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A quiet news week, though it did include more information about how companions will work in KotFE. We also discuss an interview with lead writer Charles Boyd.

1. Introduction

You can see Charlie’s video where he opens a hypercrate of Wild Star Explorer’s packs here.

In his Yavin 4 stronghold, Charlie has created what he calls his “Statue Room”:

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Blay! Thanks to Neil, Knife and Angel for entering.

Blay recommends doing the staged weekly on Empire-side Makeb in the following order:

Week 1

• [Stage 1] A Trace of Guilt, False History, Covering Your Tracks
• [Stage 2] Smuggler’s Den, Landing Party, (Any mission to finish)

Week 2

• [Stage 1] Clean Bill of Health, Twisting the Truth, [H4] Sharing the Blame
• [Stage 2] The Dissonance Wave, Eviction Notice, Local Trouble

Week 3

• [Stage 1] Clean Bill of Health, Twisting the Truth, Inciting Incident
• [Stage 2] [H4] Weapons Test, The Dissonance Wave, (Any mission to finish)

Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Tuesday for a chance to win a Taunfawn or M8-3R droid code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

3. Holofeed

• Following the post summarising last week’s livestream, Eric Musco (Community Manager) answered several more questions:
  • You can meet/recruit companions not belonging to your class; level, presence and influence add to your companion’s combat effectiveness; all changes to the companion system apply when leveling 1-60; companion gear in defunct slots will be mailed to your character [post]
  • Influence is the new name for affection
  • Existing affection will carry over into KotFE
  • Companions will no longer have specific crafting bonuses in KotFE
• The Wild Space Explorer’s Pack is now available (Dulfy’s updated preview).
• Players are warned that altering their hosts file as a workaround for local networking issues preventing them from patching is not recommended.
• Each week, three blogs will be published for each mirror class pair, starting this week with Jedi Knights and Sith Warriors. One blog will detail the class changes in KotFE, and the other two will give the class stories (with spoilers) for each class (for those who are new to the game and are starting with an instant level 60).
• Charles Boyd was interviewed on Jedipedia.
• Alexander Freed is authoring the novel Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company, coming on 3 November.

4. Community

Congratulations to our guildmate and friend Ferrous Terran who is getting married to Amber on Sunday!

Happy Birthday to our Ootini guildmate and Jar Jar Joyrider, Dekion.

During their raid on Sunday, Sukai created two videos: jumping the Rock Shark on Ziost, and taking down the world boss.

5. Force Feedback

Carnz provided several captions for the image below:

“Come to the dark side, we have Elvis”
“Elvis, poster boy for the dark side”
Vader: “Join me!” Elvis: “Uh haw”

Chill located the picture he mentioned of Freddy Mercury riding Darth Vader:

Carnz obtained the audio books below by paying $15 for the latest Humble Audio Books bundle, which remains available for under a week:

Sukai obtained comparison images using ReShade:

Pez recommends the following utilities for a Fury Marauder in PvP: Overwhelm, Inexorable, Brazen, Defensive roll, Phantom, Unbound, Undying.

You can follow Holly Fields, the voice of Nadia Grell, on Twitter (@HollyFields1).

6. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge) and Charlie (@Kranitoko, youtube.com/KranitokoGames).

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

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