SWTOR: Patch On The Fly

Here’s an interesting development – a new patch is coming for SWTOR (likely to be 1.4.1) overnight, but the servers won’t need to come down.

So at 2am AEST (Midnight AWST and 4am NZST) you just need to log out and restart, download the patch and you’re good to go.

We’ll have the full patch  notes for you of course.

Here’s the blurb from BioWare:

Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be deploying a patch on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 at 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/4 PM BST/5PM CEST/1AM AEST). All game servers will remain online during this period. Please be sure to restart your game launcher at 11AM CDT (9AM PDT/12PM EDT/5 PM BST/6PM CEST/2AM AEST) in order to download the deployed patch. If your launcher was open during the deployment, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login. Patch notes will be made available shortly after deployment.

Patch Deployment

Date: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Time: 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/4 PM BST/5PM CEST/1AM AEST)

All game servers will remain online during this period. Please be sure to restart your game launcher at 11AM CDT (9AM PDT/12PM EDT/5 PM BST/6PM CEST/2AM AEST) in order to download the deployed patch.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.