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This weeks show we get a little controversial, Samm daringly heads down the path of doubt, and says he feels that TOR will not include other playable races, and Human's will be the only race we get to play.  We also feature TOR's first Radio Drama by popular TOR community member DeaconX.  The Smuggler wasn't as big of a topic as most would assume. Links Gophn Article MMO Gamer Article Deacons YouTube Prequel Deacons Official Forum Post TalNs Sith Spy Post Show Intro Introduction This Week in SWOR Holonet "flyovers" Smuggler Reveal Gophn Article MMO Gamer Article Discussion of the Week Samms Conspiracy Theories Break TOR Radio Drama Series called Heroes of the old republic by Deacon X - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwkkqGihCW0 Prelude to the miniseries called Deception at Coruscant Hot Topics Last weeks topics: E3 Space Flight Mailbag/QA Are you upset by the amount of things Bioware seems to be integrating into TOR that are seen in the movies? (DarkenedLight) Will you be able to kill other peoples companions in world PvP? (Pyrofox) Could classes have different movement speeds in combat? (YarekStorn) Announcements/Closing Vent Server Shogun images Closing statements The Darkside Podcast (http://thedarkside.podbean.com) Torment - (http://www.tormentgaming.com) Download Standard Podcast

Well ladies and gents E3 is over and while we dug at all the articles around the internet, we are still a little ticked about not seeing the game play demo as promised.  BioWare is still strong on this one no matter what happens though.  Tune in and hear what we found out about the game after going through the 10 - 15 articles. Links http://www.starwarsmmo.net/news/star-wa ... o-preview/ http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6210951/st ... es;story;1 http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3 ... c=PREVIEWS http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/bioware-mmo-pr ... 327p1.html http://e3.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/69 ... eview.html http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/69111 http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1143 http://kotaku.com/5277689/star-wars-the ... here-it-is http://pc.ign.com/articles/989/989833p1.html http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/e3-we-prev ... wars-t.php http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/04/hands ... -republic/ http://www.destructoid.com/e3-09-star-w ... 744.phtml= Ventrilo - Show Intro Introduction This Week in SWOR HoloNet Threat of Peace 8 Trooper Blog - Happiness is a Warm Gun Discussion of the Week Demo Started out as a BH on Hutta Expansive, very large world, large draw space BH story is part of the Great Hunt, A Mandalorian hosted event to determine who is the best BH or who lands the best prize. Played as Smuggler, smuggling guns to the republic level 8 or 10 (differing reports) Sith with BH ally attacking capital Ship (flashpoint) 2 choices Dark/Light side will effect what abilities you have. Full dark will have different abilities from full light. kill captain - second in command takes over, have to protect engine room from surprise assault let him live - attack happens at the hangar bay with less troops ends fighting a padawan, then a jedi master as master dies you get another lightsaber for sith and armor for BH Observations Full voice acting Each Character has multiple choices for there own characters voice Mass-Effect style radial conversation Each player can choose different options, no set system on how this will work with different choices Bounty Hunter Flamethrower in melee BH flamethrower worked on a counter bar (limited use?) Including npcs trying to put themselves out Jet pack dive bomb ability Fly up with jetpack into blaster volley Rocket launcher Smuggler Uses cover system of showing light green outlines of cover Click green outline to move into cover Not in cover uses dirty tactics (ball kick to face shot) Sith Seems to use a buildup/combo system, such as a rogue might build combo points Abilities, force leap (same as KOTOR), force choke, impale, force lightning (aoe stun) Standard MMO HUD/UI, minimap, 10 hotbar buttons, smaller menu buttons CONFIRMED that the screenshot from the developer video with the game UI in it is in fact the Alphas Game UI/HUD Standard controls, WASD/Arrows with numbered hotbar for skills Solid smooth animation and combat. Deflecting blasters, smart AI, a lot going on at once that feels epic Combat felt KOTOR'ish with the freedom of Battlefront Said combat moves much faster than any other MMO The Sith player force choked the jedi while the BH used the flamethrower (group interaction) Co-op combo of force grip from sith and rocket from BH. Tons of damage and broke the force grip (read about this with flamethrower as well) ---- Told by BioWare that all MMO elements including pvp, crafting, guilds, raiding, AH's will all be a part of the game May be an MMO but they say it feels extremely single player (may not mean it as an insult, sounded complimentary) Console gamer struggled with the controls. Tab targetting was an issue for him as was the pace of combat Not a fan of the art style for characters, love the environment Hot Topics Last weeks topics: Da News E3 Diss

SammMoney, Musco, and our special guest Brandon from The Darkside cover the awesome news we all got today at E3 including, The Cinematic Trailer, the Smuggler reveal from Game Spot.  Its short sweet and awesome.Download Standard Podcast

This week Musco and SammMoney go into the news, they discuss the Developer Dispatch released by BioWare, and the EDGE magazine article.  The two of us very surprisingly have a lot of good things to say about both.  We also touch on our topics from last week, thanks to everyone who touched on it with us.  And we discuss some of the live show from yesterday.  Thanks everyone for coming to that also. Links Live Show TF2 server info 216.6.235.151:27015 Vent Info Host Name: silver.typefrag.com Port: 20452 Password: tormented DarkSide Podcast http://www.twitter.com/torocast http://www.tormentgaming.com Show Intro Introduction What we did this week This Week in SWTOR Live Show Recap move to discussion Discussion of the Week Trooper Developer Dispatch Edge magazine interview Hot Topics Last weeks topics: Marketing TOR E3 Mailbag/QA How will storage work in the game? (DarkenedLight) How should cross-factions works? Communication, pvp, grouping, etc. (Pyrofox) Our feelings on BoP items in TOR? (zacharywf) Announcements/Closing TF2 Server Vent Server Closing statementsDownload Standard Podcast

This week Musco and SammMoney, cover some interesting topics, they have some thoughts on how BioWare might market the game, and they go back to the trinity, and micro transactions.  Also, they do a guild spotlight with a republic guild this week, Midnight Squadron, (http://www.midnightsquadron.com). Intro This Week in SWOR ---- Fan Friday ---- ---- Danthis O’dar – Ord Mantell - Danthis ---- ---- Evolution of a Picture in MS Paint! - Raice Discussion of the Week ---- Marketing for TOR Guild Spotlight ---- Midnight Squadron Hot Topics ---- Last weeks topics: Trinity ---- Micro Trans Mailbag/QA ----With the huge focus on story in TOR, do you think they will utilize the phased areas like Blizzard has is WoW with Northrend? Do you think BioWare will have areas like this in TOR, and if so, how many? Will there be a lot, all over the place? Will it interfere with people who want to have their high level friends "power-level" them through the game? Or will there only be a few here and there, so it does not effect players that want to have a high level friend escort them through the low level content? (zacharywf) ---- What if BioWare did this game "Bethesda style" (fallout) Where you start out in a main quest line and then end up open world? (Pyrofox) ---- Do you feel that the classes should have talent trees to classify their specialty? (DarkenedLight) Announcements/Closing Live video show, Saturday. May 30th. Noon Closing statements Be sure to visit us at http://www.theoldrepublic-online.com, twitter us at http://www.twitter.com/torocast.  And you can join our steam community at - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/torocast. Looking for a gaming community to join visit - http://www.TormentGaming.com.Download Standard Podcast

This weeks episode Musco and SammMoney cover the highly debated Holy Trinity System, vs. Archtype system.   They also talk about a rumored survey, their point of view on the latest news the timeline, and as usual much much more.   Links Irreversible Choices Darkside Podcast Show Intro This Week in SWOR Timeline: The Mandalorian Blockade is BrokenDiscussion of the Week The Holy Trinity/Class ArchtypesHot Topics Last weeks topics: Trooper Irreversible Choices Leaked survey info from Survey Spot Survey in July/07 8 professions-smuggler and BH stick out immediately Functional Light side/ Dark side- npcs and others remember what you do and their reactions change accordingly.Mailbag/QA Legacy system. When you reach top level, apparently you have the option of producing an offspring with special bonus traits and starting over...or something to that effect. Companion: Han had Chewy, Luke had R2...blah blah....someone to accompany you. Potential for romance sticks out as something oddly unique Fully customizable ship. Can be bought or stolen!! No more miles of reading text. Events happen in game with full voice overs. Sounds damn impossible if you ask me. Full grouping ala any damn MMO Some sort of minigame that is used to influence others?? Not many details on that one.   What do we think BioWare/this games real chances for success are? (alecslo) What do we think the business model is going to be? And what should it be? (MjimiD) (Mt vs sub etc Announcements/Closing Possible Guild Spotlight next week. Live video show, Saturday. May 30th. Noon Closing statementsDownload Standard Podcast

Links GameSpot Interview Trooper Tin Hat Discussion Deacons Art Style Post Torment Gaming Site Show Intro This Week in SWOR  Threat of Peace 6  Gamespot interview  Trooper Discussion of the Week  Trooper! Hot Topics  Last weeks topics: Housing  SWTOR Tin Hatting, the rumor article Mailbag/QA  How do we feel about the art style? (deaconX)  What do you think about Arenas folks? Should it be in the game or not? (Miklosan) Announcements/Closing  Community: Torment Closing statementsDownload Standard Podcast

SammMoney and Musco do a full conversation on the what they feel housing should be like in the game.  Hopefully we'll get more info on that soon from BioWare, it would be nice to have a yes or no.  BioWare gave us some great news this week so we are extremely excited about that, if you haven't watched the video head on over to http://www.swtor.com/news/article/20090501_001 and take a look. Links Canon Show Intro Introduction What we did this week This Week in SWOR Diverse worlds of the old republic Discussion of the Week Housing Hot Topics Last weeks topics: Hero Engine SWTOR On a mac or not? What will BioWare release at E3 (6/2-6/4) Mailbag/QA How adult will the story be (netfoolsmedia) Canon vs non-canon (BlackLotus) Announcements/Closing Live show? Closing statements Download Standard Podcast

Show 5 of the TOROcast now available for your listening pleasure. This week's TOROcast episode was huge for us, first we dabbled into the belly of TOR and took a look at the Hero Engine (the engine running the game) and we had our good friend Ryan on the show. Corey from Showgun Gamer also made us a song, which is AWESOME!!! We also covered a few other things, like how we will assume, player bounties would be handled, and space travel.  We also announce our gaming community, and give some details on that.  Enjoy.Download Standard Podcast

This week Musco and SammMoney talk about a few different topics. We also had our first guild spotlight interview with Animosity (www.animosity-guild.net). This week we talked about Opening Tutorials, the crafting system (or lack there of), and a housing rant. Have feedback??? Visit - http://www.theoldrepublic-online.com. Check us out on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/torocastDownload Standard Podcasts

TOROCast is a podcast based around BioWare's upcoming MMO game Star Wars: The Old Republic.  Musco and SammMoney, get into a few debates having to do with last week's race discussion, open world, or linear gaming, they cover the announcement of Ord Mantell, and sound very excited about Threat of Peace Issue 4.  This weeks episode talks about the importance of the community to video games, specifically MMO's. Disclaimer - We do not claim any association with EA, LucasArts, or BioWare themselves. Links Shogun Spotlight - http://shogungamer.com/news/shogun-game ... y-update-1 Hero Engine - http://www.heroengine.com/ Aleenas (fraggles!) - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Aleena SWTORBH - http://www.swtorbh.com/ Show Intro ---- Shogun Gamer http://shogungamer.com/news/shogun-game ... y-update-1 This Week in SWOR ---- Threat of Peace 4 ---- Discovering Ord Mantell Discussion of the Week ---- Importance of community/developer relationship Hot Topics ---- Last weeks discussion: Races ---- 8 Classes? Mailbag/QA --- End-Game (Submitted by Calgamer) --- Achievements and there function? (netfoolsmedia) Guild Spotlight ---- Announcements/Closing ---- X-box LIVE night ---- Moderator Needed/Announced next week. ---- TS/Vent up ---- Chat box!! Closing statementsDownload Standard Podcast

In episode 2 of the TOROCast, Musco and SammMoney have dug up a nice post on the SW:TOR forums that pertains to some possible races.  We also discuss last week's weekly discussions, and Ewoks again!!!  This is our second recording of Episode 2 enjoy!Download Standard Podcast

In our first show we introduce ourselves to the community, cover all current news about Star Wars: The Old Republic as well as an in-depth discussion of the Bounty Hunter. We also take a few side journeys on some rants about the game. Music by: Killaremix - Vader's Remix - http://killaremix.newgrounds.com/ Visit us at http://www.theoldrepublic-online.comDownload Standard Podcast