blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net present a podcast about Star Wars: The Old Republic. This episode talks about the Friday update, including: the Collector’s Edition “unboxing” video; Eurogamer Expo Highlights Video; and our favourite (and yes, we are being sarcastic), STAR WARS: The Old Republic Fan Friday.
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blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net present a podcast about Star Wars: The Old Republic. This episode talks about Bioware’s Friday update, including: the new “Signs of War” trailer; new Game Systems page at the TOR website; a so-called “global launch” for The Old Republic (which made us laugh a lot considering half the planet isn’t involved); The Old Republic and Del Rey appearing at NYCC; and The Old Republic at Paris Games Week. We also talk about elitist RP guilds.
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blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Part one concentrates on the Friday update which, this week, included TOR at the upcoming Eurogamer Expo 2011 in Earl’s Court, London; a Studio Insider article on Combat Animation; and a Community Q&A. The team also tackle their listener mailbag.
Part two sees the team still tackling questions from their listener mailbag, on topics as diverse as mature guilds; Mandalorian knowledge; and same-gender romance arcs.
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blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Part one concentrates on the Friday update which, this week, included a developer blog, video feature from Pax Prime, and a Smuggler progression video.
Part two, three and most of four is an interview from blur with Brehon, the guild leader of Unconquered as well as the driving force behind Bootleg Radio (www.tormonger.com/bootleg) and its flagship program, Galactic Underground.
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TOR is like some MMOs, and unlike other MMOs, via the way that guilds can only host characters from one faction. In other words, you might be working your way through the Jedi Knight story and, let’s say, the Bounty Hunter story, but you cannot house those two characters within the same guild.
This has led to many guilds trying to be dual faction via simply creating two versions of themselves; one to sit on the Sith side, and one for the Republic side. And it’s those guilds that I want to touch upon here as I recently found myself giving some advice to a community member on this very topic.
You see, I came across a community member wondering if there was a good dual faction guild out there and I said to him that, for mine, the answer is to look to guilds that are concentrating on one faction only. In other words, join a “best of breed” Sith guild, and join a “best of breed” Republic guild.
Why? Because if you dig beneath the surface of guilds that are trying to dual faction the game, you will find they are a total compromise in every way. And they will always, always, ALWAYS end up favouring one side more than the other by the simple fact they have finite members split between the two factions and members can only be on one side or the other at any given time. Which means you might get a good (or even great) experience with one faction, but the other will suffer — guaranteed.
That’s why Beskar, for example, is proud to be a single-faction guild. See, we do the Sith side of the game — it’s our only focus. Join us, and we’ll talk Sith morning, noon and night. Then, if you want some Republic action, we’d suggest joining a great single-faction Republic guild. The result? Whichever guild you are playing in, it will be 110% focused on the faction you want to be playing at that particular moment in time; you won’t log in and find 90% of the guild occupied with the opposite faction, leaving you to play with just a handful of people who felt like playing your faction for the night.
This simple fact seems to have bypassed some people who think dual-faction guilds will be great. I beg to differ. And I think they will beg to differ when they log in, night after night, and find the faction they want to play isn’t getting much interest from their guildies. Whereas, again, if you’re in a guild where it’s focused on just one faction, you will always have access to the right people at the right time.
blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Part one covers a video from Bioware’s Gamescom 2011 appearance in Cologne, Germany, general talk on TORs progress and answers the question, “How much wood, could a woodchuck chuck; if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” as sent in by Drast, the guild leader of Shadow Legion.
Part two is an interview from blur with Buttersworth, who is well-known in the TOR community via being the guild leader or Project Serenity.
Part three dives into the listener mailbag, answering questions from listener TJ Diddles from Project Serenity, and also includes a blur rant.
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blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Part one covers the new release of information relating to The Eternity Vault (level 50 operation) and Bioware’s PAX Prime appearance this weekend.
Part two is an interview from blur with Kristen Archer, aka WeeMadAggie, who is well-known in the TOR community via being a writer at TorWars.com and avid Tweeter.
Part three dives into the listener mailbag, answering questions from listeners Maximus Jacobus and TJ Diddles from Project Serenity.
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blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic. Part one covers the new release of information relating to Huttball and Bioware’s upcoming PAX appearance. Part two is an interview from blur with Larry Everett, aka Shaddoe, who is well-known in the TOR community via being the TOR writer at Massively.com and contributor to multiple podcasts and vidcasts.
NB: In part two we mention sending a question to Gabe Amantaneglo via Stephen Reid and that we didn’t get an answer. Well, a few hours after recording, we got an answer:
“G’day @TwoTORGamers If you flag for PvP on a PvE server, then you can fight other flagged players in most areas. More on this soon! -gabe”
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blur & Blueneko from www.beskar.net talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic. This episode concentrates on Fry’s seemingly confirming the Nov 22 release date that the show has been saying for months; a Fan Friday update which allows the team to repeat their well-worn catchphrase, “Jessica, Age 12, has drawn a Twi’lek…”; a word on beta testing; Bioware bizarrely promoting a French language website to the English-speaking TOR audience; blur speaks to TOR community member Flasherman, who hosts two shows on Bootleg Radio — Mashup Madness and Pancakes & Blue Milk; we also talk women in gaming — are they as rare, mysterious and hard to recruit as some guild leaders think?; and DKP points — why it’s awesome that TOR gamers won’t have to put up with guilds using such a crappy and flawed loot system in TOR. All in 45 minutes. Podcasting without the padding. Enjoy!
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