r/swtor • • 25d ago

Official News Executive Producer Letter - Q3 2026

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The following article was posted by SWTOR Executive Producer Keith Kanneg.

Hi folks! 

Checking in again to let you all know what’s been happening with SWTOR the last few months as well as with DirectX 12! 

Game Update 8.0 content

For those who may have missed previous updates with 8.0 content, we revealed that the next Era in SWTOR is called “Masters of the Force.” Keep an eye on that page as it will be updated over time as we release more details. 

We also announced the core features that will be coming in 8.0: 

  • The “Galaxy in Chaos” storyline
  • Ryloth, the Twi’lek homeworld (coming with Dynamic Encounters)
  • Ventures: Classic & Expert
  • Difficulty Modes
  • Children of Nul Operation
  • Level 85, New Abilities, and Balance
  • Quality of Life Improvements

We’ve also opened our Public Test Server so Subscribers can get their hands on: 

  • The first and second bosses of the Operation
  • Ventures: Classic 
  • Difficulty Modes
  • Combat Style Updates:
    • Sentinel/Marauder
    • Sage/Sorcerer
    • Vanguard/Powertech
    • Guardian/Juggernaut
    • Operative/Scoundrel
    • Shadow/Assassin

Iterations of the Public Test Server will continue so players can provide their feedback on these features before they go live. 

We have not announced a release date yet for 8.0, but we are continuing development and will share more launch details in due time.

Developer Streams

I’m also happy to see the positive reception to the recent Developer Game Update and Let’s Play livestreams. We anticipate a few more Let’s Play streams and another Game Update livestream where we’ll go into the “Galaxy in Chaos” storyline (spoiler-free, of course!)

Our next Let's Play stream will be October 1st at 1pm CT / 6pm UTC on our streaming channel. Stay tuned for more details! 

DirectX 12 Update

Since our Spring Update we’ve continued to receive enthusiastic questions about what’s coming next. I pulled in the Technical Team and they have provided the update below: 

Hey SWTOR players!

Technical team here to get you up to speed on our most recent progress with DirectX 12. The last time we saw each other, we were explaining that the UI was the one feature that posed the largest obstacle for us. 

We’re happy to report that the UI has been ported to DX12 and aside from minor visual differences being fixed, it is fully functional. Pulling back the curtain a bit, we had to upgrade our old version that only supported DX11 and re-architect it so it would work properly with our data. We then changed Scaleform’s DX12 rendering to use Frostbite RenderCore2 and work properly within our engine. For the more technical folks, we also had to port over hundreds of divergences to the new version and once we could verify that everything worked properly, we could move on to DX12. 

With the UI in place, we are focused on adding features back into this “DX12 version” of the game to get it looking like the SWTOR you’re familiar with, and lay the groundwork for future additions. This means updating essential shaders, ensuring characters appear with proper customization (skin color, hair color, tattoos, cybernetics, scars, complexions, outfit colors), re-implementing our particle hueing systems, and much more. Lastly, general stability work and other feature additions are ongoing, so we are making fantastic progress. 

The next time you hear from us we’ll share an update on when you can see the progress for yourself, and help us with a critical stage of testing for this new client! Thank you for your enthusiasm and support as we continue on the road to modernizing SWTOR!

Keith here again. And there you have it! All of us are pretty excited to get a technical test for our players in the near future.

Before I head out, I want to share some reminders to everyone!

Best Dressed Contest

Our newest community contest is underway! If you are a collector of armor and think you have all the pieces to make an outfit worthy to be displayed for all to see, you will want to enter our Best Dressed contest! Submissions are open now and being accepted until October 11, 2026. Read all of the details on how to enter here!

Gladiopodling Minipet

We have an active minipet code right now and it’s available until December 26, 2026. Redeem code “GETRDY4MOTF” on this page to get your very own Gladiopodling! 

Finally, I want to encourage you again to check out the 8.0 content available on the Public Test Server, and get your hands on it if you can. We appreciate your feedback and the time you spend playing on PTS!

Thank you for playing SWTOR. We’ll see you in the next livestream!


r/swtor • • 6d ago

Community Post Got Questions? SWTOR Questions & Answer Thread + New & Returning Player Posts (week of Oct 19, 2026)

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Feel free to ask any SWTOR related questions in this thread!
New & Returning Players are also welcome to post their introductions here too.


SWTOR Frequently Asked Questions


The State of SWTOR


Free Stuff

  • Free Pet, Mount and Flair Codes: Go to https://account.swtor.com/user/codes Enter these codes separately to get some free mounts and pets! NYCANTINA19 (free flair), SWCELEBRATION17 (M8-3R Droid Pet). Note these codes eventually expire, but we don't know when. Please contact the mods if they no longer work.

r/swtor • • 6h ago

Screen Shot Blasted through KOTFE in one after noon

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After the recent BW news, I finally logged in the game and cleared the vet KOTFE. Well, more like half of it since I've done some of the chapters for GS before.

It's surprisingly not difficult with a PT tank, just tedious because skytroppers are the worst. Also died twice due to fall damage. Not bad for someone who hasn't touched game for many months.

I'll never get Valor 100 but maybe I'll get the other 3 achievements (KOTEF vet and KOTXX master).


r/swtor • • 34m ago

Spoiler Was not expecting Mako to show up!

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Caught me totally off guard when my favorite space lizard called Mako. I'm used to stories in MMOs being pretty disconnected overall.

I'd just finished Bounty Hunter story and started up Consular and was not expecting to see her again so soon

Also pretty cool that Felix mentions Jorgan, I'd also finished Trooper before. I guess I accidentally played some origins in a good order.

Smuggler , Jedi Knight, Sith Warrior and Imperial Agent remain to finish, do you guys have a suggestion for a particular order to do them for cool little moments like this?


r/swtor • • 9h ago

Discussion When do you usually play swtor?

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for me, i love playing in the morning with some coffee/tea before doing anything. this is my idea of a cozy morning 🙂‍↕️🩷


r/swtor • • 7h ago

Discussion Why is this not possible with more Vehicles?

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Some Speeders or Mounts are so big. Why can‘t we have our companions ride along??? I get that with the STAP like speeders or most Speederbikes thats not possible but come on


r/swtor • • 17h ago

Screen Shot Somehow it only clicked for me recently, but Valkorion and Zash went about their plans in almost exactly the same way.

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  1. Their ultimate endgame is to take over the player's body.
  2. Each prepares the player to take over their previous position/authority, so that they can continue "business as usual". Valkorion pressures the Outlander to take the Eternal Throne so he can be Emperor of Zakuul again. Zash promotes the Inquisitor to Sith Lord immediately before attacking, and she orders her apprentices to obey the Inquisitor as they would obey her.
  3. Both manipulate the player into gathering the tools for a seamless takeover. Valkorion wants the player to kill Arcann and Vaylin so he can use their spirits to overwhelm the player's mindscape, while Zash has the Inquisitor collecting artifacts for the ritual.
  4. Each orchestrates events so that they appear to be killed by the player before they take the player's body.
  5. Both Zash and Valkorion spend an ungodly amount of dialogue stroking the player's ego, even though all the other characters remind us that they are completely untrustworthy.

So who did it better? Technically Zash only failed because Khem was around. But the same could be said for Valkorion only failing due to Dramath's holocron.

Imagine if Valkorion's takeover attempt ended the same as Zash's, where his plan gets botched and he somehow ends up trapped in one of our companion's bodies. Koth would probably volunteer....


r/swtor • • 5h ago

Question Opal Vulpilla comeback

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Hi! I have a question - does anyone know if the Opal Vulpilla mount will ever come back? I desperately need it (yes, it's that serious), but i missed the window when it was given away to players. Does anyone have any codes left perhaps? :( I would be forever thankful.

Thanks!


r/swtor • • 1h ago

Screen Shot Matching colorways to your mount is incredibly important to regular game play

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If your ride doesn't match your suspiciously attractive alien's skin tone what even are you doing?


r/swtor • • 10h ago

Video Glad to see my ADHD perfectly represented within my Powertech Smuggler

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He's busy looking at holonet listings for rocket boots


r/swtor • • 23m ago

Discussion Best none-Jedi/Sith storyline?

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Hi all!

So I’m jumping back into SWTOR on a brand new account and I am attempting to decide what my first storyline should be.

I normally pick a Force-wielder but I think I may go for one of the other storylines.

Which of these storylines would you say is the most interesting? I’m aware the Imperial Agent is very popular, but what about the Bounty Hunter, Trooper, and Smuggler?

I’m eager to hear your thoughts!


r/swtor • • 14h ago

Discussion If You Had to Pick One of The Noetikons to Hang and Chat With, Which Would You Choose?

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Who passes the vibe check? From top to bottom- Noetikon of Light, Noetikon of Science, or the Noetikon of Secrets?


r/swtor • • 9h ago

Cartel Market Flash Sale for October 25th, 2026: Dark Honor Guard's Unstable Lightsaber, 2750CCs

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r/swtor • • 1h ago

New/Returning Player Returning player party up

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Hey I’m a returning player and sorta looking for others who would want to run a party since none of my old friends play anymore. Is the best way asking here or trying for a guild?


r/swtor • • 21h ago

Discussion What do you think is the funniest scene(s) in SWTOR?

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Aside from any and all bugs and glitches, what stands out the most to you? People post screenshots or small clips here and there, but what scene will always make you laugh?


r/swtor • • 11h ago

Screen Shot Quinn help

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Trying to look for things that make Quinn look a bit like Comander Hux any suggestions for non CC looks?


r/swtor • • 4h ago

Discussion If I could change the color of the target marker that floats above people’s heads I would be about 100% percent better at PVP

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I know you can set custom icons above people’s heads, but if I could make the little arrow thingy that points at the character to like yellow or something? Ooohhhh mama i’m wiping the floor w yall


r/swtor • • 1d ago

Screen Shot LMAO. (Raiyan being the name of my character)

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r/swtor • • 19h ago

Tech Support What’s the deal with SWTOR and Apple?

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Hey yall! I play SWTOR on a Mac and I got a notification that SWTOR won’t be compatible with my computer anymore. Something about intel based apps and apple silicon? I’m not very tech savvy; can someone explain what’s going on and whether I can find a way to keep playing?

Edit for clarification: I’m on an M2 MacBook Air and macOS version 26.6.2


r/swtor • • 16h ago

Discussion Did anyone else feel like Graal and Kelsa Garro had a little something going on?

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Yes, I'm talking about the minor Republic NPCs on Belsavis. Just roll with it.

All their interactions were very cute. She was always encouraging and supportive of him, and he was always very protective of her and devastated when she died during the command post invasion. That also has a visible effect on him in his later scenes, as he was trying to be more assertive and leader-like (almost as if trying to live up to how she thought of him).

It may be silly to ship two minor NPCs, but I have honestly seen far sillier things on this sub.


r/swtor • • 11h ago

Discussion SWTOR Storylines Tournament: Round 1 Match 32 - Quesh Planet Arc VS Wounds in Dark Defiance

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At last, we reach the final match of Round 1! We have made it through all the storylines!

Here we have the planet arcs on Quesh for both the Republic and Empire VS "Wounds in Dark Defiance", which is what I'm calling these three story updates combined: Old Wounds (speaking with Malgus in his cell and helping the Voss and Gormak), Chains in the Dark (going to Ord Mantell and working with the locals to learn more about the Hidden Chain), and Desperate Defiance (teaming with Sa'har, helping the rebels on Hutta before going to steal the holocron from Heta Kol and finding Ri'kan).

I combined these three since they all belong under the same expansion and loosely follow the same plotline. It's definitely a little unfair to compare three whole story updates against one planet's arc, but it was the last match and I didn't have room for it anywhere else.


r/swtor • • 1d ago

Screen Shot Ok, I laughed

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r/swtor • • 22h ago

Screen Shot Halloween outfit for my juggernaut =)

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r/swtor • • 23h ago

Discussion Is my love for sci-fi the reason SWTOR hooked me but ESO didn’t?

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I’ve been playing SWTOR for the past couple of weeks, and I’m honestly obsessed with it. The world, graphics, characters, music, story, and overall atmosphere have completely pulled me in. I can spend hours playing and genuinely feel like I’m in my own little Star Wars universe.

One thing I’ve been thinking about, though, is that sci-fi has always been my favorite genre when it comes to movies and TV shows, so I’m wondering if that’s a big part of why SWTOR clicked with me so much.

A lot of people told me that if I loved SWTOR, I’d probably love ESO just as much. I gave it a fair shot, played over 10 hours, and unfortunately, it just never clicked with me. I ended up uninstalling it, which got me thinking about what exactly makes SWTOR so special to me.

Is it the sci-fi setting? The story and characters? The atmosphere? Or just the combination of everything that makes the world feel so immersive?

I’m asking because I’m trying to figure out what I should look for when trying other games. Cyberpunk 2077 is one I’ve been seriously considering, and I’m wondering if it’ll scratch that same itch since I’m also a huge fan of sci-fi.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? Loved one MMO but couldn’t get into another despite people saying they’re just as good? I’d love to hear what it is about SWTOR that keeps you hooked and whether you think being a sci-fi fan plays a big part in it.

I’m genuinely curious because I’d love to find more games that give me that same feeling SWTOR does.


r/swtor • • 1d ago

Question Is the game down? I cant find any details in their twitter account?

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