I resubscribed today! I'm excited to be back in SWTOR. But I'm having a pretty bad time with this issue. When I quit the game, I get a black screen. No error, no cursor, no nothing. My computer becomes completely unresponsive. Ctrl+Alt+Del, Alt+Tab, Alt+Enter, the windows key, Alt+F4, clicking, keyboard mashing, psychic waves of pure anger - nothing makes it wake back up. All I can do is hold down the power button until my PC shuts off, and then start it up again. This also kind of happens when I alt+tab at any time, even when I'm on a character or at the character select screen - when I alt+tab then, I get to toggle back and forth between SWTOR and a black screen that doesn't respond to anything I do. Fun! I can avert this by playing in Windowed Fullscreen, but my performance is a bit better in true fullscreen. I guess I can just deal with it this way, but I don't run any other games in windowed mode and I feel like maybe it's not too much to ask SWTOR to run in fullscreen without hard-locking my PC every time I exit. Anyone dealt with anything like this? All my drivers are up to date. I'm running a GTX 1070 and an i7-4770. No other game I run does this.

I took up someone's referral code just to come back and post here. Star Wars: The Old Republic has many features, but I feel like the main core of the game is Bioware's storytelling and the unique journeys that your character can take depending on their faction, class, and alignment. So removing cutscenes from heroic missions, deleting entire quests (like the breadcrumbs on the Fleet) and eliminating LS/DS choices from certain missions is a huge step backward for the game. I have no intention of returning until Bioware restores the story content they removed. There are simply too many other quality story-heavy RPGs for me to play whose devs haven't gone in and started deleting content in order to allow power-gamers to reach the end of the game more quickly. For pete's sake, there's a Heroic called "The Man With the Steel Voice" on Hutta that doesn't even feature THE man with the steel voice anymore. The person who the quest is named after is no longer part of the quest. That's ridiculous. People could easily spacebar past this story content before. If Bioware wanted to cater to that sort of person even further, they could have introduced some kind of automatic mode option that skips story content and makes your conversation choices for you - like they did in Mass Effect 3. But instead they just excised the story content wholesale. I'm not returning until I hear that Bioware has made good on their recent push for story content. The thing is, the longer I stay away from the game while waiting for the missing story content to be restored, the more time-limited content Bioware is adding (like HK-55) that I'm permanently missing out on. More reasons to be discouraged from returning. To say that I would be disappointed in the direction SWTOR is taking would be an understatement. If Bioware is making a push for story content, then why create new story content with one hand while crumpling up and throwing away existing story content with the other?

I took up someone's referral code just to come back and post here. Star Wars: The Old Republic has many features, but I feel like the main core of the game is Bioware's storytelling and the unique journeys that your character can take depending on their faction, class, and alignment. So removing cutscenes from heroic missions, deleting entire quests (like the breadcrumbs on the Fleet) and eliminating LS/DS choices from certain missions is a huge step backward for the game. I have no intention of returning until Bioware restores the story content they removed. There are simply too many other quality story-heavy RPGs for me to play whose devs haven't gone in and started deleting content in order to allow power-gamers to reach the end of the game more quickly. For pete's sake, there's a Heroic called "The Man With the Steel Voice" on Hutta that doesn't even feature THE man with the steel voice anymore. The person who the quest is named after is no longer part of the quest. That's ridiculous. People could easily spacebar past this story content before. If Bioware wanted to cater to that sort of person even further, they could have introduced some kind of automatic mode option that skips story content and makes your conversation choices for you - like they did in Mass Effect 3. But instead they just excised the story content wholesale. I'm not returning until I hear that Bioware has made good on their recent push for story content. The thing is, the longer I stay away from the game while waiting for the missing story content to be restored, the more time-limited content Bioware is adding (like HK-55) that I'm permanently missing out on. More reasons to be discouraged from returning. To say that I would be disappointed in the direction SWTOR is taking would be an understatement. If Bioware is making a push for story content, then why create new story content with one hand while crumpling up and throwing away existing story content with the other?

I know what the answers are probably going to be like, but I figured I'd ask anyway. Would it be possible to get all this done before the 12x XP event ends on December 1st? - Level one (1) Republic and one (1) Sith character the 'old-fashioned way', doing the planetary side missions in addition to the main story missions. - Level the remaining six (6) classes through their class story missions, doing no side missions I can play maybe six hours a day max, though I have a vacation lasting four days in late November. Doing the math, that leaves (not counting the last half-hour of today as a day) 39 days to do this in. So that's about 234 hours, give or take. What I need now is the typical amount of time it takes your average 'do-just-about-everything-while-leveling' character to finish their personal story, and the typical amount of time it takes a character to level through just class stories during this event. I might have to play 8 hours a day...oh dear. I wish I had been aware of this event sooner but I found out just yesterday! Anyway, thanks for the help/advice/strange looks!

Just lost a game 1000 to 3. The Imperial side was full of people with 4-5 ships, and the Republic Side was completely full of newbies with only the 2 starter ships. Must be nice to be able to farm Requisiton points like that.

Hi! I recently returned to SWTOR and am enjoying much of the game! The new Galactic Starfighter feature looks cool, but I haven't been able to enjoy it yet. I've queued up for five battles and the Empire utterly decimated Republic in each one. I also haven't been able to kill a single enemy - my weapons seem almost useless. I hit some Empire guy with five of my missiles, and he kept on ticking, but it felt to me like a single missile was enough to blow me out of the sky. I felt like a gnat going up against albatrosses. Is there a trick to Galactic Starfighter, or is it really as pointless as it seems? Maybe it's only worth playing as an Imperial?

It seems to me like I get more XP doing a nine or ten solo missions in the same span of time as it takes to do a single Heroic 4. The gear and commendations are nice, but I can do without them to preserve my sanity. I was mainly just wondering if there were any really epic Heroic 4s that I should make sure to experience, since I'm mainly playing for the story.

I've been doing every Heroic 4 I run across, but as I approach level 30, I just don't want to do them anymore. They take almost as long as a flashpoint but have garbage rewards, their storylines don't seem very compelling at all, it's more difficult to find a group for them than for a flashpoint, and they're just so incredibly boring. 30 minutes of trash pulls. Let the good times roll! I came in to TOR wanting to experience as much of the missions as possible, so I feel kind of bad about it, but the cons far outweigh the pros so far. Do Heroic 4s get any better as time goes on? Are the storylines any good? Or are they all just kind of crap?

Anything is possible. I used to think MMORPGs that were making a profit were safe, but with the closure of City of Heroes, even games that are doing very well can be shutdown if someone in a position of power has a grudge against the developer or has simply tired of seeing it on earnings reports.

I just reorganized my bars to make better use of the cover bar. I moved all my cover skills to the cover bar and all my non-cover skills to the other bars. This had the effect of leaving my main action barren (except for my speeder, quick travel, etc) when I'm out of cover. But at least now I'm down to 3 bars again.

I'm playing a sniper and I just opened up a FOURTH action bar. This is pretty wild. I'm having trouble keeping all my skills handy. I've key bound skills to all the keys even remotely near WASD ( q, e, r, f, z, x, even F1 through F4) and I am still overwhelmed. Does anyone have any tips for managing lots of abilities? I'm tempted to put two action bars in the middle of the screen on either side of my character so that they're more handy!

Thanks mowermanx!

Is there any reason to buy the expansion if you're not at the level cap yet?

I just returned to the game a week ago but I can't seem to find a guild. I've asked around in general on four planets and fleet but no one ever even replies! Guild recruitment seems quite dead! I'd really like a guild focusing on PvE, with some activity in endgame stuff. :-) My character name is Luciria, level 22 sniper. I'll be on all weekend! Thanks.

That's really odd because I get much higher FPS on space missions than I do out in the game world, probably because of the lack of shadows in space. I know this is all very standard stuff to ask, but have you made sure your PC meets requirements? Check for new drivers, make sure the settings in your graphics card software aren't set to something nuts like 8x AA. Do you still get a lot of slowdown with every setting ingame on low?