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We discuss the latest news, including further details about what will be in Game Update 2.8: Spoils of War.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Bara-dur! Thanks to Hagu Pally and Anuwen of The Ebon Hawk for entering.

Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday for a chance to win a M8-R3 code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

3. Holofeed

• Game Update 2.8 will be titled “Spoils of War”. A launch page has been added for it, which summarises the features that Bruce MacLean revealed in his updated roadmap for 2014. Dulfy has a post showing what the Nar Shaddaa Nightlife’s vendor will be offering.
• The PTS has been updated with a new build of Game Update 2.8.
• The latest three questions from the class representative programme have been answered for Shadows and Assassins.
• A Rancor mount is being added to the Cartel Market in Game Update 2.8 in the Star Cluster Nightlife Pack. In response to concern that this may erode the exclusivity of the Ranked Season 1 reward, Eric Musco (Community Manager) explained BioWare’s philosophy on PvP (exclusive look, shared model) vs PvE (exclusive model, always available).
• Rather than specific crafting materials being obtainable via Cartel Market Packs, they will instead contain one of three items (Scavenged Scrap, Assorted Droid Parts, Jawa Junk) that can be traded for specific crafting materials via new Jawa vendors in the Cartel Bazaar. Dulfy has a post showing each vendor’s inventory.
• The latest Star Wars: The Old Republic Insider video (also on YouTube) features Jack Wood (Producer) and Eric Musco, discussing Galactic Strongholds, Ranked PvP Season 2 and the Hot Shots Starfighter Pack which includes a Bantha mount. The Swtorista has a detailed analysis of the video, teasing out additional information about Galactic Strongholds.
• It has been confirmed (yet again) that changing a character’s faction will effectively never be possible.
• The next Community Cantina will be on Friday 16 May in Vancouver, Canada.

4. Community

The Ootini Templars are looking for some players interested in doing some casual raiding at 9pm AEST on Wednesdays. Please see their forum for more information.

Ferrous Terran is attempting to do some community building around our two guilds, Ootini Knights and Ootini Rage. Please see his introductory post for what he has in mind.

Dracko is organising a guild event to obtain the +10 to all stats Datacron from the Republic Fleet on Saturday afternoon/evening 24 May (US), Sunday morning in Australia. See this thread for details.

GasGuy has updated his Codex Tracking Spreadsheet. A link to the latest version is always available on the sidebar of our site (under Community).

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from @ForceChuckle, Mister Black Jack, Terg (@TheTurg), Thross, Exile of TOR-Fashion.com, @FerrousTerran, @KortothLegacy, @fnord3125, @GregCarter78, @darksplat, @JayConnell, @Heather_PLS, @ArrTeaBee, @ShintarCommando, Chaz Lobo (@Strongshocker), @mark_swtor, Simon (@RPGbeatsRL), Nathaniel Starr, Dan Kalagian, @TheMalgadar, Bear, Jace (@Jacerish) and Articue.

You can find Articue’s gaming channel on YouTube here.

If you are interested in purchasing a defunct guild with four Cargo Bays unlocked (worth 6.5M credits) on the Republic side of The Shadowlands server, please reply to this thread in our forums.

Jay Connell sent us the following:

“Tell us your secrets, Jack, and no one gets hurt! Everyone knows you’re up to something.”

Our guildmate Jace, playing on his Red Eclipse trooper Shado managed to win a Civil War match 10/0. A glorious struggle!

6. Outro

Thanks to Kranitoko (@Kranitoko, YouTube) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) 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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