OotiniCast – A Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) podcast

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We discuss the latest KotET livestream, Storytime with Charles Boyd. Returning guest Daniel, now officially Dr SWTOR, gives us more details on his psychological study of why we play the game.

1. Introduction

Congratulations to Daniel for completing his PhD!

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Devodar! Thanks to Jason, DR2000 and Javadoggy 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

• The Rakghoul Plauge is back once again. BioWare shared this Rakghoul concept art on Twitter:
• KotET has a new trailer: “Rule the Galaxy”.
• This week’s livestream, Storytime with Charles, features Eric Musco and Charles Body discussing KotFE’s story and how it leads into KotET. Charles also answers story-related questions.
• At the end of the livestream, Drew Karpyshyn’s new short story, A Mother’s Hope, was released.
• Star Wars Little Golden Books offer another way to introduce your Padawans to our favourite galaxy far, far away.

4. Community

Thanks to Ahnog for his generous monthly contribution! Also thanks to Jesenko69 for their kind iTunes review.

Hawke is hoping to find other players to form a core group doing group content while he streams during the week (7pm to 10pm Central), ideally after our live show on Thursday. If you’re interested, contact Hawke via Discord, Twitter, Facebook or Twitch.

5. The Academy

This week Swtorista will tell us about the Collections interface!

6. Force Feedback

Deathrow gives us a look at his spreadsheet containing all 84 of his SWTOR characters across multiple servers.

7. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge) and Daniel (@Infinite0utcome).

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. You can subscribe to us on iTunes, and listen to us on Stitcher and Spreaker. We record the show live every Wednesday at 4:30pm Pacific, goto ootinicast.com/live to find out how to join in!

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This week we talk about the Uprisings livestream, along with the revelation that the various passes allowing F2P and Preferred players to access group content were being removed from the game.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Joseph Brown! Thanks to Nick 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

• Game Update 4.7.3 was deployed during the usual maintenance window on Tuesday, though an issue was discovered that resulted in Patch 4.7.3a being deployed on Thursday.
• The various weekly passes were made Bind to Legacy in Game Update 4.7.3, and will be removed from the game in Game Update 5.0. Players with characters holding those passes when Game Update 5.0 is deployed will receive their original purchase price in Cartel Coins.
• Warzone commendations, Season Six ranked PvP tokens, and all crystals will be converted into credits when Game Update 5.0 is deployed. Cosmetic items purchasable with warzone commendations will then be sold for credits with a minimum Valor requirement.
• This week’s KotET livestream, summarised by Dulfy, discussed the new 4-player Uprisings. An associated developer blog was then released.

4. The Academy

Swtorista continues her PvP series with a detailed overview of the 8v8 warzone Odessan Proving Ground!

5. Force Feedback

6. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge) and Illeva (@IllevaGaming, twitch.tv/illeva).

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. You can subscribe to us on iTunes, and listen to us on Stitcher and Spreaker. We record the show live every Wednesday at 4:30pm Pacific, goto ootinicast.com/live to find out how to join in!

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The “Betrayed” trailer has been released, along with a veritable flood of information about Knights of the Eternal Throne! We talk all things KotET, along with our returning guest Cristina giving us her firsthand account of the Community Cantina in New York.

1. Introduction

Cristina obtained the following most awesome picture of her and her husband from the Community Cantina:

Alex is hoping that this isn’t an indication of what’s in KotET:

Charlie’s latest video analyses what we know so far about KotET. He also obtained this most amazing Star Wars lavalamp:

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Cole! Thanks to GasGuy, Javadoggy and LaChimba 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

• The “Betrayed” trailer has been released, and the landing page for KotET has been updated with a LOT of information. The press release contains mostly the same information. Early access begins 29 November, and its full release three days later on 2 December. It is free for all Premium players, which is the name for a player with game time or an active subscription. All 9 chapters, which appears to be the complete KotET story, will be released at launch.
• The Dark vs Light event will end when KotET early access begins on 29 November.
• At the Community Cantina held in New York in conjunction with NYCC, our guest Cristina provided thorough coverage via Twitter, summarised by Dulfy.
• It seems that Nathema will be one of the two worlds released with KotET.
• An article on starwars.com gives six reasons to be excited about KotET.
• Double XP is now active, and will continue through to 28 November.
• The suggestion forum is being monitored, but it’s BioWare policy not to respond to any suggestions.
• The proliferation of NPCs suddently acquiring weapons is a bug that will be fixed in Game Update 4.7.3.

4. The Academy

Swtorista continues her PvP series with a detailed overview of the 8v8 warzone Ancient Hypergate!

5. Force Feedback

Alex spotted this Hammerhead Corvette in the second official trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One, a starship inspired by the SWTOR Hammerhead-class cruiser and its later incarnation, the Thranta-class corvette:

Penny Arcade published a cartoon mentioning KotET.

6. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Cristina (@CristiPetrarca,cristinapetrarca.com), Alex (@MixUpPixels, geek-podcast.com) and Charlie (@Kranitoko, youtube.com/KranitokoGames).

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. You can subscribe to us on iTunes, and listen to us on Stitcher and Spreaker. We record the show live every Wednesday at 4:30pm Pacific, goto ootinicast.com/live to find out how to join in!