Cathar, a playable species announced last year, will be introduced in SWTOR Game Update 2.1 as as a cartel coin purchase.
- Unlockable via the cartel market for cartel coins (600 cartel coins) . You can convert either an existing character or reroll a new character.
- Unlock is account wide rather than just legacy wide (i.e. applied to all servers, all your legacies)
- Available to all eight classes (both factions)
- Both male and female
- Cool new fur patterns, new hair styles
- Great social emote for your Cathar pride
- Trooper companion Aric Jordan will be have his appearance adjusted to bring him inline with the new Cathar models. He will be utilizing the new fur technology and better reflect how Cathars will look.
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Thanks for the update Dulfy.
I'm not a star wars lore junkie, but does this make sense to anyone? Cathar on the Empire side? It would've been nice to have 2 separate races, one for each faction.
here is there reasoning:
AllisonBerryman
Hopefully this helps make sense of the addition of Cathar to playable species!
http://www.darthhater.com/devtracker/topic/76144-wait-dont-almost-all-cathar-hate-the-mandalorians-empire
So is there a date for when 2.1 will be out?
Dulfy mentionned something that we might get information about it next week.
I am more excited about armor dyes and the appearance designer kiosk coming in 2.1 as well Finally.
http://dulfy.net/2013/04/26/swtor-armor-dyes-and-appearance-designer-kiosk-details/
And finally CE owners are getting some love
"Some unique colors (dyes) come from the security key and Collector’s Edition vendors"
Sith Warrior - Story of Hate and Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKrlwXt7Ao
Imperial Agent - Rise of Cipher Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBj3eJWBvU&feature=youtu.be
Imperial Agent - Hunt for the Eagle Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqjYYU128E
Yes , 600 CC for an account wide unlock. Which is only 100 CC more than the normal stipend , so no biggie really. Armor re-colouring too , a lot of people have been wanting that for a very long time.
I'm just happy that i could buy blue/black crystals off the GTN , maybe the rakghoul plague will return this summer.
Cheers,
BadOrb.
PSO 4 years , EQOA 4 months , PSU 7 years , SWTOR launch ongoing , PSO2 SEA launch ongoing , Destiny 360 launch ongoing.
"SWG was not fun. Let it go buddy." quote from iiNoSkillzii 10/18/13
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Load of BS in my opinion. How long have subbers waited for this content and now they have to pay for it in addition to the sub? At least make it available in legacy like the other races.
http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html
sto gave the klingon faction evil looking cat people when it added cat people.
why do games keep adding cat people? are furries this well organized and annoying to game devs that they all must add cat people?!
Subscribers get 500 free CC a month. Shouldn't be an issue.
There were quite a few cathars in swtor on launch and entire questlines about em, I thought it was odd they weren't in the game as a playable race from the beginning.
But I don't really see the draw, they look far to human
Also they are not new to the Star Wars IP. They are in KoToR.
More info on 2.1 revealed , subs can change their guild name , character name and/or legacy name once for free , plus other round ups.
http://www.swtor.com/gameupdates
Cheers,
BadOrb.
PSO 4 years , EQOA 4 months , PSU 7 years , SWTOR launch ongoing , PSO2 SEA launch ongoing , Destiny 360 launch ongoing.
"SWG was not fun. Let it go buddy." quote from iiNoSkillzii 10/18/13
The original propoganda pixie dust villain :[]
Awesome:) I have some names that I would love to change a bit... great news
Sith Warrior - Story of Hate and Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKrlwXt7Ao
Imperial Agent - Rise of Cipher Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBj3eJWBvU&feature=youtu.be
Imperial Agent - Hunt for the Eagle Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqjYYU128E
Sweet ,cat people.
They fix Ilum yet for those 100 vs 100 battles they promised and advertised pre launch?
I'm guessing no.
Oh great! They add more new and perfectly insignificant shit! Sweeeeet!
Just what I always wanted in my Star Wars adventure: to play as a cat person with clothes that I dyed myself
Players were asking for ability to change name, legacy and guild for a long time. Same about customization. So it's not insignificant. The same can be said about dyes.
As for Cathar, I personally do not care about them. The only races I play are Human, Chiss and Pureblood... anyway .
I bet that if these things would not be coming we would have a thread about why there are no these features in SWTOR. Slowly but surely stuff are coming. I want to see more quest series like Macrobinocular and Seeker Droid though. These are fun.
Sith Warrior - Story of Hate and Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKrlwXt7Ao
Imperial Agent - Rise of Cipher Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBj3eJWBvU&feature=youtu.be
Imperial Agent - Hunt for the Eagle Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqjYYU128E
I've been asking for those 100 vs 100 epic galactic battles they promised and pushed pre-launch -
I'd say that's more importan than any of this shit.
Of course , it's also something that would require competent developers.
Name changes are good (I wished for that several times when I was playing, even though you could get a free name change by "accidentally" deleting your character and asking support to restore it). Dyes, sure, some of the colors on the armor needed some love.
But to be honest, I'd rather see more improvements to the game itself, such as fixing technical issues and bugs, among a laundry list of other more significant improvements that players have been asking for. Maybe the players that are left truly wanted a Cathar race. Who am I to argue? All I can say is, Cathar and dyes aren't nearly enough to bring me back.
If the price is 600 CC, I will have more than that from just subbing. I am okay with the price at that amount.
looks like they are planning on 2.1 coming on may 14th and 2.2 on june 11th(of course it is subject to change)
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=6259667#edit6259667
Hey everyone,
I wanted to specifically address the concern of “what is a subscriber getting in an all Cartel Market update?” Game Update 2.1 brings a whole lot of customization and convenience features to the game which have been requested for quite some time, such as character name changes etc. As we have stated in the past, we always design systems like this knowing that subscribers will be receiving Cartel Coins each month, and certainly more options for your monthly Cartel Coin grant can’t be a bad thing!
I think the core of some of your frustrations is that you feel like Game Update 2.1 is “eating up a slot” for our regular content cadence, and because of that, you won’t actually be receiving any new content in this “cycle.” I figure the best way to address that is to lay out a bit of a road map of what the next few weeks looks like! This will help especially if you are only looking at what you are getting within one “content cycle.” As I have done in the past, I need to make it clear that everything I am about to say is our current plan and that it is subject to change, but I want to give you as many details as I can! Here is our current plan:
If you are keeping track and we hit those dates, Game Update 2.2 will releasing 8 weeks and 2 days from the time we released Rise of the Hutt Cartel (so basically around our 8 week cadence that is often referenced). What that means is that even though I can’t yet tell you what is in Game Update 2.2, you are getting two Game Updates within that period. I will say this: Game Update 2.2 has no new Cartel Market features… Also, both of these Game Updates will come with the usual bug fixes, quality of life improvements, etc. which you have come to expect (reference the patch notes for more info).
I know many of you will reserve full judgment until you see what happens over the next few weeks. I hope getting a little bit more information on our timeline will help alleviate your concerns. I have stated before that our Cartel Market and content teams are two very different things internally, which is why we can have these two Game Updates release so close together. Hopefully that provides some insight into our plans!
TLDR – If you’re concerned that Game Update 2.1 is taking up space in our content cadence and only contains Cartel Market stuff, fear not, Game Update 2.2 is coming sooner than you would expect!
-eric
PS – The Gree Enclave wanted me to pass on that they will be returning soon…
so let me get this straight. Something that was meant to come with the ROTHC expansion which we paid for, didn't arrive. It seems that they have delayed it long enough so that everyone including subscribers have to pay for it? whats the price another $10? i think this may be a new extreme for nickle and diming customers. People thought they were getting the cathar as part of the expansion. but no EA delays it to make more money.
That's beside the point, lol. They said one of the benefits of subscribing is that you won't have any character creation restrictions, like locked races. One of the mods said that they are sorry, and will change the wording on subscriber benefits page to reflect that Cathar have to be purchased.
That only made people more upset.
You make me like charity
i have to say, i cant recall them ever saying that cathar would come in rothc. maybe im wrong but i cant remember them ever saying that. i know i was hoping it would and kind of expected it but dont remember them ever saying it would. and its been known cathar would be a cash shop thing since september
edit: i will say it took them way to long in my opinion to get cathar out. it will have been also a year since it was announced at e3 last year
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What is this ''New Fur Technology" they speak of? I watched the vid and saw nothing in the way of moving fur or whatnot.
I do think it's cool that you can change your existing Character, BUT that just shows me that it means nothing to story or npc interactions. They should not call it a Race,...rather new Skin,....Racial Skins or in this game's case,.."new Heads!" .