r/swtor • • 27d 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 • • 2d ago

Community Post Got Questions? SWTOR Questions & Answer Thread + New & Returning Player Posts (week of Oct 26, 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 • • 11h ago

Other The feeling is strange when I stumble upon this email after I have married Lana for some time

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r/swtor • • 9h ago

Community Post Got my hands on a physical copy of the game

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SWTOR has been a game that I’ve played since 2018, it was my outlet from reality in both high school and now college, dedicating a lot of my free time to playing it. My best friend found a copy of it at a bookstore and bought it for me. Sometimes I wish that I was old enough when they had released the LEGO swtor sets and toys to purchase them but when I get a better job I will try to get my hands on at least one set. Just wanted to make this post because I think it’s cool that I physically have something related to a game I consider to be my favorite.


r/swtor • • 11h ago

Discussion Who Has The Better Prologue? Knight or Consular?

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I've always found it interesting to compare these two prologues, because they're so similar and yet so different. They both have the same task of introducing a young Jedi learner, while also setting them on a path that has to feel like the beginning of a journey, but also can't spend toooo much time feeling like a beginner because players need to progress. So, which class do you think accomplished that goal better? The Knight, dealing with Bengal Morr and working with the pilgrims to stop him? Or the Consular, dealing with Nalan Rolach and working with Yuon to uncover the lost secrets of Tython?


r/swtor • • 3h ago

Other Diathim Mercenary by Beauviolette

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r/swtor • • 14h ago

Screen Shot At least someone gets to use Force Lightning in recent years. Spoiler

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Let our Sith Inquisitors use Force Lightning again please.

This is what I wanted to do in 7.6 Tatooine (and others) story mission


r/swtor • • 12h ago

Screen Shot Show me your love of Sith and/or BH's

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My newest Bounty Hunter! She was rescued by the Republic and instead of trying to fit in she became exceptional at Hunting any and everything! Lets see some of your BH/Sith drip! Also showing off the newest dye from the bundle.


r/swtor • • 10m ago

New/Returning Player I am confused about the race unlocks.

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So I have read the guides and I think it works like this. Let‘s say I want to play a Twilek Imperial Agent. I can subscribe and then start a Twilek Bounty Hunter, level them to 50 and that will allow me to unlock for all Origins, even if I let subscription lapse. OR I can buy the legacy race unlock from the Cartel store, but in order for that to kick in I have to take some character to 10?

Is that right? There’s no way to just jump in?


r/swtor • • 12h ago

Question Could anyone explain what is changing with the classes in 8.0?

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I have not played in 2 years. I jumped back on recently and read about the 8.0 update. I still dont understand fully what is being changed for the abillities and such. I know about the level increase and difficulty change. I also know that the gear will have a higher cap. We are also getting new abillities? If anyone would explain better i would appriciate it.


r/swtor • • 17h ago

Question When does 8.0 drop

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Waiting for 8.0 to start playing but can’t find out when it comes out


r/swtor • • 20h ago

Discussion Hopefully not a hot take: We should be able to bring our own companion in the story missions of later expansions.

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It's just that the companions the game provides for the later expansions are abysmally dogshit and they literally can't heal to save their own lives. I think that they should only appear in cutscenes and let us use the max influence companions we so painstakingly grinded for.

I do not believe this is a skill issue as I have Item Rating 340 blue gear that worked perfectly in veteran mode solo flashpoints and various heroic missions.


r/swtor • • 19h ago

Cartel Market Flash Sale for October 27th, 2026: Vulcanized Black and Black Dye Bundle, 790CCs

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r/swtor • • 1d ago

Screen Shot If "bond car" was a spaceship

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r/swtor • • 1d ago

Discussion For Andronikos Fans- What Do You Love About Him?

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Andronikos is one character that I've always tried to enjoy more than I do. I can see the appeal of his character, but I just feel nothing about him one way or the other. I don't dislike him, but I don't like him as much as I wish I did.

So, I wanted to ask some Andronikos fans to share why they love him! I always like hearing from passionate fans, and I'd appreciate maybe some insight into his character that I didn't have before.


r/swtor • • 13h ago

New/Returning Player Guardian Vs shadow?

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I want to play as a paladin like class, but I remember faintly that stealth is op for leveling/questing. I don’t plan on buying sub for double class.

How much worse is guardian over the shadow in terms of speed?


r/swtor • • 1h ago

Question Returning player here. How worth doing are the bonus missions and bonus planet series? (Complicated reasoning for the question inside)

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Okay so this is a question with a story.

So every time I've come back to SWTOR in the past, I usually end up skipping the bonus missions. Didn't seem important, and I just wanted to focus on the story and character customization.

But this time with SWTOR, I told myself I wasn't going to do that. I wanted to make an effort to collect as many codex entries as possible. Get super invested in the lore and stuff.

And part of that involved doing the bonus missions and bonus planet series. I didn't want to take the risk that one of those missions would unlock a codex entry and I'd miss it.

So the goal was to not leave a planet until I unlocked every single codex entry on it (excluding data crons).

...And then I found out a few things.

First, most of the bonus missions didn't unlock Codex entries. I think the only one I can recall that did that was that one entry mission on Republic Taris that gives you Governor Saresh's entry. While the extra exp was nice, it was still a whole lot of running around...

Second, I found out just how damn hard it is to actually collect codex entries. A lot of running around to get into specific areas to get the lore object, a lot of looking at guides because "guide dang it," and finding out just how hard it can be to track a specific creature.

(In case you're wondering how I, a returning player, wasn't aware of the struggle to complete the codex, I had some degree of awareness about it, but I didn't really get how bad it was until Tatooine, where I learned most of the creatures I needed for the bestiary achievement were in empire territory and that would involve a lot of running around with no taxi and/or fast travel to lean on.)

So yeah, I'm really rethinking this "get all bonus missions" goal now. I'm enjoying the extra XP and the lockbox you get when you finish a planet's bonus series, but I'm just not sure about continuing on about it now that the main reason I was going through with it has been stomped.

So, uh...how worth it is it to do all the bonus missions if I'm mostly playing for the main stories and character customization? And if there are a few bonus missions worth doing, what are they?


r/swtor • • 23h ago

Screen Shot Lana told me to gear up, didn’t say it had to be my old gear.

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r/swtor • • 1h ago

Discussion DE achievement info

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Ok, so I found out you don't need Raider's Reckoning to be active to get The Reckoner. If you happen to be on Malicious Persecution (Republic side), in which you have to free some Jawas who just so happen to be held captive in the same location, doing the quest will also count towards the achievement.


r/swtor • • 10h ago

Announcement Space Jousting

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I challenge you to a duel against a Sith Warrior Sorcerer


r/swtor • • 11h ago

Question Will the original Droid Carrier bundle ever return?

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I’ve been looking at the new Droid Carrier bundle, but I actually prefer the old green one, especially because of the portable bank droids.
Unfortunately I missed it when it was available. I’m tempted to get the new bundle, but it’s a shame it doesn’t include the banks.
Has anyone heard anything about the old bundle coming back? Or whether the bank droids might be available separately at some point?


r/swtor • • 11h ago

Question Fastest Leveling 72-80?

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I need to help my friend level from level 72-80 as quickly as possible for an RP event. She is terrible at the gameplay and hates it, so the smoother it is, the better. She'll be a subscriber for this and use the exp boosts and the guild exp perk.

What's better? Heroics? FPs?


r/swtor • • 1d ago

Discussion Could SWTOR ever have a PVP podracing mode?

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I mean it’s possible. They installed Galactic Starfighter … we just don’t talk about Galactic Starfighter 😅


r/swtor • • 17h ago

Question Yesterday i reach level 80, what i should do now?

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I doing a sith marauder anihilation, and i want to know what equips i need search, and where, and everything you think is important


r/swtor • • 9h ago

Question Should I buy 90 or 180 days sub package?

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This was posted in the weekly q&a but answers are being deleted so I created a new post

I am planning to sub, I need to transfer 4 char, buy shroud of memory, account wide artifact licence (dont know if it also include gold acesssory), 4 char slot to get 16 char when unsub, buy something (I dont know what) to convert to credit for unlocking max conquest stronghold bonus and legacy unlocks. I have 2k2 cartel coin. Should I buy the 90 or 180 day bundle and any account upgrade im missing? I played f2p for 2 years on and off and i plan to stick for a long time