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Publish Notes, September 27th

"Chapter 3: Smugglers and Scoundrels"

• Cargo, contraband and criminals are the lifeblood of any good smuggler, and with Chapter 3: Smugglers and Scoundrels, players have even more ways of plying their trade. Packed with new features, content, skills and rewards, Chapter 3 offers new and exciting enhancements for every aspiring Han Solo in the galaxy.

The new Smuggling System will introduce features including:

• A New Underworld Faction – Smugglers can increase their standing with this faction by completing smuggling missions; while Bounty Hunters and Spies will watch their standing fall as they try to thwart the Smugglers' efforts.

• New Smuggling Missions – NPCs will be stationed across the galaxy distributing dangerous yet profitable new missions that deliver rewards of credits and higher faction rankings. But watch out for the new enemy NPCs that are out to steal the mission contraband!

• Player versus Player Smuggling Missions – Signing up for certain more lucrative missions automatically puts the player on the "most wanted" list of every bounty hunter in the galaxy, but surviving them results in fabulous rewards of credits, armor and weapons.

• New Smuggling Abilities – "Sly Lie" and "Fast Talk" will come in handy when attempting to evade capture and hide contraband.

• There is a Broker named Barak in Bestine on Tatooine who can hook Smugglers up with work (-1049 10 -3538).

You can find details about the Smuggling System by clicking here: Smugglers: Tricks of the Trade

New Features:

• Additional Profession Expertise System Rollout: Smugglers and Officers are the beneficiaries of all new skills and abilities in Chapter 3, allowing them to fully customize their characters and carve out their own place in the galaxy. Players will be able to earn up to 45 talent points as their characters progress to level 90, which they can spend as they please on new abilities and modifications to existing abilities.

• The Smuggling Expertise System – New smuggling talents and abilities have been divided into two trees: the Smuggling tree, which includes the two new abilities "Sly Lie" and "Fast Talk," and the Scoundrel Tree that includes specializations for de-buffs, pistols, melee and party buffs.

Full details on the new profession expertise system for Smugglers can be found by clicking here: Smuggler Expertise.

• The Officer Expertise System – Officers can now assign talent points within two trees, Officer and Squad Command, that offer new skills and abilities such as calling in NPCs for reinforcements, bringing in supply drops, and providing buffs for all party members.

Full details on the new profession expertise system for Officers can be found by clicking here: Officer Expertise.

• Faction Ranking and Reward System: This summer, the Galactic Civil War kicked into high gear. Beginning with the Battle of Restuss, clashes among Rebel and Imperial players have been intensifying sharply, and Star Wars Galaxies is implementing a new Faction Ranking and Rewards system to acknowledge players who have been participating in the conflicts.

With the launch of Chapter 3, players will be able to gain faction ranks by completing a variety of PvE and PvP activities. Each new rank grants players the access to purchase higher-level items from their faction recruiter.

• Improvements to the User Interface: Several enhancements are being introduced to the in-game UI to improve ease of use and customizability.

• Additional Toolbar – Players now have the option to add a second toolbar to their on-screen interface, providing a full 24 slots to place icons for skills and abilities.

• Radar Upgrade – Graphical enhancements, adjustable buttons, opacity controls, clearer coordinates, and the option to fully re-size the radar are all now available.

• Combat Log Update – Players now have the option to display a combat log with updated information on default attacks, special attacks, critical hits, procs and buffs.

• In-Game Rewards: When players log in to download "Chapter 3: Smugglers and Scoundrels," they will automatically receive an item that will grant them Galactic Civil War ranking points, so they can jump-start their career fighting against the evil Empire, or defeating the Rebel Scum. Players will receive enough points to automatically move from Rank 1 (Private) to Rank 2 (Lance Corporal/Trooper).

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