Free-to-Play Star Wars The Old Republic Set to Get Massive Boost in Major Update. New Missions Will Revive Old Planets

Next month, the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic will celebrate its 13th anniversary. Despite such an advanced - for this industry - age, the game is still being developed. Its devs have just revealed their plans for the next several months. In early December, a major update called 7.6 will be released.

1. As part of this patch, the developers want to refresh the planets. A new boss will appear on Hoth. Additionally, on this planet and on Tattoine, dynamic events with unique missions will be introduced to bring these locations to life. The future plans include implementing dynamic events on other worlds as well.
2. The 7.6 update will also bring improvements to the lighting and textures of various environmental elements on the planets Tython, Korriban, Hoth, and Ilum. The appearance of the player characters will also be improved.
3. Furthermore, the virtual store will offer extra items, including quarters and costumes inspired by the Star Wars series, such as the Skeleton Crew.
4. There are also plans to continue the main storyline, but the devs are still missing some key elements, so we won't learn anything about that until 2025.

Star Wars: The Old Republic uses a free-to-play model with microtransactions. The game is available exclusively on PC.

The title was developed over many years by BioWare studio. However, the team now has other projects on its mind, which is why last year the development team handed over Star Wars: The Old Republic to Broadsword Online Games. Half of the team that had previously been working on this project moved to new studio at the same time.

1. Star Wars: The Old Republic on Steam
2. SWTOR - official website

Star Wars: The Old Republic

December 20, 2011

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