Today’s patchnotes are up, and this is a big one. The higlights this time are as following: Galactic Starfighter Now Available For All Players! – Galactic Starfighter is now available for Free-To-Play, Preferred, and Subscription players! Choose your ship role and help your fellow pilots in 12 vs.12 Battles. Click the Hangar icon next to your minimap to jump into the cockpit now! New Galactic Starfighter Ship Role: Bomber – The Bomber ship role has been added to Galactic Starfighter, with six new ships available for unlock/purchase! Bombers are tough support ships that drop mines and drones throughout the battlefield. Mines detonate when enemies get into proximity, inflicting damage or crippling debuffs to all nearby foes. Drones attack nearby enemies with a variety of weapons, while Repair Drones restore the hull of nearby allies. Bombers can also place Hyperspace Beacons which function as mobile respawn points for their allies. New Galactic Starfighter…
Community Update on the Future of SWTOR
If you’re wondering what’s going to happen with SWTOR in the future, we have an update from Bruce Maclean, Senior Producer today. It’s a roadmap for 2014, including everything we can except to be coming up this year.
Star Wars Galaxies Fans Teased by SOE President: Unannounced MMO
If you loved Star Wars Galaxies then you might get excited about the info released at a recent AMA on Reddit. SOE president John Smedley has teased an unannounced MMO that will appeal to fans of Star Wars Galaxies. “SWG players – our next game (not announced yet) is dedicated to you,” Semdley continued. “Once we launch it… you can come home now.” So we admit the message is pretty cryptic and we’re not even sure what it means but you better believe we’ll be keeping a look out for more information. And as soon as we know more about this unannounced MMO, we’re going to pass it on to you. So what do you think about this mysterious game that will be dedicate to Star Wars Galaxies fans? Will it be another Star Wars game ( it’s confirmed it won’t be a Star Wars game) or will it be a…
“Dark Resurrection” Team Crowd Funded $150,000
We are very happy to bring you another update from the “Dark Resurrection”“. The Italian Filmmakers became an Internet sensation in 2007 and launched volume 2 just recently, which we told you about back in December. Now they’re hoping to complete the series with their third and final installment by 2015. Now they are looking to raise $150,000 to make this next and final film happen. Hollywood Reporter gives us more info on the story: Now writer-director Angelo Licata hopes to see the final chapter of his story told. The tale takes place several centuries after the events of Star Wars Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi, and centers on one dark Jedi’s obsessive quest to find a legendary temple believed to give those who open its seal unimaginable knowledge. True to Star Wars form, there are good guys standing in his way. Licita says he would like to shoot this year, with an…
Star Wars Retro games: Star Was Monopoly
Hasbro Interactive’s Star Wars Monopoly is a fully animated interactive PC version of Parker Brothers’ 1997 Monopoly board game, albeit with the 20th Anniversary “Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition” twist. Although the rules remain the same as the classic Monopoly game and the goal still is to buy up as many properties as possible and not becoming bankrupt, the setting is no longer Earthbound (as in Atlantic City) but the Star Wars galaxy from the Classic trilogy. In Star Wars Monopoly, one can either play solo against the computer’s artificial intelligence (AI), other human players (the “hot seat” option), or on the Internet through such portals as the MSN Game Zone. (Players who install this game will notice it will later show up on their MSN or Windows Messenger as an additional option.) While it’s always more fun to play against other people, the solo player game can be very…
Scheduled Maintenance: February 4th – Patch 2.6
BioWare will be taking down the servers this Tuesday February 4th to preform Scheduled Maintenance, and add patch 2.6. My Merc healer can’t wait, but my Sniper can… and my Assassin is in the corner waving his glowstick going “Hey guys, what about me!?” Grieve with me, fellow Smugglers and Agents, for on that fateful date, we shall find our premiere AoE damage ability neutered into uselessness. Here is the server droid announcement: ServerDroid Scheduled Maintenance: February 4th | 01.31.2014, 04:57 PM On February 4th, all game servers, SWTOR.com, and the launcher will be unavailable while we perform scheduled maintenance. Game Update 2.6 will be implemented during this downtime. Details are as follows: Date: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 Duration: 5 hours Time: 2AM PST (9AM GMT) – 7AM PST (2PM GMT) During maintenance, all updates and additional information will be posted on our Twitter account. Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The…
SWTOR Sith Warrior Juggernaut Leveling Build For 2.5
CJ from from swtorsavior.com send over a new leveling build. This time it’s for the Sith Warrior Juggernaut. For players who prefer to jump into a fight head first and with reckless abandon, then perhaps the Sith Warrior is the class for them. Quick, powerful and ruthless, the Sith Warrior is a flurry of lightsaber slashes and stabs, leaving a trail of bodies behind him. The Juggernaut advanced class can withstand any attack unleashed upon him. In this article, we will look into the Juggernaut advanced class and explore his various skill trees, abilities and everything in between. Here are some rotations you can use: Single Target: Sundering Assault > Obliterate > Smash > Force Crush > Force Choke > Vicious Throw > Force Scream > Ravage > Saber Throw Try and use Saber Throw or Assault if you fall below 7 rage. You can use Obliterate to activate Dominate. You can use Force…
Republic Datacron Hunt [iconographics]
Are you looking for a great visual guide to help you on your Datacron hunt? This guide for the Republic is very detailed and useful. You can save it to your computer, print it out or open it in your browser and use it to find the datacrons on the Republic side. It tells you what you get with each one and also gives you a class breakdown of stats so you can know just what you’re going for. New players and seasoned vets alike can all benefit from this useful guide. It goes all the way up to Makeb, level 55 and also covers the Republic Fleet. Check out the full sized image for yourself here: View post on imgur.com It is also added to our Datacron guide together with a imperial version of the iconographics Do you know of any useful guides and graphics just like this one? We…
Lucasfilm Look for Change Star Wars Expanded Universe with Star Wars Story Group
When it comes to Star Wars story, there are two sects: the original Star Wars Universe created by George Lucas himself. And then there is the version that others are allowed to change; the expanded universe. Lucasfilm now threatens to challenge all of this as we know it. As Bleeding Cool tells us: “George Lucas said that the Star Wars universe exists, essentially, in two versions. There’s his one, and then there’s the one everybody else can play with. In effect, this meant that anybody writing Star Wars outside of the six main movies (to date) was expected to adhere to one another’s work and create story lines that were consistent with one another. And then, whenever Lucas himself went on to create a new “core” story for the Saga, he had permission to overwrite or ignore anything from that “Expanded Universe.” But now, Lucasfilm are looking to rework the system and destroy this…
Limited Early Access To Star Wars Assault Team Mobile Device Game
Disney Interactive posted an update regarding Star Wars Assault Team – A new Mobile Device Game. The game will have a limited early release in select international on iOs and Android devices. They also revealed that the game is a “turn-based combat game for mobile devices with strategy and card-battle elements. Disney Interactive, in partnership with LucasArts, has announced limited early access to Star Wars™: Assault Team, a new turn-based combat game for mobile devices with strategy and card-battle elements. Collect classic characters from the Rebel Alliance and more to defeat enemies and players across the galaxy. Strategically deploy the team’s special tactics to battle through new graphically enhanced missions set throughout Star Wars™planets and locations from the original trilogy. Star Wars: Assault Team’s limited early access is being offered in select international markets on iOS and Android with the game rolling out globally this spring for iOS, Android and…
Cartel Market sales: week 05 2014
Here are this weeks bargains and good deals on the cartel market: Sales Ashfall Tauntaun (3,600 CC 2,400 CC 20% off) TZ-24 Enforcer (1,800 CC 1,440 CC 20% off) TZ-24 Gladiator (1,800 CC 1,440 CC 20% off) MA-25 Forward Ops Chestplate (150 CC 50 CC 66% off) Vintage Republic Military Armor Set (1,200 CC 600 CC 50% off) Stalward Protector Armor Set 1,440 CC 576 CC 60% off) 5-Pack: Major Starfigher Experience Boost (240 CC 180 CC 25% off) Hypercrates Wont be on this list unless they have more than a 10% discount. Apparently bundles also don’t change sale prices so they wont be on the list. If I there is a sale that’s not on this list please let me know and I will add it. New Items VX-9 Mailoc (1,800 CC) – Gunship for the Imperials VX-9 Redeemer (1,800 CC) – Gunship for the Republic Dogfighter’s Starfighter Pack…
SWTOR Podcasts week 5
Even before the Star Wars: The old Republic was live, DarthHater was on the air talking about the game. In time, other early podcasts started up like TorWars, TOROCast, and Corellian Run Radio. Some of these early podcasts are still updating, some have changed subject matter, and others have podfaded. Today, SWTOR has over ten active podcasts produced mostly in English but also French, Russian, Swedish, etc. We have never had our own podcast here on SWTORStrategies, but going forward, we will be posting a weekly update linking you to podcasts with new showes. Below is a list of all active podcast, and below the list you can find shows from this week. What is your favorit podcast? SWTOR-specific podcasts/vodcasts Title Twitter Subscribe Corellian Run Radio @CorellianRun iTunes, RSS Enmity Podcasting @42GamingPodcast iTunes, RSS, YouTube OotiniCast @OotiniCast iTunes, RSS The Republic @gamebreakertv iTunes SWTOR Escape Pod Cast @MaxTheGrey iTunes, RSS SWTOR Reforged @SWTORReforged iTunes, RSS TOROCast…
New Star Wars Assault Team Mobile Device Game announced
Lucasfilm just announced via the official Star Wars Twitter account, a new Star Wars video game coming to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices. The game will be titled ‘Star Wars: Assault team, and is due for a release sometime this spring. Prepare your mobile devices! Star Wars: Assault Team is rolling out for #iOS, @Android & #Win8 devices this spring. pic.twitter.com/UoW9yHYH5P — Star Wars (@starwars) January 28, 2014 It’s unknown who the developer of this game is, but this is the second game Lucasfilm and Disney announced since Lucasarts was shut down. The fist game was Star Wars: Attack Squadrons that was announced back in December. While EA have the rights to all Star Wars video games for console and computers Disney can develop own Star Wars games or licencing them out on other platform.
Charles Boyd tweets about new voice recording for SWTOR!
2014 looks like it’s going to be a good year for SWTOR! One piece of good news after the next. This time Charles Boyd tweets about new voice recording for the game. If you don’t know who Charles is, he is the lead writer at Bioware Austin for the Trooper class in Star Wars: The Old Republic. The tweet comes with the image above. The guy with the beard is Charles. The other guy looks like Brian Bloom voicing the male Trooper in Star Wars The Old Republic In LA again, recording awesome talent for upcoming #SWTOR updates 🙂 — Charles Boyd (@Charles_Boyd) January 27, 2014 I’d be really thrilled to hear that any of these names were in the studio with him: Brian Bloom, Nolan North, Natasha Little, Maury Sterling, Euan Morton… and 11 other names – That could mean new class story content. On the other hand, could also…
New Article – Flashpoint: Kuat Drive Yards
Senior Designer, on Star Wars: The old Republic, Jesse Sky posted a news article on Kuar Drive Yards, last night. The article describe the new flashpoint for level 15+ players that comes with game update 2.6. This will be a new type of instance that the team is calling a Tactical Flashpoint. The main thing that distinguishes Tactical Flashpoints is that they are role-neutral – in other words, they are balanced for a combination of any four classes. This means Group Finder will match the first four players it finds, which translates into drastically shorter queue times, especially for DPS classes. I’m not sure how I feel about this yet, as I fear there will be no incentives for healing and tanking and you will only perpetuate the issue of a lack ofsupport roles in the long run. Time will tell though. Check out the full article over at the…
Sony to Shut Down Free Realm, Vanguard and Clone Wars
Sony Online Entertainment announced that they be closing down four ongoing MMORPGs: Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, and Wizardry Online. Free Realms and Clone Wars Adventures servers will shut down on March 31, while Vanguard and Wizardry servers will stop on July 31 Lack of interest is the reason for the Free Realms, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes closures. A Sony representative told Kotaku that all three no longer have the pull they once did. The player population has been decreasing over the years, and it’s just a case of these things happening. However, Sony did not offer a reason for the shutting down of Wizardry Online, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it was for similar reasons. Wizardry isn’t exactly the most popular series around. Michele Cagle wrote in a statement: At Sony Online Entertainment, we are always evaluating our portfolio to ensure…
TOR TV: Body floating outside republic fleet
Have you ever noticed that there is a body floating outside the republic fleet? A morbid easter egg in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I saw this first time back in beta, in the same spot, but I could have SWORN it was C2-N2. Wishful thinking, I suppose. As someone who collected frozen corpses in EVE Online, I feel a desperate need to scoop that. I was always wondering why the game told me i couldn’t use my escape pod right now, that must have been the player that discovered this bug on accident while looking for the john.
Documentary : Monster of the Milky Way
While they are difficult to see for the obvious reason that they give off no light, we now know that they exist because there are circumstances in which they can be located by their effect on other stars. Although it is difficult to to give a precise estimate of the number of black holes that exist because not enough is known about the number of stars that become black holes, astronmers estimate that there is about one black hole for every 10,000 stars, which means that the Milky Way contains at least 100 million black holes. At the very center of the galaxy lurks the darth-vader rock star, the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A aka Sgr A*. Looming beyond the horizon of Sgr A*, if we assume Einstein’s theory of relativity that predicts what happens when a star collapses is correct, is a singularity. But it is a singularity that…
Star Wars Occupation Flow Chart [Infographic]
Have you ever been sitting there watching Star Wars and wondering what to do with your life and cursing your guidance counselor for not telling you about Jedi School? With this handy infographic you will find out what your calling would be if you lived in a galaxy far, far away. by bobbybernethy. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.
Building the LEGO Death Star
This amazing death star has over 26 minifigures, three floors, and a whole lot of rooms! I really love how much detail went into this thing. The minifigures are well done and finally Lego gives us enough minifigures to really enjoy the set. It has everything from the meeting room to the emperor’s throne room and the detention cell to the trash compactor. Really, really, really, really, really great set! You get all the classic characters, even a few versions of the important ones. The trash compactor is just all right, but most of the other moving parts have the impressive marks of Lego ingenuity. I also love that it takes a long time to build. That helps a little in terms of coming to grips with the fact that you just dropped $400 on a big toy. The fact that it’s 90% gray can get a little tedious. The…
Blog: EMERGENCY ALERT: Rakghoul Plague Outbreak on Alderaan
BioWare posted a short role playing blog post about the Rakghoul Plague Outbreak yesterday. The event is live and kicking in SWTOR now, and another highly contagious outbreak seems to be spreading from Alderaan and has possibly made it top the Imperial fleet. Both the Empire and the Republic governments are seeking assistance so be sure and visit you local GSI representative. EMERGENCY ALERT: Rakghoul Plague Outbreak on Alderaan – AVOID ALDERAAN! 01.22.2014 The Hyland Organization for Rakghoul Neutralization (T.H.O.R.N.) has issued an official level-2 emergency alert concerning an outbreak of the Rakghoul plague on Alderaan. Wide-spread infections have been reported near both House Organa and House Thul, while scattered reports of infection traceable to Alderaan are now flooding in from across the galaxy. Quarantines have been put in place to restrict traffic of the plague off-world, but exceptions will be made for individuals with priority clearance. T.H.O.R.N. is recruiting qualified…
Bounty Contract Event Returns – 2/11 thru 2/14
The bounty contract event will return on February 11 and run for 4 days until the weekend. If you are new to Star Wars: The old Republic, I can tell you that the Bounty Contact Week is a monthly recurring event that runs one week of every month. The basic premise for this SWTOR event centers around the Bounty Brokers Association. This organization, totally made up by BioWare, is overrun with the number contracts that it needs fulfilled and is willing to pay anyone for completing the bounties. (To be fair, that’s not too much different than a normal bounty contract, but let’s just run with it.) Participants can complete one standard contract and one kingpin contract a day per character level 15 or higher. Players travel to one of eight planets (two Republic-only planets, two Empire-only planets, and four shared planets), hunting down eight different henchmen and eight different…
Swtor-mined: 2.6 PTS Patch | 1/21/13
SWTOR-miner have been playing around with game update 2.6 witch is currently being test on the public tests servers. There’s a bug with some of the ship component listings, but there’s some good stuff in there. One of them looks like being a Manaan flashpoint! New/Changed/Removed Abilities New/Changed/Removed Achievements New/Changed/Removed Areas New/Changed/Removed Codex Entries New/Changed/Removed Collections New/Changed/Removed Companions New/Changed/Removed GOM Items New/Changed/Removed Items New/Changed/Removed MtxStoreFront Entries New/Changed/Removed Npcs New/Changed/Removed Quests New/Changed/Removed Ships New/Changed/Removed Talents Looks like the NovaDive/S-12 Blackbolt got some love with the new EMP Field Component: Causes and electromagnetic pulse around your ship that will damage and disable all hostile mines and drones in a 3000m radius for 15 seconds. Hostile ships caught in the pulse will have their accuracy reduced by 10%, their sensor and communication range reduced by 5000m, and their system ability disabled for 15 seconds. Some nice upgrades to it as well that can…
Alderaan Rakghoul Event Runs – 1/21 through 1/28
I hope everyone is having a good time with the Rakghoul Event. here is just a headsup that the event will be running from 1/21 through 1/28. So that give us one week to farm all the Rakghoul achievements. Source NOW LIVE: RAKGHOUL PLAGUE OUTBREAK ON ALDERAAN (JANUARY 21 – 28, 2014: BEGINS AND ENDS AT 2AM PST/10AM GMT) LEVEL: Levels 25+ MISSION: Wide-spread infections have been reported near both House Organa and House Thul, while scattered reports of infection traceable to Alderaan are now flooding in from across the galaxy. Quarantines have been put in place to restrict traffic of the plague off-world, but exceptions will be made for individuals with priority clearance. T.H.O.R.N. is recruiting qualified volunteer emergency responders to travel to affected areas to combat the spread of the Rakghoul plague. More information about the outbreak can be found by checking the News Terminals on the Fleet!