The Bad Feeling Podcast; discussion about Star Wars: The Old Republic, aka SWTOR, featuring Chuck and Brian from Austin, TX

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We&#39;re just a few scant weeks away from the launch date for 6.0 of Star Wars The Old Republic! Our friends at Bioware have been hard at work on the PTS making lots of changes to the gearing system, fine tuning the new operation and listening to testers&#39; feedback! Let&#39;s take a quick dive in to what we&#39;ve seen lately...

Episode 232 - Another Pee TS Pun!

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I&#39;ve forgotten how to write show notes! We&#39;re back after another grueling month in the summer heat of Austin. The Bioware folks have given us a firm launch date for Onslaught. Its not in September, but we&#39;ll be happy to have it in front of us. Let&#39;s look at some of the updates that have come to the PTS and see what we can uncover!

Episode 231 - Remember the 53rd of September!

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Let&#39;s talk about the June PVP report! Mike B has been hard at work hunting and punishing cheaters, and he took time out of his day to drop some knowledge on trolls! We also take a very brief look at the short-lived PTS. If you blinked, you probably missed it, but there&#39;s some good stuff in there!

Episode 230 - Mike B, The B Is For Ban!

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Hi friends! We&#39;ve got a fresh podcast for you! Its been a little while, and we&#39;ll fill you in on what&#39;s kept us away for a bit. Our buddy Musco gave us the gift of show prep this week with some Dev Tracker gold!June doesn&#39;t mean what we think it means! Listen for more randomness...

Episode 229 - I Don't Think That Means...

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Its summer time and the time is right for swtor in the streets! In years past, we&#39;ve had mid-summer events to keep us engaged with Star Wars The Old Republic. This year we take it up a notch with the Bad Feeling Summer Camp!

Episode 228 - Summer Fun!

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This week, our friends over at Bioware put on a Live Stream like no other! We learned so much from the crew that it requires an entire podcast to decipher and react to all the information!We learned about changes coming in Onslaught, that may sound familiar! Ding!This week&#39;s outro music: <a href="http://badfeelingpodcast.com/index.php/audio-listing/music/866-star-wars-finger-style-by-kelly-valleau" rel="nofollow">Star Wars Finger Style by Kelly Valleau</a>

Episode 227 - The Ding-A-Ling Pod

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We&#39;ve learned a lot more about the new in game event for Star Wars The Old Republic! When we travel to Dantooine, we&#39;ll find more pirates and different sets of missions depending on when you visit.With all the new changes we&#39;ve seen in the game, why has crafting been largely ignored? Brian has a list of wants for crafting to make that aspect of the game better than ever!

Episode 226 - Crafting Pirate Style

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The cameras are back! Not that you podcast listeners should care, but we&#39;re back on Twitch. So... yay?
In addition, there&#39;s been a handful of things to discuss with Star Wars the Old Republic. 
SWTOR has been tagged with a case of the Fake News! Reports of its death are greatly overrated.
Our friend Mike Bradley posted the April PVP update and an explanation of something called &#34;Death Volumes&#34; They go to eleven. 
There&#39;s been some discussion about the HK subscriber reward chapter. Should it come back? How should it come back? 
And finally, we discuss Dantooine. The pirates are on Dantooine. 
This week&#39;s outro music: <a href="https://badfeelingpodcast.com/index.php/audio-listing/music/156-8-bit-cantina-band" rel="nofollow"> https://badfeelingpodcast.com/index.php/audio-listing/music/156-8-bit-cantina-band</a>

The Bad Feeling Podcast

Episode 225 - DanTooFakeNews

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There&#39;s a new contest! Guild heraldry is a thing, and we need guild logos! Head over to <a href="https://swtor.jedipedia.net/en/news/guild-banner-designer" rel="nofollow">https://swtor.jedipedia.net</a> and try out the Guild Banner Designer. Craft us a sweet logo and you could win a 30-day subscription code courtesy of Swtorista!
We know a few more details about the gear changes coming to Star Wars The Old Republic when Expansion 6.0 drops in September. Onslaught will include changes to how your gear and stats work. There will be new pieces to chase called &#39;Tactical Items&#39;. We don&#39;t know much about them, but we will go ahead and draw some wild conclusions anyway.
Last week, Kathleen Kennedy, president of LucasFilm, set our hair on fire by possibly stating there might be something relating to Knights of the Old Republic coming soon. It also may be pure fluff and marketing jargon. Let&#39;s listen to the quote and dissect it!
This week&#39;s outro music: <a href="https://badfeelingpodcast.com/index.php/audio-listing/music/400-cantina-band-by-tyron-hapi" rel="nofollow">Cantina Band by Tyron Hapi</a>

Episode 224 - Tactical Magic Touch

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So much to talk about after Star Wars Celebration! Let&#39;s discuss the Episode 9 trailer and the SWTOR 6.0 announcement!

Episode 223 - Rise of Onslaught

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We&#39;re back after a long recovery following our South by SWTOR event! Let&#39;s go over all the fun things we learned there, including the identities of some more nefarious players around The Old Republic. 
If you&#39;ve watched the Dev Tracker, you&#39;ll see that the first sweep of win traders has taken place. Listen to learn more!
There are a lot of great things happening in the community, especially leading up to Star Wars Celebration in Chicago. Be on the look out for info regarding the SWTOR Fan Community booth and all the cool things happening there.
You may have also gotten under the hood with some of the dev tools that go into making SWTOR. Is this a good thing? Is the mug of blue milk half empty or half full? You decide!

Episode 222 - Bait And Shame

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New things are on the way for Star Wars The Old Republic! 

Guild Heraldry is a thing. We prefer the term &#39;space logo&#39;. Our friends at Bioware announced that with game update 5.10.2 we&#39;ll see space logos. Also some other fun tweaks to the preview window and more. 

Did you know win trading was still a thing? There are also still exploits happening. Bioware dev Mike Bradley is prepared to bring down the hammer. 

Finally, you may know that we complain about gear. A lot. Dicks in boxes. Boxes of dicks. We answer a listener question about what we&#39;d like to see done differently regarding the gearing process.

This week&#39;s outro music: <a href="http://badfeelingpodcast.com/index.php/audio-listing/music/298-bogg-at-the-cantina" rel="nofollow">Bogg at the Cantina</a>

Episode 221 - Are Dicks Included?

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Someone&#39;s been naughty! This week there was a screen cap of a post that originated on a set of forums under NDA. The influencer program has been in place for a while now, so let&#39;s discuss what&#39;s going on!

Episode 220 - Don't Get Under My Influence!

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Five dot Ten dot One dot What dot Thing has been deployed! It brings the end of Ranked Season 10 and the lair boss with the Hive of the Mountain Queen. And some bugs. And a bug queen. And another currency! Remember when Bioware told us there were too many currencies so they scrapped most of them? Ossus Farms remembers. Let&#39;s take a look at what&#39;s going on here. 
Ranked season 10 rewards are also different. No weapon set! No mount! No idea why! Older rewards will also be available for purchase as &#39;replica&#39; models. This is a good thing?
This week&#39;s outro music: <a href="https://badfeelingpodcast.com/index.php/audio-listing/music/304-imperial-march-classical-by-epica" rel="nofollow">Imperial March Classical by Epica</a>

Episode 219 - I Can Haz Currencies

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Hello friends! Let&#39;s talk about Star Wars video games! There&#39;s been a few items in the press lately about EA. They scrapped one Star Wars game; there&#39;s another Star Wars game supposedly coming out; Disney likes EA making Star Wars games. All the while, our beloved Old Republic gets the stepchild treatment. What gives?!? 
What would we like to see? 
Here&#39;s the <a href="https://www.change.org/p/electronic-arts-revitalize-the-mmorpg-star-wars-the-old-republic-by-increasing-its-funding-and-resources" rel="nofollow">petition that Robert started</a> if you want to make your voice heard!
This week&#39;s outro music: <a href="http://badfeelingpodcast.com/index.php/audio-listing/music/841-star-wars-shamisen-by-kevin-kmetz" rel="nofollow"></a>

Episode 218 - Game Change dot Org

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There&#39;s new gear to be had on Ossus! What does it take to get it? Who wins, and who loses (hint: GSF always finishes last)
There have also been more and more Star Wars Fan Films. Vader: Shards of the Past has been getting a lot of great reviews, and has also attracted the attention of our overlords at Disney. Look out creators everywhere!

Episode 217 - The Gears to Grind Your Fan Film

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Welcome back from break! Let&#39;s discuss some of the fun that has taken place since we&#39;ve been gone. There have been some more bug fixes and some more bugs. Most notably has been a conquest week of Total Galactic War. We declare: Shenanigans! It seems like not everything is above board!

Episode 216 - We Can't Be Bot!

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How long since we did The Bad Feeling Buvette? Its only been a week, so let&#39;s discuss! 
Then we&#39;ll talk about all the things that we saw in Star Wars: The Old Republic in the year 2018. Some good, some not so good, and a whole lot of...

Episode 215 - Its the End! (Of The Year)

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Star Wars The Old Republic has released game update 5.10! There&#39;s a lot to unpack here -- difficult mobs, group content, bugs bugs bugs and more!
Listen to our thoughts on all on the non-spoilery things

Episode 214 - Oh Oh Ossus

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Star Wars: The Old Republic is bringing another new system into the game. Now we&#39;re going to see Guild levelling and guild perks. What does that mean? Let&#39;s dive in to see how perky we can get! 

This week&#39;s outro music: <a href="https://badfeelingpodcast.com/index.php/audio-listing/music/822-star-wars-medley-by-taylor-davis" rel="nofollow">Star Wars Medley by Taylor Davis</a>