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Game Update 4.0 and early access to Knights of the Fallen Empire are here! We discuss our experiences so far (spoiler-free, of course), walk through the patch notes, and talk about what has been revealed about the new Alliance system.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Ameel from The Harbinger! Thanks to Fatalspark, Biggus’dickus and Mariarchi for entering.

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

• Game Update 4.0 was deployed on Tuesday morning, accompanied by a welcome from Bruce Maclean (Senior Producer). You can find the known issues here.
• A new “Alliance” gameplay trailer has been released.
• A blog by Matt Pucevich (Designer) has been published that explains the new Alliance system.
• To have all your datacrons added to your Legacy, you will need to log into each character which originally gained those datacrons.
• The official trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been released!
• The voice actor’s strike appears to be proceeding.

4. Community

There is a new SWTOR database attempting to replace the now defunct TORHead. You can find out more about their current and future plans in this Reddit post.

5. Force Feedback

Kranitoko’s latest pack opening video is now available.

Blachloch is skeptical about the Voss being “9 feet tall”:

Joost wishes for more of the visual humour provided by Veedrig’s witty banter:

Dunedai provided this example of visual Star Wars humour:

6. Outro

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

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

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