Are they giving you new character slots?

I still have two empty ones.

Cool, you must have planned ahead

Yes, I did.

When talking about this game, I just found, on Facebook, that Gamespot has revealed an expansion to SW:TOR called The Fallen Empire, link: https://www.facebook.com/GameSpot?fref=nf

Here's the link to the announcement trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bElK_Kw3pPo

Interesting! Thanks!

Knights of the Fallen Empire after I logged out of the game and back in this link appeared.
Apparently where Shadow Realms budget went.

Looks quite interesting...and sad

Adla has reached level 60 and is about half way through Shadow of Revan.
The jedi consular quest has you hear voices. One of those is disturbing, its Adla's husband saying goodbye. And oddly you hear trooper's companion shouting "For the Republic!" You also hear sith voices. I wonder if it has anything to do wtih future events, ie Knights of the Fallen Empire. You're also told you could possibly earn one or more of these titles: Seneshal, Hierphant of the Jal Shey, Betrayer of Balmorra. And that after you're dead both a young jedi and a sith will study your life. The jedi in danger of going darkside wants to learn your battle techniques, the sith hates you and wants to understand why you did the things you did.

What your told is shaped by dialogue choices so I'm sure darkside gets different results. Lightside the jedi is redeemed and the sith although not converted does act to save his home village.

Seneshal is actually an in game title. Jal Shey apparently an ancient group of force users who were neither jedi nor sith. Balmorra is a planet the republic and sith fight over. In republic story line you of course save it for the republic.

Sith Inquistor also hears voices but through alien technology not the force and gains a few extra years of life.
Smuggler gets a business opportunity. I forgot what bounty hunter does, probably kills somebody/ I haven't done the others yet.

Archanathena has reached level 60. Imperial agent Shadow of Revan quest you're asked to do a favor for your old boss, a rescue mission. I wouldn't be surprised if the other former imperial intelligence agent shows up in Knights of the Fallen Empire.

It's neat that they are tying it all together

Xoanan has completed Shadow of Revan and begun Rise of the Emperor.

Xoanan has completed the Rise of the Emperor story line. Its not very long. And finally reached maximum darkside points. I don't know if the emperor will be defeated as part of Knights or if there will be an update before that which adds more.

Knights of the Fallen Empire raises cap level to 65. And it will provide the option to create a new level 60 character so players who don't have one can jump right into the new content.

Why would you take on the Sith Emperor, the most powerful darkskide force user in the known galaxy? Apparently capable of destroying entire planets through the Force, no Death Stars needed? I can only tell you for sure the motivations of 3 out of the 8 classes, two imperial, one republic, two darkside, one lightside.


Oddly enough the darkside bounty hunter (empire) and lightside smuggler (republic) have the same motive for taking on the Sith Emperor, he's bad for business. If he kills everyone else in the galaxy (yes they both assume they will survive any disaster, and apparently Knights of the Fallen Empire will prove them right) is dead, then they have no clients. Technically, bounty hunter and smuggler are both outsiders, so makes sense they would survive the collapse of both empires. The bounty hunter especially reminds people that he is not imperial, he or she just works for the empire because the republic won't hire him or her.

The darkside sith inquistor turns against his emperor for the worst of reason, he (in my case) wants to replace Vitiate as emperor.

I'm most interested to see if the sith warrior gets a special reaction. After all he or she is the Emperor's Wrath, assigned by the Emperor himself to carry out his will. But for the sake of the empire Silvary my lighside sith warrior will be forecd to turn against her master.

That's interesting about the motives, Guybrush

Looks like they finally reset the casino quest for characters that did it last year, because now when I take them to the fleet its available when it wasn't for them before.

Level 60 characters doing Knights of the Fallen will wake up from being frozen in carbonite, having misssd the end of the war (boo), learn that both the empire and the republic have fallen to a third faction (actually if you count up all the third factions that arise in the game its really s seventh faction but lets not split hairs).

There will be 5 new companions to gain.
Apparently other companions can be gained as well including past ones from other classes but players will have to earn their respect.

They say that for existing characters old companions will remember the past. So I guess Mako will remember she marred Josra for example. For new level 60 characters created for the expansion the writers will have to invent a past.

Some of the comapanions on different classes actually supposed to have met before: Vette (Sith Warrior) & Risha (Smuggler). Doc (Jedi Knight) & Kaliyo (Imperial Agent), Qyzen (Jedi Consular) & Mako (Bounty Hunter). Hope the writers remember if they meet in KotFE,

I love that they wake up from being frozen in Carbonite

Dont know what they're implementing but the game will be offline for 12 hours, just when I could play it the most, after work tonight. Wont be back online until Tuesday morning.

I hate downtime.....

Found the patch notes they posted in advance and I don't see anything important or that should take 12 hours. Oh well I guess I can play some casual games or one of the many longer adventure games I still haven't gotten around to. I never did finsh Cognition for example.

Always good stuff in the yet to be played pile

They've extended the downtime 2 hours. So thats about 45 minutes from now.

Last night I solved the Lonely Hearts Murder.
This afternoon, during two hours the gane was online, Archanathena completed the first half of Shadow of Revan.