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SWTOR: ‘Out Now’ in Australia

David — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:40:13 +0000

.. well at EB Games at least. As we reported around a month ago, copies of SWTOR have been able to be purchased in Australia from a range of retailers. Initially it was all a bit ‘unofficial’, with initially you needing to ask if there were any copies out the back. That’s well and truly [...]

Heavy Damage: Tricks of the PvP Trade Part 2

Alec — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:37:16 +0000

Heavy Damage is our weekly Tanking column – if you have suggestions of what you’d like covered, drop our resident Tank, Alec Bailey a line. Part 1 of this PvP roundup covering Huttball can be found here. This week I will be going over some strategies for the Voidstar Warzone. Voidstar involves two teams, offensive and [...]

SWTOR Quick Start Videos: first one released

David — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:34:49 +0000

BioWare have started to push out some tutorial videos to further flesh out their help / support offering. The first one is a brief look at logging in for the first time and creating your character. Being the cynical, world-weary SWTOR veteran I am, I initially thought this would be a pretty tedious video even [...]

Suggestion Box: Oceanic server names

David — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:43:45 +0000

Another weekend, another issue to chew over. Actually, this week there’s two. The first one is a direct call for your input: in a week’s time we’ll be chatting with BioWare’s Stephen Reid and we want YOUR questions to ask him. So head over here and post your questions in the format described in the [...]

Possibly the funniest SWTOR review ever

David — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:03:53 +0000

Having read say, 90 or 100 reviews of SWTOR, I believe I’m qualified to say the one below is by far the funniest one of them all. It’s not a glowing review given the humour of the reviewer (Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw), but that’s what makes for a good review: honest opinions. It just happens that [...]

Upcoming: Stephen Reid Q&A on TOROZ

David — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:07:04 +0000

We’re very pleased to announce that we’ll be recording an interview with BioWare’s Senior Community Manager, Stephen Reid, on Episode 26 of our Flash Point podcast. We’ll be recording on the 11th February, but in the lead up we’d love YOUR questions for Stephen Reid on anything SWTOR-related. How to have your question asked BioWare [...]

Server downtime tonight 2nd February

David — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:26:54 +0000

Some more downtime unfortunately tonight 7pm-9pm AEDT, 4pm-6pm AWST and 9pm-11pm NZDT: Since the latest patch (1.1.1), we’ve been seeing reports about players dealing with hitching and freezing issues. As an effort to alleviate these issues for affected players, we will be performing maintenance tonight starting at 2AM CST, but we don’t expect it to [...]

SWTOR Patch 1.1.2 details released

David — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:15:03 +0000

Patch 1.1.2 for SWTOR is now up on the public test server, and there’s a bunch of fixes in there as expected. The key ones for a lot of people are further improvements to ability delays and general system responsiveness. There’s also a bunch of class fixes / changes so read on for the full [...]

Bioware at GDC 2012 talking SWTOR

David — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:30:03 +0000

The 2012 Game Developers Conference program is starting to take shape, and I noticed one very relevant pair of speakers to those following SWTOR, who’ll be presenting a session called “There is Another… Darth Vader SWTOR – Creating A True Competitor in the AAA MMO Space“: SPEAKER/S: Richard Vogel (Bioware) and Dallas Dickinson (Bioware) DAY / TIME / [...]

SWTOR Guild Summit March 2012

David — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:19:47 +0000

BioWare have announced a guild summit to be held in Austin Texas between the 4th and 6th of March this year i.e. in just under 9 weeks time. It’s an invite-only event but they have some places left if you can get yourself over to the US at your own expense in March. Read on [...]

Busting SWTOR bugs: “everything else is secondary”

David — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:22:34 +0000

Rich Vogel, SWTOR’s executive producer, has hammered out a developer blog post giving a little more insight into how BioWare are tackling the inevitable bugs that any MMO has. It’s a strategically timed post given the griping over patches and remaining in-game issues. As you’ll read below, Vogel is pretty emphatic about what the development [...]

Why I don’t want to get to Level 50 (at least yet)

David — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:34 +0000

Now that it’s well over 6 weeks into the life of SWTOR, there’s no shortage of Level 50s running around. Unlike those who levelled up in the first week or so, most of those who’ve reached end-game will have actually experienced the storyline in at least a brief sense. Some will have put in a [...]

Getting grief in open-world PvP? Meet Angwe

David — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:22:14 +0000

I just had to share this little piece of fun from WoW. Like SWTOR, WoW has PvP servers and based on this web page, some people don’t like being ganked on a regular basis. One such ganker, Angwe, has gone to the trouble to create a page documenting the aggro he causes. There’s some funny [...]

Flash Point 25: McGherkinsquirters and Roleplaying

David — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:12:29 +0000

We’re pretty thrilled to have racked up a quarter of a century of podcasts, and what better way to celebrate than with a guest. A big thanks to Ganden from SWTOR-RP for jumping into the fray for this episode. Points of discussion: - SWTOR patches: frequency and effect - Legacy system – current and future [...]

Heavy Damage: Tricks of the PvP Trade Part 1

Alec — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:30:35 +0000

Heavy Damage is our weekly Tanking column – if you have suggestions of what you’d like covered, drop our resident Tank, Alec Bailey a line. This week we are going to be looking into PvP specific skills and abilities – what you should be keeping up and using on enemies. I’ll start with Huttball, then [...]

Family Research Council Decries ‘SW:TOR’ Update Allowing Homosexual Relationships

David — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:09:47 +0000

In what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council has decided that the latest update to BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is more than just added content; it’s a strong political statement that must be stopped at all costs! After some players complained about [...]

Quick patch incoming plus extended maintenance on the 31st January

David — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:24:10 +0000

If you’ve played SWTOR over the past week you’ve probably heard some murmurs of discontent around the game’s performance, if not experiencing it yourself. Actually murmurs have been shouts in some quarters and there’s not doubt BioWare is listening as they’re bringing down the servers sometime Saturday night Australian / New Zealand time – once [...]

SWTOR Game Time Cards in Australia

David — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:09:20 +0000

This probably isn’t news to some but we still see people ask regularly where to buy game time cards locally. Today I wandered into an EB Games store and spied some of the blighters in the wild: (Click here for the full-size version) $30 for 60-days is certainly within the expected price range, and if [...]

Suggestion Box: Douchebaggery

David — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:07:28 +0000

Over on the SWTOR Gamers of Oceania Facebook page, David K. asked the question on whether people had noticed a migration of what can be loosely termed as ‘WoW Douchebaggery’ – incivility toward lower level players, slagging gear etc etc. I haven’t seen a lot of it myself on my server, but I’ve certainly had [...]

C2-N2: the gift that keeps on giving

David — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:57:34 +0000

I’d argue that one of the biggest cult figures of SWTOR is the ever loving, cushion stuffing droid called C2-N2. Whether you love him or hate him, he’s hard to ignore, and BioWare’s Lead Combat Designer, Georg Zoeller, has joined the fun with this post: Dear Sir, I am writing to you in response to [...]