2018-04-05

Electronic Arts

Hello Holotable Heroes, It's been a busy start to 2018 here at Capital working on the Sith Triumvirate Raid and Quality of Life update. In the context of both of those releases, we have identified some additional items we want to clarify both on the communication and quality of life front, as well as our mapping of the Road Ahead for what's to come. Communication Moving Forward One of the widest communications that we put out (outside of the in-game newsletters) is the Road Ahead blog (like this one), which will almost always fall in the first couple of weeks of a quarter and will be posted to both our website and forums. We will add additional Road Aheads as needed, but the idea is that they map out the next few months in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. We are also going to be hosting a Live Q&A in our forums on Friday, April 6th 12PM PDT. After our previous Q&A, we answered over 60 questions from the community, and have posted those responses in our forums. We are also partnering with our Game Changer and Beta groups to ensure we are maximizing those programs. If you are interested in joining either program, we will be providing information on how to do that in our forums. Quality of Life Ongoing Changes Every client update (major updates that require a new update from your respective mobile app store), we set aside a certain portion of time to devote to quality of life updates and bug fixes. This past February, we released our Quality of Life client update, but it represents a slightly larger spike in an ongoing approach we have to Quality of Life. Specifically, in response to recent community sentiment, we have made changes to the upper limit of Territory War requirements, a change to refreshing arena opponents, and added some additional features to our upcoming TU12 client update, intended to launch inside of this quarter.

Upcoming Content In anticipation of the upcoming movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story, we are revisiting the Bounty Hunter faction this month inside the game. The Bounty Hunters are getting a new mechanic called "Contracts" and the interplay between the different Contracts and different makeup of the Bounty Hunter squads are going to revitalize their gameplay inside of Galaxy of Heroes. Alongside the rework of some of the existing characters, we will also be introducing the Trandoshan Bossk. One of the most featured Bounty Hunters in the galaxy, Bossk uses his natural Trandoshan hunting instincts to hunt down and capture his targets. After the Bounty Hunters, we are going to be in full on "Solo" mode. We will start by releasing... you guessed it, another Han Solo (we've seen the memes), and pairing him with the movie's Chewbacca - as the first of a number of characters from the upcoming movie.