It’s my favorite day of the year: Star Wars Day! It just wouldn’t be a May 4th without a post here about all the wonderful ways you can celebrate this awesome day. If for some reason you are not up to date on this very special day, StarWars.com has you covered: Say “May the 4th Be With You” out loud and you’ll hear the pun that Star Wars fans worldwide have turned into a rallying cry to proclaim their love of the saga. It’s the worldwide day to say “May the Force be with you” to all, and celebrate the beloved Star Wars story that binds our galaxy together. One of the earliest known records of “May the 4th” used in popular culture is in 1979, as described here by author Alan Arnold while he was chronicling the making of The Empire Strikes Back for Lucasfilm: Friday, May 4 “Margaret…
Month: May 2016
SWTOR Game Update 4.4: Known Issues
With a new game update comes new bugs. Here are a list of known issues with game update 4,4: The Collections unlock button does not function within the Collections menu for Fallen Defender’s armor set and the Ginx companion. The description for the Plunderer Pack within the Cartel Market does not list “Weapon Tuning” from the list of available item categories that are drawn from. The source listed on the tooltip pop-up of the inventory icon for the Plundered TC-16 Spewie Display Pedestal decoration is “Alliance Supply Crate” instead of “Cartel Market: Plunderer Pack.” The inventory icon for the Iknayid pet reward from the Eternal Championship does not match the in game pet model. Unavailable Cartel Market items are listed in Collections. With the exception of the first one, these are all issues with the cartelmarket. Apparently BioWare are OK with shipping with issues they know about to the CM…
Changes to the Cartel Market — Tuesday MAY 3 2016
Here are the weekly cartel market items on sale for the week of May 3 – May 10 2016 New Items Price Helpful links HYPERCRATE: PLUNDERER PACKS 5400 PLUNDERER PACK 200 Items No Longer Available Helpful links GRAND DYE PACK GRAND EMOTES PACK Price Change Old Price New Price Percent Change Normal Price Helpful links STRONGHOLD CANTINA DECORATION BUNDLE 760 1216 +60% LONGSPUR SPORTSTER 144 720 +400% LEGACY UNLOCK: CYBORG 300 600 +100% 600 AUTHORIZATION: ARTIFACT EQUIPMENT 900 1200 +33% 1200 MAJOR EXPERIENCE BOOST 90 45 –50% 90 EMOTE: POSSESSED 400 100 –75% APPEARANCE OPTIONS: HUMAN HAIRSTYLES 1 240 120 –50% 180 RENAME: FLAGSHIP NAME 1500 750 –50% 1125
Custom SWTOR Topps Card
If you’re not familiar with Topps cards, the company, founded in 1938, is famous for creating collectible trading cards, candy, chewing gum and other collectibles. Growing up in the 90s, baseball cards were the big thing (at least in my circles) but the company also makes other sports cards and even non-sports trading cards. They worked with the Disney Channel, for example, to create trading cards for Hannah Montana and High School Musical. They also made Pokemon trading cards, not to be confused with the Pokemon Trading Card Game from Wizards of the Coast. So what if they were to create Star Wars themed cards? What if they made SWTOR cards? What an awesome idea! Someone already had this idea but I cannot claim it as my own. A Reddit user named loststormtrooper came up with the idea and then made his own SWTOR Topps card. It’s not perfect and his logo actually says “The Force…
SWTOR Win-traders, Exploits, and Actions Being Taken
Eic Musco updated the SWTOR Community about BioWare taking actions against PVP Win traders in Star Wars: The old Republic Hey folks, Now that we are a few weeks into the Season I want to give you an update on actions we are taking to keep the Season as fair as possible. First, we have identified some players who were participating in win-trading. Those players have had appropriate actions taken against their account. We will continue to monitor this throughout the rest of the season. Accounts that partake in win-trading will receive action up to and including suspension time and ratings being reset across their account. We know that there have been questions this season specifically regarding the use of hacks and exploits. Know that since the start of the season we have been very aggressively seeking out and sanctioning the accounts involved. If you suspect that a player is…
SWTOR Game Update 4.4 Patch Notes
Here are the patch notes for game update 4.4 releasing tomorrow May 3, 2016. Game Update 4.4: Profit and Plunder Highlights New Feature: The Eternal Championship! Step into The Arena Grand and prove your worth against some of the galaxy’s most notorious fighters! Gain rewards every round while striving to become the Eternal Champion! Chapter XIII: Profit and Plunder! Aid Vette and Gault in a daring clandestine strike to plunder the Emperor’s secret treasury. Players who were subscribed on May 1st have immediate access to this new Chapter, and it will be available for all other Subscribers on Thursday, May 5th. New Alliance Alert: Freedom Fight! Recruit Bowdaar to your Alliance by showing your prowess in the Eternal Championship. Relics of the Gree is back! The Gray Secant has been spotted on Ilum, which means only one thing: the Relics of the Gree Event is back! From May 3rd at 4:00PST/12:00…
Giant LEGO Imperial Star Destroyer
If you’ve read our site for any amount of time now, you already know that I am a big fan of LEGO and Star Wars. If you’re just popping in with us for this article, well, I love LEGO and Star Wars. I do not think I’m alone in this passion because there are some really great Star Wars LEGO creations out there. That said, this just might be my all-time favorite. This is an amazing piece of work. This person should be a Master Builder for sure. He said he just wanted to build something that would be like his own dream set but this is really, really incredible. The attention to detail, the amount of painstaking work that likely went into it… it’s crazy. I’m not even sure where to begin with explaining how awesome this one is. Here’s a description from the builder: ISD Tyrant with LEGO’s…