Everything we know about Star Wars the Old Republic Game Update 7.7 Dynamic Worlds, including story updates, new locations, characters and more.

Release Date

The tentative release date for SWTOR 7.7: Dynamic Worlds is the 28th of May 2025.

Star Wars Celebration Trailer

Our first official look at the upcoming (and much delayed) story update for SWTOR 7.7: Master’s Engima was finally shown off on the big screen at Star Wars Celebration in Japan, which dropped this amazing trailer.

However, keen eyed players that have been keeping tabs on SWTOR may have noticed a month ago that during the Q1 Letter posted to swtor.com by Keith Kannig that they teased down the bottom that the name of the next major Story Update to SWTOR would be titled Master’s Engima.

HOWEVER the name of SWTOR Game Update 7.7 is Dynamic Worlds, the story itself is named Master’s Enigma and will not release until a later date when all of the ‘missing’ game pieces have finally been completed.

Cartel Market and Nightlife Update

New big reward, the Nightlife Supernova Helmet

New Cartel Market Additions

Character Modernization Art Update

The update is now taking a largely programmatic approach to removing the old premade game engine filters/reliances and making it more customised by the developers themselves so that they can edit the art direction at a deeper level, which was the first required step in this process.

The developers have stated that multiple differently colored species shared a base template for the art, and part of the modernisation has been creating individual by species bases for each player species.

The developers are also working to bring together the difference between the preview windows (especially reflective components, dye modules etc) in what they look like in the actual game when you play.

Further Texture Updates:

New Character Customisations

The developers have teased that a new player species customisations are in development!
See ALL 400+ NEW character customization options for every playable species here:

Cathar

Old Character Customizations

There are 10 existing Cathar skin customizations.

New Character Customizations

There are 81 New Cathar skin customizations. The first 10 Customizations are the same as the old customizations.

Chiss

Old Character Customizations

There are 8 default and 2 extra Cartel Market skin customizations for Chiss, for a total of 10 existing Chiss Character Customizations.

New Character Customizations

There are 19 New Chiss skin customizations. The first 10 (8 vanilla + 2 cartel unlocks) Customizations are the same as the old customizations.
Despite the color order being the same, All of the 10 old customizations have been visually updated.

Mirialan

Old Character Customizations

There are 8 existing Mirialan skin customizations.

New Character Customizations

There are 47 New Mirialan skin customizations. The first 8 Customizations are the same as the old customizations.

Nautolan

Old Character Customizations

There are 10 existing Nautolan skin customizations.

New Character Customizations

There are 95 New Nautolan skin customizations. The first 10 Customizations are the same as the old customizations.

Sith Pureblood

Old Character Customizations

There are 6 existing Sith Pureblood skin customizations.

New Character Customizations

There are 41 New Sith Pureblood skin customizations. The first 6 Customizations are the same as the old customizations.

Togruta

Old Character Customizations

There are 19 existing Togruta skin customizations.

New Character Customizations

There are 97 New Togruta skin customizations. The first 19 Customizations are the same as the old customizations.
The red Togruta skin customization in Option Number 10 has been swapped with Option Number 19, no existing Characters are affected.

Twi’lek

Old Character Customizations

There are 8 existing Twi’lek skin customizations.

New Character Customizations

There are 95 New Twi’lek skin customizations. The first 8 Customizations are the same as the old customizations.

Twitch Livestream Rewards

Dromund Kaas Stronghold Decoration

Watch 1 Hour of SWTOR livestreams with an actively connected swtor.com and twitch.tv account until May 2nd to unlock the Dromund Kaas decoration.

Players for the launch of 7.7 on May 28th can watch 5 hours of livestreams to unlock the Purple Holo-Rancor mount

Umbaran Holo-Rancor

Dynamic Encounters

Dynamic Encounters are coming to 7 planets in SWTOR. The largest planets with encounters are the capital worlds (Coruscant and DK).

Planetary Dynamic Encounter Guides

• Korriban
• Hutta
• Dromund Kaas
• Tython
• Ord Mantell
• Coruscant
• Tatooine
• Hoth
• Ilum
• Dantooine

There are unique Mounts for EACH planet with new dynamic encounters, each one can also hold your minipets! Thats 7 new mounts.

Nightmare XR-53 and New Augments

New bonus achievements coming to Master Mode (nightmare) mode XR-53.

New item rating for legendary augments in 318 rating. These schematics come from XR53 master mode and has bad luck prevention after 3 kills. There is also a small chance to get crates of 50 bioprocessors.
Veteran Mode XR-53 has had its drop chances increased for obtaining both an augment mechanic and material drops.

Weekly PVP missions will now offer corrupted bioprocessors (crafting materials) for the new augments.

Mount for those that complete the Operation XR-53 in Master Mode, including multiple animated flourishes. This is the first mount that comes with bad luck prevention.

PvP Season 8

A new pvp season ‘Champions of the Wild’ starts with 7.7 and runs for 16 weeks.

Title Rewards: Way of the Warrior, Stalker of Prey.

Starting in pvp season 8, you will be able to buy PVP season levels with cartel coins.

New Eras and Mission Log

The Era’s summerise an overview of each ‘expansion’ in the game and will tell you which ones you have completed or have not completed. They appear to be built for returning players that do not remember what story updates each character had completed.

They jump you right to the story quests you are currently up to in the mission log or to start the next expansion.

The Mission Log has been updated to show clearly defined planets, ‘purple’ quests have been reduced and are now more focused on actual critical path of story quests rather then planetary world quests. The new map includes easy tracker buttons and immediate travel buttons to teleport you right to the planet/location of the quest.

New World Map

New Legend on the left side, quick travel now has an easy access list on the Left Side.

There is also now a dynamic encounters list on the left side, you can click and travel/track to the Dynamic Encounter that you have selected. They will help you travel to the dynamic encounter of your choosing.

Combat Update???

The focus of this micro combat update is to bring utilities closer in line to the levels you would unlock the abilities. There will be a long list and dedicated PTS just for this combat update.

These changes will not come into effect until 7.7.1 later this year.

New Story Update

While a majority of the trailer for SWTOR showed content upwards of 10 years old, to interest convention goers to try all of SWTOR’s content, appealing to Star Wars fans that have never played the game before. The final minute of the Celebration trailer showed story cutscenes for the main game storyline that was delayed back in November of 2024.

So lets deconstruct the trailer and combine what we know about the existing story of Legacy of the Sith compared to what the new trailer showed us!

Spoilers Ahead!

Malgus Monologue

The final minute of the trailer depics several brand new cutscenes, assumably from the unreleased 7.6 and upcoming 7.7 main story quest. While the video clearly shows a bunch of old and new cutscenes stitched and edited together, Darth Malgus features a unique narration over each segment of the trailer.

Darth Malgus Narration with reference to each cutscene the video originates from

Our paths are not destined they are forged. – A compilation of Darth Malgus boss fight and capture at the start of Legacy of the Sith (7.0 Elom Flashpoint and immediate Jail cutscene)

Shaped by Ambition… – A player character and Lana Beniko inside a throne room on Ilum (not yet released content)
… And Fear. – Cutscene depicting Sahar Kateen taking the Datacron of Nul (7.0 Elom Flashpoint)

The desire for Power… – Heta Kol staring at the banner of Clan Cadera (7.2 Showdown on Ruhnuk)
…the need for Control… – Flashpoint Cutscene before Malgus Boss fight at the throne room of the False Emperor Flashpoint (1.0 Ilum)
…The price of Obedience. – Ri’kan Kateen becoming jealous as Heta Kol talks to Sahar Kateen about the Holocron of Nul (7.2 Showdown on Ruhnuk)

We allowed corrupt doctrines… – An Imperial player character in the Jail cutscene with Darth Rivix and Krovos (7.0 Jail cutscene after Elom Flashpoint)
… to dictate the paths before us… – What appears to be a hologram of Darth Jadus standing infront of the player character (not yet released content)
… No Longer. – Shae Vizla breaks Darth Malgus out of his jail cell on the fleet. (7.5 Mimboosa District)

A change is coming to the galaxy… – The Darth Nul machine from Heta Kol’s ship with its shield activated (7.5 Mimboosa District)
… Forged from Pain and Rage and Sacrifice. – A compilation of Heta Kol vs Shae Vizla on Ruhnuk (7.2 Showdown on Ruhnuk), Darth Rivix vs Tau Idair (7.3 Voss Retreat) and Sahar vs Rikan vs the Player Character (7.6 Mimboosa District)

My Chains are Broken and Now… – A new cutscene depicting a Rakatan Mind Prison being activated (not yet released content)
… I will break them all! – A compilation showing Shae Vizla’s crew and Darth Malgus ransacking Tatooine (not yet released content)

Return to Ilum

There are two separate sections of the video that show a Mirialan Jedi Knight (pictured above, likely representing the player character) and Lana Beniko wandering around Ilum.

The room appears to be the destroyed remains of the Space station Throne Room that players fight Darth Malgus in during the False Emperor flashpoint from the end of the vanilla game (14 years ago).

Given that the space station appears to have survived relatively unharmed. It is likely that our player characters and Lana Beniko will be exploring the destroyed remains of Darth Malgus’ space station from the original flashpoint in search for clues as to his whereabouts.

As the 7.6 game update released without a story BUT released with a new Raid boss, XR-53, that also takes place within the crashed ruins of the space station on Ilum, we could easily assume that this part of the video takes place in the unreleased story content for game update 7.6 which was meant to release in November of 2024.

Heta Kol and Mandalorians

Heta Kol and the Hidden Chain do not feature in any new capacity in this cutscene, nearly as if the developers themselves are pivoting the story away from the Twilek twins and the Hidden Chain and instead focusing towards the newly unchained Darth Malgus and the rogue Shae Vizla.
In fact the current ‘substitute’ leaders of the Mandalorians, Jekiah and Rass Ordo, are not even mentioned in the trailer.

The trailer shows an old cutscene from a prior game update, with Heta Kol looking at the new banner of Clan Cadera (Torian Cadera) which was stolen during the Showdown on Ruhnuk update in 2022. It is likely a reference to the fact that Heta Kol throughout the expansion has accomplished nothing except the continual loss of power of her faction, the Hidden Chain.

Darth Malgus and Shae Vizla

Darth Malgus and Shae Vizla both feature prominently in the trailer, while most of the earlier trailer segments are dedicated to showing cutscenes from Legacy of the Sith that we have already played:
Malgus Capture on Elom
Malgus failing to escape on his own
Shae Vizla breaking out Malgus

There is a rather large 10 second cutscene (pictured above) that depicts Darth Malgus, Shae Vizla and her rogue militia, seiging Hidden Chain strongholds on what appears to be Tatooine.

Just like the previous snippets of Ilum, it is very likely that these cutscenes of Malgus on Tatooine also take place during the events of the unreleased 7.6 story (November 2024), as it would lend continuity and lore as to why there are Dynamic Encounters featuring Hidden Chain Mandalorians on Tatooine.

Sa’har and Ri’kan Kateen

Two of the biggest unresolved plot points going into Master’s Enigma is the fate of Sa’har and Ri’kan Kateen.

Both of these characters can potentially either live or ‘die’ (or so we assume) based on your choices at the end of the Mimboosa District storyline – 7.5 Desperate Defiance.
There is no new footage of Ri’kan or Sa’har shown in the teaser trailer, instead it focuses only on compilations of cutscenes from 7.0, 7.3 and 7.5.

So for now, the fate of Ri’kan and Sa’har is still ambiguous until otherwise.

Rakatan Mind Trap

One of the most interesting parts of the trailer is this specific cutscene which appear to be part of the upcoming and unreleased main story content.

The cutscene depics what appears to be a Rakatan Mind Prison being powered on and activated. However the location and technology around the Rakatan Mind Prison does not match any locations we have seen in SWTOR already.

For those that need a refresher, a Rakatan Mind Prison is a pyramid like device powered by the force, that was created by the ancient an extinct Rakatan Infinite Empire, it first appeared in KOTOR before briefly reappearing for a minor side quests on Belsavis in SWTOR.

Rakatan Mind Prisons are physical pyramids that are able to ‘suck a person’ into a kind of alternate reality where they live ‘inside’ of the mind prison in a form of infinite stasis. Theoretically meaning anyone stuck inside a Mind Prison could live forever, trapped inside, until they are ‘set free’.

Due to the fact we see the camera get ‘sucked in’ and the screen turns white, it is likely that we will either be Opening a Mind Prison, or our characters are going to be sucked into a Mind Prison in whatever cutscene awaits us in the next game update.

Darth Jadus!?

Towards the end of the trailer, we see Darth Malgus narrate over the holographic image of Darth Jadus. As there is no spoken words by the ‘player character’ or Darth Jadus in this cutscene recording, we dont know if Darth Jadus is actually involved in the story or if it just the developers teasing his character.

However if you look closely, Darth Jadus has an all new appearance, being a custom Chestpiece (based off of level 80 R4 Anomaly gear) and a Cartel Market robe. So it is very likely if anything that this means that Darth Jadus will return in at least a small capacity if they have updated his appearance.

That being said we must all wait and see how he is involved in the story, whether he is an ally to Darth Malgus, the Empire, or us.

Opinion Segment:

In an absolute twist of Ironic Fate, I made up an April Fools post earlier this year with my Discord Server that coincidentally teased the return of Darth Jadus at Star Wars Celebration.
While wholly unintentional, based on nothing more than the main storyline on Iokath in KOTET where Lana Beniko says Darth Jadus is alive and working in the shadows. We decided the shadow planet of Dathomir would be an awesome place for Darth Jadus to raise an army of Nightsisters to attack the Empire, despite it being literally impossible due to canon/lore impossibility.

And I somehow struck lightning twice with Star Wars Celebration ‘leaking’ that Darth Jadus would return. Which technically came true I guess.
Broadsword please don’t ban me.

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Placing the Timeline

As Game Update 7.6 released without it’s main story (most likely due to ongoing SAG-AFTRA Voice Acting Union Strokes) component. It still released all of its side quest and new content, such as the XR-53 lairboss on Ilum, Dynamic Encounters and more.

However, as the side content, which assumably takes place AFTER the ‘main quest’ was meant to be completed, some plot holes appeared to have been opened. As the story we will most likely be getting in 7.7 takes place BEFORE the content from 7.6 that released Last November (2024).

So knowing what we know about the SWTOR Star Wars Celebration trailer, lets attempt to piece together the timeline:

Legacy of the Sith: Starting on Elom, Darth Malgus is finally captured by the player character and put in Jail on the Fleet.
7.1 Our character is then tipped off by Mex Briggam and the newly reformed Czerk Interstellar (not Corporation) that a rogue Sith Cult has uncovered the Mass Shadow Generator from Malachor and is attempting to use it for nefarious purposes, we travel there and destroy them all.
7.2 Our character then heads to Ruhnuk in order to aid Shae Vizla in attempting to track down Heta Kol, who escapes. However we defeat several Hidden Chain leaders.
7.3 Our character goes to Voss where the mystics have a vision of the Galaxy in flames, before we are sidetracked by a corrupted ancient Sith presence taking over the underground tombs on Voss, also Czerka Corporation is involved for some reason and it’s never mentioned again.
7.4 After Voss, our character aids in the liberation of Kessan’s Landing on Ord Mantell from the Hidden Chain attempting to recruit the Separatists, we defeat one of the Hidden Chain clan leaders and ally with Sa’har Kateen.
7.5 Desperate Defiance: Set on the Mimboosa District of Hutta and finalising a battle between our player characters and Ri’kan/Sa’har Kateen for ownership of Darth Nul’s Holocron.

7.6(7) Master’s Engima Story: Assuming the trailer is accurate to the unreleased story content, it is likely that the footage depicting a Player Character + Lana Beniko on Ilum AND the cutscene showing Darth Malgus attacking Hidden Chain on Tatooine takes place during this time.

7.6 Galactic Threads: Released in November 2024, The XR-53 Lairboss on Ilum and the Dynamic Encounters featuring the Hidden Chain stealing technology on Ilum and Tatooine most likely take place after the 7.7 story on Ilum as our characters should not know the location of the crashed Space Station of Darth Malgus and its reactivated droids if we have not been to it in the main story yet.

7.7 and Beyond?: The sections of the trailer featuring the Rakatan Mind Prison and Darth Jadus most likely are related to the planned story content fo 7.7 or take place after the actual playable events of 7.6.

SWTOR Celebration Giveaway Codes!

There are also a multitude of free goodies that you can unlock for your SWTOR account before April 30th!

There are two new rewards given away to players that log in between April 17th at 12pm CT / 5pm UTC and will be available until May 23rd.

Jubilee Hover Pod

The Jubilee Hover Pod is a Baby Yoda inspired Minipet wrapped in purple blankets that is available to all Free to Play and Subscriber players that log in between April 17th at 12pm CT / 5pm UTC and May 23rd.

Naboo Type-C Speeder Mount

The Naboo Type-C Speeder Mount is a Mandalorian Season 3 inspired Mount that is available to all Subscriber players that log in between April 17th at 12pm CT / 5pm UTC and May 23rd.

Amethyst Vulptilla Pet Code SWTORSWC25

Using the code SWTORSWC25 at https://www.swtor.com/redeem-code will unlock the limited time Amethyst Vulptilla Puppy Pet.
The code can be redeemed from the 17th of April at 12pm CT / 5pm UTC and expires at midnight UTC May 30th.

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