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We contemplate what’s coming up in the SWTOR Holiday Update, discuss the first in the series of Developer Diaries for Galactic Starfighter, and then analyse the class changes coming in Game Update 2.5. We even throw in a mini-review of Star Wars: Tiny Death Star!

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Christopher P!

The Windows application suggested by Joseph D. Foran is ClovisGrid.

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 2.4.1 included an initially undocumented feature that enhanced the functionality (via the Interface Editor) of the Focus Target window.
• The issue that prevented mission objects from being clickable was mostly fixed in patch 2.4.1a. However, some occurrences remained, with the workaround being to log out and in again, at which point the mission object would be clickable. While this prevented some Kingpin contracts from being completed, Bounty Contract Week was not extended, though will be back in a month (12-19 November). The issue was fixed completely in patch 2.4.1b.
• Bruce Maclean, Senior Producer on SWTOR, has published the SWTOR Holiday Update, very much in the vein of his Summer of SWTOR forum post (25 May). It describes the following milestones for future updates:
  • [29 October] Game Update 2.4.2: Ranked Season 1 begins, along with web-based leaderboards.
  • [12 November] Character names held by characters on inactive accounts will be made available.
  • [12-19 November] Bounty Contract Week returns.
  • [27 November-2 December] Double XP over Thanksgiving weekend.
  • [3 December] Game Update 2.5: class changes, subscriber access to Galactic Starfighter, and addition of Makeb Mesa Arena.
• Michael Backus, Lead Designer, provided the first in a series of Developer Diaries describing the development of Galactic Starfighter.

4. Community

Our Republic-side ops group, the Ootini Templars, which runs in Australian east coast evenings, is looking for a new tank! If you’re interested, please contact Kal via our forums.

Likewise, our Empire-side ops group, the Vy’aalators, is also looking for more, preferably healers. They run on Monday evenings, starting at 5:30pm Pacific. If you’re interested, please get in touch with Izaak.

We review Star Wars: Tiny Death Star, a mobile game for Android and iOS devices.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from Jacob (@therealHausman), @FerrousTerran, @HamSammich509, @GregCarter78, @EmpireDivider (Moff Chong), @sterlinglee38, @rbleamon (Ray Leamon) and @ArrTeaBee, emails from Patrick and AwesomeSellars, and comments from Morriah.

Here is @ArrTeaBee’s alternative ideas for portraying one’s Dark side alignment:

6. Sarlacc Digest

In the lead up to Game Update 2.5, a blog outlining the planned class changes has been published. No other class changes are currently planned for 2.5.

7. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@R3DN4) 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.

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