Been trying to get the Force Hound pet from the Battle of Rishi FP Solo. The Walker mount dropped the second time I did it. However, the pet has remained elusive. I found a thread on Reddit from 2020 where players made conflicting statements about it only dropping on Vet/MM, and some said it dropped for them in Solo. Can anyone confirm recently that it has dropped for them in Solo? Gamer OCD has me wanting to get it, but if it now only drops in Vet/MM, I'll just get a group and go Thanks for the info.

I just came back after a six month break and had my gaming session stopped this morning by this timed puzzle. I have to agree that this is overly tedious for a supposedly easy "Story" mode. It was especially so for an older player like myself who just came back to the SWTOR UI and is very rusty with it. I might suggest toning this down in "Story" mode by allowing more time and make it harder in "Veteran" mode for those who really want a challenge which frankly, I do not. Also, I suspect the awful server lag had a hand in making me hang it up for now. I am also from the Harbinger, and as said above the server lag was terrible. It was the worst I have seen it since I have been playing which has been since the beginning. The laggy leftover ONE power relay mentioned above was especially frustrating, and the instant death which was also mentioned above happened to me twice and once before in another part of the Gravestone. I used a Forcequake AOE mainly to start chain reactions, but at times it would not hit the relay needed to set off the reaction. Sometimes, I would get cannot see or evade errors. I will take a couple of the suggestions here, and I will try it again when I'm not exhausted from being up so late. However, I will repeat that I think that this is way too tedious for some.

Only half way through, but I've noticed that my full compliment of buffs which DO cause companion stats to increase will NOT stick to them when zoning and dismounting. This happens for established past companions as well as the newer ones. Not sure if this is a bug or something intended with the current state of character/companion Alliances.

"All old Operation Gear tokens will be changed into a lockbox which contains Glowing Data Crystals." I have a near complete set of 192 Resurrected gear tokens that I've been saving for post 4.0 to use on a new level 60. I haven't been able to find any consensus about Resurrected tokens. Are they now considered "old" along with every other token? Perhaps I should just go ahead and buy the set I want now for an insta-60. Any thoughts?

Going to add my voice to this thread and to others when they arise. I am in favor of an optional toggle being added either on release or in future patches. That way everyone can be satisfied.

None until they give us the option to have more than four Strongholds and add more as well as affordable decorations.

Any sort of extra small wall hook lighting would be nice. I ran out of just about every affordable type completing my Tatooine 900 hook count which I still think is ludicrous considering that there are no new hook layouts. I only have cynical commentary when I think about why Tatooine has a higher hook completion count than Yavin. That being said, I have a suggestion especially for the tunnels that run from the Main Temple to the Temple Basement and Temple Balcony in the Yavin 4 Stronghold. Each tunnel has increments of two small wall hooks positioned vertically going along both walls of each tunnel from beginning to end. I used story mode trophies on the small hooks in each of these tunnels. If you take the time to compare how the various trophies look color-wise, you can position them at various angles and distances to make them look almost like stained glass windows. I really like the effect.

I have that as well, but it's primarily in the Main Temple where my ambient sound just goes nuts. I have six Yavin Temple Fountains in there. I also have some other of the fountain types spread around. It seems that perhaps for me at least, Yavin 4 doesn't like the sound of fountain water. I visited a number of other Yavin SHs just now, and in one, I didn't hear any problem. Another one with more decorations including some fountains had a few blips here and there. My SH is literally full of fountains. Mainly the effect is just ambient sounds causing each other to blip in and out and even giving some static on my speakers occasionally. That might concern me, but as I've said, every other part of this game runs just fine in any audio environment aside from this SH. If I can get this pinpointed as my problem, then I may invest in a new card and speakers. However, I really do think it's a game issue.

I just updated my sound card driver, tested it on a number of things including other elements of SWTOR, and I continue to get very bad sound problems in the Yavin 4 Stronghold. Part of the allure of the SH is the mixture of natural ambient sounds. Especially in the main temple area, they seem to continuously cut each other out. This is extremely annoying to someone who enjoys the sound as well as visual quality of the Stronghold. I just wanted to re-post and again ask if anyone else has noticed this problem? This is the only part of the game where I have this type of issue. Thanks

I wanted to post here as well as on the Bug Report Forum Yavin 4 Bug Report thread. Is anyone with a completed or semi-completed Yavin 4 Stronghold having any issues with ambient sounds cutting off and on depending on location? I seem to have a great deal of this occur in the main temple area. Just wanted to inquire here as well as on the Bug Report Forum before I start getting into it with Technical Support. Thanks.

I have the same problem. It's most apparent in the main Temple area which has a number of ambient sounds going. Add a few fountains to the mix, and I get ambient sounds cutting in and out even when I'm not moving my character. This also happens in the two buildings in the back of the stronghold though not to such an extent. Could this be an older sound card not handling the game? Mine is two years old, but it handles everything in this game just fine and more except the Yavin 4 ambient sound problems. OR could this be an actual bug in the Stronghold?

There is indeed another thread on the PTS forums which had some really good ideas about how to reconcile the various points of view. The devs chose to ignore all of them and just lowered the hook count down from 1,100 to 900. They also ignored the requests for new hook layouts. Anyway, I threw an absolute hissy fit on another thread about this topic this morning. I was livid after I looked at my Tatooine Stronghold. I knew that there were not going to be any new hooks from looking at the SH on PTS. However, seeing my decorated SH in game reduced to 55% Completion put a rock in the pit of my stomach. I threatened in my rant to move on to another title, and I probably will jump into it some. However, I'm going to give completing Tatooine a shot in the next few weeks, but it's not going to be easy to complete my "sparse" Tatooine Homestead without it having a cluttered look in some areas. Plus it's not going to be cheap either. So it goes.

edited because of stupidity...and lack of caring.

Honestly, who would want to look at the effing sky on this g*d d*med planet ? It's mainly a cave, the colors are all washed out like Ziost to an extent. THEN there is the whole THING with Tatooine which no one seems to give a good sh*t about. Apparently, guild Strongholds get "bonuses" to their conquests from having a "COMPLETE" SH. I can dig that logic. Then why in the hell as I and so many OTHERS argued on the PTS forums under one thread which was ignored do PERSONAL Prestige Scores have ANYTHING to do with GUILD CONQUEST? I'm sure you "devs" as you kids like to call yourselves know me. I've *****ed enough. Well, 400 new hooks to fill with the same hook layouts? Nothing new? This is just like you "balancing" PVP and it affecting PVE players negatively. You things need to separate. LOOK UP THE WORD, KIDS, "SEPARATE." Oh, and yes, the door has hit me on the way out. I know about "good riddance" No, you cannot have my stuff. I'm going to go play the new "OLD" Engine of Anarchy Online. I am done with your game till the new story comes out. Nothing new here except more work and BS. Have fun jumping through the kids' hoops, kids. RAGE /OFF...

Very groovy, FoF!!