The servers are already up!  Nice working bringing them up 5 hours ahead of schedule! Today’s patch gives us a pretty decent sized list of fixes:

I’m most happy about the cover related bugs getting fixed:

1.0.2 Patch Notes 1/4/2012

 

General

• Guilds that are currently leaderless will have an Officer chosen and promoted to Guild Leader.

Classes and Combat

 

Sith Inquisitor

• The Darth title is now properly granted to Sith Inquisitors.

 

Bug Fixes

• Corrected an issue that could prevent players from taking cover when targeting large NPCs.
• Fixed a bug that caused some abilities with activation times to be interrupted when used from cover.

Crew Skills

 

Gathering

• Removed some high-level harvesting nodes from Tatooine, Corellia, and Ilum.

Flashpoints and Operations

 

Flashpoints

 

Cademimu

• General Ortol can no longer be pulled out of his room.

 

Maelstrom Prison

• Corrected an issue that could cause Kilran to behave incorrectly when defeated in cover.

 

Taral V

• General Edikar now has the correct loot in Hard Mode and no longer enrages in Normal Mode.

 

Operations

 

Eternity Vault

• Gharj can no longer be pulled out of his encounter room.

 

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause choosing Nightmare Mode to not set enemies to Nightmare difficulty.

Items

 

General

• PvP lockboxes now cost 70 commendations, contain more consumables, and always contain an item.

 

Bug Fixes

• Corrected several PvP items that were Bind on Equip. They are now Bind on Pickup.
• PvP vendors on Capital Planets now offer the correct PvP items.
• Commendations received via in-game mail are now correctly added to the Currency tab.

Missions and NPCs

 

Missions

 

Imperial

• Number One with a Bullet: Players who choose dark side options now correctly receive the mission First Strike after completing this mission.
• First Strike: Players who did not receive this mission will now receive it upon entering their personal starships.

 

Republic

• Death Cloud: Players can now complete the “Toxic Waste” bonus objective regardless of how quickly they complete this mission.

 

Bug Fixes

• Corrected mission steps on several planets that could cause client instability.
• Fixed issues with some missions that could prevent pending rewards from being accepted.

Space Combat

 

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused a client crash if a space station was destroyed in Space Combat.

UI

 

Maps

• Group members no longer appear on all planets on the Galaxy Map.
• Corrected an issue that could cause map notes to disappear after logging out and back into the game.
• Corrected some map notes that referenced the incorrect map.
• Updated map notes for “travel to planet” steps in class missions on Nar Shaddaa, Hoth, and Belsavis to indicate the planet’s space station.

 

Bug Fixes

• Group members outside of a player’s phase are no longer prompted to roll on items.
• The In-Game Customer Service Portal no longer appears to hang while the “updating” message is displayed.
• The Guild interface now properly displays the guild member list when it is sorted.
• The “Show Sith Corruption” option no longer toggles off when transitioning between areas.

 

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Taxi rides are no longer occasionally interrupted, causing the player to be dropped from the taxi.
• Using the /dismiss command now correctly dismisses a vanity pet.
• Corrected some issues that could cause players to become stuck on the loading screen when logging into a character.
• Players can now use emotes while riding a vehicle.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some text-only mail messages from being received.
• Graphics preferences in settings files are now consistent with actual settings in use.
• Being in Do Not Disturb mode no longer prevents characters from being logged out for being away.
• Corrected an issue that caused poor performance on some machines in indoor areas with shadows enabled.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent players from being logged out for inactivity