After covering the news, including Game Update 2.4.3 and the new web-based Leaderboards, we reveal all about Galactic Starfighter!

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Carn! He suggests we visit this location in the Juran Mountains on Alderaan to experience a most strange effect.

Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday for a chance to win a Tawnfaun code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

3. Holofeed

Game Update 2.4.3 was deployed during a longish regular maintenance. It includes the Opportunist’s Bounty Pack, previewed by Dulfy.

PvP Ranked Season One is now live, accompanied by the web-based leaderboards. Rob Hinkle (Senior System Designer) authored the PvP Season One Blog, covering much the same information that was included in the Help Center article we covered last episode. The following data was retrieved on Wednesday afternoon US time:

Solo (all servers)

Total: 5230 (3099 [59.3%] < 1200 <= 2131 [40.7%])

2911 [55.7%] Imps, 2319 [44.3%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 388 [7.4%] (248 < 1200 <= 140)

Sage/Sorcerer: 824 [15.8%] (524 < 1200 <= 300)

Guardian/Juggernaut: 614 [11.7%] (366 < 1200 <= 248)

Scoundrel/Operative: 695 [13.3%] (396 < 1200 <= 299)

Sentinel/Marauder: 893 [17.1%] (518 < 1200 <= 375)

Shadow/Assassin: 788 [15.1%] (459 < 1200 <= 329)

Commando/Mercenary: 494 [9.4%] (331 < 1200 <= 163)

Vanguard/Powertech: 534 [10.2%] (257 < 1200 <= 277)

Group (all servers)

Total: 1127 (727 [64.5%] < 1200 <= 400 [35.5%])

598 [53.1%] Imps, 529 [46.9%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 56 [5.0%] (39 < 1200 <= 17)

Sage/Sorcerer: 127 [11.3%] (80 < 1200 <= 47)

Guardian/Juggernaut: 137 [12.2%] (98 < 1200 <= 39)

Scoundrel/Operative: 216 [19.2%] (131 < 1200 <= 85)

Sentinel/Marauder: 222 [19.7%] (133 < 1200 <= 89)1

Shadow/Assassin: 107 [9.5%] (77 < 1200 <= 30)

Commando/Mercenary: 93 [8.3%] (71 < 1200 <= 22)

Vanguard/Powertech: 169 [15.0%] (98 < 1200 <= 71)

Solo (The Harbinger)

Total: 414 (240 [58.0%] < 1200 <= 174 [42.0%])

135 [32.6%] Imps, 279 [67.4%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 48 [11.6%] (27 < 1200 <= 21)

Sage/Sorcerer: 59 [14.3%] (34 < 1200 <= 25)

Guardian/Juggernaut: 37 [8.9%] (23 < 1200 <= 14)

Scoundrel/Operative: 56 [13.5%] (32 < 1200 <= 24)

Sentinel/Marauder: 68 [16.4%] (43 < 1200 <= 25)

Shadow/Assassin: 50 [12.1%] (30 < 1200 <= 20)

Commando/Mercenary: 54 [13.0%] (33 < 1200 <= 21)

Vanguard/Powertech: 42 [10.1%] (18 < 1200 <= 24)

Group (The Harbinger)

Total: 59 (45 [76.3%] < 1200 <= 14 [23.7%])

16 [27.1%] Imps, 43 [72.9%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 5 [8.5%] (3 < 1200 <= 2)

Sage/Sorcerer: 8 [13.6%] (4 < 1200 <= 4)

Guardian/Juggernaut: 9 [15.3%] (7 < 1200 <= 2)

Scoundrel/Operative: 10 [16.9%] (8 < 1200 <= 2)

Sentinel/Marauder: 11 [18.6%] (10 < 1200 <= 1)

Shadow/Assassin: 4 [6.8%] (4 < 1200 <= 0)

Commando/Mercenary: 4 [6.8%] (4 < 1200 <= 0)

Vanguard/Powertech: 8 [13.6%] (5 < 1200 <= 3)

Solo (The Bastion)

Total: 533 (319 [59.8%] < 1200 <= 214 [40.2%])

318 [59.7%] Imps, 215 [40.3%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 42 [7.9%] (29 < 1200 <= 13)

Sage/Sorcerer: 83 [15.6%] (55 < 1200 <= 28)

Guardian/Juggernaut: 60 [11.3%] (38 < 1200 <= 22)

Scoundrel/Operative: 66 [12.4%] (39 < 1200 <= 27)

Sentinel/Marauder: 98 [18.4%] (51 < 1200 <= 47)

Shadow/Assassin: 72 [13.5%] (41 < 1200 <= 31)

Commando/Mercenary: 41 [7.7%] (27 < 1200 <= 14)

Vanguard/Powertech: 71 [13.3%] (39 < 1200 <= 32)

Group (The Bastion)

Total: 70 (43 [61.4%] < 1200 <= 27 [38.6%])

20 [28.6%] Imps, 50 [71.4%] Pubs

Gunslinger/Sniper: 6 [8.6%] (5 < 1200 <= 1)

Sage/Sorcerer: 9 [12.9%] (6 < 1200 <= 3)<br/span>

style=”font-size: 10px;”> Guardian/Juggernaut: 3 [4.3%] (2 < 1200 <= 1)

Scoundrel/Operative: 18 [25.7%] (11 < 1200 <= 7)

Sentinel/Marauder: 14 [20.0%] (7 < 1200 <= 7)

Shadow/Assassin: 4 [5.7%] (3 < 1200 <= 1)

Commando/Mercenary: 4 [5.7%] (3 < 1200 <= 1)

Vanguard/Powertech: 12 [17.1%] (6 < 1200 <= 6)

Bounty Contract Week is back once more (finishes Tuesday 3am PST).

The next Community Cantina is in Austin at 8pm CDT on Friday 22 November.

4. Community

The Vy’aalators are looking for more raiders! They run on Monday evening (US time), starting at 5:30pm Pacific. If you’re interested, please post in this thread on our forums.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @ForceChuckle, @rbleamon (Ray Leamon), @Strongshocker (Chaz Lobo), @Geldarion, @fnord3125, @sterlinglee38, @GTeeg, @Lawilc0 (Laurie M), @joseph_foran, @GregCarter78 and @grimrok, emails and comments from Loudshirt, DroidDreamer, Decurion, Giantgina (Ben), Oxi-jin, The Malgadar and Chris.

We recommend SWTOR’s New Player Guide for those in need of some basic MMO guidance.

The HK-51 Watchtower customization that was removed from the Oricon reputation vendor:

Here’s PJ, just hanging around…

6. Sarlacc Digest We were honoured to be included in the closed PTS testing of Galactic Starfighter over the past couple of months. Based on that experience, we give a detailed overview of its gameplay, a few tips and our overall impressions.

7. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@R3DN4) for joining us this week.

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