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Gamers and developers are hard at word reporting and crushing bugs on Bioware’s new MMO ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’. Bioware has released the patch notes on the fixes and tweaks that went live earlier today. 
 
Classes and Combat
 
General

• Fixed a bug that could cause the Global Cooldown to appear as if it has been cancelled when it is actually still in effect, resulting in a feeling of unresponsiveness to input.
• Corrected an issue that could cause an ability icon to appear usable but be unresponsive to clicks or keypresses for several seconds.
• Players revived by other players, including by in-combat revival abilities, now revive with 25% of maximum health.

Guardian

• Freezing Force: Now correctly lasts 9 seconds (up from 6 seconds).

Sage

• Mental Alacrity: Now correctly costs no Force to activate.
• Salvation: No longer heals targets twice on application. It now correctly heals all affected targets once when applied.

Scoundrel

• Flechette Round: Now provides 30% armor penetration while active.
• K.O.: This ability now knocks the target down for 1.5 seconds.
• Shoot First: The damage output of this ability has been decreased by approximately 20% to control burst damage and because it was enabling significantly faster than intended kills in PvP.

Operative

• Acid Blade: Now provides 30% armor penetration while active.
• Jarring Strike: This ability now knocks the target down for 1.5 seconds.
• Hidden Strike: The damage output of this ability has been decreased by approximately 20% to control burst damage and because it was enabling significantly faster than intended kills in PvP.

Mercenary

• Sweeping Blasters can now be made free with Thermal Sensor Override.

Powertech

• Oil Slick now correctly costs no heat to activate.

Flashpoints and Operations

Flashpoints

Directive 7

• Bulwark’s Area of Effect cone abilities now properly fire in the direction Bulwark is facing.
• Some of Bulwark’s abilities were incorrectly susceptible to interruption. Bulwark is now immune to interrupts.

The False Emperor

• Fixed a conversation that could cause the cinematic with Arkis Wode to function incorrectly.

The Foundry

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the final fight in this Flashpoint from beginning after the cinematic.
• The final boss can no longer become stuck in an invulnerable state; there was still a small window where this could occur.

The Red Reaper

• Lord Kherus now grants less experience.
• Some of Lord Kherus’s abilities have had their damage values adjusted to be more in line with the level of the Flashpoint.
• Players now enter into melee range with Lord Kherus in order to stop him from throwing crates.

Operations

Eternity Vault

• Players no longer randomly die in this Operation after being in Gharj’s lava.

Karagga’s Palace

• Foreman Crusher’s enrage now includes a movement speed increase, allowing him to catch players who attempt to run.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Materials Disposal Unit’s main control station from becoming useable again after the Operation Group is defeated by the G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator on 16-man Hard Mode.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator from deploying the correct number of Proximity Pulse Mines and Security Stun Drones during combat.
• The damage from G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator’s sticky pulse grenade will scales appropriately for the selected Operation difficulty level.
• Karagga no longer fires his Unstable Energy twice in a row.
• Taking the shuttle after defeating Karagga no longer transports players to the incorrect hangar.
• Walls that were missing in Karagga’s Palace are now in place.

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed an issue that prevented some players in Operations Groups from receiving credit for the missions “[WEEKLY] Deadly Operations,” “[WEEKLY] Galactic Operations,” and “Journey to the Belsavis Depths.” The entire Operations Group now receives credit when the objective is completed.

Bug Fixes

• Comparative tooltips for researched items no longer have their stats reversed.

Missions and NPCs

Imperial

• Declaration of War: The mission will now progress as intended when players interact with their ship’s holoterminal.
• Debriefing: The ship Holoterminal conversation related to this mission is no longer repeatable.
• The Eagle’s Nest: The Assassin’s Fortress mission is now correctly a prerequisite for this mission.
• Number One with a Bullet: Corrected an issue that prevented Bounty Hunters from leaving The Founder.
• The Mandalorian Killer: Thendys Noori no longer continues to heal Kellian Jarro after she has surrendered.
• Reallocation: The final mission conversation will now begin as intended when players interact with their ship’s holoterminal.
• The Voice of Darkness: Fixed an issue that could cause Class Story mission progression to enter an incorrect state.

Republic

• Death Spiral: Fixed an issue that prevented Jedi Knights who completed the Commander Rayfel encounter from using the shuttle back to Belsavis Orbital Station.

Bug Fixes

• Kintan Behemoths no longer occasionally walk on top of trees when in combat.

PvP

General

• Fixed an issue that could prevent players from receiving mission rewards for completing Warzones.

Voidstar

• Players are no longer able to climb out of the attacking team spawn area in the hangar before the match starts.

World PvP

Ilum

• Additional base turrets now protect the taxi location inside each faction’s base.

General

• Added two daily mission commendations to the high-level space dailies Operation Ascendant Pride (Imperial) and Operation New Eclipse (Republic).

UI

General

• Attempting to loot an item in a group when the Master Looter is off-planet now generates an error message.

Bug Fixes

• The leader of an Operations Group will no longer receive an incorrect message informing them that their companion has been dismissed.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Special items related to different editions of the game have been re-sent if they were deleted by the mail system prior to being claimed.