Changes Coming To Huttball And Arenas In Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Today, Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Manager Eric Musco dropped more information on planned changes to warzones -- this time covering Huttball and Arenas.

To improve Huttball, the development team is taking a look at better balancing the game so that classes with movement abilities don't have an advantage. The changes include having players carrying the Huttball during play being hindered so that they can not use abilities like Force Charge or Scamper.

In addition, players will be unable to catch the Huttball while stunned, and players will earn more attacker points when catching a pass from a teammate.

As for arenas, the team is currently working on ways to prevent exploiting while punishing those who attempt to exploit. Some of the plans currently on the table are:

  • Characters who hack their way into places they shouldn’t be, such as outside the arena or in the ground, will die.
  • Currently, acid causes characters to take 10% of their max health in damage every second, prevents stealth and all healing.
  • Acid will now work as follows:
    • Characters will take 1% of their max health in damage every second and reduce all healing done/received by 2% per stack.
    • Characters affected by acid will begin with one stack and gain one stack per second.
    • Acid will still inhibit stealth.

Players can weigh in on the planned changes on the game's forums.

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QuintLyn Bowers
QuintLyn Bowers, News Editor

QuintLyn is a long-time lover of all things video game related will happily talk about them to anyone that will listen. She began writing about games for various gaming sites a little over ten years ago and has taken on various roles in the games community.

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Discussion (3)

rickshaw 5 years ago
I been trying to re download and play this game this week for free and every time I use my account which has never been a sub, it keeps asking me to state a sub after log in.

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Marto25 5 years ago
Are they free yet? No? Then I'm not interested.

Seriously, who had the stupid idea of having people pay real world money for PVP?


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