Servers was down for a short maintenance today,  and as always BioWare took the time to patch the game. Today is more a tweak then a real patch though, as BioWare only decreased  the maximum number of simultaneous players on the Imperial and Republic Fleets. This is a pretty good move if you ask me as I notice my framerate drop from ~50fps to ~19fps while on fleet with 250+ people.  I hope this just implies more instances though.  Coming from having 4 people on my fleet at peak times,  100 people+  seem like a party! And if there were 6 instances of 100, thats 6 parties! Below are the patch notes: 1.2.7b Patch Notes 6/19/2012 General In order to improve overall performance, the maximum number of simultaneous players on the Imperial and Republic Fleets has been decreased —-
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TOR TV: Broken Chains Guild Dance Party
This video is original a guild promo, but since I like dancing, I thought it would fit well in our TOR TV segment. Want to upgrade your swtor experience? Why not check out one of the guilds with the highest amount of sexy naked dance parties? If your interested check us out at: http://broken-chains.enjin.com/ Game: SWTOR Faction: Imperial Server: Ajunta Pall (US)
TOR TV: The Best of HK-47
Alle the talk about our new legacy companion HK-51 made me exited, so I thought it would be apropiate to relive some of the greate moments we had with his great grand farther HK-47. PC Games already had an article about our all time favorite “hunter killer” droid last week, and we did a “Know your lore” article about him back in 2009. You can check it out here, if you need to brush up on your lore. HK-47 was a Hunter-Killer assassin droid and Jedi hunter constructed by Revan towards the end of the Mandalorian Wars to kill those who Revan believed would destabilize the galaxy. Revan gave up the droid shortly before his redemption, and HK-47 went from owner to owner, many of whom he slew himself, before being unwittingly reunited with his master, but that’s all story. You can read much more about that your self here.
Community Q&A: June 15th, 2012
BioWare posted a new Q&A session yesterday. It’s always nice read as it gives us some insight on what the devs are working on.  One of the answers that caught my eye this time, was the fact that you need high level toon of each faction to get the HK-51 companion. Yet another reason to get working on those Legacy characters. I also liked the explanation about stats on mods and enhancements. It’s easier to accept “this isn’t changing”, or “we don’t know when this might change” if they say why they did things a certain way. GarrickBlackSun: I understand he is a long way off, but could you please possibly give us any sort of clearer or better insight to the unlocking of HK-51? Daniel Erickson (Lead Game Designer): The only thing we’re saying today is its going to take a serious amount of work, involves a galaxy-wide mission, introduces some different ways of playing the game…
BioWare need your help. Come test Ranked Warzones this weekend
BioWare Live Community Coordinator Amber Green, posted a heads up on the official forum, asking people to come test the Ranked Warzones at the public test realms. For those people REALLY wanting Ranked Warzones, and there are a lot of us I think, we should really try to get on there and help get this ready. the more we can get it tested, the quicker it will come to the live servers. Hello everyone! This weekend we really want to focus on testing our Ranked Warzones and we need your help! We’d like for you to get together with 7 of your friends and queue up for as many Ranked and Normal Warzones as you can during the timeframes listed below. At the end of the each testing window, we’ll want your feedback! Please check this thread, where we’ll be posting a series of questions to gather information about your experiences with…
TOR TV: Dubstep and Dancing
It has been a while since we last posted a community created SWTOR movies, there for in honor of it’s Friday we give you not one, but two videos. The first movie is made by Youtube user  antemb and is called “why I play the Old Republic”. The movie is a classic dancing video as enjoyable as the can get. The second movie is made by Edvard Huseby, and represent the cinematic E3 trailers cut together in a dubstep mix.  Check it out: Why I play The Old Republic. Star Wars: The Old Republic – DUBSTEP
Current Available Transfers – Complete List June 13
Well, here we are on day 2 of server transfers and it seems some of the kinks are getting worked out. We brought you details of the server transfers yesterday but it does seem that more details are being worked out regarding server transfers. Some players were having issues with moving all 8 characters to a new server. On the last one, they would get a hangup and it would not transfer. BioWare kindly provided this workaround on the forums: We have a workaround for this issue: Log into the server where you have 7 successfully transferred characters Create a new character, species/profession are not important Once you are through the login intro, log back out to character select Delete the new character. Return to the character transfer page, and it should correctly list 7 characters on the destination server Should you require any further assistance, please post here. Reddit…
E3: James Ohlen Interview b y TorWars
I guess I was wrong when I wrote we were nearing the tales end of E3 interviews. Our friends over at TorWars got to interview James Ohlen about all the upcoming stuff we have discussed the last week. The interview is in two parts and you can read what TorWars had to say about it here and here and you can also check it out below. Good stuff ahead:
SWTOR Allies Update: E3 Interview with Daniel Erickson
Pico from curse gaming also had the chance to speak with SWTOR’s own ead designer Daniel Erickson. As in the other interview coming out from E3, they discuss the upcomming changes in patch 1.3 I think we might be near the tales end with e# interviews, but if we find any more, I’ll make sure we post them. Let us know in the comments, if we missed any
Current Available Transfers
Transfers are now up but limited. You need to log into your account on swtor.com and go to “Character Transfers” to start the process. BioWare updated us about the process of migrating server last week, but it is still not obvious what servers the company is betting on. Available transfers are currently: North America Keller’s Void to Jedi Covenant (PvE – East) Hedarr Soongh to The Fatman (PvP – East) Rakata Mind Prison to The Bastion (PvP – West) Soresu to The Harbinger (PvE – West) The Courageous –> Canderous Ordo Kath Hound –> The Ebon Hawk Ven Zallow –> Jung Ma Fa’athra –> Drooga’s Pleasure Barge Lord Ieldis –> Begeren Colony Europe Eye of Ashlanae to The Red Eclipse (PvE) Mecrosa Order to Darth Nihilus (PvP) Phateem Halls of Knowledge to Mantle of the Force (PvE) Stereb Cities to The Jedi Tower (PvE) The Restoration Zone to Jar’Kai Sword (PvP) The…
1.2.7 Patch Notes – 6/12/2012
It’s Tuesday and BioWare had another servers maintenance. Today is also a really interesting day, ad BioWare starts the server transfers, but we will ocver that in a story shortly. Regarding the patch notes, this one is imo the most important: “The Customer Service ticket notification icon no longer blinks occasionally when no notification is available” Finally! Anything that find interesting or pop to mind? Let is know in the comments.  Check out the patch notes below: General When a player is required to rename multiple characters, it is now clear which character the rename prompt refers to. Crew Skills Gathering Skills Corrected an issue that could prevent players from gathering from some resource nodes that appeared to be lootable. Flashpoints and Operations General Addressed an issue that prevented some encounter effects (such as fire or other damaging area abilities) from displaying correctly for some players. Missions and NPCs Missions Class Missions Smuggler Blood Feud:…
E3 Blaine Christine interview
Lucas Siegel from Newsarama.com goes in-depth with senior live producer Blaine Christine about SWTOR. They cover new features in the latest Star Wars – The Old Republic update including companion characters, social hubs and the future plans for SWTOR.
Pokket from MMORPG Interviews Daniel Erickson at E3 2012
Pokket from mmorpg.com had the chance to speak with Daniel Erickson at this years E3. In the interview Daniel Erickson answers questions regarding all the upcoming changes BioWare showcased at the press conference last week. Check it out below:
TOR TV: 30 Troopers Fighting Together
This video is original ment as a guild recruitment promo, for the guild  Alpha Company and is basically pure win.  The video is well edited and it is  an achievement in itself that they managed to get 30 people to actually get in straight lines. I read somewhere that they also act as like a rapid response team. One time the imperials were overrunning one of the republic bases on alderaan, and someone whispered to people in fleet that they needed help. Alpha Company responded and had the entire crew show up as one and drive the imperials back, then set up and form a perimeter to guard the base. Very cool 🙂 Anyways, Check out the video below:
Character transfers coming June 12
Exiting news today, as BioWare updates us on the upcoming server transfers and details on how the transfers will work and when to expect to see them. If you can hold your breath, the Character transfers will be june 12. yes that’s right, in 6 days! Transfers have it’s limitations though, but Joveth Gonzalez and Allison Berryman have posted some clarifications on the official forums regarding how transfers will work. You can read it all later on in this post, but first check out TORWARS interview with James Ohlen on Impending Character Transfers: Official blog post: Character Transfer, Server Populations and You In a previous Community Q&A we talked about character transfers, and announced that they were coming in early summer. Character transfers are a complex process, but we’re almost ready to go. Starting next week on June 12th, 2012, we’re allowing character transfers to occur between selected servers in order to provide a…
TOR TV: Fan made Jedi Knight Story Trailer
Youtube user  lvl0zilch made this little gem. This is A true labor of love which took about a month to edit together. He  may do this for the other 7 classes. As he says, “It gives me  a good excuse to finally level an imperial character or two… or four. I’m open to suggestions on what to do next including class, species gender.”” The video is Recorded & Edited by Gabriel Deleon as “Norwich’City Football’Club” on The Shadowlands server.
1.2.6 Patch Notes – 6/4/2012
BioWare took today’s server downtime to apply a small patch. Compared to the info given to us at yesterdays E3 warm up, this patch doesn’t include any game breaking updates. Check it out below: Companion Characters General Companion Characters no longer appear headless when wearing certain headgear. Flashpoints and Operations Operations Explosive Conflict The optional chest before the minefield encounter can now be looted again. Missions and NPCs General Class mission items now drop from appropriate enemies even if a groupmate deals the killing blow. Audio for cinematics no longer begins before the cinematic starts. The UI is now hidden before a conversation begins (instead of after it starts). Missions Voss The mission “Primary Target” will be automatically completed for players who finished The Dark Hollow without completing Primary Target first. Turning in The Dark Hollow first could make Primary Target impossible to complete. It is no longer possible to start The Dark Hollow before…
TOR TV: SWTOR Explained: Knights of the Old Republic Story (Revan Part 3)
xZeroTolerence55x have been busy with exams and work, so it have been a while since his last update. But now he is back, with his highest requested video yet. In this video, he explains the story of Knights of the Old Republic. If you missed out, you can see part one here, were he goes over the back story of Revan pre KOTOR and Revans involvement in the Mandalorian wars.  In part two he explains the jedi civil war. Both awesome videos if you are a lore freak like me 🙂
Community Q&A: June 1st, 2012
As always, BioWare had a Community question and answer session this Friday were BioWare developers, and other team members, answers player questions. This week questoins and answers focus mainly on Update 1.3: Allies , ranging from server transfers to Legacy questions etc. Check it out below, or over at the official thread. Hi everyone, We’re back with a selection of answers to your community questions! Please note that in some cases we’ve combined multiple questions into one, and we that have edited some questions for clarity. As a reminder, we previously suggested a shift in focus in your questions. As development plans are always subject to change, questions about future features will often get vague answers which can be repetitive and sometimes annoying. With that in mind, the development team is more interested in questions about current in-game features or systems or questions about why development decisions were made. You’re still welcome to ask questions…
SWTOR: Deceived Now Available In Paperback
Today, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived by Paul S. Kemp is out for its mass market paperback release. The book was original released in hardcover last year, and you can read our review of the book here. The book follows Darth Malgus who is one of our main characters in SWTOR. Here’s a little plot description refresher courtesy of Amazon: “A Sith warrior to rival the most sinister of the Order’s Dark Lords, Darth Malgus brought down the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in a brutal assault that shocked the galaxy. But if war crowned him the darkest of Sith heroes, peace will transform him into something far more heinous—something Malgus would never want to be but cannot stop becoming, any more than he can stop the rogue Jedi fast approaching. Her name is Aryn Leneer—and the lone Jedi Knight that Malgus cut down in the fierce battle for the Jedi Temple was her Master….
1.2.5 Patch Notes – 5/30/2012
BioWare have taken the servers down for scheduled maintenance. The servers are still not up, and the maintenance have been extended a few times already. Do I smell patch 1.3 coming up on the public test servers? General Optimizations have been implemented that decrease instances of crashing to desktop. Any players required to change a character’s name due to Customer Support request must now make all name changes before logging in with any characters on a server. Classes and Combat General “”Heroic Moment” abilities no longer persist after players log out or transition areas. Companion Characters General Corrected an issue that could cause Companion Characters to appear without a head when wearing certain headgear. Flashpoints and Operations General Boss encounters no longer drop rewards until the entire encounter has been cleared of enemies. Flashpoints Corrected an issue that could prevent Flashpoint mission steps from updating properly if players were disconnected…
Species of Starwars: Geonosian
An insectoid species divided into castes, the Geonosians are native to the harsh rocky world of Geonosis. Geonosians construct immense, organic-looking spires within which reside their hive colonies. There are two main types of Geonosians: the wingless drones that mostly work as laborers, and the winged aristocrat, which includes royal warriors serving as scouts and providing security to the hive. All Geonosians have a hard, chitinous exoskeleton, elongated faces, multi-jointed limbs, and speak in a strange clicking language. Though labeled “warriors,” Geonosians do not have a standing military. They instead use their droid foundries to build armies for corporate interests wealthy enough to afford them—entities such as the Trade Federation and the Techno Union. Despite relatively simple minds, the Geonosians are adept at mechanical construction, and are contractors to many of the galaxy’s biggest manufacturing concerns. They are responsible for the construction of some of the largest feats of engineering…
TOR TV: Bug’s and Linedance
Searching through Youtube for SWTOR goodies I cam across these two videos. First one is another dancing video, this time by WNxJokazWild. It’s called “Bored in SWTOR: WN Style” and shows half naked aliens dancing. Not quite sure what races to be hornets, but check it out: The other video by ViralPerfection hangs out Khem Val as a pervert. I can’t stop thinking about what my companions do when I log out the game. I don’t know if it is the heat, ot the fact that we are nearing summer, but today’s videos was a little naughty. Anyways, If you Have suggestions for movie we ought to feature – other then “let’s play SWTOR” Get in contact with us.
TOR TV: Level 50 PvP Young Guns Music Video
 This Video depicting current level 50 PvP gameplay in Star Wars The Old Republic on the Lord Ieldis server, is created by youtube user John James. The SWTOR community really needs more contributions like this. It’s a great and rally fun video – Body type 4 just makes it amazing :p Check it out:  Interested in SWTOR Movies? We have new movies most weekdays here on swtorstrategies! Have suggestions for movie we ought to feature? Get in contact with us