlink and call animated cutscenes “old school”. Didn’t know that it’s in such poor financial state.
there is no real content to play anymore unless you want to grind the same old ops day in day out, the game needs a real change in direction as its heading to the trash heap fast.
There’s plenty of new games to play mmos are dying anyways
Agree with everything except final word.
they should remake the character creation entirely, models, new animations, combat styles, saber wielding styles, remake the combat, then i will think about subscribing again or just release a new star wars mmorpg
"they should just remake the entire game or else I'm not subscribing again"