Star Wars Genesis 8.8.1 Patch Notes

This update focuses on rewriting common vanilla quests that players encounter as well as a light revamp of a very nasapunk looking area.

New Quests
  • The Due in Full quest available in Coruscant has been fully rewritten and revoiced into the new quest “Banking Clan Interests”, where you will be employed by the Muun controlled banking clan and fulfill a total of 4 bounties/tasks
  • The Mantis quest has been fully rewritten and revoiced into the new quest “The Hidden Chain”, where you will fight off mercenaries and scavengers for the legendary Ri’kan armor. The softlock of it at level 75 has been changed so that it happens under a certain set of conditions in mid/late game. Note that the helmet of the armor acquired from this quest can be modified at the forge on Mandalore for aesthetic purposes
  • The Captain’s Bounty quest available in Gallofree has been fully rewritten and revoiced into the new quest “Loose Ends”, where you will work with the Black Sun on taking down the mandalorian known as Chop’aa Notimo
  • The Coffee Run quest available in Coruscant has been fully rewritten and revoiced into the new repeatable quest “Off the Market”, where you will sell starpath units to a familiar smuggler. The look of the smuggler is currently a placeholder scrapper armor, as the future vision of him is of a Kubaz
  • The Dream Home quest text has been rewritten to make sense with the “Safe Haven” trait, but it is not considered converted until the actual home gets an asset overhaul
Immersion/Gripe Changes
  • Replaced R2-D2 follower in Gallofree with custom R2-D5 droid
  • Replaced Chewbacca follower in Dantooine with Gaarkhan (obscure wookie rebel) and new dialogue associated with it
  • Added new research project under the BioTechnology category called Osteocraft Studies, which unlocks the recipe to craft Kaleesh Masks
  • Removed the R2-D2 and Princess Leia static objects from the Falcon interior
  • The chain vanilla questline (Keeping the Peace+) available from the imperial office has been soft disabled and the dialogue + voices have been changed to sound natural for both imperials and non-imperials (accept option removed)
Environmental
  • Overhauled Gallofree Spaceport exterior and interior with Star Wars assets
  • Changed the color pallete of the Imperial Medical Station to a more black/grey/white as well removing much of the english signs and plant clutter
  • Replaced somewhere between 20-30 small/medium sized props. only god knows the exact count
  • Aurebeshified alot of generic warning/danger signs
Main Quest/Cast
  • Converted a few leftover ambient barks from both Cade and Meeka
Kestro City Cleanup
  • Added existing droid skins to Kestro City droid vendor
  • Added Imperial armor leveled list to Kestro City armor vendor
  • too lazy to make an imperial weapon leveled list, or too lazy to find my existing one if i have one
  • Removed and integrated 3 patches for Kestro City; Vardos System, Kestro Droid Remover, and Neon Lag Fix full. This was a huge cleanup and finally sets up Kestro as a proper mod in Genesis
Performance
  • Converted an additional 5-10 GB of texture archives to LZ4 as performance feedback around it was very positive
Galaxy
  • The Denobola system has been converted into the Vodran system and moved into the main galaxy alongide the conversion of the mantis quest
General Cleanup

With the recent version of xEdit releasing, I can finally start cleaning alot of messy stuff. Genesis has dropped back down to 170 plugins as of this update.

  • Updated to latest version of R2-D2 mod, patched HopeTown name back to Gallofree in the plugin directly, and removed the GallofreeRename plugin
  • Removed and integrated AlienPlayerWorkbench patch
  • Removed and integrated RancorBoss into RVNomadCave plugin
QoL
  • Added an empty placeholder plugin for HD Overhaul so that load order does not have to be adjusted when updating Genesis
  • Hid the top menu bar of Mod Organizer 2 so that the 2 fake error notifications are no longer visible
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed the black door in the lodge (forgot to update the mod for 8.8)
  • Fixed the clipping between Nia Kialu’s ship and the GR-75 transport (this was ninja patched on 6/18/26)
  • Fixed the visual bug where wrong discovery announcements played when entering Kestro City and Mandalore
  • Fixed a couple helmets with the 1st person view bug while riding ships that you guys reported
Misc.
  • Removed the “Militia” suffix from some armors so I could re-use them in other places and have them still make sense
  • Replaced TerraBrew object string with Spiran
  • Replace TerraBrew franchise references (string only) with Caf or Cafe
Website Improvements
  • Modernized the Self Help section
  • Split the top navigation bar into two and added 2 new sections for the team page and credits page
  • Added more information to the main FAQ and reformatted it
  • Revamped the volunteer page with clearly defined roles and requirements