You rarely have to do group stuff now. You may need another player to do the Knights of the Fallen Empire heroics, but most of the other 2 player heroics can currently be soled since companions are over powered healers. This may of course change. You still need people for non-soloable flash points and operations. But those are optional.

Interesting twist on Lokin's quest. Anybody who has it can plant a probe in the tunnel and every one else who has the quest will have it counted towards their quest, even though not in an actual group. You just stand in the circle and kill the creatures that try to destroy the probe.

Also as long as Lokin in on Alderaan you can journey there free with the new option to get transported right to alliance contacts. Once you finish his quests that's no longer avaialble. And of course the raghoul plaque event moves. Next time it may be on a different planet.

Eergency Alert!

Doh!. I kept seeing people online talking about Chapter X and return of agent companion Kaliyo D'jannis. I couldn't figure where they were getting this. Its righ in the game. After you complete Chapter IV of KOTFE you get quest line telling you Chapter X is coming soon. If you actually look at the quest log entry it has a silhouette of a female rattakki and the description of terrorist attacking Zakul sounds like Kaliyo D'jannis. That's actually rather annoying since agent already gets Scorpio and Dr Lokin back, while bounty hunter and smuggler don't get any companions back yet. But chapter X is apparently written by the imperial agent storyline so it make sense.


Knights of thr Fallen Empire:
Chapter I: The Hunt
Chapter II: A Dream of Empire
Chapter III: Outlander
Chapter IV: The Gravestone
Chapter V: From the Grave
Chapter VI: Asylum
Chapter VII: Lady of Sorrows
Chapter VIII: Taking Flight
Chapter IX: The Alliance
Chapter X: Anarchy in Paradise
Chapter XI: Disavowed
Chapter XII: ??????
Chapter XIII: ??????
Chapter XIV: ??????
Chapter XV: ??????
Chapter XVI: ??????

Chapter X may be coming out January 2016.

More content, always a good thing

NO! Tomorrow's update will nerf companions healing. There goes soloing heroic 2 quests, which was one of the best changes.

Sorry. Changes to game play you enjoy is not always enjoyable for you, but maybe there will be another way to do that in the future.

Been doing the Heroic2+ Fortress on my main tonight because of it... those we had to do. It's easy on Bounty Hunter tank with healing companion.
Tomorrow I doubt I'll be able to do it.

Hidden achievement: once you get Lokin in your alliance, look in the army section for a raghoul hidding in the rafters, Then find a tiny box near Lokin to get raghoul food. You can throw the food to the raghoul once a day per character. When you've fed it 10 times you get an achievement.

Scritchy moves around. Fed him on three characters, in a different place each time.

Apparently also supposed to be one on Alderaan with the raghoul playing king of the mountain, but how to do it is currently unknown.

One fix coming I do agree with:

"Despite being astoundingly proficient at it, Vector no longer does his best Kaliyo impression while in his Healing role."

It was very annoying having Vector talk in Kaliyo's voice.

Also going to fix a cut scene where Talos Drellik seems to be talking to himself because his men are missing. After the update he'll have his team like he was supposed to.

Update has broke the servers. The website is up and game let me download update, but all game servers are off at this time. Presumably they'll be back online sometime between now and when I get home from work after 9pm (central).

I hope they are up for you. I know how frustrating that is

In Knights of the Fallen Empire: jedi knight or sith warrior going after the Sith Emperor and discovering Zakul, makes the most sense, they both have a history with the Emperor. Smuggler and bounty hunter the least, but smuggler has the best dialogue. Haven't tried bounty hunter yet. Jedi, Sith, Republic trooper, Imperial agent are too serious, smuggler gets to make jokes.

New, nasty bug.

When you get to the point in KOTFE where you are told to talk to the Hutt scientist, make sure you do so before talking to the other NPCs. Because after you talk to the hutt it will want you to talk to the others but if you've done it already it doesn't recognize it and you can't move forward. Didn't use to be that way. Its a new bug the last update introduced. Used to be talking to the others was not connected talking to the hutt. The characters all have quest markers on them so you think you should talk to them BUT DO NOT until after you talk to the Doctor.

My new smuggler can't advance until they fix this bug.

Sorry you ran into this, but Thanks for the warning!

It's annoying but I can switch to other characters until its fixed, some other people only have the one character in KOTFE nad can't move forward with it.

That's the good part of being an altaholic

I did get a canned response from bug report, but that's automatic, it just thanks you for the report and reminds you to send another report to customer service because bug reports don't go there. I've done both. However, its the weekend so I'm not holding out any hope for a response from developers. And next week is a short week because of Thanksgiving, so I don't expect any help next week either.

I hope it is fixed soon

Tuesday's update will partially unnerf companions. Its also going to rename the KOTFE "Heroic 2" quests to something else. Because they discovered players don't play the heroic 2 quests in the rest of the game the same way and by nerfing companions for the one they messed up players enjoyment of the other. People were soloing heroic 2s outside KOTFE but forming groups in KOTFE.

Update will also fix mission bugs but no specifics have been mentioned as of yet. So don't know if it fixes KOTFE chapter IX.

Fixed

Good news

Unfortunately a lot of other bugs. Starfortress solo flashpoints when you fall down a shaft, which you have to do, smuggler gets stuck "in the air" so can't take cover, which renders several skills unusable, reduces smugglers defenses and increases energy usage and slows down energy regeneration. The smuggler is not actually in the air, that's just the message you get when you try to take cover.

On level 56 bounty hunter, companion quest for Mako is broken. Quest log shows nothing about what you're too do, shows no reward and lists it as level 0 quest.

Some lower level bounty hunters say their class quest is broken which means they can't advance the story.

Oh, so frustrating

Another annoying bug: some companions don't talk when they should like at end of chapter 3, so you cant finish their story and unlock the buffs at this time.

Vector bug talking like Kaliyo is not only not fixed but now its spread to other characters. Ensign Temple also talks in Kaliyo's voice and on jedi knight Doc talks in Kira's voice.

They're being cryptic. Going to be some big announcement for subscribers December 1st. --- I doubt it has anything to do with all these bugs.

Won't be long then

Even SWTOR is having Black Friday. All cartel packs are 25% off through saturday.