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Darth Hater Episode 10 - Amore Balmorra

Episode 10 of the Darth Hater podcast is now up for stream and download. Check the bottom of the post for the stream and download links. Podcast notes after the jump.


Intro
Justin Lowe - Sado - Twitter: @realdarthhater
Pete Trerice - Misenus - Twitter: @petetrerice
Josh Coleman - Colm - Twitter: @colmination
Josh Ogborn - Sleeper - @dhsleeper

Stories Covered
Knights of The Old Republic Key Giveaway
Star Wars: The Old Republic Webcomic in Paperback
Balmorra in Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Community Questions/Poll for this weeks Podcast
Force Feedback Friday 10/16/2009

Comments of Mention
Eria - With the focus more on casual game play, instanced type PvP makes more sense. World PvP can sometimes be slow depending on population. Instanced PvP means instant action. I would love to see an open world system work, but Im just being realistic in my thinking that I dont think it can work anymore.
Team - Giving repeatable quests that give reputation to balmorrians in the contested pvp areas can increase the action there. having enemies you defeat drop tokens that you can turn in for awards.
Avaro - If it now is a PvP planet i hope its good open but still with some objectives.
RogueJedi - I voted Yes and Open World Objectives. I do not like Timed Objectives. It just makes it too repetitive and too much of a rush. Hurry and finish the fight in 30 minutes so we can do it again in 2 hours. It defeats the point of engaging in battle if it has such strict limits.
CWJedi - I would love to see the pvp on balmorra actualy mean something and have an effect on the planet, npcs or terrian and buildings as either the sith or republic control the planet. (Preface with the possibility of phasing content with the Hero Engine)
Zenkei - I personally think that it would be a really cool idea to blend those ideas together. What if you zone into the area and it is open world PvP. Once you fight your way to an objective, an outpost, fortress, etc., you zone into an instanced PvP area. Now that you are inside the fortress, you have to fight your way to the boss and kill him or disable to fortress, etc. Then you can zone out to try to take more of the areas. By taking these PvP territories your side might get a manufacturing bonus which allows them to better equip the players or perhaps they are able to spawn more droids, weapons, etc.

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  • Sztanyi's avatar
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    #13 Sztanyi Posted 10/20/2009 6:37:08 PM
    Id like to see what would happen with faction ratios. I mean usually it evens out more to less. However on my WoW server, for the past 5 years alliance has greatly outnumbered Horde. If this is an issue in TOR with a more or less open pvp system, then that means 1 side will almost always have a disadvantage. I would like to know if Bioware is going to step in at a certain point, or if they have a way of fixing this.
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    #14 RogueJedi86 Posted 10/20/2009 7:18:47 PM
    I've found that most Hordies say Alliance outnumber them on every server, when it's usually the opposite. It's easy to turn a blind eye to your own side's numbers, and overestimate the enemy's numbers when they attack you as a group.
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    #15 Sztanyi Posted 10/20/2009 9:08:59 PM
    im not basing this on just thinking one side has more. There are websites that keep track of ratios. Honestly, i just got back to playing WoW after a 6 month break, so i dont remember what website it was, but it has the horde : Alliance ratio for every single server..
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    #12 RogueJedi86 Posted 10/20/2009 3:16:39 PM
    If you're a gamer in your 20's, why would you go out of your way to buy a computer platform that is notorious for its lack of games? Simply put, if you're a game these days, you buy a PC, not a Mac. Macs are for what? Editing videos and pictures and stuff?
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    #10 Avaro Posted 10/20/2009 8:32:47 AM
    Good show as always keep it up.
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    #8 Team Posted 10/20/2009 6:19:39 AM
    i feel like a d-list e-lebrity lol
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    #9 sado Posted 10/20/2009 6:58:52 AM
    You know it ;).
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    #7 eria Posted 10/20/2009 5:59:16 AM
    I enjoyed this one. Zenkei's idea actually sounds pretty cool. Aion I think is coming out with something somewhat similar. Basically, you zone into this PvE dungeon thing and race to the boss, but the twist is you can run into the other faction, and you actually fight for the boss.

    I can see something like that working for Star Wars...some place has some resource or artifact that both sides want, and you compete for it through PvP. Maybe have rewards at the end, and it will give your side a bonus, but you could do it as often as you wanted. Then say, if you side has control of the artifact, you can pre-load into the instance, set up traps and stuff, while the other faction has to fight their way to you and take it back or something. I'm sure some interesting things could come out of it.

    Keep up the good work guys!
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    #6 RogueJedi86 Posted 10/20/2009 5:06:07 AM
    Mac won't be compatible with more games, why would it suddenly start being compatible? PC Gaming had its peak in the 90's with the LucasArts and Sierra adventure games, but today we still have almost no games for Mac.

    But hey, that's what they invented Apple Bootcamp for.
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    #16 Jet Posted 10/21/2009 1:04:06 AM
    It boggles me that swtor will not be released for mac. I say this because in the video, "The Voice of The Old Republic" it shows members of the Swtor team editing the game using...macs. I really don't care if it is released on mac because I have bootcamp, but this still bewilders me.
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    #17 RogueJedi86 Posted 10/21/2009 2:11:07 AM
    All console games are developed on PC(or Mac), and yet very few console games ever come to PC(or Mac). Same basic thing I guess.
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    #11 Lethality Posted 10/20/2009 12:57:06 PM
    Because there are far more Macs in the marketplace now than ever before. And these are in the consumer space - which is where game sales are. Market share used to be 3%. It's now 10%.

    It's foolish for game companies to not support the Mac, especially on the AAA mainstream titles. There is minimal additional effort required to code and support Mac binaries, considering if done right every single art, audio and other assets are shared between the two.

    Everything you THINK you know about the Mac market is changing before your eyes... the iPod phenomenon and now the iPhone have pushed the Apple and Mac brand in front of consumers eyes like never before, and it will be a snowball effect from this point.
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    #4 sado Posted 10/20/2009 3:42:15 AM
    He said Acer monitor ;)
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    #5 Revix2k9 Posted 10/20/2009 3:48:14 AM
    i had ppl talking on vent coulndt hear everything.
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    #2 Revix2k9 Posted 10/20/2009 3:32:52 AM
    wow i won lol! first
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