Looking forward to 7.8

I learned long ago not to get too hyped about new content for my favourite MMOs as it's too easy to end up disappointed, but then, what's life without a little bit of happy anticipation? Patch 7.8 can't be more than a few weeks away now, and I'm very much looking forward to us getting our first story update in one and a half years.

That alone would already be something to celebrate, but this week we found out that there's more to come in this patch. Keith had already hinted in his producer's letter at the start of the month that Dantooine would be in for some dynamic changes, and then last week the official YouTube channel dropped this nice little teaser video:

I had a bit of a chuckle at Musco describing Dantooine with the words "it's usually pretty quiet there" when that planet is either being raided by pirates or overrun with swoopers on the regular, but either way the news of the Dantooine stronghold and the devs trying something new with the dynamic encounter system there were great to hear. With both story and new gameplay in the pipeline, this may well shape up to be the meatiest content patch we've received in a while and I'm here for it.

Side note: If you're someone who doesn't always keep up to date with what's been happening in SWTOR recently, I've got a new permanent page for you called "The State of SWTOR", which is linked from the sidebar on desktop and the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page on mobile. I'm planning to keep it updated on the regular and we'll see whether it gains enough traction to reduce the number of people asking on the subreddit how the game is doing every day.