OotiniCast Episode 121

Posted on by February 23, 2014
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PvP specialist Jacob returns to discuss the avalanche of PvP-related news this week, including the class changes coming in Game Update 2.7 and the Ranked PvP Season 1 rewards.

Ranked PvP Season 1 - Rancor Mount

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Merrilin!

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

3. Holofeed

4. Community

Chaz Lobo (@Strongshocker) has authored the guide Converting to F2P in SWTOR.

We recommend two new SWTOR podcasts for your listening pleasure: Chuck and Brian’s The Bad Feeling Podcast (iTunes, RSS), and Hochi’s SWTOR Elder Game Podcast (iTunes, RSS).

Farewell to the TORWars site and podcast. You will be missed!

The rendezvous for the Ootini meetup in Las Vegas is the City Bar at the Aria Resort and Casino (near the MGM and the Rio) this Saturday 20 February at 8pm PST.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from @TheMalgadar, Sperô, Dan, @Dekarch, @JediKal, @Jayconnell, @ForceChuckle, @Andreas_Sch, @badfeelingpdcst, @BillLentz, Tony Ho, Chong (@EmpireDivider), @Rrubb, @GregCarter78, @JediAio and Snowy (@bytorsnowdog).

Chuck and Brian from the @badfeelingpdcst appreciate Chill’s use of the term “OP-ness”.

Snowy referred us to the video Amazing Footage: The Spaceship User Interfaces of Star Wars.

Chong believes the following arena scoreboard sums up our beloved server, The Harbinger:

Chong - Harbinger in one pic

6. Sarlacc Digest

We discuss the class changes coming in Game Update 2.7. Try them yourself when the PTS goes live on 24 February!

7. Outro

Thanks to Jacob (@deltiasgaming, twitch.tv/deltiasgaming, deltiasgaming.com) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

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.

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Converting to F2P in SWTOR

Posted on by February 15, 2014
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A smooth conversion to free-to-play (F2P) can be accomplished with careful planning. Ever since I have switched I have noticed no change in my SWTOR experience. Yes, I receive less comms (and potentially less Ship and Fleet Requisition), but I enjoy the game and this does not bother me. Here are some tips that I have learned throughout my transition to help others who want to try F2P, but are scared to do so. Remember, you can always go back to being a subscriber!

Account Security

If you are a F2P player converting from a subscription, you can still have a mobile Security Key on your account. You will no longer get the Cartel Coin bonus for the mobile Security Key, but you can live at ease knowing your F2P account is much safer. Note that if you have the physical Security Key FOB, you will get the 100 CC/month stipend.

Recommended character unlocks (Account-wide where available)

You should purchase any Legacy Unlock that costs more than 350K credits and you think you will use (especially Legacy Travel: Personal Starship, Repair Droid, and add-ons to your personal starship).

Some other suggestions:

  • Guild bank access
  • Bank slots
  • Extra Quickbars
  • Hide Head
  • Match Chest
  • Extra Bag Slots
  • Match Companion Chest
  • Event Gear (may be removed)
  • Third Crew Skill

Travel

You do not get access to Emergency Fleet Passes as a F2P player, so make the most of your Legacy Travel: Personal Starship. You can get it on a relatively short cooldown.

Re-spec’ing

You will no longer get infinite re-specs for free. It goes back to the original system where the cost scales up through the week, and resets every Tuesday morning. This is highly beneficial if you have one character you only want to PvP with and one that you want to PvE with.

Gearing up

You only get three chances to win a gear item in a Flashpoint when rolling Need. However, you can Greed win all day or trade items afterward. So run with friends or use that charisma to charm the items out of the people in your group.

You can also run Flashpoints for as many comms as you need, so make the most of it!

Money Problems?

Savings on the Side

If you are Legendary with any of the rep factions, you can store the rep faction tokens as free money for later. It isn’t much, but if you’re knocking out the dailies anyway for some cash, these are like money you can store on the side for a rainy day. Running just Space Missions, you can store away an extra 3000 credits/week. Not much, but remember, that’s only one faction. Legendary with 3-4 factions can be up to 20,000 credits that the game doesn’t count towards your F2P credit cap. This is especially helpful since an F2P player cannot send money via in-game mail between characters.

Make the most of your friends

Before I went F2P I had about 6 million credits. I gave 3 million to 2 of my real-life friends who have remained subscribers. They don’t have credit caps, and so now I have a savings account off to the side. Also, you can’t buy high-end gear since finding it cheaper than 350K is hard. Have your friends buy it and send it your way. The same goes for selling items on the GTN that cost more than 350K.

PvP, Operations and GSF

I have not missed a full week of PvP or an operation since I switched to F2P. Currently, weekly unlocks are selling on my server for only 50-90K! Stock up before you go F2P. I recently let my subscription lapse, but not before having three months worth of PvP and Ops passes. Try to buy items like weekly unlocks whenever they are on sale or whenever you are close to your credit cap.

Currently, F2P players cannot do solo Ranked. However, I have been able to queue with three subscribers for a Ranked team. It still puts up the warning that you cannot queue, but the queue will pop. And with the current Ranked PvP system failing miserably, it is probably only a matter of time until they open it to F2P players with a weekly pass.

Passes are available for GSF (Galactic Starfighter). On my server the price varies from 240K-500K for a 30-day pass. With help from some friends (and guildies), I now have 150 days worth of GSF passes. This gives me Fleet and Ship Requisition at the same rate as a subscriber, no difference!

Conclusion

This guide is always being updated. Get in touch with me if you have some great tips that would help out other F2P players and they’ll be added.

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OotiniCast Episode 120

Posted on by February 15, 2014
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Not much news this week, but we do have our first Galactic Starfighter roundtable featuring the Gunship, with debut guests Dunedai and Dan joining us to share their knowledge!

1. Introduction

The following is a screenshot showing Red’s friend Jubbs achieving over 2000 Ship Requisition in a single GSF match:

Redna - over 2000

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winners, Bea’Triss of The Shadowlands and our guildmate Carnz! Both will receive Taunfaun codes and a Starfighter Pack provided by Dunedai.

The site that Carnz provided can be found here.

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

3. Holofeed

4. Community

In SWTOR Mechanics Basics: Understanding Critical Chance (posted on Dulfy’s site), Oofalong of Prophecy of the Five starts a series on game mechanics.

PvP specialist Jacob has written an article about Gamer Etiquette.

The latest in Jean Prior’s SWTOR Loading Screen column is the article A Latecomer’s Quest for HK-51 Part 1.

We’d like to introduce Heather’s blog, Pretty Little Sith. @Ben_b55 particularly recommends her two latests posts, 7 Reasons Why I Love My Sith Assassin and Girls with Gamer Boyfriends: Get Over It.

Finally, Kranitoko is back with another video where he opens the latest Hypercrate, this time containing Galactic Ace’s Starfighter Packs. It includes another awesome introduction!

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from @BedouinBrennan, @TheMalgadar, @BillLentz, @Bewwan, Les (@foehammer75), Hru, @Dekarch, @dkalagian, @ben_b55, @Adam_Schumpert, Terg (@TheTurg), Vicock, Justin, Matt McDonald, Mike, @Span79X, Madmar (@Swtorfamily), @PatKasprik and JB (@O_JohnnyBravo_O).

Hru recommends we find out a little more about Jori Daragon, given some of us are wearing her loincloth.

Adam Schumpert suggests the track Dude, Where’s My AT-AT At? from the Ghosts of Nostalgia album by The Garthim-Master & DJ Extend.

The following charts show the participating in Ranked PvP, as determined by a longitudinal analysis of the Leaderboard data:

Solo (all servers)

Solo (all servers)

Group (all servers)

Group (all servers)

Dunedai presents the screenshots to show that he too achieved over 2000 Ship Requisition in a single match. In fact, over 2100!

Dunedai - over 9000 (1)Dunedai - over 9000 (2)

6. Sarlacc Digest

Dunedai and Dan take us through their recommended component loadout for the Gunship. They then talk offensive and defensive tactics.

7. Outro

Thanks to Dunedai (@DunedaiForel), Dan and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

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 Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 119

Posted on by July 24, 2014
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Game Update 2.6: Galactic Starfighter is here, bringing with it bombers and the new Team Deathmatch mode. We also cover the Q&A at the Phoenix Community Cantina, and the producer’s letter laying out the first half of 2014 for SWTOR! Finally, Bill is back with some more credit-making tips.

1. Introduction

Bill’s new look for his Vanguard, which he calls “The Green Machine”:

Bill - green machine

Bill also discovered just what happens if you die while taking a speeder between travel points:

Bill - exploding on speeder

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Esiasch De Prap! His derived best combination of crew skills and classes can be found here.

Next week only, we’re after tips specific to Galactic Starfighter, in honour of the two Taunfaun codes supplied by Dunedai that will be given to the winner and runner-up. Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday.

3. Holofeed

4. Community

The OSWguild from The Harbinger, which you can find on YouTube here (follow them on Twitter via @OSWguild) have videos summarising the Game Update 2.6 patch notes, and their reaction to the lack of new operations mentioned in the producer’s letter.

Moff Chong will be in Las Vegas on 22 February with Chill and our friends, guildmates and fellow raiders Mosq, Terg and Bill. They will welcome all and sundry who’d like to join them for some tasteful debauchery.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from @TheMalgadar, Terg (@TheTurg), @Dekarch, @ForceChuckle, @JediKrackr, @DsanOB, @Enyonix (Xusin legacy), Graham “Awesome” Sellars (@GrahamMSellars), Cole, @PatKasprik, @Da_Dirty_Spoons and @DurtaDurta.

Here is @Enyonix’s shrine to Star Wars:

Enyonix - SWTOR stuff

The following is the picture that Charles Boyd tweeted, showing him and a voice actor that we’re speculating is Brian Bloom (Trooper).

Charles Boyd with voice actor

6. Sarlacc Digest

Bill returns to impart yet more credit-making advice. The two topics he covers are how to make credits from companion gifts, and is collusion to fix prices allowed and viable.

7. Outro

Thanks to Bill (@BillLentz) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

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 Radio4Gamers.

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Community Cantina Q&A – Phoenix, Arizona

Posted on by February 2, 2014
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(Editor’s note: Our guildmate and extraordinary Gunship specialist Dunedai attended the Community Cantina held in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday 31 January 2014, and has summarised the half-hour Q&A for us. Thanks Dunedai!)

Q: Is the Desert of the Real in the western portion of the Dune Sea on Tatooine a reference to the Matrix?
A: They would never put a reference to another movie into Star Wars…

Q: Are there any plans to increase the Legacy cap beyond 50, or provide any incentives to attain that level, such as Legacy banks so that you don’t have to mail credits to your alts etc?
A: They’d love to do that at some point, but technically very challenging and unlikely to happen in the near future.

Q: Are there any concepts in the works to introduce a new character class across both factions?
A: There are no plans for this at this time, mostly due to the amount of content that each class and companion stories provide. It would take a lot of time and resources to ensure that the result is no less of an experience than the existing storylines.

Q: Has BioWare thought of a implementing a lifetime subscription?
A: They talked about it pre-launch, but decided against it. It’s unlikely.

Q: What happens to Revan?
A: … Keep playing to find out.

Q: What are the plans to improve guild functionality in game: guild email, capital ships etc?
A: Currently nothing is specifically planned. A lot of the features requested would be technically challenging.

Q: Is dual-spec/multi-spec coming soon?
A: It’s something they’d love to do, but it’s not going to happen in the short term.

Q: (inaudible)
A: The development team put together a list of things they think is most beneficial to players in the game. It’s not about making more money, but managing the resources they have. They prioritize the features that they think is best for the game overall.

Q: When do we get a pink and black dye?
A: Eventually. If there is a color combination that they can make to give the players as a dye, we’ll get it.

Q: Is there anything Bioware are excited about that they want to tell us?
A: Bruce is working on a blog post that covers the coming year in SWTOR, in the same vein as the Summer of SWTOR posts made previously. Because it’s for the year, it won’t be as detailed, but lays out the plan for the year ahead. The blog is scheduled to be posted on Monday 3 February.

Q: Are there any plans to make dark side/light side progression relevant at end game?
A: No, as this is intentional. Ever since launch, the goal was never to let light side/dark side options affect anything at endgame. Otherwise people may have been restricted from playing endgame because they weren’t the “correct” side of the Force.

Q: Can Bioware give players something to spend capped reputation tokens on?
A: Sell them to vendors for credits.

Q: With the new GSF gameplay modes coming out, is there anything involving an assault on an enemy capital ship, to take out specific objectives, e.g., turrets, shields?
A: No, not for 2.6, there will be more things coming for GSF in the future. No details at this time!

Q: Are there any plans to add joystick control for GSF?
A: It was underestimated how much interest there would be in joystick control, and the game isn’t built to be played with a joystick. Some of the controls would need to be changed functionally, to allow that to happen. It’s not likely to happen anytime soon.

Q: Has there been any discussion about interactive apps to send companions out on crew skills etc?
A: They’ve been talking about it a lot, and would love to do this. However there are technical challenges surrounding this that would impact server performance, thus alternate solutions would need to be found. It’s a question of time and resources again.

Q: Has there been any thought of having light and dark side alignments with companions?
A: It’s been thought about and was sort of implemented, but they don’t want to give any spoilers. (I assume this is a class/companion storyline.)

Q: Will we ever see walkers in the game that players can control? (Presumably like the AT-ATs used on Hoth from Empire)
A: No. You’re more likely to see walkers in the game than you are to actually drive them.

Q: Is the guild membership cap of 500 going to be raised?
A: At this time, no, due to technical difficulties that would decrease server performance.

Q: The technical difficulties that keep being referred to: are these in relation to the game engine?
A: Each time they give that response, it’s due to a different technical difficulty such as architecture or something else.

Q: (inaudible)
A: Lots of BioWare employees play the game on live servers with everyone, but play incognito. So you could have BioWare employees in your guild without even knowing it!

Q: What is the most popular content?
A: BioWare cannot disclose any information about metrics.

Q: When is the datacron relic going to be upgraded?
A: BioWare are unsure at this time.

Q: What is their favorite content?
A: (Courtney) The Imperial Agent storyline. (Ben) The Juggernaut storyline. (Musco) The Soa fight.

Q: Are there plans to add anything for those who want to remain neutrally aligned?
A: It’s been discussed, but it’s never made it onto their schedule.

Q: At the end of the Makeb and Oricon storylines, we see the Empire heading in a different direction. Are we going to see more of that and are we going to see the companion stories continued?
A: If you continue to play the game, and see the story as it unfolds, you’ll have a good time. As for companion stories… they most likely won’t be developed due to the time and resources it would take, where the average player would only get to see one or two of them. Starting in Game Update 2.7 is the beginning of a story arc that will go throughout the rest of this year. The conclusion of that story arc is going to be EPIC, and lead into a big announcement.

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OotiniCast Episode 118

Posted on by January 31, 2014
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After discussing the news (including more details of the new Flashpoint, Kuat Drive Yards), PvP specialist Jacob Hausman provides an analysis of the class changes coming in Game Update 2.6, then talks through his new ranked arena guide.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, LethalxBacon of The Bastion!

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

3. Holofeed

  • Charles Boyd (Lead Writer) tweeted that he is in Los Angeles working with voice actors who are recording for “upcoming SWTOR updates”.
  • In response to players wondering why the Rakghoul Vaccine does not persist through death, BioWare has confirmed that this is working as intended.
  • Jesse Sky (Senior Designer) has written a news article about the new Kuat Drive Yards Flashpoint being added in Game Update 2.6.
  • EA held their Q3 2014 earnings conference call on Tuesday 28 January.
  • MMOBomb.com (a site specialising in free-to-play online games) interviewed Jeff Hickman (General Manager of BioWare Austin) about Galactic Starfighter back on 15 November 2013.

4. Community

The OSWguild from The Harbinger, which you can find on YouTube here (follow them on Twitter via @OSWguild) have followed up their story mode version with a video guide to the hard mode version of The Eyeless, the event boss located in the Rakghoul Tunnels on Alderaan.

Moff Chong will be in Las Vegas on 22 February with Chill and our friend, guildmate and fellow raider Mosq. They will welcome all and sundry who’d like to join them for some tasteful debauchery.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from Brightstar (@tweetieowl), Dunedai (@dunedaiForel), Oxi-jin, Dan O’Brien (@DsanOB), @TheMalgadar, Moff Chong (@EmpireDivider), Peter Bartal (@Zeerid_), @JediKal, @GregCarter78, @Morriah, John Long (@Arveshet), @GrahamMSellars, Adam (@th3tr1ppster1), Spencer (@Da_Dirty_Spoons), Chaz Lobo (@Strongshocker), Slade (@DurtaDurta), Road (@ThatRoadGuy), Joe Foran (@joseph_foran), Terg (@TheTurg), @FerrousTerran, Snowy (@bytorsnowdog), Nathaniel Starr, Alex Masden and from BioWare: Amber Green (@K0h4ku) and Tait Watson (@PariahLoki).

An inspirational poster from Brightstar that certainly tickled our fancy:

Brightstar - Jawa

Greg Carter and Kal showing an unexpected symptom of the Rakghoul plague…

Kal - Extreme speeder Greg - Extreme Thranta

Dunedai’s Star Wars-themed gift idea for kids:

Dunedai - new Tauntaun mounts

The loadout of Teo’s Star Guard using Dulfy’s Build Calculator, and his crew using our Crew Calculator.

6. Sarlacc Digest

After a brief reminder of what’s coming in Game Update 2.6, our PvP specialist Jacob Hausman provides an in-depth analysis of the upcoming class changes. He then walks us through his new Arena Guide for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The guide is just one of the initial offerings that Jacob is planning to deliver to the SWTOR community via Deltia’s Gaming Blog. You can also see him live on his Twitch channel, twitch.tv/deltiasgaming.

7. Outro

Thanks to Jacob (@theRealHausman) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

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 Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 117

Posted on by July 24, 2014
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The main topic in the news is the Rakghoul Plague Outbreak hitting Alderaan. We walk through the event, with plenty of tips along the way. Then returning guest Bill provides more suggestions on how to maximise your in-game profits.

GSI Drill on Alderaan

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Kuze!

Snowy’s tip for solving graphical glitches, via BioWare’s customer support:

If characters or NPCs are missing graphics or body parts or if the game world is not rendering correctly, please delete the Bitraider folder in your installation folder, by default found here:

For 32 bit Operating Systems – C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars – The Old Republic\ BitRaider\

For 64 bit Operating Systems – C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars – The Old Republic\ BitRaider\

Kuze’s instructions on copying your customised UI settings so that they’re available on the PTS (if you don’t see the AppData folder, see our Moving SWTOR between computers guide):

The first thing you need to is signup and have a character copied to the test server. This will create the folder needed to copy your customized UI profile to.

You will find the customized UI profile that you currently use in-game in the AppData folder on your hard drive. The file path is as follows:

C:\Users\”profile name”\AppData\Local\SWTOR\swtor\settings\GUIProfiles

Once there you can copy all of your customized UIs and paste them in the publictest folder in the same location under GUIProfiles.

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

3. Holofeed

4. Community

The OSWguild from The Harbinger, which you can find on YouTube here (follow them on Twitter via @OSWguild) have created a video guide to the story mode version of The Eyeless, the event boss located in the Rakghoul Tunnels on Alderaan.

Our guildmate Izaak is hoping to start an Empire-side raid group on The Harbinger that will commence doing operations at the beginning of March. He’s looking at any night except Monday, starting anytime after 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific). If you’re interested in joining, please respond to this thread on our forums.

Dulfy now has class guides for all Advanced Classes and their various specialisations, aside from Jedi Sentinel/Sith Marauder DPS, which we’re sure is coming (we highly recommend Njessi’s guide in any case).

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from Hru, @FerrousTerran, @EmpireDivider, @TheMalgadar, @swtorfamily (Madmar), @GregCarter78, @Darklighter159, Kuze, @kmadsen, @Strongshocker (Chaz Lobo), @grimrok, @bytorsnowdog (Snowy), Dunedai, @Casmas_, @CathgirlSWtOR, Graham “Awesome” Sellars, @TheTurg (Terg), Ilmarinen and Morphiuus.

Chong suggests that if you’re after some Star Wars-flavoured comedy, check out Cracked’s Adventures in Jedi School, premiering on 27 January.

6. Sarlacc Digest

Returning guest Bill provides more tips on how to make credits, building on what he explained in episode 115.

7. Outro

Thanks to Bill (@BillLentz) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

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 Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 116

Posted on by January 16, 2014
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Game Update 2.5.2 is here, and Preferred players now join subscribers in Galactic Starfighter. We also have Game Update 2.6 on the PTS. Lots happening in that galaxy far, far away!

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Russ (a.k.a. @Manciferous)!

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

3. Holofeed

  • Game Update 2.5.2 was deployed during maintenance on Tuesday. We apologise for incorrectly referring to Preferred gaining access on 21 January, as BioWare did initially announce 14 January, and that’s when it arrived.
  • The Gunship role is now available to all subscribers and Preferred players. A trailer for the Gunship was released (also on YouTube). Premium versions of the Gunship (Strongarm and Demolisher) are not available for direct purchase on the Cartel Market, but instead are found in the newly-released Dogfighter’s packs.
  • Game Update 2.5.2 also includes a fix for the “GCD/Ability misfire” bug.
  • Two companions (Jaesa Willsaam and Lord Scourge), who aren’t currently universally available as Galactic Starfighter crew, will be unlockable as intended in Game Update 2.6.
  • Jason Attard (Senior Game Designer) provided an explanation of how sensors work in Galactic Starfighter.
  • The leaderboard data is flowing again! Outage was from Saturday 4 January through to Tuesday 14 January, during which time the leaderboards remained unchanged.
  • The Old Republic Insider video for January was released (also on YouTube), highlighting what’s coming up in the near future.
  • Game Update 2.6 did indeed appear on the PTS last week, with lots of details in the patch notes. It will include the Bomber role, which now has its own developer update by Jason Attard (Senior Game Designer).
  • At the request of Community Team member Tait Watson, the Combat team has provided an in-depth explanation of how Bolster works. He subsequently posted responses to questions raised in the ensuing discussion.
  • The actor who played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars), has tweeted a series of photos he apparently took during the filming of the movies. They’ve been aggregated here.

4. Community

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from @Sanitehh (via @swtorfamily), @joseph_foran, @JoeCaramagna, @TheTurg (Terg), @ben_b55, @GregCarter78, @ForceChuckle, @kingkao666 (Master Kao), @GTeeg (Gaddock Teeg, JD of the Unnamed SWTOR Podcast), @ThePummeler and @fnord3125.

@Swtorfamily (Madmar) recommends we watch at least the introduction to this video on YouTube, as the host hears of the impending return of the Rakghouls and heads to Tatooine to investigate…

Here is the cat (or is it a Wookiee?) originally tweeted by @GeekDad248:

Cat wookie

6. Outro

Thanks to Jacob (@theRealHausman) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

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 Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 115

Posted on by July 24, 2014
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As 2014 gets going we have some news to cover, including some detail about what’s coming in Game Update 2.6. Then in our discussion, guest host Bill reveals some of his credit-making secrets!

1. Introduction

Redna demonstrates his prowess via two feats of strength!

41 kills in a single warzone

41 kills in a single warzone

Redna epeen 2

Victory in GSF with a final score of 1000 to 1

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Hash!

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

3. Holofeed

4. Community

Chill and Teo were among those starring in a performance celebrating the return of the SWTOR Reforged podcast!

Laurie M (@Lawilc01) referred us to MOG Nation’s charity drive on behalf of Catherine Taber’s (@cattaber) charity Games 4 Soldiers. Find out how you can help on MOG Nation.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from @TheMalgadar, @FerrousTerran, @foehammer75 (Les), Thross, Kuze, @Enyonix (Xusin legacy), @swtorfamily (Madmar), @EmpireDivider (Moff Chong), @thehatfield, Butch Wahala, @masterbearjedi (Raz), @TheTurg (Terg), @Lawilc01, @joseph_foran, Ian C and Nathaniel Starr.

Chong’s managed to screenshot a unicorn! Well, not really, but something just as rare: praise from a stranger for his performance in a warzone:

Chong getting praise

 

Chong also draws our attention to Slideshow Collectible’s Polar Vortex promotion, and wishes everyone to know that these items just happen to be on his wish list.

6. Sarlacc Digest

Our guildmate and fellow ops team member, Bill Lentz, discusses some strategies for making credits in SWTOR, focusing on tactics useful to someone just getting started in the game. Like Bill, you too can make over 100 million credits!

Special thanks to Gasguy, who has provided a wealth of topic ideas for future shows. This prompted us to create a specific forum for such suggestions; feel free to add your own!

Gasguy also allowed us to distribute a spreadsheet he’d created that tracks all Codex entries. It’s a great way of ensuring you’ve got them all!

7. Outro

Thanks to Bill (@BillLentz) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

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 Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 114

Posted on by January 5, 2014
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While there was no news at all this week, our two discussion topics are an analysis of how many players are doing Ranked PvP, and yet another solution to initiating more open world PvP by providing in-game tools for the community to organise it.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, K!

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

3. Community

Congratulations to the Ootini Templars for a most successful year! See this forum thread for Kal’s report and a collection of screenshots from 2013.

A hearty round of applause for @ben_b55 (of the Despair guild on The Harbinger) for achieving a Prestige score of 19635! It appears he may have pulled slightly ahead of our own Redna (to our collective amazement).

Our Crew Calculator has received a minor update, providing a link that can be copied which stores your current selection of abilities. It’s a great way to share your crew composition with others, as well as for your own reference.

Thanks to @MaxTheGrey and @AIESema for mentioning the Crew Calculator in the latest SWTOR Escape Pod Cast (their predictions for 2014 are genius!).

4. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from @TheMalgadar, @TheTurg (Terg), @masterbearjedi (Raz), @BillLentz, @bytorsnowdog (Snowy), Dunedai, Graham (Awesome) Sellars, @EmpireDivider, @AHlaenxna (Vis), Quin’obi, @FerrousTerran, @thehatfield (Charles Hatfield) and Brian Peters (@fnord3125).

A Star Wars fan’s idealised Christmas Tree:

Vader xmas tree
Dunedai had a great idea for obtaining a pair of cost-effective yet extremely cool blasters for your Gunslinger:

Dunedai pistols 1
Dunedai pistols 2
Snowy sent us the scoreboard of an extremely close match of Galactic Starfighter:

Snowy victorious
Chong then recalled an even tighter match!

Chong domination
In his email about mechanical keyboards, Brian Peters referenced the Wikipedia article on Keyboard technology and The Mechanical Keyboard Guide on Overclock.net.

5. Sarlacc Digest

The following graphs were referenced during the first part of the discussion:

Ranked participation (solo, all servers)

Ranked participation (solo, all servers)

Ranked participation (solo, The Harbinger)

Ranked participation (solo, The Harbinger)

Ranked participation (solo, The Bastion)

Ranked participation (solo, The Bastion)

Ranked participation (solo, Tomb of Freedon Nadd)

Ranked participation (solo, Tomb of Freedon Nadd)

Ranked participation (solo, Prophecy of the Five)

Ranked participation (solo, Prophecy of the Five)

Ranked participation (group, all servers)

Ranked participation (group, all servers)

Ranked participation (group, The Harbinger)

Ranked participation (group, The Harbinger)

Ranked participation (group, The Bastion)

Ranked participation (group, The Bastion)

Ranked participation (group, Tomb of Freedon Nadd)

Ranked participation (group, Tomb of Freedon Nadd)

Ranked participation (group, Prophecy of the Five)

Ranked participation (group, Prophecy of the Five)

6. Outro

Thanks to Chong (@EmpireDivider) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

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 Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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