Die Flashpoints (vgl. Dungeons) in Star Wars: The Old Republic (ab 39,95€ bei kaufen) wird es ebenfalls in einem "Hardmode" auf der Maximalstufe (50) geben, dies bestätigte James Ohlen (Lead Designer) in einem Interview. Einerseits sollen den Spielern möglichst viele Inhalte im "Endgame" zur Verfügung gestellt werden und andererseits soll man so "verpasste" Flashpoints nachholen können, schließlich gibt es diese Gruppen-Instanzen für vier Personen auch während des Level-Up-Prozesses und diese könnten durch Aktivitäten auf anderen Planeten, Story-Quests oder sonstige Worldevents schlichtweg verpasst oder übergangen werden, was die Entwickler aufgrund der jeweiligen Hintergrundgeschichte nicht wollen. Natürlich werden die Hardmode-Flashpoints auf Stufe 50 schwieriger sein als ihre Pendants, aber auch Beute bzw. Belohnungen werden entsprechend angepasst. Die beste Ausrüstung soll es hingegen bei den Operationen (vgl. Raids, Schlachtzüge) geben.

"Regarding the Gabe Amatangelo Q&A on Twitter he mentioned that early game Flashpoints would be balanced to Level 50. Is this something you guys are employing to make sure that you have hard-mode difficulties to lead people into the Operations? What drove that decision?

Well, there are two major reasons. One is that we want to have a ton of content for our Level 50 players, and this is one way to do it. Essentially, all those Flashpoints throughout the whole game will be available in a hard mode at Level 50. Also, many of our Flashpoints are really great story experiences that we don't want players to miss. There is a chance of missing them because you might level by doing your class story and world quests, so you never do a Flashpoint. Then you get too high level for it, and there is no point so you continue on, and you never get to play it. But now you do. Once you get to the end of the game, you can play at the hard-mode version of it if you want to.

In that case, is the gear comparable to what the Operations are, or they just supposed to lead you into the Operations?

In terms of gear, the absolute best PvE gear in the game is going to come out of the Operations. If you want to get that ridiculous-looking gear that you see other people run around in, you're going to have to join into multiple groups and go there. But there is a lot of cool stuff that you can get from the high-level Flashpoints, but it just isn't the absolute best stuff."