It's so rare to get a set that dyes well these days, either you have massive parts of it that just won't be affected by dyes, the dyes are assigned poorly (Metal and cloth dying the same color) or the ugly new texture sets wash the dye out so they won't match with any other gear piece. It's really frustrating. Below is an example of the 'washed out' effect that the new textures give when using a dye, you can see it doesn't match up well at all with any other piece of armor that doesn't have the new texture sets. (Frankly I prefer the old ones anyway, at least they don't look ridiculously shiny like they're made of plastic.) Please go back to the old textures, right now I've just killed any motivation I had to play this season. =/

How about Vandin? We've got one Kotfe chapter and a Huttball map there, I wanna run around and do underworldy things there!

It's been a... Tough trend lately in Cartel market outfits lately that's really put me off spending in the CM. If an outfit has metal and cloth elements, please make sure they're on separate dye slots and not the same. It's really, really hard to make a good looking outfit if you go to dye your jacket brown and it dyes the metal brown as well. Please be smarter with the dye slots and adjust them to cover 'just metal' or 'just cloth', not both in random places across the outfit.

Actually, there's more evidence to say Rattataki /do/ have hair than don't. If anything, it's implied that they maybe shave it ritualistically - But in the Dark Horse Ventress comics pretty much every Rattataki dude she has in her employ (Yes, they're definitively Rattataki) are sporting beards and moustaches while still maintaining their bald heads.

- You've got one day off this week, time to start grinding so you can even have a chance at completing the season. - Spend forty minutes waiting in a warzone queue. - Finally join a match, you play objective, trying to stall the other team from capping in Hypergate. You end up with like... One medal? - Constantly playing at 900+ ping because you're from APAC. - Random spikes into the 20000+ range. - You somehow win anyway - Doesn't really matter, your PvP season bar barely moves at all. - Time to wait another forty minutes for another pop. - Sure love how I'm wasting my only time off on this infuriating, Sisyphean task.

Hey there Bioware, long time player here - I just have to say that I've been really put off by the new texturing that's being used on some of the latest cartel market sets. I understand the idea of creating something 'high quality' for the price premium, but most of the sets using the higher end textures are borderline unusable for me in my outfits because they for one, don't match well with any of the hundreds of base game outfits we already have - And two, they usually dye horribly, having this washed out grainy texture to them that's a completely different color than the dye used. Also on the topic of dyes, please think harder about what areas of different outfits dye. Often some places won't dye that absolutely should and often times two parts dye together that absolutely shouldn't. Sincerely, someone that spends way too much money on virtual clothing but is being turned away by a lack of cohesion and consistency.

@EricMusco Specifically in regards to new species, has the team considered giving us 'alien masks' instead of full blown new races? As an RP'er, I don't much mind if my 'mask' has to be removed in cutscenes for animation / story reasons, the game is already programmed to do that with helmets of a certain type anyway. But I really want to be able to roleplay outside of that as my favorite star wars species. Setting them up as helmets (Possibly with different variations similar to the latest batch of mando helmets) would be an ideal fix to the issue of species that can't feasibly be accomplished through the character creator and would massively open up our possibilities in the RP community. Giving us masks for Wookiees, Kel'Dor, Trandoshans, etc, etc, etc... I'd be more than happy to buy into something like that, honestly. And the effort in this case isn't any greater than creating your standard Cartel Market helmets ala the previously mentioned mandalorian helmet bundle that just hit the CM.

Very nice! Glad to see the initiatives are paying off I don't suppose we could get a cheeky look into the rewards for the upcoming season or the new Cartel Market items? =o

Stop punishing me for success by stacking the teams, it's annoying and unfair. I swear - I'll do amazingly in the first couple of hours, then all of a sudden I'll be exclusively matched with the same lowbie players in level 10 cosmetic shells that've never played PvP before in their lives and don't know how in the world to complete the objectives. It's not even as if the lowbies are spread out evenly - They're just all lumped together in one team. Kindly stop that kind of matchmaking, I only have one day a week to work on the season - I don't want to waste hours in obviously losing games where there's no point in even participating and I might as well sit it out and AFK.

Normally I don't log in to comment on these news posts - But honestly, this is a great change. I was just thinking that the number for arenas is disproportionately high compared to warzones. (Not just in the season objectives though, also in the weekly mission - 24 is a /lot/, especially if you're not winning.) Accounting for the time taken to complete a warzone versus an arena is good - But I think the time /between/ matches should also be taken into account. A lot of the time, it can feel like warzones pop more often than arenas - Meaning the wait added on top for Arenas makes those objectives feel twice as long.

That's an amazing idea - They updated the feast event a couple of times, why can't they update old events? Especially when we wheel them out every month. Bounty Contract Week and Pirate Incursion seriously need new / better rewards.

The info so far is sparse and somewhat confusing. What we know for sure if that they're a spear wielding pacifist companion (Former Republic Military) that's part of a secret order that witnesses and documents strange phenomenon in the force (And guides force sensitives that aren't part of the Jedi or Sith) called 'The Messengers of the Cold Moon'. They're very Zen and Monk-like. There's some concern about his look though as what's in the files now is incredibly underwhelming compared to previous seasonal companions. (Though it might just be a placeholder)

Go easy on the hero worship stuff, Avellone has plenty of problems. Not least of which was the whole fiasco a couple of years ago where it was revealed that 90% of the projects he was working on weren't having him write anything and were just using his name for it's 'brand power'. That was hilarious to see at the time, with all of the projects he was attached to dropping him on twitter and admitting that he hadn't actually done any work on them. The guy routinely gets over-credited or credited for work that wasn't his, don't be part of the problem.

What? I'm talking about what you can get for your money, not for credits. A basic armor set on the Cartel market is 1440 Cartel coins. Meaning with three months of subscription you can buy /ONE/ for your money. And even with the security key ontop you only get 1800 cartel coins in three months, which... Wait for it... Isn't even enough to unlock that armor set you just bought. I'm not talking about credits, that's completely outside of the conversation of 'What you get for your money as a subscriber'. But back on topic, yes - For three months of subscribing, that's 45 US Dollars... You can get /one/ outfit. ONE. One that you can't even afford to unlock until next month, which will bring things up to 60 USD. The Cartel Coin reward for subs is an absolute joke, and not a good one.

Are you joking? The pitiful 500 CC we get each month that isn't even enough for a single armor set? Nonono, you've gotta wait three months for that one mid tier armor set and then you can't even unlock it unless you have the security key going too. Hell, you only have to look at other games to see how hard SWTOR screws you on the cartel market. Let's take Fallout 76 for instance... Each month you get 1650 Atoms, that's enough for a whole bundle of items, multiple armor sets, weapon skins, whatever you want.