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OotiniCast Episode 205

Posted on May 14, 2015 by teoMay 14, 2015

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In the news this week we talk through the less-than-favoured Marauder/Sentinel changes, the subsequent harassment of John Jarynowski, and much more. We then discuss why progression guilds do matter to the game, and why we should care that some are leaving.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winners, Feylith and Flesh (Recruit Officer for the Grievance guild on Jedi Covenant)! Thanks to John/Coreley, Topps, Isaiah, LethalXBacon and Jason W for entering.

Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Tuesday for a chance to win a Taunfawn or M8-R3 droid code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

3. Holofeed

Patch 3.2b was deployed on Tuesday morning during regular maintenance, with the only change being to fix a problem with the Colossal Monolith encounter on Ziost (see this excellent mini-guide if you need help with hard mode).
Preferred players will encounter an error if using the account-wide unlocks Crew Skill Assignment Slot and Additional Quickbar.
The Relics Conquest event will unintentionally finish three days early this week, which prevented guilds from invading any of the available planets. It will be repeated next week, and the Gree will remain for an extra week.
The teaser for Ranked PvP Season 5 rewards has been published. It seems that participation in Ranked PvP between Seasons 3 and 4 has decreased in overall volume of players, but remained equivalent in terms of those players who are actively participating.
The Hypercrates in this shipment will include a single Platinum Pack. Additional questions about them were subsequently answered.
While it was hoped that vendors selling the White Acute Module (that disables the bonus XP from the Epic Story XP Boost) would be available on the starter worlds in Game Update 3.2.1, instead the White Acute Module will be made bind-to-legacy.
John Jarynowski, who appears to be the spokesman for the Combat Team, made a series of posts to explain the changes (update 1, update 2) made to Sentinels and Marauders, explaining defensive forms, rotation philosophy for Watchman/Annihilation, and self-healing changes and set bonus improvements on Wednesday 6 May. The following day, Eric Musco posted about the harassment of John and his family.
A new Star Wars exhibit will be opening at Madame Tussauds in London on Saturday 16 May.

4. Community

Thanks to our mega-patron, Odesius Kraus!

Thanks also to our newest Ootini Patrons: Daniel and Dekarch.

Farewell to TOROCast, which will soon be finishing its 6 year run. You will be missed!

5. Force Feedback

The answer to ElionD’s question about the Cartel Coins granted to subscribers can be found in the help center on the official site.

Darklighter’s ultimate Imperial Agent, an invisible Sniper!

Here’s Kal getting the Beastmaster of Ilum achievement while on Alderaan:

6. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Ivilon (@percomposer, stephenridley.com) and Oofalong (Reddit, official forums).

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!

OotiniCast Episode 204

Posted on May 7, 2015 by teoMay 7, 2015

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After our usual coverage of the news, Kuze presents his ideas for improving SWTOR, along with some additional suggestions from the community.

1. Introduction

The following gallery contains Chill’s screenshots from his #StatueOrBust adventure!

[Show slideshow]

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Biggus’dickus! Thanks to Matt, Cameron, GasGuy, Bara-dur, Topps and Sandnuu for entering.

3. Holofeed

Patch 3.2a was deployed with little warning on Thursday morning.
The Epic Story XP Boost was intended to be available to subscribers at 8am Pacific on 4 May; however, it wasn’t until later in the morning that it reached all players.
The rewards for Season 5 will be teased in a blog post later in May.
The issue with the spelling of Season 4 titles will be resolved in Game Update 3.2.1.
The Black-Silver Crystal that was a reward in Season 4 will also be a reward in subsequent seasons.
The endless war against win-traders and trolls in Ranked PvP continues.
The changes proposed for all the healing Disciplines have been postponed, and thus will not appear as originally intended in Game Update 3.2.1.
Game Update 3.2.1 has been removed from the PTS. The next PTS will be hosting Game Update 3.3, not Game Update 3.2.2.
Credit sellers were taken down en masse as a result of a long-running investigation.
On Thursday last week, a second round of more severe punishments were meted out to players accessing the Colossal Monolith encounter on Ziost ahead of its release on 4 May. No further action was required as no more players had taken advantage of the exploit on Friday or over the weekend.
In Electronic Arts’ (EA) Q4 2015 earnings call, they confirmed that EA’s E3 presentation would be on 15 June 2015, the date associated with #FallenEmpire at the Anaheim Community Cantina.

4. Community

Thanks to our latest Ootini Patrons: Charles, Alex, Jazzycat, ElionD and Mosq!

You can find episode 5 of the Galactic Gamers Coalition podcast here (also its RSS feed, and where to find it in iTunes).

GGC5

5. Force Feedback

GasGuy has updated his Codex Tracking spreadsheet with the new entries from Ziost provided by Derpine.

This Reddit thread included additional answers from BioWare representatives at the Anaheim Community Cantina.

Sechari has apparently identified Milton, the SWTOR developer who resides in an underground lair fixing bugs:

6. Sarlacc Digest

This one is free, BioWare. – Oni

Shown below are Kuze’s ideas to help retain existing players, and bring in new ones. Thanks to ElionD for her wishlist, and to Pnnick, Freedious, Rose Marie, Ferrous Terran, Laurie M, Brian (of the Bad Feeling Podcast) and Chong for their contributions.

PvP/GSF Ideas

Cross server queuing, even if it’s just between like servers or make super servers.
New 8v8 PvP Maps, and after cross server maybe some 12v12s
Statues as a PvP season reward (Top 10 on Server or so) in the Combat area with Players names on Plaques.
Rework Bolster for PvP. Just give everyone base stats that will never trump the lowest level of PvP gear regardless of what they have equipped. Once a piece of expertise gear is equipped that base value should be over written. What a crazy world it would be for people to have to play on skill alone. The min/maxing aspect of PvP should be done with PvP gear.
Add new maps and play styles to GSF. A team race through an old ship, asteroid, or space station would be awesome. A defend and attack swap map. A escort map where you have to protect a team member that is carrying a bomb to the enemy’s spaceport.

PvE Ideas

A PvE Star fighter encounter in the beginning of or during an operation. Even if the first introduction of this was a trench run style using fixed turrets and obstacles instead of an advanced AI battle.
New Hard mode Flashpoints similar to Lost Island (before all the nerfs) that are like mini ops with decent loot drops.

Quality of Life

Multi-spec with gear and action bar changer.
In game calendar for guilds and events. Note: would have been great for Ziost!
Update GTN and all selection windows for better filtering/sorting. This goes for the character selection screen as well. I would like to order my characters and have them stay in order. For example, filter by not owned (decos, pets, mounts and maybe armor).
Mouse over raid frame with keybinds
Make bound to legacy the most restrictive (or unlocakble via craftable item or legacy 50)
Legacy wide search
Fix minor bugs more frequently to give the game a more polished feel so players don’t get frustrated and lead them down a Bioware hating road.

General

Reasons to have a high level of Valor and Legacy. (Valor e.g. PvP Gear discount for Valor rating X.) (Legacy e.g. Things like the ability to purchase 12x xp, Reveal previously explored areas and speeder/quick travel points as Legacy privilege only!)
Mini games, this can also be tied to a phone app as suggested last show.
Update seeker droid with new loot and UI.
Short Speed Boost while mounted similar to Rocket Boots.
Stronghold Dailies to earn new decos and cosmetic items. They could be simple fetch or crafting quest.
Portable GTN
SWTOR Advertising on TV
More platforming challenges! This could be for achievements, special loot, new datacrons, etc.
A site to view peoples Equipment, Achievements, Disciplines, and Utilities. Like WoWs Armory but we could call it ???
Fix the slot machine

Crafting

Stop nerfing crafting and start working to make it viable. Don’t get me wrong, I love my 8hr stims but things like this really take away from crafting. We had a lack of resource nodes in RotHC and too many in SoR; a balance needs to be found.
Give the player’s character an option to craft an item immediately with something like a 2hr cooldown. If you want more ideas I’m sure they’re out there.
All decos added into the game should require deco kits
A way to send companions out on alts all from one toon
Craftable sparkle powder

7. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Kuze (@kuze_roh, YouTube) and Bill (@BillLentz).

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

Ootini War Room Deployment 5

Posted on May 3, 2015 by teoMay 3, 2015

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Welcome to the War Room! This week Turg, Jacket and Pez provide an introduction to PvP, defining terms and some basic Ranked PvP group comps. They then give some brief comments on current and future class changes, and give their opinion on the progress of PvP updates.

As someone recently said to Jacket, “Bro, do you even medpac?”

On the show this week were Turg (@TheTurg), Jacket and Pez (@MyVery0wnFlag).

You can email questions and comments about the show to OotiniWarRoom@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniWarRoom. 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.

Our theme music is Achilles by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

OotiniCast Episode 203

Posted on April 30, 2015 by teoApril 30, 2015

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Game Update 3.2: Rise of the Emperor is here! We walk through its features and our initial impressions. Some opinions are then expressed on the latest exploit and BioWare’s rapid response. We also discuss the latest round of class changes in Game Update 3.1.2 on the PTS.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this inadvertent week’s winner, Ferrous Terran!

3. Holofeed

Game Update 3.2: Rise of the Emperor is here! It has its own trailer, along with the usual patch notes.
Courtney Woods (BioWare Writer) has written a two part story (part one, part two), titled “The Sixth Line”, providing some backstory for the militaristic Jedi we will encounter on Ziost.
It has been confirmed that there is more content in Game Update 3.2 that will unlock on 1 May at 8am PDT (4pm BST, Tue 1am AEST), without requiring further patching.
On 4 May (Star Wars Day, “May the Fourth” be with you!), all players will get the M4-1S astromech droid pet. In addition, subscribers will be granted the Epic Story XP Boost (12x XP) that will remain in the game until Fall (23 Sep – 21 Dec). Eric Musco (Community Manager) discussed how it will work, along with the quality of life changes made to enhance the accelerated leveling experience. Note that the Epic Story XP Boost will not affect the Shadow of Revan content (levels 55-60).
It seems that the new Lair boss(es) that will become accessible on 4 May can be fought now via some nefarious means to get into the currently restricted area. This has been confirmed to be an exploit, and appropriate punitive action has already been taken against those who’ve taken advantage of this exploit, with more to come for players who subsequently utilise the exploit ahead of 4 May.
There are more class changes in Game Update 3.2.1 on the PTS affecting:
- Sorcerers and Sages (Death By Smiley’s analysis can be found here)
- Operatives and Scoundrels
- Mercenaries and Commandos
- Marauders and Sentinels

4. Community

5. Force Feedback

Freedious found the following for Bill and Chong’s coverage of the Community Cantina and Star Wars Celebration:

Chong managed to get Bronze in Ranked PvP Season 4:

Chong also asks what’s wrong with this picture? The second image is the clue:

Finally, Chong is on a bug hunt. Firstly, this Vine shows his cybernetic implant option changing randomly when he reset his appearance. Secondly, he can’t change this character’s hair colour:

6. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Kuze (@kuze_roh, YouTube) and Mosq (@JRO_Mosqueito).

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

OotiniCast Episode 202

Posted on April 23, 2015 by teoApril 23, 2015

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This week we talk about Star Wars Celebration and the associated Community Cantina. Bill and Chong, who were both there, are our guests. Plenty of Star Wars talk, along with a few new answers for SWTOR players!

1. Introduction

Teo is levelling his first Mercenary. The facial tattoo shown below may be new! Or his memory is failing.

Thanks to our guildmate and Random Rioter Sukai, Teo received his redeemable code from the Community Cantina. The first Cantina Crate he opened on his Mercenary gave the First Grand Statue of Mandalore centerpiece deco as its additional reward!

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Teadra, a member of our own Ootini Knights! Thanks to Naaman for entering.

3. Holofeed

Game Update 3.2: Rise of the Emperor will be deployed onto live servers on Tuesday 28 April. It includes quality of life changes, the planet Ziost, and the Outfit Designer.
Alex Modny gave more details on the visual effects used with the Swashbuckling weapons that will be included in the Season 4 Ranked PvP rewards. He also mentioned that non-visual offhands will not be included.
The random mount button is something that BioWare is still looking at.
Game Update 3.2.1 is on the PTS. It includes class changes for Sentinels/Marauders, Mercenaries/Commandos, Sorcerers/Sages, and Operatives/Scoundrels.
Those who should know at LucasFilm believe that Jedi can marry without becoming a Sith.

4. Community

What is your Star Wars name?

Here are some examples:

Teo: Ethon, Jawa Scavenger
Aaree: Ricie, Gungan Pilot
Chong: Vanen, Sullustan Smuggler
Bill: Len’rt, Ithorian Sith
Chill: Sta’on, Ewok Scavenger
ForceChuckle: Bogan, Wookiee Scavenger

The Discipline Calculator created by our Russian friends now has a new home at
the-old-republic.com/disciplines/en.

The crew at the Cantina Club are currently playing through The Force Unleashed, but will eventually be playing SWTOR. Well worth watching!

We have added a milestone goal to our Patreon campaign: if we manage to reach $100/episode, we will produce a video about the origin story of OotiniCast.

5. Force Feedback

Aaree believes this armour, worn by NPCs on Tatooine, would be an awesome set to add to a future Cartel Pack:

6. Sarlacc Digest

Star Wars Celebration

Star Wars Celebration was held in Anaheim, California, from Thursday 16 April through to Sunday 19 April.

On the first day, the second teaser trailer for The Force Awakens was released.

Electronic Arts (EA) released a reveal trailer for Star Wars Battlefront. In their first developer diary, they described the “Battle of Jakku” DLC as “the pivotal moment when the New Republic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert in the Outer Rim”.

The plot of the spin-off movie Rogue One, which will release on 16 December 2016, was announced.

Alexander Freed announced that his novel Star Wars: Battlefront: Twilight Company will be released in Fall from Del Rey.

It was also revealed during the Del Rey panel that Alan Dean Foster would be writing the novelisation of The Force Awakens.

At the One Big Story – Star Wars Canon panel, it seemed to be confirmed that while the Old Republic era is not officially canon, they are happy for BioWare to continue doing what they’re doing unchanged.

In the closing ceremony, it was announced that Star Wars Celebration would be held in London (UK) on 15-17 July 2016.

Community Cantina

The livestream of the Community Cantina held in conjunction with Star Wars Celebration on Saturday 18 July can be viewed on ESL’s Twitch channel. In summary:

Recap of Game Update 3.2
From Star Wars Day (4 May) an Epic Story XP Boost (12x XP) will be applied to all subscribers for an indeterminate duration. It can be removed using an in-game item, the White Acute Module purchasable for 0 credits from a new Gree vendor on both Fleets.
The new Yavin 4 Stronghold was announced, though its arrival in-game wasn’t given. It will provide more hooks than the existing Strongholds, including more larger hooks.
The QA team will be required to beat all future Operation encounters with an all-melee group, to ensure that the current issue with melee in Operations isn’t repeated.
It was confirmed that there is more to Game Update 3.2 than was available on the PTS.1

After the livestream, Bill and Chong heard many answers given by the developers when talking to attendees, which we talk through during the show.

The following limited release picture of Master Surro, leader of the Sixth Line, was provided by Bill:

The contents of the thumbdrive were provided by Bill.

Pictures

We have a lot of pictures to share thanks to our friends who attended!

7. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Bill (@BillLentz) and Chong (@EmpireDivider).

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

Ootini War Room Deployment 4

Posted on April 19, 2015 by teoApril 19, 2015

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Welcome to the War Room! This week the panel discusses Powertechs and Vanguards, with plenty of practical advice for both playing them, and playing against them. Turg, Jacket and Pez are joined by Busy, another Ranked PvP veteran who mains a DPS Powertech.

We did have some minor audio issues, which we did our best to work around; hopefully they should be resolved for the next show.

On the show this week were Turg (@TheTurg), Jacket, Pez (@MyVery0wnFlag) and Busy.

Our theme music is Achilles by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

OotiniCast Episode 201

Posted on April 16, 2015 by teoApril 16, 2015

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With almost no news in the lead up to Star Wars Celebration, we speculate wildly about what BioWare could reveal at the Community Cantina.

1. Introduction

Charlie (Kranitoko) opens a hypercrate of Shipment 2 Contraband Packs in his latest video.

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Dekion! Thanks to Scottthomas for entering. Also congratulations to GasGuy, who was given an honorary prize because his tip was so awesome.

3. Holofeed

Patch 3.1.2 was deployed on Thursday morning to fix the Low Slash bug.
The double XP week that is running in conjunction with Star Wars Celebration (16-19 April) starts on Thursday 16 April at 11am PDT (7pm BST, Thu 4am AEST) and concludes on Tuesday 21 April at midnight PDT (Wed 8am BST, 5pm AEST).
The PTS with Game Update 3.2 has been closed, ahead of its deployment to live servers on 28 April.
In Game Update 3.2.1, all weapons and armor rewards from Ranked PvP will be made Legacy-bound. This will also be the policy for Ranked PvP rewards for future seasons.
The full set of weapons and armor sets will not be granted for previous seasons.
The titled for Ranked PvP Season 4 were clarified.
EA is culling some of its older free-to-play games because they’re not as successful as SWTOR!
Some videos that may amuse you: Artoo falls in love with a mailbox, a Disney/Pixar parody and the Empire invades LA.

4. Community

Thanks to our new Ootini Patrons: Odesius, Christopher T, John M, David F, Cameron C, Russel S, Dan R and Kranitoko.

You can find HealingSWTOR’s interview with Dulfy here.

StarParse now supports direct uploading of combat logs to Parsely.

Congratulations to Vulkk for achieving 3000 subscribers!

5. Force Feedback

6. Sarlacc Digest

Who knows what will be revealed about what’s coming up for SWTOR at the Community Cantina being held in conjunction with Star Wars Celebration? Certainly not us! But we make a few good (or perhaps not-so-good) guesses…

You can find out more about how to watch livestreams of the various panels at Star Wars Celebration here. During Celebration, you can watch the current livestream at starwars.com.

7. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Xam Xam (@Rach_Games, xamxamsays.com, YouTube) and Charlie (@Kranitoko, youtube.com/KranitokoGames).

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

OotiniCast Episode 200

Posted on April 9, 2015 by teoApril 9, 2015

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Plenty of news, including the deployment of Game Update 3.1.2, featuring the Low Slash bug, the latest quality of life improvements from Game Update 3.2 on the PTS, and much more.

1. Introduction

This week we welcome two new guests, Jeremy and Sechari.

Jeremy’s (@Darksplat) gaming history started with a Commodore 16 (I didn’t know that was a thing!), and he’s always been a Sega console fanboy (with such hits as DaytonaUSA). His first and only MMO prior to SWTOR was Lego Universe. He’s currently a proud member of the Ewokalypse Now (Republic) and Warchild (Empire) guilds on The Harbinger.

Sechari (@iamsechari) is a streamer, hosting his show The Inner Sanctum on most nights starting at 10pm Central Time (US) on his Twitch channel, twitch.tv/sechari. Be sure to like his Facebook page! He’s the guildmaster of the Vindictive guild (Empire) on The Bastion.

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Nightmare of Prophecy of the Five! Thanks to Flox, Avisans and Mariarchi for entering.

3. Holofeed

Game Update 3.1.2 was deployed on Tuesday morning (US). On Thursday morning, Patch 3.1.2 was deployed to fix the Low Slash bug.
During the discussion about BioWare priorities for fixing bugs, Jeremy references this forum thread about the still-broken 4-piece bonus for healing Commandos and Mercenaries.
The double XP week that is running in conjunction with Star Wars Celebration (16-19 April) starts on Thursday 16 April at 11am PDT (7pm BST, Thu 4am AEST) and concludes on Tuesday 21 April at midnight PDT (Wed 8am BST, 5pm AEST).
My Reddit post that details how the XP boosts, guild XP bonus and five tiers of Legacy unlocks work with double XP can be found here.
The combat team gave their promised update on the current state of Marauders and Sentinels, with a follow-up post clarifying the analysis of the data used to support their reasoning.
The last update to Game Update 3.2 was applied on the PTS.
There are many promising ideas for improving the Collections UI in this forum thread. Please add own, as BioWare is actively looking at this!
Courtney Woods (Writer) has written another story, Regrets, featuring Theron Shan and his father, Jace Malcom.
You can use this page to pre-register for community events, including the upcoming Community Cantina to be held at Star Wars Celebration. They will be verifying that those in the pre-registration line at the Cantina did in fact pre-register, by checking usernames and email addresses. While pre-registration does not guarantee entry, BioWare is confident that their venue capacity should be sufficient.
The six Star Wars movies will be available for purchase as digital download on Friday 10 April from various retailers. There is now an awesome trailer with scenes from all six movies.

4. Community

Thanks to our first Ootini Patrons: Aaree, Mat3, XamXam, Master Jedi, Chong, ForceChuckle, Greg, Ragetti and Pallais. You too can patronize us on Patreon!

KeyboardNinja’s ideal tank stat distribution post on the official forums has been updated. You can always find it linked from our sidebar.

TOR Community’s effort to replicate the functionality of the defunct Ask Mr Robot and TORHead have borne some initial fruit with item tooltips. This Reddit post provides further guidance on getting them going on your web site.

5. Force Feedback

Here is the Sandcrawler deco used by Kuze that he mentioned in episode 198:

Kuze - Sandcrawler deco

If you have any suggestions for a good gaming laptop in the $800-1000 price range, please help Bear out by replying in this forum thread.

Chong is shopping for a new lightsaber, and is currently quite taken by the “Sword of Omens” hilt.

Chong - new light saber

Chong and Bill are both attending Star Wars Celebration:

Chong’s pass

Bill’s (cooler) pass

And so it begins:

Chong - Bill and Chong's excellent adventure

Jason Willis sent us this picture of the 8 foot wide Lego Death Star at Legoland in California:

Here is Jeremy’s vast array of Star Wars collectibles:

Jeremy_Younger SW Collection

6. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Jeremy (@Darksplat) and Sechari (@iamsechari, twitch.tv/sechari).

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

OotiniCast Episode 199

Posted on April 7, 2015 by teoApril 7, 2015

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Teo interviews Ixale, author of StarParse, the next generation in combat log parsers for SWTOR.

You can find StarParse at ixparse.com, follow Ixale on Twitter using @StarParse, and email him directly using ixale@ixparse.com. The latency-reduction service mentioned by Ixale during the show was WTFast. He plans to integrate StarParse with the offline combat log services Parsley and TORParse.

OotiniCast Episode 198

Posted on April 2, 2015 by teoApril 2, 2015

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We talk double XP, Rakghouls, striated color crystals, the latest from Game Update 3.2, along with Star Wars books, toys and games. And, of course, Kai Zykken’s Mega-, Micro- and Stationary Mounts!

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Here is the complete list of companion gifts, sorted by type and grade, that Dephine sent us:

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Avisans! Thanks to Jerrold, GasGuy, Dephine, Bellazar and Jezak for entering.

3. Holofeed

Tait Watson announced a surprise double XP weekend that ran from Friday 27 March through to midnight on Sunday 29 March.
The Rakghouls are back, once again plaguing Alderaan. We confidently predict they’ll be eradicated (again) by next Tuesday 7 April.
With the completion of the Choose Your Path promotion, all subscribers should receive on each character a lockbox containing four Advanced Black-Purple Striated Colour Crystals. Note that there is currently a bug which prevents them from being unlocked via Collections on other characters (for a nominal fee in Cartel Coins). However, you can unlock them in Collections for each character by inserting each Color Crystal into a weapon, after which you can create as many of each that you want.
Game Update 3.1.2 should be deployed on Tuesday 7 April. It includes a fix that will prevent now-defunct Planetary Commendations from being sent via in-game mail as part of lower-level mission rewards.
Game Update 3.2 is still on the PTS. We have the following updates from last week:
- The Kurtob Alliance Speeder will not be made adaptive (thus it will remain at 110% with Speeder Piloting I).
- Armor weight restrictions have been removed from the Outfit Designer.
- A Reddit user noticed some significant changes to the rewards offered via the Group Finder.
- John Jarynowski posted some advice about commenting on class changes.
- Fixes to Bolster in the 30-59 bracket will be included. Alex Modny explained why BioWare has chosen not to separate the 30-59 bracket into two smaller brackets (e.g., 30-49 and 50-59).
Read all about the intrepid Kai Zykken’s “new line of sleek and unique vehicles” in Go Big, Go Small, Go Nowhere.
Star Wars: Battlefront will be shown at Star Wars Celebration on April 17, starting at 10:30am Pacific, which will include the debut of its official trailer.
There is another new Star Wars novel coming, this one called Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp. It includes the following timeline of the new Star Wars canon:

As briefly mentioned, there’s a new range of toys for your younglings (or the collectors amongst you!).
If you’re into platformers on your phone, why not try Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions, available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

4. Community

We recommend both the Russian-developed Discipline Calculator, and that on TOR Community.

For your phone, Kuze is using the SWTOR Talent Calc, available for iOS and Android.

Please consider becoming an Ootini Patron! Find out more at patreon.com/ootinicast.

5. Force Feedback

Kranitoko’s video in which he opens a Hypercrate of Master’s Shadow Packs is now available.

Congratulations to Kal for becoming a Galactic Legend!

You can see the swarm of what appear to be remotes firing continually at a spot on the ground that Chong spotted here and here.

GasGuy’s post identifying the class-specific titles for completing the Shadow of Revan story can be found in this post on the official forums.

6. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Brian (Reddit) and Kuze (@kuze_roh, YouTube).

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