SWTOR patch notes up; Bounty Contract Week to return
The patch notes for tomorrow’s The Old Republic update have been posted.
Found on the official site, the notes for Game Update 4.7.3 include a tease for an upcoming Bounty Contract Week. The event will run from November 24 at 4 a.m. PST/Noon GMT to December 1 at 4 a.m. PST/Noon GMT.
Several bugs will be fixed, while these passes have been removed from the Cartel Market:
- Weekly Pass: Flashpoints
- Weekly Pass: Operations
- Weekly Pass: Space Missions
- Weekly Pass: Warzones
- 180-Day Pass: Starfighter
- 30-Day Pass: Starfighter
- 7-Day Pass: Starfighter
Community manager Eric Musco discussed this change on the forums.
“One of the things that we have talked about last week is our new Galactic Command system, only accessible to subscribers at Level 70,” he wrote. “Galactic Command will serve as the single point of access for subscribers to earn rewards playing endgame content such as Operations and Warzones. As of the release of the Knights of the Eternal Throne, rewards from this gameplay is gained via Galactic Command, therefore passes are no longer viable. For example, a preferred player with a Weekly Pass: Operations would be able to play an Operation, but would not earn any rewards for doing so. Due to this change, we have removed all Passes from the Cartel Market.”
For this patch, these passes have been moved to Bind on Legacy. They will be fully removed on November 29 when KOTET releases. Players with unused passes by November 29 will be compensated in some way, but Musco noted that they “are still locking down exactly how we will compensate players.”
As reported on Friday, servers will go down for approximately four hours tomorrow (October 25) starting at 5 a.m. PT.
