Community News: More on Ranked Warzones
Yesterday, BioWare posted a community blog article detailing some of the behind-the-scenes plans and goals for Team Ranked Warzones, which will hopefully reach live servers when Game Update 1.3 hits....
View ArticleBioWare Plans on Using PTS for Testing Terror from Beyond
After the GamesCom announcement regarding Terror from Beyond, the new Operation coming to SWTOR in September, players began wondering whether or not they’d be able to get a chance to test the new...
View ArticleGame Update 1.5 Released on PTS
After yesterday’s announcement of SWTOR taking home four Game Developers Choice awards, BioWare showed off another surprise and released Game Update 1.5 on the Public Test Server for our previewing...
View ArticleCartel Market Now Previewing on PTS
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s big free-to-play model switch is just around the corner, and starting yesterday, players can now preview all the goodies the Cartel Market has to offer on the Public Test...
View ArticleCartel Market Dev Tracker Posts and Updates
Since this week’s preview launch of SWTOR’s Cartel Market on the PTS, there have been a number of questions and concerns raised by the community. Luckily, BioWare’s team took some time to address many...
View ArticleNew Preferred Player Status and F2P Changes
Yesterday we received a couple dev tracker posts stating important changes to some of the free-to-play player limitations coming in this fall’s subscription model shift. The first of these is the...
View ArticleCartel Market Item and Price Preview
Star Wars: The Old Republic is going free to play this fall with an optional subscription model, and BioWare’s version of the cash shop– the Cartel Market– is currently available for player testing on...
View ArticleHK-51 Classified Intel Developer Blog
As Game Update 1.5 nears, BioWare is beginning to release more information on what we’ll be seeing exactly in the update. One of the most anticipated pieces of new content is the new droid companion...
View ArticleJeff Hickman Addresses Same-Gender Content
Yesterday, Jeff Hickman tackled a few hard-hitting subjects in SWTOR’s second official State of the Game blog. He addressed the lack of different types of endgame activities and mentioned that BioWare...
View ArticleDev Tracker – PvP on the PTS!!!
Attention galaxy wide faction fighters! The Devs are calling you out. Hit the PTS and test the PvP Class balance at level 55. Test times FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY at 7-10 CST. Originally posted by...
View ArticlePoint of View : No more PTS Titles – Why?
A battle hardened Knight once said, “…many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” These are mine. We lost the ability to gain PTS achievment titles last summer. Why? We’ve...
View ArticleNew PTS Items = New Hair Styles/Skin Colors?
In a recent update to the Public Test Shard (PTS), there are a whole lot of new goodies to explore. Most of these updates and items will be added during RIFT 2.4, which is due out sometime this month....
View ArticleHow About a Hard Mode Chronicle?
Thanks to player feedback regarding the Infernal Dawn: Laethys chronicle that recently hit the PTS and is coming to live shards in RIFT 2.4, the Trion dungeon team has decided to add in a Hard Mode...
View ArticleAutumn Harvest 2013 is Spookily Approaching!
Edit 10/10/13: Trion announced a date for when Autumn Harvest will begin this year. The fun starts October 17th! Ready to get your Halloween on? RIFT has plenty of new goodies headed our way for...
View ArticleConquest: Steppes of Infinity PTS Playtest Friday
Last week, Daglar announced that a new Conquest PvP map was going to make a debut on the Public Test Server for player testing. The new map will take place in Steppes of Infinity and scoring will...
View ArticleRIFT 2.5: Song of Dreams PTS Preview
With RIFT‘s next major patch update– RIFT 2.5– coming Wednesday, November 6th, there’s a ton of new content on the horizon including underwater content just off the shores of Ember Isle complete with...
View ArticleA Preview of Dream Weaving and New Dimensions
We won’t be seeing RIFT 2.6 on live shards until February of 2014, but for now there are some pretty nifty additions previewing on the PTS that we’ll be able to explore fully when the update goes...
View ArticleBlack Loyalty Tier and More Previewing on PTS
The new features headed our way in RIFT 2.6 continue to roll out on the Public Test Shard (PTS). Last Friday, we received another new update with some pretty cool features to preview, one of which is...
View ArticleHints of New Mounts Coming Soon and More
This past Friday afternoon, Trion hosted a playtest of the new Steppes of Infinity Conquest map on the Public Test Shard. Much fun and bug discovery was to be had as even Daglar and Vladd showed up to...
View ArticleNew Stuff Awaits: PvP Dimensions and New Souls
During last Friday’s live stream extravaganza, Daglar and the team showed off a PvP dimension that Kiwi created on the PTS (Kiwi also, by the way, conducted a pretty cool interview regarding PvP...
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