Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Game Update 2.0: Scum and Villainy is now live and early access for Rise of the Hutt Cartel has begun! We discuss the news and our initial adventures in the new content.

1. Introduction

2. Trivia Question

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Greg Carter!

3. The Holofeed

• Game Update 2.0 was deployed late on Monday night, with the intention of being ready to launch at midnight PDT, though was available for play a couple of hours early.
• The 50% reduction to repair costs that we’d been enjoying in the leadup to the expansion have now ended.
• All members of a guild receive a 5% bonus to XP gain. This is apparently the first of several planned guild rewards.
• Those without early access can now earn XP to just short of level 51.
• Increasing crew skills beyond 400 before the expansion launches for everyone requires early access. You’ll need to purchase the advanced crew skill upgrade from each crew skill trainer before you can progress beyond 400.
• There is a known issue with reverse engineering +41 colour crystals; for now, BioWare advises to not attempt reverse engineering them until it is fixed.
• You may receive warnings that you are close to a commendation cap, when you actually aren’t; this is also a known issue, and is planned to be fixed in Patch 2.0.1.
• As of Game Update 2.0, the set bonus is always attached to the armoring mod. This includes Tionese, Columi and Rakata items where the set bonus was previously on the item’s shell.
• Alex Modny (Assistant Designer) explained in PvP in Game Update 2.0: Scum and Villainy how the bolstering system was being upgraded and the reasoning behind the new PvP brackets (10-29, 30-54, 55 and 55 Ranked).
• As most of found out by now, bolster isn’t working quite as intended now that 2.0 has been deployed. Eric Musco, in conjunction with Rob Hinkle and Alex Modny, explains what’s going on with the “naked bug”.
• BioWare have published two SIS Intel reports, giving an overview of key locations and persons of interest on Makeb.
• Some tips for Game Update 2.0 (thanks to Hru for compiling them):
  • To travel between daily areas (and the Makeb Orbital Station), there are now Priority Mission Terminals (located near the shuttles); these replace the option given on the shuttle doors.
  • There are trainers for the crafting crew skills in the Makeb Orbital Station; the other trainers are in each faction’s starting area.
  • The Makeb Commendation Vendor (located in the Supplies area of the Fleet) sells rating 140 mods for Planetary Commendations.

4. Community

While adventuring on Makeb, you may as well pick up the two datacrons there; you’ll find all the information you need in Kuze’s Korner.

We have two contributions in Raise Your Glass this week:

• Ham Sammich: This week for me was non-stop PvP. Sometimes I felt like I would puke if I got another Huttball match, but I kept pressing to get to level 50 on my Mercenary before the expansion. By the time it was done, I leveled from 35 to 50, maxing out my Valor all along the way. Also big thanks to Chong, Teo, Hyp and a few others for the group PvP; you all made it a little more enjoyable. 🙂
• Kile Lewis: I spent most of my time this past week leveling my Sith Juggernaut, Ty’Ranos, and deciding how I wanted him to look using adaptive/custom heavy armor. When I wasn’t leveling that character I was on my main, Skil’Veros, farming credits to fund my alts.

  As I go about leveling or farming I try to level my crew skills just for the sake of being a completionist. I still have a lot to learn about the game since I’m still new to SWTOR. I’ve only been playing for about 3 weeks.

For those interested in joining Ootini Fight Club for some endgame PvP, please contact Chong by email (empiredivider@gmail.com).

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @madmar_sith (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @ForceChuckle, @voyak, @masterbearjedi (Raz), @GregCarter78, @lightsideoflif1, @HamSammich509, @YojeVawree, @therealHausman (Jacob Hausman), @TheTurg (Terg), @ruleoftwocast (Kenzan of the Rule of Two podcast), @EmpireDivider (Chong), @AspisVodox, @weihanthekidsun, @ChazDM (Chaz Davis), @Geldarion (co-host of Corellian Run Radio), @terencemyers, and emails from Rose and Arammus.

6. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@RystoJ) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) 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. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio Paragon.