When the weekend rolls around it’s time to relax, grab a cold one, sit down with your squad, and catch up on some scuttlebutt. RT is here to provide you with some things that are worthy of talking about over a good pint with a few friends.

More Patch 1.2 Details Released As Press Embargo Drops

Last week the TOR community was buzzing with all of the new details from BioWare’s Guild Summit in Austin, TX. Like us, many of you tuned into the Guild Summit Day One Live Stream to get your information in real-time and then immediately took to the interwebs to opine on all of the goodness that is Patch 1.2.

Well, that was day one. What happened on day two remained a mystery. That is, until early this week when the official press embargo for day two of the Guild Summit dropped and a new wave of details flooded the tubes! Below are few of the highlights released this week.

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The Rules of Engagement is the column that provides Republic Troopers with highly detailed intel on everything a Trooper needs to know to adapt and overcome on and off the battlefield.

Recently, there have been posts all over the official TOR forums about the inability to make money without using your crew skills to craft items for the Galactic Trade Network. It’s been said that if you don’t have Biochem, then making money is a pain. The GTN can be unpredictable. You list several items for what you would think is a good price but unless you dominate the market for that item, you are likely to be undercut. This can lead to credit loss in the long run.

Well, we’ve tracked how much money can potentially be made at doing space missions and a combination of Ilum and Belsavis Daily Missions. In contrast to the fluctuating GTN market, doing these missions each day is guaranteed money in your pocket.

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TOR Patch 1.1.4 released earlier this week and it brought a lot of miscellaneous fixes and improvements to the game overall. Most notably, the enhancements to the Global Cool Down settings. However many players were hoping that another small fix would make it into the game. A fix so obvious, many of us were shocked it wasn’t in the game at release. What am I talking about? Well…the tried and true /roll or /random feature. Players have been asking for this feature since TOR was still in beta, and today they have cause to celebrate!

Today Amber Green, Live Community Coordinator for BioWare, posted the preliminary patch notes for patch 1.1.5 on the official forums and it looks like our beloved /roll and /random feature will be added into the game when the patch goes live! Patch 1.1.5 also brings along some other good fixes including: fixes to Operations loot, Ilum PvP performance, new high level color crystals, temporarily reduced speeder costs and more! While we don’t know the exact date that patch 1.1.5 is coming to the live servers, we do know it’s currently being tested on the PTR’s, so we can expect it in the very near future.

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When it comes to the warfront no class defines the struggle against the Empire the way the Trooper does. Guts and Gunnery is the place that Troopers come to learn all of the tactics they will need to thrive on the PvP battlefront.

Be it fighting for control of Alderaan, securing valuable information on a distant starship, or hearing your name screamed by the crowds of The Pit, every trooper has more than one life to give for the Republic. Come prepared because your enemies surely will be. One slip will leave you dead, dying and defeated and the last thing you will see is them seizing what could have been yours for the Empire. However, if you are stronger, faster, smarter and more organized than those that stand against you, victory will be yours. For the Republic!

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In my Beta Review, one of my concerns about the game was about the continuation of the storyline. I wrote that “one can’t help but wonder at 50 if your story is over…at least for a time.”

Well, I guess that time ends now, for Patch 1.1 will see the continuation of the story in a new Operation called “Rise of the Rakghouls”. Without giving too much away, the galactic political situation at the end of Act III is such that neutrals like the Hutt Cartels and the Tion Hegemony are positioning themselves to take advantage.

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