Darth Hater Episode 46 - Romancing the Rancor

Episode 46 "Romancing the Rancor" of the Darth Hater Podcast is now live. Check the bottom of the post for the stream and download links. Podcast notes after the jump.


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Intro
Justin Lowe - Sado - @zirak
Pete - Misenus - @petetrerice
Joshua Ogborn - Sleeper - @dhsleeper
Ben - Dover - @doverbs
Emlaeh - @emlaeh
Dave - Orionark
Official Darth Hater Twitter

Preshow
Gamescom Plans
Star Wars: Celebration V Plans
Explanation of the Community Podcast

Segments
Friday Update: Nar Shaddaa

Lore Update: Corellia

Star Wars Celebration V Schedule Posted

Community Questions/Poll

After the announcement of Space Combat were you more or less excited than you were previously?

* More (696 Votes, 64%)
* Less (43 Votes, 4%)
* Indifferent/No Change (362 Votes, 33%)

After watching the E3 Multiplayer Demo?

* More (668 Votes, 62%)
* Less (88 Votes, 9%)
* Indifferent/No Change (339 Votes, 31%)

Loekii: What are DH's speculations about the total number of races that will be available, and which ones?

Acaulescent: We have a bit of a discussion going on over at our guilds forums about ship names and what not. So my question to the DH crew is this: If you are allowed to name your ship, what would you name it?

Gifflen: I see one person (at the time of this comment) is less excited for the game now that they announced space combat. Was hoping to get a clarification as to why you would be turned off by additional game features. I understand the possibility of the game spreading itself to thin but based on what we've seen in my opinion that is clearly not the case. I guess I was just curious as to how it was a detraction.

Snodge: Why do you think we have had next to nothing regarding information about droids in general? Considering they are such a big part of the Star Wars universe, we've had a few vague mentions and the two bio's - but nothing else, so as whether they'll be companions, what they can be used for (protocol droids, repair/hacking, or maybe something to do with crafting etc). I am curious!

Savich: With most mmo's doing microtransactions now a days and with EA's partnering with Live Gamer, do you think TOR is headed down that path?

Krisis: Will we see the main characters (or any characters at all) from the novels (Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, and Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived) that have been released and/or are yet to be? Can you provide us with a 100% confirmed list of those characters down to a speculative guesstimate organized by the one and only DH crew of characters you think will make it into the game?

Boreback6: I was wondering if you guys got to sit at the mexican cafe at comic-con and sat down with the devs since they hosted that event at the mexican cafe? (Directed at Pete, didn't say anything about it last week)

aborath: How do you feel about the inability to switch factions in TOR? To me, this just seems like an artificial limitation on immersion. There is no reason why a Bounty Hunter could not be employed by a pragmatic republic official; the Sith Agent could have rebel sympathies; a Jedi Knight could fall, etc. Making faction lines less cut-and-dry would make the world much more vibrant and believable.

OneSoul1982: Had a question about the missions. Did you guys notice if the missions you got to demo scaled to your own toon level? How was the difficulty of getting from A to B?

Peterisjustok: When you guys have spent time with the game, have you noticed the animation to be clunky? Has it improved over the course of your play time? And if it is pretty clean, do you feel it will be even more polished by release?

Night_Stryker: I'm a console kinda guy that's going to be playing in a PC MMOer's world. As such, I loathe the keyboard as a controller. Have any of you ever played an MMO with a controller and if so, how customizable is the key-mapping?

Logitech G13 Programmable Gameboard with LCD Display

Belkin n52te Tournament Edition SpeedPad

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