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This week’s show is all about the Game Update 1.6, which arrived a bit earlier than expected! In our discussion, we explain the mechanics of the new warzone, Ancient Hypergate.

1. Introduction

Hyp’s two new Empire characters:

2. Trivia question

One of the well-known Star Wars characters—let’s define as one who appears in more than one of the six movies—has something written either on their costume or on something their character carries. It is written in a foreign language—not the Star Wars alphabet of Aurabesh, but an actual Earth language. And not only that, but the most likely translation of the words shown describe the story arc of that character. Name the character involved and the Earth language used.

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3. The Holofeed

• Game Update 1.6 was deployed during Tuesday’s maintenance.
• Jeff Hickman (Executive Producer) and Damion Schubert (Lead Designer) provided a warm Welcome to Game Update 1.6: Ancient Hypergate via the community blog.
• The Game Update 1.6 “Ancient Hypergate” trailer was released (also on YouTube).
• BioWare have provided 1st anniversary fireworks to all players, and are giving the opportunity to submit screenshots showing anniversary celebration moments to be features on the SWTOR official site and Facebook page.

4. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @ForceChuckle, @Evarwyn, @PadmeAm (Hugo Commandeur), @JediTChalla (T’Challa), @voyak, @EmpireDivider (Chong), @DarthKenji, @Loudshirt0861 and @jerryang128 (Ango-Kyu).

Our guildmate Aio (@JediAio) sent a couple of screenshots, the first featuring his friend McCrash, living up to his name while retrieving a datacron on Corellia:

The second screenshot is Hoth at its bleakest:

Here is Hyp’s Sith Marauder looking somewhat the worse for wear:

Chong tweeted the following “Tane’go Chong is looking to tango…you feel? Brown Chicken Brown Cow… #makelovenotstarwars” with the associated image:

Ray Leamon (@rbleamon) sent us this picture of new armor being worn by an NPC on Korriban:

We also read emails from Jack Holt and Ben Petersen.

5. Sarlacc Digest

We discuss the mechanics of the new warzone, Ancient Hypergate.

6. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@RystoJ), Chong (@EmpireDivider) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

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