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Very little news this week, though there were the temporarily free character transfers, the various consequences of the gameplay focus feature affecting former PvP areas, and more.
1. Introduction
2. Tip of the week
Congratulations to this week’s winner, B’Mal Suj! Thanks to Ol’ Sarge, Doc Naturalist, Greg and Shiny for entering.
Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Tuesday for a chance to win a Taunfawn or M8-3R droid code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.
3. Holofeed
- Character transfers between servers were temporarily free for a few hours as BioWare was attempting to fix an issue with transfers.
- You are no longer flagged for PvP when entering Outlaw’s Den in a PvE gameplay focus instance.
- Free-to-play and Preferred players were offered a 500 Cartel Coin incentive to subscribe by 11 April.
- It appears that the fifth Stronghold is giving a Conquest bonus, for a potential total bonus of 125%.
- Group queuing in PvP is currently bugged.
- The PTS with the Eternal Championship has been closed down ahead of its release with Game Update 4.4 on 3 May.
- The official teaser trailer for Rogue One, a Star Wars story, has been released.
4. Community
You can find Xam Xam’s Odessan Proving Ground guide here.
Knite and his co-host have started a PvP-focussed podcast called Have a nice daycast!
5. The Academy
This week, Swtorista will tell us all about Planetary Conquests.
6. Force Feedback
BroBroNelly asked about the introduction of world drops in Game Update 4.4.
FarSear referred us to these awesome Star Wars socks.
We’ll be covering the quality of life features in Croue’s guide in subsequent shows.
7. Outro
On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Charlie (@Kranitoko, youtube.com/KranitokoGames), Dekion (@therealDekion) and Fyonha (@GamrGrlNextDoor).
Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.
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