Archive for January, 2012
Guild Headquarters: Where are the Tools?
The Old Republic may be in its infancy, but the community is loaded with MMO veterans who are used to having a certain amount of tools available to them when it comes to organizing and running a guild. The game is currently lacking in key communication tools, and those that do exist are buggy to [...]
Rich Vogel Talks Bugs & Exploits
For fans of the MMO genre, Rich Vogel needs no introduction. He spent his early career working on titles such as Meridian 59, Utlima Online and Star Wars: Galaxies – three of the most genre-defining MMO games of our time. Today however, Rich wears the hat of Executive Producer on Star Wars: The Old Republic at BioWare [...]
Rich Vogel Discusses Bugs and Exploits
A new Developer Blog entry has been posted on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website. BioWare Executive Producer Rich Vogel gives a detailed look into how bugs and exploits are identified, triaged, prioritized, fixed, and patched to the live servers. Rich VogelNot every bug is created equal. Some bugs – even ones that [...]
FJ Pro-Tip: How to Stack PVP Battlemaster Bags
For those of you PVPing their way to V60 Battlemaster you might know already that when you receive a BM bag from your daily/weekly quest it is labeled unique so you can not have more than one in your inventory at once. There is a way around this so you can save up your bags [...]
Emmanuel Lusinchi Says Shame an Anger Aided Development of SWTOR
Speaking at the Vancouver Game Design Expo, the Associate Lead Designer of SWTOR Emmanuel Lusinchi had some interesting things to say about the development of the game. He described his experiences summarized from six years of development on Electronic Arts’ high-profile MMO, what many consider to be the most expensive MMO to date. Venture Beat [...]
Council Chambers: Good Officers, Apply Within
Council Chambers is all about the ins and outs of guild leadership in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Each week, we’ll look at running and managing a guild through good times, bad times and everything in between. To wrap up our Guild Formation series, I wanted to spend a little more time talking about officers [...]
1.1.1 Patch Notes — 1/31/2012
1.1.1 Patch Notes — 1/31/2012 Classes and Combat General Fixed a bug that could cause the Global Cooldown to appear as if it has been cancelled when it is actually still in effect, resulting in a feeling of unresponsiveness to input. Corrected an issue that could cause an ability icon to appear usable but be [...]
HNN Report: Speeder Races Held on Alderaan
Alderaan, once a tranquil Core World and trade hub, now under the shadow of looming political unrest among the major families. Alderaan has always had beautiful scenery, and what better way to take it in than while zooming along on a speeder bike competing for cash prizes? For many in this crowd the answer seems [...]
Patch Notes 1.1.1 – 1/31/2012
The servers are up, and so are the patch notes for 1.1.1, take a look after the jump! Read More…
The Sith Inquisition: Sorcerer Healing Build
The guys over at swtorsavior.com has created a video showing some excellent builds. Over the next few days, we will be showcasing some of the best builds they have come up with, but if you want the full advantage of there guides, you have to buy the swtorsavio guide, which is available here. Here is a build that you can use if you are playing as [...]
High resolution textures are coming!
A recently posted performance guide written by The Old Republic’s Read More…
Patch Notes: 1.1.1: GCD Tweaks, PvP And More
BioWare pushed out patch 1.1.1 this morning, and with it quite a few more fixes and items than the previous patch! The full patch notes can be found below, and of course you can always get these and all previous patch notes on BioWare’s official page dedicated to the topic Classes and Combat General Fixed [...]
Blue Milk & Cereal: Do You Miss Having A Reputation System In TOR?
No day would be complete without the breakfast of Jedi: Blue Milk & Cereal. Every morning, the team at Ask A Jedi will get Force-induced thoughts coursing through your head with delicious issues from around the galaxy! Join in the discussion below to make your voice heard! Editor’s Note: Today we take another stroll back [...]
The Galactic Census: This Week’s Sales Update
EA will have their Q3 2012 Earnings Call on Wednesday, Darth Hater will cover this with our normal live blog at 2 PM PST. We hope that EA will announce subscription numbers in additon to the total number of box sales YTD. In the meantime, a look at VGChartz gives us some idea of what [...]
Level 50 Dailies: Ilum – Republic Side
In order to get the Ilum daily quest series, you have to complete your class quest, which should send you right to assist the war effort in Ilum. When you tire of being farmed by the Imperials on your server, you might take a moment to check out all this PVE content people have been [...]
Force Reflection: Will your character don scars and/or tattoos?
Individuality is a trait that can sometimes be difficult to come by in a game. In Read More…
TOR TV: WHY ISN’T THERE AN EASYMODE FOR DATACRONS?
We all know how damn frustrating it can be to get them datacrons. Especially the datacrons located on Taris ( if you don’t have a guide for it of course ) . Like the guides for datacrons we have right here. Anyways here is a hilarious short video, showing all the struggles two heroes have to go through, to get [...]
Breakdown: Enhancements and You!
Breakdown is designed to to fill that stressful void while Star Wars: The Old Republic is down for maintenance. Each Tuesday morning, we’ll look at a topic and try to break it down to the basics. In the end, we hope to educate, entertain, and prevent you from having your own Breakdown! If you follow [...]
Scheduled Maintenance: January 31st
Just a reminder that BioWare will perform their regularly scheduled maintenance on the Star Wars: The Old Republic game servers tomorrow morning beginning at 2:00AM Central Standard Time. This is just a reminder that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for eight hours on January 31st, 2012 from 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) [...]
SWTOR White Saber Crystal Uncovered
At first, SWTOR coveted the magenta crystal but now there is a new favorite item in a galaxy far, far away. One high level character has been seen sporting around with a sparkling white lightsaber. The owner of this whitesaber, Catch Deathwalker, posted about it on the official forums: I would like to let everyone [...]
General Performance Issues and Solutions
Associate Online Community ManagerJoveth Gonzales took to the forums today to post a guide for improving framterate and performance of Star Wars: The Old Republic. With the help of Associate Project Manager Avi Mintz, the guide helps explain what each of the graphic settings actually means, provides solutions for performance issues, and gives troubleshooting tips [...]
BioWare PC Performance Guide
No sooner did we tip you off to upcoming performance improvements than did BioWare deliver exactly that in the form of a post from Community Manager Joveth Gonzalez. Joveth gave the reigns over to Associate Project Manager Avi Mintz on the client engineering team: Developing an MMORPG of this scale and detail means we must [...]
What People Do During Maintenance: Meme Wars
Watch this incredible video by Khalirei titled “SWTOR: The New Meme” and be prepared to laugh your ass off. It’s a great example of what people like to do while waiting for SWTOR to come back online. Read More…
Stephen Reid Comments On Unexpected Weekend Maintenance
Many Star Wars: The Old Republic players had their weekend play time interrupted when an unexpected maintenance period brought servers down for several hours. Stephen Reid has responded on the official forums with some explanation behind the decision. Stephen ReidOur Live team took the decision to roll out today’s 1.1.0c patch during Friday night/Saturday morning [...]
Ilum Datacron Locations
Ilum was the ice planet home to many of the Adegan crystals used in the construction of Jedi lightsabers. The caverns containing the crystals were long ago turned into a Jedi temple. Unlike the crystals of other planets, the crystals of Ilum could only produce green and blue lightsaber crystals. Ilum was first discovered in [...]
Yellow Posts: More FPS Tips (Soon), PvP Flags, And Bug Fixes
Yesterday, I wrote about some suggestions from the Red Rancor guys on how to improve your FPS in TOR. Well, in addition to those suggestions, BioWare is going to post some official tips on how to improve your FPS in the near future. From Joveth Gonzalez, Associate Online Community Manager, we have this post: Hi [...]
Athiss – Loot List
The following loot list is for normal mode Athiss. All bosses are listed in the order of occurrence. Trash drops are at the end. Loot lists are currently a work in progress. If you notice anything that needs a correction or addition, please feel free to leave a comment. Note: Some of the trash drops [...]
The Guild Sphere: Imperium
In today’s Guild feature, Zyraal from the Guild Imperium took the time to answer our questions. Imperium are curently looking for active members on Zaalbar US-West PvE, so If you’re a mature, fun-loving, well-spoken/typed(don’t have to be a grammer nazi, just not putting “ne1 want 2 go on sum runz?”) adult with a sense of humor, you might belong [...]
White Saber Crystal Found!
Looks like someone found a White Saber crystal in the game. You can find the original post on the official forums where most of the speculation is saying that it is a world drop. The original title of the thread, before it was edited, was that it was definitely “not Ulgo” which might be somewhat [...]
Blue Milk & Cereal: Do You Use All Of Your Companions For Combat?
No day would be complete without the breakfast of Jedi: Blue Milk & Cereal. Every morning, the team at Ask A Jedi will get Force-induced thoughts coursing through your head with delicious issues from around the galaxy! Join in the discussion below to make your voice heard! Companions are a pretty big part of Star [...]
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