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Hyp and Oni once again join Chill and Teo to discuss this week’s news, including the imminent patch 1.1.5, the upcoming Game Update 1.2 and the latest community Q&A.

1. Introduction

2. Question to the panel

3. Trivia question

• This week’s challenge: Beyond both being in Lucas-produced movies, how are the characters of Chewbacca and Indiana Jones connected?
• If you are interested in being entered in the random drawing for an in-game prize offered on Republic-side Space Slug, please send your answer to ootinicast@gmail.com

4. The Holofeed

• Patch 1.1.5 wasn’t deployed during Tuesday’s maintenance, though a few more changes were added to the build on the PTS.
• Georg’sblog post offers some hope for crafters who may be frustrated by the current lack of endgame utility with their crafting crew skill.
• SWTOR launched in the Asia Pacific region on March 1st, with an initial set of three servers: Dalborra (PvE), Master Dar’Nala (PvP) and Gav Daragon (RP-PvE).
• Unfortunately for players wanting to transfer their existing toons onto the new Asia Pacific servers, the free one-off character transfers won’t be happening until “last April”.
• This is apparently due to the complexity of dealing with the legacy system, which currently is associated with all characters on a given server.
• TOROz were on hand to cover the launch event that was held in Sydney. They also managed to snag a most enlightening interview with Gabe Amatangelo.
• We discuss the community Q&A published on 24 Feb.

5. Sarlacc Digest Feedback

• We discuss tweets from @ben_b55 (Ben), @OriginalBioZed (Dale), @Paulk2225 (ShotgunBurger), @HalfMet, @Rippthedeceiver (Ripp), @StiffishCracker, @Wingthequick (Wingy) and @Aprillian.
• We recommend listening to the OZG Cast, the official podcast of the Oz Gaming League, covering general gaming topics.
• Snowy points out that there are Mission Support Vendors on Belsavis, not just Ilum, who sell mods, earpieces and implants for Daily Commendations.
• Fellow Robes on Head member Fizz emails us with some great ideas on how to improve the game, including the fantastic notion of making our ship droid into a combat dummy!
• Our fellow raider Sylv emails in to tell us about his SWTOR performance issues, and to ask how a social gamer who likes to hang with his friends can do that while still enjoying SWTOR’s story.

7. Outro

Thanks to Oni (@Freakin_Ninja) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

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