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We discuss Game Update 2.3: Titans of Industry, which included the unexpected arrival of Tauntaun mounts! There’s also CZ-198, with its daily area and two new Flashpoints, and the lovable (?) Treek, our first Ewok companion.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, AmonRe!

3. Trivia question

Chewbacca, lovingly known as Chewie, is the only Wookiee we see in the original trilogy. Yet we know of Wookiees’ fearsome fighting reputation from the Holochess match between Chewie and R2. Despite no other Wookiees being around or even named, if you know where to look, in the original trilogy we have proof that one of the characters has met, and in fact killed, several Wookiees. Name the character and how we know. One mild hint: this is the sort of thing that isn’t revealed obviously, as in dialogue, but nevertheless is there and was later confirmed and clarified by Lucas.

Please send your answer to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday. Winners will be put in a draw to win a $5 Cartel Coin gift code, courtesy of BioWare; in addition, if you have a character on The Harbinger, we will also give you a Hutt Skiff courtesy of Moff Chong and a Gamorrean Axe courtesy of Sythar, who requested a question on the subject of the answer to this week’s question.

4. Holofeed

• Late last week, the pricing for Treek, the new Ewok companion, was revealed:
  • To unlock Treek the first time, you require a Mercenary Contract. It will cost either 2100 CC with no prerequisite, or 1 million credits requiring Legacy level 40.
  • The Mercenary Contract is an item that can be sold on the GTN, though the one purchased for credits requires Legacy level 40 to use.
  • Once unlocked on one character, you can purchase an account-wide unlock via the Collections UI for a one-time cost of 700 CC with no prerequisite, or pay 300K credits per character for the character perk if you have Legacy level 40.
  • A character must be level 10 or higher to use the Mercenary Contract and thus access Treek.
• Game Update 2.3: Titans of Industry was deployed during a 7-hour maintenance on Tuesday. It has its own trailer (also on YouTube), and a welcome from Bruce Maclean, Senior Producer.
• Tauntauns can now be obtained as mounts on Hoth! See Dulfy’s most thorough guide for the details.
• The APAC servers will be permanently closed during maintenance on Tuesday 13 August 2013. It has been confirmed that all your characters will remain playable after the merge, even if you have more character than opened character slots.
• The revamped referral programme is now available.
• Coming soon is the ability to purchase Cartel Coins in-game.
• The Sniper and Sentinel class representatives have asked their three questions each. Musco has said that he expects to have answers this week.
• There is no reason to keep your reputation trophies for a given reputation once you’ve maxed it out (Legend); you should simply vendor the trophies at that point.

5. Community

For an interesting discussion about the making of KOTOR2 (Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords) and Obsidian Entertainment’s ideas for KOTOR3, listen to Eurogamer Podcast’s KOTOR2 post-mortem special. Included in the conversation were two of the developers for the Restored Content Mod, which attempts to complete KOTOR2 which was left in a somewhat unfinished state due to being forced to ship too early.

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

6. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @Swtorfamily (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @hadrian9, @Thoroughmas, @ForceChuckle, @bigfatpj (PJ), @Casmas_, @JediKrackr, @Rrubb, @banyo1984 (Benjamin Becker), @AckaanTalgala (Akaan Darasuum), @Seth_Eldar, @DanCremer, @Dr_Spuddinky, @tweetieowl (Brightstar), @JoshuaLynch125 (Joshua “Codex” Lynch), @heymason12 (Hash), @TheHighJoker (Joe Azzano), @Stormiin (Norm) and @GregCarter78, emails from Nathaniel S, Hansgruber and Stolas, and a comment from Ahnog.

Here’s PJ’s new Nightscythe:

@JediKrack’s most unusual (and admittedly kind of cool) 3v3 Huttball:

@Rrubb’s drunken experience during a very strange Ancient Hypergate:

Check out Stolas’s (very short) video of what he reckons is the best 1 million credits he ever spent.

7. Sarlacc Mini-digest

While we did not have time in this episode to go into detail about Bounty Contract Week, which starts on Wednesday 14 August, we recommend our own guide authored by Hru, as well as the guides by Mad Sith Assassin and Dulfy.

8. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@R3DN4) and Ham (@HamSammich509) for joining us this week.

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

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