OotiniCast Episode 107

Posted on by November 18, 2013
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After covering the news, including Game Update 2.4.3 and the new web-based Leaderboards, we reveal all about Galactic Starfighter!

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Carn! He suggests we visit this location in the Juran Mountains on Alderaan to experience a most strange effect.

Flying on alderaan2 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

Solo (all servers)

Total: 5230 (3099 [59.3%] < 1200 <= 2131 [40.7%])
2911 [55.7%] Imps, 2319 [44.3%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 388 [7.4%] (248 < 1200 <= 140)
Sage/Sorcerer: 824 [15.8%] (524 < 1200 <= 300)
Guardian/Juggernaut: 614 [11.7%] (366 < 1200 <= 248)
Scoundrel/Operative: 695 [13.3%] (396 < 1200 <= 299)
Sentinel/Marauder: 893 [17.1%] (518 < 1200 <= 375)
Shadow/Assassin: 788 [15.1%] (459 < 1200 <= 329)
Commando/Mercenary: 494 [9.4%] (331 < 1200 <= 163)
Vanguard/Powertech: 534 [10.2%] (257 < 1200 <= 277)

Group (all servers)

Total: 1127 (727 [64.5%] < 1200 <= 400 [35.5%])
598 [53.1%] Imps, 529 [46.9%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 56 [5.0%] (39 < 1200 <= 17)
Sage/Sorcerer: 127 [11.3%] (80 < 1200 <= 47)
Guardian/Juggernaut: 137 [12.2%] (98 < 1200 <= 39)
Scoundrel/Operative: 216 [19.2%] (131 < 1200 <= 85)
Sentinel/Marauder: 222 [19.7%] (133 < 1200 <= 89)1
Shadow/Assassin: 107 [9.5%] (77 < 1200 <= 30)
Commando/Mercenary: 93 [8.3%] (71 < 1200 <= 22)
Vanguard/Powertech: 169 [15.0%] (98 < 1200 <= 71)

Solo (The Harbinger)

Total: 414 (240 [58.0%] < 1200 <= 174 [42.0%])
135 [32.6%] Imps, 279 [67.4%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 48 [11.6%] (27 < 1200 <= 21)
Sage/Sorcerer: 59 [14.3%] (34 < 1200 <= 25)
Guardian/Juggernaut: 37 [8.9%] (23 < 1200 <= 14)
Scoundrel/Operative: 56 [13.5%] (32 < 1200 <= 24)
Sentinel/Marauder: 68 [16.4%] (43 < 1200 <= 25)
Shadow/Assassin: 50 [12.1%] (30 < 1200 <= 20)
Commando/Mercenary: 54 [13.0%] (33 < 1200 <= 21)
Vanguard/Powertech: 42 [10.1%] (18 < 1200 <= 24)

Group (The Harbinger)

Total: 59 (45 [76.3%] < 1200 <= 14 [23.7%])
16 [27.1%] Imps, 43 [72.9%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 5 [8.5%] (3 < 1200 <= 2)
Sage/Sorcerer: 8 [13.6%] (4 < 1200 <= 4)
Guardian/Juggernaut: 9 [15.3%] (7 < 1200 <= 2)
Scoundrel/Operative: 10 [16.9%] (8 < 1200 <= 2)
Sentinel/Marauder: 11 [18.6%] (10 < 1200 <= 1)
Shadow/Assassin: 4 [6.8%] (4 < 1200 <= 0)
Commando/Mercenary: 4 [6.8%] (4 < 1200 <= 0)
Vanguard/Powertech: 8 [13.6%] (5 < 1200 <= 3)

Solo (The Bastion)

Total: 533 (319 [59.8%] < 1200 <= 214 [40.2%])
318 [59.7%] Imps, 215 [40.3%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 42 [7.9%] (29 < 1200 <= 13)
Sage/Sorcerer: 83 [15.6%] (55 < 1200 <= 28)
Guardian/Juggernaut: 60 [11.3%] (38 < 1200 <= 22)
Scoundrel/Operative: 66 [12.4%] (39 < 1200 <= 27)
Sentinel/Marauder: 98 [18.4%] (51 < 1200 <= 47)
Shadow/Assassin: 72 [13.5%] (41 < 1200 <= 31)
Commando/Mercenary: 41 [7.7%] (27 < 1200 <= 14)
Vanguard/Powertech: 71 [13.3%] (39 < 1200 <= 32)

Group (The Bastion)

Total: 70 (43 [61.4%] < 1200 <= 27 [38.6%])
20 [28.6%] Imps, 50 [71.4%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 6 [8.6%] (5 < 1200 <= 1)
Sage/Sorcerer: 9 [12.9%] (6 < 1200 <= 3)<br/span>
style=”font-size: 10px;”> Guardian/Juggernaut: 3 [4.3%] (2 < 1200 <= 1)
Scoundrel/Operative: 18 [25.7%] (11 < 1200 <= 7)
Sentinel/Marauder: 14 [20.0%] (7 < 1200 <= 7)
Shadow/Assassin: 4 [5.7%] (3 < 1200 <= 1)
Commando/Mercenary: 4 [5.7%] (3 < 1200 <= 1)
Vanguard/Powertech: 12 [17.1%] (6 < 1200 <= 6)

4. Community

The Vy’aalators are looking for more raiders! They run on Monday evening (US time), starting at 5:30pm Pacific. If you’re interested, please post in this thread on our forums.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @ForceChuckle, @rbleamon (Ray Leamon), @Strongshocker (Chaz Lobo), @Geldarion, @fnord3125, @sterlinglee38, @GTeeg, @Lawilc0 (Laurie M), @joseph_foran, @GregCarter78 and @grimrok, emails and comments from Loudshirt, DroidDreamer, Decurion, Giantgina (Ben), Oxi-jin, The Malgadar and Chris.

We recommend SWTOR’s New Player Guide for those in need of some basic MMO guidance.

The HK-51 Watchtower customization that was removed from the Oricon reputation vendor:

swtor-hk-watchtower-customization-oricon

Here’s PJ, just hanging around…

PJ just hanging 6. Sarlacc Digest We were honoured to be included in the closed PTS testing of Galactic Starfighter over the past couple of months. Based on that experience, we give a detailed overview of its gameplay, a few tips and our overall impressions.

7. Outro

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

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

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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Moving SWTOR between computers

Posted on by November 19, 2013
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You’ve just got yourself a brand new rig, and in part of setting it up, you want to get SWTOR up and running again as quickly and painlessly as possible.

From your old computer, copy the contents of the following directory somewhere safe. It includes your client’s graphics settings and the GUI profiles you created using the in-game Interface Editor.

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\SWTOR
Windows 7 & 8: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\SWTOR

If you can’t see the above folder, you may have to enable the following option in Windows Explorer, which makes “hidden” folders (such as AppData) visible:

Select Folder options
Folder options dialog

You may want to archive your screenshots and/or combat logs:

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\My Documents\Star Wars - The Old Republic\CombatLogs
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\My Documents\Star Wars - The Old Republic\Screenshots
Windows 7 & 8: C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Star Wars - The Old Republic\CombatLogs
Windows 7 & 8: C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Star Wars - The Old Republic\Screenshots

Note that your keybindings are stored with your account on BioWare’s servers, so they’ll be preserved even if you do nothing!

If you have an amazingly fast Internet connection, unlimited bandwidth and lots of faith in BioWare’s CDN (Content Delivery Network), you could do a clean installation on your new computer.

However, if you’d rather avoid downloading roughly 20 GB, you’ll need to copy or archive (via a tool like WinZip or 7Zip) your current SWTOR installation. By default, it’ll be installed in one of these locations:

C:\Program Files (x86)\EA\BioWare\Star Wars – The Old Republic
C:\Program Files\EA\BioWare\Star Wars – The Old Republic

You’ll want that copy accessible to your new computer (over your home network, on a USB drive).

Next, download the installer for the game’s launcher from BioWare. You’ll find a download link on your account page on SWTOR’s official site.

Download now

Run the installer, which will install the launcher.

Do NOT run the launcher yet! Next, overwrite the newly-installed game with what you copied from your old computer. If there are conflicts, it doesn’t matter whether you overwrite them or keep the new version (I’d lean towards keeping newer ones).

Next (and this applies if you’ve done a clean install, too), copy your settings (which you preserved above) into the equivalent location from which you copied them on your new rig.

Finally, you can fire up the launcher on your new computer. Everything should (in theory!) be ready to go, pretty much exactly as it was on your old computer.

Now, back to the game!

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OotiniCast Episode 106

Posted on by November 11, 2013
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In the news this week, we cover the introduction of in-game purchasing of Cartel Coins, the details of the Character Name Renewal program, and some revelations about how the Ranked Leaderboards will work.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Mike!

Oricon tauntaun

Strike Force Tauntaun

Oricon legend

Mike’s impressive reputations

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

  • The Rising Hero Bundle, mentioned in last week’s show, had to be removed from the Cartel Market. It will return in Game Update 2.4.3 on 12 November.
  • During a very short maintenance on Tuesday, the in-game purchase of Cartel Coins was made available. You need to enable the feature on the official site, nominating a credit card (not PayPal) to be used. However, you must have purchased Cartel Coins on the site previously using a credit card; if you haven’t done so, you’ll have to buy at least the minimum amount as an initial transaction. Subscribers do get the one-time 50% discount from their first (and only their first) purchase of Cartel Coins, though only one bundle can be chosen (it’s not possible to obtain more than one and get the discount).
  • The “Character Name Renewal” program will start on 12 November. BioWare has elaborated on exactly which names are at risk, and how to hang onto your characters’ names if you are not subscribed.
  • The Gree will be back in December! It was announced in Bruce Maclean’s holiday update, but we may have forgotten to mention it.
  • Some information about the mechanics of PvP Season 1 appeared in the SWTOR Help Center on the official site.

4. Community

BennyKrak of the SnX guild is organising open world PvP mini-events on The Harbinger. For more information, see his post on the official forums.

The Vy’aalators are looking for more raiders! They run on Monday evening (US time), starting at 5:30pm Pacific. If you’re interested, please post in this thread on our forums.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @ForceChuckle, @FerrousTerran, @GregCarter78, @TheTurg, @Adam_Schumpert, @AckaanTalgala, @fnord3125 (Brian Peters), @Strongshocker (Chaz Lobo), @AlexDGeslin, @GTeeg (Gaddock Teeg of the Unnamed SWTOR Podcast), @EmpireDivider (Moff Chong) and @nicknightmoves (Andrew Bailey), emails from Kalf, Josh (Oofalong), Green Armadillo, Oxi-jin and Grim, and a comment from The Malgadar.

Terg's pumpkin carving triumph!

Terg’s pumpkin carving triumph!

From @AlexDGeslin: accept or decline? Hmmm...

From @AlexDGeslin: accept or decline? Hmmm…

Its a mouse trap

From @GeorgeTakei, via @Strongshocker: It’s a (mouse) trap!

Josh’s (a.k.a. Oofalong) post on the official forums arguing against the change to Bloodthirst/Inspiration can be found here.

Green Armadillo, author of the Player Versus Developer blog, reviewed the fictional game found in Neal Stephenson’s Reamde: A Novel.

Green Armadillo has also documented his experiences with the Friends of Star Wars: The Old Republic promotion:

Account Status Before Experiment
Preferred Account, last subscription time lapsed in June (I used a 2-month time card to qualify for the discount on RotHC), no authenticator attached, ineligible to add a mobile authenticator due to non-subscriber status.

Upon activating referral (more on this in a minute)
Account status upgraded to subscriber, in-game non-subscriber restrictions lifted, account page shows seven days game time. Account eligible to add a mobile authenticator. All characters on my account – yes including a newly created one – now receive a bundle containing four unlocks which are bound to character and vendor for 0 credits. These are a crew skill slot unlock (preferred have two normally), title display unlock, unify colors unlock, and an inventory unlock (I have 60 base from account-wide unlocks, so my new level 1 immediately got the 100K credit bump to 70 slots with this item).

Upon subscribing
Game time from the subscription added onto the free time (i.e. I did not forfeit the free time for entering payment info early, which happens in some other MMO’s). Immediately received both a monthly stipend and the 100 CC supplement for having a mobile authenticator – not sure if this works the other way around, so I recommend you do what I did and add the mobile authenticator if you intend to use one between activating your invite and re-subscribing. I am not yet ready to use the free character transfer that is supposedly included (want to finish a current character first before copying my legacy), but I got all the way to the “start transfer” button without any indication of what, if anything, I would be charged.

Technical issues
I received the referral in an email and clicked on it in Firefox, only to be taken to a “site down for maintenance” page on SWTOR.com when SWTOR.com was clearly up. Next I pasted the link into Internet Explorer, and was taken to a generic signup page for completely new players. I clicked on the “already have an account” button and logged in, but nothing unusual happened here. THEN I pasted the referral link into the IE browser bar with the login session to SWTOR.com still active and was sent to the referral page, which had a one-time banner at the top of the screen saying that I had been successfully referred by my friend.

Oxi-jin recommends Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One: A Novel.

6. Outro

Thanks to Oni (@Freakin_Ninja) and Redna (@R3DN4) for joining us this week.

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

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 105

Posted on by November 2, 2013
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We discuss what arrived in Game Update 2.4.2, the non-start of Ranked Season 1, and other bits of news from the SWTOR universe!

1. Introduction

Thanks to David, Simon and Kristy for allowing Teo to join them on The Oceanic Gamer’s Flash Point podcast for episode 67, “Pink Murloc Daleks”.

Happy Halloween from OotiniCast!

The following image was created by our guildmate, @TheTurg, based on the artwork of Adam Schumpert.

Terg pumpkin

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, RSKeogh96!

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 2.4.2 was deployed during a longish maintenance (4.5 hours) on Tuesday morning. This included the removal of the PvP Rating (not Valor) requirement from most (but not quite all) items.
  • The issue that decouples the procs on power relics (allowing two to be equipped, and proc independently, not locking each other out) remains, and is intended to be
    fixed      in Game Update 2.4.3 (probably on 12 Nov).
  • There remains an issue in the last encounter in Dread Palace, which should also be fixed in Game Update 2.4.3.
  • The bug with achievements in space missions remains.
  • The world (not class) mission “Spoils to the Victor” on Hoth is currently unable to be completed.
  • Those of you who were subscribed as of 20 October should be receiving your “Join the battle” rewards via in-game mail. They include a mini-pet (JA-3 Subversive Battle Droid) and the (rather awesome) JA-3 Subversive Speeder. Note that the speeder’s tooltip indicates that it’s intended to be adaptive, but for now requires Speeder Piloting 3 to use.
  • For those Advanced Classes that are not being updated in Game Update 2.5 (Scoundrel/Operative, Commando/Merc, Sage/Sorc), BioWare is asking the community to brainstorm some ideas for what they need.
  • Electronic Arts had its Q2 2014 earnings call on 29 October. While the focus was mainly on next-generation console titles (with the imminent release of the XBox One [22 Nov] and the PS4 [15 Nov]), SWTOR was mentioned as a major contributor to their live services revenue, alongside FIFA Online.
  • The delayed livestream hosted by MMORPG.com on Twitch was held on 24 October, featuring Lance—also known as the “Jedi Consular”—solo-queuing for ranked arenas on the Bastion. BioWare’s Ben Irving (Release Manager), Alex Modny (Designer) and Eric Musco (Community Manager) were looking on. You can watch a replay here. Lance also has his own Twitch channel.
  • BioWare is asking for your “scariest screenshots” via their Facebook page.

Scary image

4. Community

The Vy’aalators are looking for more raiders! They run on Monday evening (US time), starting at 5:30pm Pacific. If you’re interested, please post in this thread on our forums.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @Swtorfamily (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @ForceChuckle, @ThePummeler, @HamSammich509, @K0h4ku (Amber Green, Live Services Specialist), @rbleamon, @GTeeg (host of the Unnamed SWTOR Podcast), @crabby654, @Darklighter159, @bytorsnowdog, @TheTurg, @Strongshocker (Chaz Lobo), @foehammer75, @fnord3125, @JKremss, @GregCarter78 and @O_JohnnyBravo_O, emails from Brian, Hash, Spero and Greg Carter, and comments from Emily, RSKeogh96, Morriah and The Malgadar.

Reamde: A Novel is referred to by Brian, and enthusiastically endorsed by Redna.

6. Outro

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

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

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 104

Posted on by October 31, 2013
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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:

Dark side possibilities

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.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 103

Posted on by October 31, 2013
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After covering what’s new in Game Update 2.4.1, we discuss the various revelations from the Community Cantina held in New York on the weekend. Some wild speculation may be included.

1. Introduction

If you need to remove your security key from your account, you can utilise BioWare’s self-serve option by clicking on the link indicated below:

Lost your security key

Thanks to Adam Schumpert, Teo’s Operative is ready to join the Green Lantern Corps, our future arena team!

Teodal

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Timmeh!

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

4. Community

Izaak recommends this spreadsheet for helping to choose your enhancements (in addition to our own Item Modifications page).

David (@Ri_kiri) pointed us towards the Suckafish guild’s guides for hard mode Dread Fortress and Dread Palace.

Max (@MaxTheGrey) of the most excellent SWTOR Escape Pod Cast has created a calculator that will plan out your reputation gains to get you to Legend status as quickly as possible.

The Vy’aalators are looking for more raiders! They run on Monday evening (US time), starting at 5:30pm Pacific. If you’re interested, please post in this thread on our forums.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @ForceChuckle, @JediAio, @RPGbeatsRL and his droid @ODS_1, @Trooper_Noma, @grimrok (Grim), @bytorsnowdog (Snowy), @ArrTeaBee, @fnord3125 (Brian Peters), @JRO_Mosqueito (Mosq), @ben_b55, @JediKal, @Casmas_, @Manciferous, @HamSammich509, @BedouinBrennan, @ChazLobo and @FerrousTerran, emails from Bill and AwesomeSellars, and comments from RSKeogh96 and The Malgadar.

Our guildmate Mosq managed to target the mysterious “gm” NPC during a Huttball match!

GM in warzone from Mosq

@JediKal’s suggested desert for those with a Jawa fetish:

Jawa Cupcakes

 

@ChazLobo’s unearthing of the original disks for X-Wing (and its B-Wing expansion), which probably belongs in a museum:

ChazLobo - X-Wing on 3.5 inch floppies

The screenshots from AwesomeSellars epic PvP battle on Oricon:

AwesomeSellars4 AwesomeSellars3 AwesomeSellars2 AwesomeSellars1

6. Sarlacc Digest

A Community Cantina was held in New York on Saturday. In attendance was JD (a.k.a. Gaddock Teeg) of the Unnamed SWTOR Podcast. He provides both the audio from the Q&A and his own detailed coverage of the event in a special report edition of his show. The contents of the thumb drive provided to all attendees has been published by Dulfy.

7. Outro

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

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

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 102

Posted on by October 11, 2013
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The Super Secret Space Project is unveiled at last! We discuss the announcement of SWTOR’s free-to-play digital expansion, “Galactic Starfighter”. We also talk about an idea to require a player to have only PvP gear when solo queuing for ranked arenas, and briefly cover the Elo-based rating system utilised by SWTOR.

1. Introduction

2. Trivia question

Congratulations to this week’s winner, JediKrackr!

3. Tip of the week

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.

4. Holofeed

  • Patch 2.4.0a was deployed on Thursday morning, and Patch 2.4.0b arrived during regular maintenance on Tuesday. They fixed the majority of the omissions and the nastiest bugs that had arrived with Game Update 2.4.
  • Bounty Contract Week returns next Tuesday (15 October), presumably once the servers are back up after maintenance (during which Game Update 2.4.1 should be deployed).
  • There is a bug when starting Maelstrom Prison (mistakenly referred to as Mandalorian Raiders in the show), such that if you spacebar through the opening cinematic, you’re effectively locked in place, with the only option being a complete client restart. The workaround is to let the cinematic play out normally.
  • There are some issues with Quick Travel Terminals that have emerged since Game Update 2.4 was released, particularly those on Oricon.
  • It appears that anyone using the Eset NOD32 anti-virus software was having problems updating the game; the workaround is to disable the anti-virus software to allow the Launcher to update.
  • The SSSP (Super Secret Space Project) has finally been unveiled! BioWare has announced their next “free-to-play digital expansion”, Galactic Starfighter. They also released the “Conflict Rising” trailer (also on YouTube). The expansion will be free for all, unlocking for subscribers on 3 December, Preferred on 14 January, and Free on 4 February. Galactic Starfighter will include 12v12 PvP (not PvE) space battles, but no increase in the level cap, no new planet, and no space-based PvE content. However, it does include what sounds like an alternative advancement path specific to Galactic Starfighter, separate from regular character progression.

5. Community

6. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @Swtorfamily (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @MatTaylor22, @GregCarter78, @ZenOfDesign, @masterbearjedi (Raz), @ForceChuckle, @Freakin_Ninja (Oni), @ChazLobo, @RPGbeatsRL (Simon from the Flashpoint podcast at The Oceanic Gamer), @bytorsnowdog (Snowy), @DurtaDurta (Slade), @TheTurg, @swtorLFGdevs (Davidb) and @IzaakTheMad, emails from Jesus, Neiro, Tarkko, Darth Khalidin and AwesomeSellars, and comments from Oxi-Jin and NecktieFighter.

Snowy’s trooper with the glowing gloves on Oricon:

Snowy trooper glowing gloves   Izaak’s most awesome background, featuring the artwork of Adam Schumpert:

Izaak background

7. Sarlacc Digest

Our topic this week was discussing the proposal that solo ranked arenas matches should require participants to have an Expertise rating of 2018, thus ensuring they have only PvP gear (Partisan, Conqueror, Obroan). We had some great community feedback on the proposal, which very much informed the debate. Thanks to Spero, @JediKrackr, @GregCarter78, @Geldarion (Drew from Corellian Run Radio), @Lawilc01 (Laurie M), @TheTurg and @therealHausman (Jacob).

We also covered the Elo rating system, which apparently forms the basis of the solo and group rating used for ranked warzone arenas.

Notes

  1. Rob Hinkle on handling the disconnection of a team member during a ranked match.
  2. For unranked queuing, arenas are considered a type (with three maps), equivalent to the other warzones (Huttball, Voidstar, Civil War, Novarre Coast and Ancient Hypergate); this means there should be a 1/6 chance of getting into an arena when you queue.
  3. We recommend Geldarion’s latest article in his Tactical Strike column, “Arenas – A First Look”.

8. 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.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 101

Posted on by October 4, 2013
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Game Update 2.4: The Dread War is here, featuring two new operations and warzone arenas! We discuss our initial experiences with the new content, along with an overview of the patch notes.

1. Introduction

2. Trivia question

Last week’s question, which is being extended by another week, is a Who Am I: I am involved in only one Star Wars film, yet I have had lasting influence on the series. Before movies, I filmed bombing runs in WWII and helped document the liberation of the concentration camps and the signing of the armistice. I have worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, and even the Beatles. And if Chill had been really clever, he would have asked this question about me last episode. Who am I?

Please send your answer to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday. Winners will be put in a draw to win a Tawnfaun code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

3. Holofeed

4. Community

If you’re interested in showcasing your fashion sense, at least as it pertains to your characters in SWTOR, we recommend creating an account on Swtorista!

The forum thread titled “An Open Letter to BioWare: Improving the Overall State of SWTOR” is thoroughly discussed by Gaddock Teeg in episode 17 of his Unnamed SWTOR Podcast. His initial response to the petition can be found on Reddit.

We also recommend the SWTOR Escape Pod Cast (RSS, iTunes), hosted by Max and Sema of the AIE guild on Jedi Covenant, and Flashpoint (RSS, iTunes), The Oceanic Gamer’s long-running podcast, featuring David, Simon and Christie.

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

5. Force Feedback

Thanks for the kind words and congratulations for reaching episode 100 from Ry, Madmar (@swtorfamily), @DarthKenji, the Warlord of Mars (@mtarner601), Grim (@grimrok), Wemb (@wembli), Snowy (@bytorsnowdog), Brightstar (@tweetieowl), Vis (@AHlaenxna), @ThePummeler, @Geldarion (Drew of Corellian Run Radio), Markus (@mark00z), @ForceChuckle, Anthony Peebles (@AGP251), Raz (@masterbearjedi), Thross, Masterkao (@kingkao666), Spero, Jeff Brennan (@jeffyjaws), @TheMalgadar, @RPGbeatsRL, @fretfury, @thehatfield, @GTeeg (Gaddock Teeg), DJ Zod (of Radio4Gamers) and @GregCarter78.

We discuss tweets from @Swtorfamily (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @ArrTeaBee, @K0h4ku (Amber Green, Live Services Specialist on SWTOR), @RPGbeatsRL, @AckaanTalgala (Akaan Darasuum), @Jf0813 (Jesus A. Flores), @heymason12 (Hash), @Casmas_, @GregCarter78, an email from Spero, and a comment by TREaltoholic.

The SWTOR sub-Reddit page recommended by TREaltoholic that summarises all the major changes to SWTOR over its nearly two year lifespan can be found here.

6. Outro

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

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

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 100

Posted on by September 26, 2013
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There’s not much news in the lull before Game Update 2.4: The Dread War drops next week. This gave us an opportunity to celebrate our 100th episode, discussing the show’s origin, how we make it, and a whole lot more!

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Kal!

3. Trivia question

This week’s question is a Who Am I question: I am involved in only one Star Wars film, yet I have had lasting influence on the series. Before movies, I filmed bombing runs in WWII and helped document the liberation of the concentration camps and the signing of the armistice. I have worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, and even the Beatles. And if Chill had been really clever, he would have asked this question about me last episode. Who am I?

Please send your answer to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday. Winners will be put in a draw to win a Tawnfaun code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

4. Holofeed

5. Community

We recommend the SWTOR Escape Pod Cast (RSS, iTunes), hosted by Max and Sema of the AIE guild on Jedi Covenant. 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!), @TheMalgadar, @YojeVawree, @ben_b55, @GTeeg (Gaddock Teeg of the Unnamed SWTOR Podcast), @GregCarter78, @ChazLobo, @K0h4ku (Amber Green, SWTOR’s Live Services Specialist), @bigfatpj (PJ), @_Baffle, @GnomeFTW, @lwbuck (Leonard Buckley), @masterbearjedi (Raz), @RPGbeatsRL (Simon of the Flashpoint podcast), @Casmas_ (Cas), @fnord3125, @ArrTeaBee, @DurtaDurta, @TrueBluecoltfan, @SimonRoffe, @EmpireDivider (Moff Chong) and @pvdblog (Green Armadillo), emails from Rub, Grim, Hansgruber (ho ho ho), Rindialo, Trev, Pallais and Brian, and comments from Madman, Michael and The Malgadar.

We’ll be discussing Green Armadillo’s blog post, “Content Sales, or Lack Thereof in SWTOR”, next week.

Here’s PJ giving his speech to a Dreadlord’s minions in Scum and Villainy:

PJ speech Simon’s sample post for the /fubar emote:

Simon - Fubar Simon also points at Sony’s Digital Recording Binoculars, which appear to be macrobinoculars!

@ArrTeaBee provides this awesome image of his new Bounty Hunter with his trophy kill:

ArrTeaBee - BH @TrueBluecoltfan refers us to the Paradise Desk project on Kickstarter. Could be worth supporting!

The Jedi-themed bedroom via @SimonRoffe:

SW bedroom Moff Chong’s new helmet (or perhaps not):

Chong - new helm

7. Sarlacc Digest

We celebrate our 100th episode! The discussion includes Chill recounting how OotiniCast came to be, and Teo describing the production process. Plenty of reminiscing, as we contemplate the journey that we embarked on two years ago.

8. Outro

Thanks to Oni (@Freakin_Ninja), 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.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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OotiniCast Episode 99

Posted on by September 19, 2013
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Topics this week include Game Update 2.3.3, the “Join the Battle” campaign, and the class representative programme going on hiatus until Game Update 2.5. We even delve a little into MMO history to discover the meaning of some well-known terms!

1. Introduction

Courtesy of PJ, our Paradroid ops group about to do battle in nightmare mode Eternity Vault:

Paradroid in NiM EV

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, PJ! Thanks also to our other contributors: @FerrousTerran, Trev, Ryan (not Judy!), Snowy, Jason, Darth Khalidin and Longbow.

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

4. Community

Our guildmate Adam Schumpert has created these awesome logos for our guilds on The Harbinger (he also did various sizes for desktop wallpapers accessible from our forums):

Adam - Ootini KnightsAdam - Ootini Rage

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

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @Swtorfamily (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @ForceChuckle, @JediKal, @GregCarter78, @Casmas_, @DsanOB, @BigBore, @bigfatpj and @bytorsnowdog (Snowy), emails from Carnz, Cypher (of Swtorista.com), Narq, Green Armadillo (of the Player vs Developer blog) and Longbow, and comments from Hash, Thoss, The Malgadar and Randall Wheeldon.

Kal’s (@JediKal) lopsided speeder screenshot on the Imperial Fleet:

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This is the spreadsheet that Cas (@Casmas_) uses to track his voyage through the OotiniCast back catalogue:

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Greg’s (@GregCarter78) purple ceiling in the CZ-198 Flashpoint, Czerka Core Meltdown:

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PJ’s (@bigfatpj) new sword:

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6. 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.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio4Gamers.

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